Short Stories

Drakhoms were the offspring of humans and vampires. Typically beautiful and dark, they were known to possess strong sexual appetites, without the need for blood. Nonetheless, accounts of unusual sexual encounters with the species made Kate Randall wary of them. She had no desire to experience intimate activity that involved dangerously sharp teeth. Kate is instantly attracted to her new client, Tanton Manning. No surprise there—he’s strikingly handsome and successful. But she suspects that he’s a Drakhom, which would be a good reason to stay away from him once her project is complete. Tanton, however, is determined to have this beautiful woman and wastes no time getting his message across. She plans to ignore his romantic attempts to lure her, but agrees to dinner, assuming it would be easy to tell him she didn’t mix business with pleasure.

Ellen Sanders adores Drakhom men, and their wild, wicked passion. When she’s introduced to Drakhom Max Jensen, the attraction between them is like nothing she’d ever experienced. She eagerly takes on the task of decorating his new condo, hoping to have a hot fling with him. But he ruins it all by telling her he’s looking for a wife, and she’s vowed to never get married again. When he offers a relationship on her terms, she is more than tempted to accept, but could she walk away before getting too attached? The latter guaranteed heartache no matter what. Then again, not to experience passion with him would likely be just as painful.

Mallory wants some "superhero" hot fun in the boardroom with her shy co-worker "Kent Clarke". But can the gorgeous geek deliver?

Lilly wants the life she was promised and a love she deserves. When Myra shows up and magically fixes everything that is wrong with Lilly's life, Lilly is willing to suspend belief for a chance at passion. But will the price to keep it be too high?

Amelia lives each day with the knowledge that she will be killed on October 31st, her twenty-second birthday, only to be reincarnated one hundred years later. While alive she is haunted by dreams of passion she is never able to experience and death she knows is waiting for her. A demon is coming to kill her, and fate decrees that she will choose death from him. What could possibly drive her to ask for her own death—only the promise of her every fantasy coming true before the death blow.

Heat of Winter is what occurs when a beautiful but lonely waitress shares a fast attraction with a sexy and equally single new customer at a freewheeling Greenwich Village restaurant on a snowy February night. The pair keep each other cozy, carefree and coming in what promises to be more than just a one night stand in a snowstorm.

WARNING: This book contains some homoerotic scenes. He’s in the market for a king-sized bed. She’s in the mood for a king-sized threesome. When Aaron walks into the upscale Scandinavian furniture store, Kolinkar Furnishings, to shop for a bed, he meets a drop-dead gorgeous sales lady who’s aggressive in more ways than one. Lucinda zeros in on him the moment he enters her lair and deems him worthy prey for her and her equally predatory co-worker, Signe, who is also her lover. Once Lucinda sells him the right bed, she persuades him to give it a test ride when actually she and Signe just want to test ride him.

After years of abuse and struggle, Lauret made a decision to change her life. At 40 years old, she left her old life behind and started fresh. By leaving all of the past and hurt, she gained everything, including the love of her life, the gorgeously handsome Dominic Tyreaux.

Stealing away from their duties as Enforcers for the Witches Council, sorcerers, Kayla and Garth, are determined to finally get their long delayed honeymoon. Choosing a primitive world best known for its miles and miles of pristine beaches and the gentle natives, the sorceress leads the way through the Chain of worlds. On arrival, Kayla finds not the happy, carefree people she remembered, but a populace ravaged by disease and a general malaise of the spirit. They easily discover the evil creature that has been sucking the very life and souls from their chests. To free the innocent souls of the villagers, Kayla and Garth, are willing to risk their own lives and happiness to hunt down and kill the monster feeding on the people.

Jocelyn owed him a gift of gratitude? But roses? For a man? What was she thinking, and what will he think? As it turns out, it's something completely unexpected. And completely incendiary.

Caitlyn has a mission – rescue her childhood companion Berne from the King’s dungeon – after all, it was to save her honor that he was captured. But this street thief finds more than she bargained for in Henry, the King’s jailor. Henry has resigned himself to the loneliness of his dark dungeon, but when Caitlyn brings a spark of life into his dreary world, he will do anything to keep that spark glowing. Who will rescue whom?

When Harper investigates a disturbance call, he finds no thief, but an embarrassed beauty, who had just stepped out of the shower. After he inspects the apartment and finds nothing suspect, she offers him a beer. Off-duty now, he accepts. Things become even more interesting when the roommate joins them. Here he is, with not one gorgeous woman, but two--how can a cop get so lucky?

Though Cassidy is a happily married man, there's still something missing. Could David be the discovery Cassidy is looking for?

Lilith MacFayden wants only one thing—the cabin with a white picket fence sitting on a small lot in Lincoln City, Oregon—a place where she can live and retire. When Terri, Director for the Drip and Wet Studio, offers her a job as a porn actress, she's discovered a way to make her dream come true, which will make her more money than she dreamed, not to mention she'll be working with a porn star, Fox Cassidy. She enjoys the sex part of her job, but her role stops when the camera does. When Fox declares he wants to make love with her before the shoot, without the camera rolling and Terri directing, her principle is tested. He teases, tries everything to weaken her resolve, but she has a dream. Will giving into a minute of bliss lose her chance of making her dream come true? Will her resistance outlast Fox's persistence?

Toby worked hard to give his wife everything and Verbena loved him with all her heart. Life was good. Until someone shattered it. Enter a con artist. Now they've lost everything--home, car, boat, bank accounts, all of it. Running from town to town in one stolen vehicle after another, they can't stop. Not with him hot on their trail. He'll kill them if he catches them so Tony and Verbena keep running. Sleep and food beckon at a small sign up ahead. They have to stop. Just for a bit. Just for a bite with what little they have left. Drenched in the pouring rain, they dash inside, but what they face isn't what they expected.

All that stands between Marianne Mulligan and freedom is three hundred dollars. To get it, she’s willing to do anything. Anything! And the only thing standing in her way is a decidedly interesting state trooper known only as Melbourne. A state trooper who might, if she plays her cards just right, be her ticket out at last.

David is down and out. Then a world of enchantment, a witch's kiss. Is it reality? Or is it a dream...

Lana LaRue is a call girl. Jonathan Summers is a man who wants sex without strings attached. They are the perfect couple—until Lana falls in love with Jonathan and Jonathan can’t reconcile his feelings for Lana. He begins to miss his regular Thursday appointments with Lana—believing that he can put distance between them and thus change his growing feelings for her—but sexual need overcomes his willpower to stay away. In a heated moment, he once confided his most coveted sexual fantasy to Lana. Now, necessity dictates she give him that fantasy—or lose him forever.

It’s been six years since Tia Morgan last saw Logan Summerfield. In fact it was high school prom night—the night she lost her virginity to him. It’s inevitable that they meet again—this time at the height of Mardi Gras when senses are aroused and identities hidden behind brightly colored masks. But Tia would know Logan anywhere. His image is engraved on her heart. She remembers the feel of his body, the taste of his tongue in her mouth, the warmth of his arms...

Hiding her identity for the night, Clarissa dresses as a harem girl and enters the rowdy atmosphere of Mardi Gras—just in time to find a handsome stranger who has sinful delicious ideas of his own.