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Emily: My heat is getting closer. With heat suppressants off the table and no pack to call my own in sight, Heat Haven seems to be my only option. Can I be vulnerable enough for Alphas I don't know to help me in my time of need? Griffin: I want a pack and an Omega to cherish. The problem? I don't like most people and I work too much. Where better to meet someone than a place where you contractually participate in a heat with strangers?

From Sylvia Day, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Crossfire novels, comes Taking the Heat, a novella of the Shadow Stalkers--where men in uniform are trained to enforce the rules. Out of uniform, those rules are made to be broken. He had three days to fix everything. Three days to...

When photographer Chloe Gaige gets assigned to cover the Pro Kiteboarding finals in Morocco, she never expects to run into her childhood crush. Back then, their age difference is what caused her to pull away. Will he resent her for how she treated him back then? Fully grown, pro kiteboarder Kai Shephard is a tough competitor used to going after what he wants - and getting it. When he catches sight of Chloe in the crowd with her camera, nothing can stop him from trying to be with her again. Except Chloe, that is.

A Roxane Gay Bookclub Pick A thirteen-year-old girl watches her white best friend totter along the edge of a building roof; a woman who lost her child in its first trimester finds empathy and horror in the waters of a city aquarium; a mother protects her teen daughter from a predatory love...

A mysterious figure stalks the murky backwoods of the Midwest on an unrelenting mission for revenge, with nothing but a Bowie knife to protect him against the monsters that haunt the forest. And even if he’s able to find what he needs… it’s already too late.

Over three parts, Ellen van Neerven takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique, contemporary twist. In ‘Heat’, we meet several generations of the Kresinger family and the legacy left by the mysterious Pearl. In ‘Water’, a futuristic world is imagined and the fate of a people threatened. In ‘Light’, familial ties are challenged and characters are caught between a desire for freedom and a sense of belonging.

Over three parts, Ellen van Neerven takes traditional storytelling and gives it a unique, contemporary twist. In ‘Heat’, we meet several generations of the Kresinger family and the legacy left by the mysterious Pearl. In ‘Water’, a futuristic world is imagined and the fate of a people threatened. In ‘Light’, familial ties are challenged and characters are caught between a desire for freedom and a sense of belonging.

Kennedy never expected to run into Luke, the hot Australian firefighter she had a mind-blowing one-night stand with four months ago, on the tropical island where she's now the official resort photographer. Even more surprising is how equally turned on she is by his hunky British cousin, Addison. Finding the feisty, flirty American he met at a New York bar is a surprise for Luke. Even more surprising is how he can't stop thinking about sharing the woman of his dreams with his cousin.

A collection of short stories by Texas author William Harrison. 

In the icy-dark of Ganymede’s slums, two compromised thieves from different circles shelter together. As the authorities encroach on their refuge, they must decide whether to isolate and betray, or risk an incursion into each other's worlds.

Overcoming the past is not easy when the future seems just as scary.... Havana Heat is book one of the Romance Set in Paradise series of steamy, suspenseful, romantic stand-alone novella length stories, set in exotic locations around the world. Listeners are transported to the paradise of Cuba's capital, Havana, following the romance and heat building between Spanish Detective Sebastian Garcia, and London born and bred wedding planner Melinda Jones.

Cupid takes a position managing a stressed-out crew at Christmas, and she finds a lawyer with an interest in her stockings. Cupid launched herself into organizing a branch of Legal Aid only to meet a handsome lawyer who sends her senses into disarray. Watching the families who needed help and those who were paid to help them was an education. No one stayed unless they had a feel for the job and all of those working with her want nothing more than relief of stress for their clients.

Kalyah and the young soldier have met before in a more innocent time. They could have been sweethearts, but now they are facing life, death, and tough decisions.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Mountain Man Gets the Curvy Woman and experience the compelling world of BBW erotica.

When my childhood best friend’s dad, who I’ve had far too many secret fantasies about, walks into the diner where I waitress and hits on me, I have two options. I could point out our unfortunate connection and that if he hadn’t been such a workaholic and absent father while his daughter was growing up, he might have recognized me. Or take advantage of the fact that I was a late bloomer who didn’t fully develop until after high school, and play along.

Chelsey Hayden lives by strict codes under her family’s name. When you’re a Hayden, you follow the rules and never stray. Especially when it comes to her brother’s friends being off limits, no matter how handsome and sexy they are. She comes from a wealthy family that has her life planned out. That is until the dynamics change, and her path crosses with the one she wants to break all the rules for, but she’s scared - scared she’ll reveal her deepest, darkest desires, and there will be no turning back.