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When Rylie Hart adopts her best friend’s daughter after the woman’s untimely death, she goes from being an honorary aunt to a mother in the blink of an eye. When kindergartner Mickey is diagnosed with leukemia, an anonymous donor is her only hope. Retired Marine Raider and current Blackhawk Security CEO Chase Dixon finds himself able to give someone the gift of life. Twelve months later, he meets the little girl he saved, and not only does she instantly steal his heart, but so does her mother.

I hate Liam Alexander. I hate his Rolex. I hate his scowl. I hate everything his multi-billion-dollar company stands for. When the pompous, rich, arrogant jerk comes strutting into the coffee shop, I barely manage civility. But people make mistakes, and when I screw up, it's epic. I never expected the jerk would actually be a well-respected member of Club Verge. I never should have trusted the masked stranger when he beckoned me. I never should have taken him up on his offer. And the biggest mistake of my life? Letting him kiss me.

The Trident Security Field Manual: Standard Operating Procedures for FNGs (f--king new guys—and anyone else who wants to listen to it) is a fun compilation of extras for fans of the TS series and its various spinoffs. Fans will get a Q&A session with characters from the TS series, the TS Omega Team series, and the Doms of the Covenant series, and exclusive short stories—four of which had been previously published but are no longer available on Samantha A. Cole's website, plus a never before released short story featuring fan favorites Jenn Mullins and Doug Henderson!

Sophie has the whole girl-next-door look about her, mixed with a double dose of trouble. And while there's no denying she's hot, the last thing I should be thinking about is how smooth her sun-kissed skin would feel pressed against my body.

The Sawyers have had much success with their elite lifestyle club in Tampa, and they’ve decided to invest in a second one. While members of the Trident Security family and the Covenant will be coming to visit, the resort will have its own staff and many new members and clients.

I waited my whole life for Zee St. James to open his eyes and see me. But Port Clover's official bad boy would never view me as anything more than his best friend's little sister. He shattered my heart into thousands of pieces when he left. And I spent years trying to forget him. Trying to banish the memory of that one kiss. I thought I'd moved on. But when he comes crashing back into my life, or rather my apartment - the one he still owns - I'm defenseless against him. Just when I think I might finally get my happily ever after, a web of secrets and betrayal threaten to unravel the hope I finally found in his arms. And I'm faced with the soul-baring question: Is loving Zee worth the torment he inflicts?

Fraternal twins Grayson and Remington Mann, CEOs of Black Diamond Records, run their business and personal lives with iron fists. As the Mann brothers’ personal secretary and a naive woman, Abigail Turner is off limits to them...or is she? Seeing the tempting woman every day at the office has been torture, but when they discover Abigail has a dirty little secret, Gray and Remi tear the no fraternizing policy page right out of their rule book. After all, they’re the ones who wrote it.

Retired Navy SEAL and current private-security operative Ian Sawyer never expected to have a wife, much less a child, but his beautiful Angie has changed all that. Her due date is only days away, and the anticipation of holding his child for the first time outweighs his anxiety. But a frantic phone call in the middle of the night is just the beginning of Ian’s nightmare. Forced to wake his brothers and teammates, he must leave his apprehensive wife’s side and fly halfway around the world to save the only other woman who could bring him to his knees—his mother.

Love doesn't hurt. Expectations do. Those words were scribbled on the outside of her English binder, but I knew even then that they may as well have been tattooed on the fragments of her heart. My girl was broken, damaged, and yet I loved her. Foolishly, I'd thought I'd be able to banish her darkness, but I'd only chased it away for a few moments in the sun. I was too damn young to understand the demons she was fighting. But I'd soon be faced with my own darkness. Instead of me healing her, she would break me.

No Way in Hell was previously published as two novellas. Those books have been combined into one and nothing has been added or removed from the story. Steel Corps - an elite, covert US military team led by Staff Sergeant Bea "Mic" Michaels, based out of a secure location in Pennsylvania.

Between new clients and governmental contracts, Trident Security has grown by leaps and bounds. To accommodate the increased caseload, they’ve added a second team to their Tampa headquarters. After hiring seven “best of the best” from military and law enforcement backgrounds, they’ve put together a crackerjack group of six men and one woman. But before they’re turned out to handle their own missions, they must first prove they are a cohesive and capable unit.

Jase is a man with a forgotten past and an unsure future. Unable to return to the United States, he lives on the island of Caicos, spending his time sitting in a bar drinking, scuba diving for sunken treasure, and working as a mercenary of sorts. Brie has lived on Caicos since she was 10. After her father’s death, she took over his popular seaside bar, leaving no time for a love life. Her occasional hookups with Jase have been with no strings attached, getting involved in each other’s lives, nor letting their emotions rise to the surface.

I thought I was in control. I was wrong. I've led the Omegaborn for years, but the moment these brutes arrived from beyond the wall I knew everything was about to change. They're here to take me the way I was meant to be taken, no matter how desperately I resist what I need. Naked, punished, and sore, all I can do is scream out one savage, shameful climax after another as my body is claimed, used, and mastered. I'm about to learn what it means to be an omega.

In Jax's pack, there is only one rule to follow: Obey the alpha. You either comply or suffer the consequences. No wolf would ever dare cross Jax's father, but Jax isn't like the others in the pack. He doesn't care if he is the only heir to his family's legacy. Nor does he want the responsibility of leading the very pack that has alienated him all these years.

Braxton Cannon can't get the girl on the dance floor out of his mind - the woman he literally swept off her feet and into Club Verge. She's no submissive, but he can't help but admire her ferocity, even as he yearns to take her over his lap and teach her manners. He's determined to keep her safe if he has to lock her up himself. Officer Zoe Mackay can handle herself. But when she learns information that puts her life at risk, she's forced to seek the assistance of a private investigator.

Elian: First impressions are everything. It can take less than a second to judge someone, and in that short amount of time, I knew I hated him. Elijah: From the moment I saw him, I knew he was a complete loon. Now that I've gotten to spend some time with him, I have come to the conclusion that he is crazier than I thought he was.

What happens when your past pounds on your door, and you lose the little control you have over your own life? Cesar "Beast" Ironhorse struggles with which road to take when a new threat storms into his life. As he is blackmailed, he needs to find a way out not only for himself, but also for his family, who he has sworn to protect. As luck would have it, his well-intended play goes to crap, so Beast involves his brothers from his club, the Grimm Wolves MC.

True crime is about humanity. We are hardwired to pay attention to things that could harm us, and that’s why so many of us are captivated by the genre. It’s not a reflection of something dark within us - it’s a reflection of human nature. True crime has become more than a source of entertainment, and it plays a critical role in giving forgotten victims a voice they never had the chance to share. Indeed, reading and sharing true crime stories is an act of social responsibility.

How is a person supposed to come to terms with these facts? Fact one: My parents aren’t upstanding citizens (kind of learned that one at an early age). Fact two: The same two people who gave me life are the same people I, not too long ago, watched slice up two of my high school peers. (Great! Serial killers on top of idiotic thieves.) Oh, that’s just the starter. What comes next makes those things seem like child’s play or having a cotton candy treat at a damn fair.

While his brother is in the lifestyle, Mike Donovan never understood it. But when Charlotte Roth, aka Mistress China, sets her sights on him, he finds himself wanting to obey her every command. After having her childhood ripped away in the blink of an eye, Charlotte has kept the different facets of her adult life separate from the others. A parole officer, a homebody, and a Domme are the three personae the rest of the world might see, but rarely at the same time. However, her attraction to Mike merges them in a way she never thought possible.