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Willow Carter is a plus-sized girl with lots of attitude and very low self-esteem. When her mother and oler sister force her to jog to slim down for her sister's wedding, she is attacked by a madman and rescued by a savior. But just because a man saves your life doesn't mean you should trust him. Soon she throws herself into a thrilling game of cat and mouse that brings more pain than pleasure and puts everyone she loves in harm's way.

Ethan West has never been one to control his wolf, he let his instincts rule and they never failed him. Until his wolf insisted on marking Mia Kane as his mate. Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if Mia wasn't a human. Ethan despised humans and taking one as a mate was the last thing he wanted to do.

Mia Kane should be living her best life, her music career took off, she won a Grammy for best new artist and she was selling out arenas all over the world. Life was perfect except for the fact that she tragically lost her family in an accident the night of the awards show. When the whirlwind was over her best friend and manager Elizabeth Jones forces her to take some down time at her parent's bed and breakfast. When Ethan shifts and bites her, her life takes an unexpected turn for the worst.

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Thirty-seven-year-old Sugar Wallace used her bitter divorce as a sweet inspiration to pursue her lifelong dream of opening a trendy dessert and wine restaurant called Sugar Mama. Her friends and family want her to dive back into the dating game, but Sugar refuses to open her heart to another. Not when the man she gave her heart to for eighteen years of marriage crushed it after cheating on her with a young Instagram model. She's perfectly content with a busy life of running a successful business. Then one night, she witnesses a forty-six-year-old beaten man get pushed from a car and everything changes.

Emily has never wanted a man so bad until Elijah Smith. An Illinois born and bred small town bad boy who grew up just down the road from her. The only problem is, he's her childhood and high school bully. So when he comes around with flowers, muscles, and tattoos she isn't so willing to forget his torturous ways so easily.

Twenty-seven year-old Layla Jones made a promise to Dominic Slater ten years ago that she intended to keep. But the night her Step-Father took her innocence was the night she knew she could never keep that promise. Besides, why would Dominic want her if he knew what had been done. So she did the only thing she could do to protect him from that. She ran away and never looked back.

Dominic Slater never forgotten about Layla. In fact, she haunts his dreams and even more so took a piece of him that he could never reclaim without her. So when she comes back into his life, he won't let whatever hurt in the past pull them apart again. 

Could she not comprehend that he had a reckoning to deliver?

The Fire Rises

She was only a debt to him... or so she thought.