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They’re dead. I feel it right down in the bottom of my soul. They were snatched away like trophies in the night and slaughtered before my very eyes. Those three gunshots will forever ring through my mind, tormenting every waking minute of my life.

Have you ever wished you could turn back time and do things differently? Like that one time you decided to use your ratty bra as a weapon and almost took out the eye of your dad’s hot doctor? Yeah? Me, too. But my nylon ninja skills must’ve impressed him, because he kept coming around, heating my blood with those tight jeans and sexy smiles.

The fate of humankind rests on the shoulders of one of our own flesh and blood. A child whose mere existence has the power to send shockwaves through the world, throwing everything off balance. But amidst this prophecy lies a grim reality—a second prediction that includes my head on a spike.

Octavia Royal, the nation's princess. More like, Octavia Royal, my life is a big hot mess. My father’s death has me back in my hometown, and nothing is as I remember. Echoes Cove Prep is a place where dreams go to die. Where everyone wants to be a mean girl, no matter what they sacrifice, and the three boys who were once my saviors run the place. Only now they’re my worst nightmare. There’s something sinister writhing beneath the surface of Echoes Cove.

From Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author Willow Winters comes a highest bidder holiday short story.

Strait-laced accounting major, Vivian Ellis, hasn’t watched a complete game of football in her life. And when she receives her tutoring assignment, the last student she expected was Cade. Not only has the football star earned a reputation as the best looking heart-breaker on campus, his recent trial has made him notorious.

Dear goddess: For the love of all things dark and hairy, did you really have to mate me with a vampire? Seriously? My hormones are off the charts, my urges are driving me crazy, and my wolf wants to shift every other minute. And what do I get for being a good guy? A prim vampire who's setting off every nesting instinct. For the love....I'm buying expensive pillows, and walking around saying things like 'MINE!' Not cool, goddess. Not. Cool. Fix it, please. Sincerely, A disgruntled wolf shifter.

Nothing about my return to Echoes Cove was what I expected, but I wasn’t prepared for the darkness that’s threatening to devour us all. A stalker, patient and cunning, hunting in the shadows. Powerful forces determined to control my every move and bend me to their will. And them. Lincoln, Maverick, Finley, and Easton. I’m not sure how I’ll survive them without losing myself, or my heart, along the way. And when the secrets circling us begin to break the surface I know it’s not just about losing who I am or losing them.

Grayson Cage is a sexy Santa. Yeah, I know. Mall Santas typically aren’t very hot. Yet after seeing what he looks like under his costume? The tall, dark, and handsome man is all I want for Christmas. But Grayson isn’t just a juicy piece of eye candy. He needs me to watch his daughter while he’s working at the mall, and sometimes at night when he’s managing his bar, the Thirsty Moose. But he’s not the only one giving me flirty smiles...

A simple promise I made to myself after escaping a brutal childhood of abuse and being trained to enact violence on unblessed witches. Since that moment, I've managed to survive on the streets by successfully pickpocketing. Unfortunately, after years of hiding, the monster who stars in all my nightmares is closer than ever, and I'm faced with only one option—to seek refuge at the Dark Imaginarium Academy. The Academy is filled with the elite witches of our society. I should have expected I'd run into some of my previous targets. Normally, that wouldn't be a proble—except for my last hit.

Don’t fall in love with your players. It’s my number-one rule as a football coach. But after meeting Steve Cooper? That rule is going to be put to the test. Steve is the smoldering-hot captain of the defense. He stalks the field like a panther. Dangerous, powerful, and ready to strike. And in the locker room? He sends brooding glances my way. Steve and the rest of the defense don’t trust me. Why would they? But underneath the teases and taunts, there’s a powerful connection between Steve Cooper and myself....

Jason owned the field—a major player, the best of the best. Invincible…until he drove home with three other wide receivers. The semi came out of nowhere and in one minuscule flash, his dreams were destroyed. Now as the machines endlessly beep around his hospital bed, he doesn’t understand how he survived. And he’s not sure he wants to keep living. Except when he hears her voice—a voice like melted caramel swirled in molten chocolate. The only way he can meet her is to open his eyes. But he just can’t do that right now.

Marry him…or end up broke. It was an obvious choice for me. Marry me…or lose an entire lifetime’s work. The choice was pretty obvious for him too. Never in a million years did I think that I’d be flying to Vegas. Not to get drunk. Not for a bachelorette party. But to get fake married to the man every woman on the planet wants. He’s hot, he’s smart, he’s everything except for my real husband.

I found out that I was pregnant with his baby…then I found out that he was leaving me. The thought of it was unbearable. Holden was my brother’s best friend. Being with him was forbidden, and oh-so-wrong. My brother would have not been happy, to say the least. But that didn’t stop me from falling into bed with him, nor from giving him my heart. I spent sleepless nights thinking about him. Finding out that I was pregnant shocked me, but it was nothing compared to what I had to do after.

At 18, Joshua Becker had his whole life planned out. Go to college, marry his high school sweetheart, start a family. But you know what they say about best-made plans.... Now he's back in Washington, DC, his business thriving, when the last person he ever expected to see crashes back into his life. Literally. Ruby O'Brien has everything she needs to be happy. A great business, a close group of girlfriends, and a secret she's kept close to her heart for 11 years. Everything is perfect - until fate brings her past crashing into her present.

We met when you were just a child, but you’re a man now and need my protection. With Christmas Eve approaching, I’ll watch over you. Whether you know it or not. Because no one is allowed to hurt you. No one but me. At 20K words, He Sees You When You’re Sleeping is a twisted take on Santa, featuring M/M romance, horror, and the holiday season.

Jade McGuire lives a double life. To the outside world, she is a well-put together art connoisseur with a good head on her shoulders. But in the privacy of a downtown DC apartment, she lives out every fantasy she has ever had. Twice over. Strong and independent during the day, Jade kneels at the feet of her two Doms once the sun sets.

Politics is never simple when it comes to dragons. Neither is romance. My biological father anointed himself dragon king. Now that he found me, the cunning despot plans to groom me to expand his holdings before appointing me his heir. I’ll never accept the dragon king’s paper throne - but it’s within my power to answer for his sins and restore the magic he stole from others. My older half-brother wants me dead, his lover wants my blood for its life-extending properties, and they both want me to reveal the identity of the dragon king’s missing child.

Delilah Jameson has the perfect life - a great job in her downtown DC art gallery, a group of girlfriends who will always have her back, and Cole, her friend-zoned roommate. Yet, there is something missing: a man she can truly call her own. When online flirting with a complete stranger awakens Dia's curiosity, how far will she go in order to find her happily ever after?

1959. The long, hot summer bakes the sleepy, Southern town of Orchard Hill. Billy Ray Davenport, an aspiring physician and only son of an indomitable traveling minister, is a young man with a plan that starts with working in a small-town doctor’s office before he begins medical school in the fall. Handsome, principled, and keenly observant, he will lodge with the Millers, the local doctor’s family. But he never bargained for Lizzie Quinlan - a complex, kindred spirit who is beautiful and compassionate, yet scorned by the townsfolk.