★★ A Readers' Favorite 2022 International Book Awards Gold Medal Winner ★★I hunt vampires for a living.Capture the target. Collect the money. Don’t get emotionally involved.Simple rules… until I meet Sam Mason.The powerful Vampire Navy SEAL is lethal, arrogant, and dangerously irresistible.One look into his hypnotic green eyes, and I know he’s the kind of enemy who doesn’t just kill—he consumes.Mind. Body. Soul.Every ...

I thought the trail had gone cold. My baby sister vanished without a trace, and I’ve been chasing shadows ever since. But a call from the morgue drags me into a case I can’t walk away from… and into the path of a woman I’ve never been able to forget.Maggie Marx.She was my rival in the streets and my weakness in secret. The wrong girl from the wrong side. Off limits. Untouchable. And exactly what I wanted.She’s still got the grit, the bite, and the curves that make a...

One night destroyed everything I loved—my family, my peace, my future.Now baseball is the only thing keeping me together. It’s the one dream I refuse to lose, even if stepping onto the field means battling panic attacks, whispers from my past, and a teammate determined to see me fail.Then Kade Maxwell crashes into my world. Literally.One collision in the school parking lot. One heated moment in a janitor’s closet where his copper eyes lock on mine and the air crackl...

Tom Crowler has been captain of the San Francisco Sea Lions for a decade of failures. With no cups or trophies to show for his time in the NHL, Tom retreated into himself a long time ago, and that's exactly where he intends to stay until he retires. But when he catches the new team superstar, Jaxon Grant, in a compromising position, Tom finds it impossible to continue hiding his deepest secret behind a bland, pleasant mask.Jax is everything Tom isn't: loud, flashy, the winner of mu...

Loves dangerous dance with destiny.In the heart of Redwood Cove, I yearn for a simple reunion with my best friend, Liza, away from my harried days and long nights as a wedding planner. No phones. No brides screaming at me. And no memories of ex-boyfriends. After my recent breakup, I was done with relationships until I met him.One look at disabled veteran Josh Bandon and my stomach is rattling and rolling in the most delicious way. His soulful green eyes suck me in....

He’s fighting to protect his heart. She’s fighting to protect her honor.Brooding, high school quarterback, Train Everly, was on the fast track to play college football until one misstep at a party put his chances in jeopardy. Now in his senior year, he’s sworn off girls, no steady relationships and definitely no sex. The last girl he’d fallen for tore out his heart and stomped on it with stiletto heels.Graffiti artist Montana Smith has been expelled from hi...

With fourteen years as the San Francisco Sea Lions' top defenseman under his belt, Phil Easton is tired. After his coaches push him into playing on a bad knee and he ends up on long-term injured reserve, the chances of having his contract renewed dwindle before his eyes. He's ready to hang up his skates when head coach Ben Morris shows up on his doorstep to help him recover. As what starts as a short-term boarding situation turns into friendship and maybe more, Phil can't help noticing a f...

Set against a vast swath of humanity and place, the stories in Once Wild capture deeply intimate yet universally resonant dimensions of our lives. Whether transporting us to humid fecund tributaries in Amazonas or to the winter-gripped streets of Manhattan, del llano's visceral scenes are fueled by unflinching clarity.A writer in New York eulogizes his father's global legacy, unearthing a haunting secret from their exotic and remote past. A fiery, trailblazing midwife in T...

If there's one thing missing in Kilian Howard's life, it's dignity. Talent, good looks, and social skills wouldn't go amiss either, but more than anything, he longs to be taken seriously. With everyone on his team treating him like a child, including the second hockey coach in two years threatening to bench him for not being good enough, is it any wonder Kilian turns to a virtual stranger in the form of Damir Denisov to explore some very adult needs?Damir is more than willing to en...

"Not My Fault" is popping up everywhere: at home, in the park, even at school. At first, it's a secret way for Hy to deal with being bullied, but the protest art becomes addictive and morphs into a massive, creative project in defense of other social injustices. Hy's own social circle is more like an adult-sized square with Mr. Sanchez, Mom, Mr. Fadikar, and Gram at the corners while Hy stands alone in the middle. But a chance encounter in the park with an exotic eleventh-grader named Beli...

I’m a good girl with a rebellious streak. A senator’s daughter that comes with rules—no scandals, no sororities, and absolutely no football gods with reputations for breaking hearts.Yet, there’s something about Ryker James—all muscle, moodiness, and magnificent arrogance—that pulls at me like gravity, and when my body responds to his touch like it’s found its missing half, staying away seems impossible.He carries a reputation that would make any good girl run. I should be t...

"Every now and then there comes a story that will rip your heart out and piece it back together. This is that story." J.A. Owenby, International Bestselling AuthorOne boy looking for salvation. One girl yearning for hope.Colton Caldwell is hotter than I remember—broad chest, muscles in all the right places, wavy brown hair, and eyes that suck me in.All private-school perfection.Pity he can’t drive worth a d...