Maddox: As a freshman at BBU, I have my pick of parties and girls, but I still feel pretty stressed and unfulfilled. I can't stand my moronic teammates on the swim team, and devoting so much of my time to swimming is starting to take a toll on me. I'm over everything, until I get paired with this socially awkward dweeb named Ren Suzuki in one of my classes. He follows me around like a puppy and wants to show me off to his weird friends. I feel protective over him, like I'd fight anyone who...

He was my home when I had nowhere else to go.XedMatty's the only person who ever mattered to me. Since we were seven years old, he's been my rock, my anchor, and the light guiding me to safety when the world got too dark.Then Hannah was born, and she became the glue holding us in place. It wasn't perfect, but it was ours—a life we built together.Until Matty made a choice that shattered it all. Now, I'm adrift, trying to figu...

Not once have I hesitated to do my job, until today . . .I'm great at what I do—at least the one I tell people about. There's a reason I get the rates I do and why everyone in the business fears me—I can complete a contract in record time and have never left even the tiniest trace I was there. But then I get the hit order, the one that changes everything . . .When I walk into the chapel, ready to off the best man and collect my bounty, I don't expect to see...

If wrong place, wrong time was a person, it would be me.I was the king of it. As a child, I stepped into our garage moments before it was hit by lightning and lost my sense of smell. When I was a student, I walked in on a classmate changing their grades moments before they were caught, resulting in my expulsion. After my first real job promotion, I went to dinner to celebrate and saw my boss cheating on his husband with his personal assistant and I got fir...

Axel LundThey call me the play maker. I make hockey wins happen—until I'm confronted with Jace, my college rival, for the coveted center spot. And my BFF's ex. I know secrets about Jace, and I'm not happy to be on the same team as him, never mind the same line. But as our competition on the ice heats up, things off the ice get complicated. No matter what, I'm not getting outplayed.Jace RowlandAxel Lund, the conceited jerk, thinks he...

I need to stop crushing on the hot new guy. Asking him to move in with me is the last thing I should do.Ian: My main goal for sophomore year is to survive with my bruised heart intact. That looks a lot like avoiding anything that could hurt me, at least until Callum Cross shows up. He's so quiet, it's like he doesn't want people to notice him, but Callum is too tall, too built, and too damn good-looking to hide from anyone, especi...

Beckham: I thought I had the future all figured out, but even the best plans fall apart.Just going through the motions, hoping my girlfriend, Laurel, doesn't realize I'm a fraction of the man I used to be. What I need is a purpose. Enter Laurel's inheritance. A crumbling lakeside mansion. She needs it restored, and I'm the man for the job.Three months. One summer. Just us—and her enigmatic stepbrother, And...

Roman Miller—Falling in love with Beck Hart was easy. Running from my dad—and leaving Beck—was the hardest thing I've ever done. Beck saved me when I was at my lowest, took me into his home and his heart—breathed life back into me and made me feel like I was worthy of love. I've never stopped loving him. How could I? He was, and still is, everything to me. Now that I'm back to take care of my dying father, I want him back. I want to earn his trust and his love back. I thought for sure my l...

One car. Two strangers. Thirteen hundred miles. What could go wrong?When Ash rolls into town with a backpack full of cash and a bullet wound, the last thing he's looking for is a connection. All he needs is a ride south, fast.Enter Sam: a young man struggling with his identity, freshly dumped by the girlfriend he drove up the coast to visit. He doesn't know a thing about the gorgeous stranger begging him for a ride back to Miami, but when Ash offers to cover all ex...

Nic Adler: I thought I had it all—best friend, loving fiancé, amazing mom—but it doesn’t take much for the world to destroy all you hold dear. Now Mom’s gone, Silas and Leo are with each other after having an affair, and I’m alone. For now, at least.I have a brother. I didn’t know he existed, and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t know I do, either. I want to find him. I want to belong again.Then I show up in a small town in Montana and run into Eli. Now I’m volunteering w...

It's been two years since I met Julian and Wren. Two years since we adopted Warren. Two years of raising our family together. Two years of bliss. Some days are harder than others, but it's always worth it. And now? Now, I'm ready to ask Julian to marry me. He's given me so much, has supported me through so much, and I want nothing more than to make him mine. Forever.With Roman and Beck's wedding coming up, I'm questioning the timing, but at the end of the day, there's never a perfe...

Holden Nash: Was introducing myself to the insanely hot, giant of a man at the club with a formal handshake the best move? Probably not. So why, you may ask, did I do it again the very next week when I came face to face with him in the hospital while I was working? Ugh. Who knows? Probably didn't help that I pretended I didn't know who he was. Oops? It's bad enough that I couldn't stop thinking about him and our random one-off, but then I gave him my number—so he could tex...