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Harley Anderson is chaos in eyeliner and combat boots, forced to swap freedom for family when she's sent to live with her estranged mom in California. The real curveball? Her new housemate: Chase Davenport—grumpy, gorgeous, and unfortunately her older stepbrother. He’s all sharp suits, sharp stares, and no time for Harley’s attitude. But when their parents vanish on a honeymoon cruise, these sworn enemies are left home alone. One accidental glimpse into Chase’s dark, controlled world changes everything. Now, the fire between them is impossible to ignore… and Harley’s about to learn just how dangerous it is to play with something you don’t understand.

Audrey Harlowe doesn’t do love—her focus is on family and running Harlowe Homes. But when billionaire Silas Hardy arrives to oversee his cottage’s construction, sparks fly. The grumpy New Yorker clashes with Audrey at every turn, but their fiery arguments soon ignite into something far hotter. A summer fling seems inevitable, but can a no-strings affair survive the heat? With walls around their hearts and obstacles in their way, Audrey and Silas must decide if love is worth the risk.

Naomi has always lived in the background, the quiet sister nobody really sees. But when Drew, her sister’s best friend and a firefighter sidelined by injury, shows up on Harlowe Island to heal, she suddenly finds herself in the spotlight of his attention. Caring for him pulls Naomi out of her shell and sparks something neither of them expected—an attraction too fierce to ignore. Yet every step closer invites disapproval, secrets, and the risk of heartbreak. With Drew offering to help her face her fears, Naomi has to decide if she’s brave enough to risk it all. Can the quietest voice on the island claim the love she’s only ever dreamed about, or will doubts and family tensions tear them apart before they’ve even begun?

Haisley thought she could outrun her past—and the billionaire who once turned her world upside down. But when her carefully kept secret starts asking questions with familiar eyes, her house of cards begins to wobble. Liam never wanted to be a father… until the truth crashes into him with one stubborn little birthmark and a twist of fate he never saw coming. Now he’s not just furious—he’s hurt. And he’s not walking away without answers. Sparks fly, truths unravel, and the past refuses to stay buried. Can Haisley protect her heart, or will Liam break it all over again… while falling harder than either of them planned?

For senior executive Adire Black, a strong dominatrix in her secret life, the game is not only about the win but about control. Everything in her life has its proper place and order, and that includes her men. When she’s called in to help with a PR problem at Gravin Oil Company Industries, she meets the owner, Davis Mills, a tall and sexy Texan billionaire who is intent on pursuing her. She is all too happy to turn the tables on him for a little extracurricular fun, but when things start to get serious, she finds it harder to hide her jaded past from him and maintain her resolve never to trust another man.

Age Rating: 18+

Adire's life is a whirlwind of love, danger, and high-stakes drama. From Beijing to Boston, she navigates a tumultuous relationship with Davis, confronts a dark past, and faces threats that put her and her loved ones at risk. As she battles personal demons and external foes, Adire's journey is one of resilience and passion, culminating in a fight for her future and the safety of her family.

Belle’s life has been hard. Not only did her father despise and beat her, but he also sold her for the gratification of disgusting old men. After years of putting up with this abuse, she’s finally managed to escape, only to catch the eye of Mafioso Lorenzo Calabria, who captures her and forces her into his world of pain, cruelty, and corruption. Will she survive and come out stronger, or will the darkness consume her forever?

Age Rating: 18+

Mason's life is shattered when his wife Jamie falls into a coma, leaving him to care for their young daughter, Penelope. As he navigates the grief and responsibilities of single parenthood, Mason is driven by a burning need for answers. When he learns the whereabouts of a man connected to Jamie's fate, he embarks on a dangerous quest for the truth, leaving Penelope in the care of a trusted friend. What Mason uncovers could change everything, but the path to justice is fraught with peril.

Mason Knight returns to New York City after a long absence, only to find his past waiting for him in the form of Jamie Harris, the woman he left behind. As they navigate their unresolved feelings and the revelation that Mason has a daughter, Penelope, tensions rise. Mason's attempts to reconnect with Jamie are complicated by misunderstandings, new relationships, and old secrets. Will Mason be able to mend the broken pieces of his past and build a future with Jamie and Penelope?

“You’ve been a good girl all your life, Jamie.”

My heart was pounding, and he had me totally lost for words.

“Why don’t you do yourself a favor and allow the Bad Girl to come out and play? I will pleasure her like she’s never been pleasured before.”

Mason Knight. A billionaire heartthrob with looks that make women stop and stare as he walks by. Jamie had always told herself she’d never be one of “those” women who fell for her boss. But then, she’d never had someone like Mason set his sights on her…

Age Rating: 18+

She has rules: keep business clean, keep her heart safe, and never, ever fall for a cocky athlete. He has a reputation—reckless, relentless, and impossible to ignore. She’s steering a company with iron discipline, while he’s fighting to prove he’s more than the headlines. Neither plans on crossing lines, but when the boss with everything to lose collides with the football star with everything to prove, the game changes. Banter turns into sparks, sparks into chaos, and suddenly the rules don’t matter as much as the way he makes her laugh, push back, and forget every plan she’s ever made.

Sylvia is known for chasing stories no one else dares to touch. When she goes undercover at an exclusive BDSM club, she’s supposed to stay focused on the mission: expose the dark secrets behind Cloud 9. But then she meets Dante. Mysterious. Magnetic. Intense. As the club’s top trainer, he’s both a challenge and a temptation—and Sylvia’s starting to blur the lines between undercover and under his spell. The deeper she goes into this secretive world, the more she begins to question everything, including what she really wants. Is she still on assignment—or has she just discovered a part of herself she never knew existed?

Don’t you just hate it when someone destroys all your carefully made plans?

I mean, I had goals: college to graduate in one semester, a future I was working hard to reach, and an image of myself I wanted the world to see. My life was stacked into these precisely placed blocks. But then Colton Gamble came along and knocked them all askew.

I hated how he messed everything up, how he could hog all my attention whenever he was around, how he made my pulse quicken—but only because he ticked me off...not because I was attracted to him. Oh! And I hated how he knew how attractive he was too, the shallow, full of himself, doesn’t take no for an answer, too flirty, too cocky, extremely irritating jerk.

The boy had all the qualities that turned me off. Or so I thought.

One night he wasn’t quite the brainless, overconfident jerk I assumed he always was.

One night, he took care of me when I was at my lowest. He opened up to me and made me open up to him.

Now I’m learning maybe he’s not what I first thought he was. And maybe I’M not what I first thought I was. Maybe it’s okay to rearrange a couple of my perfectly set blocks. Maybe, just maybe, I’ll stop worrying about what I’m afraid everyone else will think and finally reach for something I really want. It’s possible some of my plans need to be destroyed, and Colton Gamble is exactly the kind of mess I need in my life.

What do you think? Should I give him a try?

Desperately seeking your advice,

Julianna Radcliffe

Three things in my life were fact.

I needed Sarah to survive.

I needed sex to remain sane.

And I could never mix sex with Sarah.

I just knew—deep in my marrow—that if I did, I’d somehow lose her. All my deepest darkest secrets would crack open, bleed out, and ruin everything between us. I wouldn’t unleash the shit inside me on my worst enemy, let alone her. So she stayed strictly in the friend zone.

People probably thought I never went there with her because of her cerebral palsy, but fck them. She knew she was the most important person in my world, and I wasn’t about to risk hurting our relationship just to make my cck happy.

Until the moment she begged me to take her virginity.

Now it’s all about to hit the fan, because how the hell do you resist the one person forbidden to you when she says please?

--Brandt Gamble

After the loss of his wife, Xavier Wills struggles to find balance between his company and his family. And he just lost his nanny. Again.

Rose is in desperate need for a job. After her first assignment turns into babysitting for the CEO, Rose finds herself as the new nanny for the Wills family. Can Rose’s warmth remind this grieving family of what happiness is?

Junior in college. Star athlete. Constant attention from the opposite sex.

On this campus, I’m worshiped. While seven hundred miles away, back in my hometown, I’m still trailer park trash, child of the town tramp, and older sibling to three kids who are counting on me to keep my shit together so I can take them away from the same crappy life I grew up in.

These two opposing sides of myself never mix until one person gets a glimpse of the true me. I never expected to connect with anyone like this or want more beyond one night. This may be the real deal.

Problem is Dr. Kavanagh’s my literature professor.

If I start anything with a teacher and we’re caught together, I might as well kiss my entire future goodbye, as well as my family’s and especially Dr. Kavanagh’s. Except sometimes love is worth risking everything. Or at least, it damn well better be, because I can only resist so much.

-Noel Gamble-

The days are numbered for Hope Langston.

She’s suffering from liver failure and isn’t sure if she’ll make it to a transplant in time or not. So she creates a bucket list of experiences she wants to try before it’s too late. Number four on her list is Parker Ohrley, one of her brother’s best friends.

Prickly, rude, and sarcastic, this jerk is all things brooding and tormented. But Hope’s curious. She wants to sample him like nothing else.

In the spirit of carpe diem, she says screw it, and she shoots her shot. Who cares if she gets a humiliating rejection, right? She won’t have to live with the embarrassment for long.

Except Parker might not say no.

And that’s when the real trouble begins.

Let the mess of secrets, lies, and heartbreak commence.

He was her first obsession—young, brilliant, off-limits. Now she’s a bestselling erotic novelist, back in the halls where it all began. When her old teacher reads the words she once wrote about him, the line between fantasy and reality blurs—and desire becomes impossible to resist.

Have you ever experienced a random encounter that turned your life upside down?

This happened to Cami. After being dumped by her boyfriend, she doesn’t think her day could get any worse. That is until she stopped by another red light…again. But this time, she does not need to wait alone.

Age Rating: 18+

Lyla meets a handsome stranger while on a business trip and decides to reject her usual timid persona and throw herself into a fling. One amazing night leads to surprises she never imagined. But is it all too much for her?

Hannah reluctantly uses her natural good looks to earn money as a stripper to support her two sisters—Cleo, who has autism, and the irresponsible Alexis—so when Hannah’s boss tells her to dance on the private yacht of world-famous rock star Miles Maines, she has no choice but to accept. The party was arranged by Miles’s bandmates, but he’s sour about the event as he has no love or respect for strippers. But when Covid regulations and a damaged rotor leave Hannah and Miles stranded on his yacht, each looks beyond their assumptions of the other and starts to feel something they never expected. But there are consequences to falling for a celebrity…dangerous ones!

Age Rating: 18+

Victoria Hutson has had a tiring four years of college, working to support herself after the passing of her mother. Now that she’s done with that part of her life, she’s found a stable job and she’s letting loose for once. Except her choice of “letting loose” means having sex with a handsome green eyed man she doesn’t know...and recognizing said green eyes on her boss the first day she comes into work.

Age Rating: 18+

Zeke and Amelia made a deal—she’d help him with school if he’d show her how to win at dating—but their no-strings trade-off quickly got tangled up with real emotions, and now both of their hearts are at stake. With judgmental parents, conflicting future plans, and a humiliating bet about Amelia’s virginity getting between them, happiness feels like a longshot. If they’re going to get through graduation together, they’ll have to pass their biggest test yet: not just falling in love, but staying there.

When NHL superstar Briggs Westinghouse sees Layla in the hospital’s neonatal ward, doting on his triplets, he can’t help but feel an instant attraction to her. He knows he can’t leave her vulnerable and alone. The right thing to do is offer her a safe place to stay and a job as the nanny for his children. Briggs knows the situation is sinfully tempting, but Layla might be too hard to resist.

Age Rating: 18+

Emma's life is a whirlwind of power, passion, and peril. As a Mafia boss, she navigates treacherous waters, balancing her ruthless business dealings with complex personal relationships. After a series of betrayals and intense confrontations, Emma finds herself entangled with the enigmatic Salentro twins and her loyal bodyguard, Levi. Amidst the chaos, she must confront her deepest fears and desires, ultimately seeking love and redemption in a world where trust is a rare commodity.

Diablo is used to getting what he wants. And what he wants more than anything is Emma.

Graduating from a prestigious university with two degrees, Emma Taylor is a good girl and a bit of a pushover… not to mention still a virgin. Mafia boss Diablo is a heartless playboy known for his monstrous ways. When one fateful night at Diablo’s club brings the two together, only time will tell if opposites truly attract…

Age Rating: 18+

Olivia has spent years climbing the corporate ladder and is on track to make partner at her law firm. But a one night stand has the power to erase everything she’s worked for.

The problem? He’s her boss’s son. And now he’s her client. Their connection is electric, and the line between work and pleasure begins to blur. As tensions in the case begin to build, will Olivia be able to save her client? And her heart?

Age Rating: 18+ (Miscarriage)

Emily thought it was just a crush. A flirty smile here, a clever line there—until Damion made it a game. And with Damion, the rules are always shifting. What starts as teasing turns into something tangled and intense, pulling Emily into a spiral of reputations ruined, hearts tested, and feelings she swore she'd left behind. But forgetting him? Easier said than done. Damion plays to win, and Emily’s heart is the prize. Trouble is, she’s not playing by his rules anymore. Love, obsession, or something even more dangerous? It all depends on who breaks first.

Running from an abusive ex lands Opal quite literally in the arms of mysterious MMA champion, Warrior. But though Warrior’s seductive grip is enough to sweep Opal fast off her feet and into a whirlwind romance, she’s about to learn it’s hard to escape a dangerous past. In the competitive world of MMA fighting, there are opponents on every corner of the ring...and playing for keeps sometimes means playing dirty.

Age Rating: 18+ (Content Warning: Assault, Kidnapping, Sexual Assault/Abuse, Stalker, Violence Against Women)

Him: The seemingly good guy with hidden layers.

Her: The rebel, but there’s more than what meets the eye.

After Rainey is forced to run from her past, she transfers to Crosshill High in the hope of a fresh start. An awkward exchange with Ansel begins a thrilling love story of two teens who find comfort in each other. Can they build enough trust to overcome their secrets and scars?

Age Rating: 18+ (Assault, Attempted Rape, Cheating, Child Abuse, Depression, Domestic Violence, Drug Use/Overdose, Extreme Violence/Gore, Human Trafficking, Offscreen Rape, Sexual Assault/Abuse, Stalker, Statutory Rape, Torture, Violent Death)