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The Hockey Reporter's Diary

The Hockey Reporter's Diary

Daphne Anders

Camille is a former Olympic star who now reports on the hockey world she swore she was done with. She loves the game but rolls her eyes at the players, especially with her own father’s messy legacy trailing behind her. After every interview, she pours her uncensored thoughts into a private journal that keeps her sane. Until it doesn’t. One slip, and Benjamin—the charming new assistant captain with a grin that should be illegal—ends up with her secrets in his hands. He offers a deal she never expects. One date. One chance. Could the man she’s sworn to avoid be the one who shakes her walls loose?

Goddess Isles Series: Once a Myth

Goddess Isles Series: Once a Myth

Pepper Winters

From New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author Pepper Winters comes The Goddess Isles Series.

He bought her. He trapped her. She belongs to him.

Eleanor Grace is a naïve dreamer. Trusting and young, she believes her travel-loving boyfriend can save her when her freedom is snatched and sold. Squirrelled away to an island at dawn, delivered to a man even darkness won’t touch, she’s bound by a contract. Sullivan Sinclair is the giver of fantasies. Any wish, any desire—he is the master at quenching even the filthiest appetites. His private paradise and perfectly trained goddesses are there for one purpose: to ensure every guest is extremely well satisfied.

Dragon's Princess

Dragon's Princess

C. Swallow

“Stay here, pet.” Dane’s eyes were filled with lust. “Stay with us. Be ours. Meanwhile, Aneurin was looking at me like I was the most beautiful girl in the world. Be theirs? Stay with them? Their touch fogged my mind. And before I knew it, his lips were on mine.

Summer, a fiercely independent princess, suddenly finds herself in the clutches of domineering and tantalizing Twin Dragon Lords. Can she save herself and her kingdom, or will she fall for their darkly seductive charm?

The Night Operator

The Night Operator

Constance Marounta

Maggie’s used to dealing with strangers as a call center worker, but she could never predict a client talking dirty to her over the phone…more than once…nor that she’d like it. Successful businessman Asher is determined to get the alluring woman on the other end of the line to play along, and he’ll stop at nothing to turn their naughty phone calls into reality. A workplace romance with a twist!

Age Rating: 18+

Running From the Billionaire

Running From the Billionaire

Kimi L. Davis

My new boss is physically perfect. He’s also arrogant and dominating. Exactly the type of man I try to stay away from. But the more time I spend with him, the more I can’t deny my attraction to him. I tried running, but he found me. Can I ever escape him? Or is my heart destined to be his?

Soul Sisters

Soul Sisters

S. L. Adams

I’ve known my dad’s business partners all my life. They were there during my wild teenage years, doing their best to keep me out of trouble. Now my dad wants me to go on a month-long road trip with them—just me and three older men—to teach me the family business. But the trip isn’t just about work. When we’re not stripping down old wrecks or attending car shows, the guys plan to court me. That’s right: all three of them want to marry me—at once! And their idea of courtship isn’t serenading and poetry. They want me in their bed every night. Though I have no intention of marrying them, I am down for some steamy nights on the road. Soul Sisters is a reverse-harem, age-gap romance filled with adventure, humor, love, tears, and sizzling-hot sex.

Treasure of the Sea

Treasure of the Sea

Raven Flanagan

A sizzling tale of forbidden lust. Scylla’s lonely life takes a wild turn when she’s saved from a sea monster by a captivating merman. Sparks fly as danger turns into an irresistible attraction, one that should not be pursued. Can they bridge the gap between land and sea? Join them in an erotic story that explores the depths of passion just above the waves.

Age Rating: 18+

The American Bodyguard

The American Bodyguard

Laila Callaway

Zainab Qadir is living the dream—editing books by day, ignoring her rich family's spotlight by night. But when her bodyguard quits, she’s stuck with a new one: Jake Huxley, a no-nonsense American who’s suddenly moved into her London flat.

He’s all rules and rigid routines. She’s all sass and spontaneous chaos. Living together is strictly professional... except when it’s absolutely not. Between the close quarters and smoldering tension, they’re on a collision course for trouble—with just enough heat to keep things interesting.

Who’s really guarding who here?

Dangerous Love: The Rogue Queen

Dangerous Love: The Rogue Queen

Alicia Sleyster Schmidt

Aylin Turner is a simple girl. She has lived quietly after the sudden death of her parents from a demon attack. Now that she is of age, she is promised to Daemon, the alpha of the Dark Moon Pack. But when he cruelly rejects her, Aylin goes rogue, caring about nothing and no one. Ezekiel Malin of the Royal Outland Silver Blood Pack is a king who takes no prisoners. But when Aylin is discovered alone on his lands, rather than kill her, he is determined to find out who she is. But by the time a demon is discovered to be trailing her, he’s too captivated to cast her aside, even if her past ties mean danger to his pack.

Help Me, Alpha

Help Me, Alpha

Sqible Holloway

For her entire life, Hayley has been held captive by her own father, who blames her for the death of her mother, the pack luna. Now, on her nineteenth birthday, Hayley finally escapes, winding up in the territory of the Midnight Rose Pack. The charming Alpha Jax allows her to stay, but her father will do anything to get her back—even kill another alpha.

Fayre

Fayre

Nicole Riddley

Do you love the world of Gideon and Trapping Quincy? Then don’t miss out on a new chapter in that universe with an all-new cast of magical characters, sinister evil, and realm-shattering secrets.

Melissa Crawford thinks she’s just a regular teenage girl—boy problems, a stupid amount of homework, and plenty of unbridled teen angst. But Melissa couldn’t be more wrong…turns out she isn’t even human! And if she thought regular human life was hard, wait until she finds out she’s destined to be the mate of a Fae Prince.

Age Rating: 16+

Twisted Minds

Twisted Minds

Cassandra Rock

Him: Soon to be capo of the Italian Mafia, heartless and cruel Valentino Acerbi has agreed to an arranged marriage to benefit his family.

Her: A perfectly happy and normal eighteen-year-old, Elaina Duval is completely unaware she’s the daughter of the head of the Russian Mafia and destined for a life of obedience and pain.

Dragged into a twisted world of mafia men and mayhem, Elaina is forced to endure things no human should have to… but what if she begins to like it?

Age Rating: 18+

A String Of Murder

A String Of Murder

SJ Wilke

Laura sees strings—traces of memories people leave behind in moments of intense emotion. It’s a quirky talent that makes her great at appraising antiques, but it also pulls her into a terrifying discovery. One touch of a knife, and she sees twenty-three blood-soaked strings clinging to it. The owner? A man her best friend is dating. The police dismiss her as delusional, but Laura knows what she saw. Now she’s racing against time, trying to turn her strange gift into the only weapon that might stop a killer. But how do you prove a danger no one else can see—before it’s too late?

The Royal Legacy 1: The Rise of the Crescent Moon

The Royal Legacy 1: The Rise of the Crescent Moon

Emily Goulden

When Josephine Taylor returns to her hometown, she’s ready to move forward as a doctor—but not to face the mate bond that ignites with Alpha August Hayes. As the wolfless daughter of a power-hungry Alpha, Josephine carries the scars of her father’s greed, which decimated their pack and left her orphaned. Now, fate has tied her to August, the Alpha determined to restore the pack’s legacy. Together, they’re thrust into a brewing war to overthrow the tyrannical werewolf Council and restore peace to the kingdom. But with the stakes higher than ever, will their bond be enough to defeat the beast that threatens them all?

Love Me Not

Love Me Not

Vivienne Wren

Sidra doesn’t move to Australia expecting her world to spin off its axis—but one reckless, breath-stealing moment with a maddeningly gorgeous local sets her on fire. Isaac is temptation in human form: brooding, beautiful, and determined to push her away, even as sparks fly between them. His touch hums with danger, his gaze smolders with want, yet shadows cling to him like smoke. Sidra knows there’s more to him than the walls he builds—and when she uncovers the secret he’s hiding, it collides with her own grief in ways she never saw coming. Desire this raw can heal or destroy. And when love is built on scars, it might burn hotter than either of them can survive.

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