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Teague Martell has been License to Game's bassist for over a decade, and he's played Casanova for just as long, sleeping with almost everyone in his path. But unbeknownst to even his bandmates, it's always felt like going through the motions. His best friend and LtG drummer Christian Vogel has secrets of his own. Like that he's had a crush on Teague for as long as he's had crushes. And while LtG's lead singer may have made his solo plans public and sent the band into a tailspin, Christian's got a side gig as well - one he's been keeping under wraps.

Rowan Andrews is the unexpected darling of the Denver Snow and Ice Games. Luge has never captured the American public's imagination as much as figure skating or even hockey, but her outsized personality and dare-devil ways have got everyone's eyes glued to the track. Including a certain...

Nick Fischer is a screw-up; everyone knows it and they're not afraid to tell him so. The only thing he's got going for him is that he plays a reliable rhythm guitar for License to Game, and his big fat bulldog, Princess Fiona, is so ugly she's cute. Dempsey Lawrence is a former child star turned financial advisor, and while she's curious about the hot mess of a man who's her co-panelist for a presentation on financial literacy, she has no intention of pursuing anything with him. Too loud, too crass, too wild, Nick is altogether too much. 

Newly minted professor Evangeline “Van” Thompson’s academic dreams have turned into nightmares. She can’t wait to escape the pressure cooker of the university to spend the summer at Camp Firefly Falls with her bestie, Nate. Unfortunately, Nate breaks his leg halfway through the season, and his little sister, Willa, fills in for him as resident tennis instructor. Van has fond memories of the blonde moppet, but when Willa shows up at camp, she’s not so little anymore. She’s grown into a bombshell and a menace on the tennis court.

Blaze Bellamy is the bad girl of the short track speed skating world. Looking like a roller derby bruiser when she’s not in her Team USA uniform, she’s an unlikely American heroine. She’s got a punk attitude to match her provocative dress and her dyed hair, and she’s determined to get onto the front pages of the papers regardless of how she has to do it.

Eighteen-year-old India Burke has been waiting for as long as she can remember to escape her life of material feast and emotional famine. Going away to college offers separation from her noxious family and a connection with the best friend a girl could ask for. While her peers are picking majors and navigating the pool of college dating, Reyes Walter introduces India to the intoxicating world of dominance and submission and to a man who will become utterly obsessed with her.

Reyes Walter is the man who engineers everyone's happiness, and he's never wanted anything else. He's got a lucrative job as sovereign of the kink world, and he delights in playing puppet master for those under his purview...which is everyone. Allie Hart has got his hands full trying to find a job and being there for his sister and her kids. Loyal to the bone, he's not looking for anything to get in the way of his obligations.

Sunny, striking, and satisfied with her life in paradise, Theodosia Sullivan sees no need for marriage. She does, however, relish serving as matchmaker for everyone who crosses her path. As the manager of her family’s surf shop in Hanalei Bay, that includes locals and tourists alike. One person she won’t be playing cupid for is the equally happy bachelorette down the street. Baker Kini ʻŌpūnui has been the owner of Queen’s Sweet Shop since her parents passed away and her younger brother married Theo’s older sister and moved to Oahu.

Nate Carter is living the good life. Taking a break from his engineering day job to be Camp Firefly Falls' resident tennis instructor, he's got nothing on his plate besides acting as best man for his sister and his BFF's wedding and avoiding a summer-ending injury like the one that sidelined him last year. An unfortunate incident involving salad dressing and his tuxedo finds Nate face to face with struggling single mom Ruby Hudson, who's moonlighting as a waiter. After their calamitous meeting, they have a far more satisfying end to their evening in the back of Ruby's station wagon.

Lucy Miller has worked her way up from coffee fetcher and copy maker to invaluable assistant. She's proud of her accomplishments, but she's looking forward to a break from her demanding boss; a visit home is just the Christmas treat she needs.

Four months ago Slade Lewis got to fulfill his wildest, long-repressed BDSM fantasies during a one-night stand. Since then, getting more has been the only thing on his mind. When Slade manages to earn the keys to Reyes Walter's kinky kingdom, he finds himself face-to-face with none other than Pressly Allwyn, the pearl-bedecked love of his life, whom he pushed into divorce six years ago. Now she's back, and the fetish he was afraid would drive them apart instead draws them together.

Fiercely protective of her heart, India Burke let down her defenses when Cris Ardmore went from another notch on her D/s playdate belt to everything she could never admit she wanted. But being disowned by your family and betrayed by your lover aren't easy to get over, and India's old fears of intimacy creep in against a backdrop of professional drama that forces her return to a place that never really felt like home.

Powerhouse consultant India Burke is notorious for her razor-sharp mind, her incisive tongue, and always being in control. But during her "lost weekends" - out-of-town, one-and-done, anonymous rendezvous solely for the purpose of kinky sex - she craves a submissive role. Cris Ardmore, India's latest tryst, is a Dominant who calls an isolated Hawaiian paradise home. India's expecting 48 hours of contractually defined sex, but instead of serving as just another BDSM Band-Aid, Cris wants to know the real India Burke.