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Penelope Primrose has worked tirelessly to create her picket-fence bliss. After dreaming of a beautiful home and an idyllic small-town lifestyle, the would-be Southern belle perfected impeccable grooming and manners to land her childhood sweetheart. But her visions of a rapid ascent up the social ladder shatter when she finds her ideal husband with another woman. Thrown into a divorce-driven spin and desperate to reinvent herself, the plucky Alabamian is totally confused by the chemistry she feels with the motorcycle-riding, guitar-playing cowboy next door.

I may be the bride - but this isn’t my wedding. You see, I’m pretending to be someone else and marrying the stranger that she was promised to. My future husband is a ruthless man, and if he discovers my secret, I’m dead. I have no choice but to succeed in my task. Earn his love, his trust, and when he least expects it…kill him. It was supposed to be easy. I’d spent a year planning for every scenario. Every possible issue. But then I made the biggest mistake of them all....

Welcome to Comfort, Alabama, where life is anything but comfortable.... Moving back home to live with her parents was not part of Albany’s plan. Neither was doing the alterations on the wedding dress of her high school nemesis, who happens to be marrying the man who broke her heart. She’s going to need ice cream to drown her frustrations. Lots of it! Oh, and a Netflix binge session might help too.

Dr. Lea Val has no time for cocky cops who continuously put themselves in harm's way. She's been trying to open her own practice and still find time to help her friends out at the swanky adult summer camp. Everything was going great until tall, tan, and sexy decided to turn her life upside down.

Separated from the pack, will Aika and Thomas survive? He’s a beautiful threat, but Aika’s convinced she can trust him. But the mysterious, scarred alpha has startling secrets that change everything. While winter rages around them, they’ll have to work together to steal back what belongs to them. No matter what, even if it means painting the Crimson Forest with their enemies’ blood.

Avery Kingwood’s marriage crashed and burned…on his honeymoon. After he finds out his wife Cassie’s devastating truth, she forces him to sign a separation agreement — one that's more like a gag order. Unable to say what happened to his marriage, Cassie expertly manipulates Avery’s entire family against him. Tucked away on the opposite end of the country from his wife and family, Avery finds something that gives his life renewed meaning and hope: Sheila Beller. Perfect, well-respected, charming — and untouchable.

It’s been days since Old Man’s Den burned to the ground and Grady swore he heard his lost alpha howl. While holed up in a tiny inn, tensions are high. There’s no sign of the alpha. Aika is itching to improve her poison. And they’re being hunted. Risking the frigid temperatures outside is the only option - or is it?

Aika Song must make an important delivery through the cursed Crimson Forest for her injured father. If she doesn’t, they won’t survive the hard winter. She fails. But she’s rescued by wolf shifters who somehow give her sight. There’s beautiful, funny Archer who can’t quite hide his pain. Grady who’s sullen and loud. And Thomas, their alpha, who mysteriously vanishes.

A love affair. Two weeks in Normandy. She’s a classy princess, I’m a dirty SEAL. She’s been promised to another man; I’m married to the teams. She’s willing to enter a loveless marriage for her country; I’m willing to die for mine. Until I fall in love with her. Nothing will stop me from making her mine.

When green-eyed charmer John Beller breaks through the chaos of her life, offering all the fruits of lust and love, 32-year-old Mary Williams desperately wants to partake. On the verge of a mental break where footsteps echo from empty rooms and constant phone calls have no one on the other end, she craves the peaceful embrace of John’s arms. His confident sphere is the one place she can forget about her weakening grasp of reality.

Pulse-pounding, adrenaline-fueled adventure has always had 25-year-old Kasey Loren's heart. She's a woman who knows how fast life can slip away and is determined to seize every moment she can. She's sacrificed love, friendship, and stability to reach her goals, and nothing will get in the way of her chance to land a prestigious job at Outdoor Adventure Magazine. Not even the extra dreamy owner of MacKenzie's Bookstore who carries worn out novels in his back pocket.

Just because she has fiery red hair doesn’t mean that Aubrey has the temperament to match it. Actually, it was quite the opposite, Aubrey was the shy one out of the group of friends. Maybe, it was the horrors she’d had to endure growing up or maybe it was because until she’d met her four best friends that summer long ago, she’d never felt a connection before.

Scarlett had learned to keep her head down early in life. Zoey, her older sister, had always taken the reins in life, even when it came to helping their mother get back up after their father stole everything and ran off with a woman half his age, leaving the three of them with only the clothes on their backs and Zoey and Scarlett’s inheritance. She’d been behind her sister one hundred percent in investing into River Camps. It had only taken one look at the sexy Levi to convince her that this was where she wanted to be.

My two suitors are exact opposites. Lucas, the corporate hottie, wants me to spend Christmas Eve at his penthouse and Connor, the bad boy rock star, wants to take me to an isolated cabin on Christmas Day. I’ve agreed to both invitations. Hey, a girl has to explore her options. And then everything went wrong. Because who couldn’t see this train wreck coming, asides from me? Both guys wanted to see me on New Year's Eve, each one sliding a naughty note under my door promising copious amounts of spiced eggnog and an even spicier night

Grace Blackburn's extraordinary voice is a gift. And a curse. As a sound healer, her otherworldly singing can create miracles. It can also kill. Only her sound circle provides the safety she craves, until the night Grace crosses paths with a fanged creature and dreams she is rescued by an angel.

Musician Tempest Moon knew the world was a rough place. Raised in the inner city of Detroit, the only way she learned to succeed was to be smarter - and tougher - than the next guy. Being a sexy, talented singer/lead guitar player with her own band was her way of staying in charge of her destiny. Whether anyone else liked it, or not. Tempest's band was gigging in yet another downtown dive.

Living modestly in a quiet suburb with her grandmother, Caterina Ryan vows to have no connection with her former life in the spotlight. The door to her past has been locked and the key thrown away. When a home renovation project brings the irresistibly charming and gorgeous Mateo Cruz into her life, she finds herself drawn back to a dark place. A place where dreams were shattered and hearts betrayed.

You will marry me. Our wedding will be in your father’s hotel. You will invite 200 guests so we have plenty of witnesses on our happy day. Your father will walk you down the aisle, dance with you, and give a delighted speech. Then, you will come home with me, where we will live happily-ever-after. You have two weeks to pull this together. And if you try to disappear during that time, I will find you. And when I do, both you and your father will find yourselves in a very...unfortunate situation.

DTF. Support your local girl gang! Me and my dirty, tough female besties were hell - and tacos on wheels. Who knew that my homemade Shizzle Sauce would be the key ingredient to my happily-ever-after? Destiny had a wicked sense of humor - that was for sure. After surviving a toxic relationship, I vowed to never let myself be controlled by a man again. With the help of my girl gang, I was rebuilding my life - one taco at a time. My trusty snack wagon - The Pink Taco Truck - hadn’t steered me wrong yet.

Four years after graduating Mission Woods High, she returns as the new young teacher. Miss Gray’s colleagues can’t stop staring, the students write naughty things about her on the bathroom walls, and their parents think her clothing is too provocative. She loves the attention, but Samantha has no idea what her career has in store for her.