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She believed in the system. Until a killer started proving it wrong. Detective Evelyn Kane has spent her career following the rules. But in the rain-slicked streets of Chicago, the rules are failing. A new vigilante is delivering the brutal, final judgment that the law refused to provide, leaving a trail of bodies as a message to the city: The system is broken. As Kane and her guarded new partner, John Mee, follow the blood, they realize this isn’t just a random spree. The killer knows their secrets. He is using their own pasts, their own traumas, as weapons against them.

Sirens are known for their beauty and grace. Everything from their lithe figures to their perfectly symmetrical faces to the cadence of their voices is designed to charm. Pleasure of the flesh is how they sustain themselves. So, of course, Detective Carver would be the one siren lucky enough to hate sex. Ever since his husband died, Carver has resented the defining feature of his race, but when his boss calls in someone to assist with his investigation, he finds himself confronted with a problem he never expected—attraction.

She hunted monsters. He hunted her. And in his darkness, she'll find desires she never knew existed. Special Agent Alexandra Hart is a brilliant profiler, relentless in her pursuit of the city's most depraved criminals. Her current target: a meticulous serial killer known only as "The Acolyte," whose gruesome artistry chills even seasoned agents. She's closer than anyone has ever been to unmasking him.

It was supposed to be a quick trip to another pack’s territory. Just long enough to second his brother when Tobias faced the challenges that had been thrown his way when a poorly thought-out decision led to a series of chaotic and unfortunate events. Like everything else in his life, nothing turned out the way Lucien had planned. A confrontation in council chambers nearly costs him his tail and earns him a couple of bondmarks on his wrists. It’s scary, considering all the secrets he keeps. Good thing for him, his mates are hiding just as much as he is.

Traditionally, rejecting a mate means walking away. It’s a simple thing, really, painless, except for frayed emotions and a bit of friction between families. In the history of Comet Lake, it’s never led to the level of bloodshed that comes when Emery’s mate, Tobias, decides he doesn’t want him. Not only are feelings hurt, but Emery’s life is left hanging by a thread and Onyx, the mate he finds on the same day his other rejects him, emerges from the encounter pissed off and looking for revenge.

Cheyenne wants to start a family — with or without the right man. As an Alpha female, she can have her pick of the wolf shifters in Pinehurst. When an arrogant alpha male she doesn't want picks her as her mate just as she finds the right guy who agrees to be the father of her child, and her potential mate, she's got her hands full. She has to choose between the beta who's a good man and the alpha who's an arrogant prick. There's no way she's going to fall for him, persistent though he may be. Or is his persistence just enough to get her to finally cave?

A heart-wrenching coming-of-age story about loss, forgiveness, and the courage to keep living. Seventeen-year-old Patrick Schwartz wishes he could erase one moment—the night of the accident that took his sister Jessi’s life. He was behind the wheel. Now, every day feels like a punishment he deserves. Haunted by grief, guilt, and a silence that’s consuming his family, Patrick drifts through senior year invisible to everyone except his best friend, Elliot—and the girl who refuses to let him disappear, Aliza Gillespie.

Martial arts master Lin Su Yoshimura is a force to be reckoned with. Now in the US after being shunned as a mixed-race Chinese-Japanese girl, then kidnapped as a teen and sold into the sex-trafficking trade, Lin Su is rescued from an abusive New York pimp by one of the city’s top-level cocaine dealers. Navigating both back alleys and opulent venues with lethal grace, Lin Su finds her way forward through the underbelly of the city, as she wrestles with the horrors of her past.

An abandoned wolf with a rare disorder. The new pack doctor hell-bent on claiming the wolf meant to be his. A renegade wolf haunting the footsteps of the wolf whose bondmark he wears, and hates. The fates say these three belong together, like broken pieces of carnival glass just itching for a bit of glue, and the fates are never wrong, are they? Graham doesn’t think so, but convincing Zane and Cormac of that might take words that were never covered in his anatomy books. A season. That’s the longest Zane stays anywhere.