Romance

The pirate v/s the devil: how far can seduction go? All right, so he did it! Marin seduced me. And the sex is fantastic, blows my mind every time, no complaints there. But that thing about being his soul mate still doesn’t sit right with me. Yet there seems no way around it except…but can I do it? Do I want to do it? No, I don’t know if I’m ready to surrender. Me, the pirate, and to the blond devil, no less…talk about messed up destiny! Don’t miss the romantic sequel to To Seduce A Soul Mate  

Can a burgeoning like become a forever kind of love? Trent Ryder is a man cursed by his own charm. All he’s ever had to do to get a woman is smile. His assignment to obtain recipes from the Venusian Guild couldn’t have come at a worse time—just when Trent’s decided never to use his smile to get his own way. He needn’t have worried—Caprice Greco is immune to his smiles. To his surprise, he likes her and hopes to win her friendship. Now all he has to do is stop imagining her naked in his arms and in his bed. Caprice, Directress of the Venusian Guild, is a betrayed woman. Trent Ryder’s smiles bring back memories of a lover who stole her heart, then left her flat. But fight as she does with all her strength and determination, she slips a little more each day into liking Trent. Will burgeoning like blossom into a forever kind of love?  

Fire investigator Kayla Flynn escaped the temptation of the O’Rourke twins a year ago, now she’s returned to Slone, Texas for the town’s annual Halloween Festival. Mages Ian and Duncan O’Rourke have until All Hollow’s Eve to unite Kayla’s magic with their own, forming a ritual tri-bond and sealing the dimensional doorways they guard. Can they stop the hag before she frees her master and has her revenge on the world?  

It's never easy dealing with relatives during the holidays, but when you mix a feline coalition with a wolf pack, things get downright hairy. And that’s before adding the two missing Eagle brothers, a Lion trying to run away from home and a Hawk crankier than Scrooge or the Grinch. But coalition leader Mitchell is determined to have the best Christmas ever—even if he has to kill everybody to make them cooperate. Oh, and where is Shane and why did he leave his favorite gun behind? Warning: this book contains a maimed tree, lots of sappiness and way too much holiday spirit.  

Sometimes the biggest smiles hide the biggest heartbreak. Although Ben acts like he lives to be the center of the party, nothing could be further from the truth. Insecure and feeling like a failure because he became a nurse instead of a doctor like his grandfather, Ben constantly fights depression. One night he goes out to a seedy bar to drink away his woes, only to become the victim of an assault. Luck is finally with him, however, because a handsome stranger intervenes and saves Ben. Danny loves his job as a cop for the city of Pontiac…or at least he used to. Now the never ending politics and budget cuts make him wonder if he should move somewhere else. After he saves Ben, Danny finds all kinds of reasons to stay. But every time he tries to get closer to Ben, the nurse pulls back. Will Danny ever discover why Ben is running away? And if he does, will that reason bring them closer or keep them apart?  

Sometimes even the strongest of love can't overcome the darkest of evil.   As a Warden destined to protect humanity from supernatural threats, Ari knows that he has to be strong, brave and, most of all, mentally stable. Try telling that to his brain. Ever since he was held as an unwilling blood slave by a band of feral vampires, Ari has been everything a Warden shouldn't be--scared, angry and unstable. While he tries to maintain a brave front for his fellow Wardens, cracks in his facade are starting to show, especially when feral vampires attack the city and the Wardens must eliminate the threat. Adam hadn't felt whole since his fellow Warden, Ari, was kidnapped. Even though they got Ari back, he hasn't been the same. Gone is the happy, teasing man Adam fell in love with, replaced by a brooding, angry stranger. When Ari must face his past, both good and bad, his instability only increases. Will Adam's love be enough to heal Ari's emotional wounds, or will Ari be lost to the darkness…this time for good?  

Sometimes even the strongest of love can’t erase the past. Russell has always liked his men the same way he likes his sex: fast, hard, and without any emotional attachments. As leader of not only a pack of rogue Wolf shifters but also almost every illegal enterprise in the shifter world, Russell knows he’s not the type to ever find a mate and settle down. Then Dalton slips into his life, turning it upside down. Not only is Dalton a Lynx shifter, he’s also sweet and innocent: everything that Russell never liked in a man…or so he thought. But Dalton has a tragic past, which left him scarred inside and out and without a family. Dalton discovers that Russell may have had something to do with that tragedy just as Russell thinks he’s finally going to be able to claim his mate. Will Dalton be able to forgive Russell, or will their love be doomed to end before it even begins?  

Rampaging vampires, mischievous cat-shifters, frustrated spinsters, a forbidden lover and low cal. erotic desserts – just routine for a wizard… Banned from using his magic, Severin is banished to live in the world of humans. So what’s a sixth level mystic meant to do? Simple: use his remaining skills and open up a bakery at Christmas Creek. Severin’s creations are all low cal, but it is his Decadence line—the erotic desserts—that cause a culinary stir in the normally quiet Australian town. Severin’s plans for revenge against his enemies are put on hold the moment he meets Will Lawrence, the young Aussie whose golden hair and sexy smile bring Severin to his knees… all things considered that’s not such a bad place to be when you have a lover like Will. Except the vampires demand Sev’s blood, the shapeshifters want a piece of him, and the unmarried women of Christmas Creek want more than his chocolate éclairs… Except he isn’t a ladies’ man. Watch the fur and fangs fly.  

Sebastian—the vampire for hire who can rise to every challenge and sink his fangs into any problem…   Sebastian de Seville is a vampire down on his luck. Once a confidant of queens and a lover of kings, now he must work as a vampire for hire at Monsters inK. But the job opportunity brings him into conflict with his human employer, the young and sexy Matthew Jackson. Never work with children, animals or computers—this has been Bas’s motto, because they are complications a vampire does not need. Sebastian must battle his unnatural attraction to a mere human whose easy charm and innocent eyes conceal a man of rare and true passion, and whose past hides a danger that could destroy them both. Bas always rises to the challenge. What else can a vampire do but solve a problem with a simple bite to the neck? Except, simple seduction turns complicated…  

A shape-shifting Santa serves up a hot holiday surprise for two wanna-be winners. Angie’s out to win her dream-mobile in a contest for the Ultimate Holiday Spirit. But Jack has his eye on the sleek blue Porsche, too. Who will win the contest? Who will the mysterious Santa…unlike any other Santa…help win the prize? Or will Angie and Jack find a better prize?  

Rance Diallo, alpha of the Catskill Mountain cougar pride, knew the moment he heard Terence and Samson speak telepathically that he needed them for his betas. So sticking his neck out for them and asking charges of kidnapping against them be dropped by Ben Maxwell, the alpha of the nearby wolf pack, didn’t seem like too big of a risk. It took Rance a while to realize the two men were also his mates and manage to convince Terence and Samson of that fact. Rance successfully bonds with his new betas not a moment too soon, because the visions of his alpha-mate come fast and furious. But Paul is a human, and not just any human, he’s the brother of the woman that Terence and Samson inadvertently helped kidnap a couple months ago. Convincing his newly bonded betas that the man who makes up the fourth to their pride’s inner circle is so close may be the easy part, because they’ll also need to persuade Ben to let the three cougars onto the wolf’s territory to meet and court the human. And if they somehow manage that, they’ll need to convince Paul, a widower with a three-year-old son, that there really are paranormal creatures in the world and that he’s the mate of three male cougar shifters. But even if the human accepts them, will Rance’s cougar pride?

Can an unexpected encounter between two lonely men on Christmas Eve—one recently divorced, the other recently homeless—lead to romance? Two lonely men face a grim Christmas Eve. Bart is recently divorced and Larry is broke and homeless. When Bart encounters Larry huddled on the steps of his apartment building during a fierce snow storm, he takes the young man in—just for the night. As the two men decorate a Christmas tree, hoping to ward off their loneliness, they begin to bond. An accidental touch while placing a shining star atop the tree ignites a night of passion and leads to the hope of happier times as the New Year approaches.  

Love is easy to find. Keeping it is more of a challenge. First contact is always dangerous, but this time there’s more at stake than saving the Mandrake from an alien threat. This time, the crystalline metalloid ship Ely and the rest of his away team encountered in an earlier mission is on the move toward its nest to call for reinforcements. Reinforcements which will come to destroy humanity. Once again, Ely, Emerson, Braden and Kale are called to duty. Yet, as they enter the ship for the second time, something isn’t right. Something dark and disturbing lurks within the crystalline walls and it doesn’t have the away team’s best interests at heart. Can Ely, his boyfriend Emerson, and their friends escape the entity, or will all hope rest on the shoulders of another strange alien race they must convince to help them? First contact has been made. The trouble is, what happens next?    

Four immortals.  One tropical island. Anything can happen. So much for a vacation… Laurent, Brandi, Jett and Sophia decide to take a much-needed vacation in the beautiful Caribbean. And all hell breaks loose. Sophia wants to eat the tourists. Jett has daddy issues, and Brandi has to go to work, learning to transport dead Norse warriors to the afterlife. All the while, Laurent is trying to keep his family together. What else could possible go wrong?  

  Doctor Ailean Carmichael never expects to find a mate, let alone a human one, but he’s willing to take what Fate gives him. After all, not all humans are like his late foster parents, right? And an orphaned, exiled black jaguar living in a wolf shifter’s territory doesn’t have too many options. He decides seducing the naïve professor will be delicious fun for both of them, until Ailean realizes he needs to protect his little mate from those bent on experimenting on and eradicating shifters. But when Ailean discovers Drake actually works for the scientists trying to destroy him and his friends, will he take the time to listen to Drake’s explanation? Or will he decide all humans really are the same?  

When Nicholas Eaton returned from the dead to surprise his wife at Christmas, he vibrated his way into her bed and her heart. When Charley Eaton’s father is unexpectedly killed in an accident, his spirit visits him in a dream and asks Charley to finish the invention he knows will change the world. The young boy works tirelessly to bring his father home for Christmas, and to everyone’s surprise, his new improved mechanical father bears a vibrating gift, which pleases his wife more than he ever could in life.  

In a world lit only by ancient fires, passion and danger await. Dragons and sorcerers populate Atar’s world. A lost prince taken in by a tribe of savage Scythians, he is hated and abused because of his disabilities. He does not know that he is to be the next Firestarter. As he is forced to confront evils he never imagined possible, he also gains the strength to find his voice and his honor. Watching and hating him, his half-brother, son of the evil wizard Dahaka, waits for the opportunity to take away Atar’s destiny for himself. How will Atar and his werewolf companion and lover, Bulliwuf, thwart an evil they cannot see?  

Attractive, sea-loving Southerner KP likes working with his funny Yankee buddy, Sig, but he gets a real taste of Northern exposure on a trip to his buddy’s New York hometown when he meets the beautiful Long Islander, Tammy. One memorable night of poetic Southern charm leads Tammy to North Carolina—across the fabled ten thousand mile—to see KP again. Is their intense attraction strong enough to make her trade her nice but lonely Long Island life for love under the coastal Carolina stars?

With non-stop sex the only hope to save her mind, can Irisa find peace or will she be bound forever to the Frenzy? At the age of thirteen, Sednan Princess Irisa’s long blonde hair fell out, but then grew back midnight black. At seventeen, her body erupted in beautiful rainbow-colored markings that show no signs of ever fading. Now twenty-one, she falls prey to the Frenzy—a condition of overwhelming lust. A condition that hasn’t happened to a Sednan female for over five hundred years. Her parents are helpless to aid her, but her twin brother tries to save her sanity, enlisting the assistance of his three best friends to love Irisa through her torment.  

Exiled to Texas to attend college, Beverly Hills debutant, Lola Brennan was encouraged to experience life and learn the value of a dollar, but instead, partied, played and blew through her trust fund. Having no other choice, her parents cut her off, and insist she return home for the holidays. Dante Brewer, raised by his single Puerto Rican mother has had a hard life. Away at college, halfway across the country, he’s devastated to learn that his little sister needs a kidney transplant and her life depends on him getting back home to East LA. Paths collide in a heated rush when fate throws Lola and Dante together on a cross-country trek in a classic 1953 Cadillac convertible. Racing against the clock, can they reach California before the spoiled little rich girl kills the hood rat, or is a taste of life from the other side of the tracks exactly what they both needed?