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Books 1-3 of the Oil Kings series. A widowed oil tycoon with four adult kids learns each son needs to marry before they get the oil trust money their mother left them, and they're running out of time.

I'm like a snake shedding its skin. Shedding my old life. All the pain and torment are in the past while I figure out who I am. I fled from one monster only to find three more. What do a professional MMA fighter, a man who struggles to let anyone in, and our coach have in common? Me. They help me train. Help me find myself, my strength, my solace through MMA training and through my now uncaged desires. When the nightmares that plague my sleep come calling, will the strength I've found be enough?

I've been trying to get that TA job ever since my senior year at college. I'm in the last semester of my Master's degree and finally got the job. The only problem is our new professor is a sexy, middle-aged, brilliant writer and an even better teacher. He runs the English department, and now he's my boss, my professor, and the center of every last one of my fantasies. There's no way I should want him this much, but it's those dang glasses, and that smile, and that little dimple in his chin. I was swooning the moment I met Professor Harlo, but the moment he opened his mouth, I fell in love.

I swear I didn't do it on purpose. All I wanted was a harmless kiss from the handsome stranger at my eighteenth birthday party. But when he said that he doesn't kiss "annoying little girls," I stupidly decided to flirt with a random guy to make him jealous. I never wanted that random guy to fall in love with me. But now I have a new boyfriend while I can't stop thinking about the guy who doesn't care that I exist. So it's time to move on and focus on my new relationship.

How we met: He spilled coffee on me. First date: I dragged him into my therapy session. Does that even count? Spoiler alert: We're definitely not a couple. Leo Massie is a smoking-hot firefighter. Literally. He also owes me after dousing me in coffee. But instead of a simple favor, I might have...

There’s a reason Jackson Lymond left the Air Force, but he’s not telling a soul. He’d rather keep things simple, while trying to start a new life helping his older brother on their northern California ranch. At least Morgantown’s flirty local bartender can keep his mind off the past—that is, until he runs into Daisy Miller. Daisy doesn’t really expect Jackson to remember her. These days, she and Jackson might have more in common than just their ranching relatives. Trouble is, under the watch of her fiercely protective family, Daisy is longing for some privacy.

Bad boy goalie for the Boston Brawlers, Finnegan Reed needs to rehabilitate his image or be traded. So he goes along with the public relations plan. How bad can a fake engagement to a nerdy co-ed be? Except the nerdy co-ed has a spine to go with her gentle soul and a weakness for margaritas and hockey players. Who knew? But it's a dicey thing trying to pull off a lie when you're in the limelight, and things could go from bad to worse unless they make the story stick with a convincing performance.

The hot guy in a suit, sitting next to me at the bar? I don’t know who he is, but when he tries to pick me up, he seems surprised when I sass him and turn him down. Truth? He’s practically irresistible, and I almost say yes.

The story concerns the young and vivacious Emma Watson, one of six children of a widowed clergyman. Emma has spent most of her life under the care of a wealthy aunt of liberal views, and has received a good education. However, when her aunt enters into a second marriage, Emma is forced to return to the family home, where she is affronted by the crass hunting for husbands undertaken her sisters, Penelope and Margaret.

Queen. Savior. Sacrifice. The realms are fracturing—and Vale Tenebris stands at the center of the storm. With chaos spreading across the continent, Vale must harness the magic she barely understands to protect her kingdom and the ones she loves. The bonds with her mates have been tested, and the forces threatening to tear their world apart grow stronger by the day. As ancient powers stir and secrets come to light, Vale is thrust into a race against time to stop a war that could consume the realms.

What could go wrong when my brother's best friend becomes my roommate? I'm about to find out. When I met Hudson Fox, I drove over his crutches. Way to go, girl. My hormones think this hotshot firefighter is all that and then some. My hormones have a terrible track record. They are cheering for...

Note to self: Next time I need a big story, maybe don't pick a fight with a hot hockey player dressed as Santa. Especially if he's hiding something . . . Holly: My assignment to cover the Chicago Blizzard's Christmas charity events turns unexpectedly into a viral feud with star defenseman...

Alexis is backed into a corner as she looks between two doors. Behind door number one is the man her father is pushing her to marry, the man who's good for her brand and her future. Behind door number two is me: the bad boy of baseball who happens to be the man she has fallen in love with. I wish we could just run away together. I promised I'd wait for her no matter how long it took. I'd wait forever if I had to. She's worth it.

When a family emergency reminds us all how short life can be, Alexis's father moves up the wedding date. She's forced to wrestle with her father's emotional manipulation as we fall harder and harder for one another and her wedding day moves closer. We're keeping a huge secret from her father and her rabid fan base, and we both feel the walls closing in on us. And then my father shows up out of nowhere. He's set on ruining my life the way he says I ruined his, and he has the evidence to do it.

Gavin Wilkes is rugby’s biggest star and my older brother’s best friend. He’s tall, dark, handsome… and a notorious player—not just in the sportsball way. For years he’s teased me—flirted with me as a joke—and I’m tired of it. So the night of my parents’ annual Christmas party, I call his bluff, never expecting him to take me up on it.

Control built my empire. She might destroy it all. To some, my creation, ARGUS, is a weapon. To others, it's a safeguard. The system sees all, finds every connection, leaves no secret buried. Yet she found my blind spot. I gave her everything—my bed, my secrets, my trust. The heart I'd buried under years of ambition and isolation. Only to discover she didn't find me by accident. Former CIA. Investigating a deadly leak. Hired by shadows to hunt rumors that could destroy everything I've built.

I have starved for as long as I have been sentient. Collecting soul after soul, I fed. I gorged. Then he arrived, and suddenly, I understood what it truly meant to feel. Jealousy. Greed. Obsession. It tasted like him. Intoxicating. Addicting. I had to have my fill of him. Control him. Keep him. And I did. And we were happy. Trapped. But happy. Until she arrived. Her soul replete with mortal toil. And I knew. I knew. She is the one for him. My most magnanimous gift to him. She is to become his inamorata and give herself entirely to us. Now she is ours. Because no one escapes the Ambrose Hotel.

When did Drew Lane grow up? As the oldest of the leap children, Harper Long was the designated babysitter growing up, which is why he is struggling so much with the fact that the youngest of the group is a grown man now. Like really grown. Like how does he even find supportive underwear with all that?

Fagan's father is the alpha of his pit...and he's sick, and only seems to be getting worse. The healer that comes to the viper pit every few weeks, can't seem to figure out why a shifter would be getting so ill, so Fagan goes to Purdy, looking for help. He didn't expect to find a human healer ready and willing to walk smack into the middle of a viper pit to help, but he's beginning to think Waters is either extremely brave or completely insane.

Lorre lost everything to the witch Esther...including his freedom. He's forced by a spell to do everything she asks him to do, using his special ability. Everything he's tried to do in order to get away from Esther has failed. Life seems hopeless...until he catches sight of Knight one day. Since then, he has become completely obsessed with the sea-turtle-shifter. He knows the man is probably his mate, but he can't claim him with the spell hanging over his head. And why would Knight ever want anything to do with him? He's the enemy.