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While many might think waitressing wasn't a great job, Laurel Chin loved it. She enjoyed meeting the customers and working side by side with her family in their small Jamaican-Chinese fusion restaurant on the edge of Birmingham's Chinatown. Like everyone else, she'd been astounded at first when the aliens appeared, but as they offered friendship and trade, she soon lost most interest in the news about them. If there was anything to worry about, she trusted Prime Minister Simms and Parliament would let the public know.

On Fate Mountain, Levi Blackthorn is alpha of his bear clan and leader of the Rescue Bears, the search-and-rescue crew. He and his fellow ex-Navy SEALs are closer than brothers. In a world where shifters often battle prejudice and even violence from humans, they face whatever comes together. Juliet Hernandez is a soft-hearted, strong-willed graphic designer with a close circle of friends. She doesn’t like risk, but she’s always there when someone needs her.

Just as unsettling news is revealed, Mattie Jackson is drawn back into a salacious merger that attempts to suppress her intensely stimulating relationship with her lover Kyle Bruno. During this unwelcome merger, Kyle may find escaping the drug cartel’s fixation on him an impossibility. Joining with his most hated enemy may be his only means to an end. Mattie begins to feel her blissful elation with Kyle is being threatened, and there’s only one certain course to follow.

When Mattie Jackson and her lover, Kyle Bruno, return to Myrtle Beach, they become thrust into the shadows of one of the deadliest underground games that has ever been played. Mattie’s own insight may not be able to shield her from the formidable criminals, wrought by drug cartel vengeance, closing in. As Mattie and Kyle find it difficult to ignore their mounting suspicions, the forces against them come out of the shadows and boldly introduce themselves.

A wild coastal storm rolls into Myrtle Beach during the night, luring Mattie Jackson into the warm, thrilling arms of Kyle. Kyle’s electrifying touch urges Mattie to blissfully surrender. While sultry flames of passion rise around them, a vicious murder transpires. Mattie is drawn into the mystery, following her impulses to get to the truth.

Mattie Jackson embraces her new life with the man who effortlessly claimed her heart and continues to fuel her passionate desire. Set in a quaint suburb northeast of downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mattie discovers some exciting information regarding her family’s past. While at the same time, an unrelenting, sinister force blindsides her, trying to transform her world from underneath her. Retrieving control of her life may not be a task that she can manage alone.

Shawna Lang returns to the enchanting mountains of Asheville. Away from Asheville for nearly 20 years, Shawna starts out on her trip with a deep longing for romance and adventure. Though coming back gives her heart an intoxicating excitement she'd longed to experience, the danger linked with her return may bring her a perilous adventure that she couldn't expect.

Mattie Jackson is a content, single woman living a quiet life in a charming suburb of Pittsburgh. Fate steps into her life one night tempting her out of her uncomplicated existence. During this thrilling transition she meets a novelist, the handsome, sultry-eyed Kyle Bruno. Rousing passion rapidly ignites her body and soul as she becomes deeply ensnared by this new, intoxicating excitement.

Living in exile since birth, Violet Sinclaire should never have been born. She is a half-blood descendent of royalty, and her existence was forbidden by the ancient immortals long ago. Now, the royals want her dead. As the one true queen of the shadow world, Violet has sworn to take back her throne and avenge her mother’s murder at any cost. First, she must choose her warriors, for they are her shields in battle; the armor that will keep her safe from the royal assassins. Determined that a half-breed will never own the throne, the royals have called for her blood.

I’ve gone back: back to the place where it all started, where somebody else had the final say. I did it out of love for my family. I’m trying to rebuild my life, to stay standing, even though my legs hurt like hell. I’m concentrating on myself, on my career. I’m ready to tear everything apart to try and keep it all together. To hate without feeling guilty for it, because hating others is the only way I know how to keep myself — the person I am — going; and I was doing it. I was strong. I was untouchable. I was invincible. Actually, I was deluded. I didn’t consider everything.

A year ago, she begged me to stay. A year later, it’s my turn to beg her not to go. My obsession. My downfall. I tried to resist, to keep her at a distance. I tried to save myself. But no one will be saved here, not even a selfish bastard like me. My life has always been about sport and family, including my stupid brothers. Until that night, the night I made the worst decision of my life. And I’m still paying the price for it. We both are. But the time has come to take back control of the situation, to risk it all, to convince her to let me in, because she can’t be anything other than mine.