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Biotech now fuels my business ventures, allowing me to manipulate the city from the shadows…but Dr. Jade Bentley is a variable I never anticipated. Her brilliance is a blinding force that threatens to unravel my plans. When the opportunity to make Jade’s research slip from her grasp pops up, I seize it...but it’s not just her work that captivates me. Jade herself becomes my most intriguing challenge. Her defiance ignites a fire within me, and her very presence becomes an all-consuming need. I intended to use her, to reign supreme, but my desire for possession has taken a dangerous turn.

It’s 1904 on an island just west of Norway, and Asta Hedstrom doesn’t want to marry her odious betrothed, Nils. But her mother believes she should be grateful for the possibility of any domestic future given her single-sided deafness, unconventional appearance, and even stranger notions.

Swift Justice tells the story of Leon Brooks, an educated black man, who comes under the wrath of the Texas KKK for initiating a voting drive. The Klan, which is led by the Imperial Wizard Atwood Baker, who is called "Judge" because he is the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, cannot allow the voting drive to happen. His solution - lynch Leon Brooks and set an example.

The ultimate rule: protect your own, even if it means betraying others. In this cutthroat world of the Mercy Blades, bloodstains are a badge of honor. Every choice I’ve ever made is steeped in violence. And even though Sofia wants my love, I can’t help but think we’re going to end in disaster. Sofia is my foundation, but she’s also wildfire, burning the world we once knew and forcing us to reevaluate everything we thought we understood about loyalty and trust. We all love her–me and the men I’ve come to call my brothers–but I’m not sure if we can trust her.

Becoming a lifeguard at Sea Side Cove was never in Carly’s plans, but it’s the one thing in her life that’s going right. At least, until the new guy shows up and knocks her off her game in the middle of a rescue. Ryan Harris might be the most amazing man she’s ever met. There’s just one problem. She’s not available. Her relationship is, at best, complicated. She hasn’t been happy in a long time, but she can’t just walk out either. And if Ryan knew the truth about Carly, he wouldn’t want her, anyway. Now she just needs to convince him of that.