White Oleander is a painfully beautiful first novel about a young girl growing up the hard way. It is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, their ambiguous alliances, their selfish love and cruel behaviour, and the search for love and identity.Astrid has been raised by her mother, a beautiful, headstrong poet. Astrid forgives her everything as her world revolves around this beautiful creature until Ingrid murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life. Astrid's fierce determination...

An exhilarating, primal summer fling in the woods leads to an intensely sexy, edgy romance, where anything goes—just remember your safe word.Divorced and buried in student loan debt, Claire Collins eagerly enters a spicy business agreement with an acquaintance who wants to explore his primal desires. The deal is simple: thirty days as his sexual prey, $30,000 in her bank account. All she has to do is give Shane Underwood the hunt of his life.Claire’s a phys...

Allison Michaels never thought she could do it--be as callous and devious as her sister. Three weeks ago, she set out on an adventure that promised to leave her debt-free with a stacked portfolio and references that would allow her to break into the graphic design world. All she had to do was help destroy a horrible man.With her tail between her legs, debt-free, and opportunities to work at numerous design firms, Allison is running home heartbroken and with guilt comparable to her ...

What is stonger: the will of a king, a prophecy, or love?Seelie King Gabriel IV has always had his eye on Victoria, the daughter of his father's best friend—the man who mentored the young king like a son—the same man he murdered. Over a decade older than her and now a powerful king, he still wants her, but she has already turned him down more than once.Victoria's heart belongs to Charles Abgamon, a formidable man who has sworn himself to love only her. He is everything she n...

They meet in the aftermath of a storm.Neither of them was looking for anything that lasts.Emelie Scott comes to a small Midwestern town to close an estate and untangle a family history built on silence. After a year that cost her everything—her relationship, her savings, and her job as a third-grade teacher—she tells herself this stop is temporary.One last thing before starting over.She doesn't expect a tornado.Or th...

The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption.Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid mur...

Allison Michaels quickly learns she is in way over her head. Taking a design job with unscrupulous strings attached to ruin a man she doesn't know spirals out of control and she fears she has lost Bryant forever. Like everyone warned her, "she never could do the job."Allison is determined to find a way to convince her boss, Martin Kirklen, to let her out of the deal in hopes of salvaging her dignity and her relationship. But when she receives a cryptic message from her sister and Ma...

You Loved Me OnceDrew left home chasing a dream—and left Elle behind without answers, without closure, and without a chance to be heard.Eight years later, he returns to bury his father, care for a brother left severely injured by the same accident, and help hold together a family lodge on the brink—while stepping into the role of guardian for his teenage sister. The life he once walked away from now demands everything he has.

**THE STUNNING SEQUEL TO THE JASMINE THRONE, WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD!"Alluring, action-packed, and gut-wrenching," (Publishers Weekly, starred review*),* The Oleander Sword continues Tasha Suri's acclaimed Burning Kingdoms trilogy, in which a powerful priestess and a vengeful princess will change the fate of an empire.**The prophecy of the nameless god—the words that declared Malini the rightful empress of Parijatdvipa—has proven a bless...

From USA Today best-selling author Becca Jameson comes a new dark romance series. Roses and Thorns is packed with sex, lies, secrets, deceit, vendettas, and dark situations.She brought me to my knees the moment I met her. I’ll stop at nothing to keep her safe…KalindaI’m from the wrong side of the tracks. A nobody barely surviving on the tips I make dancing for sleazy men. That’s what makes me an easy target...

Cate Hamilton has survived living in a tent by the river, being orphaned by a drug-addicted mother, living out of her dead mother's VW beetle, and an abusive relationship. Cate is a survivor, but it doesn't mean she is without scars. Some visible, but most locked away inside of a fragile vault constructed from years of stubborn determination and grit.Until now, Lance Barstrom was her biggest mistake. Despite the law stating he cannot be within one hundred yards of her, he is still ...

Brie MacDavies should have drowned that night. Two of her best friends—one like a sister, the other the boy she almost loved—never made it out of the water. But she survived… and someone doesn't think she should have.For months, anonymous notes have appeared, each carrying the same chilling message: It should have been you. Haunted by guilt and convinced her survival was a cruel mistake, Brie has stopped believing she deserves happiness—until a stranger named Brendan walks...