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Ronin McKinsey broke up with Hazel Simmons in the worst way - publicly and with a lot of fanfare - and now she’s on a mission to make sure he realizes what he lost. Determined to make her ex jealous, Hazel enlists the help of Daniel, a quirky loner who agrees to kiss her right in front of Ronin. Little does Hazel know, Daniel has plans of his own and offers to help her stick it to her ex if she helps him find a date to prom. Hazel quickly learns there’s more to Daniel than meets the eye, and Daniel seems to be just what she needs to get even - or get over - Ronin McKinsey.

Eighteen-year-old Calla Benson is just like any other normal teenage girl. She has a secret crush on her best friend, likes music and movies, works hard to make good grades, and does her best to stay out of trouble. But once in a blue moon, Calla is anything but normal. There’s a predatory animal lurking inside her, just waiting to rampage through the forest once a year. One fateful night, Calla comes across something she’s never seen before - someone like her. After a tense meeting in the forest, Calla dives headlong into a fantastical land shrouded in mystery.

Elleck Aurum, King of the Autumn Realm and ruler of Evernigh, has spent too much time in battle and wants nothing more than peace in his beloved kingdom. In a time when tensions are high between the four realms, the people of his kingdom are scared and restless. When the Spring and Summer Realm leaders are murdered and winter magic invades the land, Elleck is called to action once again.

Georgina Bishop has shared several mistletoe-induced kisses with Sean Wallace over the years, but when a promise of forever turns into the most humiliating moment of her life, Georgina is left tending her broken heart by telling her tales of woe to an old friend. When the story is done, she can't help but wonder if this Christmas might be the best yet. She doesn't need mistletoe and mystery after all. What she needs is good, old-fashioned romance...and a friend who is willing to deliver.

Wren’s deepest desire is to fall in love, marry, and raise a happy family like her adoring parents. Her prospects are meager, given her father’s minimal income and stature, but she has hope, prayer, and copious love in her heart. What her future holds, though, is more than Wren ever could have imagined.

Hailey’s luck ran out. Then, someone swooped in and saved her. After lengthy treatment and a brand-new kidney from a living donor who wishes to remain a mystery, Hailey’s luck turns around. But she’s consumed with discovering who her donor was, even if it means taking a long, hard walk down memory lane—one filled with more boyfriends than she cares to count. With the help of her family and her best friend, Hailey discovers more than the identity of her donor—she finds her true love.

Ever wonder how Santa manages to get to all around the world in one night? Elves, of course! George Elf is tired of being Santa's helper, but it's the only life he knows. Hundreds of years doing the same job would bore anyone nearly to death, but George would do anything to free himself of the torment. One Christmas Eve, George is a little too careless and nearly gets his head blown off by a beautiful police detective.

Abby is one bad day away from a full-on meltdown, so when Lucas—a handsome cupcake delivery guy—shows up at her door with a delivery for the wrong person, she finally snaps. The one-woman wrecking ball wreaks havoc throughout Chatswain City after kidnapping him and stealing his van...but what happens after the crazy ride is over?

Amelia's life has just been turned upside down. She bombed a meeting, sprained her wrist, and lost her job all in one week. To make matters worse, now she's stuck in a snowstorm with no car, no hotel, and no help in sight. Just when Amelia thinks her luck can't get any worse, her high school nemesis swoops in to save the day. Kieran's offer to let her stay at his apartment stinks, but it's her only option. Can Amelia survive under the same roof with him, or will she strangle him with tinsel?

A pessimist at heart, Conor Hudson feels utterly ordinary in a school filled with obscenely wealthy and freakishly gorgeous students. Her only desire is to blend into the background at Westmore Academy, a school for the intellectually-gifted nestled in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia. A mysterious note found in her locker one rainy day sparks a journey of self-discovery she never imagined possible. Conor discovers the beauty of self-love, lifelong friendships, and unconventional family bonds with the help of a mysterious note-writer and her two best friends.

Charlotte McConnor has all the luck of the Irish…until she doesn’t. When she agrees to marry Colin, her boyfriend of several months, things go downhill fast. The second the engagement ring slips on her finger, things get strange—and hot. As in, he burns her hometown to the ground every night in a sick game of cat and mouse.

The Grimm brothers are at their wit’s end. Not even they could have written a tale with such a dark turn, but there it was staring them in the face, tearing their beloved families apart. When last we saw our heroes, they were separated by Queen Amanda’s death wish - some stuck in permanent wolf form and spread across the world. They have reached a dead end, but they have one last person to turn to. It’s dangerous and might cost them their lives, but there is no other option.

When Eiagan Allurigard sacrificed herself to save her people, the kingdom of Goranin was supposed to prosper, but now dark forces threaten to wipe the kingdom from the map permanently. New Queen Emora continued her sister’s fight for freedom, but at what cost? The once amiable princess has become a tyrant worse than Eiagan ever was, and the rebels are run out of The Banished Lands, forced to make a new life on the Rynkald Islands where they work to build a new army - one that can turn the tide against their once beloved rebel leader.

Esmeralda Jacobson and her sisters adore their wedding planning business, Truly Madly Love, but when Josephine is diagnosed with breast cancer, they need to find an extra source of income fast. Esmeralda is a top-notch photographer, so she agrees to a contract with a brand new modeling agency whose goal is to change the face of modeling forever. The catch? She must live in a mansion with the gorgeous male models to complete the month-long shoot.

Henry Harrison is an accidental child, but that doesn’t mean his great big family doesn’t love him. Even so, he’s good at blending into the background, content to watch everything from the shadows. He’s invisible, and his crush on his childhood best friend is even more invisible to her. But being in love with his best friend is the least of Henry’s worries when he finds himself locked in school with The Squad, five beautiful cheerleaders that rule the school.

Hayden’s nightmares are a bit too real for comfort, but are they nightmares or are they memories? While walking down Main Street in her hometown, Hayden sees the woman who haunts her dreams. She’s convinced the woman cursed her and her siblings, and she’s not willing to let her get away with it. Hayden attacks the woman, landing herself in a psychiatric hospital for over a year. When a stranger comes to help her out of her predicament, Hayden learns her nightmares had only just begun.

Wyatt Bishop was a bully. Everyone knew the wildly popular guy who ran the school with his iron-fisted friends, but when one of Wyatt’s victims suffers a horrific car accident, time stops. He pulls her from the wreckage, determined to save her life even though all hope seems lost. When she stops breathing in his arms, everything changes.

Something dark and devious lurks in the moors around Roisin Dubh’s home, and it’s her duty to stamp it out before it gets its claws into the humans she’s vowed to protect.…even though those humans would kill her on sight if they knew she was Fae. As a member of the Raven Court of Neverknoll, Roisin is bound by a vow to protect the humans of Gwenlyre from dark Fae at all costs. For her entire life, she’s done her best to blend in with the humans by day and protect them by night. But now, something sinister has entered Gwenlyre.

When the lights go out during a kissing game at a summer party, Darcy experiences the kiss of a lifetime—one that offers an adrenaline rush like she’s never known before. Determined to find the mystery kisser, she devises the Kiss Contest. If she’s lucky, the mystery guy will show up and knock her socks off again. But unexpected feelings for her best friend complicate Darcy’s plan, proving there’s much more to life than living on the edge. Can Darcy figure out what she wants before she loses everything, or will losing everything help her find out who she really is?

Everything has led to this moment, the final showdown between good and evil in the Black Forest. After Annabell’s shocking revelation, the forest’s royal families aren’t sure what to believe anymore, let alone what their future might hold. Forced to train and plan for the worst, they still hope for the best - that their beloved Annabell has not forsaken them all.