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Always trust your heart? Codswallop. In her teens, Janie Osman learned that bad boys are bad news. Fun was overrated, and mundanity became her new goal—two kids, a part-time job, an unremarkable husband, and a deep and meaningful relationship with her battery-operated boyfriend. Only for it all to get torn away in an instant. A move to the cosy village of Engleby seems like the best option, but rebuilding her life isn’t easy, especially with two young boys in tow.

She can't remember. He won't confess. Her mother knows more than she's telling. Paige Thomas can't remember the last twelve hours, but someone recorded them. The successful self-help author has been living a secret life during her blackouts. Visiting pubs, wearing clothes she doesn't own, and making choices her conscious mind would never allow. She and Michael are trying for a child, but how can she consider bringing one into her life when she can't trust herself with the hours she can't remember?

WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW WAS WRONG? The prophesy appears to be playing out. Strange creatures of the night come together to take on a barbarous common foe. But trust and tolerance are hard to come by in this new world. Christopher is bereft and broken, with a savage anger coursing through his veins. A fierce battle rages but a stunning revelation turns everything on its head.

Christopher Deverell is caretaker of the Red Claw Family, a brood of vampires so blood-thirsty that they were forced into slumber for a century by the Council of Elders. Nell Cartwright’s life has been torn apart after the tragic deaths of her parents. Desperate, she turns to her reclusive aunt in Angel Falls. Not all is as it seems in the small town … and now an ancient evil is awakening ... as well as her feelings for an enigmatic vampire. Christopher and Nell are plunged into a dangerous world where Old Magick and supernatural creatures make for heart-stopping adventure.

Witness the beginning of the end. Chaos reigns across the planet. The forces of darkness spread their deadly shadow far and wide. Nell, Christopher, Devan and Amara are torn and tested. Can the ‘One of tainted blood’ turn the tide, or is all hope lost? Lives, loves and the future of all vampires are at stake.

When it rains, it floods. Nearly homeless, failing college, harassed by a perverse boss, two pending lawsuits, and a decision that threatens to tear her away from the love of her life, Samantha Carey is beginning to lose faith in humanity, including in herself.

Devastated by her husband's infidelity, Katie discovers she possesses powers beyond her wildest dreams. But as she embarks on a journey of explosive self-discovery, a century of ancestral secrets begins to unravel and threatens to upend everything she thought she knew. Guided by her sassy best friend, a talking dog, and a ball-busting lawyer, Katie embraces her new life. But she soon realizes that her magical abilities come with a price and enemies who will stop at nothing to claim them.

Maci Lawson has a few goals for her junior year of college. She wants to excel in her courses, live it up with her roommate in their new apartment, and break away from her habit of relationships and keeping old options open. This year she’s looking for a hookup, and her new friend Jaxon might just check all her boxes—until he becomes someone she wants more with.

Opposites attract in this contemporary, sweet, sapphic romance about two girls who reluctantly come together for a summer challenge. Heaven and Saylor could not be more different. Saylor is bubbly, popular, athletic, and always partnered up. Heaven is grumpy and artistic, prefers her skateboard...

Faith Deverell has spent twenty years hiding in the remote Scottish Highlands, concealing a heritage that makes her unique among both mortals and immortals. As the first vampire born rather than turned, she's fought to suppress powers that could make her either humanity's greatest protector—or its worst nightmare.

Dr. Amelia Sanders has spent the last year settling into her new life in the small town of Easton. She has established herself as a trusted veterinarian at the local clinic, she made some good friends and she has done her best to keep away from the man she secretly has a crush on, Jackson Dalton.

Eliza Gardner never thought she'd come back to Easton—much less divorced, broke, and humiliated. But after her husband ran off, she had nowhere else to go.... Nowhere except the small town she grew up in—the one she once couldn't wait to leave.... Now Eliza is desperately trying to figure out the next chapter of her life—and that's when she runs into the last person she ever expected to see again—childhood acquaintance Nate Ryder.

Nevermore LaRue has spent years on the road, chasing freedom and outrunning her past. But when a break-in forces her back to her childhood home in Aura Cove for the first time in decades, she's confronted with memories and mysteries she's tried to forget. A freak lightning strike during Mercury retrograde unlocks her ability to time travel, hurling Neve into the past with only her sharp, neurodivergent instincts and her snarky, feathered companion, Peregrine, to guide her.

American Gauntlet is the number one reality TV competition in the nation, and when Dani Di Laurentis gets the call that she and her sister, Lana, have been selected as contestants, she knows this is her one opportunity to change her family's life for the better. After months of intense training, she and Lana embark on the adventure of a lifetime as they attempt to take on the Gauntlet. Dani soon finds out, though, that the American Gauntlet experience will be more than just excruciating physical challenges.

Samantha Carey wants to believe in such a thing as fated loves and fairytales. She wants to believe that something greater controls our destiny. But where does fate fit in when she can’t see a happily-ever-after with her boyfriend of four years anymore, and a best friend might not be just a friend?

After being dumped last Christmas, I’m taking extreme measures to ensure nothing and no one ruins my happy holidays this time around. I’ll be safely wrapped in a cocoon of kitschy Christmas decor, complete with surrounding winter wonderland at the ultimate holiday mountain cabin. So what if the countless elf figurines make me a little uneasy or if there are a couple hiccups with cabin maintenance? There’s a bigger problem: the assistant manager happens to be one of (many) teasing classmates from my childhood and my former crush.

The Hole-Man has the ugliest job in the universe: he feeds human sacrifices into a black hole. From his isolated space station, disgraced fighter pilot Baard Larsen completes his grim duty. Some say it appeases the gods. He just wants to finish his penance and return home. But will his daughter even give him a second chance? Then the next sacrifice changes everything.