NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Taking place nearly a century before the events of A Game of Thrones, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin’s ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES AND BUZZFEEDThese never-before-collected adventures recount an age when the Targaryen line still holds the Iron Throne, and the memory of the last dragon has not yet passed from living consciousness. Before Tyrion Lannister and Podrick Payne, there was Dunk and Egg.A young, naïve but ultimately courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals—in stature if not experience. Tagging along is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg—whose true name is hidden from all he and Dunk encounter. Though more improbable heroes may not be found in all of Westeros, great destinies lay ahead for these two . . . as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits. Featuring more than 160 all-new illustrations by Gary Gianni, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a must-have collection that proves chivalry isn’t dead—yet.Praise for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms“Readers who already love Martin and his ability to bring visceral human drama out of any story will be thrilled to find this trilogy brought together and injected with extra life.”—Booklist“The real reason to check out this collection is that it’s simply great storytelling. Martin crafts a living, breathing world in a way few authors can. . . . [Gianni’s illustrations] really bring the events of the novellas to life in beautiful fashion.”—Tech Times“Stirring . . . As Tolkien has his Silmarillion, so [George R. R.] Martin has this trilogy of foundational tales. They succeed on their own, but in addition, they succeed in making fans want more.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Pure fantasy adventure, with two of the most likable protagonists George R. R. Martin has ever penned.”—Bustle“A must-read for Martin’s legion of fans . . . a rousing prelude to [his] bestselling Song of Ice and Fire saga . . . rich in human drama and the colorful worldbuilding that distinguishes other books in the series.”—Publishers Weekly Read more

I fu*king hate my next-door neighbor, Piper.She always turns her nose up whenever we bump into each other in the hallway, tells me to lower my music when I can barely hear it myself, finds something wrong with me, and glares at me every chance she gets. It’s like she gets offended by the very air I breathe.It shouldn’t turn me on, but it does.Especially since it’s hard to ignore just how beautiful she is, how her eyes light up when she’s genuinely happy, or how she tries to mask her sadness with anger.I fu*king hate Piper.Mostly because she ignores me.So I do what every mature, self-respecting man in his mid-30s does when he’s attracted to someone who won’t ever give him the time of day—I piss her off, then flirt with her, then ask her out.Piper thinks I’m joking.She never says no, just rakes her eyes up and down my body and turns her back on me with a scoff.Fine, Piper. Fine. I get the message.Challenge accepted. Read more

I don’t give a flying f*ck if my absentee father got married and acquired a new daughter.But it’s an entirely different matter when he dumps her on my front door a day before Halloween. Because I’d rather have someone who wears a hockey mask and carries a machete for a roommate.I don’t get much choice because she’s already here, so I just have to suffer in her presence for one night. Just one. Then, I’ll go send her to another apartment complex and never have to see her ever again.At least, that’s the plan before I see her.When I get home, Raven sits on the stairs, head down and shoulders slumped.The girl looks up, and the vision rips the soul clean off my body.Is she for real? How can someone look this beautiful? Are my eyes playing tricks on me? There’s no way. There’s just no way.But she is. And whatever fiery anger I initially felt quickly morphs into something else—something darker, deeper, and more intense. OBSESSION.It’s more than just a potent desire to have her. I get this primal need to protect her and keep her safe.Whoever touches or hurts her is a dead man.If anyone wants to test that, there’s only one thing they can do…F*ck around and find out. Read more

I’ve been obsessed with Jenna since the moment I laid eyes on her.I don’t think she notices me, which is fine because I’m nothing but a librarian with the looks of a lumberjack. Someone as perfect as her doesn’t deserve someone like me.But…My obsession with her has already taken root, shocking me down to the marrow of my bones, and there’s nothing I can do about it. Nothing but stare at her from afar, flooded by visions of her writhing as I’m pumping her full with my seed, binding her to me.So when she comes to the library after a party looking for me…all thoughts fly out the window. All sensible, logical thoughts. Who cares? I’ll be a fool if I waste this one shot with her.And now that I’ve gotten a taste…Let’s just say…it’s easier to gnaw off a limb than let her go. She’s f*cking mine. Anyone who disagrees can go straight to hell. Read more

Jobless, practically penniless, and nowhere to go but home.Never in a million years would I believe that losing my job after federal agents raided my corporate headquarters would lead me to find the love of my life. Two months postgraduate, I have to return to my small hometown of Tamworth, Maryland.The bonus?Dean Dawson. Sex on stilts, muscle-jacked frame, and haunting gray eyes that pull you in and never let go.The problem?He's my stepbrother. While we were close as teenagers, we’d grown up and apart since then. However, that doesn't stop him from trying to help me get a job. Despite his efforts, one thing leads to another, and my unintentional theft leads me into his back office, where he promises to ‘punish’ me. Love is hard to find, but what happens when your stepbrother steals your heart? Read more

GwenEverything was finally falling into place. I’d recently graduated from college, gotten my own place, and landed my dream job at the bank. Things couldn’t have been better . . . or so I’d thought until my perfect life was turned upside down by a man with a snake tattoo and a gun hell-bent on robbing my bank. It’s just my luck that I’m the only one who recognizes him, so it’s my eye-witness account that sees him arrested. But he has friends who want nothing more than to shut me up by any means necessary. The police say they can’t protect me, but they know someone who can. Now I’m trapped in a remote cabin with a beast of a man who promises to keep me safe. But who will protect me from falling for my bodyguard? Will Jax save my life only to break my heart?JaxPlagued by the demons of my former life as a Marine, I now split my days between the gym and my job as a security consultant. It’s a boring routine, but it suits me just fine. That is, until my little brother the police officer comes to me for help protecting a witness. I want to say no, but when I catch sight of Gwen, I can’t make myself form the words. Next thing I know, I’m locked in my cabin with this angel on Earth. As we grow closer, it becomes clear that Gwen is the only one who can settle the turmoil inside me, and I’ll do anything to protect her. And when the danger finally passes, I won’t be letting her go. Gwen is mine. Read more

Tess is supposed to be just my classmate. Just someone I sit behind in three classes. Someone I pass by without a second glance. Someone I shouldn’t give a rat’s ass about.But … she has taken over my life.Every waking hour of every day.Her face is burned into my retinas. Her voice is etched into my brain.Her laughter—in particular—plays in a loop in my head.She doesn’t know it, but she’s burrowed herself into my life.I look at her and feel a longing so desperate and deep.I can stare at her all day long and still not get my fill. But everyone has impossible dreams, right?Mine is Tess.While I walk around with a visible reminder of my past and the filth I carried for the past few years, she’s there in all her perfect glory.Beautiful. Witty. Funny. Kind. Sweet. Bright future ahead.All the things I’m not. All the things I’ll never be.Tess is out of my league, but she’s the fire in my otherwise dank, colorless life.And if I’m being completely honest, I’ll gladly burn in her presence. Read more

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When my favorite aunt tells me her best friend, Max, is staying in my spare bedroom, I don’t think much about it.Besides, I’m single and have zero responsibilities. A roommate is nothing. At least we can split the rent and other bills.But when Max knocks on my front door, naked hunger flares in me, my heart kicking hard enough to hurt at the sight. Because there’s one thing dear aunt forgot to mention … Max is a girl.No, scratch that.She’s a woman. A gorgeous, green-eyed goddess.Wicked desire buzzes beneath my skin, and the blood boils through my veins like acid, the maddening need to have her jolting through me.Unfortunately, she’s a tough nut to crack, and it takes a lot to convince her she should go out with someone eight years younger than her and her best friend’s nephew to boot.I am nothing if not persistent, so I do whatever I can to make her mine. I will stop if she tells me to. Until then, she will belong to me—heart, body, and soul.After all, I’m never one to do anything by half measure. Read more

When my best friend calls me in the middle of the night and orders me to help his little sister, I want to choke the life out of him. It’s almost 1 AM and I’ve just popped open my first bottle of beer. I was looking forward to a relaxing weekend free from the smell of grease and exhaust.I guess that’s not happening anymore.With a groan and a couple of curses, I grudgingly drive to the outskirts of town. I know Nora. She used to tag along with me and Keith until he yelled at her to go home. She had red, curly hair, a smattering of freckles across her nose and cheeks, and the cutest dimple on her chin.For some reason, I half-expect to see some kid in the car, and I even briefly wonder if she’s old enough to get a license.When I finally find her, she turns around and seizes my heart clean off my chest.She’s my best friend’s sister, and I’m way older than her. She’s flawless, perfect. I’m just an ordinary man with dirt under his fingernails.So many reasons not to touch her and stay as far away from her as possible.But…all it takes is for her to look at me like she wants me too and whatever wall of excuses I’ve erected around myself comes crumbling down.Nora’s mine. I should feel guilty about claiming her, but I don’t. I need her in my life. As for the consequences, I can’t bring myself to give a damn. As long as I have her. F*ck everything else. Read more

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A detective tracks a poetry-obsessed serial bomber—meter by deadly meter—in an explosively clever short story by international bestselling author Jeffery Deaver.When an improvised explosive device is found outside a hospital, the understaffed Middleton PD knows it’s up against a pro. No one takes credit for the sophisticated device—all that Detective Jake Sloan has to go on is a poem. The cryptic rhyme surfaced shortly after the bomb scare. But ex-soldier and football player Sloan has never been much of a poetry buff. When a second verse turns up, containing a message in code, he solicits the help of English professor Ciara Hawkins. Together, they rush to read between the lines and stop the countdown to tragedy. But as the clock ticks, Sloan senses that beneath this complex case is a motive that is simpler and more disturbing than anyone could have anticipated. Read more

KatyaLife as a Bratva princess isn’t easy. All I’ve ever wanted is for my family to love me, but I might as well be invisible, that is until my father needs a bargaining chip when negotiating an alliance with a rival family. Suddenly, I find myself betrothed to man old enough to be my grandfather and with a reputation for cruelty. No amount of begging will convince him to change his mind, and I refuse to resign myself to such an awful fate. Instead, I run away, straight into the arms of the most dangerous man in the city, a man even my father fears. Luca tells me that I’m his now. His to keep. To claim. To possess. To marry. Have I simply traded one dark future for another, or could tying myself to Luca actually be my ticket to freedom?LucaI’ve made a career out of being feared. I’ve worked my way up from the gutters to the top of the pecking order as the underboss of the Italian Mafia. With my position comes both power and responsibility. There’s a war brewing between the families, and it’s my job to make sure the Borachios come out on top. But when a beautiful redhead with sad, lonely eyes crosses my path, everything I thought I wanted shifts. Avoiding war doesn’t seem like such a high priority if it means I have to give up my princess. Katya is mine. War and betrothals be damned. I’ll burn the entire city if that’s what it takes to keep Katya. No one else will ever have what’s mine. Read more

In the chaos of the emergency room, our eyes lock, my heart slamming in my ribcage at the sight of her. Haley Lyons—a woman who hits me like a lightning strike and who I instantly know is mine. Except, she’s not just any other patient. She's my son's ex-girlfriend. And he’s right there, sitting next to my little girl, watching me look over every inch of her.I should resist her. Resist the fierce hunger and possessiveness she raises in me.But Haley's beauty even in her moments of illness overwhelms my senses. In her presence, everything else fades. I'm consumed by a wicked need to make this young and innocent angel my own, to possess her completely.She’s off-limits. Or at least, she’s supposed to be.But, unless it concerns my patients, I’ve never been good at following rules. So I will have her. I’ll stake my claim and bind her to me…forever. Because what’s life without her?Good f*cking thing I’ll never have to find out. Read more

In the gritty streets of the city, where crime lurks around every corner, I thought I had seen it all. But then she came into my life. I catch her shoplifting, but she steals more than just some tawdry merchandise.She steals my heart, mind and sanity.As a seasoned cop, I know better than to get involved. She’s trouble personified, a rebel with a cause, and I’m supposed to be the one upholding the law, not breaking it.But from the moment I catch her stealing, something shifts inside me. Beneath her tough exterior, I see a vulnerability that calls to me, a wounded soul yearning for redemption.And heaven help me, but I’m obsessed. So much so that I become criminal myself. I stalk her.Obsessive, possessive and over the top, these men will do anything to get the women they love. But their love is all-consuming and knows no boundaries—so much so that they become stalkers.Forget sugar and spice and everything nice. These stalkers will show you how it’s done, from A to Z!If you love obsessive, possessive, stalker age gap romances featuring billionaires, doctors, nerds, athletes and more, then Stalking A–Z is for you! Fast-paced and full of steam, HEA guaranteed! Read more

GritSaying I’ve been through tough times is an understatement. I’ve stared death straight in the face a few times too many. And yet, the hardest thing I’ve ever had to face is knowing I can’t have what I want. Or, I should say who I want. The girl who owns me. Heart and soul.She may be off limits, but temptation is the Devil’s calling, and resistance is hard to come by when she’s standing right in front of me looking like a ripe goddess. I want to devour Hailey. Breathe her in and never exhale. But I can’t. The powers that be won’t let me. So no matter how desperate I am for a taste, I won’t give into my cravings.But dangle a ripe little cherry in front of a starving man’s face, and see if he can resist. He may actually think the consequences are worth the crime.*Landry's Love Note: This is an MC Romance Novella. All characters are over eighteen and more than willing;) HEA guaranteed.* Read more

He’s grumpy. He’s cocky. He’s probably out of my league.But the craziest part?I think he just might be into me.Cody Walker is a cocky grump.Okay, fine. He’s a hot cocky grump. But still.I don’t have time for his teasing or his jokes.I’m a woman on a mission. And I’m not about to let anyone stand in my way.Especially not him.Besides, guys who look like Cody don’t go for curvy girls like me.Right?I mean yeah, he did sort of save my life.And he was really sweet when I basically fell apart in his arms.Ugh.I don’t know.Now it’s just the two of us out here in the woods, caught in the rain.And he wants to take me back to his cabin.I can’t believe I’m actually saying this but...I think I just might go with him. Read more

Before I laid my eyes on her, I had one goal—to build my legacy. That’s it.I steer clear of distractions or any hindrances to achieving that lifelong dream.Then, Bailey comes along and all cosmic hell breaks loose. Because…Bailey is the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen, and while that awakens a primal hunger in me, I soon find out that she’s more than just a pretty face. She’s smart, witty, and takes no shit from anyone…including me.And the best part? She’s as driven and ambitious as me.The problem is that Bailey is not just another beat writer, and her connection to someone who’s determined to make my life a living hell makes things complicated.Too bad because the moment our lips touch, she becomes mine, and anyone who has worked with me will say one thing—I do not have it in me to quit. That means I take care and protect what belongs to me.Bailey belongs to me. Anyone stupid enough to come between us will soon realize just how different I become when I turn feral. F*ck with me and find out, I guess. Read more

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