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Once, she was my world. The only one I loved. Then it was all ripped away—including my freedom. Vengeance kept me alive. It paved every step, shaped every plot. Until I finally caught her. I learned that line between love and hate is wafer-thin. Where once my dreams were filled with revenge, now that I have her, all I think about is the intoxicating passion we once shared. But there's no turning back the events her capture has set into motion. It unravels a carefully constructed world, one where enemies surround me. Everyone, that is, except her.

Some lies never stay buried.... Betsy Jakes was having nightmares - nightmares that could solve a decades-old mystery. And for someone in her small town, that meant she had to die. When Sam Jakes returns home to help his brother solve their mother's murder, two things shake him to the core. This crime is clearly the work of a serial killer who has struck twice before. And...Lainey Pickett is still in town. The woman he walked away from without an explanation years ago has just walked back into his life.

Cillian Kildare is a monster wrapped in charm and sophistication. A gorgeous psychopath with venom in his veins and sadism driving every beat of his cold, black heart. When I'm sent to kill the vicious Irish mafia boss to settle a debt from my past, it's supposed to be simple. It becomes a lot less simple when Cillian catches me and carves his way into my darkest secrets and most deviant desires. Now, captured and bound as his prisoner plaything, he has new plans for me: an unholy marriage of inconvenience. He'll protect me from my past

Vitus Adamson has a second chance at life now that he's no longer a zombie. But after killing his brother, Jamie, Vitus lands in prison on murder charges. Jamie's death exposes secret government projects so deep in the black they cannot be seen - without Vitus, that is. Sprung from jail, the government hires Vitus to clean up Jamie's messes, but tracking down his brother's homemade monsters gone rogue is easier said than done. The first of them is a convicted killer assumed to be safely behind bars.

Gefangen in der Waldhütte wird Muriel bewusst, was sie verloren hat. Doch wem alles genommen wurde, ist entweder bereit, aufzugeben oder alles zu riskieren. Auch wenn Álvaro und Maxim alles unternehmen, um sie zu finden, könnte es zu spät sein. Wird es ihnen gelingen, Muriel zu befreien? Wird sie heilen oder werden sie Albträume und Erinnerungen wie ein Fluch verfolgen und wird Nähe für sie genauso unerträglich sein wie für Álvaro? Allerdings ist Álvaro derjenige, der in seiner Kindheit durch die Hölle ging. Er hat gelernt, mit Schmerz umzugehen.

'You're asking me to hold your hand. And now you're turning away from me. You are saying something but I can't hear you. It's too windy. You're crying now. Now you're smiling. I'm done. I love you . . .' It's been two years since Raghu left his first love, Brahmi, on the edge of the roof one...

In this heart-stopping installment in the New York Times best-selling Immortals After Dark series, a vampire swordswoman and a ruthless sorcerer become inmates in a hellplane prison.

Born and raised in the forgotten and broken kingdom of Ashbury, Elora has spent years resenting the royals of Pumpkin Hollow, the kingdom that forced the fall of Ashbury and procured the town as its own. Separated by a mysterious glass bridge, Ashbury is treated as the orphan kingdom, left to squander and starve with only the promise of protection from King Jasper, preventing anyone outside their realm from searching for the magic that lay within the ashy valleys and red skies. Because twenty-five years ago, the Cinder Fae arrived.

Life is just full of crazy surprises with teeth. One day you're the forever-single wallflower keeping up the boring family furniture shop. The next, you're getting mouth-to-mouth from a scary hot stranger who wants to make your life a thriller novel. Yes, my disaster has a name. Micah Ainsley. Everything I'm not. Nothing remotely good for me. He's all wolf—moody, savage, and ferociously protective. I'm a human puppy. He thrives on secrets. Everybody knows what I had for breakfast. He's experienced. So experienced. I've never even been kissed.

Ellaria wünscht sich nur eines: geliebt und von ihrem Volk akzeptiert zu werden. Als plötzlich ein feindlicher Fae in ihrem Reich auftaucht und ihr das Unmögliche offenbart, gerät ihre Welt und alles, an das sie glaubt, ins Wanken. Durch einen schweren Verrat eines geliebten Menschen wird sie auf die gefährlichste Probe ihres Lebens gestellt und sieht sich gezwungen, sich mit dem Fae zu verbünden.

Als Tochter eines Waffenhändlers führt die junge Anna Aston kein leichtes Leben. Noch schwerer wird es, als ihr Vater ausgerechnet seinen zukünftigen Mörder zu Annas Beschützer ernennt: Fabricio Moniz Cardozo, Oberhaupt einer Mafia-Organisation. Es beginnt ein neuer Lebensabschnitt für Anna, in dem sie einem Mann ausgeliefert ist, dem sie nicht traut und gleichzeitig vertrauen muss, um nicht ihren Feinden in die Hände zu fallen. Sie bekämpft ihren Beschützer mit allen Mitteln, bis sie erkennt, dass Hass und Leidenschaft manchmal nah beieinander liegen.

My fresh start turned into a dumpster fire. Awesome new job. Small town heaven. Friendly faces galore. Then I strolled into my new home and found the unspeakable. Just when I'm sure it can't get worse, I'm “rescued” by a man who makes me see red for miles. Enter Lucas Graves. A bossy grump with a badge who's sworn to keep me safe. He rocks the scary-hot vibe, he reads too much, and he never misses a chance to give me crap for being a nerdy little cactus who mouths back. Not the type of man I'd go for in my right mind. Definitely not the type I should keep trading bruising kisses with.

Después de pasar tres años en la oscuridad, Isabella regresa a Estados Unidos con un único objetivo en mente: cobrarse todo lo que le arrebataron. Con una sed de venganza insaciable, vuelve más poderosa, letal, sádica y sombría que nunca, liderando implacablemente La Orden del Silencio, una organización temida por muchos. En su búsqueda de justicia, se sumerge en un mundo de penumbras, secretos y ardiente pasión. Pero al encontrarse con uno de sus mayores adversarios, descubre que detrás de su máscara se esconde mucho más que un simple rostro.

The first time I met Tyler Lucas, I was seventeen. All it took was one summer to fall in love with him. I fell hard, too hard, and not just for him... A series of bad choices and actions causes me to leave him and our family behind. I have to find myself once again, and to do that, I must dive deep. At twenty-four, I'm a world-class diver and explorer, one of the best. But when my newest job collides with my past, will we be able to work together, especially with the stakes so high?

Xerus: loyal, protective, swift, powerful. Named predomis—highest warrior among the vrisha—and guardian to his queen. And Lana's one true mate. Several years after Lazris, Lana has called the vrisha's world her home. After a long mission kept her and Xerus away, they finally return to Tryth, hoping to settle back into the life they had and spend each moment together.

They call me a prodigy in the business world. Rich, powerful, and cunning. At 29 years old, I'm running an empire, built from scratch. The political realm is next. I want my voice heard and my name on the ballot. But my character credentials are lacking. I need a woman at my side, under contract. Someone with a pretty smile for the public eye, to make me look like a trustworthy, loyal man. Ann Porter is the woman I want for the job. Her heart is just as violent as mine, her mind sharp and cunning. Her body willing and begging to be broken - ready to bend at my will.

Um. Um. Um. Are you reading this? If you are, I need your help. I was at a party; I was running; I fell. And get this - this is the part you'll never believe - I fell down a rabbit hole. Like Alice in those old books. Except in those books, there wasn't blood everywhere. In those books, the characters weren't all male, attractive, and interested in me.

After nearly losing one another in a savage attack on the city, Vor and Faraine return to Mythanar, fully committed to their marriage. But the situation in the Under Realm remains dire. With the world poised on the brink of collapse, Vor struggles to protect his kingdom. Though Faraine longs to support him as queen, she fights the weakness in her body at every turn... not to mention the strange changes warping her gods-gift.

Daisy doesn’t believe love is ever-lasting, so it’s ironic as hell that she parlayed a business degree into a wedding planning business. More ironic still is her latest job bringing her back into contact with the man who’d taught her that love can’t last.

When the fae King of Storms and Feathers purchases me, I vow to escape his palace of dust and gold, reclaim my memories, and return to the home that haunts my visions—a city of ruins in the decaying forests of the human realm. In the meantime, I’ll pretend to be what King Arrowyn wants—an obedient green-eyed bird, chained and powerless, his for the taunting and taking. But when I escape and fall into viler clutches, Arrow hunts me down, determined to retrieve his disobedient, most valued possession.