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...

★★★★★ "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...

It was supposed to be a harmless essay. What would you change about yourself?I thought I was being clever when I wrote about my V-card.Until my sexy English professor read it and decided to give me some very personal “extra credit.”Now he’s looking at me in ways no professor should — and bringing his friends along for the ride. Suddenly I’m getting a very naughty lesson in lust, and the syllabus is all hands-on....

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...

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...

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...

They didn’t just save me. They claimed me.Sin City’s most dangerous men — brothers and mafia kingpins Luca and Leo Borroni — rescued me from a massacre, but their price isn’t money.It’s me.I’m their newest obsession — and their debt to collect.They call it a game, but the stakes are my body and my heart. Their rules are twisted. Their touches ruin me.I’m the pawn, and the only rule is surrender....

These spicy, over-the-top Russian Mafia romances are about sexy, dangerous men who'll stop at nothing to pursue and protect the woman they want. If you love outrageously naughty stories as a way to indulge your not-so-secret bad girl side, these Why Choose romances are for you.Cruel PromiseBrutal RuinVicious RevengeNote: while not required, you may like to read the novella, My Bratva Christmas,...

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 ...

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...