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Harper Jones is a professional bike courier, and in his business if you don't ride fast, you don't make money. His apartment has mice, he's barely able to scrape up the rent, but at least he's living life on his terms and doesn't depend on anyone. Sam Foster is the gay son of a wealthy conservative senator. He's noticed Harper before when he's dropped off packages at his dad's company, but he's never had the nerve to speak to his secret crush. When Sam accidentally hits Harper with his car, Harper's bike is destroyed and he's injured. Sam decides Harper needs rescuing and moves in.

Damen is a warrior hero to his people and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave. Beautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent.

Logan Bennett makes me want to have a future not tainted by the constant hunger for revenge. Doesn't mean I can stop. Doesn't mean I want to stop. It just means I want more . . . one day. But how do you make a good man love the monster inside you without stripping his soul away as well? He is all the best parts of me right now, resurrecting bits of my heart I forgot could even exist. He makes me feel something other than cold.

Dr. Russell has a bad reputation around our hospital. I try to avoid him and his temper at all costs. It’s just as easy to admire his sexy, grip-it-while-he’s-ravishing-you hair and chiseled jaw from a healthy distance. Unfortunately, my plan crumbles when my trusty ol’ boss decides to swap his white coat for a Hawaiian shirt. His retirement leaves me with two terrible options: Switch specialties and spend months retraining or take an open position as Dr. Russell’s surgical assistant.

Thea Quinn has no idea what she is. All she knows is that her abilities have been a plague upon her life since she was a child. After years of suffering at the hands of a megalomaniac, Thea escaped and has been on the run ever since. The leadership and protection of his pack are of the utmost importance to Conall MacLennan. Which is why watching his sister slowly die is emotional torture. When Conall is offered a cure for his sister, he forges an unbreakable contract. He has to find and retrieve the key to the cure: dangerous murderer Thea Quinn.

It's not every day that you get to move to New York City and reinvent yourself. I was tired of being boring, predictable Emma Mills. I was convinced that my life would be totally different in the Big Apple. And I was right. Jackson Reynard was irresistible and I had no plans on resisting him. Jackson was the epitome of tall, dark, and handsome and I was more than happy to let him sweep me off my feet. I expected a summer fling but instead I got a heart-stopping romance. I realized that I had met the love of my life. I just didn't realize that sometimes love isn't enough.

Star Strauss has always been a fighter. From the time she was born prematurely to her life on the road as a circus performer, she has never let her small stature keep her from achieving her dreams. Her love of being up high and flying free has helped her overcome the challenges she faces when she is on the ground. But her life changes when she finds herself on a distant world where every creature seems to tower over her.

Hannah Bell, the oldest of the three Bell sisters, spends most of her time in the remotest parts of the world photographing endangered animals. She is also gifted with an extraordinary sixth sense, which has saved her life on more than one occasion. When she senses something has happened to her littlest sister, Tink, she will do whatever it takes to protect her. What she doesn't know is her sister's best friend's new science experiment has opened a portal to another world - a world she is about to be taken to whether she wants to go or not.

River Knight was looking forward to a peaceful vacation in the mountains with her two best friends, Jo and Star, sisters of the heart. When she travels up into the mountains of North Carolina to the cabin Star has rented for them, she is shocked when she finds the two sisters being abducted. Following them, she discovers their abductors are anything but human. Sneaking aboard the shuttle in an attempt to rescue them, she finds herself on an unplanned vacation to the stars.

What's a spelled, violin-wielding thief-for-hire to do when parts of a poem that lead to a map to unknown treasure falls into her lap? Follow it, of course. After being shot while retrieving the first piece of the map, Finley knows she's going to need some help with the next piece. On the road to figuring out where the second piece of the map is, a tip points her in the direction of three men. Obsidian, the hamrammr, Stolas, the hellhound, and Verkor, the unseelie fae. Finley gets a little more than she bargained for when they meet.

Sometimes life begins after you die. At least it has for Lily O'Donnell. Lily O'Donnell had always wanted to find a love as beautiful as her parents had. When her father suspiciously dies in an accident and her mother is brutally raped and murdered, Lily has to fight for her life. When she is trapped by the man who murdered both her parents and threatens to do to her what he did to her mother, Lily feels she has only one choice to avoid a fate worse than death. Reborn to help others, Lily reappears time after time to help families in need, only to die again once the families no longer need her.

Rune August has lived through many time periods but has never found tranquility until she walked into St. Agnes Home for Orphans, a place she can call home. She will do everything she can to give the children in the orphanage a better life. When a developer sets his sights on the property, she doesn't hesitate to fight back - and win. But that win comes at a terrible price: her life. Refusing to leave the children unprotected, she watches over and protects them as the beloved statue in their center garden.

Erst dachte ich, er wäre meine große Liebe. Jetzt weiß ich: Er bedeutet meinen Untergang ... Als Emily das abgekühlte Verhalten ihres Liebsten spürt, sucht sie Trost und Ablenkung bei einem Mann, der sie mithilfe einer anonymen Nachricht kontaktiert hat. Seine Identität bleibt im Verborgenen. Genau das ist es, was sie daran reizt. Keine Verpflichtungen – das ist ihre Bedingung. Doch mit der Zeit wird ihr der seltsame Fremde unheimlich. Der Unbekannte weiß alles über sie und kennt ihre geheimsten Träume. Wie kann das sein? Ihr wird das Ganze schlussendlich zu heiß und sie bricht den Kontakt ab.

Wenn deine Vergangenheit versucht, deine Zukunft zu zerstören ... Nach vielen Enttäuschungen wagt Jill auf Long Island einen Neuanfang und erfüllt sich mit einem kleinen, aber baufälligen Hotel am Meer einen Traum. Doch es ist ein anderer Traum, der sie beschäftigt. Einer, der immer wieder kommt, wenn sie nachts die Augen schließt: Da ist dieser geheimnisvolle Fremde, dessen leidenschaftlichen Berührungen sie sich mit klopfendem Herzen hingibt. Sie verzehrt sich nach diesem attraktiven Mann.

For Lori Straford, born into the lowest caste of citizens—the pleasure arts strata of their society—it is an inescapable fate that she can only hope to better by enlisting as a spa attendant and masseuse on one of the luxury world colonies under the purview of Darvel Exploration Corporation. When she is talked into working on one of their mining planets for a year with the promise of a hefty bonus and to be transferred to her choice planet after more non-gratas can be sent over, it is too good of an opportunity to pass up.

Paul Grove aime deux choses plus que tout au monde : sa fille, Trisha, et explorer les montagnes et les forêts du Wyoming. Il ferait tout pour la première, et l’autre le défini. Après la disparition de Trisha et de ses amies, les traces qu’ils trouvent ne suivent aucune logique, les indices abandonnés ne ressemblent à rien de ce qu’il a déjà vu. Lorsque sa fille revient, avec un guerrier d’un autre monde, Paul réalise qu’il doit rentrer avec elle sur son nouveau monde ou la perdre à tout jamais.

Es braucht nur ein bisschen Spannung, um das Knistern zu verstärken in diesem dritten Teil der Reihe "Unerwartet Milliardär" von New York Times Bestsellerautorin J.S. Scott.- Genau wie seine Geschwister wurde auch Seth Sinclair über Nacht zum Milliardär und er ist entschlossen, sein Geld in der Branche anzulegen, mit der er sich am besten auskennt: im Baugewerbe. Es gibt nur eines, das ihm im Weg steht – und zwar die vom Aussterben bedrohten Vögel, die auf einem erstklassigen Baugrundstück nahe am Strand nisten.

Es gibt nichts Heißeres als eine zweite Chance in diesem erotischen nächsten Teil der Reihe "Unerwartet Milliardär" von New York Times Bestsellerautorin J.S. Scott. Aiden Sinclair hat als Fischer gearbeitet, bevor er unverhofft eine milliardenschwere Erbschaft gemacht hat – nicht dass er sich beschweren würde. Ein Sinclair zu sein hat auch seine Vorteile. Und doch waren die Dinge einfacher, bevor er dieses Geld besaß.

My past as a humble farmer is gone. Now, as I, my wives, and my children work tirelessly to unify the world's dungeons against those that would exploit them, the stakes have never been higher. As a mystical madness threatens to infect me and the very gods themselves threaten to bar our way to freedom, a final confrontation looms between my dungeons and the rampaging adventurers who would judge us. In the end, I will do what needs to be done, to protect my land, to protect my family. And if I have to fertilize my crops with the blood of the gods to do it, so be it.

Gesamtausgabe der drei dunklen Liebesromane von Bestseller-Autorin J. S. Wonda. Erotisch, explizit und ein Hauch von Dark Romance! AMELY. Ich half dem Fremden, weil ich glaubte, dass er meine Hilfe verdiente, und ignorierte dabei die blutroten Flecken auf seinem weißen Hemd. Jetzt steht er hier, in meinem Haus, und sieht aus wie jemand, dem keine Frau vertrauen sollte. Sein Haar ist dunkel, sein Blick stürmt.