You can’t always get what you want.Shy and sweet Lia Gardella has only wished to make her father proud. Dropping plates, spilling drinks, and missing orders, she’s never fit in at the family business. And after nearly incinerating the whole building, she ran from the stressful environment.Want not.As head chef of one of the city’s best eateries, Finn Newland seems to have it all. He enjoyed a youthful career in the MMA. Women worship him. After years of hard work, h...

Reunited with one of the Project’s original researchers held captive at a cartel compound, Cassidy is tasked with delivering answers about a so-called miracle drug. She struggles with the fear of being separated from Luke, anticipating he’ll be harmed unless she cooperates. The details the cartel wants aren’t forthcoming, and instead, she’s instructed to find another Project colleague in another city.Luke doesn’t sit still once he’s parted from Cassidy. The danger in this jungle is...

After another narrow escape, Cassidy hopes for a break—for any kind of a breather from constantly being on the run. She and Luke head to a safe house arranged for them by Zero, and it’s there that they find new sources of potential help. Hendrick’s journal might show a promise of where to locate the elusive scientist, but it more than digs up Cassidy’s past.Finally given a chance to recover from his injuries, Luke struggles to accept this temporary relaxed state. After all, how muc...

Desperate for a paycheck after forfeiting a chance at her dream career, Roxie Malone accepts a job at a law firm, assisting a hard-to-please and too tempting criminal attorney. Struggling to censor her sarcasm and adjust to the expectations of the challenging man, she maintains one goal. Do not get fired. As long as she refuses to mix business with pleasure, she might have a shot at earning the bonus at the end of the case.Me, assistant. You, boss.Losing the drive that made...

Armed with data they don’t know what to do with, Cassidy and Luke struggle to escape the invincible recruits from Project Xol. Desperate for help, Cassidy strives to locate a safe place for Luke to recover. There’s no time to fall into a false sense of security—not when she’s wanted for alleged murder. She needs to protect her father’s intel from zealous scientists and to figure out a way to avoid the law.Trust doesn’t come easily for Luke, but he must have faith in Cassidy when he...

It’s been months since Cassidy Shaw has heard from her mother, Rosa, a world-renown scientist. When she does, it’s in the form of an urgent edict to retrieve a key. Arriving at Rosa’s apartment in Cincinnati, Cassidy encounters strangers. One man who seems determined to silence her. The other, could he be her savior?Luke Dixon enters the fray, believing his neighbor is being attacked. Never one to ignore someone in distress, he’s then shocked to realize he’s the one needing rescue....

It sounds like the job of a lifetime: steal a case of hidden goods and be free from commissioned burglaries in NYC.Except, this time, it’s an ancient treasure chest, locked and hidden in the bowels of a ship set to sail in 1699—as in three centuries ago. There’s no heist I’ll shy away from, no challenge I’ll fear, but adapting to a trip through time, all the way back to the Golden Age of piracy?Thieving is my nature, no matter the year or the insanity of jumping time, but I...

Have you ever been so wasted you fell back in time? Crazy, right?But it happened to me, only it wasn’t a bizarre side effect of a hangover. Nope. An arrogant time-traveling hero thought he was “rescuing” me by sending me back to 2020—the year no one wanted to revisit or experience for the first time.That was how I ended up in another decade, trapped with a smartass, looking for a source of antimatter a nut-head scientist discovered a century ago.The only way to get ...

One day I had a realization. I realized what the world considers sexy is not sexy at all! It’s brash, lewd, rude, crude, and downright unattractive. Where was class and self respect, and how does God factor in? I thought to myself, maybe women choosing to live the world’s version of sexy don’t know what sexy really looks like and are holding themselves up to a common erroneous standard. Maybe they don’t know how greedy, selfish, and vulnerable to evil this can make them. How many women end...

Minutes before my grandfather’s murder, I promised him I would retrieve the book that hid his revolutionary cyborg code. Double-crossing agents and so-called colleagues can fight me all they want. Nothing—not even traveling back and forth through time—will stop me from preventing a cyborg war no human can survive.But I never imagined one of the infamous Raven brothers would interfere with my plans. Since he’s crossed my path, bad luck follows me everywhere.When I’m not esca...

Foiled from gathering the data Rosa had sent her to retrieve, Cassidy worries what to do next. The scientific files are lost in the sewers of NYC, but new directions arrive. Now, Cassidy is asked to collect intel that's in Texas, locked in the archives of the man Rosa was once married to. Wounded by the lies from the only person who'd ever been her family, Cassidy carries on. Despite her confusion of her past and those she can trust, Luke has more than proven he's reliable.There's ...

Taken to a Xol lab, Cassidy prepares to meet the one woman who’s never wanted her. It’s not clear why the scientist requires her now, but she hangs on to two hopes—that Luke has gotten away and is safe, and that the vial of genetic material they’d fought to protect is destroyed. Life isn’t fair, but she pushes aside the cruelty of losing Luke so soon after finding his love. Survival, however it may come, is imperative, because she refuses to fail in ending the diabolical “cure.”Str...