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Everyone has daydreamed about being in a relationship with their celebrity crush, right? Jules has spent over a decade escaping into a vivid fantasy: a life where she's confident, loved, and married to Hollywood's golden boy, Chris Jones. It's been her safe place, her secret, her maladaptive...

It’s not love. It’s something far more dangerous —It’s a ruinous obsession. Ayla Kennedy has always known she’s different. Beneath her poised exterior, there is a hunger that’s untamed and unfulfilled. That is, until she meets him. The Beast. He’s no ordinary man. Feared for his brutal touch and unapologetic dominance, The Beast has left a trail of broken hearts and trembling bodies in his wake. No woman has ever been able to match his intensity... until Ayla. She doesn’t flinch., She doesn’t run. She wants more. This isn’t a fairytale.

A demon imprinted on me, so I had to turn to the monster king for help. Instead of actually being useful, King Bane tells me that I should just mate with the demon. At least, until he also imprints on me. Then we have no choice but to seal the deal in every way there is. But his wing of the Manor is quickly overrun with chaos and hatred because of our newfound connection, putting us in yet another predicament. We have to convince the monsters that I'm a terrible match for both Bane and the demon.

Nobody knows our story or the reason I loathe Hudson Carmichael, and he will never know the way he broke me. Yet I can't rid myself of the attraction I feel for him or the way he makes my body burn. Will one night in his arms purge me of my need for him or have I just made the biggest mistake of my life? Audrey thinks I betrayed her that I walked away, she will never know just how much I sacrificed to save the only woman I have ever loved.

I did a bad thing . . . and the man I love is here to make me pay for it. So now, I'm back where I started. Stuck somewhere I don't belong with a dangerous man who hates me. The difference between now and then? This time around . . . I'm pregnant with his twin babies.

All I wanted was to outrun the ghosts that haunt me. But I run from my home and into the arms of a handsome alpha. For the first time ever, a shifter appeals to the human side of me and to my wolf as well. There's a reason for that. He's my mate. One night of passion led me to a mate I don't want, don't need, and have every intention of rejecting. A shifter determined to drag me back to a place I swore I'd never return. A place where old enemies have resurfaced. He's unmovable. Stone by name. Stone by nature.

A forbidden crush on best friend’s older brother turned into obsession. A guardian who watches too closely. An ex’s best friend you shouldn’t be obsessed with. Once they decide you’re theirs… there’s no such thing as walking away. This dark, addictive box set includes three full-length standalone romances filled with jealousy, obsession, forbidden desire, and men who blur every moral line:

I was a pushover when I lived in New York. Now I'm a force to be reckoned with. Enter Colby Bryce, a man who I didn't expect to sweep me off my feet and show me just how much the world had to offer to those who knew how to take what they wanted.

Control built my empire. She might destroy it all. To some, my creation, ARGUS, is a weapon. To others, it's a safeguard. The system sees all, finds every connection, leaves no secret buried. Yet she found my blind spot. I gave her everything—my bed, my secrets, my trust. The heart I'd buried under years of ambition and isolation. Only to discover she didn't find me by accident. Former CIA. Investigating a deadly leak. Hired by shadows to hunt rumors that could destroy everything I've built.

Lila's best friend and her wealthy fiancé surprise their friend group with a luxurious getaway. Perpetually single and anxious about her future, Lila is thrilled for the chance to escape her everyday life. Though there is one thing—or more specifically, one person—that could ruin this dream vacation. The groom’s friend, Harrison.

When I'm confronted in the woods by a man with a chainsaw and a gorgeous face, I should’ve known it would end poorly. But when I end up in the killer’s house instead of chopped into little pieces, I don’t know what to think. Not when he promises me that he won’t hurt me, and especially when he tells me that I can’t leave. Not unless he can trust me. He can’t, of course. I’ll tell anyone that will listen that this monster cut up some man in the moonlight, even if he promises that it had been deserved. He’s lying, because there’s no way anyone deserves what he did.

I have a very big problem...in the form of one very petite woman. Don't get me wrong. I adore women, and if you ask any female in Sparkwood, you'll learn the feeling is mutual. With one tiny exception. Oriana Thorne is a literal thorn in my side—a plucky, infuriatingly gorgeous, pain in the rear who rents the store next to mine.

I wake up in silk sheets that aren't mine. Designer clothes in my size hanging in a gilded cage. And a price tag of fifteen million dollars on my head. Then he walks in—salt and pepper hair, cold Russian accent. But I know those storm-gray eyes anywhere. Dante Moretti. My brother's enforcer. Seventeen years older and completely forbidden.

Forced to wed: A grieving mafia princess trapped in a deadly alliance… with the one man she swore she could never have. She's my best friend's daughter. Barely twenty-two. Sacred. Forbidden. Mine. She never dreamed she'd wear my ring, share my name, warm my bed... But with her father's blood...

Honor or blood: She's carrying a Calabrese heir. Too bad I'm going to make her a DeLuca bride. She was supposed to be untouchable. My brother's family. Bella's closest friend. Another man's woman. But Elena Santiago isn't the sweet angel she pretends to be. Behind that perfect smile lies a mind...

I don’t think I’m on Draig Island anymore. I’m deep inside a dark jungle. At least I’m not too badly hurt. I’ll regroup and then hike to civilization. Please let there be civilization! I’m a little worried about wild animals, but I’m sure I’ll be okay. I refuse to believe in the existence of dragons. It hasn’t been more than a few hours, and a huge hulk of a man comes crashing out of the undergrowth. He’s naked, covered in tattoos, and scares the living daylights out of me. After a little while, I realize that he’s not going to hurt me. At least, I don’t think he will.

After five years of solitude, Drew Tucker, the grieving, sadistic president of The Hounds of Babylon MC is finally out of prison with only one thing on his mind: revenge for the death of his brother. But everything has changed since he left the small town of Babylon, Texas, and where he once...

June Cannon has spent the last seventeen years of her life as a devoted mom and wife, but when her husband, Camp, doesn't come home for dinner—again—and her teenage daughter calls her simple, she's had enough. Inspired by a podcast, her way forward becomes clear: get a divorce, get a job, and show her kids she's anything but simple. As soon as she tells Camp she wants a divorce, he becomes the husband he hasn't been for years, blurring the lines between what's real and what's pretend for the sake of their kids.

Madness is his forte, and I'm entrapped in his chaotic world. My life was good. I was about to start my senior year at brown, so I took a last-minute getaway with my best friends to Mexico. That is, until we're snatched on vacation and thrown into a nightmare we could never have imagined. Nothing could've prepared us for the darkness that awaited us. We find ourselves in a dangerous world dominated by Ileana Navarro, a cartel leader whose power is matched only by her cruelty. And that's when I met Taren.

I might be going to the college of my dreams with only my violin and a few hundred dollars to my name, but I'll work harder than any student they've ever had, and nothing will stop me. Cedar Lakes University is how I turn my life around. As my future begins to unravel, I'm slowly realizing that my plan has flaws. A math class I can't pass and the boy I wish I could forget. One summer he walked away from me and now he's my tutor. The school's quarterback, Sebastian Dawson. He's a pro at getting under my skin, making me feel things I don't have time to feel.