I accidentally bought a hockey star at a charity auction.Don’t ask me how—it happened fast. One minute I was sipping champagne, the next I was “dating” Rake Hanson, the league’s grumpiest player.Correction: a musclebound, six-foot-four mistake.Rake Hanson is a walking cliché: too many abs, zero personality, and a jawline sharp enough to cut glass. Not my type. At all.Our chemistry? Frozen.Our date? A disaster.

Once upon a time, Beauty was given to the Beast.I was given three.My father gambled my freedom away, trading me to the Alekseev brothers — three Bratva hitmen with guns in their hands and sin in their eyes. I’m their captive, their collateral, their plaything.My virginity is their bargaining chip, and I should hate them for it.But hate doesn’t explain the way my body burns when they’re near.Hate does...

A Cuban cookbook from chef Mika Leon that offers 100 flavorful modern dishes influenced by tradition, resilience, and pure joy.Food has always been the heartbeat of chef Mika Leon’s big, boisterous Cuban family. Her grandfather opened one of the first Cuban family-run restaurants in Valencia, Spain, after fleeing political instability in the 1970s. He later brought the family to Miami, where they ran a backyard cantina—Mika’s introduction to the family business. Th...

Rule #1: Never fall for a client.Rule #2: Especially if the clients are three infuriatingly gorgeous rock stars who live for scandal.Too bad Dirty Bandit makes breaking rules feel like foreplay.I was hired to save their careers, not get tangled up in their sheets.Three of them — tattoos, egos the size of stadiums, and a talent for ruining lives. Absolute chaos.They should be my biggest headac...

★★★★★ "I loved everything about this story!"Wanted: one O.Found: three men who won’t stop until I get it.You’d think writing a sex advice column would make me an expert.Wrong.I’ve never had the Big O. Not once.And if my readers ever found out? Career = over.But when my roommate — my brother's hot, grumpy best friend — overhears my dirty littl...

The long shadow of propagandaIn her memoir Raised by the Kremlin Julia Matyukhina describes her life as a child of the Soviet elite and her departure from the authoritarian system's warlike worldview.Julia Matyukhina was four years old when her family moved from Moscow to Finland in 1986. Julia's parents and entire family were loyal citizens of Soviet society, and many of them were officers in the NKVD or KGB as well as other party loyalists.When the Soviet...

Family can be everything, pain and the promise of happiness all at once. For Davis, having a child out of wedlock meant his family cursed his name and cast him out. For Deven, leaving his family was the happiness he sought out so deeply. Who knows what could and would happen when these two forces meet up, finding unity in their differences? Can they both find family once again, where it had been denied them so often?Written by award winning author Mika Mathews as his first attempt ...

I got lost in the woods, twisted my ankle, and somehow ended up living with four giant, ex-military mountain men.Yeah. Just your typical Tuesday.They hauled me into their cabin, patched me up, and gave me one simple rule: don’t snoop.Note to self: when four mountain men tell you not to do something, maybe listen.Now they’re mad, I’m tied to a bed (rude), and sparks are flying hotter than the cabin’s woodstove.They’re...

She was sold by her own family and stumbled into the wrong room—only to fall into the hands of the city's most dangerous man.Three years later, she returns with a new identity and a single goal: revenge.But when desire tangles with ambition, and power toys with emotions, the lines blur.Is she merely his plaything… or the woman destined to rule by his side?In this twisted game of lust and loyalty, she won't stop until she takes back every...

"While we keep on fighting, we have the hope of victory. Once we give up, we have the certainty of defeat." These words embody the spirit of the warriors locked in a relentless battle against an empire bent on galactic domination. They also echo the unwavering determination of the women who tirelessly support the men they love. Ballan, the battle-hardened commander of the recreated Storm Riders, is consumed by his experiences. His anger, barely quelled by combat, threatens to destroy him. ...

In the late Edo period, when society was maturing and Japan was moving to open its doors to the outside world, landscapes were undergoing major changes. Many world-famous ukiyo-e painters were active during this period, among them Utagawa Hiroshige. Hiroshige left us not only his ukiyo-e paintings but also his words. This book explores Hiroshige' s views of the landscape through his ukiyo-e work Ehon Edo Miyage (Edo Souvenirs), published from 1850 to 1867, while placing considerable emphas...

Dear Santa:It’s okay that I have to spend Christmas by myself.Alone. In my apartment. Quarantined.No gifts. No cheer. No feast.But really. It’s fine.And I’ll continue to ignore my hot next door neighbors. Three guys who make my knees weak.Even though they invited me over for a holiday feast.I mean, we’re supposed to be in quarantine, right?Or not.Don’t I deserv...