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Henri doesn't have friends. He has his clan, which is more like a family. And he has work colleagues at the college where he teaches but he's better friends with the mouse who lives underneath his couch. He has a good reason for steering clear of people. He's been burned before. It seems he's destined to always pay a price for trusting the wrong person. And that price might just be a deadly one.

Wesley is between a rock and a hard place. His savior is a wolf shifter who gives him panic attacks. Wesley is always scared. He never thought of himself as naïve, but he realizes he is when the senator he used to work for turns on him. When a wolf shifter, who claims to be his fated mate, comes to his rescue, Wesley knows he's in even more danger. Paranormals are the enemy, after all. Sully's mate is the enemy. He's sure of it before he even meets him. His assignment is to protect Wesley with his life, but he can't protect him from a past that comes back to haunt him.

Damian isn't good with emotion. Not feeling keeps things simple, but his fated mate is a lesson in complications. He certainly doesn't want Owen to know about his past, but it's inevitable when a vision sends them on a race against time. Owen doesn't want a killer for a mate. He thinks that's all Damian is until he opens himself up a bit. But by doing so he lets in a swarm of danger. It's a race against time if they want to save lives.

Ladon has to be alpha. How is he supposed to do that? At twenty years old, Ladon knows he's too young to be Saint Lakes' Alpha, but no one listens. Not even his mate, Magnus, and he's Ladon's best friend. Magnus is a vampire in trouble. He's out of town on a dangerous investigative mission when Ladon shifts into his dragon for the first time. They've waited years for this day. It means they can complete their bond. But Magnus's mission goes sideways, and he's stuck in a lab with a crazy doctor wanting to use him as a pin cushion.

A triumphant family story and sharply observed exploration of privilege, identity, and love in all its forms, following four estranged siblings whose lives collide in the lead-up to a family wedding, when new clues surface about their long-missing father “Truly a great American novel that does...

Vaughan Somerset is in love. It was only supposed to be friends with benefits, but love works its way into their hearts. He struggles with telling people because they aren't fated mates. Bandos will never have a fated mate. He met his long ago, and it ended badly. When he finds Vaughan, he can't help but fall in love with the funny wolf shifter.

Taylor Kramer is out of options. If he wants to survive, he has to rely on the very people he once hunted—the paranormals. The government wants him dead and the paranormals scare him. The last thing he needs is a mate who shifts into a cougar.

Keaton finally has a family. Nothing good has happened in his life until he's able to call Saint Lakes home. Meeting his fated mate should be good as well, but the shadows of his past come back to haunt him. Tim Pyke has turned over a new leaf. Since his son mated with a Somerset, it's not like he has much of a choice. He's part of the family, after all. He still doesn't intend to mate with anyone who isn't a cougar shifter like himself. When he meets the prettiest vampire he's ever seen, his instincts toward his fated mate are too strong to ignore.

Jules has two mates. One is prejudice against most of his family and the other goes along to get along. He does a good job of resisting their advances but when he gets injured in a battle with a vampire coven, he has to fight the mating pulling even harder. Hacen and Thomas want to bond with Jules. Three mates might get complicated, but they're determined to make it work. With Hacen hanging on to his prejudices and Jules not giving them an inch, Thomas feels pulled in all directions. When danger knocks on their door, only their connection can save them.

Ramsey Somerset's control is slipping. As a water monster he's always in danger of giving into his beast. When he meets his fated mate, it gets even more dangerous. Fane Tiago is feral. Sold into captivity and becoming a science experiment has left him shattered. Finding out his fated mate is less than willing to help him pick up the pieces means he's more alone than ever. War with the vampires hangs over Ramsey. But behind Fane's feral mind lurks a vampire who is more than he seems.

Margot Wright has led a deliberate life. At 18, she left her unusual and abusive family situation and never looked back, and then two years later she devoted herself wholly to Estelle Coté, her first and only love. But now, at 45, freshly retired from a career in antique firearms dealing and settling into a new home with her wife, Margot finds herself feeling restless. Bored. She admits this to herself on the day she visits Le Galopant, a historic carousel that has become bafflingly meaningful to Estelle.

Lucas used to be a normal person. Was it really so bad that he had a job he didn't like, and he still lived with his parents? At least he didn't have balls of light shooting out of him. Oh wait. Yes, he does. And he's not sure why it's happening or what to do about it. But it gets worse. Way worse and deadlier than Lucas had ever thought possible. Running for his life, he ends up in a small town named Saint Lakes and right into the arms of a dragon shifter who claims to be his fated mate.

Forrest Somerset is a bobcat shifter on a mission. When you're fated mates with an idiot vampire, the only recourse is to save him from himself. But what does he do when Angel's troubled past makes him the bad guy? Angel has a few wrongs to make right. If that means he has to turn himself over to the shifter council, then he'll do it. He'll do anything to keep his mate and the Saint Lakes safe. But what happens when Angel's good intentions go sideways and the only person who can save him is his little bobcat shifter?

Chicago homicide detective Tyler Jamison has accepted the fact that he was born defective. Women just don't do it for him, and he can't contemplate any other option. So, loneliness it is. Ian Alexander has met the man of his dreams, but the guy's in complete denial of his sexuality. Ian's not giving up on Tyler, though. Tyler's a domineering, controlling force of nature...just what Ian has always craved in his bed. When a serial killer sets his sights on Ian, Tyler will do anything to protect the much younger man.

Going to Cabin Green alone after the death of his fiancee was Ben's first mistake. His second mistake was tempting fate by saying, "There's no such thing as an evil building." Now he's caught in a nightmare of his own making deep in the woods of Northern Michigan. Even worse, a family history of mental illness makes it impossible for him to know if the ghosts haunting the cabin are real or all in his head.

Shawn knows a secret. His best friend is a witch. A whole vampire coven knows it too and they come after Shawn to get to the person they really want. When a wolf shifter rescues him from the brink of death, he's not sure if he's safe or in even more danger than before. Gabriel is a defective wolf shifter. Or he thinks he is. He'd hurt someone he was supposed to love when he was a child. He's afraid of hurting others too, so he keeps his distance. Especially from the little human with enough sass to anger an entire coven. Some lessons are hard to learn.

Sage Rickman is afraid of everything. After suffering severe trauma at the hands of a vampire coven, the snake shifter doesn't know if he'll ever stop jumping at shadows. Discovering his fated mate is a feral dragon shifter just might be his undoing. Garridan Arach has been set free. Not only has he been imprisoned for years but he's also been stuck in his dragon shifter form. If his human and dragon sides can't merge, not only will he lose his mate, but he might lose his new clan to the coven who held him captive.

Destiny and Faith were living and loving the life they'd created. They worked side-by-side at a thriving landscaping company by day and spent their nights together in a lavender haze of love. It was a happy life or so Destiny thought. One day Faith not only moved all her things out of their apartment, but she quit her job and opened her own landscaping company. On top of that the only explanation Destiny ever received was: you know what you did.

Setting out on the "vacation of a lifetime" Marissa Chabot is well-provisioned with sunblock, rum, and a stack of good books. Being one of the founders of Finders Keepers, the successful, high-tech "soul-mate matching service," she knows that vacation romances are hopeless. When Linda Bartok—tall, dark, and beautiful—sweeps her off her feet anyway, Marissa yields to the magic of a storybook rescue, moonlit walks on the beach, and longed-for whispers of passion.

Wildfires threaten Phoenix Ridge and Lieutenant Zoey Knight—a seasoned firefighter—is at the heart of the fight against the fires. When she is forced to work with Chief Helicopter Pilot Lux Valentine to fight the fires, they clash immediately. They hate each other instantly . . . but also . . . well, they can't resist each other. Lux and Zoey's explosive chemistry ignites during a high-stakes rescue mission, where they become trapped together.