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The head of the Irish mafia killed my family. Then made me his wife. Patrick Mahoney erased my bloodline in one brutal night. His answer to my father's betrayal? Total annihilation. But he missed one. Me. Instead of finishing the job, he's claimed me—bound me to him with a ring instead of a...

Desperate to keep her crew of thieves from breaking apart, Devilry concocts a plan to steal priceless treasure from a magical fortress. They have one small window of opportunity in which to pull this job . . . Midwinter's Eve. But Devilry discovers that she and her companions aren’t the only...

Ophelia, the Calder family's untouchable princess, drove my sister to take her own life. Now I'm taking hers—and I'm going to make her my obedient little pet. All brothers must choose a Ward, and she'll be mine. Forever. She'll dance at the end of my leash while her father's spies report every humiliating detail back to him. And when he comes for me, the Brotherhood will wipe him off the map. A perfect plan. Except it isn't.

I'm nobody special. Just a healer in a small village. The only girl in a house full of rowdy boys. But then I stumble across an injured dragon, save his life, and everything changes. My dragon decides that we'll go to the Dragon Rider Academy and become great warriors together. There's just one problem. All dragon riders are male, and all dragons are female. Considering I break their most basic rules just by existing, no one is exactly rolling out the welcome mat for me. Especially not the three darkly handsome princes who run the academy.

Here are three things that I know. 1) I’m an expert at reading body language, 2) I excel as an intelligence operative, and 3) Ledger Lancaster—daring, fearless, and recklessly charming—is my rival. Or enemy, depending on the day. What I didn’t realize from our first mission overlap a year and a half ago—a mission I thought Ledger was using to gain the upper hand only for me to beat him at his own game—was that his interest in me wasn’t an act. How could I have guessed?

He craved him like he'd never craved anyone before. Ice They'd kissed. And spent a brief and wild time together. He fell. But Echo disappeared on him. And now the chase was on. He was going to find Echo, catch him, and make him his. Even if it killed him. Echo He should have never screwed the...

Fans of Hannah Howell and Diana Gabaldon will love this Scottish romance wherein a Highland laird risks his own life to rescue the daughter of his sworn enemy. "A knockout love story, with an action-packed plot." —Booklist Famed for his fierceness, Laird Robert Grant is above all a loyal...