Romance

Love may be blind, but hell hath no fury like a Hawk being denied his mate. Hawk shifter Gage has never felt like he fit in—not when he was a teen struggling to survive on the streets and not now that he’s part of the coalition. But he puts on a happy face to hide his feelings and his battles with his inner demons. The only thing that brings Gage any happiness is Branson, a blind Lion shifter who is sexy as hell and smarter the rest of the coalition put together. Too bad Branson has made it clear that he wants nothing to do with Gage. Branson has no idea why a hot young Hawk sifter would want damaged goods like him. For years, the rest of the coalition has ignored Branson and he’s gotten used to the solitude, making Gage’s attentions particularly unsettling. Despite his misgivings, Branson finds himself becoming more and more drawn to Gage. Then a shocking secret from Gage’s past is revealed—a secret that could destroy not only the Hawk, but the whole coalition. Branson finds himself facing the biggest dilemma of all—does he choose the coalition or the man who’s managed to capture his heart?  

Joel’s new boss advocates celibacy for his employees. Joel is totally cool with it…until a friend tells him what it means. Joel’s new boss founded the ‘Clean Living’ movement to promote healthy living through celibacy, which Joel thinks is totally cool until a friend tells him what it means. Mr. Jeffers is also a stickler for hygiene – especially Joel’s—and his approach always includes a hands-on demonstration. Still, the job is easy and the pay is good, so who…or what…is a guy to do?  

Safi has been a pilot for years, never expecting to end her days on an interdicted planet, but blowing out her engines and lawn-darting into the ocean set her fate. She wakes and is told that her body will not last long enough to allow her to survive to a rescue, but there is an option. She can find a husband and join the underwater colony with a full transformation to water breathing, or she can die in under a week. For a woman whose prime personality trait is survival, it isn't too much of a choice.

Size doesn’t matter until it is all that you have. Saving the smallest city in the universe is right up Lena’s alley. Lena was created for one purpose, to rescue a race that is commonly thought of as extinct. Her body has been shaped to carry out her task, but when she has completed her assignment it is up to her creators to determine her fate. Life as a full sized being, or a minute woman in the tiniest city in the Coalition. (Thumbelina could never have imagined this.)

Out of the cage: Sometimes you don’t need a leash to bind two being together. Todd Abernathy spent three weeks in a cage. Experimented on by scientists, he retreated deep into his wolf to survive. The night of his rescue, the scent of his mate was the only thing that convinced him to return to human form. Small for a wolf shifter, it didn’t surprise Todd when his brother Phillip insisted on joining the local wolf pack with him. His larger, younger half-brother had felt responsible for him since puberty. But Phillip couldn’t help him find the mate he’d scented, and when Todd finally figured out that Detective Lyle Sullivan was the man he was searching for, the human had been captured by the same men who’d experimented on Todd. Lyle’s escape almost comes too late, because the experiments done to him scramble his DNA, nearly killing him. The only way to save Lyle is to complete the experimental procedure the scientists started on him. Todd’s relief that the recovering Lyle recognizes him as his mate is short-lived. Lyle starts exhibiting increasingly aggressive and dangerous tendencies. Can Todd find a way to help his mate accept what’s happening to him and teach him how to co-exist with the new creature living inside his mind? Or will Lyle lose himself to the beast and force his friends to put him down?  

Lies and secrets find a way of destroying love. Teri loves to work on racecars, learning her skills from her brothers back home in Indiana. When Pete Schaeffer stops at the garage where she’s working, he offers her a job on the spot to travel with him to his business in Illinois. She accepts his offer with one thing in mind, to compete in the Nascar race later in the year at the track near Pete’s garage. Pete assigns Teri Kelly O’Brien’s car to maintain, but tells her to keep a low profile because Kelly is very choosy about who works on his machines. Little does Teri know that once she meets Kelly O’Brien, her life turns into turmoil. Keeping her identity a secret is hard to do after she discovers she’s fallen for Kelly. What will happen when Kelly discovers her deception? Will he forgive and forget?  

Worshipped, seduced, hunted—will the Prophecy find some peace again? Ted’s life after the crash landing on Leroya turns out to be a fast rollercoaster ride with women lusting after his body, a ruler out for war and an empress with different goals of her own. Will Ted find a way out?  

Sleep deprived, Bors Knight thanks his stars for the moment he decided to help the vanilla-scented Taylor Monte Carlo cross the street. She’s in need of a place to stay and his ticket to finally nail the man he wants to throw in jail. Not one to let go of a good opportunity, he offers her his newly built home. Taylor, however, has made matters complicated. She occupies his room, covers his windowsill with her rock collection, disturbs his quiet morning with beautiful music, and then…crawls inside his heart. Taylor wants only one thing—to keep her father from ending up in jail. Her problem is solved when she meets the funny and delicious looking hunk Bors, whose father happens to be a judge. He offers to share his home, his secret cove, and show her blinding and all-consuming passion she has never known. In a very short time, she learns to trust Bors with her secrets. All is good until a man holding a gun, Hollywood style, blows his cover—an FBI agent bent on sending her father to jail. In love, Taylor finds herself between two men she can’t live without. But whom should she chose?  

Even with destruction looming, on the most romantic day in the universe, what can a man give a woman who has everything? February 14, 3000: The destruction of the universe is at hand, unless their burning passion can grow into trust…and love. Traveling through space to a secret rendezvous point, Venusian Princess Jynx can’t help but dream of the sexy prince she has been ordered to negotiate a treaty with and to marry. Triangulum Prince Kemen is fascinated by the beautiful princess, but he is keeping a secret that threatens their galaxies’ existence. Their negotiations with each other and with the third galaxy believed to be a threat don’t seem to be going anywhere, but Jynx and Kemen’s passion builds to peaks of ecstasy in dreams and in person. But their shared nightmares portend complete annihilation. Even with destruction looming, on the most romantic day in the universe, what can a man give a woman who has everything?

Life out of her body was fun but when she tangles with a stellar avatar, life inside her own skin holds a lot of appeal. Dina has been going from assignment to assignment, helping out with mediations in hostile environments. Since she leaves her body in safety, her mind walks worlds that would kill her physical form instantly. When an offer from a nearby star gets her attention, she has to choose between a life out of her body, or a passenger in her very soul. Arci, the living star has been searching for a match for his avatar since Zakkar’s species disappeared. When the Terran seems to meet all of his avatar’s needs, Arci senses that she can fulfill some of the things missing is his own existence as well. It will take both of them to convince her to join them, but their threesome will eventually come together, mind, body, souls, and star.

When the opportunity for revenge presents itself, a woman realizes that revenge may not always be sweet. Kassie McAlister has it all. She’s a bestselling romance author and can have any woman she wants. Kassie has never been one for commitment and enjoys her life just the way it is. The only barrier to total bliss is book reviewer, Shondra Williams, who seems to have a personal vendetta against her. When Kassie decides to spend a couple of weeks in Florida, the last person she ever expects to run into is Shondra. Kassie fantasizes that the perfect revenge is to seduce the woman, then leave her out in the cold. When Shondra shows her a softer vulnerable side, she wonders if she can go through with it, especially after Shondra shares a secret with her that forces Kassie to look deep within herself.  

Gargoyle’s Mate-Claim: Finding his mate is only half the battle, beating a huge gargoyle is the other… Ivan of McDarmund joins the Cuchulian tribe for one reason, to find his mate. He scented him at a Cuchulian wedding ceremony, but now that he’s within the halls of Rostrorod, he only ever catches traces of his mate’s tantalizing scent again. Until he’s served lunch by the very source of the mysterious scent, Lebanon of Cuchulian. But before he can introduce himself and claim the young gargoyle, Lebanon is accosted in the gymnasium locker room. Ivan saves him, but when their Huzza comes to investigate, Ivan learns that someone else has laid a mate-claim on Lebanon. The only way to have a chance at claiming his mate now is by challenging the other gargoyle to a fight to the death. Will he succeed? And if he does, after what happened in the locker room, will Lebanon even want to give Ivan a chance to win his affection?  

Brett and Jen thrill to hot three-way phone sex, more male action for Brett and Ryan, a sizzling house party and finally, a decadent weekend with their new Unicorn. Their new Unicorn Sarah Creston may be out of town, but that doesn’t stop Jen and Brett Andrews from burning up the wires with some scorching three-way phone sex. While they’re waiting for Sarah, Ryan eagerly pursues Brett for some hot male action, followed by a house party that challenges Jen and Brett’s stereotypes. Sarah finally arrives, exhausted and drained from weeks spent helping her aging parents. Jen and Brett provide total tender care for three days—but when Jen invites Sarah to move in for the whole summer, Brett asks himself, is there a limit?  

A small Texas town. A dedicated pastor. A sexy parishioner. Mix in some gossipers and busybodies, add the word gay and sinful temptation explodes.   Steve Harkins is a young pastor with a vision to fill empty church seats and bring God’s love to one and all. He does, however, have one secret to hide—he is a closet gay who has never acted out on his lifelong fantasies.  The small Texas town in which he pastors is full of gossipers and busybodies, who would love nothing more than to learn Steve’s secret and end his career. Steve is confident his secret will never see the light of day, especially since he is a widower and father of young twin girls. There is, however, a hitch. An incredibly handsome and sexy gay parishioner, Jarred, has uncovered Steve’s secret and is determined to seduce him. Steve tries staying in the closet to suppress his love for men, but the irresistible hunk with daring hands is proving far too tempting. If he succumbs and stops pretending to be straight, he will certainly lose his homophobic congregation. Can Jarred convince Steve to step out of the closet and into Jarred’s arms? Will Steve discover that uniting gays and straights under an expanded church roof provides the impetus for taking God’s love to new and greater heights?  

Out of the cage: The problem with peeling away a mask is that you never know what’s underneath.   Jared Templeton returned to Colin City for one reason, to make it through his sister’s wedding. After that he wanted to return to his home in Massachusetts and go back to his blessed solitude and his life as an assassin. He didn’t plan on attending a viewing for a deceased mentor, agreeing to help his shifter friend rescue a blind man, or learning that he had a shifter mate, a male shifter mate. He’d never been attracted to a man before, but he couldn’t deny that he lusted after this one. And he had no clue what to do about it, or how he could fit the wolf shifter into his life if he did give in to his desires. Carson Angeni is the enforcer for the Stone Ridge wolf pack. He’s followed his alpha’s commands and obeyed him without question, even to the point of taking lives to ensure the safety of his pack. When he’s faced with a mate who kills for money, with no remorse and no conscience, he questions Fate’s choice. How can he accept someone who seems to get his jollies by goading those around him, not to mention Jared lives halfway across the country? But as he gets to know the man, Carson learns that there is more to him than Jared’s brash exterior displays. There’s definitely a connection between them and both have trouble denying it, but Carson can’t accept Jared’s work as an assassin. And when Carson discovers that Jared knew from the beginning that he was Carson’s mate, it creates even more tension between them. Can Carson learn to trust his mate while trying to convince Jared to give up the only life and the only job he’s ever known, to settle with him in Stone Ridge?  

Can a porn star really keep her secret from the man she loves? Kandi’s a porn star. Berto’s a bartender. They’re in love. Everything is perfect except for one little detail—he knows nothing about her career. How long can Kandi keep her little secret and what will happen when Berto learns all about it?  

Can Melody convince her best friend’s uncles that she is enough woman for the both of them?   When Melody Madison, new first violin, first chair of the New Haven Philharmonic gets strange threatening letters from a deranged fan, she has nowhere to turn. With her family gone, she has only her best friend, Carmen and Carmen’s uncles to turn to. Can the men help her in her time of need and will she be able to keep her hands to herself so they can protect her? When Mitch and Wyatt Baldwin meet their niece’s college roommate for the first time, they are shocked to realize that she is their much-anticipated mate. After years of waiting and searching, they find it difficult to believe she has been so close, but yet so far for the last several years. When they find she is being stalked by a fanatical admirer, they take her security into their hands. After all, it is their right and their privilege to protect what is theirs.  

A rampaging god and death itself can’t keep these lovers apart!   Life is hard enough on the frontiers of Human space, but lovers Cassie O’Neill and Craig Lowell find themselves in danger from an unexpected source. A supernatural entity out of the legends of Old India has invaded their colony world. Alien and malevolent, the entity seeks to destroy the presence of humanity on the planet Orpheus, and Cassie and Craig stand in its path. Can they defeat death itself to save themselves and their world?  

Ceelie was nothing exceptional until the moment she became the most important woman to an entire world…and its avatar. Trapped in a job working as an assistant for an ambassador, Ceelie is hoping for something better for her life, but she knows that it isn’t likely. While on an assignment to obtain some atmosphere scrubbing trees Ceelie finds herself courted and seduced before she can blink. Rimeer is the avatar of the green and life giving world and he is in need of a companion. Ceelie can’t bring herself to deny any of his needs and when the planet joins them, she finds out that being part of a ménage can include three minds seeking pleasure as one.  

Double the pleasure and double the fun, two hot go-go boys for the price of one. Tommy Cooper has just turned 21 and is getting his first exposure to the gay club scene when he meets Darren Maguire, a go-go dancer. Not only is Darren about the hottest guy that Tommy has ever seen, but he also has an identical twin brother named Michael who is also a dancer. Things quickly heat up for Tommy and Darren, but Michael doesn’t exactly approve. Michael is more serious and wishes his brother Darren would focus more on his education. When Michael meets the man of his dreams, however, he begins to understand the power of romance. Both of the twins become embroiled in relationships which are sure to affect their future, but in the party environment of a dance club, can any such relationship last? And what of the parade of hot guys that constantly come in and out of their lives? Only time will tell if Tommy has actually met the man of his dreams or if he’s simply allowed himself to be swept up by a passing sensation…a Twinsation.