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Stephanie... As a bookie, I know more about money lines, pay sheets, and point spreads than any six men. I always thought I was in control until a terrible betrayal taught me otherwise. The price was my dignity, and I can't bear to make any more mistakes. Chase Gentry figured it would be easy to get to me. He thought I was like every other girl, just dying to spread wide for him. I knew it was a rotten gamble to get mixed up with a guy too smart and too hot for his own good.

I was happy being single. No relationship drama. No woman putting demands on my time. I had my family and my club. I didn't need anyone else. But when a mysterious brunette walked into our clubhouse, something inside me shifted. She wasn't like anyone I'd ever met. Everything I prided myself on, being unattached, emotionally unavailable, in it for nothing but sex . . . it all shattered.

I was issued an ultimatum between the two loves of my life: her or the game. No matter what I choose, I have to give up something I love. Spring training is my first chance to show the world that Cooper Noah is back after the elbow injury that took me out of the game. It's the stage I stand on to prove I'm the starter the Vegas Heat is paying big bucks for. But my heart isn't in any of it. My heart can't be in it when it's broken. There's no way I can have both, but I've made my choice. It's time to play hardball.

Zack Hayes was taught that hard work pays off. He lives by that adage, working a part-time job, playing football, and taking a full load of courses in the hope that his parents can stop working themselves to the bone. However, when things start to go wrong, Zack begins to believe that when you come from nothing, working hard doesn't get you anywhere. Emma Wilson has spent her whole life hiding in the shadows because she isn't who her parents wanted her to be - who her father wanted her to be. She loses herself in her studies and in the piles of romance books she devours.

We found love in high school. He a football star, me a cheerleader. It began as a wholesome, all-American happily ever after story. Not how it ended. I wanted a career fighting crime, he was determined to join an outlaw biker gang. We had no future, so I let him go. Now, almost twenty years later, I'm back in my hometown, helping my mom close down her business. I thought enough time had passed to see him again, catch up, talk about old times. I was wrong. The love we shared still burns. But the obstacles are still unsurmountable too.

Gorgeous. Sweet. Funny. He made me feel things that I've never felt before. In just one short week over Spring Break, I began to fall in love. That is until it all fell apart. Now, here I am, three years later and I've moved on, at least that's what I told myself until he came crashing back into my life. Things have changed. I've changed, and there's something he doesn't know. He wants me to give us another chance. I try to fight it, but it's not long before all of those same old feelings come rushing back. I know he feels it, too. I can see it every time he looks at me.

Liv and Sebastian's love has been put through the test time and time again. Terrible circumstances kept the young couple apart for five years. Now finally married, it should be smooth sailing. But that's the funny thing about real life, there is no magical happily ever after once vows are exchanged. Liv and Sebastian will soon discover marriage is hard work. When life throws another curveball their way, they'll have to face their biggest challenge yet. Will this new storm bring them together or break them apart for good?

Sienna isn't sure how much longer she can hang on to the shred of humanity left within her. Not when her only chance at escape would be to destroy what is left of her soul. Daxon is hell-bent on tearing apart the realm in order to find the Sage who has saved his life more times than he can count. But as the journey grows more perilous each and every day, Daxon is forced to confront the very real possibility that they may never recover the Sienna they once knew.

My love, Cassius, is by my side with an army...but it may not be enough. I have to hide my doubts. I have to be strong. I have to fight...to the death. The King of Hell will never take me again, I'll die first. I've been to Hell once, and I'm not going back. There's a shining light on the horizon. A ghost of a chance that could help us. Dragons. If they join us, it could tip things in our favor. But nothing is certain. Like my future. Cassius fears for my life. I see it in his eyes...it tears at my heart, but I can't help him. I can't do anything except what I do best. Fight.

On the shadowy campus of Cypress University, where ghosts of long-dead secrets linger, an unlikely romance falls into the lap of Professor Jack Hollis. Quite literally. Quinn Ivor, a brilliant and enigmatic forensic psychology student, is in need of a nanny job. A girl can only survive on instant ramen and expired Red Bull for so long. She's exactly what Jack is looking for now that he's caring for his daughter Sienna full time. As their professional and intellectual bond deepens, so does their attraction, defying the boundaries of propriety.

Ex-cop Kasper “Gutter Mouth” Guttenmuth has always been a playboy. Love was a four-letter word. He learned that lesson as he watched his father run around on his mom before she died. Until he fell hard for the wrong woman—his best friend’s baby sister. Krysta Sokolofski has been in love with the same man since she was a teenager. For a brief time, he held more than her heart in his hands. Until he pushed her away. A dirty secret he wanted distance from. It took her years to move on.

When I closed the door on my past, I didn't expect it to come back and haunt me. I was appalled when she called for my help, but she swore I was the one person who could save him - the only man I've ever loved. The man she stole from me. She's to blame for the mess of a man he's become, but I'm to blame for walking away. Anything good has been long forgotten. In its place is destruction, devastation, and enough regret to last a lifetime. I came in hopes of making things right. But I never expected this.

She has no idea who I am. I immediately like that about her. The gorgeous woman who sat down at the blackjack table beside me and asked me to teach her to play doesn't recognize me as the third baseman who played pro baseball for seven years. I tell her I'm in town for a job offer when the truth is my buddy just asked me to leave my quiet existence in San Diego and unretire so I can lead the new Vegas Heat expansion team to the championship.

When a gorgeous guy makes Kayla Crawford an offer she can't refuse, she feels the super sexy stallion must be too good to be true. Millionaire Richmond Spaulding has never gotten over the loss of his wife. Richmond thinks his life is okay just as it is - until he meets her. Beautiful Kayla stokes a burning fire in Richmond that he thought had vanished long ago. Kayla made a vow never to trust a man again, but with every tender kiss from Richmond's eyes, and every sinful touch he places upon her, sparks fly between them.

Sidney Halston returns to steamy Tarpon Springs, Florida, where a hell-raising bad boy prepares to get down and dirty for the woman he loves.

He's the one person I'm not allowed to fall in love with. But I can't seem to stay away. Growing up, all I heard was how bad the Hollins Family is. How the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Troy Hollins is so far off limits, he might as well be in another universe. Thankfully, our paths don't...

Gryphon shifter Theo has ninety-nine problems, including a brand new gryphon-shifting baby to care for, a surly preteen son who just broke his wrist, and expired truck tags. "Weird Wendy" at the DMV isn't sure what to make of the must-be-a-movie-star smuggling a baby gryphon in a car seat, but she's there to save the day when secrets—and lives!—are at stake.

I'd been in survival mode my entire life, battling the ghosts of my past, believing I was destined to either die at a young age or end up in jail. Thankfully, neither occurrence happened, although not for a lack of trying. I'd succumbed to the idea I'd be alone for the rest of my life. It was the reason I closed myself off from everyone. I had nothing to offer except anger and regret. Then I found solace when I joined the Knights Corruption, discovering the sense of family I'd longed for.

Raven shifter Alan Petrov has faced down crime bosses in cities and fought ancient magical creatures in the far frozen north. Now he's taking his toughest assignment yet: going undercover at a day care for shifters in a sleepy town in Montana. Single mom and snowy owl shifter Kendra knows there's something off about the new help at Tiny Paws. Not only does he look more like a bouncer than a babysitter, he clearly doesn't understand diapers or dawdling. Instinct says her daughter is safe with him, but her heart definitely isn't.

I was the ultimate bachelor. I enjoyed my wild life, the late nights, and the fact that I had no commitments. My job and my freedom were all I needed. Or so I thought. Chloe was sweet and kind, and the way she got so flustered in my presence was adorable. That smile of hers did things to a man. And her laugh? It was infectious. She had this gravitating pull that was irresistible.