If life's a game, I'm tired of losing.Some people are marked for greatness, some have all the luck, and some catch their boyfriend boning his secretary in the middle of the workday.Sick of being replaceable, I throw a dart at a map and ghost the jerk, ready to build a life that can't be packed up in an hour like I never existed at all.My fresh start comes to a bloody halt when I hit a dangerous man with more scars than sense on my way into town, som...

Four Mates. One mimic. Game over for anyone who tries to take what's mine.There's no denying my supernatural status. Somehow, books and video games make this kind of thing seem more glamorous than it actually is. I've been stalked, kidnapped, and bound to four mates who pull me in all different directions.Combine that with powers I can't seem to master, a hidden race of supernaturals looking to me for salvation, and the ever-present threat that someone may ...

I've been marked for death, but these dragons are determined to set me free.All shifters are cursed, but me more than anyone. With barely any abilities to speak of, staying two steps ahead of the monster stalking my every move has been nearly impossible. But a freak robbery that goes awry brings my life on the run crashing to a bloody halt.I need to run again, but my escape from the hospital is complicated by a doctor with eerily colored eyes that ...

My mates think I can extinguish their demons, but I know better. I'm gasoline and wind, fanning the flames higher.I'm finally starting to believe that I've found the place I belong, that maybe life holds more than loneliness and pain. Naturally, that's when my mother's past catches up to me.When the mates she ran from send three foreign alphas to our door to drag me back "home," my dream of a happy life surrounded by my men begins to crack into jag...

The scales of Fate have never tipped in my favor.You'd think years of running and fear would overwhelm me when the monster hunting me makes his move. You'd think I'd lose hope when he rips me away from my mates and the first taste of safety I've had in years.But Malcolm should know better than anyone that dragons don't break . . . we get revenge.And mine is so fiery and epic that the whole world gets a front row seat. In escaping one predator, I've ...

When my stalker closes in, my fated mates convince me to return to the place I swore I'd never see again; Khalida, the shifter safe haven. I sought refuge there once before, only to end up drugged and once again fighting for my freedom. But Raiden, Kodiak, and Stone swear their home in the mountains is the safest place I could hide while actually having a shot at a real life, doing everything in their power to distract me from the monster creeping closer in the shadows.Even going s...

My life has never been normal. Raised by a survivalist, taught how to endure anything, I've learned to rely on myself. To keep my head down—to mind my own business. That all changes when I hear the screams.There, in that filthy alley, I thought I was pulling Emmeline out of the darkness and toward safety, but it turns out, she was pulling me in. My new friend's world collides with my own, and they couldn't be more different. Where I spend my days alone, she rarely can. Not with fou...

When your world becomes a ticking time-bomb, you might as well time the explosion to inflict maximum damage.The real challenge comes in the aftermath, when you're forced to face everything you lost in order to survive. Uniting multiple packs is impossible enough with their constant fighting, and now Damian, Hunter, and Kaige expect me to get the Slaughters on our side? To dethrone a man that already survived death at their hands once?I'm no one's s...

You can't outrun your demons, but you sure as hell can give them a run for their money.The monster that's tormented us from the shadows has finally stepped into the light, and he has his sights set on me. But discovering that my entire life has been orchestrated as a twisted form of training to help him literally unleash Hell on earth? Not exactly my idea of a romantic gesture.There's an invisible noose around our necks, tightening more with every ...

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