One night with my billionaire boss and I get knocked up... Damien is my brother’s best friend, looks like an Adonis, richer than you can imagine and a complete alpha-hole. Working for him is no picnic, we’ve always butted heads, but he didn’t have to ruin my last presentation. During a busi ...
The biggest mistake Marcia Powers ever made was letting ballplayer Brock Carter walk out of her life. She made him choose his career over her hometown and held onto a secret—a four-year-old daughter posing as her baby sister.
Brock’s back and this time, he wants answers, e ...
Loyalty... Honor... Dignity...
Just a few short months after the shifter emergence tensions are already running high. Asked to join Alpha Squad to promote cooperation between shifters and human authorities, Eric King is not convinced of its relevance. Despite suspicion that the Secretary ...
Victorian Prostitute. Billionaire Bad Boy. Philip, Duke of Solemn was in love with the kingdom’s prostitute. He was determined to keep her even if it meant abdicating his place in the ruling line. Juliet was forced into prostitution to support her ailing parents. Her first customer was the duke hims ...
10 years later I got the job of a lifetime. My new boss is the grandfather of a cowboy Billionaire. The shock on our faces as he mounts off his horse is priceless.
Growing pains. Every pack has them, and it’s Gladstone’s turn in a blustery winter filled with changes. After Jack discovers disturbing information in Hezekiah’s journals, male Omegas face a new and dangerous threat. If that weren’t enough, Ash’s attempt to claim a troubled visitor leaves them wi ...
He’s the poster child for selfishness, flaunting his scandalous reputation in the heart of New York City. Attracting paparazzi like bees to honey. Marcell Baptiste is an alpha male, grumpy, playboy, billionaire Who is used to getting what he wants? He’s a real estate entrepreneur with a list of the ...
One steamy night in Paris, I had a quick and dirty fling with a Scotsman who wouldn't tell me his name. Ten months later, my boss sends me to Scotland to broker a business deal with tech mogul Evan MacTaggart. There's just one problem. The seductive billionaire is the man from Paris, and I still can ...
Rebounding with hockey's bad boy felt more right than wrong when my ex dumped me on my birthday. Carson Rhodes is one of the dirtiest pro hockey players on ice and someone I can’t stand. I had one goal the night I landed in his bed. I wanted to feel good. It was meant to be nothing more than a on ...
“I don’t want to go to bed with you tonight, Little Rabbit.” Lucky tipped her chin up and leaned in close, until she felt his warm breath on her face. “You don’t?” A thousand thoughts rushed through Trinity’s head, none of which were complimentary. Of course, he doesn’t. “No. I want to wake up ...
A mafia romance book capturing the power of love and luck...
Lily secretly hates kids' birthday parties. It takes a finger of whiskey on the rocks to get her through wrapping yet another girl birthday gift. They're just one more reminder that she's trapped -- knocked off of her career path and stuck in a place where no one knows her as anything more than a wi ...
Emmett’s worst nightmare is having a live-in nanny for his daughter. Well, guess who just got dumped at his doorstep. Only a week after being hired by Britney Winters, She drops me and her daughter off at her ex’s apartment to go yachting. For three months. If my mother was Vacation Without My Daugh ...
All it takes is one look, and I can’t breathe. The slightest touch from him unhinges me. But a single kiss is my undoing. Love is complicated, and from Liv’s experience, it hurts like hell. But she refused to let that stop her from living and loving again. The perfect guy was out there waiting for h ...
I never thought I’d fall for a grumpy single dad, twice my age… Until this protective former NFL star reached into my panties and had me screaming on his desk. Jace Saxon is uptight and always trying to save someone. The man is confusing and annoyingly perfect. Only problem: getting him ...
I was running for my life when my car died in a blizzard. Then he found me.
Liam Hudson is a ghost on this mountain. A grumpy, ex-military park ranger with a past carved into the hard lines of his face and a body built for survival. He pulled me from the storm and into the ru ...
He's my rival, a ruthless and arrogant Technology billionaire. Now he's my only hope for survival and my forbidden obsession.
I never thought I'd turn to Craig Hunter for help again.
Ten years ago, he was my teenage crush, and m ...
A Mafia conspiracy. A female undercover cop. A honed and fit suspect - international boxer and billionaire playboy, Freddie La Salle. Interpol cop, Anna Leyton, spirals down into a hopeless vortex of sexual and emotional turmoil as she fights to keep her professional cool in her latest assignme ...
Lisa – I never planned to write steamy romances, but what started as a way to pay the bills is now a pretty lucrative side hustle. My real dream is to write children's books, so I took a job with an education company to learn the ropes. Things started off great, until I met my boss’ brother, who cou ...
Sacred sexual rituals bring Taras soul to the ancient Temple of Astarte
Tara is a young American who travels to Jerusalem, where she meets Yoni, a handsome Israeli who is a sexual shaman. Yoni and his wife Hagar take Tara on journeys of deep self revelation, using ancient rituals and sacr ...
Fourteen years ago, he was my high school sweetheart. Then he disappeared, leaving nothing but dust and regret.
Now, Connor Riley is back in Rocky Ridge. He’s traded his teenage swagger for a firefighter’s quiet confidence, and he’s looking at me and my son with an intensity that threaten ...
The only thing more exciting than a famous local author staying at the bed and breakfast is a real murder mystery. Mystery novelist and member of the Mystery Writer’s Murder Club, Jessica Murdoch, heads off for a staycation at a bed and breakfast in her hometown of Badger’s Drift, Maine for some re ...
I balance two jobs to give my daughter a decent Christmas. That never included getting wrapped up with my grumpy boss. I meet brooding billionaire Huck Frost, working as his night guard. When he has to move to the inn an hour away, I get the unenviable job of the 24-hour detail. As a single ...
I'm going to lay her bare, body and soul, until there is nothing she can hide from me. If running a successful crime empire has taught me anything, it's that everyone has an agenda and coincidences aren't to be trusted. So when a pretty young thing just happens to save my brother from cert ...
Faking it with the Single Dad: A Billionaire Bad Boy romance Kindle Edition by Rylee Walker (Author) Format: Kindle Edition When the CEO of the company I work for asked me to be his fake wife, I should have said no. My HR role just went to a whole new level. And surprise surprise, Blake, my brother ...
From the very beginning, I suspected I was making a bargain with the devil. I accepted Bryce Gentry's position as his personal assistant knowing there was more to the job than answering emails and taking meeting notes. I mean, so what if he likes to watch me do my office work without my shirt on? No ...
I’m living with my one-night stand…who doesn’t know he’s a father. Six years ago, I had the ride of my life with a hotshot firefighter passing through town. I told myself it was just one reckless mistake, then I ended up pregnant with his baby. Now he’s back in Evergreen Heights with smoke on his ...
When a straitlaced journalist and a fearless motorcycle racer are thrown into an interview together, will they find any common ground? Or are they destined to clash? Gloria Heath loves her job as a lifestyle journalist. She also loves the perks—free meals, complimentary spa treatments, behind-the-sc ...
With Teboho Achebe and his Russian supporters in the wind, Blitz and the team, along with the FBI are in pursuit. The current ambassador wants them apprehended as well as the State Department. Achebe killed MI6 agents to free his daughter and they also want his head for their deaths. He is now one o ...
Believe in witches, for sometimes you need magic to ward off the evil in darkness. It was my junior year at Hawthorne University when Mira dealt me a reversed Lovers card. That meant trouble in paradise. I thought nothing of it until Alondra introduced me to a new witch from outside our coven—Eno ...
Kama Sutra is an ancient book best known for giving insights and advice on how to conduct your sex life, among others. This book partakes a large part of the Kama Sutra plus additional information about sex and how to conduct your sexual relationships to ensure pleasure for both you and your partner ...
I agreed to be my grumpy boss's fake wife for a year, not the mother of his child. I was at an all time low. My dad's passing, six jobless months and spiraling debts. Plus, local thugs breathing down my neck, for money I didn't have. Enter Seth, my boss. A gorgeous, driven, billionaire bad boy. The ...
You never know what’s hiding in the shadows. Hazel I’ve always seen ghosts, but since moving to Shadow Falls I haven’t seen a single spirit. Everyone says weird stuff happens here, it’s just a way of life. Ghosts don’t scare me but what’s happening in Shadow Falls is terrifying. Shadows that cling t ...
As a Mafia assassin, I must choose between my deadly loyalty and saving the woman I'm ordered to kill.
I've always been a loyal hitman for the DeLuca family, living in the shadows of New York's underworld.
When they order me to eliminate Talia, I don’ ...
Kari Riley has more problems than she can shake a stick at: Her ex-boyfriend Anthony is a crazed mobster. He REALLY wants to murder her for snitching to the police. She's been put into Witness Protection - on a farm in the middle of nowhere. And Flynn, the cowboy who runs said farm? He is annoying, ...
Marrying my best friend was like a dream come true, even if it was fake. Aiden was the last person I thought I would run into on the streets of Seattle. He’s no longer the boy I remember, but a tall muscle-oozing gorgeous man. When my past comes back to haunt me, he’s the only one who can save ...
She's battling for justice. He's fighting for his life. If they team up, will they live long enough to explore the fiery need that burns between them? Heartbroken over the death of a young girl, medical examiner, Juanita will do anything to identify the killer and bring him to justice, even risk her ...
Six months ago, Siobhan Cantrell’s world was changed forever by a sniper’s bullet. The incident transformed her from a secure confident woman to a recluse, afraid to leave her own home. When her friends urge her to re-enter the world of the living, they suggest Madame Eve’s 1Night Stand dating servi ...
Sophie…has stupid awesome sex with a stranger. This New York City summer is hot and sticky as I move into my new apartment, which only makes what I’m feeling for my asshole neighbor even messier. Usually, I quietly reserve my opinions for my news articles, but when Tony argues with me, he tempts me ...
Bree was always known for her wit, beauty, and ready smile. But that smile hid a truth that could have brought the world to its knees. What the world didn’t realize was that the sorcerers and sorceresses of long ago had not entirely disappeared. It meant that Bree lived a very lonely life hiding who ...
I need a nanny and my best friend’s sister needs a job. It’s a perfect solution until I see her.
I travel frequently, and my daughter’s mom is out of the picture.
When my nanny quit unexpectedly, my best friend recommends his little sist ...
Introducing Book 1 of Tess Oliver's addictive new paranormal series Boys of Wynter. For thousands of years, Boys of Wynter have guarded the mortal world against the wraiths and demons who lurk aimlessly in the desolate shadows outside the underworld. The Boys have a reputation and they didn't earn t ...
He rescued her from slavery…now he is captive to desire.
Lakota Warriors, Book 2
Stolen from a cruel husband by the savage Kiowa, Julia Wilson’s life has gone from bad to worse. ...
When Teag Logan and his fiancé Anthony Benton travel to England to celebrate their engagement, Teag’s magic and supernatural experience hone in on restless spirits, an old scandal and century-old secrets that could turn deadly. Can Teag and Anthony solve the mystery and settle the spooks before t ...
Beautiful women fly in and out of Matthew Birdsong’s apartment, but no one has a permanent roost there. Matt caged his heart after a bitter divorce. Zaney Miller, his neighbor, believes she can set Matt’s heart free to love again. But can she do it without falling in love with him and breaking her o ...
Dane Reynolds President of the Savage Angels MC. Fierce, strong and loyal. He’s had his eye on Kat for a while now and has been waiting for her to come to him but he’s had enough of waiting. He’s decided it’s time to make her his. Katarina Saunders. Kat to the world, international rock star. ...
My Grumpy Firefighter Daddy
From flirty texts to falling hard… now he doesn’t even know my name.
It started with a wrong number. Quick! Reply! Becky said
I should’ve deleted it. Instead, I replied.
Jack Reid w ...
Never thought I'd burn rubber with the grumpy billionaire brother of my jerk ex. A storm stranded this bad boy, Darren, on my doorstep and forced us to spend the night together. In a blackout, we tossed caution aside and we shifted gears fast, leaving scorch marks on every surface. Now I'm strapped ...
At Playa El Cuco's vibrant Crest View Resort, Ethan Aldrich arrives a staggering fifteen hours late. At the reception, he's greeted by the most captivating woman he's ever seen, with eyes the color of his first love—the ocean—and a fascination with learning the official name of every phobia. Gaya ...
Tasked with bringing down mob boss Lorenzo Bianci, I infiltrate his world as a fake girlfriend. Unaware of my true identity, Lorenzo, with a chiseled exterior and a dark heart, pulls me into a web of passion. As our dangerous liaison deepens, a shocking revelation surfaces—I'm pregnant with his chil ...
Is the magic of Christmas in Cascade Springs strong enough to bring these two together?
Samara Diaz, a small-town girl, sacrificing to make a better life for her and her sister after losing both parents, is hopelessly in love with a man she can never have.
Jaxon “ ...
Someone is out to murder his husband and he might just be the reason they succeed. Imperial Crown Prince Darshan knew his journey home wasn’t going to be the modest one he hoped for, especially not after eloping with Hamish, a former prince—and now exile—of Tirglas. When he thwarts a clumsy attem ...
Welcome to Otter Cove, Alaska a small, remote town similar to Mystic River. Since several shifters in Mystic River had found their fated mates. Many realized the sometimes elusive fated mate actually exists. Several impatient, unmated shifters decided to go find their mate. They found their way t ...
Against my better judgment, I began an off-limits affair with this grumpy billionaire therapist. I first met Dave at a nightclub, but his impromptu therapy session rubbed me the wrong way. But he is irresistible. He became my unexpected hero in a mugging, leading to an explosive one-night s ...
Since time immemorial, they have been among us. Fierce creatures with a lust for human blood and an insatiable desire for human flesh. To fornicate brings the highest pleasure, to beget, the deepest satisfaction. But what they cannot foresee, although it was foretold, is that one of them will aris ...
Having grown up in a time where social distancing is the normal no touching, no physical contact with anyone not in your family. Deona is enlisted into the carrier program that the government runs to help repopulate the world after several viruses killed off a majority of the world's population ove ...
Another lonely holiday, a personal hell for Officer Sinacore. But then a red-haired angel appears . . . Christmas should be the loveliest time of year, but the drunken antics of the local Councilman are causing trouble for the boys in blue. And for those who are alone this holiday, like Office ...
From USA Today Best Selling Author Delta James comes a breathtaking series where history, romance, and the paranormal converge. He's a respected DSI with Scotland Yard; she's a dishonored history professor running from a scandal. Five years ago, Rachel Moriarty was caught up in gossip that resulted ...
Dylan Dwyer. Chiseled. Tattooed. Filthy rich. Cocky as hell. I’ve just become living proof no woman is immune to the persuasions of a playboy. From the moment he opens his mouth to spew insults about my cookies at an event my bakery is catering, I can’t stand him. This arrogant prick has the nerve t ...
Arrogant playboy, gorgeous bad girl, danger everywhere… I’ve been running from my abusive ex for days. I’m terrified and desperate. I find an empty cabin and safety, maybe for a day or two. Suddenly, I hear someone behind me and I turn to face him. This guy is beyond gorgeous, and he knows it. He st ...
Cardiac surgeon Sean Flannigan lost his daughter to a rare form of leukemia; he can mend broken hearts, but his is beyond repair. Kayla Holmes, along with her sisters, inherited guest cottages in the Keys after their stepfather died. Their high spirits and positive energy are a beacon of light that ...
She’s my daughter’s nurse, ten years younger, and completely off-limits, but my heart doesn’t care. From the moment Janie stepped into my life, she’s been a distraction I can’t afford. Her laughter fills my home, her touch sends shivers down my spine, and those cut-off shorts make me lose contr ...
One scorching summer seven years ago. One sizzling hot billionaire. I was graduating high school. He was a big-time oil exec. Thirteen years between us. We hid our love from the world, for fear of what people might say. On the edge of a scandal, it was never meant to be. When I hooked up with his ...
She’s on the run from a killer. Can a kind cowboy save her life… and her heart? Maddie Wells never planned on being a guardian. But after her sister endures an unthinkable tragedy, Maddie and her nephew skip town to start over. She hopes that Galveston, Texas will be far enough away to keep her sist ...
Garett is my brother’s best friend, a terrible idea and totally off-limits. He is exactly the kind of man that I should avoid. But…I needed a distraction. When I got a job at the same fire station in hopes to forget my past, I didn’t realize he’d also be my new bosshole. No worries! I got this! I ...
Ash Dixon is a talented chef who works for Jake Rousseau, the grumpiest restaurant owner and head chef this side of creation. She’d love a promotion but, having just had one of “those” dreams about her boss, she’s struggling even more with what to say to the man. One late night after work, Ash and J ...
A grumpy, older billionaire hires me to be a live-in nanny. It wasn’t supposed to come with a baby bump. I’m running as far from LA and my jerk of an ex as I can get. Leaving my faltering singing career behind, I find myself broke and homeless. So, I grab the live-in nanny job with both hands. He ma ...
I never thought that ridiculously hot one-night-stand would end up being my grumpy boss. It started when I locked eyes with a mysterious stranger, and it should have ended after our fiery encounter. Months later, managing my brother's hockey team is a dream come true… …Until I met my new bos ...
He just put her boyfriend in the hospital, and now he’s falling for her. What could possibly go wrong?
I’m the toughest enforcer in the league. I’ve worked hard for that title, but there’s one little problem with being an overachiever: I never know when t ...
Klara is in love with her mechanic, Leo. She adores him, and the way his large hands feel on her body, especially when they take showers together. They have moved in together, but Klara isn't sure if they should take things to the next level and get married. After all, she turned down his first prop ...
Jacob is nearly forty, and has recently come to the sudden realisation that he’s not doing much with his life. Sure, he’s got his own successful business, but what’s the point in earning lots of money and not doing anything or going anywhere to spend it? He’s in serious dange ...
She’s the daughter of a Senator being threatened by kidnappers.
When I’m hired to protect her, I accept.
I’m not prepared for the brave young woman f ...
Juliet is relaxing in her recently inherited roof garden on an unusually hot day for May in the UK when she decides to take part in World Naked Gardening Day. It’s freeing and extremely pleasurable to bare all outdoors, and she finds that dancing naked is great fun too. Except she’s not as alone ...
THREE Romantic Suspense BESTSELLING And AWARD-WINNNING Books • In Sheila Kell’s passionate novels of heat, desire, and suspense, prepare to meet the hot-bodied men of Hamilton Investigation & Security (HIS) as they do whatever it takes to protect the women who have stolen their hearts. Box Set inclu ...
I was running from something bad when I fell into the arms of a bad-boy billionaire. Michael Johnson, my best friend’s dad, and the former athlete-turned-billionaire is tall, blond-haired, with captivated blue eyes. He’s every bit the mysterious bad boy I needed after escaping an awful relations ...
Fleeing danger with my hired pilot, our desperate battle for survival ignites a burning flame—and sparks an unexpected pregnancy. Escaping my controlling parents is my only way out of an arranged marriage. It begins with hiring Hunter, a pilot who will fly me away from my old life. But, I can’t s ...
NASA astronaut Julie Starr knows nothing is earned without blood, sweat, and frizzy hair. Recently returned from orbit, Jules is on her way to becoming the youngest Flight Commander ever. So she isn't about to let a creepy stalker derail her goals. Or a chivalrous, wealthy rancher either, for that m ...
I had a one-night stand with a Mafia Don, and now I’m his captive bride.
Dominic. Ruthless, commanding, lethal.
This powerful Mafia boss believes I witnessed a murder that could destroy him.
So to keep his secrets safe, he kidnaps me, forcing me into marriage.
I sh ...
Fate stepped in the day I met Junior Abbott. A little persistence from the man himself, and our love was meant to be. For years, we’ve been happily married, living the life I imagined as a young girl. Love, marriage, the kids in the baby carriage. With Junior, I’ve got it all. Such isn’t the case fo ...
Bedding one hot hockey player is enough for most girls, but two...
What I know about hockey fits on the back of a stamp. My latest patient, Raven Starr, may be one of the NHL’s hottest defensive players, but I’m not exactly blown away by his stardom. Add in the fact that he&rs ...
Dive into a world of irresistible temptation with this sizzling collection of three forbidden romances, where domineering alpha males blur the lines between professional and personal boundaries.
Get ready for explosive chemistry, scandalous secrets, and unexpected pregnancies, as these fu ...
The court of the gryphon king has ever been a dangerous and seductive place where Ishtar’s blessing is both the hot breath of passion and the cold kiss of steel. Yet as the childhood companion of King Ditanu, Iltani never doubted her place in either his kingdom or his heart. Then duty called her awa ...
U.S. Navy SEAL Ashe “Kid Chaos” Wilder doesn’t do sedate, so packing a novel and namby-pamby sunscreen for a Caribbean vacation doesn’t float his boat. Instead, he’s going to ride down the world’s most dangerous road on a mountain bike through the treacherous Andes in the wilds of Bolivia. His now e ...
Can love heal the wounds of a cynical businessman and a woman searching for redemption? Nine years ago, Jason Richards fled from his hometown, broke and disillusioned. Now an anonymous letter has the sexy tycoon returning in search of answers to the questions that have plagued him. This time, Jas ...
I went from having it all — money, power, women — to losing everything. But none of that matters. The only thing I can’t live without now is her. Two days after a social media scandal, my billionaire father cut the cord and sent me packing. I was dropped smack dab in the middle of Nowheresville, mil ...
Jen – Divorced? Check. Over 30? Check. Single parent? Check. What are the odds I’d find a sexy, single man who isn’t allergic to a woman like me? Turns out the odds are good. But it’s not just my world that’s affected by the new man in my life, which means I may have to choose between my daughter’s ...
One night of toe-curling passion was all but forgotten until today. My brother’s best friend shows up and wants me to play his wife. The last person I wanted to see while in town was Jack Muller. Seeing him makes my soul melt. I have to remind myself to stay clear and keep my emotions intact ...
He’s the king of bestowing orgasms … She’s never come with a man. When wealthy playboy bachelor Jack meets Sara— post-quickie with a colleague in an empty condo—he quickly realizes her drive and lust for life are a match for his. A much younger agent at his real estate brokerage, she’s way off li ...
Time does not heal all wounds, or does it? Anne Black enjoys being in control of her life. She trains MMA fighters by day and works as a dominatrix by night. A single encounter with a mysterious and handsome stranger turns her world upside down. Suddenly, memories of another life haunt her. Top hats ...
Join Angel and Tracy as they delight your mind with stories of single dads and happy ever afters! Leah My next door neighbor, Jenson, is a chef and a successful businessman. He’s also a single daddy to the cutest six-year-old girl. I’m only here as long as it takes to get my parents’ old house ...
The air might be thin at 8,000 feet, but even there, at the top of Sugarloaf Mountain, Annette Young has enough energy for two people. Hopping down from the chairlift, she grabs the first person she comes to; her brother Paul, to help hook up the snowmaking machines that will run through the night u ...
How can he win with the odds stacked against him? Prince Hamish has no interest in fulfilling his duty of marrying. Not to a woman, at least. That doesn’t stop his mother, Queen Fiona, from presenting him with every eligible noblewoman that enters their castle. He’s certain it’ll be no different ...
Kasey (K.K.) Blakely just walked away from the most important men in her life. Leaving their world and hers shattered. Joshua Crawford, her business partner, and fiancee is the only man she’s ever loved, but Jake Crawford, his playboy brother, just confessed to being in love with her, and Jere ...
Tantalizing Billionaire, Beautiful Vet, Deadly Secrets… I’m falling for a guy I just met. He’s the finest, most intelligent, and funniest man ever. His dark-as-night and brilliant smile make me instantly melt. I want to get to know him better, but Doc’s rules are clear: NO dating clients. We do try ...
High School Cheerleader Gina Perez is sheltered and zealously protected by her mother, Angel, who's a devout Catholic. Gina meets Freddie Papadakis, the rival football team's captain, and although she isn’t allowed to date, her brother and sister tell her the secret they use to sneak their dates int ...
I entertain naked people for a living. No, not THAT kind of entertainment. I own a nudist resort. I'm not a nudist, but Val Silva is. And he's a human supernova sleeping in the room next door.
The man is tall, gorgeous, tattooed, and a shameless exhibitionist. As the Brazilian bad boy of ...
Deputy Sheriff Ian Nightingale knew Lexie Hanson was the one for him the moment he saw her. Convincing her will take some work, but Ian has never shied away from a challenge. If signing on to be the Charmed Bachelor on her hit reality show, Love at First Sight, is what it takes, then bring it on. ...
Pushed beyond her limits, curvy minx, Jaynie, is over her man-hating funk and reaping the pleasure of the Bass twins. In what promises to be her hottest and most compromising New Year’s Eve, the two men at her beck and call deliver on their promise. To unmask the true goddess who owns their heart. M ...
Anthology description: AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME! Twelve bestselling and award-winning authors each bring you a sexy night of romance, fun and a little magic. ‘Tis the season for falling for the right guy! Two people stuck in an elevator, snowed in, on an all-night bus trip, locked in a store... ...
