The Cost Of Knowing

"You're not the type of girl I'd usually kiss," he says, his eyes fixed on my lips. "But I'll do it anyway." Then the cocky jerk leans in and kisses me. *** He claims to like her, she claims she'd never be stupid enough to trust a bad boy with her heart. *** After the death of her best friend, Ava Jordan Hansen's main goal is to get through senior year without losing her mind. She badly wants a distraction from her dark thoughts...but is tutoring the school's bad boy the solution? Jude Walker's life has never been easy--not since he made a mistake that turned his family against him. His father cut him off at 18, and to support himself, he took up underground fighting, modelling--whatever puts a buck in his pocket. He needs a university scholarship and to fix his Math grade, he finds himself thrown together with a smartass good girl. The two seem so different at a glance--the nerdy girl with a smart mouth and the troublesome bad boy with a different girl pressed against his locker every week. But they both have their own trauma, fighting not to drown in their pain. Will they help each other survive, or will they drag each other deeper under the surface?

Blaire Presley goes to the Carter residence, battered and bruised after being tormented by the three Carter brothers for three days. "Mr. and Mrs. Carter Senior, I've decided to marry Matthew Carter." Olivia Barrymore is surprised. "Are you sure you have the right guy, Blaire? Matt is those three brats' uncle!" Blaire isn't sure, but she has no other choice.

Rose, a young orphaned werewolf, was taken into another pack after her parents were killed by a rival pack who wanted their lands for themselves. When it is time for Rose to have a mate, her mate happens to be Nate, the son of the Alpha of the pack that murdered her parents. She rejects him and undergoes a series of issues which causes her to have to stay with him for a while. Both of them hate themselves but have to live together for a while due to circumstances. During this time, Rose gets kidnapped and Nate has to get them back. They eventually realize that they actually do like each other and the process of falling in love begins.

**Warning: This title contains m/f/m sexual situations. BWWM Romance: Coral is going through the world's worst breakup. Her boyfriend left her without so much as an explantion, and now all of her personal belongings are thrown all over her parent's front lawn. When she goes back to her job she finds two gorgeous strangers who want to purchase her best properties. While driving there Lev and Indigo begin to ask her very personal questions. The two sexy strangers make a deal with her to purchase her most expensive property if she gives in and indulges them in this intimate conversation. Soon things heat up and the conversation sparks a rendezvous that leaves Coral feeling torn between the two...

Desire turns the most dangerous lesson among the knowledge and power centers. Fabian Fernandez arrived at college intent on keeping his head down, preserving his scholarship, and creating a life outside the gates of his university. Focus becomes more difficult to sustain, however, when he starts Dr. Tobias Reyes's literature class. Tobias is brilliant, remote, and inaccessible until late nights and snatched moments turn boundaries into attraction. Starting as mentorship, it turns into something neither can ignore. But secrets don't remain buried in an elite university. Whispers become rumors; someone is observing, ready to exploit their prohibited link as leverage. Fabian has everything to lose. Tobias has already survived one scandal that nearly killed him. They have to determine now if their relationship merits the risk of revelation or if the price of loving one another is too expensive.

In the third year of our marriage, my husband's first love got a divorce. He gave her the forty-five thousand dollars we had saved for a house because she was left with nothing and struggling to make ends meet. I urged him to ask for the money back, but he pointed at my face and angrily shouted, "You used to be so gentle and virtuous—what happened? Why are you so selfish, so shallow now?" "Is forty-five thousand dollars really worth you making a fuss over?" "Chloe is starting over with nothing, raising a child on her own. Don't you feel any sympathy for her?" Fine. He was noble, he was merciful. I did not argue further, because the one who needed money for cancer treatment was him, not me.