TWO DANGEROUS MEN. ONE BROKEN GIRL. AND A PROMISE SHE NEVER SAW COMING.None of this was planned.One moment I’m eating dinner with friends, and the next I’m kidnapped and dumped in a town I’ve never heard of. Where I know no one.Then I see a face I recognize. One I’ve known my whole life… and never expected to see again.My mother’s stepbrother. The one I was never allowed to talk to.Head of the local motorcycle club, Mars Hawke is rou...

Nine years I kept the Adirondack Iron out of prison.I wrote their filings. I paid their fines. I sat at the corner of their table, unpatched, and held the club together with paper and patience.Then Ronan brought a schoolteacher to the clubhouse, put a kutte on her back, and told me to stop coming around.So I did. And I sent them an invoice for every hour of the nine years I'd given away for free.They paid it. Every brother. Without a complaint.Six mo...

Wren Nakamura's wedding is off, her apartment is gone, and her only option is her great-aunt Ardith — the crankiest retired rare-books cataloguer in the Pacific Northwest.Aunt Ardith has opinions about everyone. She has publicly threatened the developer who wants to turn her failing bookstore into a boutique hotel. When he turns up dead in the alley behind the shop with Ardith's walking stick beside him, Ardith is arrested — mostly because she refuses to explain herself to anyone, ...

Nell Sorrell has one rule: never let them see the fire. Then the Cinder Prince's guard drags her to Cinderhold Academy, and three heirs claim her as theirs. Aldric, the cold prince with a wolf's hunger. Bram, the half-shifter who sees the phoenix sleeping under her skin. Soren, the strategist who wants to weaponize her. The academy will burn her alive at midwinter unless she learns to control the flame. But control is not what the phoenix wants. It wants a queen. And a queen does not choos...

Zwanzig Jahre auf der Straße, und Cal Rourke kann seinen eigenen Namen immer noch nicht aussprechen, ohne zusammenzuzucken.Er war neunzehn, als die Painted Saints ihn rauswarfen – wegen etwas, das er nicht getan hatte. Nirgendwo sonst hat er sich eingekauft. Er hat Leder zugeschnitten und Haut in den Clubs anderer Männer tätowiert und ist weitergezogen. Jetzt liegt der alte Mann, der ihn damals gefördert hat, im Sterben in Chattanooga und hat nach Cal verlangt.Cal geht zurü...

Tobias Rhee has thirty days to close his last acquisition. Hana Park has one shop, one crew, and no intention of selling.Neither of them mentions that he once left her in a hospital waiting room at twenty-two and never called.Six weeks in, her brother recognizes him. Then it's not business anymore.Every offer he makes is a better one. Every redline she sends back is a smarter one. When they finally stop negotiating, it's on the shop floor at two in the morning, and ...

Josie Reyes was going to be somebody's starting pitcher. Now she flips eggs and rents her old trophies to the town's booster club. Ellis Kwan was going to be the catcher who caught her. Now he's a rehabbing minor leaguer whose agent thinks a small-town comeback story will sell. The town of Sweet Briar Creek thinks so too, which is why the council assigned him to her Little League team without asking. Ten years, one shoulder surgery both of them regret, and an ankle-deep grudge between them...

Larkin Hale hat Montana vor zwölf Jahren verlassen und geschworen, nie zurückzukehren. Jetzt ist ihr Vater tot, die Ranch verschuldet, und das Land, auf dem sie aufgewachsen ist, gehört Webb Kessler – dem Cowboy, der ihr das Herz gebrochen und dann ihr Tal in ein Steuerabschreibungsprojekt für Milliardäre verwandelt hat.Sie hat drei Wochen, um ihre letzte Weide zu verkaufen. Stattdessen bietet sie Webb einen Deal an: Arbeite das Land selbst, eine Saison lang, ohne Vorarbeiter, ohne...

Nell Carver came back to Bainbridge Island for three days. She stayed because of the logbooks.Forty years of entries. Every one of them about her family. Every one of them ending the same way: She went to the water again.Her grandmother wrote them. Or someone did. The handwriting in the final pages belongs to the quiet lighthouse keeper who brought her dinner and never once looked at the books.The last entry is dated three days from now.Some islands keep the...

Reese Calloway is nineteen, twelve tattoos deep, and one bad lease away from losing the only shop that ever took her seriously. When a private equity firm buys the building, she marches into their Portland office and demands a meeting. She gets Julien Marchetti instead — forty-one, ex-marine, manicured, and quietly buying every independent studio on the West Coast. He doesn't throw her out. He offers her a deal: run his flagship, make it profitable on his terms, and he'll leave the rest of...

At nineteen, Ayla Draven was rejected at the Mating Moon by Roman Kessler, the boy who was not ready to be Alpha and could not stand the pack's eyes on him. She left Blackpine that night. Twelve years later she runs a bear-rehabilitation center in the mountains and treats wild animals with silver wounds, and when Blackpine's Alpha is poisoned by the very metal she knows, Roman has to call the only person in the state who can build the antidote. Ayla comes back for the formula. Not for him....

June Ashby came home to bury her father and sell the sawmill. She didn't come home to find a bear shifter sleeping in the loft.Bram Halloway has run Ashby Mill for two years — keeping the books, fending off developers, and guarding the last den of Cascade bears hidden under the mountain. He isn't leaving. Neither is the pull in his chest that flared the second June walked through the door.June doesn't believe in fated mates. She believes in contracts, bank statements, and g...