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The spark is real, but the timing's wrong. When Mafia surgeon, Trey La Rosa, met the one woman who could bring him to his knees, grief from his girlfriend's recent death loomed between them. He forced himself to walk away. Months later, she's been kidnapped-and he'll do anything to save her. Hailey Carmichael never expected the man she's been crushing on to swoop in and rescue her, let alone that he'd claim her for himself. Now she's hiding out in his home, and the connection they felt when they met is threatening to incinerate them both. Fate has given them a second chance, but at what cost? As Trey and Hailey follow the money trail behind her kidnapping, each clue unearths darker and more sinister threats. Trey has already lost his first love. He won't lose Hailey too. He'll do everything in his power to save her, even if it means the impossible-letting her go.

After her messy break-up, the last thing grad student Riley Evans expects is to meet someone new. Throw in a family history of bad relationships, the likelihood of the past repeating itself seems inevitable—especially after her ex turns stalker. She's a magnet for disaster. But when a man walks into the Coffee Hut and asks her on a date, she isn't prepared for the flare of desire. The pull of attraction is impossible to deny, and she gives love a second chance.Navy SEAL Xander Hale lands in a Hawaii military hospital after a mission gone wrong. If that wasn't bad enough, his girlfriend breaks up with him. Plagued by his current single status and suspicions over the mission's bad intel, doubts fester about the direction of his life. Until he stops for coffee and encounters a barista that steals his breath and shifts his priorities from a presumed military career path to civilian. When danger closes in after a suspicious home invasion, Xander whisks Riley to the safety of his family's island. On secluded shores, he's determined to keep her safe. But dark memories are triggered by her past and followed by a hidden threat that neither anticipated.

After an elite research facility reports a security breach, former Navy SEAL Trev Shaw is hired to guard a workaholic scientist. When he saves the gorgeous but frightened doctor from a boating mishap, sparks fly. It's supposed to be an easy mission, but then his heart and mind get tangled in the danger surrounding her. When infectious-disease specialist Jules Moretti is plagued by strange incidents she's paired with their pilot-turned-bodyguard to ensure her safety while working on top-secret projects. As they grow closer, she learns there's more to her protector than she first assumed. But then threats escalate, and she realizes that some things are better left buried. When an unknown attacker threatens Jules, Trev works to reveal the true culprit and unmask whetherthe danger coming after her is personal or a smokescreen for biowarfare.

An action-packed mafia romance about secrets, arranged marriage, and redemption by USA TodayBestselling author Amy McKinley. Max's endgame is clear-take back what's rightfully his and punish those who have wronged him. Under the guise of assassin Matteo Trambino, Max infiltrates a vital arm of the Chicago Mafia to protect his Sicilian mentor's granddaughter, Liliana, from her dangerous father. What should be easy changes when they come face-to-face, and he realizes he can never walk away. Born into one of the most powerful families in the Cosa Nostra, Liliana Brambilla is a pawn in her father's bid for power, unable to leave until he sets her free. The only means of escape is trading one prison for another in the form of her father's choice of husband. When her father assigns a new bodyguard, her trust is tentative. She thinks he's her enemy. The truth is, Max is her savior.

Cursed since birth, hunted by gods, and desperate for love-Jade never stood a chance. Half-demon, half-goddess, Jade's fate makes her a pawn in an epic battle among the gods. Hidden on Earth with her sisters, she successfully avoids the Oneiroi-the dream gods-bent on her destruction until the prophecy, long dormant, awakens a dark shadow within her. Roen, a reclusive Worr demon known for his battles against the Oneiroi, is called to protect Jade. Together they must unlock their mysterious connection and find a way to beat back destiny. Can she outsmart the prophecy, change her fate, and find love-even when she learns who is connected to her destruction?

Forged through a childhood trauma and cursed by the Fates, Layla vows never to be at another's mercy. With determination and training she evolves into a deadly weapon and quiets her inner demons-until the prophecy activates, shattering her peace. The gods who want her dead converge and the hunt to end her life truly begins. The skills that Layla honed for protection become an unconscious tool for death and destruction, threatening not only the gods but her family. Entrenched in clan turmoil, Thaull's life hangs at a precipice. He's faced with a condition known only to his kind, the soul-divide. If not dealt with, his soul will rip in half and he will turn into an unstoppable, ice-cold killing machine. As he hunts the traitor within his Phantom Warrior clan he worsens. A fragile thread of hope remains. The love of a female, freely given, can save him. Through a premonition of an alluring demigoddess, he gambles his very existence in the chance she will be his salvation. She will go dark from her curse. He will go numb from his. To survive, Layla must risk trusting another or become another.

When artist and conservator Gianna Bellini lands a dream job in Venice to restore and complete a century-old fresco painting, she packs her bags and hops the first flight to Italy. But as she walks the cobbled streets with eerie familiarity, she comes to the revelation that she has been to the floating city before—just not in this lifetime. Handsome Venetian native Sergio Vitale rescues Gianna from a chilling plunge after a misstep at a canal-side café. As their budding relationship deepens, so does her progress on the restoration job—except the fresco painting’s missing a panel. She turns to Sergio for help. The closer they get to discovering the unfinished design, the more Gianna is tormented by vivid dreams and haunting whispers where century-old Venetians have met their end. In a city where the past and present walk hand in hand, Gianna struggles against destiny while Sergio fights for a future that includes her in it.