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Life doesn’t always pan out as you expect. When it explodes in my face, literally, an old friend offers me a place to heal and a job renovating the kitchen of Burlington’s coolest wine bar. V&V is a chill fest. Living above it should be a blast. But I’m not built to be a social butterfly. Not anymore. I’m a damaged man. And I’m not its target clientele. At least, I think I’m not until I come face-to-face with the most beautiful human I’ve ever seen.

Hundreds of years ago, on a wild sea coast, two bold-hearted men met in combat and love...This is the story of Caius, a Christian monk struggling to reconcile his sensual nature with his newfound faith, and of Fenrir, a ferocious Viking raider abandoned by his comrades and left for dead. When Caius takes pity on the wounded man, his brethren are horrified: what kind of wolf has Cai brought into the fold?

Give me the smallest reason to make a bad decision, and I’ll jump in with both feet. Case in point: thinking that drunkenly buying an abandoned town with my brothers is a good idea. As builders, we plan to renovate and flip the town, maybe turn it into something worth seeing, but the longer we’re here, the more things feel … off. It’s not until a bearded mountain man breaks into my room in the middle of the night and threatens for us to get out of his town that I realize Wilde’s End isn’t as abandoned as we were told.

When the cards are stacked against you, the Kings will even the odds. Binge the best-selling The Kings: Wild Cards series in one set!

The only thing that frightens shapeshifter Selene Rhodes more than the full moon is the idea of falling in love. Selene Rhodes has lived her whole life with a terrible secret: not only can she take the form of any animal at will, but once a month the full moon transforms her into a fierce wolf-creature without a human conscience. Managing her condition means living by a strict routine, and more importantly, abstaining from intimate relationships with human beings.

It's my last season playing college hockey, and I'm determined to help get the team all the way to championships this year. Unfortunately, whether I actually get to be on the ice depends on how well I do in statistics. I need a tutor, and the one person my professor swears can help me refuses to even give me the time of day. I've been into Maddox since the first time I saw him, but he's not into jocks—and he doesn't even acknowledge my existence. When I finally ask if he'll tutor me, he shuts me down immediately. But I'm not one to give up.

I couldn’t tell you when I fell in love with Gael Herrera, but I wish I knew how to make it stop. Falling in love with a straight man is a rookie mistake. But falling in love with my soon-to-be-married-to-a-woman best friend is nothing but heartache. Through all the years, and all the men I’ve fooled around with, he’s always been at the back of my mind. An unrequited crush I wish I could shake. A dream that was never going to come true. When I whisk him off to a surprise bachelor party weekend in Vegas, I surrender to the idea that this is an opportunity for me to finally let go.

From the minds of Cora Rose and Lark Taylor, Deviant is the exciting second book in The Firm series.

Harper Reid has no money and nowhere to go, but he can't spend one more day under the same roof as his abusive boyfriend. Desperate to start fresh, he takes on a special case through the caregiver agency that contracts him. The client has fired everyone else, but this job includes lodging, so Harper will find a way to make it work until he's back on his feet.

Gillian "Gem" Martin is the lead biologist at a wildlife sanctuary on the Northeast coast and head of the Wildlife Emergency Response Team called in when catastrophes, man-made or natural, threaten the endangered species she studies. Austin Germaine is a troubleshooter, the hired gun for a big oil company, whose job is to help contain leaks and prevent media coverage of a pending disaster until the danger can be eliminated. If it can be.

I’ve had a crush on my brother’s best friend since the moment I laid eyes on him four years ago. Warner Ramsey is 225 pounds of pure hotness, a media darling, and one of the best NFL quarterbacks in the league. Hell, he’s the reason I figured out I’m solidly bi. It was easy to keep my crush under control when I was in college. Now, we play for the same team, and every time he talks smack, I want to shut him up. With my mouth.

When I left that night, I had every intention of coming back to you. To us. But no matter how hard I wish for what I want, there are some things in life that aren't meant to be. I don't expect you to understand. You've already moved on, living your life. But mine ended that night, nine years ago, and I still can't let you go. Not sure I ever will. I regret so many things, but hurting you, I'll never forgive myself. I'm sorry for...everything.

Corey hatte es nie leicht mit seiner Familie. Als sich sein Leben durch ihren Tod plötzlich verändert, weiß er nicht, was er fühlen soll. Um sich abzulenken, meldet er sich, ohne große Hoffnung, bei einer App an. Überraschenderweise findet er das Gesuchte: Jemanden, mit dem er lachen kann. Und nicht nur das, hot_Phoenix_26 zieht ihn mehr an, als er es für möglich gehalten hätte. Eine App mit vielen tollen und heißen Kerlen ist genau das, was Ash nicht anrühren sollte. Er ist nicht geoutet und kann es momentan nicht, so sehr er es sich auch wünscht.

Brandon ist der Mann im Schatten – schweigsam, zurückhaltend, geheimnisvoll. Er hat schmerzliche Gründe, warum er so wenig von sich preis gibt. Doch da gibt es diesen einen Mann, der ihm nicht aus dem Kopf geht und der in ihm den Wunsch weckt, sich zu öffnen. Tristan hat richtig Mist gebaut. Nachdem er gefeuert wurde, wird ihm nach und nach klar, was in seinem Leben falsch läuft. Am Boden angekommen, muss er sich etwas Neues aufbauen. Zu enttäuscht und verletzt will er sich dabei auf niemanden mehr verlassen.

I’ve moved past what happened on Del Rey, and I’ve kept the secret of what I did—what we did—buried deep. But I’m afraid I’ll never move past what happened six months later in Amsterdam. When Ellis Prior, an old friend of my dad’s, walked back into my life, we became fast friends, and he showed me things I can’t forget—things that brought me to my knees. But I walked away from that life, and I never looked back.

I've always been an odd one, never caring what people thought of me. Some people expect me to be a certain way because I'm an omega, but I dance to the beat of my own drum. I'm twenty-one. That means going to Calling Wood University and finding a pack to share my first heat with. I've never hated the idea of finding a pack, but I wasn't going to settle for just anyone. I don't care about finding my scent match, but I want people who won't try to change me.

Evan: Mich zu verlieben war nie geplant, schon gar nicht in meinen besten Freund. Doch in Chesters Nähe bemerke ich plötzlich, wie sehr ich den Klang seines Lachens liebe, seine starken Hände und die Art, wie sich der Stoff seiner Arbeitshose um seinen Hintern schmiegt. Hilfe, ich mag ihn viel zu sehr. Dabei bin ich nach Pinecrest gekommen, um abzuschalten und eine schmerzhafte Zurückweisung zu bewältigen. Stattdessen finde ich mich in Chesters Bett wieder, spüre seinen warmen Atem auf meinem Gesicht und habe Gedanken, die ich eigentlich gar nicht haben will.

Sometimes love is where you least expect it, and sometimes it's right where you left it in this witty, slow burn-to-steamy friends-to-lovers MM romance. Widower, Max Hartwell, is barely keeping it together, being a single dad, managing his law firm, and navigating life's chaos. Life after loss is too difficult for surprises, which is why Max would be lost without his reliable best friend and neighbor, Jack.

Parfois, il suffit de peu de choses pour changer le cours d'une vie. Ou même de deux. Un accident de fourgon de la pénitentiaire, une lettre anonyme d'un inconnu prénommé X (original comme pseudo au passage...) et le destin de Blake se voit quelque peu modifié. Reclus au cœur d'un bayou hostile et rude, loin du monde et des trahisons qui ont bien failli l'anéantir, Creed ne s'attend pas à voir débarquer dans sa nouvelle vie cette star de la scène, décalée et surtout en cavale. Il aurait été si simple de l'ignorer.

After running away at the age of 17, I found a new home in the army. It wasn’t long before my fellow soldiers became my new family, giving purpose to my time in Vietnam. But everything changes when Doc Wilde joins my medevac crew. A night alone in the jungle after a helicopter crash forces us to rely on each other for survival, the secrets we share cementing a bond between us deeper than any other I’ve known.