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Todd’s the best in the league and model-perfect. Damn shame he’s not gay...or is he? Dating Todd “Pretty” Carty is a trailblazing, headline-grabbing ride that has shocked and divided a team, a sport and a nation. While controversy rules, our feelings explode and we can’t deny the desire that sizzles between us. Nothing, however, is easy outside the bedroom. Not when my world-class, fearless athlete wants to shout from Everest that he’s in love with a man.

For Lady Elizabeth Burghley, the pressure to marry is mounting. It’s irritating and tiresome. Her passion is to succeed as an artist, and if she does have to marry, she wants her husband to be someone she likes. So when she comes across a shirtless, handsome, sometimes surly, Scottish gamekeeper who has a creative side himself, she can’t help but wish fate had given him a title.

Penniless and with no prospects for marriage, twenty-one-year-old orphan Jemima Cooper has no choice but to take any work she can find, no matter how shameful. When she is sent by her employer to serve the Duke of Hillcrest, however, Jemima is surprised to discover that the handsome, eccentric nobleman intends to make her not merely his concubine but also his pet.

After Viking warrior Wade Gudlaug's hunting expedition is delayed so long that his bride-to-be presumes him dead, he returns home to find that another man has begun courting her. The first instinct of both men is to fight to the death over the woman they love, but when she begs to be spared the pain of losing one of them it is decided instead that she will be their shared bride.

Alone. Exhausted. Hunted...Found. Alice Bennett's situation couldn't be worse, but that's not going to stop her fighting. She has a plan—a plan to escape the cruel man leading her wagon train and survive alone in the mountain wilderness. She has skills, a few supplies, and a loyal horse.

I'm on the run. With nothing more than the clothes on my back and my child. If my husband finds me God only knows what he'll do. So it's just as well my uncle has sent a Devil's Barbarian biker to watch over me. Rough: check. Tough: check. Lawless: check. Hot: check. Damn shame I'm in no mood for a man ... or am I?

The Devil’s Barbarians, a notorious one-percenter MC, have arrived in town. Debauchery, brawls, and cocky charm, oh yeah, it’s all going down.

Harlem is a beautiful, smart, and funny 17-year-old. She lives in the projects with her drug-addicted parents. Harlem must fend for herself and at times do a little hustling of her own to feed their habit. As if things can’t get worse, Harlem’s world is turned upside down when her mother dies from a drug overdose and her father pulls the ultimate betrayal by prostituting her. Harlem is pushed into an adult world and into the hands of a crime and drug lord named Chief, who gives Harlem every luxury she has ever dreamed of, and more pain and suffering than she can stand.

Dr. Leo Rotherham is following his calling by working in rural Kenya for the charity Medics On Hand. While he expected a primitive way of life and limited medical supplies, what he doesn't bargain on is falling for handsome village warrior, Malik. Malik is well respected, knowledgeable, and loyal to his tribe. He's also beautiful, brave, modern and, much to Leo's dismay, married - isn't he?

It started the moment she passed out in my arms. Seduction. Vile. Depraved. Desire. She couldn't remember her past but looked to me like I was her future. My walls were built. My heart was cold. My emotions vacant. After being alone for five years with only my motorcycle club at my side, she was who I had been searching for. The one I had needed all along to light up the darkness surrounding my life. Just when I thought I had her, just when I thought I could finally allow myself that happiness I didn't think I deserved, she was ripped from my hands.

Desire comes in many forms that raise the temperature, and the stakes, higher. When tensions soar in Africa, Olivia has to rise to the new set of challenges she faces. Having six husbands to keep happy and satisfied was never going to be easy, and soon she finds herself caught in the middle of a whirlwind of uncertainty and a cyclone of illicit desires. Throw in dangerous creatures, someone who just won't conform to his new role, and a volatile relationship within her harem, and she knows she's playing with fire.

Olivia fears her life is about to be torn apart. Being separated from her men isn't something she can contemplate. How can she possibly go back to her old life in Portsmouth after all that's happened? When Raul's ambitious idea begins to take shape, she soon finds herself in another continent and with another challenge ahead. A challenge that will test all of her skills and demand nerves of steel. Because, Africa is hot and wild. A new adventure awaits around every corner.

Olivia Bailey is up for The Challenge. But what about her fellow crew? Five guys, four nationalities. A billionaire's heir who likes to take charge in every aspect of life, an outback expert with a heart-stopping smile, a Spanish chef with mouthwatering moves, and sexy twins who reveal themselves slowly, until it matters, then they act fast. An adventure was what Olivia wanted, and it's certainly what she gets.

Okay, I’ll admit it, I have a crazy, lust-infused crush. Brick, the sexy right-winger of the Orlando Vipers, is the star of all my fantasies. Just a glimpse of him has me panting. So when the chance to actually work with this hot hockey player comes along, of course I say yes! Being a world-class athlete myself, I have a strategic plan to have him all tied up with lust and desperate for me, too. The thing is, plans never go smoothly. Especially when my heart pedals right into the vulnerable game of love again—completely unprotected.

One night stands should be exactly that, one wild night. Somebody should tell that to the sexy Russian. I love working for an airline and traveling the world—it’s everything I'd ever hoped and more. I work hard and play hard, and if I can have some fun time with a hot guy, why not? I'm a free agent. When my one-night stand is a hunk of a hockey player with a smooth Russian accent and an even smoother way of sweet talking me into his bed, not once but several times over, things definitely get complicated for my heart. I have no intention of having it broken again.

From humble beginnings in Mississippi to New York's famed mecca of boxing, Madison Square Garden, Danny Green is destined for greatness in and outside the ring. His adventures will take him from The Olympic Games in Montreal, to Manhattan's rugged mean streets, Italy's picturesque Amalfi Coast, to the glittering lights of Hollywood.

After her village is raided by Vikings and she is carried off and taken as a slave by one of the marauding Norseman, 21-year-old Duna learns the hard way that her best attempts at defiance will merely earn her a painful, humiliating spanking. More shameful still is the inspection of her naked, helplessly aroused body which follows the strict chastisement. Though he does not hesitate to punish his new slave, Halvor cannot deny the effect Duna's innocence and beauty have on him. But when a man from her village tracks her down, will Duna choose to stay by Halvor's side?

When two people who thrive on taking charge collide—in and out of the bedroom—the results are explosive. Me, manage the Vipers hockey team? Well, that’s my role now. Shame a gorgeous, cocky goaltender is testing my patience. Sweet cheeks—really, is that any way to refer to the boss? Dustin “Speed” Reed certainly seems to think so. I escape to my billionaire father’s paradise retreat to regroup, but Dustin decides to come along for the ride. Then the tension really heats up, hotter than the scorching midday sun. I want to slap him and kiss him. Push him away and rip off his clothes.

Meet the Devil’s Barbarians, a notorious one-percenter MC. Debauchery, brawls, and bad boy charm, oh yeah, it’s all going down.