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The familiar pop of a gun rings out, and I'm slammed up against the wall with Ash's giant form blocking me. All I can see is his tie pin—the eagle's beady black eyes glinting with chips of onyx. Ash's focus is behind us, his left wrist raised as he speaks into his sleeve. His other hand is on my waist, circling half of it. All around us people are screaming and running. Rage bubbles up in my chest. My corset digs into my sides as my lungs desperately try to expand. Ash looks down at me with narrowed eyes. Spots are starting to dance in my vision. This stupid dress.

When Rowe Branning sets off with her faithful wolfhound, Tris, on a quest to visit a grandmother she hasn't seen in fifteen years, her arrival in Hartford Cove is far less welcoming than she hoped for. Her reason for coming is put into question, and the way the sheriff looks at her makes her feel like prey even as she's drawn to him. Then ghosts from her past return in the flesh, making Rowe question what she remembers of her last visit to this hidden town, when she watched her mother and her best friend be brutally mauled by a monster out of nightmares.

After a lifetime of war, Commander Trenzent has left behind the bloody battlefields of the Bel'Tan galaxy and traveled to Earth in the hopes of finding his bondmate. He can only pray that the one woman in the universe who can save his battered soul can look past his scarred exterior to the man within. Unfortunately for Tren, his potential bride is terrified of men thanks to years of abuse at the hands of her father and won't be easy to seduce.

In the aftermath of a tragic demise before her 20th birthday, Violet finds herself thrust into an enigmatic realm of the unknown. A chance encounter with space Vikings in the grand hall offers her a tantalizing opportunity: to return home, but at what cost? Choosing to grasp the lifeline offered, Violet awakens in a world far removed from familiarity, where billowing steam and towering mushrooms dominate the landscape. Navigating this surreal terrain becomes her new reality, a precarious balance between the mysterious and the bizarre.

Rowe Branning return to Hartford Cove after fifteen years, hoping to reconnect with her grandma, but her arrival is met with hostility. Faced with a sheriff who's way too hot, a ghost from her past, and her questionable sanity, nothing in Hartford Cove is as it seems. Secrets hide around every corner, and everywhere Rowe looks, she sees monsters.

Hartford Cove was supposed to be a safe haven. Instead, Rowe discovered a family legacy steeped in magic and wolf shifters. The hallucinations she grew up with weren’t tricks of her broken mind. Her toaster is fully functional–thank you very much–and the real world is more wonderful and horrifying than she ever imagined. Too bad, in Rowe’s life, all good things come to an end. A single act of violence sends Tris and her fleeing, afraid for their lives. But one door closing allows another door to open, and while in hiding, long-held feelings ignite, giving Rowe a second chance at happiness.

Welcome to Hawthorne, Texas, a place where many former citizens return, drawn to their hometown’s slower pace and family values, and finding lasting love and happiness. A man haunted by the death of his fiancée. A woman whose athletic career was cut short. Two people adrift, seeking to find a place in their community—and finding one another—and love … Assistant district attorney Sawyer Montgomery is overwhelmed with grief after losing his fiancée in an unsolved hit-and-run. He throws himself into his law career until he reaches his breaking point.

Is there such a thing as too much pie? Rowe never thought so, but when an outsider comes asking for the Wendall witch's help, she throws in the fork. With the yearly festival fast approaching, Rowe has reached her pie-tasting limit. This is a time of growth for Hartford Cove, but they’re already bursting at the seams with newcomers. When a stranger arrives asking for help, it puts the party plans on hold. There’s another sanctuary city, and the barrier that hides them is failing.

A town on edge. A secret heritage revealed. No pie in sight. Rowe thought putting the feud between the wolf shifters and the huntsmen to rest was the hard part, but learning to control her magic turns out to be a whole new monster. In true Rowe fashion, nothing is going right, and the expectations of the witch community only make it worse. She wants nothing more than to eat pie and take it easy with her mates, but with so many newcomers to Hartford Cove, Rowe’s time is stretched thin between magic classes and integrating the new witches and vampires into the once quiet town.

Chance Blackstone sowed his fair share of wild oats during his twenties. With his father’s death, however, Chance takes over running his family’s ranch. His sister Kelby has recently married West Sutherland, Chance’s best friend since childhood, and Chance is a bit envious of their domestic bliss, wondering if it’s time for him to find a wife of his own and start a family. After a decade of working for Liberty House, a New York publisher, Summer Sutherland is forced from her job as a senior editor.

Hartford Cove is no stranger to hiding the truth, but this time, the secrets revealed are about Rowe’s new mate, the vampire Ambrose. When Rowe kidnapped Ros and hauled him back to Hartford Cove, she knew she was taking more than one risk. The small town of wolf shifters doesn’t play friendly with vampires. But Rowe hopes that a peace offering will finally lay this centuries-old feud to rest. Returning to Hartford Cove may have been a mistake, though.

Jace Tanner, who owns a top sports management agency in Dallas, longs to reconnect with the brother he was separated from when they were small children. He hires an investigator to locate Eli after his adopted parents pass on. Upon learning that Eli serves as the medical director of a hospital in the small town of Hawthorne, Texas, Jace decides to reach out, meeting Eli on his wedding day.

Autumn Sutherland, a dedicated nurse, catches her doctor husband cheating on her with a colleague. Heartbroken, she divorces him and returns to her hometown for a fresh start. Once in Hawthorne, she accepts a position as Director of Nursing at the soon to open Hogan Health Hospital—Triple H—hoping to find new purpose in both her professional and personal life. Former ER physician and new medical director Eli Carson grew up in foster care. While a brilliant doctor, Eli is shy and socially awkward, having skipped several grades throughout his education.

Welcome to Hawthorne, Texas, a place where many former citizens return, drawn to their hometown’s slower pace and family values, finding lasting love and happiness.

The butterflies pick up their pace. I like that Andy isn’t trying to be coy. Like, he’s making it pretty clear that he’s into me. And I’m into that. Emma Bishop is ready for a fresh start. She's in high school now, after all, so there's no room for last year’s drama to follow her. She's older and wiser, more confident, and determined to make this her best year yet. In what might be the most exciting development of her life, Emma finally has a boyfriend. Andy is cute and nice and really likes her– what could go wrong? As it turns out, everything.

When two women, from two different backgrounds, meet while hiking on the iconic Appalachian Trail, the only solution is to fall in love. Obviously. But when a science-driven psychologist, nurtured in the Appalachian Mountains by her wise half-Cherokee grandmother, encounters a remarkable woman with the rare gift of communicating with spirits, their connection challenges the psychologist to reevaluate the disregarded lessons of her upbringing. Walk with Payne and Jennifer as they discover more than they planned for, in this low angst, easy to follow, twisty tale of two women falling in love.

Seventeen-year-old Thomas Walker thought he was a normal teen belonging to a normal family until he learns his bloodline carries powerful magic and a sacred mission to protect humanity: exorcize any and all demons.