Vincent Moretti buried his wife five years ago. Then a little girl crawls under his desk—and calls the woman in her portrait Mommy. Barely five, clutching a worn stuffed rabbit, Lily is hiding from Vincent’s fiancée. She knows about a stolen painting, a locked room, and a lullaby he thought he would never hear again. Vincent intends to find out who brought her into his home. Instead, he discovers that someone has spent years keeping his family apart. Now a feared Mafia boss must earn a frightened child’s trust—and find the woman he never stopped loving before the people who took her realize their secrets are unraveling.

For seven years, Elliot loved billionaire CEO Adrian Sterling, only to discover he was nothing more than a substitute for Adrian's first love. Heartbroken, Elliot finally walks away—and finds comfort in the arms of Julian Bennett, the brilliant mathematician who never forgot him. But when Adrian realizes what he's lost, he refuses to let Elliot go. Now, caught between a possessive ex and a first love who never stopped waiting, Elliot must decide who truly deserves his heart.

I think I'm in love with my stepbrother. Madly. Hopelessly. Ridiculously in love. And the worst part? He still treats me like his adorable little brother. I'm Ethan Carter, and for my eighteenth birthday, I don't want a car, an expensive watch, or a ridiculous party. **I want Adrian Hayes. My handsome, gentle, impossibly irresistible stepbrother.** For years, Adrian has been my safe place. He remembers everything about me, takes care of me, and makes my heart race without even trying. But every time I get close to telling him how I feel, he smiles and reminds me that I'm his little brother. Well, not for much longer. I've planned the perfect birthday getaway: a beautiful beach, a romantic sunset, a surprise cocktail, and one unforgettable night. Just Adrian and me. And when I finally turn eighteen, I'm going to claim him completely. But what happens when the person you've wanted for years finally kisses you back… only to disappear the next morning?

After a car accident wipes out four years of his memory, billionaire CEO Adrian Hayes wakes up to the most shocking news of his life: he's been married to a man for three years. There's just one problem. Adrian is absolutely convinced he's straight. Then gorgeous, sweet, and dangerously charming Elliot Parker walks into his hospital room, and Adrian falls head over heels at first sight. Unfortunately, Elliot is already married. Determined to win him over, Adrian decides to steal Elliot from his mysterious husband—completely unaware that he's trying to steal his own husband! Between jealous outbursts, embarrassing romantic dreams, forgotten honeymoon memories, and kisses that feel strangely familiar, Adrian discovers that losing his memory might be the most ridiculous way to fall in love with the same man twice. But when the truth about their imperfect marriage begins to surface, will falling in love again be enough to give them a second chance?

Dante Romano comes home early to find a three-year-old girl secretly polishing his shoes. Her pajamas are stained black. Her hands are shaking. And when he asks what she’s doing, she begs him not to fire her sick mother. Zoe thinks clean shoes will keep a roof over their heads. Dante wants to know who made her believe that. Hannah Williams has spent months keeping her head down in his house, protecting her daughter and avoiding questions that could cost them everything. Now Dante is asking those questions himself—and discovering how much has happened in his name. He can offer protection. He can call a doctor. He can make the people threatening them regret it. Earning Hannah’s trust will be harder. Especially when her little girl starts saving him a seat at breakfast, and Dante begins wanting a place in their lives that no amount of money or power can buy.

She built an empire. He was just a dad with a toy plane. Neither expected their lives to collide at 30,000 feet… When exhausted tech CEO Evelyn Harrington accidentally falls asleep on a stranger’s shoulder mid-flight, she braces for humiliation. Instead, she finds kindness—and a connection that will take her from a boardroom in L.A. to a hospital bedside in Chicago. Nathan, a single father racing to a job interview, hides a quiet fear: his little boy’s fever has spiked, and he’s not there. Evelyn has no reason to care… until she does. A small act of compassion leads to a choice that will change three lives forever.

After twenty-six years of marriage, Sarah Mitchell thought she knew exactly how the rest of her life would look. She was wrong. When her husband walks away for what he calls true love, Sarah loses more than a marriage. She loses the future she spent decades building. Heartbroken and forced to start over in a small North Carolina town, Sarah begins to rediscover the dreams she abandoned long ago. Then she meets Daniel Brooks—a widowed former firefighter who sees her in a way no one has for years. As Sarah learns to build a life of her own, the man who left her begins to realize the truth: Some mistakes cost far more than you ever imagined. And sometimes the woman you took for granted is the one you'll never get back.

Ghost survived black sites, torture, overseas wars, and six years of becoming something less human and more useful. Founder of BLACK VEIL. Mercenary captain. A ghost story in tactical gear. The kind of man people called when they needed a building cleared, a body retrieved, or a problem buried so deep it stopped having a name. He was silent, brutal, untouchable. Even his own men feared him. As for someone like that— Nyra Quinn, underground mechanic and illegal street racer, had one very professional opinion: “He looks like he buries people in wet cement for stress relief.” Then one day, Ghost watched her steal a motorcycle outside a bank and chase down a robber through downtown LA traffic like she’s starring in her own action movie. He’s in the middle of a sniper assignment when it happened. One second he’s calculating wind direction. The next? Nyra tackled the guy off a bike, draged him into an alley, and started beating him with her helmet... He forgot his target existed for six seconds. For the first time in eight years. ... Later, Nyra worked under the hood of BLACK VEIL’s armored SUV while six armed mercenaries stood around like emotionally constipated furniture. She didn’t look up. > “Does your boss come with a user manual, or is the mask supposed to explain the whole personality disorder?” The garage went silent. Because no one talked about Ghost. Not like that. Not in front of him. Ghost stood beside the vehicle, skull mask turned toward her. After a long pause, he said, > “Nyra.” She rolled out from under the engine with a wrench in her hand. > “What?” His grey eyes lowered to the grease on her cheek. Then to her mouth. Then back to her eyes. > “Come here.” Nyra narrowed her eyes. > “If this is a murder thing, I’m charging extra.” Ghost’s voice dropped lower. Rougher. > “I lost focus on a job today.” Nyra blinked. > “Congratulations on having a human experience?” His men stopped breathing. Ghost didn’t move. > “Because of you.” Nyra stared at him. The wrench slipped slightly in her hand. Across the garage, Kane muttered, > “We’re all completely fucked.” ① Emotionally repressed masked mercenary captain × sunshine chaos mechanic ② He kills people for touching him. She touches his mask and asks if he’s hiding scars or feelings under there. ③ Slow burn / touch-starved antihero / found family mercenaries / black humor / “she makes the monster hesitate.”

Sold to the monstrous Blackfang Alpha to save her starving pack, Lyra expects a quick death. Kael Draven is a ruthless warlord who wants her only for power—until his wolf scents something ancient in her blood and refuses to let her go. Hunted by kingdoms and marked by forgotten magic, Lyra uncovers a deadly truth: she is the last Lunar Queen. Now, she must choose her fate—goddess, ruler, or the mate of the most dangerous Alpha alive.

She built an empire. He was just a dad with a toy plane. Neither expected their lives to collide at 30,000 feet… When exhausted tech CEO Evelyn Harrington accidentally falls asleep on a stranger’s shoulder mid-flight, she braces for humiliation. Instead, she finds kindness—and a connection that will take her from a boardroom in L.A. to a hospital bedside in Chicago. Nathan, a single father racing to a job interview, hides a quiet fear: his little boy’s fever has spiked, and he’s not there. Evelyn has no reason to care… until she does. A small act of compassion leads to a choice that will change three lives forever.

When a billionaire inventor is abandoned by her attorney moments before a life-changing trial, the last person anyone expects to save her stands up from the back of the courtroom—a quiet courthouse janitor with a forgotten past as a brilliant lawyer. As corporate greed collides with truth, one man must decide whether to stay invisible or fight for justice one last time.

James, a widowed single dad barely holding it together, made a quiet joke at his CEO's birthday party: “Maybe I should just marry her and solve all my problems.” He never expected Katherine Morrison—brilliant, intimidating, untouchable—to hear it. Even more shocking? She replied, “What if I say yes?”

“You killed my father.” The dragon prince smiled. “I went to a great deal of trouble to be captured by you.” Commander Lucian Winters has the man he blames for his father’s murder in chains. He only needs to reach into Kaelen’s mind and find the truth. Then the chains snap. Kaelen knows Lucian’s scent. He remembers the winter they met. And he remembers a promise he made to a boy in the snow fifteen years ago, on a night someone erased from Lucian’s memory. When Lucian’s own house brands him a traitor and orders his execution, he has to run with the dragon he swore to kill. Kaelen knows what happened on the night Lucian’s father died. The longer they spend together, the harder it gets for Lucian to decide what scares him more: that Kaelen might be telling the truth, or that he wants the dragon to stay even after he’s heard it. Then Kaelen leaves a golden mark on his throat, and Lucian discovers just how much a dragon means when he says he’ll never let go.

Five-year-old Sophie carves a crooked arrow into the ice at Vincent Romano’s private rink. It points straight to a red maintenance door, where a man in a gray hat is tearing apart an equipment cabinet. In his bag is an old staff badge with the face of a man believed dead for six years. Sophie recognizes him. He came to see her mother yesterday. Her mother is Elena Reyes, the girl who used to beat Vincent across the ice and the woman he hasn’t spoken to since his father’s funeral. She’s been keeping a key that Carlo Romano meant for Vincent to have. What it opens could explain his death and put thirty-seven families in danger. Vincent wants answers. Elena wants him to keep his word to Sophie. Before the rink opens again, he’ll have to decide how much of the life he inherited he’s willing to give up to do both.

My family lost everything overnight. Our fortune. Our reputation. Our freedom. And somehow, I ended up owing **$500 million to Dante Moretti—the most feared Mafia King in New York.** I thought he would kill me. Instead, he handed me a contract. **One year as his personal maid.** A black-and-white maid uniform. Ridiculous rules. Humiliating chores. And a dangerously handsome boss who seemed to enjoy making me lose my temper. “Put it on, pretty boy.” I hated him. His arrogance. His wicked smile. The way he always knew exactly how to make me blush. But somewhere between our endless arguments, his shameless teasing, and the nights I spent too close to him, something began to change. The man who owned my family's debt started getting jealous whenever someone else touched me. The Mafia King who never bowed to anyone began breaking his own rules for me. And when I discovered the truth behind my family's downfall, I realized the man I was falling for might also be the one who could destroy me. **I was supposed to be his maid for one year.** **So why was the Mafia King acting like he wanted to keep me forever?**

Noah Hayes took a job at the Cascadia Reptile Research Institute expecting to work with animals that couldn’t talk back. Then he met Avery. The institute’s most stubborn black python refuses his food, steals Noah’s towels, and flicks his tail across Noah’s backside whenever he bends over. Noah is pretty sure Avery hates him. Then one morning, he wakes up in the arms of a handsome, gold-eyed stranger who knows exactly what happened the day Noah kissed Avery on the head. Turns out Avery’s been flirting this whole time. He wants a home, a family, and kids with Noah. He just hasn’t thought to ask him on a date. Noah suggests dinner. Avery asks if breakfast will do. And somehow, between three desserts before eight in the morning, a stolen pillow, and an incident involving a folding chair, Noah starts looking forward to whatever ridiculous thing Avery will do next.

After a fourteen-hour hospital shift, nurse Emma Reed climbs into the wrong luxury sedan and asks a stranger to take her home. Dominic Moretti could have thrown her out. Instead, he offers her a phone charger and waits until her real ride arrives. Only afterward does Emma discover why his name makes people nervous. A forgotten scarf leads to dinner. Dinner becomes late-night conversations, lingering kisses, and the unfamiliar comfort of being cared for. Then an old family photograph reveals something Dominic never mentioned. He knew her grandmother. And the night Emma mistook him for her driver, he recognized exactly who she was. Now she must discover how much of their love began with kindness—and how much began with a secret.

Eight years after Gabriel Moretti’s funeral, Adrian Cole still wears his ring. Gabriel was his sworn brother, his boss, and the man Adrian loved in silence. When Gabriel died, Adrian made himself one promise: he would keep Gabriel’s son safe. Now twenty-year-old Miles Moretti has a very different idea of what he wants from Adrian. When a stranger reaches for Adrian in a crowded nightclub, Miles steps between them. Then, in front of a room full of men who will remember every word, he tells Adrian he loves him. Adrian can walk out of the club. He can order a car. He can tell himself Miles will come to his senses in the morning. But Miles knows Adrian well enough to hear what he leaves unsaid. And every time Adrian reaches for Gabriel’s ring, he has to ask himself how much of his life he still owes to the past.