Unveiling the Passion, Power, and Scandal of Ancient RomeEmbark on a provocative and titillating journey into the hidden desires, passions, and fantasies of one of history's most captivating civilizations."The Secret Sex Lives of the Romans" is an enthralling exploration of love, lust, and desire in the ancient world, revealing a society that was far more permissive, diverse, and fascinating than we might have imagined.In this gripping and seductive...

She borrowed three hours from a stranger. The bill came due in the lives of children she hadn't had yet.Lila Voss had exactly forty-three minutes left in her life when she downloaded the app.It wasn't flashy — just a plain black icon named Echo that appeared in her inbox at 2:17 a.m. from an address that didn't exist. The subject line read: For the hours you never had. It asked one question: Which almost would you relive?S...

Cole Merritt stops everything. As the Vancouver Velocity's starting goalie, his entire life runs on one principle: control the crease. Know what's coming. Stop it before it gets through.He applied that same philosophy to Lily Chen four years ago — walked away before she could get close enough to see the shadows in his past, before he could ruin the best thing that ever happened to him the way he ruins everything he loves.He told himself it was the right call.He was ...

Mara Jensen doesn't lose cases. She's a criminal defense attorney with a perfect read on liars, and she's had exactly one man on a permanent watch list for two years: Beau Callahan, the Vancouver Velocity's charming, golden-retriever enforcer who broke her best friend's heart and never looked back.She flies to Vancouver to celebrate her cousin's engagement. She does not fly there to fall for the man on her list.Beau Callahan has one rule: never let anyone matter enough to l...

Jamie Weston has three things going for him: he's the most naturally talented rookie in the NHL this season, he's charming enough to talk his way out of anything, and he is absolutely, catastrophically in love with the one woman he cannot have.Dana Maddox is a sports performance psychologist — sharp, composed, eleven years older, and the daughter of Ray Maddox, the assistant coach who has a direct line to Jamie's ice time and his entire professional future.They met at a net...

Nikolai Volkov doesn't do charm.As captain of the Vancouver Velocity, he's the best player in the Western Conference and the league's most publicly difficult athlete. One-word answers in press conferences. Walked out of interviews. Once told a journalist — on live television, in front of four million viewers — to find something more useful to do with his time.The clip has thirty-one million views. He doesn't care.Until the sponsors deliver an ultimatum: fix the capt...

Ryder Holt stops everything, including — most of the time — himself. Seventeen NHL seasons, two championship runs, a body finally telling him what he's known for two years: this is his last season.He's made peace with the ending. He made his peace with the other ending a long time ago too — the one where he let the only woman he ever loved walk away at twenty-one because he believed she deserved a life bigger than the one he could give her, and never told her that was the real reas...