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She's been building a case on his firm for two years. He just made her his prisoner. Damien Roth doesn't raise his voice. He doesn't need to. As Head of Intelligence at AEGIS Solutions, he has other methods—and when investigative journalist Lena Bauer gets too close to a story that could burn his world to the ground, he uses them. She disappears quietly. No scene, no struggle. Just a car, a safehouse, and the most dangerous man she's ever been alone with asking her one question she has no intention of answering. Who is your source? Lena built her case on AEGIS the way she builds ...

He has one rule about the don's daughter: don't want her. He's already failing. Nikolai Voss doesn't make mistakes. Twelve years of military discipline and five more running personal protection for the Marchetti crime family have made sure of that. He doesn't get attached. He doesn't get distracted. He doesn't look twice at women he can't have. Then Serena Marchetti witnesses a murder she was never supposed to see—and he's ordered to contain her. She isn't frightened. That's the problem. Serena has spent her entire life being managed, sheltered, and handled by men who think they know best...

Avery Bennett moved away to outrun a life that felt too small. At twenty-five, she's back in her childhood bedroom with a faded motivational poster and a graphic design portfolio that needs rebuilding—and her brother's best friend is working a job forty feet from her back door. Noah Carter has been Jake's best friend for almost a decade. He's been in love with Avery for most of it. He's also been very careful, because Jake is the kind of friend who doesn't deserve a betrayal, and Avery is exactly the kind of person worth not ruining things for. Except she's home now. And the careful thing...

She knows who he is now. It doesn't help. The masks are gone. The parallel worlds have collapsed. Elara stayed—not because of the debt, and she made sure Nikolai understood the difference. But knowing the truth and trusting the man who hid it are two very different things. His instinct is still to protect her by controlling what she knows. And the walls she took down for him? She can rebuild them faster than he can explain. Then Cassian Vale walks into Seattle. British. Patient. The kind of man who's already decided what he wants before he opens his mouth. He has history with Nikolai—a ...

She came into this marriage with a plan to destroy it. Marco Marchetti complicated that before the ink dried. Pia Fontana has read the contract. She understands the arrangement. A strategic marriage to the Marchetti heir will secure an alliance worth more than either family's territory alone. She has three years to make it work on paper and exit cleanly. She has contingencies. She has a timeline. What she doesn't have is a read on Marco himself, and that is the first thing that goes wrong. He is not who she expected. He is watching her the way men in her family watch things they intend to ...

She has her name on the door now. He has a decision that will cost him everything—and he makes it without her asking. "How's the girl?" "Still at Vasin Group. Promoted again last month." "Good. Let her settle." Elara Voss is a Senior Analyst with a glass-walled office and the kind of relationship with Nikolai Vasin that's built on wreckage and rebuilt on choice. They're good. Settled in the way that only comes after you've already broken each other and decided to stay. Dominic Rael is about to test exactly how much that's worth. Fifty-one. Thirty years of patience. He's from Nikolai's ...

Her father lost a card game. She's the payout. "Has she agreed to this?" Viktor says she'll understand. She doesn't. Not yet. By day, Elara Voss is the new intern at Vasin Group—proving herself in boardrooms full of men who underestimate her, including her dangerously attentive boss, Nikolai Vasin. By night, she's driven to a private estate outside Seattle, masked and contracted to a man whose voice she almost recognizes, whose rules she negotiated in writing, and whose control is starting to crack. She doesn't know these men are the same person. You know. He knows. She doesn't. And that ...

Él necesitaba a alguien que salvara la reputación de su empresa. No esperaba que ella cambiara la suya. Cuando el imperio familiar de Nathaniel Steele se ve sacudido por una investigación federal, contrata a Isabella Chen —la consultora de crisis más brillante de Manhattan— para manejar las consecuencias. Ella ya ha manejado desastres corporativos antes. Sabe exactamente cómo controlar la narrativa, proteger a los inocentes y moverse en salones llenos de hombres poderosos que no quieren oír la verdad. Con lo que no contaba era con el propio Nathaniel. Un hombre que, a diferencia ...

Son père a perdu une partie de cartes. Elle est la mise. — A-t-elle accepté ? Viktor dit qu'elle comprendra. Elle ne comprend pas. Pas encore. Le jour, Elara Voss est la nouvelle stagiaire chez Vasin Group, faisant ses preuves dans des salles de conseil remplies d'hommes qui la sous-estiment — y compris son patron dangereusement attentif, Nikolaï Vasin. La nuit, elle est conduite dans un domaine privé à l'extérieur de Seattle, masquée et liée par contrat à un homme dont elle croit reconnaître la voix, dont elle a négocié les règles par écrit, et dont le contrôle commence ...

Avery Bennett a déménagé pour fuir une vie qui lui semblait trop étriquée. À vingt-cinq ans, la voilà de retour dans sa chambre d'enfant, avec un poster de motivation délavé et un portfolio de graphiste à refaire, et le meilleur ami de son frère qui travaille à douze mètres de sa porte. Noah Carter est le meilleur ami de Jake depuis près de dix ans. Et il est amoureux d'Avery depuis presque aussi longtemps. Il a aussi toujours été très prudent, car Jake est le genre d'ami qui ne mérite pas d'être trahi, et Avery, le genre de personne pour qui il ne faut rien gâcher. Sauf...

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When Mason Reed takes a renovation job at Hart Resorts, he expects punch lists and load calculations—not the owner's daughter walking onto his site and telling him his structural plans are wrong. She's right, which is annoying. She's also the resort director, which makes her off-limits. And she says so herself, in that careful professional voice she uses when she's trying to manage something she hasn't fully managed. Sienna Hart built her career in her father's company by doing everything correctly—every decision documented, every boundary maintained. Mason is the first person in years ...

He was sent to erase her. Instead, he became the only thing standing between her and the men who want her dead. Daniel Brooks doesn’t make mistakes. He completes contracts. He leaves no witnesses. He never hesitates. Until Megan Collins. She’s not reckless. She’s not loud. She’s not looking for trouble. She’s an environmental compliance auditor who followed irregular paperwork tied to a Chicago riverfront freight expansion — and found something she wasn’t meant to see. Inside The Brokerage, people like Megan aren’t murdered. They’re processed. “Loss mitigation.” Dock ...

Cora Mitchell's research into medieval manuscript transmission is the most serious work she's done in five years of graduate school. The problem: the only professor qualified to supervise it is Dr. Marcus Hale, who she met in a coffee shop on Thursday, spilled a drink on, and discovered was her new instructor by Monday morning. Marcus Hale is the kind of professor who runs seminars that reshape the way students understand their field. He is not the kind of professor who lets personal complications interfere with professional conduct. He is very careful about this. He has to be. They ...

Jake Bennett ran a blind portfolio review. He followed the process. He made the right call. Then he opened the full submission and found that L. West—whose photography portfolio had just earned a unanimous committee vote—was Lily West. Noah's stepsister. Someone he used to know, in a small town that remembers everything, where he is about to spend the next three months working alongside her on the most important festival of his career. He keeps it professional. So does she. The festival is good—the best Marigold Cove has had in years—and the work they do together is genuinely ...

The mountain is sick. Storms won’t leave. Animals won’t cross. And every shifter in Frostfall Ridge knows the land is about to choose a side. Hannah Walker used to be a wolf scout. Then she exposed pack corruption and paid for it. Now she’s back on the ridge chasing a trail of unnatural deaths… and trying not to get dragged back under the control she escaped. She makes one mistake. She crosses onto bear territory. Luke Carter is the last kind of man Hannah should trust. A solitary bear shifter with a quiet temper and a rule for everything. He doesn’t do packs. He doesn’t do ...

In Ridgeline Falls, no one makes promises they can’t keep. They just show up. Lucy Harper didn’t come to the mountains to be saved. She came to disappear quietly, finish her work, and keep her footing after a relationship that faded instead of broke. Independence is her armor, and she wears it well. Then something in the cabin starts to fail. Tom Bennett is the man everyone calls when things break. A general contractor. Volunteer fire crew. Steady hands, few words. He doesn’t ask questions that aren’t necessary, and he never offers help he can’t back up. He fixes what needs fixing...

Tessa Romano has spent six months rebuilding professional credibility in an organization where half the staff sees her as the coach's daughter first and the communications director second. When a twelve-second clip of the head trainer goes viral, she finally has the numbers to back the content series she's been designing since she arrived. Luca Conti didn't want to be filmed. He's been clear about that. What he didn't account for is that Tessa is building something genuine—not managed content, but real footage of the work he does—and that working with someone who understands why the ...

Heir to an empire. Bound by blood. And now tied to the one woman he can’t afford to love. Dane Rooke was bred for dominance. As the future alpha of the Rooke Syndicate—a secretive, multi-generational wolf shifter dynasty built on power, money, and lethal loyalty—he’s been trained to rule without weakness. Until her. Wren Hart is just passing through the Scottish highlands. No name, no ties, no idea she’s crossed into a territory protected by wolves who don’t tolerate strangers. Especially not ones with blood that calls to theirs. One night. One bite. Now she’s bound to the ...

He came to make things right. She's spent three years making sure that's exactly what happens. Sebastian Steele knows his family's company contaminated Millbrook's water supply. He's seen the maps. He knows what the soil tests say. And unlike every other person in his corporate circle, he intends to do something about it—even if it means burning his family's legal strategy to the ground. Emma Thompson has been waiting for a Steele to show up in her town. She just didn't expect one who meant it. As Millbrook's mayor—and the attorney who built the contamination case—Emma has no reason ...