Betrayed by the people she once loved, cared for, and protected, Queen Gatria is determined to make everyone suffer and feel her wrath. With the intent of saving her sisters while executing her revenge, can the Mistress of Nature carry out her plans and succeed in time? ****** Finally free from being held captive for two centuries, Queen Gatria Valen Balsatra sets on a quest to free her sisters and exact her revenge. With her heart full of wrath, she is prepared to slaughter everyone who would stand in her way, her ex-lover included. Now faced with numerous betrayals and hindrances, Queen Gatria is put to the test. Can she save her people and live up to her role as the Mistress of Nature and overseer of Azitrea? Or will her unending rage cause everything to crumble down and die? [ BOOK 2 OF AZITERA: YTHER'S QUEEN ] CECELIB | C.C. COVER: Regina Dionela

In order to go on holiday with their friends, mortal enemies Kai and Joey make a pact to be civilized with each other for the entire duration of the stay. Joey already thinks this is going to be the hardest thing she's ever had to do in her life...and then she learns that they have to share a room. Standalone in the Just One Kiss series *** When her friends decide to plan a group holiday for the summer, Joey Winters doesn't expect the one person she hates the most to be a part of the plan, and she certainly won't let being around Kai Rutherford affect her rules: never forgive, never forget, and never fall in love. Not only does she have to breathe the same air as him, she's expected to share a room - and a bed - with him too. Determined to make this work, Joey and Kai enter into a pact: they have to be civilized with each other all summer. If they don't, their friends will force them to stay in the creepy cabin included in their rental. Alone. Between passive aggressive compliments, late night arguments, and moments of confusing sincerity, Joey starts to wonder if she's had Kai wrong all along. And, just maybe, her friends will finally find out why she really hates him.

*Now an original movie from Amazon Prime* *The TikTok viral sensation and New York Times and USA Today bestseller* Fast-paced and sizzling with a forbidden enemies-to-lovers romance, Your Fault is the second book in Mercedes Ron's Culpable trilogy. This suspenseful YA series untangles the threads of love, trauma, and secrets, perfect for fans of Ugly Love and After. When Noah fell in love with Nick, she knew their relationship would never be easy. They're fire and electricity, and when they're together, every kind of sparks fly. After last summer, Noah thought their passion had grown stronger than their fear, but her life is about to turn upside-down again now that she's starting university. Moving again while maintaining her relationship with Nick will be a difficult hurdle, with their age difference, campus life, dangerous parties, and inner demons stalking them both, reminding them of all they still don't know about each other. No matter how hard they try, there will always be wounds that won't close. Is Noah really prepared to overcome her fears and truly trust someone again? Will Nick be able to put his past behind him and keep his heart open? Or are they doomed only to burn each other's worlds down? Filled with angst, danger, and electric attraction, Your Fault is perfect for readers looking for:

Some alarms ring too late. Some hearts never stop answering. Kieran Ashford lives his life running toward danger. As a rescue captain, he faces collapsing buildings, highway disasters, chemical fires, flooded tunnels, and emergencies where every second can decide who lives and who dies. To his team, he is a fearless leader. To the people he saves, he is a hero. But behind his calm voice and steady hands, Kieran carries wounds no one can see. Dr. Mira Langley knows what it means to fight death from the other side of the sirens. In the emergency room, she saves strangers with blood on her gloves and fear in her chest. She is strong, brilliant, and guarded - a woman who has learned that not every life can be saved, no matter how hard she tries. When disaster keeps forcing Kieran and Mira into each other's path, their worlds begin to collide. He enters the danger. She waits to bring the victims back. Between smoke, sirens, trauma rooms, and sleepless nights, something fragile begins to grow between them. But love is not easy when both hearts are carrying old pain. As emergencies become more dangerous and Kieran's rescue team faces one life-threatening mission after another, Mira begins to understand the true cost of his uniform - the brotherhood, the sacrifice, and the fear of loving someone who may not come home. Then one rescue goes terribly wrong. Kieran is trapped beneath a collapse, fighting for his life, while Mira is forced to face the possibility of losing the man who has become her safest place. A gripping rescue romance filled with danger, heartbreak, brotherhood, healing, and hope - The Hollow Alarm is a story about heroes who run toward disaster, the people who wait for them, and the love that teaches them how to come home.

Everyone thought Aveline Hart was lucky. Beautiful, fair-skinned, hazel-eyed, intelligent, and deeply loved by her family, she seemed to have the kind of life people could only dream of. She was the beloved daughter, the excellent student, the graceful girl who smiled even when the world was unkind. But being almost perfect came with a price. People admired her, then judged her. They praised her, then searched for her flaws. Friends became strangers. Kindness was mistaken for arrogance. Silence was mistaken for pride. No matter how carefully Aveline lived, someone always found a reason to hurt her. In high school, she once had a quiet crush on Theodore Hayes, the boy everyone admired. He was intelligent, serious, respected, and one year older than her. To Aveline, he was impossible to reach, so she buried her feelings and moved on with her life. Years later, Aveline is thirty and working at a research center. She has achieved success, but love and friendship have never stayed. Around her, people still judge, whisper, and misunderstand her. She begins to believe that maybe the world will always be against her. Then Theodore returns. Now a respected university professor, Theodore Hayes is no longer just the unreachable boy from her past. He is calm, mature, and certain of what he wants. When their lives cross again, he sees the pain behind Aveline's smile and the loneliness she has hidden for years. And unlike everyone else, Theodore does not leave. As he slowly enters her guarded heart, Aveline must learn whether she can trust a love that feels too sincere to be real. But Theodore is not interested in a temporary romance. He wants her future, her broken pieces, her quiet fears, and the life she never believed someone would choose. A heartfelt romance about family, friendship, healing, and a woman who spent her life being misunderstood-until one man finally chose to stay.

Nathaniel Cross had loved Celeste Arden long before she ever knew his name beyond the popular boy everyone admired. Fourteen years later, an unexpected reunion and one nervously requested phone number turn two familiar strangers into inseparable friends. Between awkward messages, demanding careers, family laughter and quiet acts of devotion, Nathaniel becomes the person who always stays. But when devastating loss leaves Celeste struggling to recognise her own life, friendship begins to feel dangerously like love. He fell first, from a distance. She fell later, with everything she had.

At twenty-seven, Sienna, Camille, Naomi, Jade, and Harper have everything under control. Successful careers. Carefully planned futures. Strong families. A friendship that has survived university, demanding jobs, heartbreak, promotions, and every bad decision in between. The only thing they no longer trust is romance. So they make a pact. For three years, until they turn thirty, none of them will date. No secret relationships. No returning to an ex. No distractions. They will focus on their careers, protect their friendship, and prove that love is not necessary for a woman to build a complete life. It should have been simple. One by one, all five women break the pact. And none of them admits it. Each believes she is the only traitor. Soon, flowers are blamed on clients, thoughtful gifts become corporate rewards, family introductions are disguised as business meetings, and respectable men with serious careers are forced to pretend they are consultants, vendors, neighbours, and complete strangers. The women may be experts in law, architecture, media, business, and technology, but when it comes to hiding love from one another, they are absolutely terrible. As the three-year deadline approaches, their careers are thriving, their relationships are becoming serious, and the lies are growing impossible to maintain. Because falling in love was never the real problem. The real problem was believing they had to hide it. Fifth Avenue is a clean adult romantic comedy about five successful women, five good men, one impossible promise, and the beautifully ridiculous chaos that follows when friendship, ambition, family, and love all collide.