Jacob had it all planned perfectly. A romantic New Year's Eve weekend in a luxury hotel suite. An engagement ring waiting in his pocket. A future with Evelyn, the woman he loved.Then Evelyn's emergency shift at the hospital changed everything.When she suggests he invite her younger sister Melanie to keep him company, Jacob thinks nothing of it. But Melanie is everything Evelyn isn't—wild, uninhibited, covered in tattoos, sexual in a way that makes Jacob forget to think. And...

Forty-seven years after the freeze begins, **Elara** awakens from a fungal cocoon in a thawing city overtaken by fire weed, spores, and new life. As the first carrier of the L0 mitochondrial engine, she can communicate with the recovering mycelial network and survive the hostile outside air. She meets **Sera**, a descendant of Elias who has safeguarded the family's history beyond the Synthetic City.Together, they discover that the dome-bound city h...

Generations after the domes open, the healing world enters an unstable season of explosive growth. A parasitic signal infects the fungal network, forcing forests, plants, and animals into feverish overproduction. The result is a catastrophic "death grip" in which life is driven to reproduce itself to exhaustion.**Nyla**, a descendant of Elara's line and an immune carrier of the L0 engine, can resist the parasite's commands. With **Theo**, a descend...

Centuries later, the world has reached a fragile golden equilibrium. The violence of spring and the fever of summer have passed, but the extraordinary L0 mitochondrial lineage is fading into the wider human population. **Lyra**, the last true carrier of the engine, knows that the knowledge carried in her body will die with her unless she finds a way to preserve it.Lyra travels across the recovering world, gathering fireweed seeds, summer spores, fossil water, and e...

James Hartley arrived in town as the new Police Commissioner, determined to restore law and order to a city rotting from the inside. What he discovered was a sophisticated criminal empire controlled by a single woman: Ms. Raven, a mob boss as intelligent as she is ruthless.When James refuses her offer of complicity, he learns a brutal lesson: in her world, there are only two choices—compliance or destruction. Raven doesn't just want his cooperation. She wants his complete submissio...

The city kept what it broke.Twelve years ago, Jax Harlan solved the best case of his career and lost everything for it: the badge, the marriage, the unscarred half of his face. Now he works out of a converted storage room above a strip club in Hell's Kitchen, three fingers into a bottle most nights, waiting for something to happen.Something happens. Her name is Elena Voss.Her husband owns clubs, moves product, and drove to a warehouse in Red Hook on Monday evening and ...

The night her fiancé went to spend the night at his club, Mara didn’t chase after him. Instead, she started accounting for every last dollar in the house they owned together. Grant said he needed space. Mara decided to give him the rest of his life.She switched on the study light and pulled out the bank statements, the home purchase contract, and every receipt from the renovations. They had both contributed to the down payment, and over the years she had poured a significant amount ...

"No woman leaves his bed alive.""But I will survive."I whispered it to the moon, to the chains, to myself—until I believed it.They say Alpha King Maximus is a monster — too big, too brutal, too cursed. His bed is a death sentence, and no woman has ever left it alive. So why did he choose me?The fat, unwanted omega. The one my own pack offered up like trash. One night with the merciless King was supposed to end me. Instead, it ruined me. Now I crave the man w...

My husband had just accepted a dare from his childhood sweetheart, Tessa: tomorrow, in court, he would prove I was unfit to be a mother."Don't make that face. Everyone's watching. I can't back down now." He said it as if my fitness for motherhood was just another chip he could cash in for a night of applause. He'd even planned the ending for me—raise a few "small concerns" at the hearing, then walk it back next week.But tomorrow was my final adoption hearin...

At the bridal shower, my fiancé's childhood best friend took one look at me and decided I was a gold digger. "To get a ring on your finger that fast, you must be very good at proving your worth." My fiancé pulled her aside, then came back to smooth things over. "She's just blunt. Don't take it personally." So in his eyes, humiliating me was just being blunt.I heard her using me as a case study for someone else. "The jewelry, the designer labels… it doesn't line up with her known in...

When I discovered that West, Alpha of the Blackthorn Pack and commander of the Northern Border Joint Defense, had listed Laura, the student he’d been funding for years, as his official mate in the command registry and not me, I didn’t scream. I didn’t make a scene.I just gathered the shredded pieces of my heart and left Blackthorn Pack in the middle of the night without a word to anyone. lone, I found a new territory and started a new life.The next time I saw West was seven y...

On the day of my Marking Ceremony. My brother splashed a glass of red wine down the front of my white ceremonial gown.“Lenore.”“You knew Wren liked Joren, but you still insisted on making this ceremony so grand. ”“What are you trying to prove?”The voice from the doorway was as cold as ice. My fiancé, the Alpha heir of the Asterhold Pack, was leaning against the doorframe, not even in his formal suit. The pine and tobacco scent that always clung to him had faded,...