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She was born to wear a crown… not to crave the darkness.

Princess Cora has spent her entire life bound by duty—her future already decided. Since her mother’s death, the idea of marriage feels less like destiny and more like a cage she refuses to step into.

But temptation doesn’t ask permission.

It slips through her window in the dead of night—silent, mysterious, and dangerous.

She doesn’t know his name.

She’s never seen his face.

And still… she lets him in.

What begins as a reckless surrender to curiosity becomes something far more intoxicating. Addictive. A secret she aches for in the quiet hours, even as it threatens to ruin everything she’s been raised to protect.

Because one night was never going to be enough.

And while Cora hides her darkest indulgence behind locked doors, another man steps into the light—a prince with power, patience, and a hunger of his own. One who sees more than he should. One who offers her a choice… or the illusion of one.

In a world of whispered secrets and dangerous desires, Cora must decide:

Will she honor the crown she was born to wear… or surrender to the man who owns her nights?

Either choice could cost her everything.

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Four Books. One Failing Earth. No Escape from Destiny.

They came from the stars to help Earth survive... for a price.

Dive into the complete Mates of Axxeon 9 series, an epic, high-octane, laugh-out-loud, steamy sci-fi romance box set where fierce alien warriors and their fated human mates clash in a battle of wills and unstoppable desire.

Inside this four-book collection, you will find:

A captive scientist who tries to save her best friend, only to find herself trapped in the sights of two massive Axxeon warriors.

A battle-scarred Commander forced to take a human wife, whose cold heart is about to meet its match.

A brave midwife stranded on a desolate breeding farm, fighting to keep newborn hybrid babies alive against impossible odds.

A tortured gladiator on a ghost planet, pushed to his absolute limits—until a human female is thrown at his feet, changing the rules of his escape forever.

From the high-tech labs on Earth to the killer sands of distant ghost planets, these dominant, protective alien males will do whatever it takes to claim what is theirs.

Dive into this complete, scorching-hot sci-fi romance series today!

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Being stuck at the airport wasn't part of my holiday plans.

I was on my way to stay with my best friend and his family for the holidays when a freak snowstorm hit. Now I'm stuck, all planes are grounded, and there are no hotel rooms available. I also have no clue of when I'd be able to get on another plane, so here I sit.

Then I saw her.

She stood in front of a vending machine, scrounging through her purse. When she found her last bit of change, she carefully made her selection. A disappointed look came over her face and she began to punch and kick the vending machine trying to get whatever she'd selected to drop. When it did, she threw her hands in the air as if she'd just made the winning touchdown. Then she bent down and pulled out a package of pop tarts. Pop tarts? Who buys pop tarts from a vending machine?

She was feisty and cute, and I knew I needed to meet her. So, I invited her to sit with me. The night passed quickly, with flights heading out the next morning. It was then I realized I'd missed an opportunity as I watched her disappear into the airport crowd.

However, Father Christmas smiled down on me once again when I discovered that the beautiful holiday angel, I'd met earlier was my best friends sister, and I only had a few days to make her mine.

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This special, celebratory edition includes an exclusive bonus scene at the end AND an annotated chapter!

---

She could be the one.

I’ve spent twelve years caring for my niece Maddie who I adopted after my sister died. Having a daughter has made me picky when it comes to the women I spend time with.

But when I spot MJ at a mutual friend’s wedding, something draws me toward her.

My friend tells me to forget about her, but how can I when she becomes Maddie’s art teacher and our paths cross again?

I ask her out, she turns me down. Rinse and repeat. But I don’t plan on giving up any time soon.

My instincts are always right, and they’re telling me Meadow Jane Carter might just be my future wife.

One Last Play is an age gap, reverse grumpy/sunshine romcom for fans of sweet romantic comedies. It has all the sizzling chemistry you love, without any explicit scenes. Check out the fourth and final installment of the Sweet Peach Series, a four-book sweet romcom collection about best friends living in Atlanta, Georgia!

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An adorable pit bull, Roscoe, finds a temporary foster home with Chloe while his owner is deployed. Upon learning of Garth's combat-related injury and delayed return, she sends him photos and videos of Roscoe to uplift his mood. Between emails and live chats, a friendship with Garth develops, something she hadn't anticipated. When it's time for him to come home, will their relationship bloom into something more meaningful?

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From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Hefner

Before the end of hatred, there was the dawn of peace...

Two immortals from warring species save each other's lives as the conflict rages on.

Alrec, the hulking Vampyre warrior, spares her first.

Years later, Kilani, the fierce, uncompromising Slayer, returns the favor.

Stuck in her remote cabin, their bond grows as Kilani warily nurses her injured Vampyre, determined to deny her growing desire for the man with deep, knowing eyes and mesmerizing fangs.

And, of course, there's only one bed...

The sizzling prequel to the Etherya's Earth Romantasy series

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Detailed Bonus chapter. Includes explicit content.

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Get the bestselling dark mafia romance for free now!

At the stroke of midnight on my twentieth birthday, he comes in darkness and in blood. Elio Titone, heir to Toronto’s most brutal Cosa Nostra famiglia.

Turns out my father is massively in debt to the Sicilian mafia. Elio has come for one thing and one thing only – to claim what he is owed.

And what he’s owed is me.

My captor is dangerous and demanding. Tortured, possessive, and wealthy beyond belief. He traps me in his gilded, violent world and offers me no hope of escape. But the longer I spend with him, with his dark eyes and scarred hands, the less I want to claw my way out of his cage.

When new enemies threaten me, I see a side of Elio I didn’t know existed – a ruthlessly protective side. He forces me to do the one thing that guarantees my safety, even if it means I’ll forever be his prisoner.

I’ll no longer be shackled by debt, but by marriage vows.

Because he’ll make me his bride.

A Debt So Ruthless is an age-gap dark mafia romance. It is part one of a duet.

What readers are saying about A Debt So Ruthless...

-if you haven't picked up one of Vero's books, you are missing out! the duets are chef's kiss (Five star review)

-Read both books I cried and hoped for a happy ending, the whole time I was reading, all I kept thinking was how poetic these books are! Beautifully written! (Five star review)

-I started reading this book yesterday and I have not been able to put it down! After reading a good amount of mafia, dark romance books, I will have to say that “A debt so Ruthless “ felt different to read. This book is absolutely worth reading, even if you have read a plethora of mafia books before.. believe me this one is different! This one will capture you to the last page.. and then make you buy the second book right after! (Five star review)

-I loved this book! The plot to spice ratio was on point and it still had all of the building tension of a slow burn. I liked that there was action scenes throughout the story instead of just the ending. I am definitely getting the second one. (Five star review)

-if you have not had the chance to read this Vero's work, Please do! she is an amazing story teller, with fatctual Canadain locatons, one of my favorate authors. (Five star review)

-This was the perfect level of dark for me, so much so that I told one of my best friends who has different tastes in books than I that I was going to get it for her too cause she would love it. I regret nothing. I loved this. Elio was the right blend of jealous and possessive and unyielding without degrading Deidre. And their scenes were scorching. This hit just right; and by just right, I mean, I would lick the pages. Maybe the cover. I said what I said. (Five star review)

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Since the tragic death of my dominant, I’ve drifted around like a ghost.

Until I’m set up on a blind date with a younger man who brings me back to life. He reminds me of who I am. What I want.

I’m not ready for a relationship again, but I also can’t stay away. Not even when he walks into a class I’m teaching.

And when someone threatens me, PJ’s the one I call for help.

The trouble? I discover a secret he’s been keeping, and it makes everything we’ve shared a lie.

Switch is a full-length, morally complex Male/Male romance with a happy ending. It features a sweary cockatoo, a wobbly rescue puppy, and a golden retriever-esque Dom who takes his job Very Seriously. This book contains content that will not be everyone's speed. Please look inside to review the content advisory on the book's "About" page for details.

Tropes include: A May to December relationship, professor/student, kink awakening, bigger sub/smaller Dom, opposites attract, found family, dark secrets, emotional scars, different worlds/unequal social status, dude in distress, old enemies, sibling problems, protective hero, primal and breath play, exhibitionism, a fancy-pants club, rescuer hero, some light stalking.

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The Atlanta Firebirds won the Stanley Cup in their first season. An expansion team. A roster of castoffs nobody wanted. They were never supposed to be here.

Now the Cup is making the rounds. A day apiece. Twenty-four hours each, to do something unforgettable with it.

Or something undignified. Realistically, both.

In Atlanta, the captain's backyard holds the entire family he built in a single year — and a photograph that's about to change what the whole world knows about him and his co-captain.

In Chicago, Soren Lundmark carries the Cup through the front door of the coach whose team it beat in the Final. His father's house.

In an empty training room at six a.m., Matteo Marchetti sets the Cup on a treatment table. The loudest man in hockey knows exactly who gets it first.

When the Cup can't go home to Russia, Bastian Fontenot builds Tikhon Volkov a hometown out of a Cajun family, his grandmother's cast-iron pot, and two kittens who are absolutely going in the bowl. One picture was negotiated. There will be four hundred.

And in Aruba, Luca Berger has water pressure ratings, a man who never stopped showing up, and one thing he can't put a number on.

Five Cup Days. Five couples. One book club mutiny, one betrayal by screenshot, and one last quiet lap for the captain who was told he was finished.

VICTORY LAP is a bonus novella for the Atlanta Firebirds series: five happily-ever-afters, revisited at full volume. The winning is done. This is the part where they get to keep it.

Atlanta Firebirds Series, Book 5.5. Contains spoilers for the series, best read after Shut Out. HEAs already guaranteed; we're just taking the lap.

Tropes: MM Hockey Romance · Found Family · Established Couples · Day With the Cup · Group Chat Shenanigans · Kittens in the Stanley Cup

This book contains sexually explicit content and is intended for readers 18 years of age and older.

Victory Lap is a bonus book placed after book 5 in the Atlanta Firebird series, best read last. It's filled with more HEA time with each couple, found family, cats, and group chats. Lots of love and swoon-worthy declarations throughout the book.

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She'll risk a lie for him, but will she risk her heart?

Cynthia Lathem loves caring for the griffins and pegasuses her employer recently inherited, even if her fellow stable hand, Andrew Spurgle, trails chaos everywhere he goes. She knows he means well, but when Andrew accidentally destroys the interior of the barn the animals are kept in, Cynthia knows it will take more than a miracle to save Andrew's job. If Andrew loses his job, she loses her only excuse to see him every day. While she's willing to risk a lie to give them a chance to put everything right, is she willing to risk her heart at a chance for her own happily ever after with Andrew?

Love & A Bit of Disorder is a short story full of laughs, mythical animals, and a romance as sweet as maple syrup!

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Sometimes a girl wants a man with a firm hand.

Fay-Lee

I'm a hundred miles from home, and my ride is gone. I'm broke. My phone's missing. And a wild-haired biker busts me sneaking a shower in the SBMC clubhouse.

My punishment for trespassing is to be his house mouse. Cook. Clean. Take care of his needs.

But he wants to punish me a different way. Do things I've never done before. Take care of my needs.

And I want it, too. I want him. If only for this moment before life inevitably comes crashing down on me again.

Dizzy

She makes me try things I've never done with a woman before. And she loves every moment. She's perfect. And she's in deeper trouble than she knows. She stumbled into dangerous business, and my club sees her as a threat.

Be that as it may, no one is gonna touch her. As soon as I saw her, dripping wet in that towel, I knew two things. Fay-Lee is my woman. And she's gonna turn my world upside down.

She can run, but I'll catch her. I'm faster and stronger. And she belongs to me.

Dizzy is a steamy, age-gap romance. It's a full-length prequel to the Steel Bones Motorcycle Club series, but it can be read as a standalone. Intended only for adult readers.

No cheating. HEA guaranteed.

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You can prompt a machine to write love…

But what happens when love writes its own script?

In this short story...

Leo has spent weeks trying to script the perfect romance with the help of an AI. Every prompt delivers beauty, but none of it feels alive. Then, in a cramped coffee shop, one accidental glance collides with a stranger’s sketchbook—and everything he thought he knew about love begins to unravel. Unprompted is a story about chasing the impossible, and finding something far more real.

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Cait and Godfrid’s wedding promises to be the event of the year … unless a dead monk ruins their big day!

August 1148. The wedding of Godfrid and Cait promises to be the event of the year, and even Gwen has made the journey across the Irish Sea to celebrate. Weddings can be moments around which tensions and resentments pivot, however, so when a monk turns up dead within moments of Gareth and Gwen’s arrival in Ireland, the pair put on their sleuthing hats and get to work, racing to solve the mystery before it ruins Godfrid’s big day.

Join Gareth & Gwen and their friends and companions for murder and mayhem in medieval Dublin in The Irish Bride, the 12th Gareth & Gwen Medieval Mystery.

Complete Series reading order: The Good Knight, The Uninvited Guest, The Fourth Horseman, The Fallen Princess, The Unlikely Spy, The Lost Brother, The Renegade Merchant, The Unexpected Ally, The Worthy Soldier, The Favored Son, The Viking Prince, The Irish Bride, The Prince’s Man, The Faithless Fool, The Honorable Traitor. Also The Bard’s Daughter (prequel novella).

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