Theo is 16 turning 17 this years and he lives together with his 5 older brothers since their there parents died in a car accident a few years back and now they have been left to fed for themselves.

A young girl must rely on her estranged father to help her return an Orisha's heart, but as she taps into its power, she finds herself drawn to its dangerous magic. *** Sparrow Winslow discovers an old picture of her late mother with a crooked businessman. Convinced the man is her biological father, she tracks him down and learns more than she bargains for. Not only is he her father, but a vampire, which means she'll be coming into her fangs any day. But complications arise when he also explains her witchy mother stole the heart of an African goddess, enabling her life. Armed with a reincarnated bestie and a ruggedly strict, but dashing Guardian, Sparrow is forced on the run as every supernatural overlord seeks to take the goddess's heart for themselves. The only way to escape this nightmare is to return what her mother stole...her very heart. But that means Sparrow will have to remain a drab and medicated vampire and relinquish her divinely witch nature to the Orisha. Each time she casts a spell, Sparrow tastes her newfound abilities and it's secretly delicious. It isn't long before she fears becoming just like the monsters who are chasing after her heart. Will she sacrifice her ancient power to restore balance? Or will magic consume her good intentions the same way it did her mother?

What if you were only a number? That is all the boy with the aqua eyes has ever been. A string of numbers marked on his wrist, ending in 117. He's not treated like a boy. He is a product worth killing for. A weapon designed in a secret laboratory. An asset with an ability people would kill to control. He is 6,221 days old and has never seen the outside world. He has no understanding of family. No concept of home. No identity beyond the number burned into his skin. That all changes the day Riven Thatcher is hired to break into a top-secret laboratory and steal files from a man rich enough to own the law and corrupt enough to make Riven feel downright charitable. Riven Thatcher is not a man you want to cross. He is sharp-tongued, disciplined, and dangerous enough that testing him once is usually where people run out of chances. Stealing from the wealthy and corrupt is what he does best. They hire people to keep thieves out. Riven is the one hired to get in. Get out. And vanish without a trace. He lives by two rules: never trust anyone, and never get attached. Then he comes face to face with a barefoot seventeen-year-old boy in white lab clothes, a barcode on his arm, and aqua eyes so vivid they make him impossible to hide. Riven has no intention of taking him. But the boy has other ideas. With a single touch, Subject 117 plants one thought inside Riven's mind. Take me with you. By the time Riven escapes, he has no idea why he brought the boy along. He only knows he has just stolen something far more dangerous than files, and far more valuable than money. Now Riven is at the center of a deadly chase, hunted by people who will do anything to get their weapon back. And as the mystery surrounding Subject 117 begins to unravel, Riven starts to realize the boy he never meant to save may be changing him just as much as Riven is changing him. Because Riven has spent his life believing he is better alone. But the boy with no name may teach him that family is not a

Trying to cope with the loss of his parents and older brother after a horrific car crash is the hardest thing Bhodi Phelps has ever done. It doesn't help that he's autistic, struggles to read people, and often asks the wrong questions at the worst possible time. Bhodi is convinced he can survive on his own, he's nineteen after all, but he isn't really surviving. He's drowning in grief. Then he sees his brother's face staring back at him from a stranger. Firefighter Jayco Brennan may look exactly like Clayton, but he is his own person, and he isn't prepared for the road Bhodi is about to pull him down. When Bhodi's uncle Reid arrives and realizes how badly his nephew is struggling, he strong-arms his way into Bhodi's life and starts trying to fix everything. Bhodi sees it as one more person taking away his choices. Jayco steps between them, hoping to bridge the growing divide. What he doesn't realize is that while he's trying to save Bhodi and Reid from losing each other, they may be exactly what he never knew he needed. Through chess games, terrible jokes, and a series of unexpected trades, three stubborn men discover that family doesn't always come from blood. Sometimes, it's something you build one trade at a time.