They call him dangerous. They're not wrong. Adrian Cross has never raised his voice in his life - he's never needed to. One look, one word, and grown men clear a path. Campus legend says he ended a fight before it really started. Campus legend doesn't say why, and Adrian's never bothered to correct them. Sienna just wants a fresh start. New city, new school, a chance to finally be more than "the baby of the family" for once. She doesn't know the rumors. She doesn't know the reputation. All she knows is the quiet, steady stranger who helped her when she was lost on her first day - and how safe she felt standing next to him. She finds out who he really is the same week she starts falling for him. Because the boy everyone warns you about? He's her brother's oldest rival. Two guys who used to be close, now circling each other over a fight nobody outside their world really understands - and Sienna's stuck right in the middle of it. She's spent her whole life being protected - by her brother, by everyone. She's never gotten the chance to protect anyone back, not even herself. And now she has to figure out if falling for the one guy her brother can't stand is worth risking the bond she's always leaned on. Adrian doesn't do soft. He doesn't do loud, or messy, or careless. But there are three other men who'd tell you - underneath all that control, he'd burn the world down for the people he loves. She's about to find out what that really means.

Z Volkov has always been good at looking like he has everything figured out. The ripped jeans. The rings. The confidence. The reputation. On Vashon Island, where the summers are warm, the ferries are always passing, and wildflowers grow along the Sound, Z has built himself into someone people notice. But being the oldest brother means more than being the strongest one in the room. Between a family full of love, a brother who confuses cruelty for fun, and younger siblings who still need someone to stand between them and the world, Z is learning that protecting people isn't about being feared. Sometimes it's about knowing when to be gentle. Saltwater and Wildflowers is a story about family, growing up, and finding the kind of strength that doesn't leave scars.

[BOOK FOUR] Leo Morelli has a reputation. He's a heartbreaker. It's chronic. Felix Finley had a reputation. A less fun one. He left it behind. He wants it to stay buried forever. Only when he joins the national volleyball team, old secrets get a little difficult to keep. Felix and Leo have met before. They have history. It's complicated. There's something brewing between them. There has been for a while. Tension. It's palpable. Unavoidable. However, neither of them do feelings. One thinks they're a waste of time, and the other thinks feelings ruin everything. The problem is, feelings don't care about what anyone wants. They happen anyway, and when they do, things get messy.

Kidnapped on his eighteenth birthday, Luke must now adapt to the new rules of Lockwood. Only, it's not just the rules that have changed. It's the people. The guards. The heightened security. And the new institution he's found himself locked away in...

Khalil Jamari knows the tides, the tourists, and exactly how far he can push his brothers before Mama steps in. As the oldest of four boys growing up behind their family's struggling surf shop, Khalil spends his summers catching clean waves, working the register, and keeping Julian, Maurice, and Cedric close-even when he's usually the reason one of them needs rescuing. But money is tight, the boys are growing, and every coastal summer carries them a little closer to the day their familiar life begins to change. Countdown of the Coastal Summers is a warm, funny story about brotherhood, surfing, family, and the promises that make a place feel like home.

Dinosaurs never disappeared. They roam every continent, cross highways, disrupt cities, reshape ecosystems, and live alongside humanity as naturally as any other wildlife. In rural Utah, Talbot is more concerned with football, growing up, and keeping pace with his two older brothers-his lifelong tormentors, fiercest supporters, and closest friends. Together, they navigate school, family, bonfires, games, and all the ordinary complications of being young in a world where something prehistoric may be waiting beyond the fence line. We Grew Up Among Giants is a warm coming-of-age story about brotherhood, friendship, family, and finding your place in a world that has always been bigger than you.

Levi Tanner has a dilemma. He has a half brother he never knew existed, and now he's facing an impossible choice: step up and take him in after his mother is arrested and awaiting trial, or look the other way and keep his life simple. The thing is, Levi has never had a simple life. He knows what it feels like to be removed from a home after a parent is arrested. He knows what it means to feel helpless, homeless, and lost. But at sixteen, Levi found a home with Gavin and Nikki Navarro. Now, at twenty six, he's stepping into the same kind of role Gavin once stepped into for him. He's terrified he'll get it wrong, but Gavin is still by his side, and this sixteen year old kid needs Levi the way Levi once needed Gavin. Greyson Tanner is facing the hardest choice of all: testifying at his mother's trial. He isn't ready to relive that stormy night, but he may not have a choice. His testimony could help set his mother free, but telling the truth could destroy her future. And Greyson isn't sure he can live with that guilt.

Eighteen years ago, a woman vanished with her newborn son. She left behind a powerful husband, three sons, and a criminal empire known only as The Shadows. Everyone believed she had abandoned her family. The truth was far more dangerous. Determined to save her youngest child from the life that consumed the rest of her family, she erased his identity and disappeared. For eighteen years, Noah lived an ordinary life. Then his mother died. Now strangers know his name. Powerful men are watching him. And a family he never knew existed has finally found him. Three brothers claim he belongs with them. The Shadows claim him as blood. And someone within the organization wants him dead before long-buried secrets come to light. As Noah is pulled into a world of loyalty, betrayal, and violence, he must uncover why his mother fled-and what she was trying so desperately to protect him from. But the deeper he digs, the more one question haunts him: Was his mother hiding him from The Shadows... Or hiding The Shadows from him? In a world built on secrets, trust is a luxury. And love may be the most dangerous secret of all.

Ignored. Sent away. Forgotten. Now he's back after almost two years from the hell they call Lockwood, all smiles and cheery expressions but under that exterior is a lone boy, crying for help he will never ask for. He was sent away to be 'fixed' but in the end, what can you do when people drive you to your tipping point? Do you bend to their will... or do you break?

Seven older brothers. One crowded house. They gave him a place to live- but forgot to give him a home. Growing up, his life was perfectly organized on paper, but entirely empty in reality. To his seven older brothers, he was a responsibility to manage rather than a sibling to love. In the chaotic rush of looking after him, they completely missed him, leaving him to grow up isolated and invisible in the middle of a loud family. But you can't ignore a brother forever. When the emotional distance between them finally shatters, seven older brothers are forced to face the truth: they kept him safe, but they completely forgot to raise him. Now, they have to figure out how to stop being just guardians, and finally learn how to be big brothers.