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I'm not "damaged". No horrible childhood or demons in my past I'm trying to outrun. In fact, my family is ideal - funny, supportive, and filled with couples that all follow "our" golden rule: Find her. Protect her. Love only her, with everything you are, every day, for the rest of your life. So why is it the mere thought of a monogamous relationship, more than one night with the same woman, sends me bolting in the other direction? Because I hadn't met Bellamy Morgan yet.

The final book in the Transformation Trilogy, an intense fantasy romance retelling of Beauty and the Beast : Rhaim produced a key from somewhere upon his person. "The collar has a lock." He tossed it out onto the table. "If I cannot solve the Deathless, I will become your loyal servant, until...

A captive princess. An 800-year-old beast-mage. A death prophecy written in the color of her eyes. Lisane was raised in darkness — kept underground, traded as payment to a mage who knows she will destroy him. She arrives in chains. She refuses to stay broken. Rhaim, the All-Beast, saw her...

Power, Love, Money: Pick One I'm her father's best friend. She's twenty years younger than me. He'll kill me if I touch her—but I'll die if I don't. The last time I saw Lia Ferreo I was helping her with a skinned knee—and now she wants to run her father's company. She has no idea the dark...

I wanted her. She was just two floors away from me here in my castle. And some piece of her—naïve and inexperienced—wanted me. The man who was doomed to die at her hand. I could mostly ignore that fact, now that I was used to her presence, and my intermittent lust. But I wondered if not...

Fate, Fortune, Fame: Pick One I'm being paraded like a prize. A strategic marriage to a powerful man who wants to use me like a billboard. Smile for the cameras. Memorize his politics. Don't slip up. Don't speak out. But I already belong to someone else. Rhaim Selvaggio is dangerous. My father's...

When I turn up on Whit’s doorstep, résumé in hand, I’m expecting an informal interview, not a honey-dripped seduction, But that doesn’t mean I won’t grab it with both hands… My older brother’s best friend doesn’t recognize me. To him, I’m still the kid he sends a gift card to every Christmas. He doesn’t want to hear I spend them on fancy lingerie, Or that I dress up and fantasize about him. He’s determined not to employ me.

In fifth grade my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed. It didn't take long for us to figure out the mistake. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. The best take-out pizza. Android vs. iPhone. Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper ever. For the next seven years, it was us. She's the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am.

Bend Her: A Dark Beauty and the Beast Fantasy Romance is the story of Rhaim the All-Beast, a cruel beast mage doomed to die at the hands of the woman he must protect at all costs, and Lisane, the sheltered Princess of Tears, who has been given into his care and who needs him to teach her magic so she can be free—no matter how much it might hurt her.

A heart-wrenching contemporary romance from the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok sensation Archer's Voice. .................... A broken woman . . . Crystal learned long ago that love brings only pain. Feeling nothing at all is far better than being hurt again. She guards her...

Unshackle: No woman can resist Luke Sanch. When he infiltrates La Rocha Cartel, he must seduce Vera Gomez to determine whether to rescue her. Or kill her. Dominate: There are many reasons to jump off a bridge, but Rylee Sutton only needs one. Her husband’s betrayal. Just before she leaps, she receives an email from a stranger. Complicate: Cole Hartman is a mystery. He works alone, sleeps alone, and satisfies his aches...alone. No one will ever compare to the one who broke his heart. Until he stares into the seductive eyes of his enemy. 

Bliss York didn't live a normal teenage life. It had all been taken from her the fall that she was 15 years old and she was given the diagnosis no one ever wants to hear. She had leukemia. Seven years after spending a summer with a girl who he knew would always be his first love and the one who got away, Nate Finlay returns to Sea Breeze to help his fiancé open her new boutique clothing store. When the new employee walks in, Nate is taken back seven years to the girl he thought he'd love forever. The one who never answered his calls or returned his texts.

At twenty-five, I thought I had my life figured out—steady job, big-city dreams, and a clear path to the top. But one work assignment to Sagebrush, Texas, is all it takes to throw my carefully laid plans off course. My job is to charm the locals, uncover their secrets, and steal prize-winning barbecue recipes for our next line of frozen dinners. Oh, and not a soul can know. It should’ve been simple. Until Beau Turner came along. Beau, with his rugged charm, quiet strength, and those piercing blue eyes that see right through me. Beau, whose smile makes my chest ache in ways I can’t explain.

Three complete novels. One doomed bargain. The entire TransformationTrilogy — a dark Beauty and the Beast fantasy romance — in a single volume. Rhaim the All-Beast is a cruel beast mage doomed to die at the hands of thewoman he must protect at all costs. Lisane, the sheltered Princess of Tears,has been given into his care — and she needs him to teach her magic so she canbe free, no matter how much it might hurt her.1. Bend Her — They gave me the princess. The girl fated to kill me — mineto guard, mine to teach, at all costs.

I swore I’d never come back to Sagebrush. But New York broke me, and now the family ranch is the only thing I have left. It’s drowning in debt, the town is watching me fail, and I’m out of options. Then I see Dakota. He’s a Cherokee cowboy with eyes that see right through my city armor. He’s guarded, intense, and completely off-limits. I need to focus on saving my legacy. But every time we touch, the only thing I want to save is us.

I wanted her. She was just two floors away from me here in my castle. And some piece of her—naïve and inexperienced—wanted me. The man who was doomed to die at her hand. I could mostly ignore that fact, now that I was used to her presence, and my intermittent lust. But I wondered if not telling her about it was a bigger betrayal than not telling her about my arrangement with her father. If she did manage her Ascension—and when she found out what that meant—then she would know the truth.

"You never have to be without me, Laney, never." He lied...my everything I ever knew, trusted, wanted...I am, in fact, without him. On my own and out of my shell, I learn new things about life, friendship and...myself. Like what you've always known may not be what you've always wanted. Dane Kendrick awakened things within me that I never knew existed, unraveling and uncovering the real Laney Jo Walker. I'm a new adult...so is my story.

Rough-and-tumble Austin knows better than to flirt with his best friend's younger sister—she's a princess, part-dragon, and 100 percent off-limits—he just can't stop himself. Ryana Blackwood, Princess of the Realms, is coming out of the worst break-up of all time and looking for a rebound...

Rough-and-tumble Austin knows better than to flirt with his best friend's younger sister—she's a princess, part-dragon, and 100 percent off-limits—he just can't stop himself.

Dallas chewed me up and spit me out. I was supposed to be a corporate legend. Instead, I’m back in my childhood bedroom, licking my wounds and hiding from my failure. I just want to survive the humiliation. Then I run into Colt Dawson. He’s dust, denim, and bad decisions. He’s the high school rival I swore I’d left in the rearview. He represents everything I escaped—risk, dirt, and small-town stagnation. But the hate feels a lot like desire. And when we cross the line from enemies to lovers, I realize the danger isn't the rodeo. It's falling for a man who risks his life for a living.