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The fifth story in the Sins of Mercy series. Worn down by harassment at work, Mercy makes a new friend who informs her she needs to get “angry” again - to feel the rage of a woman scorned who won’t take bull from anyone and knows how to get what she wants. But how is Mercy to ever feel the sweet release of rage again? As fate would have it, a goddess is waiting for her. Wrath, the deity of righteous anger, wants to whip Mercy back into hating shape.

The sixth story in the Sins of Mercy series. In the grandest of miracles, Mercy is developing a social life. Thanks to her new friend, Mercy spends an evening out enjoying the company of energetic strangers who flirt with her, share their knowledge, and make her feel a little less alone. Yet Mercy shows she’s still on her way to healing when she’s unable to indulge in the same revelries as everyone else. Luckily there is yet another new friend waiting at home: Excess, the jolly goddess of many kitchen talents.

Since her visit from the first of the Seven Sinners, Mercy Devereux has been living a life of sin. At first, she enjoyed the renewed desires, but now they're starting to control her existence! How is Mercy supposed to live a life of insatiable sin without trading one addiction for another? The answer comes in the form of Avarice, the greedy goddess Mercy catches ransacking her house one night.

I hate being invisible…No matter where I go or who I see, everyone always seems to overlook me. It's like I'm cursed. The only one who has ever believed in me is my boss. "Be more confident," she says. "Be more sure of yourself," she says. "Stay away from that man," she says. I really don't think I can do that.

Victor was always so sweet and charming. Then the job and alcohol got to him. After that, things have all gone downhill from there. Now, I'm hiding in the hospital, staying as far away as possible from him. Stephanie answered when I called, and she and her Daddy, Xavier, are coming to save me. They didn't tell me his brother was coming, though.

Zafira and Jade's little game has escalated into a plot bigger for them to handle. They both know if they don't work together, it will lead to mutual destruction. But who will fold first?

Tiger Sexton seems to have it all. Charisma. Respect. Relentless business acumen. More fortune than he could spend in a life and a sublime wife, Sophia. When Oceane is invited by Mrs. Sexton for a job interview in one of the restaurants that her husband gave her, the young French tourist knows nothing about this couple. Their name means nothing to her, people are not her thing. She just wants a job, a place to live and to move on with her life... Sophia’s proposal comes at the right time: the Sextons are looking for an au pair.

Life taught Emelise that you cannot trust a man to be there when you need him. After losing her mother, Emelise moves to New Orleans with high hopes. Just when she thinks are going smoothly, fate steps in and her world is turned upside down. Caine became Alpha of the Black Water Pard at the age of 22. After a failed relationship with a human, he'd resigned himself to the life of a bachelor. Little did he know his world was going to be rocked by a woman who proved that dynamite comes in small packages.

Sweet, beautiful mail order bride Merla flees one horrible life in Wichita, only to find herself in another horrible one in Dodge. Her husband-to-be is not the kind loving man his letters portrayed him to be. But Merla’s rescuer John “Mac” McElroy is more handsome than handsome should be. When he doesn’t like to see a beautiful woman abused, he and his three brothers take her home to his mother.

Amanda is fed up with her love life and decides to take a break from it all. A king in need of someone like her has been waiting. Will Amanda be able to give the king and his two bodyguards what they need...? Love makes one do crazy things and falling for a blue-skinned alien with tentacles is no exception to the rule. A race against extinction and a passion comes alive in something that Amanda never thought was possible.

Raised on an island off the coast of Maine by her grandmother after a fatal car crash claimed her parent’s life, Dana Michaels hasn’t had an ordinary upbringing. Isolated, she had brief contact with the outside world until her grandmother dies, leaving her alone on the island. One stormy day changes Dana’s life forever.... After her boat capsizes, Dana is sure she is going to die. The watery depths pull her under. The last thing she remembers is the blackness. She wakes up alone, on her island with the fleeting images of a man she’s seen before.

Ciara Ackerton might have come here to renovate her aunt's home and put it on the market, but I have other plans in mind. She is no Coral Bay tourist, but that doesn't mean I can't introduce her to tourist hotspot: the Bikini Martini. When she tells me she's never been had, her confession nearly knocks me off my feet. A curvy city girl like her? I almost can't believe it. But I'm here to do her renovations, not to do her. Unless the hot, sultry, summer nights have something else in mind....

I can't wait to officially start my life with Jessie. I've got a goal in life, and it's to shut down companies that treat their employees unfairly. I failed once before, and it cost me my job offer in the prosecution's office. However, thanks to this client, I'll finally succeed. However, this client is too perfect. She needs someone to protect her and care for her. If it wasn't for Jessie, I would volunteer any day. Maybe I will still have her.

I'm done with Frank and his reckless lifestyle. I hate the playdates with other Daddies and Littles. I hate how Frank is always treating me like a toy, not a Little. I want a normal life without a Daddy who forces me to participate in playdates. I want to leave Frank. That's when I met him. He shows up with an auntie at Walmart, and they offer me a job as an auntie. What are they going to do when they find out that I'm a Little?

Heather Whitley may be here for her brother's wedding, but we have our own eight-year love affair to take care of. Now that she's made it to Coral Bay, and we're on my home turf, it's time I tell her how I feel. She's the curvy girl of my dreams, and it's time we stop dancing around the truth: I'm in love with this woman, and I'm going to make her mine, even if she is my best friend's little sister. Getting down and dirty might have been enough for the last eight years, but it's time to stop chasing the girl of my dreams and settle down with her.

What do you do when your husband of 10 years is cheating on you and you decide - well...he is not getting half! You bump him off, of course! Told from two different perspectives, the wife’s and the husband’s, Virtuous Woman vs. Cheating Man is a black-humor romp that takes you into the depths of the twisted id, inside the human heart, and causes you to emerge - a little dazed and confused, but still hopeful: that in all this craziness in this world, there might still be - true love.

Jaloon is a 14-fingered alien woman on a colonized planet in the far-off Andromeda galaxy. It is a pipeline between alien cultures she can barely comprehend, and she is simply a lowly cog in an interstellar alliance between races at war with an unstoppable enemy. Jaloon must contend with assassins, violent galactic criminal organizations, and her own malicious family, while trying to pay off a massive debt to a faceless mega corporation.

He has no problem leading women on just to get information. He has just been asked to spy on the Royal family of Belgium to uncover an assassination plot. Their number one suspect, the daughter of the Prime Minister, who, like him, finished university top of her class, speaks nine languages, and is a black belt. Derek’s boss warns him that the last agent on the case quit because she was impossible to read. Always up for a challenge, he is determined to find her vulnerabilities and know her better than she knows herself.

Lizbeth is in trouble. Damaris knows she’s discovered his plot to overthrow his brother Alto, the current head of the vampire family, and take his place. To keep her quiet and eliminate the threat, she poses, he’s set her up and framed her for murder. Fleeing for her immortal life, she knows that every vampire blood-related to Alto is sacred and plotting against anyone who has consequences. Luckily, someone in the shifter community offers her shelter and to introduce her to someone who can help.