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My name is Valerie and I’m a traitor . . . At least, that’s what the Valkyries tell me when I arrive in purgatory. I can’t remember, so how the hell can I prove my innocence? In the meantime, the Valkyries are training me to help them keep the darkness at bay, but I’m pretty sure they got the wrong girl.

It was a game they played, only it wasn't a game. Maggie Marks held on to Elijah's childhood promises as a way of escaping a life that was far from perfect. Elijah Lugo was her neighbor, her best friend, her family. He was everything her parents refused to be, everything she needed. He was her first kiss and a witness to more of her father's drunken rants than she could count. He was there at her wedding and then held her when it all fell apart. Elijah was in love with her, but she was afraid loving him would eventually mean losing him too.

Evie has three beautiful, if slightly out-of-control, children; a stray cat named Dr. Moxley; and a best friend who drinks unapologetically at 9 a.m. Evie also has stage-four bone cancer and a gallows sense of humour that drives her husband, Nick, demented. Nick wants Evie to fight. Evie, on the other hand, is almost ready to die. She kicked cancer twice before. But this time around, Evie knows it’s a battle she can’t win. Instead, she focuses on getting her affairs in order, which includes hiring a nanny to take care of the kids after she’s gone.

Reaping. Killing. Being the judge, jury, and executioner of the world. That's who I am now. All to save an innocent life. The heavy burden of what I am and what I must do weighs on me every day, but starting a new job at a hospital is a chance for me to find my place in this world. Unfortunately for me, a hot doctor, my powerful boss, and a sweet male nurse have taken an interest in me. I don't want to drag them into my supernatural world. I don't want their blood on my hands.

Sydney is haunted by her past. Raised by a strict, religious family, she was sent to gay conversion therapy as a teenager when she was caught kissing a girl. Now only 19, she's trying to start over with a new life and a new name, but you can't escape the past.... Caroline is the most stunning woman Sydney has ever seen. Every night, Sydney hears her singing from her apartment window, and every night, Sydney's heart aches with something indescribable.

When I died, I didn't expect to be reborn as something evil. Now I'm undercover at a busy hospital as a healer. I'm called a miracle worker by some and a scam artist by others. The truth is, they're all right about me. I'm not technically a healer. I'm a reaper. The kicker is, I've found a way to heal by using my powers of death, something no reaper has ever done before. It's scary, but I've tried to accept that this is all my new life can be, and I'm making the best of it. But then I went and slept with my boss.

I am dhampir, and I’ve been lost to the bloodlust, like many of my people. Yet I awaken from the haze only to find myself in a strange world, drinking from even stranger beings. When I catch her scent, everything changes. The Calling awakens deep within, and I know she is my mate. But she is different. She is human, native to this land, and in dire trouble. A mysterious enemy leads a horde of maddened dhampirs straight to her dwelling, ready to drink her dry. It is my duty to protect her. I’ll fight to the death if I must. And when the time is right, I will claim her as mine.

An innocent rant about my boss went viral. Now, all that's stopping me from getting caught is the blur over my face…and a $10K ransom I can’t afford. Henry Sloane is the epitome of Manhattan. Born into a wealthy family, he’s only known success. So when an online video creates waves on social media and damages the integrity of his business, he’ll stop at nothing to find the person trying to bring down his empire.

Wounded in Afghanistan when the helicopter she is piloting goes down under enemy fire, Captain Quinn Briscoe is struggling to rebuild her life. Facing not only a disfiguring injury, but a medical discharge and the end of a serious relationship, Quinn increasingly shuts herself - and her heart - off from the rest of the world. Her first meeting with lovely, self-confident and successful business owner Alison Jenkins is disastrous, and Quinn feels an instant antipathy for the woman, along with an undeniable attraction.

At puberty, they’d called it. I, Naz Beauchene, was the first, official family dud. Born into a long line of illustrious shifters of the feline variety, my family fully expected me to blossom into a panther or maybe even a cherished lioness. They got neither. Not even one spark of magic stirred my blood. But then one day, a handsome Nether Reach Keeper crashed through the door where I worked as an imp trainer...and everything changed.

From USA Today best-selling, Amazon Top 100 best-selling, and multiple award-winning author Carmen Caine: Highland Blood Moon, a Cassidy Edwards novella (the story of Dorian Ramsey's turning). A message summons Dorian Ramsey home to discover his village ravaged by a mysterious Night Viper and his sister caught in web of treachery. To save her, he must make a choice - a choice that alters his destiny forever. This novella also includes the short story, "Bonepicker".

When the new vampire arrives at the base, he makes it clear I’m his new obsession. But I’m not like the other women. I won’t cave to Brone’s charisma. Except that now one of my friends has gone missing, and the only logical explanation for her disappearance is an unseen enemy…something so dangerous, no one is safe. Brone promises to protect me, and maybe, just maybe, I want to believe him.

I spend all day telling my clients to keep their mouth shut so I can get them off whatever charge they've managed themselves caught up into. I'm one of the meanest attorneys in NYC, and women can smell money and confidence from a mile away. I win cases, and I can get any girl. Except for one, and she's making my life a living hell.

I live a double life…and no one in my family knows it. No, I’m not a spy or CIA or special forces or anything…but sometimes it seems like being a matchmaker is nearly as dangerous. Men and women come from all over for my business, Hound Dog, where I utilize rescue dogs as a way to help people attract and find their perfect match. Over 80 percent of my clients end up adopting the dogs I pair them with. And 90 percent of them find their “soulmate" after using my services. Too bad I don’t believe in soulmates. But fact is, that sort of cynicism won’t pay the bills.

Natalie Erinaceus has a problem. Her manipulating mother won’t stay out of her dating life. One more dinner with a blind date and someone is getting a fork to the eye. Her inner hedgehog wants a mate and nothing is going to stop her. Not her nervous hedgie’s habit of balling-up and certainly not that online questionnaire. Who writes those things anyway? When Sylvia and Paige from Shifting Hearts Dating Agency step in maybe, just maybe this curvy girl will find more than she ever dreamed in the arms of the men who are fated to be her mates.

Scotland, 14th century: When Lady Elizabeth Rowle discovers that the ancient evil of the Mindbreaker has reawakened, she knows her time has come. Finding unexpected allies in the Scottish highlander, Dorian Ramsey, and the French devil of a vampire, Jacques LeBeau, she fights the battle of her life - only to discover that fate has other plans.

It has been almost a month since Kwan and Reed rescued me from certain death at the hands of the self-proclaimed president of NUSA, the man who took the life of my unborn child and left me to die. What my tormentors did to me threatens to set me on a new path, one steeped in hatred and vengeance. I now walk a fine line between right and wrong, between good and evil, and between love and hate.

With my possessive god, my hot shifter, and my stubborn vampire, I felt a kind of safety and peace I never imagined in this life. We began to feel like a family. But all of that is gone now.

Eighteen-year-old Cori has been tucked into a corner of Verbena her entire life. With no memory of a father and an abusive mother, her escape came in the form of living and working in her town's inn, a place that happens to be owned by her best friend. Cori was all but resigned to the uneventful and dutiful life as a barkeep. That is, until a hooded stranger showed up - just in time to witness an incident Cori herself cannot believe - and changed everything.

I’m in serious trouble. When the sweet nurse, possessive boss, and hot doctor at the hospital helped me kill a man, I knew they’d have questions. What I didn’t know was that the man we killed would be up and walking again.