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Sergeant Major Candace Obermier has arrived at Alpha League Federal Agency headquarters with one task in mind - shutting it down. While A.L.F.A.'s pledge to protect humans from paranormal threats is noble, they've caused nothing but mayhem as far as Candy can tell. And their director? He's the worst of the lot. Director Josh Tumbel has finally found his mate. And she's doing everything she can to shut down operations while he struggles to control his mating instincts.

In the quiet halls of a small-town community college, five ordinary students find their lives forever altered. When a mysterious system event thrusts them into a galaxy-wide tournament, they must rise to the challenge.

In love with her gay best friend since forever, Cassandra Spencer has accepted that not everyone can have the fairy tale. Not everyone can have marriage and children and the same last name. But she has Shane, and she loves him and he loves her...until he falls in love with someone else. Someone nothing like Cassandra; someone she can never accept.

Savannah knows the ravenous bloodlust of the Vultures firsthand, and she’s doing everything she can to avoid being dragged back into the volatile melee her parents are creating. But can she stop them without succumbing to bloodlust herself? Kestrel becomes fiercely protective of her wards and the man who holds her heart, while the whole of Rock Ridge wants to use him as retribution. How can she protect her family from both friends and foes?

With the signing of the Knotwood Treaty, Rock Ridge begins to etch out a new normal. Between baseball games with Johnny and working on the ranch, Ellie is rebuilding her country at Captain Wyatt’s side. Meanwhile, Kestrel has found a home at Hudson Ranch as she works as a medical assistant alongside her mother for the Wyatts. But the motives of traitors shatter the fragile treaty harboring Ellie’s hope of finding peace or blessings of liberty in the aftermath of the devastation.

The Caldwells and Montgomerys have been feuding for generations, and through the years, Margaret and Cole have been secret friends, secret lovers, and outright enemies. For the last six years, they've both pretended the other didn't exist - it's hard to get along with a Caldwell when she always gets what she wants. It's hard to trust a Montgomery when he'll go out of his way to break a deal.

A woman who has nothing, Delia Woodson is desperate. That's why she agrees to it. Because she's a painter, no one is buying her paintings, and she's desperate. She has bills to pay, food to buy. Someday she might actually want to live in her own apartment instead of on her friend's couch. And all she has to do is paint baby-faced angels on an indecently rich corporate shill's ceiling. Because he just can't think of any other way to spend his money? And she just can't think of any other way to make it.

A cougar shifter meets his mate and match in this latest sexy paranormal adventure in the A.L.F.A. series by the New York Times best-selling author of Elemental Mating, as another Alpha League Federal Agent finds love and passion in the midst of danger.

Dr. Eve Zachara, a smart, sexy, tech executive and expert in martial arts, is on a mission to save the world from total annihilation. In the future, the fight between Apple and Google has grown into a deadly world war. Corporate fighter jets roar over the deserts of Central Asia, machine guns blast in the jungles of Africa, and high above the planet, vast battles are waged by opposing space fleets. Google has vowed to nuke the Earth from their space based nuclear platform, right after Steve Job's new Keynote speech.

As Audrianna Foster lies recovering in the sumptuous manor of her nemesis, Maria, she mourns the idyllic life she has lost with her lover, Kendis. When she awakens from a drunken evening in Kendis's bed, her memories are hopelessly fragmented. What has happened, and what is real? In the dangerous web of intrigue spun by opposing groups of the Children of Gavrilek, nothing less than the fate of the world hinges on Audrianna unlocking the key to her memories. Who is her ally, and who is waiting to betray her?

Clairvoyant, Sophie Masterson has been cheated on, lied to, and underestimated at every turn since she found out she had gifts. But her luck has finally changed. She has a family that loves her, a best friend that keeps her sane, and the one man who has always believed in her wants to date. When the Pentagram killer strikes her local coven and fresh clues emerge on a case that has haunted her dreams, she'll stop at nothing to slay the demons and put the killer behind bars.

Amber Cantrell has had her fair share of good times along with the bad. Watching her best friend find happily ever after has left her feeling the void in her own life. With a change of career, she's ready to find the right man to make the rest of her dreams come true.

Clairvoyant Sophie Masterson finally got the job of her dreams as head of Dixon Security's Psychic Division. She was sure that being a voice for the dead victims would make solving her cases a piece of cake. When a killer pulls her into his deadly game - looking for revenge against the people she loves most - and the voices in her head go silent, it will take some quick thinking to figure out the killer's identity and take him out before he strikes again.

After serving three years in jail for a brother, Kings of Chaos enforcer Shadow is done denying himself. The silent man, known for making problems disappear, spent years holding on to a secret that kept him from the one thing he wants most: Blue. Beneath the hardened exterior of this warrior rests a heart that beats for one woman. Laying all his cards on the table, he risks upsetting the balance among the Strongs and the club to complete the family he always wanted.

Behind the Mirror is what happens when emotional healing meets high-functioning burnout, generational baggage, and a fourth marriage teetering on the edge. Julie Sloan spent her life performing: a polished professional, a chronic overfunctioner, and a master of pretending things were fine. Wife of the year? Not exactly. More like emotionally unavailable in heels. After a near-breakdown in her fourth marriage, she finally hits a truth she can’t ignore: She’s spent her whole life chasing love, approval, and worthiness—because deep down, she never believed she was enough.

In an isolated village at the edge of a forest, the last of humanity ekes out a spirited existence on an Earth that was ravaged by cataclysm generations ago. Here, Sky Memoriam prepares to assume the role of memory keeper, sole relator of the long-forgotten histories of the Old World. But Sky is in for a shock.

Max and her partner, Nash, have built a thriving kingdom in the Valley where Max first defeated the Prophet nine years ago. She knows peace in the Skia Hellig Peninsula is never permanent, but she's determined to secure a prosperous future for her people and her family, including her four-month-old son, Finn, and Nash's thirteen-year-old daughter, Elsie. It's been eight years since a mysterious stranger promised Max's death if she defied the natural order of the gods, and she's no closer to knowing how to defeat him or the overlords he serves.

After losing my family and almost dying at the fangs of a vampire, I've made it my life's mission to hunt down and slay the bloodsucker who almost killed me. Tracking him to one of the hottest clubs in New York is difficult enough. Getting my hands on him and taking him down feels nearly impossible. Especially once I meet him. Believing in vampires was one thing. When Levi Wystan dives off of a skyscraper surrounding Times Square, shifting mid-fall into a shimmering tourmaline-colored monster, my whole world turns upside down. Dragon shifters are real.

Max and her partner, Nash, fought to free the Valley from the grip of a false god and her Prophet. They succeeded in defeating them, but peace still eludes their land. With the Valley's leadership in shambles, factions rise to seize control, and Max struggles to protect the innocent from the fallout. Now, with the people looking to her to save them, she's caught between protecting the Valley and resisting the call to rule. Worse, she's increasingly afraid that, to maintain order, she'll have to become as ruthless as the Prophet she killed.

The universe is a hamburger. That’s what sixteen-year-old Nicole Taylor learns when a mysterious time-bending stranger saves her from a rampaging cyborg centipede. See, the top bun? That’s our dimension. The bottom bun? That’s the monster’s dimension. And the patty? That’s a dimension where the two worlds meet—and the Reavers can attack. The Reavers are horrific cybernetic killing machines, and their plans for the top bun? Well, they’re as terrifying as you’d expect. But Nicole isn’t helpless. She has a rare gift. She can bend time around her and even stop it completely.