Charles Preston Carmichael is the most infuriating man I've ever met. I want to sock the golden boy of college hockey right in the mouth. He enjoys telling me everything I'm messing up鈥攑ublicly. And since he's my roommate for the next year, I can't avoid him. Yet there's something about him that makes me watch him. Something dark. A secret I want to uncover. When he returns from a weekend away, broken and haunted, I can't keep my distance anymore. He needs someone, and I'll be damned if it's not me.

My name is Rachel Price, and two months ago, I walked away from the perfect man. Sweet and funny, and so hot it should be illegal鈥攚e shared one magical night. No names. No strings. I never thought I'd see him again. I was wrong. It turns out Mr. Perfect is the playboy grinder for the Jacksonville Rays, the NHL's hottest new hockey team . . . and I'm his new physical therapist. Oh, and the jerk doesn't even recognize me!

The furniture district is my personal hell. I don鈥檛 know my ass from an ottoman. But when a hot designer comes to my rescue, I realize my problems are bigger than the house I鈥檓 trying to furnish.

My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas. Clawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass. We鈥檙e as completely opposite as two people can be; the golden boy and the black sheep. Constantly at odds or at each other鈥檚 throats. The only thing we can agree on is hockey is our true love, and we鈥檒l do whatever it takes to come out on top. I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival.

Jamie Canning has never been able to figure out how he lost his closest friend. Four years ago, his tattooed, wisecracking, rule-breaking roommate cut him off without an explanation. So what if things got a little weird on the last night of hockey camp the summer they were 18? It was just a little drunken foolishness. Nobody died.

As a divorced man in my thirties with a throwaway job and very few friends, I admit that I've made a lot of bad decisions over the years. Rounding out the top of that epic list was allowing my son's best friend, Quinn, to talk me into taking him on a two-week summer road trip... alone. What was supposed to be quality father-son bonding time before Joshua went off to college has somehow transpired into a battle of wills between me and his nineteen-year-old best friend. Quinn may be young, but he genuinely seems to enjoy spending time with me, something I've never experienced before.

I鈥檓 Logan Lewis: popular, charming, and athletic. All the girls love me. Yep, I鈥檝e really got it made. Then I find myself in danger of failing my chemistry class and losing my sports scholarship. I know the only person who can save me is the smartest science tutor on campus. Theo Reign is brilliant. He鈥檚 also cold, antisocial, moody, and mean. He looks at me like he hates me, but touches me like he wants me. There鈥檚 something just beneath the surface that draws me in. His secret pain mirrors my own, and I suddenly find myself craving him.

Grief. I鈥檝e never battled with the raw, debilitating pain that comes with it. Then a twist of fate hits me out of nowhere, and I can barely keep from drowning. It鈥檚 like weights tied to my ankles in the middle of a raging ocean. I鈥檓 helpless, with no way to swim back to the surface. But fate is crueler still, bringing my stepbrother back for the first time in years.

Best-selling authors Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy return with their first Male/Male romance in 3 years. LobsterShorts, 21. Jock. Secretly a science geek. Hot AF. SinnerThree, 21. Finance major. Secretly a male dancer. Hot AF. LobsterShorts: So. Here goes. For her birthday, my girlfriend wants鈥 threesome. SinnerThree: Then you鈥檝e come to the right hookup app. LobsterShorts: Have you done this sort of thing before? With another guy? SinnerThree: All the time. I鈥檓 an equal opportunity player. You? LobsterShorts: [crickets!]

Sex comes with a price tag. One I鈥檓 quite willing to pay. In fact, I prefer it. It鈥檚 easier that way, and in my life, I prefer ease. Prefer for most things to be transactional.

My loser high school friend never deserved him anyway. If I鈥檇 had the chance, I would have locked Remy down years ago. Only, when the party leads to a drunken kiss, going on their honeymoon, and sharing their marital bed, I have to say, I鈥檓 not entirely sad that their wedding went up in flames.

He was the talented bad boy everyone wanted. I was the irrelevant geek everyone hated. He was the sun...drawing all of us in. I was a black hole...taking up space. He was destined to be a star. I was destined to remain an insignificant no one. Until he made me believe I was special...and then he destroyed me. I never thought I'd see Phoenix Walker again after he broke my heart, but fate had other plans. One tour. Eight weeks. Forty shows. Countless opportunities to make him pay. The world thought he was a god...but I know the truth.

Triple Falls wasn鈥檛 at all what it seemed, nor were the men that swept me under their wing. But in order to keep them, I had to be in on their secrets.鈦� Secrets that cost us everything to keep.鈦� That鈥檚 the novelty of fiction versus reality. You can鈥檛 re-live your own love story, because by the time you鈥檝e realized you鈥檙e living it, it鈥檚 over. At least that was the case for me and the men I trusted my foolish heart to.鈦� Looking back, I鈥檓 convinced I willed my story into existence, due to my illness, and all were punished.

I鈥檓 in love with my best friend. Lie. I鈥檓 in love with my enemy. Truth. But they鈥檙e the same. They. Are. The. Same. Lines in my world are blurry between fantasy and reality. Truth and lies. Love and hate. Copeland Justice is my enemy. My once best friend. The sadist in my heart plucking and pulling at every thread of who I am until I鈥檓 unraveled at his feet. His mouth says he hates me. His eyes burn with animosity for me. His heart beats for someone else. But Copeland Justice is the best liar of us all.

Is it really wrong to want to murder your boss? Dylan has worked for Gabe for two years. Two long years of sarcastic comments. Two long years of insults, and having to redo the coffee pot four times in the mornings to meet his exacting standards. Not surprisingly he has devoted a lot of time to increasingly inventive ways to murder Gabe. From stabbing him with a cake fork, to garrotting him with his expensive tie, Dylan has thought of everything. However, a chance encounter opens his eyes to the attraction that has always lain between them, concealed by the layers of antipathy.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.

It鈥檚 the flight before Christmas and Molly just got an unexpected gift: a free first-class upgrade on her plane trip home for the holidays. Bring on the complimentary cocktails! But after one too many, she spills all her secrets to the hot guy seated next to her鈥攐nly to wake up mortified when her buzz has worn off. At least she never has to see Liam again ... or so she thinks. When Molly arrives at Christmas House, the festive rental home that she and her family are sharing with her sister鈥檚 fianc茅 and his wealthy family, she discovers that Liam is one of the new in-laws. Oops.

When mystery author D. B. Ziegler is late delivering her book, Abi Schore steps in to help. Surely she can give her favorite author moral support over the holiday break and get the manuscript to her boss at Tea & Sympathy Publishing in time for the new year. When Abi shows up on Ms. Ziegler鈥檚 doorstep bearing holiday treats, she鈥檚 met by the author鈥檚 handsome grandson Dov, who reveals a startling plot twist. His grandmother isn鈥檛 able to finish the book and Dov promised he鈥檇 complete it so fans won鈥檛 be disappointed鈥攁 task that鈥檚 harder than he ever imagined.

Ryder, Garrett, Kenzo, and Diesel - The Vipers. Their deals are as sordid as their business, and their reputation is enough to bring a grown man to his knees, forcing him to beg for mercy. They are not people you mess with, yet my dad did. The old man ran up a debt with them and then sold me to cover his losses. Yes, sold me. They own me now. I鈥檓 theirs in every sense of the word. But I鈥檝e never been meek and compliant.

Beckett: If you鈥檙e reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn鈥檛. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have. I need one thing from you: get out of the army and get to Telluride. My little sister Ella鈥檚 raising the twins alone. She鈥檚 too independent and won鈥檛 accept help easily, but she has lost our grandmother, our parents, and now me. It鈥檚 too much for anyone to endure. And here鈥檚 the kicker: there鈥檚 something else you don鈥檛 know that鈥檚 tearing her family apart.

The night my sister died, a piece of me died with her. So I made a vow to enroll at Spine Ridge University just like her, find the person responsible鈥� and make them pay. Until I meet three sick boys of the Skull & Serpent Society: Felix, Dylan, Alistair. Rude, heartless, vicious guys who are obsessed with making me regret I ever stepped foot on campus. They make me a deal: My body in exchange for a glimpse at their violence.

Ever since we met two years ago, Eden Burkehammer has made everything better. The big defenseman sets me at ease. He鈥檚 a beast on the ice鈥攂rutal and physical鈥攂ut when it鈥檚 the two of us, he turns to me with these unexpectedly soft brown eyes. This gravelly laugh that makes my whole body smile. And yeah, I might have thrown a glance his way a time or two in the steamed-up locker room showers鈥攜ou know, just curious. But he鈥檚 my best friend. My teammate. Roommate. I don鈥檛 want to mess with that. Just the thought of losing him sends a cold zap the full length of my spine.

There鈥檚 a lot I鈥檝e never told my best friend. The fact that I love him. That I miss him every day he鈥檚 gone. That, sometimes, I ache for him with a ferocity that leaves me breathless. Lucky Buchanan tore into my life as a boy, wild and daring, my opposite in every way. He drew me in, stole my heart without trying. He hears me, even though I rarely speak a word. But I always knew this place wouldn鈥檛 be enough for my free-spirited friend. I knew he wasn鈥檛 mine to keep.

My path to success never included an enemy as a teammate, especially one as infuriating as Quinton de Haas. Clawing under my skin is his favorite pastime, only feeding the animosity between us as the years pass. We鈥檙e as completely opposite as two people can be; the golden boy and the black sheep. Constantly at odds or at each other鈥檚 throats. The only thing we can agree on is hockey is our true love, and we鈥檒l do whatever it takes to come out on top. I never imagined that drive would lead me to do the unthinkable: falling into bed with my not-so-straight rival.

When a music audition at the world-renowned LaGuardia Arts High School brings together two thirteen-year-olds, unassuming Aurelia Ramirez Preston and confident Chadwick David, the serendipitous encounter becomes an unbreakable friendship. A friendship develops into an unyielding love鈥攁 love spanning decades and continents. With New York City as their playground, best friends Chad and Aurelia navigate the turbulence of adolescence. They blossom, and so does their love. An awkward first date turns into a night of intoxicating kisses and together, they lose their innocence.

As a 42-year-old single father, the last thing I expected before Christmas was for my daughter to sign me up for a community matchmaking event. The Christmas Buddies program becomes a challenge I can't wait to overcome when I realize the man that has been assigned as my buddy for the holiday season is none other than Paxton Montgomery. He's massive, grumpy, incredibly gorgeous (in a lumberjack kinda way), and also鈥攚eirdly enough鈥攖he only person in town who doesn't like me.

I had my whole life planned out... until I met a hockey player obsessed with breaking all of my rules. My five simple rules for hooking up keep me from being distracted. Now that I'm so close to landing my dream internship, nothing is going to make me break them. Not even a protective hockey player with clear grey eyes, a sharp jaw, and a body that makes my breath catch. Until Jax wins a bet and one kiss has me breaking them all.

I was expecting a ring on my thirtieth birthday. What I didn't see coming was my boyfriend and business partner dumping me because he couldn't bear the idea of our bland sex life for the rest of our lives. When an opportunity arises to spend my summer in Las Vegas, I stumble upon my hot new neighbor and his photography studio. We strike a simple deal. He's the teacher, and I'm his student. My lesson is learning to love the body I have. In exchange, I'm going to save his business. I have exactly one summer to unearth the most confident version of myself before I go home and return to reality.

鈥淕ive me a second chance, babe . . . and I鈥檒l blow your mind.鈥� Monroe doesn鈥檛 know why she answers the text that鈥檚 obviously meant for someone else. Or why she keeps answering. Maybe it鈥檚 because she鈥檚 all alone in a big city and in desperate need of a lifeline. Or maybe it鈥檚 because each exchange leaves her intrigued and more than a little turned on. Still, Monroe never would鈥檝e snarked back if she鈥檇 known she was talking to the 鈥淕olden Boy鈥� of the Dallas Knights.

Jesse Stone is rebuilding his life. He鈥檚 ditched his no-good ex, sworn off men, moved to a new town with his four best friends, and started the pottery business of his dreams. And then he slept with his hunky new neighbor. Oops. Finn Hart knows that pursuing Jesse will ignite old family tensions, but the construction foreman can鈥檛 stay away. Can love wash away 20 years of bad blood and bring a new dawn for Jesse, Finn, and all of Hart's Bay?

Jamie Canning has never been able to figure out how he lost his closest friend. Four years ago, his tattooed, wisecracking, rule-breaking roommate cut him off without an explanation. So what if things got a little weird on the last night of hockey camp the summer they were 18? It was just a little drunken foolishness. Nobody died.

I caught the attention of a monster. I didn鈥檛 ask for it. Didn鈥檛 even see it coming. But the moment I do, it鈥檚 too late. Killian Carson is a predator wrapped in sophisticated charm. He鈥檚 cold-blooded, manipulative, and savage. The worst part is that no one sees his devil side. I do. And that will cost me everything. I run, but the thing about monsters? They always chase.

My name is Rachel Price, and two months ago, I walked away from the perfect man. Sweet and funny, and so hot it should be illegal鈥攚e shared one magical night. No names. No strings. I never thought I'd see him again. I was wrong. It turns out Mr. Perfect is the playboy grinder for the Jacksonville Rays, the NHL's hottest new hockey team . . . and I'm his new physical therapist. Oh, and the jerk doesn't even recognize me!

I'm the girl you'll never see coming. Blink and you're dead鈥攁nother target checked off my list. Until one night, my carefully ordered existence falls apart. A bloodbath and a car crash later, I find myself in the grasp of four gorgeous, intimidating men. My captors claim they're holding me for my protection. I can't quite believe that.

I had a foolproof plan. Finish college playing the best sport on earth. Hockey. Get drafted by an NHL team. Make my senator father at least a little proud of me. I was on track to do just that鈥ntil Violet Reece and I collided. Literally.