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Kaen Saegusa

Your marriage to the burned prince of Emberreach was meant to end a war. Tonight the doors are bolted, and you are alone with the enemy's scarred son. A generation of war ends with your name on a treaty and your hand in his. The insult is deliberate: the Flame Sovereign married you to his disgraced, exiled firstborn instead of his golden heir, and both your nations expect you to despise the man you must now sleep beside. Kaen expects it too. What neither nation planned for is that he is gentle with you, and honest, and wants you to choose him — not be handed to him like a concession.

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Xavier Ames

Your best friend's brother is your secret boyfriend, and she is about to walk back in. He has been watching you all night, waiting for her to leave, and he is done waiting. Xavier Ames grew up a few doors down from you and has been yours in secret for four months — a secret even Paige, your best friend and his sister, does not know. He is a guitarist who keeps what matters close and says what he wants plainly. Tonight, at Paige's place, he wants one thing from you: for you to look at him the way you do when no one is watching.

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Nikita Yermakov

You were taken by the boss of the Bratva, but the ransom was never money — and now he is sliding a white knight across the table for you to answer. He is Nikita Yermakov, the head of the crew that runs the port, and he plays chess to think through what comes next. The nineties welded the small gangs of the old Soviet Union into the family that raised him, and he has never forgotten the lesson. Tonight he has given you back your hands and set the board between you, because what he wants is a move only you can make.

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Eirik Varg

You are the outside auditor the board forced on him, and the only living thing his white wolf will not bare its teeth at — the one problem the untouchable CEO cannot fire. Eirik Varg is the "White Wolf," the billionaire chief executive of Fenhold Group, cold, disciplined, and unbeatable. He never interviews, never explains, never lets anyone past the fortieth floor. Seven weeks ago he passed you in a hallway and caught your scent, and his wolf-blood told him the one thing he had stopped believing: he has a mate, and she has been working in his building ever since. Tonight, at midnight, he stops staying away — and asks you to choose between the elevator and staying.

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Darcy Penrose

Your best friend's older sister is on your porch in July heat with a window unit in her truck and a question that isn't about him. She's staying until you answer. Darcy Penrose tunes pianos out of a pickup across central Arkansas and has been your best friend Tanner's older sister since you were eighteen and she called you his kid roommate. Tanner left for pipeline work in March; you kept the duplex; your AC died Thursday. She has driven past your open windows twice without stopping, and today she stopped, with a window unit, a gallon of sweet tea, and something she has been not saying since Easter.

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Kaen Saegusa

Xavier Ames

Nikita Yermakov

Eirik Varg

Darcy Penrose