She wants her boss, so she leaves. He wants her, so he follows. Negotiating for her time, he manages a date, and she begins dodging the alpha. Fate will have to take steps. Nora was an excellent administrative assistant until the day a business associate of her boss made an aggressive pass. She tells her boss, and he tells her to thicken her skin, having heard the other male’s version of the event. She can toughen up or quit. She chooses the option that will stop the pain of the dismissal. Sabin is shocked when he finds out she is leaving, and he’s devastated when he learns that it is her last day. He had enjoyed having her next to him, breathing in her scent all day every day and spent many hours trying to find a way around the whole employee-employer thing, but now, it was solved for him. A frantic kiss tells him what she tastes like at long last, and now, he has to find a way to get her back to his side. Nora ends up in a situation where she smells like a hot omega and is at a party full of alphas. Sabin is there and offers his help for the bargain price of one night. That night spins into events that will echo through their lives, and defying families, a curse, and stalkers, they make their way to a family future.

She’s raised a child to near adulthood and found him a mentor to help him out. She has one thing left on her to-do list, and that is to find the moron who knocked her up and kick that scaly idiot in the jaws. Luna has gone through the last seventeen years keeping herself and her son alive and cared for. She has needed dragon fire and used all means to get it. Her history is now something that she would have been mortified to hear about from another source, but she has survived, and that is what matters. With Erik learning how to be a dragon alpha from another dragon alpha, she is free to help friends and finally start enjoying her life a little while she looks for the dragon who has locked her body so it can’t support itself. It has made for a challenging few years. To compound complexity, Erik’s father looked a little different from the standard driver’s license photo. It was a man-sized dragon who loved her that night and left her on her own... and she has to find him to get control of her life again.

Andrea’s an abused omega, and Dell is a neglected beta. After time and shared trauma, they end up bonding in a pack made to protect the omega, and it changes to support the beta. Andy was trapped in a relationship that was forced on her. Her finances were depleted on a regular basis. She couldn’t choose her own life, car, associates. He even decided she should bear his child when his wife wouldn’t. His sudden death was more relief than burden, and her body immediately undergoes a transformation from stunted beta to petite omega. Only her terror is holding her back now. A friend she has known for years steps in and helps hold her up. He finds her a pack and helps her embrace her new designation and all it means. The pack finds her an assistant to manage life with five males. Dell is a woman who has seen the dark side of alphas. When she is offered the chance to work with and for Andrea, she accepts and helps her through the loss of the child she never chose but still looked forward to. Dell had her own experience a few years earlier. The day she meets Andrea’s pack, Dell is prepared to stand in the shadows, but her own nature puts her into the path of one of the alphas, and he is delighted to finally have a breeding mate of his very own. Balancing her job and her lover will be difficult as the pack pulls tight, with Andrea and Dell firmly in the middle.

No good deed goes unpunished. A snowy bit of assistance links her to a blood alpha and sends her into a world she never asked for. Coralynn does just enough to get by. There is no point in trying harder; the world always pulls her down. She works at a restaurant in a ridiculous outfit and is ordered to rescue a limo and help some wealthy investors get to their establishment. It is the moment that Coralynn’s life skids sideways. Meeting a blood alpha in the snow was surprising. Having him show up at her home was astonishing. Feeling her body changing to accommodate him is disturbing. She becomes his lover, shares his bed, and starts to believe that her life might stay bright, and then, an attack, injuries, and a long recovery time with the book club’s caretakers makes her re-evaluate her place in the world and how lonely life was when the trust was brutally destroyed.

Jess became an archer after a meeting on an aircraft. Now she has to wonder what she was matched with. The centaur at her door is a shock. Jess has been a faithful ward of the minotaur herd until the day she is out of her mind with heat, and her dream man walks up to her door and brings her flowers. She grabs him, throws him to the floor, and has her way with him until he calls a halt and tells her he’s only willing to go all the way if he can show her the rest of him. Intriguing. Things get complicated, but she gets to home base with her centaur and is interrupted again by friends and family. Time passes, and they reunite under stressful circumstances but eventually agree on a union, another partner, and a future. Stihl has been pretending that everything will be fine, but with no job prospects, she is drifting from couch to couch until an urgent request from the book club puts her back in action as a chef. The wedding leads to her meeting up with her one-night stand, and he still is waiting for an omega. She has no choice but to run home, beg for help, and submit to her grandmother’s plans for her. It is the last thing she wants, but the only thing she can think of to save herself and her children. If their father doesn’t want them, she will find a path of her own, back through high society with an arranged marriage, just like her grandmother wanted. 79,908

Roane hates being backed into a corner, but when she’s forced to dress as a game character and her friends introduce her to the male she’s adapted for, she really wants to start biting. Roane lived a slightly traumatic but normal life until six months ago. A simple touch of the hand from one of the investors started a cellular cascade that culminated in her wearing scales where there had been skin. At a conference, she is introduced to him again, and the contact is electric. After a few short conversations, they get to know each other, and two and a half days later, she answers her phone to a horrible message. She disappears from his circle for two weeks; by then, she’s certain of a few things. The first was that he was a nice guy, and the second was that that jerk hadn’t used a condom. She doesn’t even have his number to let him know of the result. When they reconnect, he starts to make plans, but there is just one problem—his father has put a hit out on her so that his son will not suffer a broken heart. She calls her friends for help, and they get in touch with him. This is where things get weird. Will Roane’s life ever settle down, or will the extra two mates who want her for her brain be the final straw?

Issa went from ex-stripper to intoxicant with one touch of an alpha. Spending years with her skin hidden, she gets the shock of her life after a wedding when a friend introduces her to a familiar face, and her body goes wild... again. Issa lived her last few years in shadows, going out with all her skin covered until she attended a friend’s wedding and bumped into the guy who started it all for her. He just wants a hookup, and she doesn’t want to play, so she leaves him and returns home after the wedding. Covered up after a nocturnal grocery run, she finds two men on her porch, and one is her would-be hookup. The alphas agree to court her, and she agrees to let them... with conditions. There is a rough start, an awkward mistake, and a truce before they can begin moving forward to join the magic that binds them. Daynette met her alpha years ago, then attacked the same night. She had no memory of the night but one adorable souvenir. When one of Issa’s mates recognizes the little girl’s distinctive features, he makes a call. Daynette’s world tilts as she ends up looking up into eyes that look exactly like her daughter’s. Oh boy. She really wished she could remember their time together.

Bella has worked for an omega for months, but when her heat strikes, he brings her what she needs. Alphas. Bella has been seeking stable employment and is surprised to find that dealing with the needy and attention-seeking omegas is right up her alley. They thrive under her care. She works for a perfumer and model named Ulric for six months when a casual encounter with an alpha sets off a chain of events that ends up with her employer calling for an alpha to help her with her heat. That is fine until he calls another who recognizes the barely visible mark on her back, and then things get out of hand. She gets a fiancé, an omega, and another alpha in a matter of days while her fiancé’s own assistant arranges things without a hair falling out of place. Bella also gets a friend in that other assistant, and with one generous offering from her boss, the assistant gets the ingredients for a life and a future that she would never have seen coming.

The claw marks on her back came out of nowhere. Being tackled in a hot spring by a businessman, who is a real ogre when the occasion calls, leads her down a path she didn’t expect. Polly had claw marks appear on her back after a business meeting. She didn’t tell anyone, but in hot spring culture, it became harder to conceal. She made the mistake of turning her back on the alpha with her boss, and the rest was history. She broke his nose, and he proposed. That stunned her enough to consider it, and the courtship began. Her boss kept an eye on her, and Minoru eased her into the idea of marriage. In the process of wedding prep, Polly met a bunch of women who each had a different mark on their back, and they bonded under the weight of being marked for alphas they hadn’t even met by a hand they hadn’t seen. In addition to that, Polly was dealing with threats from her sister’s pack, and after a few kidnapping attempts, her alpha stepped in. Who knew that wedding prep was so complicated.

At her sister’s wedding, Olly meets the man who rejected her attempt to explain that she was his beta. Now she has to deal with him changing his mind. Olly got an invitation from her sister’s groom. She made sure that she was there on the day and watched every ceremony as it happened. Polly was glorious. The only thing that marred the day was that her heat was starting, and the one man who could sense it was there. If she goes through a heat with him, there might be no result, but it would mean she might go a year with her body quiet and calm. The mating is a disaster, but when it is over, she leaves her surprised mate and tries to resume her normal life. Normal was never going to darken her door again.

Used to pay a debt, Arty has to escape her fate, but what she really needs is luck. Fortunately, she finds him. Arty went with her mother for an evening appointment and ended up as a cam girl to pay the debt left by her deceased father. As her efforts begin to pay down the debt in record time, her boss becomes interested in more than her income. She gets a PM from a loyal pervert, and he mentions a person from her past, then asks if she wants help. She jumps at the chance to get out from under the debt, knowing the price she will probably be asked to pay. Her boss refuses the money but agrees to rent her out for the month. Creepy but manageable. Arty is brought to safety and meets her benefactor, the same man she rejected five years earlier... and his omega. It turns out that the alpha’s omega mate was her super fan. Just her luck.

Penny’s life just flipped. She’s been fired without cause, found by her stalker, and had to engage a lawyer. And her day is about to get worse. Penny thought life was good until her ex-boyfriend comes into her office with his current girlfriend—her boss—on his arm. When the new girlfriend leaves them alone for a minute, he attacks with alarming brutality, but Penny is the one who loses her job. After a few weeks, she gets a lawyer, who tells her she can call anytime. So, when she survives an attack by her ex, she calls him, and he meets her at the hospital. Jax is an alpha with extras, and his situation is similar to Penny’s. He has one appendage that she is aware of—his five-year-old daughter. Over the course of a week, Penny has to go from nothing to being offered a pack-style living arrangement with Jax, his daughter, and another alpha who also has an aquatic adaptation. If she says no, they will still help but not give up, and if she says yes, she can throw a five-year-old’s birthday party. It’s no contest.

The request sent to Ven is shocking, but the money is good and will help a lot of people. An omega and his feline alpha need her as an emotional support beta. Interesting job. Emotionally damaged to her core, Ven gets the request to become a calming influence for a traumatized omega. He has an alpha who has some of the feline characteristics that Ven had developed several years ago. After going over the contract, she agrees to their terms, and that is when things slip from her control. The island is warm, the omega is cuddly, and she sees so much of her own past trauma in his eyes. She comforts him, he comforts her, and the alpha spends time with both of them. She deals with hostile locals, attempts on her life, and a kidnapping that brings up the past. Her new partners have a job in front of them if they want to keep their cute little beta.

Bumping into her ex-boyfriend ten years later was unexpected, but having their attraction flare and include two other alphas was shocking, even without the dragons. Eliana was travelling to become her friend’s nanny. The journey on the private plane was long, but the presence of a familiar face made it an eternity. Ten years earlier, her then-boyfriend had marked her and left town. It had been a shocking turn of events. He had told her he loved her, then morphed into a dragon and pressed fire onto her back. Efforts by friends had stilled the fire in her and left the mark hollow, and now... here he was with two friends, and they were all staring at her. Life as a nanny was short. Keahi, Nalu, and Mano all began courting her, and her new boss decided that she could start later or not at all. Dealing with a decade-long hurt was difficult. Dealing with two dragons and a giant shark was easy in comparison. Can the fairy tale restart with a deep dive into the ocean, or will it sink before it swims?

Stuck with the scars of an impulsive decision, Ula finds herself in the clutches of those who offer to help... for a price. Ula is volunteering at a day camp when one of her co-volunteers notices that she is having difficulty. He helps to get in touch with a healer to help her through a past issue, and it starts her in a tumble down a rabbit hole with alphas her only option to land on. Ula’s best friend, Merry, supports her in her introduction to the fox alphas that match Ula’s bunny. With a deep sigh, Merry leaves Ula to introduce herself to her final alpha and settles down in the club to wait. Merry feels a tingle on her skin and studiously avoids looking to her right where her own alphas are enjoying their evening. Of course, they didn’t know they were hers, but she did. Her beast had taken her out and tattooed their beasts on her back. It was hard not to know when the marks were staring at her in the mirror when she dressed in the morning. Their attention is caught, and they focus on her and the tattoos visible in her cocktail dress. Understanding dawns quickly, and when she opens her wings to get away, it sets a series of events in motion that have her in their arms before the evening is out. As best friends, they have always done things together, but Ula and Merry have to draw the line at sharing mates. They each have more than enough to keep them busy.

Blinded on the most hopeful day of her life, Zara has to find her way through darkness with the help of friends, while the one partner she can find has to locate others to complete the mark on her back. It’s a lot of pressure on a first date. Zara had another name on the most hope-filled day of her life. Her business plan was ready, and her bakery expansion was underway. She ended up kidnapped, sprayed with acid, and branded. It was the beginning of an experience that would change her forever. She sought help and fell in with a group of women who had other horrifying experiences with alphas and had come through the other side. Zara is told that her kidnapper was a demon alpha. She needs a total of three to make a legion and to give her a chance at regaining her sight. Fortunately, the woman who has taken her in as a project and hobby has a grandson, and he is hot as hell. It’s a start.

Win has spent her life on the run. Caught once, she has resolved to never be in that position again. She can be in two places at once and watch her own back. Win survived being taken by the Elite and got herself home again. They didn’t dare take her twice. Now, Win’s sister has been duped into leaving the safe zone and is out where the Elite can capture her, so she calls for help, and help arrives. Massacring the brutal elves is the highlight of her week. Taking photos at a wedding as she filled in for a photographer who cancelled is a close second. Working to save her family and free her friends and those like her, Win sets out to break the Stronghold and start a life after panic. It’s a good thing that others have the same goal.

Poppy helped free the dark elves from the Stronghold, but now, she is stuck going on a work assignment that will take her to the tropics and introduce her to the love of her life. Both of them. The company that employs Poppy needs one more person for a reality survival show for game design companies only. She is the last one who can be added to the roster as she is a single female beta. She is the employee of last resort. On the plane ride, she is outed as an Elite omega, and the other extra contestants form into their dark elf skins with big grins. This wasn’t going to be weird at all. The sun, sand, and friendly locals on Wonder Island are great, but Poppy just wants to power through the assignments and get herself back home. The organizers of the games have other ideas. Win or lose, Poppy is getting this over with.

Asel survived the worst the Stronghold could do, but now, she was home and trying to fit back into a life that wasn’t her size anymore. Asel is a twin, and she clung to that after the Elite took her. She made it her focus to keep them from knowing about her sister. When they finished toying with Asel, they threw her into a pit and drained her power for years. Her energy made the Elite’s magic. When the ladies arrived to free the Stronghold, she escaped after they had gone, on her own, and with the others in her oubliette. They went two years back in time, returned to the family farm, and began their recovery. Emotional support chickens to the rescue. With her twin, Honey, she jaunts off to do some work in the islands, and when she returns home, her job as a hotel clerk is thrown into disarray by her sister leading Asel’s mates to her, and so, Asel returns the favour with Honey. Finding balance with their partners is tricky, but with a little effort and a lot of patient courtship, they find their way. The wilding and the princess have met their matches.

Pandora and Gia know one thing. Their mates don’t want them. Now, one is stuck in a challenging job, and the other, a loveless marriage. What’s an elf omega to do? Gia fell into a coma on the day her link to her mates was severed. Years later, she wakes to get her mind and body back together slowly. It’s a hard fight, but she gets her limbs under her control and returns to her family business. Six months later, her father tells her that she has a husband and that the marriage is legal and binding. When her husband has a moment, he will introduce himself. Oh, joy. Pandora has been trying to get herself together for longer than she can remember. She remembers falling and then nothing. She spent a lot of time floating around trying to find herself, but it was ten years later that she ended up in a city and looking for a place to come to herself. A woman steps in front of her and speaks to her kindly. Pandora can’t really understand, but when the woman touches her, Pandora is standing on her feet again instead of the billowing mist that she had been riding in. Adapting to the modern age is difficult, but when she understands what she is, she understands what happened. Her mate rejected her, and it nearly destroyed her. Now, she has to learn what to do next.