Her blood. Sabine's cells. A controlled exchange—and nothing more.Three weeks after losing her medical research license, Ines Alvarado moves into a decaying apartment building with one suitcase, a box of forbidden notebooks, and no intention of living an ordinary life. When a cut on her hand exposes her enigmatic landlord's barely restrained hunger, Ines confirms what she has already begun to suspect.Sabine Delacroix-Row is...

She was supposed to be untouchable.Veron Salazar knows exactly how to survive campus life: keep her head down, keep her team in line, and keep winning. As captain of the university volleyball team, she has built her reputation on discipline, silence, and the kind of control that makes people step out of her way. She does not have time for distractions, especially not Atisha Velasco—the cheer squad's golden girl, campus darling, and the one person who seems determined to turn every ...

"Do you still believe monsters should be saved?"Isolde Varrow commands the dead with grave-dirt on her hands and patience sharp enough to cut bone. Thessaly Ondrik burns heretics for a faith she no longer believes in, wearing obedience like armor and violence like a second skin. They should be enemies: a necromancer dragged before the court in chains, and the inquisitor ordered to escort her into a living labyrinth built to purify the wicked.But the labyrinth does not want ...

Nine hundred and eighty feet below the Pacific Ocean, a man checks his oxygen line and trusts no one.Ezra Cole has built his life on that principle. A disgraced former Navy diver whose career ended when he reported the truth and an institution buried him for it, he has spent nine years taking the jobs other contractors decline -- too deep, too dangerous, too far from anyone who might notice if he doesn't come back up. When a blocked number offers him a saturation diving assessment ...

"I want you to know all of me."Sawyer Holt came to Briarglen to disappear.After a teenage patient dies on his ICU shift despite everything Sawyer does right, he takes forced leave and rents a cottage in a remote one-stoplight town. He tells himself he needs quiet. No emergencies. No one depending on him. No more proof that being useful is the only thing he is good for.Then there is Torin Ashgrove.Torin is the reclusive man across the field: broad-shouldered,...

"She'd spent ten years perfecting the version of the story where she wasn't the villain."Elena Vasquez has the narrative down. Her marriage ended because of circumstances, because of timing, because of the quiet, magnetic presence of Sarah Oduya — her ex-wife's best friend — who always seemed to take up more space than was fair. It's a clean story. A manageable one. Elena has told it so many times she almost believes it.Then she walks into a women's networking event and fin...

"I need a professional date for my ex-girlfriend's wedding. No feelings. No complications. Just someone credible enough to prove I've moved on."Dani Reyes has spent three years telling everyone -- her mother, her best friend, her bathroom mirror -- that she is completely, entirely, absolutely over Camille. So when the cream-colored invitation arrives on her kitchen counter with its impeccable typeface and its pointed plus-one line, she does the only logical thing: she hires a profe...

She came to the island looking for a place that would finally keep her.Forty-three-year-old Lena Ashby has spent her whole life being the most emotionally competent person in every room and getting nothing in return for it. After fourteen years of marriage and a divorce that didn't shatter her so much as reveal the emptiness waiting underneath, she follows a half-remembered recommendation to Harrow's Edge — an off-grid community on the fog-bound Pacific Northwest coast, run entirel...

The thing about armor is that it has to look good, or what's the point?Elijah Hart has spent his entire college life perfecting his: vintage band tees, carefully styled curls, and the unshakable belief that masculine guys don't want guys like him. Not art history majors who wear eyeliner. Not openly gay students who take up space unapologetically. And definitely not athletes like Stellan Volkov—the quietly intense, devastatingly beautiful campus heartthrob Elijah's been crushing on...

"I was thinking we could figure it out."Dani Reyes has spent three years building a life that asks nothing from her. Every night she works the graveyard shift at a twenty-four-hour laundromat, solving crosswords, organizing supply shelves, and moving through routines so familiar they have become a language of their own.Then Mae starts showing up.Fresh from late-night performances at an underground cabaret, Mae arrives every Thursday at three in the morning with duff...

"The Click did not ask permission."Rhea Ashmark has spent her life becoming the perfect heir: disciplined, strategic, and necessary. At a peace summit meant to end a century of war between rival wolf-shifter packs, she is prepared for every negotiation, every political trap, and every sacrifice her title demands.She is not prepared for Fen Duskline.Fen is the daughter of the enemy pack, bound by duty, expectation, and a future already chosen for her. She should be n...

"Now you know."Kasara Veth has spent ten years enforcing the territory's most sacred law: when the Click chooses a bond, no one is allowed to break it. Bond-breaking is a crime. Fugitives are hunted. The system is absolute—and Kas has built her entire life around making sure it stays that way.Then she corners Vesper Dain.Vesper is the territory's most infamous bond-breaker, a woman who severed her own fated bond at nineteen and disappeared into the wilds rather than...