My roommate is straight. He’s told me often enough. He also holds my hand, dries my hair, and treats every man I like as a personal threat. Cole Bennett is the campus basketball captain, my best friend, and one of the few people who understands my sign language. When I finally meet a cute guy, asking Cole to help us communicate seems like a brilliant idea. Until he starts changing what I say. A dinner invitation becomes an excuse to leave. My movie date gets interrupted by a barrage of messages—and Cole himself, waiting outside with my favorite drink. He calls it looking out for me. Then I ask him to translate a confession. Apparently, there are limits to how helpful my “straight” roommate is willing to be.

My roommate blushes when I look at him, brings me breakfast, and thinks I haven’t noticed the way he stares. Of course I’ve noticed. Owen Carter is six feet four of muscle, good manners, and terrible excuses for avoiding eye contact. Getting him into my bed takes a little creativity. Getting him to admit he wants me takes considerably more. I’m happy to help. What starts with teasing turns into something harder to control. I get jealous. He gets brave. And when my father tries to pull us apart, the shy boy who can barely hold my gaze becomes the man who won’t let anyone hurt me. I thought I knew exactly what I was doing when I made my roommate fall for me. Now I’m beginning to wonder how much he’s been holding back.

My father traded me for a canceled debt. My boyfriend sent me away so he could marry my stepsister. Neither expected me to survive the sleeping prince’s wolf. Prince Lucien Voss has been unconscious for months. His parents need an heir, but his deadly spirit wolf refuses every woman brought to his bedside. Until me. The beast everyone fears presses its muzzle into my trembling hand—and suddenly, the girl nobody wanted becomes the Luna Princess. Now I sleep beside a man who cannot answer me. I change his shirts, tend his scars, and whisper things I would never confess to anyone awake. Then my former lover follows me into the palace, determined to use my new position to claim a kingdom. I escape him and stumble back to the prince’s bed. A warm hand closes around my wrist. The sleeping prince opens his eyes. “Who touched you?”

After twelve hours caring for everyone but herself, nurse Hannah Brooks collapses on a rain-soaked Chicago sidewalk. The stranger who catches her is gentle—until her sleeve slips and he sees the bruises. Damen Moretti is a man people know better than to cross. Hannah should be frightened of his attention. Instead, when her controlling ex refuses to let her go, Damen’s home becomes the first place she can sleep without listening for footsteps. Behind closed doors, the ruthless mafia boss remembers how she takes her coffee, lets her scold him over his injuries, and looks at her as though wanting her is the one thing he cannot control. But his protection comes with enemies, and his tenderness conceals a grief he has never explained. As Hannah begins to trust him with her heart, Damen must decide how much of his carefully built empire he will risk to keep her in his arms.

For two years, I kept my head down and did my job. Then my six-year-old daughter walked into Adrian Kane’s private corridor and asked Manhattan’s most feared billionaire to be her daddy. Her reason broke my heart. His response changed everything. Adrian rules a world where powerful men obey him without question. Yet my daughter critiques his pancakes, steals his fries, and somehow makes him laugh. I should be careful. He is my boss, his family is dangerous, and Mia is already saving him a seat at our table. But then he asks to take me to dinner—without my daughter. And I begin to wonder how long he has been looking at me that way.

For nine years, Catherine “Cat” Bennett kept the clients happy, the projects moving, and her shrinking team afloat. Then HR offered her a sixty percent pay cut. Same accounts. Same responsibilities. Less than half the salary. Her boss knew she was a single mother. He knew she had a mortgage and a son who needed asthma medication. He expected her to sign. Cat cried in her car instead. Then a former colleague called. Their biggest competitor had been trying to recruit her for years—and its CEO wanted a meeting. By the time Cat returned to give HR her answer, she had a signed offer in her bag. Her boss had prepared for an employee who couldn’t afford to leave. He hadn’t prepared for what losing her would cost.

Julian Ashford once had enough money to keep Adrian Mercer in chains—and too little understanding of love to know why he wanted him to stay. Then Adrian destroyed his family’s fortune and waited for the spoiled young heir to come begging. Julian never did. Five years later, Julian delivers food through freezing rain, counts every dollar, and avoids the powerful man who ruined him. Adrian says he hates him. Julian believes him. But hatred doesn’t explain the car that follows him everywhere. The familiar candy beside his medicine. Or why Adrian keeps reaching for him after telling him to leave. Julian wants to call it even and move on. Then another man kisses him. That night, Adrian appears outside his door.