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I had everything. Wealth, power…and her. It started as an irresistible and provocative game. Only elite circles knew about the club and what happened behind closed doors. A monthly auction. A high price bid. A woman I was never supposed to fall in love with.

This is the San Francisco Series Finale: a collection of 3 short stories about each featured couple in the series. The events take place after each story's respective Epilogue. Epilogues are nice, but they're a snapshot in time. Maybe it's a year after the end of the book or even just six months. Maybe there's a proposal or a wedding. Maybe a character announces she's pregnant. Maybe a character just got their dream job. This group of short stories will give you a glimpse into the future of the characters.

It's the beginning of a new school year at Normalton University, and Dani Sloan has purchased a table for the big orientation extravaganza on the quad, determined to recruit the incoming freshmen as customers for her innovative packed-lunch business. Her food samples are a hit, but the good always seems to come with a dose of bad, and just a few days later, a man is murdered during the annual college-sponsored zombie crawl.

When Jerry follows the trail of his missing uncle, he discovers a mysterious monster-girl and an equally mysterious region called Delom where everything works like a video game. But there isn't time to gawk, because Jerry's inherited his uncle's farm, once the most famous animal breeder in Delom, and everything is falling apart. The animals are low level, there's not enough food to keep their health up, and a greedy developer wants to put Jerry and the farm out of business.

One strong woman. Four sexy Guardians sworn to protect her. A raging hellfire that'll test their bond. Within minutes, everything Eve Carter thought she knew about her life was eradicated by a volley of Hellfire. She's being called a Demon. It shouldn't be possible. No one has ever possessed both Demonic and Fae magic before. But the fury behind the power Eve unleashed says it's very real.

Aline knows better than to meddle. The runaway Princess of Faere learned the hard way what happens when others see what her magic can do. No, it's far better to focus on her own problems, like running The Monster's Den and staying off the paranormal council's radar. Tragedy strikes Haven as things are finally starting to come together for the lonely fae, and Aline has no choice but to intervene.

Tayla McKinnon is not a small-town girl. The fashion blogger moved to Metlin with two goals in mind: help her friend start a bookstore, and have a little fun. A year later, Tayla has made new friends, successfully launched INK, and is ready for a new challenge. Too bad she can't get a certain rock-climbing comic book geek off her mind. Jeremy Allen has been playing the long game with Tayla, even though the avid outdoorsman was certain she was the one from the minute he set eyes on her. They may have different tastes, but their chemistry is undeniable.

For 15-year-old Ryiah the choice has always been easy. Become a warrior and leave the boring confines of her lowborn life behind. Set to enroll in the School of Knighthood on the eve of her next birthday, plans suddenly shift when her twin brother discovers powers. Hoping that hers will soon follow, she enrolls with Alex at the Academy instead - the realm's most notorious war school for those with magic.

From Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author Lauren Landish comes The Virgin Diaries, a collection of take-charge alpha heroes and the sassy, innocent women who bring them to their knees.

She's Daddy's little girl, but I'll make her a rebel. They call me a killer - a felon. I spent five years in a medium security shithole. I swore I'd stay out of trouble, but when I met Abby Rawlings, all bets were off. From the moment I laid eyes on her, I knew I had to have her.

I owe my life to a masked killer. He came for me, like an avenging angel of death sent to spare me from pain and humiliation yet teach me the price of salvation. I am bound to him by the blood he spilled for me, but he didn’t save me out of mercy. I don’t think he even knows the word. He wants submission. He wants me by his side. And he wants this city for his own.

Craft your own world. Trade with neighboring empires. Become a god. Garrett thought Terra Forma was just a game, but in reality, it was a test created by a devastatingly beautiful ancient goddess to find the most creative man in the universe. Now, in order to help her defeat an ancient primordial deity, Garrett will have to take a dirt rock and transform it into the heart of the most powerful empire the universe has ever seen. And to do that, he'll have to unlock portals to other worlds, harvest their resources, and bring back settlers to his world.

The Hunger Games meets Cinderella. This fairy tale has no happy endings - only dark beginnings. They call them the Crimson Fold. High up in their castle they look down on my little world and wield a silent control. That is, until the invitations are sent out. I never dreamed I'd be selected. They tell me it's a privilege. I should be honored. But the fear in their eyes doesn't lie. If I refuse to go, my family will be shunned. If I go, my life and my body will no longer be mine. It'll be theirs. At midnight it will be over. At midnight, I'll be his.

When Clio conned her way into the Underworld, her job was to steal magic that could protect her homeland. Instead, she escaped with the rebel son of a notorious spell weaver family. And in the process, she exposed his most calamitous spell, putting her people - and all magic - in peril. Now she and Lyre face two impossible feats: Recover his creation, and do it before his family catches up to them. But when the spell is unleashed with devastating results, caution is no longer an option.

Melissa Oxford is a widow with a ranch, an orange grove, a goat-obsessed ten-year-old, and not enough time. She doesn't have time to make friends. She doesn't have time to stop and chat, and she definitely does not have time for a boyfriend. Which is fine, because Cary Nakamura is far from being a boy. Cary's the man who helped Melissa plant her trees. The friend who keeps offering advice, even when she's is too stubborn to take it. He's also the man who kissed Melissa in broad daylight on a sidewalk in Metlin, California, smack in the face of God and everyone.

As battle looms closer, problems plague Jolie and the princes. Nico keeps sneaking off, Justina and Brayden are still on the loose, and Jolie must learn to harness her powers before the battle. It's going to take everyone working together to win. Join Jolie, and the Four Princes of Jinla, in the final book of the Her Royal Harem series. Contains mature themes.

Eleira has inherited the crown. The wards are resurrected, and The Haven is secure. But peace is only temporary. Eleira's deal with the Forsaken Sisters means that all she's done comes at a price of unknown costs. North of The Haven, James leads his makeshift coven on an impossible mission to penetrate the world's most dangerous military complex, in a desperate attempt to find the vampire cure he promised Cierra.... In The Crypts, Logan's power is growing. At any moment he might grow weary of waiting for Eleira's answer, and mount a full on assault at the still-vulnerable coven.

Eleira is prophesied to become queen. But Morgan will not so easily relinquish control. In the Crypts, the King has revealed his true purpose, and Dagan must reconcile his hatred for magic with his loyalty to the monarch. Meanwhile, an evil power is rising in the west, intricately linked to the Black Sorceress, that threatens the entire world. As always, Eleira is bound to the center of it, and the fate of the vampire world rests squarely on one girl's shoulders.

In the small town of Donovan Grove, Anna Gunn's life is organized just the way she likes it: work from home, walks with her dog, Friday night drinks at the bar. But Anna's strict routine is challenged when the local bookstore is taken over by city slicker, Zoe Perez. Will Anna let Zoe into her life, despite the major disruption she will have to tolerate? And can Zoe look past Anna's eccentricity and embrace her unconventional behavior?

Marissa: I didn't want this life. But sometimes you're forced to make the best of the crappy hand you've been dealt. I wanted to teach my daughter that. No matter what happens you face your problems head-on. Never cower. Never give up. Then someone took her and I had to put my faith in a system that had failed me, and my hope in a man I didn't know.