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When life knocks you down and you get right back up again. That’s what you’re supposed to do, right? You don’t allow the monsters to tear you down. Never did I expect to see my life where it is now. I might seem to have my life together on the outside, but on the inside I’m a catastrophe. I don’t trust easily, and I refuse to allow men in my life. There’s a good reason for that, though. I haven’t been with a man in over five years. I wasn’t ever planning on it. In my mind, I was fully prepared to live my life with just my son.

I’m a responsible guy, so I’m the logical choice to get custody of my niece and nephew when my sister and her husband die in a car accident. What were they thinking to have me share custody with Patton? He’s impulsive, laidback, and an actor, of all things. We have nothing in common, and I don’t see how this arrangement is going to work. Living with him and raising two children? It’s crazy - so why does it seem to make more and more sense the longer our arrangement lasts? I’m falling for a guy who doesn’t do responsible or committed, and I can’t seem to stop.

When I snuck into Montana Cobalt's house, I was looking for help learning to ride like him. What I got was his belt across my bare backside, and then with tears running down my cheeks and arousal dripping onto my thighs, he taught me an even rougher, more shameful lesson. He's agreed to train me, but not just for the rodeo. He's going to show me what it means to be ridden hard and put away wet, and I'll take everything he gives me and then beg him for more.

As the daughter of a well-to-do politician, Aida Perkins is accustomed to living in relative luxury, but everything changes the night she is carried off by Cole Clemens and his gang. The gruff, handsome outlaw makes it clear that she will be held for ransom until her father repays the debt he owes, and until then absolute obedience and total submission will be demanded of Aida.

She’ll make him burn down the past and forge the future from the ashes. Gavin: Up on the mountain I’m of club royalty. I am the legacy. I am the man who was sent to save the Mountain Misfits MC from my father’s need for destruction. But maybe I don’t want to take on this burden anymore. Maybe I want a white picket fence and a good woman to settle down with. Maybe I’m tired of this blood on my hands. Or maybe I want it all. One foot on the mountain, the other down below, chasing after a woman who doesn’t see me for the man I truly am. A woman who likes my leather cut.

All Grace Diaz had ever dreamed about was freedom - freedom to control her destiny, to explore her passions, and to love the boy who'd always been her hero. But those dreams died the day Donnie Nolan left the neighborhood. Now, thanks to her older brother's debts, Grace has become a pawn in a criminal chess game. Kidnapped and held by a man with ties to human traffickers, freedom has never felt like more of a dream. Donnie must confront his painful past to save Grace.

Peirs had accepted his life of servitude to an angel. His keeper asked only for a willing body, and in exchange his needs were met and he was fed and clothed. Peirs might have served the angel forever - it was the only life he knew - but one day Peirs discovered something he had no way to plan for. After two millennia, he was pregnant. Peirs now must summon the courage to escape his master and the unbendable divine law that declared no half-breeds should live, but running into an angelic soldier in the back room of a bar wasn’t part of his plan.

Growing up as part of the Mancini mob clan in Chicago was all Tony Bricker and Max Hixson ever knew. They were trained by their uncle, the Don of the Mancini family, and he dubbed them his Gardeners. They were more than just best friends, they were chosen brothers and loved their jobs as Mancini enforcers. Until Max changed everything three years ago. Their friendship shattered and Max fled to Michigan to do his uncle’s work. Now he’s been called back to Chicago and once more paired with his former best friend, chosen brother, and the one man he’d always loved.

I wanted her, and I always get what I want. Sometimes it just takes a little persuasion.... Her father stole something from the mob and they hired me to get it back, but that's not the real reason Giliana Worthington is locked naked in a cage with her cute bottom well-used and sore. I brought her here so I could take my time enjoying her, showing her all the ways I can make her scream and moan and beg for more as I ravage her helpless, quivering body over and over again. I didn't take her as a hostage. I took her because she is mine.

Diego Santiago has been undercover too long. What began as a simple mission to gain revenge for his younger brother's death has become an abyss of conflicted loyalties and evil deeds done for the "greater good". He's begun to question his ability to see a future beyond the darkness. But when his plan to take down El Jefe, the mysterious leader of a human trafficking ring, leads him to the woman he's loved from the shadows for years, he needs to decide where his ultimate loyalty lies.

Helena and Hank both have trust issues that run deep, but the unexpected connection helped them start to mend and heal. Can they face the hurdles of the past when they come crashing in? Are they strong enough to challenge the enemy, both invisible and real? To find happiness they’ll have to fight for it because trust isn't always easy to keep.

All he has to do is strike one match to bring all her secrets to light Gavin: Only a Mountain Misfit would find opportunity in his own little brother’s motorcycle accident. An opportunity to finally get Sloan right where I want her. Not just for the night, but for the rest of our lives. She’s going to be my wife. She’s going to be the queen of the Mountain Misfits MC. She has everything I need to wash this blood from my hands. Everything I need to help save my club from my father’s appetite for destruction.

I want to trust him. I just don’t know how. My life might not be conventional, but I’ve got it together. I own a successful tattoo business. I’ve got investments. I’ve got my brothers in the Falcon Grim Motorcycle Club...and I’ve got my old bedroom at my parents’ house in my tiny hometown, because after a bar fight with a rival MC went to hell, I need a place to lay low for a while. Perks of coming home? Victor Savage. He’s older than me, he’s hot as hell, and to be honest, he’s always been able to light my candle, if you know what I mean.

Knapp draws on his own experience of losing both his first and second wife to cancer to provide insight into some of the unhelpful responses we often make, and presents a repertoire of ideas on how to be a genuine friend and helper to a grieving person. Various chapters in the book deal with different kinds of losses, including the trauma of losing a spouse or child, divorce, loss of pets, and other losses that we sometimes fail to recognize need to be grieved over if healing is to occur.

When I accepted a lucrative position at Wolfe Wineries, I had no idea my boss was an insufferable man. But Montgomery Wolfe made the terms very clear. I'd follow his rules or face stern consequences. Even as we sparred from day one, sizzling electricity flowed between us. Yet as I'm bent across his desk, every sizzling stroke of his belt awakening my senses, I vowed to hate him.

Hardened by years spent in prison for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Montego is no longer the gentle man I remember. When he came for me, he didn't just take me for the very first time.

Why was it so damn hard to ask that cute barista out on a date? I was supposed to be an Alpha. The most feared man in Maple Hart. I was used to being treated like an outcast, a criminal. Everyone else knew me as the gruff mountain man with no friends. I lived off the land and set my own terms. I thought I was content...until he came along. Gideon Thaddeus Bright. Barista. Sassy Omega. Cute as a button.

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to learn exactly what an empath is, the challenges that come along with it, and the strengths that being an empath provides you with. Surviving in this society is no easy task for highly empathetic people. Since empaths are naturally caring, great listeners, this can lead them to be easily manipulated by energy vampires.

He doesn't make offers. He makes demands. I should have known better. His proposition was shameful. So shameful I threw my drink in his face when I heard it. Then I saw the look in his eyes, and I knew I'd made a mistake. I fought as he bared me and begged as he spanked me, but it didn't matter. All I could do was moan, scream, and climax helplessly for him as he took everything he wanted from me. By the time I signed the contract, I was already his.

Compiled by Xtina Marie, this heart-stopping conglomeration of terror represents the coming together of a whole bunch of the finest independent horror authors writing today.