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Nick Ramsey has a problem. He keeps falling for straight alphas...and they keep disappointing him time and time again. He knows it's a character flaw, but when he checks out his 10-year high school reunion and gets reminded of his favorite schoolboy crush, he can't help but risk his heart all over again. Deacon Santos knows he's bisexual...he's just not willing to let everyone else know it, too. He's always assumed that he'd end up with a woman by default. But now 30, and with no lover in sight, he's starting to feel the pull of creating a family all his own.

I’m going to die on this cliff with only a bobcat kitten for company. I’m sure of it until the hottest man I’ve ever seen swoops in and makes me leap. Eli’s made for danger, and he dedicates his life to finding desperately stranded hikers like me. He’s too perfect to be true. I’ve fallen hard before and ended up bruised and battered. I have to resist him.

Defense attorney Doug Morrison is very good at his job. After his father is convicted in a series of gruesome murders, Doug takes it upon himself to save the man who’s given him everything. When he finds evidence his father was someplace else for some of the crimes, he seeks out the detective who initially got his father convicted. Ray Langer is a laid-back sort of alpha, but he’s very good at his job. He knows the evidence was good when it came to the Morrison case - until Morrison’s gorgeous, confident omega son shows up with evidence that chips away at his case.

It was a long time ago, but Luke will never forget Jason Delancey and their first kiss under the bleachers of football practice. Now, 20 years later, he has a lot more to focus on than the one man who got away. Divorced with a seven-year-old son and a vicious lawsuit against the Silver Oak Medical Center to deal with, Luke has no time for reminiscent feelings of the past.

Thomas O'Leary is used to being seen as "bad news". The O'Leary family doesn't have a great reputation around these parts, and by all accounts Thomas is just like them - a little rebellious, a little roguish, and a lot of trouble. No one would know that underneath that frank exterior is a devoted, faithful man with a heart of gold. Michael Taggart may have grown up with a silver spoon, but that doesn't mean he doesn't work hard and play harder.

Noah - I came to the Hellion Club to solve a murder, not to become some banker’s boy toy. All my life, my omega status has been a pain my ass. Shaping what other people assume about me. Determining who I date, or who’ll date me. My own biology trying to tell me to slow down and have babies. Well screw that. Only I get to decide how I live my life, and I decided a long time ago I was going to be the best damn detective this city had ever seen. And yet here I am anyway, pregnant in the middle of a murder investigation. The highest profile investigation of my career.

"Don’t trust anyone!" Nick takes the warning to heart - after all, it was left by a dead man. After Joshua King's investigation into the manipulated batch of birth control led to his murder, Nick’s worried he could be next. His unexpected pregnancy is proof enough of the faulty medicine. Nick has resorted to hiding away, both in shame and fear for himself and his unborn child. But when Harper King shows up asking about his brother’s final hours, Nick realizes there might be someone he can trust with his story...and his heart.

“Troubled” doesn’t even begin to cover Scott’s childhood, but he’s doing okay for himself. He has a place with his best friend and a career he enjoys. It’s not exactly a high-paying career, and he has to work two jobs just to make ends meet, but he can keep himself safe and that’s the important thing. The last thing he wants it to get married, never mind married to a stranger for a television show. When his best friend decides to audition for the hit reality show Make It Work, Scott agrees to go along for moral support.

As an omega FBI agent, Giovanni Rizzi has done more undercover operations than he should have. He’s on his third op in two years and having trouble remembering who he’s supposed to be. When a one-night-stand ends up being his new boss, the mission gets messy. Alpha Marcus Stern’s new FBI job isn’t everything he expected it to be, his authority hampered at every turn. If the boredom doesn’t kill him, the loneliness just might. Especially since the hot one-nighter he can’t forget turns out to work in his department.

MMA fighter Eric lives for each match because now there’s nothing else to live for. Though he once yearned for the steady, forever kind of love - though he craved domination - he was betrayed. Walking away from the man he would have married, Eric didn’t look back. And now his future is just as empty as his past. The day Samuel was fired for wanting to marry the love of his life wasn’t his blackest moment - his blackest moment was the night before when Eric left him without a word. But Samuel emerged stronger and learned that to survive heartbreak he had to be true to himself.

I had a plan. Bartend at King's Gambit. Earn enough to open my yoga studio. Ignore my dark past. And never fall for the boss. Easier said than done. Falling for King is the best mistake I’ve ever made. But he's not the only one with secrets, and when my past comes to call, it could destroy us both.

Brax is too young. Too vulnerable. Too perfect. My dominant nature craves someone to care for. Someone to command. Brax could be that guy, if the circumstances weren’t all wrong. His brothers would kill me if I hurt him. So would my FBI partner. That doesn’t mean I can stay away. The young artist is everything I want in a partner. And when danger comes for him, I need to keep him safe. But how can I keep him forever?

A young alpha haunted by tragedy is given a second chance at a happy ending.... Still feeling the loss of his omega in a tragic car accident, Dana McMains is doing everything he can to be strong for his son and keep his business afloat.

We used to be in love...and to be honest, I still am. I’m at a crossroads in life. My body is scarred and battered. My spirit is struggling. But I have another chance to do what I do best - make a difference in the Army. Seeing Teddy again takes my breath away. He wants us to be friends. I want...well. I want whatever he wants, whatever he needs. I’m not sure that he can want an alpha like me again - too much history between us, too much time since I broke his heart.

Pete is six months pregnant when he finds himself in the middle of a bank robbery gone bad. He’s sure he’s going to die, but a handsome alpha State Trooper bursts in to save him at the last possible moment. Pete is half in love with Ozzy before the week is out - but what kind of alpha wants a pregnant omega? Ozzy Morris is a cold case detective. He’s also a member of the SWAT team. When SWAT is called out to intervene in a bank robbery turned hostage situation, Ozzy meets the omega of his dreams.

An omega bartender working his way through college. A rookie lawyer crusading to save everyone he can. Sparks fly from the moment they meet. When one resurrects an old tradition, will he keep “his” omega safe or ruin everything they’ve built?

Centaurius Alphos is a billionaire alpha male who mostly keeps to himself. He finds his perfect companion in an Omega, Wright, on a venture into a local gay bar one night.

I’ve had crushes, but I’ve only fallen in love once. It was huge and all-consuming. It was also the biggest mistake of my life. My Mr. Right turned out to be Mr. Mob Boss. I lost everything to my childish fantasies of Prince Charming the day I testified against him and was shuffled off into witness protection, never to see anyone I knew again. So. Yeah. I don’t "do" love anymore. And then along comes my new client, Keegan Cunningham. He’s not just Mr. Right, he’s Mr. Perfect as far as I can tell. And I can tell a lot about a person’s flaws. His just...aren’t there.

An embedded omega journalist. A hardened alpha SEAL. Best friends on opposite sides of a line that can’t be crossed.... Journalist Colin Church has been through a lot. Through it all, he’s been able to rely on his best friend, Ed. Ed is the single most reliable person Colin has ever known - he’s also been in love with Ed since he knew what love was. SEAL sniper Ed Adami has a great bunch of guys around him, a good Navy career, and a best friend in Colin he can always rely on - who he’s been in love with that since grade school.

A DJ becomes a hero. A doctor weathers a family tragedy. And a thin wall between them... Radio DJ Derek Brown grew up in foster care. He’s built a decent life for himself, but when he’s called on to save a terrified young girl from traffickers he doesn’t hesitate to step in, even at the risk of his own life. The young rising star has become an overnight hero. Alpha Alex Brennan is a trauma surgeon at Silver Oak Medical Center. When he checks on the patient he operated on the day before, he’s startled to find the “hero DJ” is his hated next-door neighbor.