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I’m a golden boy. A genius law student, the heir to the Carson empire, and the dutiful son. Or, at least, that's what it looks like from the outside. Deep inside, I have the urge to set the world on fire. I keep these impulses in check, rarely indulging in mayhem. Until one night of debauchery backfires, and I'm caught by a villain. I bury the entire ordeal with the rest of my skeletons. That is, until that night walks into my classroom in the form of my new professor. Kayden Lockwood.

A blood prince who refused his crown. A priest who was never supposed to love him. A kingdom rotting beneath holy vows and royal lies. Dante Traibon was born heir to a blood-drinking dynasty, but he would rather vanish into the snow than become the monster his family demands. Stripped of name and power, he finds refuge with John Thompson, a farmer's grandson with a gentle heart and a future in the church.

Vampires are real. At least that’s what Julian Harrow and Christian Thorne are trying to prove with their YouTube show. But as they uncover the truth, the beautiful monsters they seek, are also seeking them. Lord Balthazar Ravenscroft, the roguish Vampire with the ability to read minds, finds himself drawn to Christian, determined to protect the boy, even as his quest to uncover the truth puts all of Vampire kind in danger. But worse, as Christian and Julian have discovered the Ever Dark, the Vampire’s secret world, where they risk waking the most powerful, deadly Vampire of all.

A fallen council. A dangerous prince. A lord too proud to admit when his heart has chosen. Ashton has carried guilt long enough to let it harden into arrogance. His mother is dead. The Grandemere Council has fallen. Noble houses claw for control while old alliances fracture, enemies circle, and servants become weapons in political games far older than he wants to admit.

Two women disguised as men collide on a pirate ship: one set on revenge, the other escaping land and the bounty on her head. The two of them quickly find themselves in the middle of a voyage to find the world’s most dangerous weapon: the Kraken’s Fang. Even worse, their evil captain has a far more nefarious plot in mind. Can the two unravel the sea of secrets, and save the world? Or will their budding feelings for each other result in their downfall?

The human body is a ledger. And mine is in the red.Jax Im the golden boy. The star swimmer. The guy everyone wants to be. Im also fifty thousand dollars in debt to men who dont send late noticesthey send enforcers. I was out of options, out of time, and drowning fast. Then my roommate stepped in...

Saint Severo is the most revered fixer in Nefari city. She’s the woman the rulers call when a problem needs to disappear. Marlowe Reign is the assassin she loved. The one she exiled fifty years ago to keep her alive. When the Capas are found slaughtered in their own fortress, the city edges towards war. There’s no heir. No order. And the killer? None other than Saint’s ex-lover.

Brady Garrett needs to go home. He's a conscripted recruit on Defender Three, one of a network of stations designed to protect the Earth from alien attack. He's also angry, homesick, and afraid. If he doesn't get home he'll lose his family, but there's no way back except in a body bag. Cameron Rushton needs a heartbeat. Four years ago Cam was taken by the Faceless - the alien race that almost destroyed Earth. 

"He was everything I shouldn't want. Danger dressed in leather. Salvation wrapped in smoke. But once I tasted him, I couldn't stop. He was in my blood. My sweetest poison." RAZOR I control the drugs running through East London for a man with a soul darker than the devil's. Violence kept me alive...

London, 2095. The world drowned. The system broke. And people became property. Enslaved and microchipped, Alexander Lytton survived by creating the perfect mask: blank, obedient, invisible. Behind it, he was safe. One slip, and he was dead. Detective Josiah Raine hasn't touched another man since his husband's brutal murder seven years ago. He's a ghost investigating ghosts, running on empty, barely holding himself together. When Alex's master is murdered, their worlds collide.

Everyone asked Cesare Vitale for forever. Everyone left. Then Rafael looked at the villain and chose him anyway. Forever is a word people use before they leave. I learned that lesson well. Lovers said it. Family implied it. My children needed it. And still, in the end, everyone found a reason to walk away from Cesare Vitale. Maybe they were right to.

One night together. That's it. Except letting go isn't an option anymore. New day. New town. New temptation. I prowl the wastelands of this post apocalyptic world solo, a lone wolf. When I find him, a scrappy young man with fire in his eyes, my hunger stirs. That defiant gaze challenges me. I thought I'd wander alone, but claiming this fierce boy? I wasn't prepared for that. But when two wild souls collide, you surrender. You take. And you don't let go. So that's what I do, regardless of our age gap. I make him mine... In every way.

Ruthless Luca D'Amato lives for power. But his latest assignment—to kill a rival Family's heir—leads him back to the one man he's never forgotten. Forced to take Finch Donovan as his husband instead of his victim, Luca finds keeping his fiery lover alive much harder than he expected.

A grieving doctor with a dangerous secret.A couple struggling to find the balance between protection and trust.A town weary from past onslaughts.Cody Bower thinks he and his husband, Demetrius, have marriage and monster-hunting down to a science. Until, that is, people start disappearing and...

For twenty-one years he hated my Family. Vengeance was what kept him breathing. I was the debt he came to collect. He bought me to avenge his father. Kept me in the dark. Broke me down to pieces. Now he’d slaughter anyone who touches me. There’s a bounty on my bloodline—and now there’s a...

Mercedes Midnight should be dead. Her year is up, her debt is owed, yet here she stands—alive, cursed, and crackling with demon magic she has no idea how to wield. Lucy Corvine, the devil’s broken daughter, clawed her way out of a contract that was never supposed to break. Now she’s something the underworld doesn’t have a name for. Something her father will tear the realm apart to find. When two angels crash into Ora City, the rules change overnight. One wants to watch the realms burn. One wants to save them. No one is safe.

James Spencer is hardly the typical troubled youth who ends up at Whisperwood School for Boys. Instead of hating the strict schedules and tight oversight by staff, James blossoms, quickly making friends, indulging in his love of writing, and contemplating the merits of sneaking love poems to the elusive and aloof William Esher. And, when the normally collected William stumbles in one night, shaken and ranting of ghosts, James is the only one who believes him.

Charming. Sexy as sin. Out of his damn mind. That sums up Killian Lorde, one of the most powerful crime bosses in Fury's underworld. Since his father passed, he's stepped into his role as head of the family business. A role which I, the golden boy of the Wilde clan, more than understand. Forced by birth into a life of corruption and moral bankruptcy, I exist for one purpose: to protect my family at all costs. Only this time, the price is my freedom.

Ten years ago Gabriel Mason betrayed me in the worst way. He made me question my instincts because I'd trusted him with a bone-deep certainty, and for that I will never forgive him. Seeing him again after all this time sparks memories I thought I'd buried so far down they'd never surface. He's as beautiful as I remember, but I'm older and wiser now, and I refuse to make the same mistakes again.

When I pretend like I’m a main character in one of my favorite dark romances and stalk my hot waiter, I never imagined I’d end up chained to the pole in his basement. The outcome is better than I could’ve hoped for. Zane insists he has to kill me because my stalking attempt led to him accidentally committing multiple crimes he thinks he needs to cover up. He keeps talking about loose ends, but I know he'd never really hurt me. He's just fighting what we both know is inevitable. We're meant to be together.