Rape. Death. Injustice.Bellevue Springs is not the place I thought it was going to be.Meeting Colton Carrington has changed my life, but the jury is still out on how he changed it. Good...bad? I guess I’ll find out. I live in a dark world, but he was a darkness that was welcomed, a darkness that I certainly wasn’t prepared for.Missing people. A dead billionaire. Gang war. Sexism.When does it end?Nic is bearing down on me. He wants me back in Breakers...

Morgan VanDolen is an accomplished athlete, but joining a softball team for the first time as an adult threatens to pitch some dents into her pride. In the face of a frustrating learning curve, Morgan finds inspiration in her new teammate: Marina Martin. A Snow White beauty with a Mona Lisa smile, Marina is as talented as she is attractive. There’s just one hitch: Marina is in a relationship. With a man. But Morgan has cause to hope: Marina is bisexual. At least, Marina thinks she is. Her ...

A FINANCIAL TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK TO READ IN 2023**A**MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 for VULTURE, LIT HUB, GOODREADS, RUMPUS, BUSTLE, READER'S DIGEST and moreWolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature – vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for nearly a...

At the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains sits the small farm towns of Rockwell, Sugar Loaf, and Liledoun, North Carolina. A large family struggles to survive the chaotic nature of the family head: their mother, a terrifying blend of rage, disappointment, and religious command. Her husband follows sheepishly behind, a monster of his own kind.And then there’s young Jesse: unwanted from conception, but kept as a pawn for her mother’s bidding. Her life is a tale of growing up with no on...

For Patricia ‘Fitz’ Fitzpatrick, hockey is her only escape from her controlling husband and the isolation of her suburban life. When the drama on her team threatens that one happiness, Fitz takes matters into her own hands. She convinces three of her teammates—Michelle, Dawn, and Tessa—to join her in building a new team. The Darts. The Darts have the potential to be something fantastic—if they can survive their first season. As Fitz’s marriage takes a dark turn, she puts more pressure on t...

She’s the devil's daughter, but once, she was my only friend.Everything changed 15 years ago when her father killed mine. When she betrayed me.And every day since, all I’ve thought about is vengeance. Brutal, twisted revenge.I’ve been patient, rising from ruins, growing an empire with my brothers, waiting for my chance to take out her father, the boss of the Palermo crime family.The time has come. The devil will pay. I'm about to take the only one he has lef...

Kiss a stranger. Those three words started off a series of events I could have never predicted. Fresh off graduation, I had my entire summer planned out: European vacation with my cousins, college courses, and picking up shifts at work. But then my mom calls and drops the bomb: she's getting married to the rumored head of the Irish mafia. Even though I've been looking out for her for most of my life, we haven't lived together in ten years. So when she invites me to stay with her for the su...

Grace is a monster hunter who went into her demon deal with eyes wide open. Years ago, her mother made the same choice and was never seen again, and the answers Grace seeks can only be found in the demon realm.She doesn’t care that she’s auctioned off to a gargoyle. She doesn’t plan to stay with him longer than strictly necessary.Unfortunately, she didn’t read the small print of her contract.Every time she tries to escape, Bram catches her and brings her back…to his...

Catalina only made her deal with the demon because she had nowhere else to go. The world has kicked her every chance it got, so she’s all too happy to leave the realm she knows behind. What’s the worst that could happen?She doesn’t anticipate being auctioned away to a kraken.Thane is cold and distant…but he’s not unkind. Isolated as they are, Catalina finds herself seeking his company again and again. And when she finally agrees to uphold her portion of the bargain...

I wake with a gasp, surrounded by smoke and flames. Twelve hours earlier, my cousins cut their European vacation short and came home to spend my birthday with me. They promised me a day to remember. No one could have predicted how true that promise would turn out to be. When the clock strikes eleven-eleven on June sixth, I make a wish. But fate has other plans, and she deals me an unexpected hand. That’s the thing about fate: she doesn’t ask permission—she takes what she wants. When my wor...

PrestonLife has hit me below the belt, and I have lost those I hold most dear. On my sister's deathbed, she made me swear I'd care for her baby girl as if she was my own. After six years of loving her like my daughter, we live a quiet and peaceful life. In the midst of more loss, I meet this couple, and unbeknownst to me, they are who I need to feel whole again.HardyDakota is my life, my wife, and my partner. We fit together like two jagged edges, making the perfect...

Retrieving what’s been lost may cost a prize of equal value...Imprisoned by the enemy, Charlotte plots to escape, finding salvation in an unlikely ally. But the home and family at her destination know less peace than her heart.Led by King Arthur, Camelot is closing in, and war is only a matter of time. The question is: can Charlotte protect her daughter while it rages? Morgana’s mysterious power is stronger than ever, and ambitious forces wish to harness it for the battlefi...