Outrunning a winter storm in the north, Captain Faran of the King's Guard leads his men and a young mage named Meric to shelter at Bitterwood Manor, the ancestral home of the Daenes. Faran and his troops have been searching for weeks for a mysterious, lion-like beast that reportedly haunts the uncharted northern woods. For Meric, finding that prophesied cat is a matter of life and death.Though Faran is deeply focused on their mission, the enigmatic Joss Daene, Lord of Bitterwood, f...

Adam Craig is burned out. Lead singer of the hard rock band Black Varen, he’s tired of the empty life of groupies, paparazzi, and hotel rooms. Worse, a life in the closet. After the final concert of their latest tour, he flees the afterparty, pursuing memories of lost summers and carefree days, until he passes out on the patio of a shuttered lake resort.Miles Caldwell is a brilliant artist, tied by agoraphobia and social anxiety to his family’s lodge. Alone but for his parrot, he s...

Three years undercover with one of the worst gangs in the country left FBI agent Joshua Chastain shattered. Battling nightmares and addiction, he leaves the concrete jungle for New Mexico horse country, hoping to start over on his uncle's ranch.Foreman Eli Kelly spends his life rehabilitating abused animals, and Joshua is just another lost soul. But as Joshua slowly begins to put his life back together, Eli realizes that Joshua is a lot more than his newest project.Joshua's...

Can a pickup line from a stranger completely change the way an ordinary man sees himself?Adrian wouldn't have thought so, but after an ugly breakup where his self-esteem took a serious beating, he's willing to try just about anything to repair the damage… even return to a secluded bar in rural Maryland and the intriguing stranger whose words have been on his mind since they met.Biker, bouncer, bartender, and tattoo artist, Wyatt is a rolling stone. After fifteen years, he i...

He wanted to learn about beauty. He never expected to learn about love.Billionaire Chandler Harrison's third marriage is now history, and he's left with his ex-wife's parting barb, 'You have no appreciation of beauty.' Determined to prove her wrong, Chandler hires artist Neil Sweeney to add a mural to his office wall. He doesn't even care what the picture is, as long as it's beautiful.Neil Sweeney is an ex-tagger, a free spirit, and a bit of a hippie. He's never me...

Can an unexpected pairing create the most intoxicating love story? From bestselling author Rowan Rossler comes My Grape Crush, a sweet and spicy opposites attract summer romance with all the feels.Every woman with a pulse knows who Rhys Trenton is. Influencer sensation. Global icon. A serious piece of man candy living the celebrity dream in his palazzo on Corfu. In no legitimate universe should the golden path of my social media crush ever cross with...

Finding forever in the City of Angels.TigheCarine Morhan is a lot of things. She's smart. She's compelling. She's a puzzle I can't wait to solve. She makes me want to stand between her and the harm the world seems determined to throw her way. There's just one problem: the damsel might be in distress, but she's got no interest in being rescued.CariWhen Tighe Brannigan crashes into the life I've built up from years of pain, my first instinct is to let him in. ...

British Mysteries Collection gathers R. Austin Freeman's rigorously constructed tales of crime, detection, and legal inference, most famously associated with the medico-legal investigator Dr. John Thorndyke. Written in a lucid, methodical prose style, these stories privilege evidence over sensation: fingerprints, dust, poisons, anatomy, and the minutiae of place become the grammar of truth. In the context of early twentieth-century detective fiction, Freeman stands beside Conan Doyle while...

This expansive collection gathers R. Austin Freeman's most characteristic achievements in detective fiction: the scientific investigations of Dr. John Thorndyke, the ingenious adventures of Romney Pringle, and a broad range of thrillers that helped shape the early twentieth-century mystery tradition. Freeman's prose is exact, lucid, and methodical, privileging observation, inference, and material evidence over melodrama. In literary context, these stories stand at a crucial point between V...

Lord James Warren, Viscount Sudbury, lives a quiet, safe, and predictable life alone on his estate in Suffolk, only traveling to London once a year to visit family and satisfy his more forbidden needs. But this year, his routine is shattered when his niece and nephew ask him to help a beautiful young man they've only just met.Kyle Allen, alone and running from his abusive lover, stirs feelings in James he has long denied for fear of tarnishing his reputation and losing his family's...

John McCann, a man who judges life by the tally of an accounts ledger, has a supreme goal in life: To achieve, live, and enjoy the rarified executive lifestyle. But he's encountered one problem: The migraines are going to continue to get worse unless you make some major changes in your lifestyle. What you need is a 'sea change'… Perhaps buy a nice little business in the country, settle down, something easier to occupy your time…While John knows the doctor is right, he just can't re...

Tanner Wallis is nearly at the end of his rope the night Mason Seidel finds him lying next to the mangled body of a cow on the back pastures of the Seidel family's Wyoming ranch. Recently out of the hospital after he and his boyfriend were brutally beaten, Tanner is jobless, homeless, and almost penniless. His desperate hope is that Mason will believe he's innocent of the senseless crime and give him a place to heal, both physically and emotionally, until he can get on his feet again....