My target is her father. I should never have kissed her.

This is my last job. It should be easy. Get in, get the job done, and get out of this life.

Except nothing is quite that simple.

This newest complication is all curves. She’s sweetness and sunshine… everything I don’t deserve.

She looks at me like I’m someone special and I tremble beneath her smile.

Kissing her is the kind of weakness that gets a man like me killed. And I do it anyway.

Then walk away, because that softness is not for me. It can’t be.

But when I discover my target is her father, one second of hesitation changes everything.

Because I’m not the only one with orders.

My employers have a fast track to retirement planned for me—whether I complete the job or not—and saving her life means drawing her into my world.

Keeping her with me.

Not because I’m safe, but because I’m her best chance at survival.

It will take every skill I have to keep us both alive.

No one will hurt her.

Not while she’s mine.

And she is mine—from that very first kiss.


In a world full of danger, love is the ultimate risk. But protecting her isn’t just his job… it’s his obsession.
When danger strikes, only one thing matters: keeping her safe.

From bodyguards to mercenaries, elite security experts to undercover ex-military operatives, these alpha males live for the thrill of danger.

But nothing has prepared them for the ultimate challenge: protecting their women.

Each story in the exciting Dangerous Devotion Series is packed with high-stakes action, sizzling chemistry, and an unbreakable bond between a protector and the woman he would sacrifice everything for. If you love possessive alphas, strong heroines, fierce devotion, and love stories forged in danger, this series is your next obsession.

All Ash Henry books come with an HEA guarantee: Protective grumps. Soft women. All the heat. Whether they’re guarding her body or healing her heart, Ash Henry heroes fall fast, fall hard, and would burn the world down for the woman they love. No cliffhangers, no cheating, and no heroines too dumb to live—just primal devotion, emotional payoff, and love worth falling for.

I marry my enemy to stop a war.
Dimitri Volkov marries me to punish one.

He’s the ruthless mafia king who believes my family murdered his brother.
I’m the bargaining chip he locks inside his fortress –
and his bed.

What he doesn’t know could get me killed.

I’m pregnant.
And the baby isn’t his.
It belongs to the brother he buried.

Every night, Dimitri claims me like I already belong to him.
Every day, he watches me like he’s deciding whether to break me…
or keep me.

When bullets start flying, he chooses me.
When he learns the truth, he doesn’t let me go.

He says the baby is Volkov blood.
And that makes it his.

Then the lies unravel.
The man we buried is alive.

And he’s coming for his child.
And my husband.

Tropes:
Dark Mafia Romance
Arranged / Forced Marriage
Age Gap
Secret Pregnancy
Twisted Betrayal

A gruff, divorced NFL coach meets his match in an equally grumpy, commitment-phobic neighbor in this warm-hearted and witty romance about family, second chances, and overcoming the past.

You’d think it was the perfect setup: living next door to the grumpy single dad who needs my help with his troublemaking kids—just until football season is over. Swoony stuff, right?

You know who’s not swooning? Me.

I’m as grumpy as he is, and I’m fairly certain that for NFL Coach Barrett King, it was hate at first sight. It’s nothing I’ll lose sleep over because 1) the feeling is mutual, and 2) I’m not a people person. Just me and my dog, Larry, moving around when the mood strikes, is what I prefer.

Except I start getting attached. First to the kids. Then to their father. I don’t know why. He’s overbearing. His attempts at flirting are just growls and glares. But if I ever see that man smile…well, I might tear all his clothes off.

I don’t do forever. And Barrett—serious, thoughtful, sexier than he has any right to be—doesn’t do short term. We’re headed straight for disaster.

But if we’re willing to take a risk, maybe this story won’t end in heartbreak. Maybe what started as the perfect setup for two imperfect people just might end in love.

She was stolen from Earth. He needs a wife to secure his children’s future. Neither expected desire to burn this hot…

Trauma nurse Reanne Garson thought her worst nightmare was captivity under a cruel alien overlord—until she’s handed over to a massive, scarred farmer on a harsh frontier planet. Narvik Thalen never wanted another mate after losing the love of his life, but to hold onto his land, he needs a wife.

Reanne is determined never to submit again. Narvik is determined to protect her—even from himself. But on Valdoris Prime, survival means working together, and the way she looks at him sparks a fire he thought was long dead.

As stormhawks circle and a predator overlord watches their every move, one truth becomes undeniable: what started as a contract might just become the fiercest love in the galaxy.

Steamy alien romance. Single dad. Marriage of convenience. One human woman who refuses to break—and the korvani farmer strong enough to love her broken or not.

“I’m not going to make this easy for you.” — Reanne, refusing to break.

“She might have been given to me like property, but she will be protected like family.” — Narvik’s vow.

Tropes:
• Mail-order bride / forced marriage of convenience
• Protective single dad
• Widowed hero / grieving past love
• Human abductee heroine
• Forced proximity on a dangerous alien frontier
• Hero falls first but fights it
• Heroine healing from trauma / finding her power again
• Grumpy, scarred farmer x strong but shaken heroine

Note: this book contains trigger warnings, if these are a concern, please check the front of the book for details

Lies, beauty, and seduction mingle in the first book of an enthralling romantasy series where making art is considered a sin, and the shadows born from it aren’t the only danger to the creators—from the bestselling author of Curse of the Wolf King.

“Tessonja Odette has crafted a gorgeous, fast-paced tale of revenge and heartbreak while giving us a spicy, swoony romance that is sure to have you lusting until the very last page.”—Nisha J. Tuli, author of Trial of the Sun Queen

From the art of liars, the monsters came . . .

Ever since art gave life to bloodthirsty shadows, creative works have been forbidden and talented creators sacrificed to the Sinless—the immortal royals who feast on human blood in return for their protection.

Inana’s secret storytelling nearly got her killed once, and she’ll be damned if she’s ever caught again. With a bounty on her head, she keeps to the city’s dark underbelly, where she earns a meager living from thrill-seeking patrons desperate to hear her illicit fiction. Until Dominic, a Shadowbane, catches one of her performances.

Dominic is a half-Sinless monster hunter as fearsome as his prey. But to complete his hunt, he needs an artist to summon the shadows . . . he needs Inana. Dominic delivers an ultimatum: Serve him or he’ll claim her bounty. When survival is all Inana has left, the choice is clear—at least until she can betray him and leave him for dead.

As their tense alliance leads them into the heart of danger, dark secrets unravel—about each other, their world, and the threats they face. But the greatest risk of all is the desire growing between them. There’s something more sinful than lust at play, and it could bring the world to its knees.

Emerson (Emmy) Hartwell has waited for a spot on an NHL roster since she became a professional hockey player, and this season, she’ll finally get a chance to showcase her talents with the struggling D.C. Stars.

Maverick Miller is the best player in the league, but he’s never had a winning record. Team captain and desperate to turn things around, he agrees to play nice with the fiery new left-winger even though they’re total opposites.

After a night where the tension between them reaches a tipping point and they fall in bed together, Emmy and Maverick vow it was only one time. Just once to get it out of their systems so they can play better and help their team. It doesn’t mean anything. She doesn’t date hockey players. He’s a notorious playboy who doesn’t date. Period.

Except… what should’ve been just once happens again, then again. They tell each other their friends with benefits arrangement is only for the season, but despite facing off on the ice, behind closed doors, the pair is nothing but fire.

Face Off is a spicy dislike to lovers sports romance with professional athletes, friends with benefits, he falls first and a guaranteed happily ever after.

Brielle is done with Earth.

Done with deadbeat dads. Done with struggling just to survive. Done with being signed up for things so someone else can cash the check!

So when she’s taken off-world and handed a mating contract, she actually reads it. Every word.

And what does she find?

It’s the kind of deal that would get the man arrested on Earth.

But one look at the picture of her fated mate, specifically the larger form he can shift into, and suddenly she doesn’t care.

He’s fire and danger wrapped in a body built for destruction.

And he wants her.

Vaelith can’t touch his treasure.

He can’t even know what she looks like.

Not yet. Not until she agrees.

His species has been banned from Earth for being too lethal, too uncontrollable, too bound by instincts older than stars. So he waits in space, chained by laws written to protect the humans from his kind, until his match appears. Her.

If she signs, she becomes his.

Body, soul, destiny.

A high heat, sci-fi romance for fans of oversized males, fated mates, cozy happy endings, and dragons. This story is recommended only for readers who arereally into dragons.