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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...

Lui, un contrat de mariage. Elle, des secrets qu'elle ne savait comment révéler. Pour sauver l'entreprise familiale, Gabriel Steele accepte un mariage arrangé avec Sophia Rothschild — la rivale de longue date de sa famille. Sur le papier, c'est une fusion. Dans les faits, ce sont deux personnes très compétentes qui partagent un appartement et tentent de garder leur accord strictement professionnel. C'est plus difficile que ça en a l'air. Sophia est brillante, secrète, et pas du tout ce à quoi Gabriel s'attendait. Elle détient également des informations sur la vendetta que sa ...

Lui aveva bisogno di qualcuno per salvare la reputazione della sua azienda. Non si aspettava che lei cambiasse la sua. Quando l'impero di famiglia di Nathaniel Steele viene scosso da un'indagine federale, lui assume Isabella Chen, la più brillante consulente di crisi di Manhattan, per gestire le conseguenze. Lei ha già gestito disastri aziendali in passato. Sa esattamente come controllare la narrazione, proteggere gli innocenti e destreggiarsi in stanze piene di uomini potenti che non vogliono sentire la verità. Ciò che non aveva previsto era Nathaniel stesso. Un uomo che, a differenza ...

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 ...

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, a reputation that makes people stop talking when she walks into a room, 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 ...

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 ...

Mountain Rules A Forced Proximity, Protective Mountain Man Romance A burned-out city woman. A storm she can’t escape. A mountain man with more rules than feelings. When Emily Parker takes a wrong turn into a Colorado snowstorm, she expects inconvenience. She doesn’t expect to get stranded. She definitely doesn’t expect to end up in the off-grid cabin of Luke Carter. Luke is a former wildland firefighter turned mountain rescue operator. He’s calm in chaos, sarcastic under pressure, and runs his life by a strict set of rules. Rule #1: Don’t touch the generator. Rule #2: Don’t ...

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 in ways neither of them expected. She doesn't know these men are the same person. You know....

She knows who he is now. It doesn't help. "Find out what Vasin is currently protecting. Not his assets. Something personal." The masks are gone. The parallel worlds have collapsed. Elara knows that her boss and the man at the estate are the same person—and she stayed. Not because of the debt. She made sure he understood the difference. But knowing the truth and trusting the man who hid it are two very different things. Nikolai's instinct is still to protect her by controlling what she knows. And the walls she took down for him? She can put them back up faster than he can explain. Then ...

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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 needed someone to save his company's reputation. He didn't expect her to change his. When Nathaniel Steele's family empire is rocked by a federal investigation, he hires Isabella Chen—the sharpest crisis consultant in Manhattan—to manage the fallout. She's handled corporate disasters before. She knows exactly how to control the narrative, protect the innocent, and navigate rooms full of powerful men who don't want to hear the truth. What she didn't account for was Nathaniel himself. A man who, unlike every other client she's had, keeps choosing accountability over convenience—even ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ethan Crawford's rules were built for a man who was surviving, not thriving. One: no relationships with caregivers. It's on an index card on his refrigerator. It's been there since his wife died and left him raising his six-year-old son Tommy alone. Maya Santos is the nanny who walks in and earns Tommy's trust in under three minutes—without trying, without performing, in the specific way of someone who genuinely understands children. She's a psychology graduate student specializing in attachment theory in grieving kids. She knows exactly why the rules exist. She follows them. Neither of ...

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 ...

Il avait besoin de quelqu'un pour sauver la réputation de son entreprise. Il ne s'attendait pas à ce qu'elle change la sienne. Lorsque l'empire familial de Nathaniel Steele est ébranlé par une enquête fédérale, il engage Isabella Chen — la plus brillante consultante en gestion de crise de Manhattan — pour gérer les retombées. Elle a déjà géré des catastrophes d'entreprise. Elle sait exactement comment maîtriser le discours, protéger les innocents et évoluer au milieu d'hommes puissants qui ne veulent pas entendre la vérité. Ce qu'elle n'avait pas prévu, c'était ...