There’s no escape from the deadly seas.

Not even for me.

After being taken from Emerson and the Court of the Fae, I’m forcibly entered into the Conquest of the Sea, a deadly test to win a gift from The God of the Sea and Water. Stuck in a cavern deep within the sea, my family comes for me.

He comes for me. The Wyern King, my best friend, the male I love, and my true mate.

Emerson and I must find our way through this test, and win, or we will lose our family. We will lose our people, and the rest of the world will fall.

The Rift is spreading, and the monsters have a new leader.

The goddess of love has designed a deadly trial and if I don’t win…I will lose my dragon kings.

In the court of Water, a monster lurks.

In the court of Fire, flames burn away any lies.

In the court of Earth, touch is key.

In the court of Air, try to breathe.

Aphrodite has my dragon kings under her spell and to save them- I have to win four trials, one in each court. Ares can’t kill me, but the courts are dangerous with him in charge, and he isn’t going to let me easily win. With enemies within the courts, and outside them too, I need allies to survive this.

I was born of shadows, royalty, and hope.

When I call, Ayiolyn will rise.

It’s the most hateful time of the year…

There’s only one thing Olivia Griswold hates more than Christmas: her brother’s best friend, Aaron Marino.

The NHL’s favorite playboy has hordes of adoring fans, but to her, he’s still the cocky jerk she’s loathed since high school.

But when Aaron hears Olivia’s spending the holidays with her roommates from hell, he offers her a place to escape to.

His place, to be exact.

In return, all she has to do is be his date to his hockey team’s Christmas gala. It seems simple enough, but Olivia soon discovers that sleeping behind enemy lines is a dangerous game—especially when the enemy looks like that.

Olivia knows she’s playing with fire, but she won’t let herself get burned again.

And they do say to keep your friends close and your enemies closer…

Eira Davies thought a bar napkin sketch of her best friend’s handsome brother was harmless fun—until he caught her in the act. One steamy night later, Lucas McKinney was supposed to be nothing more than a fun memory.

Fast forward six months, and Lucas is desperate to save his struggling ranch. Renting out the spare cabin on his property seems like the perfect solution, until his first guest turns out to be Eira, the woman he hasn’t stopped thinking about. A true believer in fate, Lucas can’t shake the feeling that the universe has delivered her to his doorstep with a big, shiny bow.

As sparks fly and the Christmas lights twinkle, they’ll have to figure out if this holiday surprise is just a festive fling or the real deal worth unwrapping for good.

A single mother working in a thrift store. A gentle giant farmer who can’t find jeans that fit. When opposites attract, they find themselves making alterations in more ways than one in this smoking-hot short story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey.

Evie Crowe is starting over in a strange town with her newborn, and men are the furthest thing from her mind. If only the quiet, hulking farmer, Luke Ward, would stop coming into the thrift shop and piquing her reluctant interest. Evie wants to stay single all the way—she can’t trust anything more than friends-with-holiday-benefits. But Luke is in it for the long haul. He’s fixed on making this a Christmas Evie will remember forever. If she gives him a chance.

The sea is lost, pirates are death.

??Cassandra should have been killed at birth, like all the other children who have powers like her.

The changed ones.

?The ones who started the war, lost the seas, and killed millions with their gifts. ?Lucky for Cassandra, her father is on the council. One of the seven rulers of her large town and has kept her hidden her entire life.?When she is seen for the first time, she has no choice but to run, and the only place she can go is to the sea.

?To the pirates and a certain death. ?At least, that is what she thinks.

When she meets six handsome pirates and they take her on board their ship, she learns about a whole new world.? If only she can protect her heart when they all desire to own it.

Books 1-3 in the Saved by Pirates series. With exclusive bonus content.

The Academy is chasing us and if we are found, none of us will get out of this alive.

After escaping the academy and the secrets they found out, Millie and her guys find themselves needing to make new alliances to survive in the human world. But trusting strangers has never been easy for Millie or her guys.

With a face from Millie’s past coming back, tension building between Millie and the guys, everything just became a little more complicated.

How can Millie protect herself when her heart is torn between more than one of her closest friends?

One queen for Ayiolyn.

Will the power of five dragons be able to stop the gods?

After the surprise attack, Emrys is lost, and it's not only him trapped in the Air Court. I am offered one more trial, and the winner takes the world. This time, I won't be the only one facing Aphrodite's trials.

Each King has been given a trial to conquer, with the goddess of love utilizing their fears.

The clock is ticking and every day that passes, Emrys soul grows weaker.

Arden, Emrys, Grayson, Lysander, and Terrin are my world. After everything we have gotten through, we cannot lose now.

I was born to be a spirit queen and thrive in the shadows. To win, I will need every element and my mates, or everything will be lost.

When Dahlia Andrews uprooted her life in Kansas to start over in Pacific Shores, the last thing she expected was to become wrapped up in one night of wicked passion with a nameless local. Even less expected? Said stranger happens to be her new boss. And the son of her only friend in town. And her brother-in-law…in-law? Whatever Everett Ramos is to her, it's too complicated to be more than their one-night-stand. Dahlia has enough on her plate: a new job, familial turmoil, and raising her daughter alone. But when the chaos of her life begins to spill over, Everett may be the only person who can save her.

Everett Ramos never cared about much beyond his family and his business…until a hurricane of storm-blue eyes and mile-long legs barreled into his best friend's bar and turned his entire life upside down. Dahlia Andrews is complicated and stubborn, with an iron cage built around her fragile heart. All it took was one night with her to leave him craving more. So when she comes to him for help keeping her toxic father at bay, he finds himself leaping at any excuse to get closer to her. While Dahlia insists their arrangement is all business, Everett cant deny their orbital pull.

Hes all in, but can she be convinced this wild love is worth the risk?

Maggie Field was looking forward to a solo Christmas in her cosy London flat – before her three workmates decided to liven things up for her.

Maggie loves her job as head of IT at a financial firm, and her three geeky but lovable work buddies. And when they invite her to stay with each of them for the holidays, she can't resist the chance to get to know them better.

But then her boss tells her she has to make one of her beloved team redundant, and Maggie is distraught. Frank's work is his world, Jasper's sarcastic humour is everything, and Leo…well, he's talented, professional, confusingly attractive, dependable, and funny… Maggie definitely doesn't want to lose him.

With her career and her heart on the line, Maggie sets off on the Christmas adventure of a lifetime, from playing fake girlfriend at a lavish wedding, to rescuing baby foxes on a posh country estate, to chasing a very confused donkey on Christmas Day in the Lake District. She can't ignore the sparks between her and Leo – but she also can't avoid her dilemma.

Can she find a way to keep her work family together, and maybe even find true love under the mistletoe?

Faking it was the plan falling for him wasnt.

I'm here for sun, fun, and to keep my best friend out of trouble—not to fall in love.

But when I see her setting her sights on my nonexistent love life, I know I need a distraction. Fast.

Enter Sutton Rafferty. Rugged, broody, and looking like he'd rather jump overboard than suffer through another awful first date.

Crashing his misery with a fake dating proposal? Not my worst idea.

Five days of pretending to be together on this luxury cruise should be a breeze. But every time we play our part, I can't shake the feeling that maybe, just maybe, we're not faking it any more.

Dragons don't exist anymore. Neither do their legendary fae riders…until I stumble into a mansion full of them.

It turns out the last of the dragon rider fae have been locked in a trap, a mansion with no doors, no way to leave for five hundred years, and I'm the first fae to enter. The dragon fae riders know nothing of the world outside or the vampyres who have taken over in their absence, and most don't trust me.

Especially not Ziven—king of the forgotten Moon Dynasty.

The gorgeous but cruel king demands I enter the Decidere, a ritual for all fae over the age of twenty. It's a deadly trial in the dragons' caves below the mansion, and if you're weak, you're dead. Ziven marks me as a traitor, and he doesn't believe anything I say. He wants me to lose. The Sun Dynasty king takes me in, helps me and is kind. With his help, I might last a week.

With Ziven doing everything he can to end me, my ability to escape the mansion seeming impossible, and dragons literally burning the ground at my feet, I don't know how I'm going to live through this.

You need to be brave. You need to be a warrior…or the dragons will know.

My name is Story Dehana, and I escaped the vampyres, only to find myself trapped once again with a new enemy who might be worse.

All Cassidy Bowman wants is one night of recklessness… and to get back at her ex.

Cassidy has strict rules: she doesn't date locals, she doesn't sleep with men she isn't dating, and she doesn't do anything that might jeopardize her good girl reputation. But after a run-in with her ex-boyfriend—and a few too many drinks—she's ready to buck those rules and get revenge.

Local cowboy, Chase “Red” Thompson, has never met a rule he didn't love breaking. With a tarnished reputation, brash attitude, and decades-long crush on Cassidy, he's more than willing to go along with her plan: one night together that they'll never talk about again.

Until two pink lines threaten Cassidy's rule book, and both of their reputations. She doesn't want a relationship with the rough-and-tumble cowboy. And he knows he's not good enough for Wells Canyon's sweetheart, anyway.

Being nothing more than friends and co-parents should be easy, but lines blur and rules… well, sometimes they're worth breaking.

Tyler Fox has major commitment issues when it comes to anyone who isn't: 1) related by blood, 2) his best friend from college, or 3) his 1969 Chevrolet Impala.

He doesn't do serious, and he never does second dates.

Until he comes dangerously close to hooking up with Naomi, the feisty woman who owns the salon next door to his bar. They've traded insults and barbs for years, but when he finally gets a taste of her, he knows he's in trouble.

Naomi is a straight up girl boss who runs her salon six days a week, handles her business, and would do anything for her sweet rescue dog. She has no time for relationship drama and zero interest in dealing with Tyler. Not when the guy ghosted her after their tipsy make out session a couple of months earlier.

But when she discovers the Fox brothers bought the building the building she rents so they can expand their bar, her world is turned upside down.

Now, she only has three months to find a new location and come up with the money to move her salon or she'll be forced to close up shop for good. And if that wasn't bad enough, everywhere she turns, Tyler is standing in her way.

Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt's Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who's cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town… where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn't belong.

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father's dive bar… in Washington.

Piper hasn't even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won't last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can't do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She's determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she's more than a pretty face.

Except it's a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there's an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn't want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart.

A woman returns to her family's Hamptons beach house for a final time—and a final chance at the love she's lost before, in this contemporary retelling of Persuasion, perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Rebecca Serle.

Olivia Taylor's marriage is in a death spiral when she agrees to come home to the Hamptons to help her father and sisters pack up the family estate. If it looks like she's running away from her soon-to-be ex, Wes, and New York City, well, she is. But someone has to take care of things and that's always been Olivia's role in the family. After years of financial trouble, someone's finally bailing them out with a huge offer to buy their beachfront property, which is a good thing, although it means losing the home she grew up in, where her mother died, and where she first met Fred, the love of her life.

It's been five years since the last time things blew up between Olivia and Fred, but much longer since the first time. At this point, Olivia fears it was never meant to be, so there's no reason to feel butterflies in her stomach at the idea of seeing him again. They've already tried, and tried again… and again… but she's newly single, and she isn't the same person she was the last time–and Fred has changed too.

This time, things will be different. Maybe, just maybe, the fifth time's the charm.

Former NBA star Zechariah Aldaine's world shatters with a career-ending injury, leaving him to navigate a life outside the basketball court's spotlight. Known for his competitive spirit and charismatic presence, Zec now faces the challenge of finding purpose in a world where he's no longer the star player.

Wilhelmina (Billye) Couture, a poised and private businesswoman, inherited her mother's legacy as the third-generation owner of a flourishing enterprise. Her world, unlike Zec's, thrives away from the public eye. When she reluctantly steps into a public role on the planning board of the high-profile Noir Gala, her path collides with Zec's, sparking a clash of wills.

Zec and Billye find themselves at odds. He sees her as a privileged know-it-all stepping into his domain, while she views him as an arrogant, controlling former athlete. Their mutual disdain is palpable, fueling a feud that neither one is willing to lose.

But when an unexpected crisis threatens the Noir Gala, Zec and Billye are thrust into an alliance. Can they work together to salvage the event and allow their antagonism to transform into mutual respect, and then something deeper?

Have you ever felt responsible for the fate of the world?

I did and it was sitting heavy on my shoulders. The end is coming and I don't know whether I will save the world, or destroy it. With the help of my lovers and friends I was on a journey to discover my fate and I'm not 100% sure that I'll survive.

Join Lori in the last instalment of the Trials of a Morta series and find out what becomes of her and her men. This is an RH story which means that the FMC doesn't have to choose between her love interests.

There's no price I wouldn't pay to have her…

Jack: They call me the blue-collar billionaire, a self-made man who hates people… they might be right. But when I see Clara, I don't care about any of that, I just want her. She's blue-blood and refinement, manners and poise, while I'm a grafting former mechanic turned billionaire. She says we're from different worlds, but I don't care. Clara is everything I want. No one sees the real her, as I do. I want to worship and adore her, but first, I need to show her that I mean what I say… And I say she's mine.

Clara: Being bought by a billionaire is a little unsettling, but Jack Dawson is anything but ordinary. He's too loud, too rich, too alive. He is everything my family would hate. And that pretty much makes him perfect. But, Jack doesn't know the strength of the forces that want to keep us apart. I know we can't last, I know we are doomed, but I'll enjoy him while I can, then I'll just have to get over it. Not so easy, considering I'll have a precious keepsake of him arriving in…oh, about 9 months

I made a promise I'll never break. “Don't touch Hannah.”

But we're trapped together. And there's only one bed.

As an ex-Navy SEAL I've lost enough people.

I don't let anyone close to my heart or my home.

But my best friend asks me to be his younger sister's bodyguard.

And I can't say no.

Hannah's stalker ex is on her tail, and she needs protection.

I will do anything to keep her safe.

My infatuation with Hannah is my best kept secret.

And touching her is a line I can't cross.

Until we're caught in a storm.

And the only warmth we have is body heat.

She's leaving town the minute the rain stops.

But being with her is the only time I feel alive any more.

F*ck it.

I'll burn down the world to keep her safe.

I'll build her a new one to keep her home.

And promises? They're made to be broken.

The moon and the star gods have given me my mates…but one of them is my enemy.

When I finally have a place to call home, I'm taken away from it just as the fae launch their attack on the pack. Rueven—the dark prince of the fae—sweeps me off to his home and says he is never letting me go.

He showed me mercy but now he wants my heart.

My alphas will come for me. They won't let me go either. And yet as I explore the beautiful and magical world of the fae, everything I have learnt about is thrown into question. Are they the villains? Or can they be so much more?

I might be the first omega in decades, but I'm also the first fated mate to cross the stars in centuries. When I go into heat, I need my mates close to me, now more than ever, even if they all don't get along…

Even if they want to kill each other.

I'm Verena Redrook, half wolf, half fae, and I'm going to fix this vicious world.

My dragon kings are lost in another world. This world is ruled by wolf shifters…and gods. After beating Aphrodite's tests in each of the courts, she sent Arden, Grayson, and Lysander to another world. I have to figure out which world to travel to before the magic of the staff disappears. With help from an unlikely ally, I travel with two of my mates to this new world, only to find it is the original home of the gods. The titan king himself has woken up and he might be the key to every secret my father ever had. Two worlds are in trouble, and I need to get back to the spirit court before it's too late for Emrys. Arden, Emrys, Grayson, Lysander, and Terrin are my mates. My future. My dragons. I can't lose any of them… The gods want a dead princess— but I was born to be a ruling queen of Ayiolyn.

I ran.

It chased.

She destroyed me.

A dark sapphic paranormal erotic short.

This is DARK and therefore comes with a content warning. Please see the author's website for full details.

#1 bestselling author Tessa Bailey returns with an all-new sports rom-com about a burly, surly, single dad who falls head-over-hockey-stick for his quirky live-in nanny

Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She's also twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly single dad, offers her a job as his live-in nanny, she jumps at the opportunity to get paid while living in a super fancy neighborhood and being around Lissa, his cool but introverted tween.

Her tween charge isn't the only one who could use some help fitting in, though. According to…well, everyone except Burgess, he needs to get back on the dating scene, and adventurous Tallulah is just the girl to show him how. But as boundaries are slowly crossed and Burgess finds himself pulled between his daughter, who wants her parents back together, and his insane chemistry with Tallulah, a huge rift is formed, and Tallulah does the “right” thing—breaks her own heart and walks away.

Though Burgess knows it's for the best—he's too jaded, with too much baggage—a chance meeting, and a new push from his daughter, forces him to put everything on the line and fight to prove he learned his lessons well and is worthy of a happily ever after with Tallulah.

“I didn't have it in me to watch another person I loved die…

But sometimes life is just cruel like that.”

Love was never on Sasha Maris' mind, until someone unexpectedly embedded his way into her life, smashing the barriers she kept up for so long after the death of her boyfriend. He died at the hands of her father when she refused to marry someone of his choosing. Sasha decided to flee that old life by faking her death.

She soon found herself fulfilling her dream of working and traveling, feeling alive and free, a wholehearted passion she had never felt before.

But something changed, and Sasha may have inadvertently exposed her true identity and her old life came flooding back to haunt her. It was a question of how she could survive while navigating the new feelings that surrounded her once closed heart.

Zoe Swift was a happily married maths teacher chatting to a charmingly funny young man at a summer wedding when a phone call changed everything…

Now a single parent to two devastated teenage children, Zoe is still reeling from the discovery of her husband's betrayal when she bumps into the same young man in the staff room at the start of term in September. Tasked with showing Jack how to control a rowdy roomful of hormonal Year 8s and get them to vaguely pay attention, Zoe can't ignore the sparks that fly between her and the hot new supply teacher.

Soon their undeniable chemistry and Jack's steadfast support at a tricky time leads to dinner dates, sexting chicken emojis – and a serious dilemma for Zoe.

The dragon rider might have taken everything from me.

My home, my family, and my crown.

But I vowed long ago he would never take my heart.

I survived ten years being tortured by his crazy worshippers. I know I can survive anything the king throws at me.

Because if this usurper thinks I'm going to bend and break to his will now that I'm his wife, he doesn't know what his new queen is capable of.

I will make him bend and break.

I might not be a dragon rider like him, but I have dragon blood in my veins from an ancient bond forged by my ancestors, and its fire is fueled by the hatred I hold just for him.

A hatred that burns.

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I should have killed the princess when I burned her world to ash.

It was the least she deserved after what her parents did that day. But my own stubborn dragon refused to destroy the one person the gods decided was fated to me.

For years I have ignored her existence and tried to forget her screams. For years I‘ve tried to hate her and burn her memory from my mind, but now the time has come to claim my betrothed

And make her my queen.

Your sacrifice will be for the greater good.

Thats what my grandmother said, right before she stabbed me in the heart. Apparently, a witch with no power has no other purpose than to be sacrificed to the Deathwatch Revenants in return for making my unborn sister a powerful necromancer. Well, the jokes on her because I wake up in the Underworld surrounded by, yep, you guessed it, the Deathwatch Revenants. And not only that, I seemed to have acquired some powerful death magic, go figure!

With all the complications over at G.R.I.M, Hades sends us off on a soul collecting mission. Im just going to take the opportunity to also seek some cold, hard revenge on the coven that killed me.

Watch out, grandma. Im coming for you.

Camilla Webb and her sister Caeli bring a unique twist to the culinary scene with their Sweet Reasons cupcake food truck in the charming town of Caramel Cove. Lennox Young and his cousin Brayden offer a distinct flavor with their Smoked and Spiced barbecue creations, setting them apart from the rest.

From the moment Ami and Nox cross paths, their connection is unbreakable – as if they were lovers in a past lifetime. Their relationship thrives, fortified by shared values and mutual goals. As they face lifes trials, Amis dreams grow bolder while Nox learns the power of vulnerability.

Embark on a heartwarming journey with Ami and Nox, where love, family, and the sheer joy of pursuing their passions together light up their path.

The dragons are back…and destruction comes in flames.

“You were a survivor when you knew your body was broken; and you are now my rider. You were found to be stronger than any dragon below, and I have waited for your rebirth, Story Dehana. Now we ride to save this world.”

When the magic on the mansion shattered—so did my heart. I became a dragon rider on the brink of death at the hands of the sun, but I won't let any man break me again. The dynamics of the merciless world I was brought up in have changed, and just when I thought I had exposed all of the lies one more revelation pushes me to the edge.

King Ziven is my entwined mate, and he will do anything to earn my trust back. He was once my enemy, but now he is the man who saved my life over and over—we are tethered forever.

The dragons bring with them more than fire and wings.

They bring a hope of freedom in a world just as broken as I was.

They shouldn't want me.

I rejected them and ran…and I'll find a way to escape again.

I grew up knowing three important facts.

One, my parents hated Nexus shifters.

Two, I was taught everyone should be scared of me, and they should be.

Three, I'm a monster.

I'm a Nexus, a powerful shifter bonded to five other souls…only I rejected them all at the mating ceremony and ran away with my parents when I was fifteen.

After five years on the run, I've finally been found. My Nexus mates dragged me back to the biggest pack community in the mountains of Scotland, making sure I follow each of their rules and never letting me out of their sight while they torment me for breaking the bond.

Onyx, with his charming smiles and pretty suits, hides the true alpha lurking within.

Aleksander, with his unforgettable hazel eyes and deadly secrets, wants to ruin me.

The twins, Hollis and Rhodes, who capture ladies' hearts like it's an art form. One wants to break mine in the name of revenge.

And finally, Finnegan. He is the biggest threat to the Nexus shifter race, and he hates me the most.

They are dangerous alpha shifters who have powers from the Wolf Gods, and I'm the reject who broke their hearts, tore out the bond between us, and left them alone.

Every moment I spend with them is dangerous…

They don't know the monster lurking under my skin, begging to come out to play.

If they keep pushing…it won't be stopped.

Then there will be nothing left.