Romance

I can. You can’t. Yes. No. It’s the typical man versus woman aspect of many things in life. Especially when it comes to a wilderness hike. Even a well planned one. He doubts her ability to make the trek. She defies him and packs the items she’ll need for the few days he’ll have to survive without her. Dropped at the beginning of the trail, she finds the passing of the first night rather easy. But when her GPS dies and she remembers the batteries on the nightstand, she stares at the beckoning left and right forks traversing the foothills of a mountain. One leads to water and the other to death, but which one? And will she survive without him?

Gloria Morrison marries rich, kills her husband, runs from a brutal bounty hunter and escapes into the arms of the man she can’t allow herself to love.

Trapped in an abandoned house during a storm, Toney meets Justus, a handsome cowboy. A kept woman, Toney depends on her friend, Jon, for everything so he controls her. When Justus offers to pay her to have her picture painted for over his hearth, Jon wants her to so he can work a con. Toney and Jon have a falling out and she leaves with Justus. The fact that she has fallen for the handsome cowboy is beside the point. And it seems Justus feels the same about her. The downside is Jon will come for her and she must warn Justus about the planned con, but will he believe that she never planned to help Jon cheat him?

Advertising agent, Tammy Sinclair, is sent to a small mountain town to gain the advertising account for a fast growing company that makes a cure for erection dysfunction. A heavy rain washing out the road traps her at the local gas station with the sexy owner, Blake, and roommate, Ken, who live beneath the store. A quickly developing relationship is knocked off course when a werewolf molests Tammy while asleep. When new lover, Blake, covers up for the werewolf, it makes her suspicious. When everyone else backs him on the cover-up, she fears she is in trouble.

Tammy Lou Robertson was murdered. But how does a girl get revenge when she's a ghost? She enlists the aid of a smokin' hot ghost, possesses the body of a hooker, lands a job with her still-living hunk of a hubby, and goes after her murderer.... Who just happens to be her mother-in-law. How does she choose between her handsome husband and a sexy Civil War ghost? It may be a lot more fun if she doesn't choose at all…

Sexually-starved Rayne Talum needs to satisfy her hunger for a man. Combining all the ingredients for a recipe of fun and magic, Rayne cooks up more than an anatomically-correct gingerbread man. Instead, she turns up the heat and whips up a night she’ll never forget.

Free-spirited Cara Williams adores men, all kinds of men. Yet, despite her many lovers, she’s never met the one man who could match her wild ways and win her heart. When she meets mysterious Josh Morgan, she feels an instant connection with him—almost as though she’s fated to be with him. Josh died as a baby and never had a chance to live. He feels as though he missed out and asks to visit Earth to experience life, if only for a few days. But The One-Who-Knows-Almost-All has other ideas. Will the Powers Above bring Josh and Cara together forever? Or will they tear them apart?

Every night, Christine has sex with her deceased husband, who lost his life in Iraq, but their lovemaking is never brought to a climax. At least, not until a strange woman brings her a magical stone that will make Johnny really come alive in her arms. Yet when a dark spirit invades her bed and her body, Christine must choose between nights of passion and a life of love. Will she succumb to the dark spirit? Or will Johnny save her body and her soul?

Betrayed because of their forbidden love, Prince Kha’em and Lady Nedjemet died traitors’ deaths that denied them an afterlife. For eternity, they have sought one another, yearning to rekindle the desire that neither time nor distance has vanquished. In the present day, Sara and Michael invoke the magic of their passions, but their ancient enemies are also gathering around them – will history repeat itself, or can the lovers resurrect their future, by returning to the past to find a love that will last for eternity?

Do YOU dare enter the realms of the Wyre, the Lilan, the vampire; mortal and immortal lovers whose dark dreams and forbidden nights incite passion and stir the soul? Feel the thrill of the blood-lust, experience the silken texture of a dream-lover’s caress. Join in the quest where desire and fear are but the rhythm of the chase. Award-winning, best-selling author, Astrid Cooper, presents a powerful combination of mythic-fantasy and stunning eroticism, where hunter becomes the hunted in the ancient game of seduction.

The Starlight series compiled into one volume   Samantha Sinclair will never trust another man, but her friends decide to lure her out of her celibacy with a special Christmas gift—a night with a sensualator. John-Kuno is no ordinary man. He takes Sam away from her fears, her homogenized, synthesized existence and introduces her to the enigmatic, sensual world of the shifters. With their starlight passion burning brighter than a supernova, John and Sam do not know that in the cold reaches of space a monster is biding his time. He demands nothing less than the universe as his due, starting with Sam, but first he must destroy John and the whole race of humans and their shifter allies.

John and Samantha continue with their journey of self-discovery into the world of pleasure, unaware that for them—and others—time is running out. And Harimal must return home—he has been called—and a felinus cannot deny this summons, especially if it is the king who calls. But damn it! Hari doesn’t want to go home, the last time he did it was a set-up—to meet his future mate. He’s not falling for that trap again: he’s a felinus and free and that’s how he plans to remain. En route he has some time to play and he can forget his worries in the pleasures offered by his draconis guards. He’s heard about the ferocity of dragon-women. When he makes up his mind that he wants to play—nothing, no-one stands in his way. Even dragons can be tamed by the purr of a cat.

Samantha and John-Kuno have entered the final starlight ceremony: mutatis and they are joined in mind, body and spirit. When Sam is kidnapped, only John has the power to find her. He knows the person responsible for stealing his beloved is the same one who has taken Harimal and the other shifters prisoner. And John knows that time is running out--the longer he and Sam are separated the chances are Starlight Madness will destroy them. Imprisoned by the evil starlord, Harimal and Samantha must pretend submission, and live within the dream-reality it has created for its own pleasure...

Sexy shifters, ménage and villains aplenty in this latest thrilling installment of the Starlight series. Starlight Passion: It burns, it stings and it consumes all those who dare enter the next Starlight level. Samantha, a human woman and John, a cat-shifter will prove to all that love is the greatest power in the galaxy. A surprise on every page and a guaranteed heat level to burn you to a crisp! Dare you turn the first page?

Following the prequel, Starlight Ecstasy, book 1 in the Starlight series continues the story of John and Samantha... John plans a new strategy in his loving of Samantha: to touch her with all the love a felinus can offer, but in slow measures. One thousand and one nights – it might be enough time for the first two levels… They have shared ecstasy, now it is rapture, the prelude to convergence. But no one realises that for John and Sam and the other shifters, time is running out. A renegade starlord wants Sam for his own pleasure, no matter the cost, no matter who has to die…

STARLIGHT SEDUCTION THE FINAL AND STUNNING CONCLUSION to the best-selling Starlight series … Samantha has survived the Madness but there is part of her that John cannot reach. She denies him convergence, the deepest level of felinus passion. What is she hiding from him? What secret is so terrible that she cannot share with him—her soul-mate? Departing the felinus planet, returning to his earth home with Sam, he hopes that the sea and the songs of his friends, the dolphins, will soothe her, prepare her for his final act of love. He is John and he is Kuno—he is both man and cat and also sensualator, able to invoke the deepest pleasure. And he will use every trick known to cat and man, defy everything and everyone, to reclaim Samantha and heal her soul. What he proposes—Starlight Seduction—is Forbidden! The erotic level too deep, too hot to control. Yet, it is the only way to convince Samantha that nothing ever comes between a cat and his mate. While Sam realises what John is planning, she knows that the secret within her may destroy him and she must resist, or see her man turn from her in fear. Seduction is just another name for betrayal. Yet, in the music of the dolphins and in the power of dreams and love, Sam hears a different song and seducer becomes seduced… Such is the power and passion of Starlight.

Aurora has closed her heart and her body to men. Stuck in the Denver airport, hoping to get out before the big blizzard hits, she lays out a Tarot spread that features the Knight of Swords. The next thing she knows, she's on a plane, exchanging fantasies with a handsome young stranger. And why does he happen to have a state-of-the-art sex toy in his carry-on bag? Clay is a journalist, a master of words. But he's young, impetuous, and doesn't always edit what he says. His words have gotten him in plenty of trouble, and now he's headed for more. Aurora and Clay weave their words, only to find their way to a sexy union--a fantasy mile-high club...

Caron's nightmare relationship with Alex ends, but it sparks an investigation of her finances. Sam, the muscular blond investigator, is very, very thorough, and not just with her bank accounts. The double-crossing Alex has been everywhere and Sam is not going to leave any spot unprobed. But Alex has a way of coming back and a surprise visit from a newly minted dominatrix makes four…

The Five of Swords is the Tarot card of submission to the enemy. Juna, a Keeper of Bridget's Flame, is dragged before a cruel and depraved tribunal for losing her virginity to the mythical Bres. She must submit to the ordeal of a public orgy and suffer all of the intimate indignities they perpetrate, in order to survive in the era of post-Roman conquest of the ancient Celts.

Nude pictures of Angela, exposing her in very compromising positions, are popping up all over her law firm's email. When her major client's money goes missing, the law firm brings in a high-powered investigator to find the culprits. A man with dark secrets of his own, Joe is determined to uncover the malefactors, and stop them from destroying Angela with their perverse and voyeuristic scheme... but not until he's had Angela in every one of those compromising positions for his own pleasure.