Ryan has spent his entire life avoiding attachments. Then Carter moves in next door. Friendly, observant, and impossible to ignore, Carter quickly becomes the one person Ryan can't stop thinking about. The more Ryan tries to understand him, the more every conversation starts feeling like a carefully played game. The only problem? Ryan is beginning to suspect he's never been the only one playing. A slow-burn romance about two emotionally unavailable men, accidental honesty, and discovering that being understood can be far more dangerous than being alone.

When Beatrix Alcott moves to a strange town with her family, she expects an old house and a fresh start. Instead, she finds a home full of questions. The ravens gathering outside are only the beginning. The neighbors everyone trusts seem to know too much about her property, and Bea can't figure out why. As she gets closer to the truth, Bea discovers there is more to her house than anyone wants her to know. But someone is determined to keep its secrets hidden.

**SEQUEL TO THE BEGINNING OF AN END** The world ended once. This time, it's personal. Theron Vire doesn't remember who he was before the world collapsed. He doesn't remember the kingdoms of fire and blood, or the war between gods and demons. All he knows is this broken Earth-one ruled by ash, desperation, and silence. But something inside him remembers. He dreams of red hair, chaos, and someone he once swore to protect-or destroy. Haunted by visions and chased by a past he can't name, Theron is about to uncover a truth buried deep in his soul: he was once Asmodeus, a demon king, born of sin and forged in rebellion. In the aftermath of The Beginning of an End, where gods rose and fell and loyalties were tested in the final battle, this is what comes after-the forgotten pieces, the fragile human shell, and the sparks of war threatening to ignite once again. When a stranger named Seth arrives, carrying his own secrets and bleeding hope, Theron is pulled into a new war-one where survival isn't enough. The past is clawing its way back, and this time, it won't let him go.

This is not a story about what happens. It's about what almost does. At an Ivy League medical school, Isabelle Laurent is known as the Ice Queen-brilliant, distant, untouchable. No one gets close. No one stays. Alexander Whitmore was never supposed to be different. Charming, privileged, and infamous for never staying longer than a few weeks, he understands desire. What he doesn't understand, until Isabelle, is restraint. She believes he doesn't want her. He knows wanting her openly would destroy everything. So they choose the most dangerous thing instead: friendship. "The most dangerous thing about Alexander Whitmore was not his reputation, nor his charm, nor the power he would one day inherit. It was the fact that he never asked for anything from me, and somehow, without realizing it, I had begun to give him everything that mattered." Slow burn • Dual POV • Consent • Emotional intimacy