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Del Thibodeaux lived her life under a literal microscope, a pincushion for the Edenedge Foundation Center for Genetic Research run by her mother. A mysterious condition has rendered her mute for years, but when the opportunity for escape arises, she accepts the challenge.

Author Tristan Kasdan is much more than he seems. When he isolates himself for the winter to write his next best seller, he dutifully answers the call to help a near-dead woman in the frozen woods without question. Lily Daventry is too busy faking her own death to worry over details, when she wakes and meets her fierce and handsome protector. Trapped until the first thaw, their attraction is instant and powerful. Keeping secrets is easy, until not telling the truth—and not believing the truth—can get them killed.

Her first mistake was crashing the publishing mogul's party, hoping to dig up secrets that will help her save her father's magazine when she squares off against him in the boardroom. Her second mistake? Spending a long, hot night in his bed.

Sam Gregory is a Watcher, a human-angel hybrid built for eternity and hell-bent on avenging his father’s murder. He’s given up earthly distractions to hunt the demon responsible, so when he crosses paths with Chloe Thibodeaux and discovers her empathic powers and an intense attraction, he fears she’s at the center of an ancient prophecy that involves them all.

Who can you trust when the deck is eternally stacked against you? Empath Toula Thibodeaux has enough problems as the guardian of three extraordinary young girls. Focused on protecting her family, she doesn’t need the instant attraction to an appealing messenger sent to warn her of impending doom.

When Ben Sheridan is released from prison in 1936, he returns to his hometown to lead a simple life. Although he's paid his debt to society, he's never forgiven himself for the unthinkable act that forced him to take the life of his step-brother over a decade before. Storekeeper Heather O'Malley has never played the victim, but she's still a "scarred" young woman. She seizes the opportunity to help Ben restart his life, in part to atone for her silence about the events that sent her rescuer to prison.

Maid of honor Reagan Newhart arrives in Charleston only to learn the wedding party is delayed for three whole days. On the bride's advice, she decides it's time to let loose. Russell Gannon, a regular to Charleston, sees a stunning young woman who grabs his attention. They start an affair that lasts until her friends arrive - and they discover they're in town for the same wedding, that of his estranged daughter. As the star-crossed lovers dive for cover, a vicious ex-wife, entitled bride, and plenty of self-doubt threaten to derail what could be true love.

Maggie Sturgus thought she knew the man she married. She couldn’t be more wrong. Trapped in an abusive marriage inside a prominent family, she sees no means of escape when her husband announces his candidacy for the US Senate. Four friends enlisted after Pearl Harbor. The secret they brought home will rock their small town. Josh Parrish made a promise to protect the girl he’s always loved.

Philadelphian Elizabeth Temple arrives in small Southern Bryeton to teach first grade in 1948, hoping to slide unnoticed into a spinster’s existence, believing she is unfit for any companion. She doesn’t count on falling for Jake Ryan, a WWII veteran tainted by a scandalous divorce, struggling to raise his young son.

Private investigator and ex-Ranger Noah Sullivan arrives in Nashville to identify the victim of a 20-year-old kidnapping, one of a series of cases in a nation-wide investigation. He plans to locate the victim, hand off information to authorities, and move on. But Quinn Collier has other plans. How dare this handsome stranger ruin her life and not stick around for the fallout?

Aiden Palmer, a disenchanted WWI veteran, has gone from golden boy to troublemaker since his return from Europe. Hopping from job to job, looking for meaning and adventure, he finds himself running with a rowdy new crowd that puts pressure on him to join their illegal bootlegging runs. On the night the 18th Amendment goes into affect, he reconnects with a love from his past, Grace Currie, at a prohibition ball. Grace McAfee Currie is a teenaged war widow. On the night the Volstead Act becomes law, she searches for Aiden Palmer, the man she’d wanted to marry three years ago.

She might not need him. He definitely needed her. Tory Winfield used anger to dig herself out of the hole Seth Rivers left her in when he vanished four years ago. She vows to never give her power to a man again. When Seth returns as mysteriously as he left, he wants a second chance. Free to tell her the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, he puts everything on the line to keep her safe, and win her back. They may be out of danger, but it might also be too late for second chances.

Baseball titan Rian Murphy returns home to nurse a career-ending injury and his shattered ego. When he learns he'll never return to the game he loves, he takes a job tending bar on the Carolina beachfront and tries to ignore his best friend's little sister who is all grown up. Harper Jones doesn't intend to hit on Rian, but her brother's best friend always seemed so out of her league. When he serves her his signature drink and sparks fly, neither mind when a few stolen kisses go a little further. She might be the one to show him his life isn't over.

As the Romans storm the last stronghold of Dacia, Princess Ademeni awaits her fate. Taken as a slave, she is deposited into General Marcus Cordovis's home as a gift.