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Maxie Thorn
I accidentally fall for the Alpha I am supposed to hate, and now everyone wants me to leave him. I was hired to repair the failing ward protecting Graywater, not love its dangerously feral Alpha. Gideon is ruthless, infuriating, forbidden, and leads the pack my people have cursed for generations. Then our blood touches the same ancient stone, and I'm tethered to the man I should never want. Now I'm the witch trapped among wolves, and I discover he’s not the monster everyone fears.His hands stop feeling dangerous. His silence starts feeling safe. Then I'm falling for my enemy somewhere between repairing lines and sharing his room. A rival faction offers me a job while moving to take over Graywater land. My grandmother's secrets surface, and The Ninefold Trust offers to rebuild everything if I sever the bond. Now I must choose: Take a job with a rival faction, break the bond and save his pack, or stay and risk everything.
Paranormal
Maxie Thorn
My van breaks down on cursed Alpha territory… and I become the prize in a werewolf war. I’m on my way to save a dying patient. Instead, I end up trapped in the territory of the one Alpha every supernatural fears. Rowan Grey is dangerous, and has no intention of letting me go. After I witness a forbidden wolf shift, he invokes pack law and insists I can’t leave. Forced under the same roof, we share stolen nights and impossible secrets. He battles the monster within every time I’m close. Somewhere between his rules and his touch, captivity starts feeling dangerously like home. Then I fall for the one man I should never want. That’s when I discover my blood is tied to an ancient prophecy, and a rival pack will stop at nothing to claim me. Now Rowan’s greatest enemy demands I be handed over, his curse is tearing him apart, and if the wrong Alpha claims me, everyone I love will pay the price.
Paranormal
Dr. N. S. Gorman, Ed.D.
The streetlights on his block went dark six months ago. He arranged it — through the alderman's office, in ordinary language, as a property owner with a concern. That is how he works: through the architecture of the ordinary, the infrastructure of patience. For twelve years, Vincenzo has built and sustained a Chicago organization so precisely engineered that it requires almost no visible force to run. His world has load-bearing walls. Every element is in its place. Mara Amato follows numbers. She was transferred from Minneapolis three years ago, and right now the numbers have led her to a $140,000 discrepancy in the accounts of Aegean Maritime Partners — and from there, to South Halsted. To a second-floor office above a kitchen supply company. To a two-inch gap in a walnut door. Two people who should never occupy the same room. The moment before everything shifts. Before the Don is the prequel novelette to the Sold to the Don Trilogy — begins here.
Dark Romance
Dana C. Richardson
Brook a super model, uses Bob, a regular guy, i.e. salesman, and they both find themselves in a massive powerful something?
Romantic Suspense
Kayla Hartness
Kat Wilson has secretly loved Beckett St. James for almost as long as she can remember. He was the boy next door who first saw past her flaws, held her together when her world fell apart, and became woven into the very fabric of her soul. But Beck was also her fiercely protective older brother's best friend, and no matter how much she wished he would fall madly in love with her, he only ever saw her as a little sister. Or so she thought. As the years pass, Kat and Beck are forced to face more than either of them ever bargained for. Dreams lead them down separate paths. War leaves wounds that never heal. Time steals precious moments, and distance becomes irreparable. Yet no matter how far apart they drift, no matter how broken they become, the thread connecting them never truly breaks. Every Little Thing is a hard-fought love story about holding on to the one person who feels like home when everything around you is falling apart, and believing that, somehow, every little thing is going to be alright.
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