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The Red King is known around the world for being a wise diplomat—and for being tragically single.

King Randall III has everything one could want: power, charm, beauty, and enough diplomatic wit to earn him the nickname ‘Emperor of the Continent.’ The one thing he’s lacking is a husband.

When Randall’s sister invites men far and wide to woo him, only three make the cut: a noble sorcerer, a royal alchemist, and a mysterious easterner who reveals nothing of himself other than a name. A fourth lingers in the shadows, dreaming of the chance he’s been too afraid to take for four years.

Each of them is hiding a secret, including King Randall himself, who falls victim to a beastly curse when night falls. As pasts are revealed, relationships formed, one thing becomes clear: no one will leave the Red King’s court the same they entered.

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You can’t make everyone happy, no matter how hard you try.

Wallace has only ever wanted one thing—to make his father proud. It’s the only reason he’s training to become a council assassin, but he’s not sure he’ll ever be able to go into that line of work. The problem is that his father won’t take no for an answer.

Hawthorne has known Wallace is his mate since the first day of training. He’s too old and grumpy for the young man, so he’s been hiding his scent from him while he tries to find a way out of it, even though he’s not sure he wants to lose Wallace.

When Wallace’s father decides to pull him out of the program, Hawthorne knows he has to do something, and not only for himself. He suggests that Wallace could stay with him for a few days.

And only later realizes that the spray he uses to hide his scent is empty.

Wallace can’t keep hiding forever, but after finding out Hawthorne is his mate, he wants to. But if he wants to be a worthy mate, he has to finally stop trying to make his father happy and focus on himself instead.

And on Hawthorne.

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Augustus couldn’t bear to let his only sister Alice marry the devil, but the marriage contract between the two families could not be annulled. For the sake of his sister’s happiness, Augusto decided to take advantage of the loopholes in the contract and sacrifice his own happiness.

That night was Alice’s birthday dinner, and Pietro was there as her fiancé. Augusto’s eyes never left Pietro and he wouldn’t give him any chance to hurt Alice. But no one expected that in the end the news would come out that Alice had kissed another man.

To appease the anger of the mafia family, Augusto chose to take over all of this, but Pietro asked him to take Alice’s place.

Augusto won’t know that this is all Pietro’s plan, just to catch him.

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Out of the Cage: Spotting a number of fishy things in his town, a deputy is ready when finally facing the paranormal.

Nathan Kaldwell has been a deputy in the town of Stone Ridge for many years. In that time, he’s noticed a few peculiarities in many of the town’s occupants. Since the occupants’ oddities never seem to pose a danger to anyone, Nathan keeps the information to himself. When a motorcycle gang comes to town, being a bike enthusiast, he stops to admire their rides.

To Nathan’s surprise, what he thinks is a large gray dog in a sidecar turns out to be a wolf. A shocking series of events reveals that the wolf is also a man named Khan, a paranormal creature called a shifter. While Nathan’s attracted to the pretty man, he spots the tell-tale signs of a wounded and abused soul. He’s not certain if even what the shifters call the mate-pull can convince the skittish Khan to stay in human form for him.

When Nathan learns there’s shifter hunters in the area, can he keep Khan safe in either form?

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The only thing worse than waking up stuck in a time loop is realizing your ex is trapped there with you.

When Chris begrudgingly agrees to accompany his best friend Quinn on a university trip to Michigan’s picturesque Mackinac Island, he expects to suffer through a weekend of sightseeing, school-mandated activities, and entirely too much souvenir shopping. What he doesn’t anticipate is also having to avoid the boy who broke his heart.

Percy used to love his family’s annual excursions to Mackinac Island, but that all changed with the loss of his mother. This school trip is his chance to revisit some of their favorite haunts and honor her memory. However, what’s already guaranteed to be an emotionally charged weekend grows only more fraught when he discovers that he’s not only caught in a time loop, but that the boy he’d walked away from two years ago is his sole companion.

Forced together by the fickle whims of the universe, Chris and Percy must reopen old wounds and confront their painful pasts if they ever hope to escape their infinite Saturday. But even as they grow closer across myriad iterations of the same unending day, they grapple with one terrifying question: can the fragile connection they’re rebuilding survive their inevitable return to the real world?

A Thousand Second Chances is a standalone M/M contemporary romance novel in the A Dash of Modern Magic series.

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