Books with 3 Flames

Kane Fulton is a man accustomed to getting what he wants. And what he wants most is Hawaiian chef Maylea Kramer. But the striking woman wants nothing to do with him. What Lea wants is for her burgeoning catering business, Lea's Luaus, to grow at a more rapid pace. She knows Kane's recommendation can make her or break her. So what devil possesses her to refuse his job offer? The ancient Hawaiian demigod Maui--the infamous Trickster perhaps? Or is Kane's arrogance the only catalyst to her stubbornness? Desperate situations call for devious measures and Kane is just the man to resort to chicanery to get the woman of his dreams. Buying Lea's bank loan, threatening to foreclose, he blackmails Lea into teaching him to cook. When Lea discovers his lies, will Kane learns the hard way that honesty is the only way he can win the woman of his heart?

Gwen has been living a life of duty and responsibility. Her first Alliance assignment was as an Enforcer, her next the polar opposite, Matchmaker. She has fought rabid crowds with ease and control, but facing an endless supply of bridezillas is too much to handle when her old boss comes knocking. Etien Mathijen has pulled in every favour he was owed to get his true mate to his planet in a capacity where he can court her. Now he just has to get her cooperation and they will be able to live happily ever after. With her mind on duty and responsibility, can he crack her shell of reserve in time to save her from her own mindless obedience?

On Katherine Percy's wedding day, she realizes she has been living the safe life dictated by her parents and the expectations of everyone around her. But the perfection they worship is all a lie, believed by all in exchange for the safe comforts of money. Katherine realizes the tradeoff is more than she is willing to give for that sense of safety. Is safety really all that important? Katherine leaves her life behind, becoming Kat Percy, a woman dedicated to living a life unconscious of societies dictating safe ways. She goes to the ultimate city of unsafe living, Las Vegas, and pursues her new life dedicated to giving herself exactly what she wants. What she wants is Patrick Snow. She finds more there than she ever bargained for, the ultimate unsafe pursuit, love.

When Lori Collins accepts an invitation to join a few old college friends for a Christmas Eve reunion, she doesn't think her former lover will be joining the group. Chance Murdock is not only handsome, he's wealthy, reckless, and has no regard for authority--and he answers to no one--especially a woman who wants to change him. Three years have passed since Lori broke up with Chance, but seeing him again quickly stirs her emotions and ignites her passions. Can she stifle her feelings and make it through the reunion? Or will she give in to the barrage of rising desires and let Chance coax her back into his arms?

What happens when a forty-something actress must perform with her recent and pompous ex-husband in a production of Noel Coward's divorce comedy, Private Lives? Will the attentions of her much younger, irresistibly attractive director move her forward as the leading lady in a sizzling May-December romance?

Honey Barrow serves the Alliance as an Encoded Courier, putting biologicals into her own body to keep them viable during transport. This job has kept her flying for years, but that is about to come to a screeching halt when she accepts an assignment to transport the semen of an Alpha multi-shifter to the High Prefect of Shoshan. Honey has to prepare for her job by intaking a series of hormones, throwing her into a simulated heat, a heat strong enough to gain the attention of the Alpha she needs to gain the co-operation from. Raddik pursues her with single minded intensity, guaranteeing her return to him via devious methodologies with no twinges of conscience. When her life hangs in the balance, a ripple of events takes her life and her job beyond her control and leaves her at the mercy of the Alpha.

Christmas in Key Largo, Florida--palm trees, bright blue waters, tropical temperatures and two people feeling the sting of a bad break-up. When Tom McCoy fled there to forget his latest romantic debacle, the last person he expected to meet was beautiful Brooke Devlin, who is trying to heal from a mishap of her own. Their mutual attraction is strong, but is it real or just rebound? Will their holiday affair last beyond checkout time, or become the stuff Spring breaks are made of?

She had become his prey. His plaything. The one he desired the most, but someone wanted her more. Her resilience fading, Rebecca fights to remain strong against the man trying to destroy her mind and her life. Without the solace of Eric's arms, Rebecca's will to recover from the relentless blows wanes as she begins to break. Eric, forced to face his own choices, races to end the nightmare before the woman he loves is completely torn apart. Just when they think the worst is over, the game and the stakes change.

Christmas is not the joyful time it is supposed to be for Carrie Summers. Her marital problems have escalated to the point where three days before Christmas she storms out of the house and goes for a drive to think. The drive calms her down and she makes up her mind to tell Ryan she’s sorry. On the way home, a broadsiding pickup truck steals her chance to make up with him and tell him her big secret. When Carrie wakes she finds herself on the other side facing an angel named Jon who tells her of her erring ways. It is too late to make amends, there is no way now…or is there?

Fire elemental Fehniel of Hickom knows that her friends have found true love. The wolf in her knows that this frost giant is her mate, but the fire elemental in her wants to fight him all the way. Tynir knows that she is meant for him, but her calculating mind may be more than he can handle when it comes to keeping her safe. Unprepared when he sees the real her, he has to make a choice, run like hell, or fight to keep a woman who makes his cold blood run hot.

Snow Job Cindy is living with Al, a man she no longer feels attracted to and jumps at a chance to get a real Christmas tree by going with Jeremy when he announces his intention to cut down his own tree. She is aware he has a relationship with Tanya, but is unsure how close they are. During their trip to get the trees, Cindy flirts with Jeremy and that leads to an intimate situation. When they return with their Christmas trees, Cindy wants to confess to Al what happened, but before she can, he surprises her. Christmas Lights Tracie is a girl who inspires blonde jokes and finds herself in a desperate situation when her soldier boyfriend is coming home for Christmas with a surprise for her. Needing to quickly put together decorations and a tree, she calls her friend Julie for help and all goes well…until they open the box containing the artificial tree, which is missing most of the parts. A few glasses of wine later, Julie has an inspired thought.

All the female cheerleaders and the basketball team called him Great Dane. And they weren’t referring to his prowess on the court. Jennifer Martin didn’t care about his playboy reputation. On her eighteenth birthday, she gave her love and virginity to Dane Derrick Davidson. After a summer of hot sex, he broke her heart, leaving without even saying goodbye. Ten years later, he’s back for her birthday. When he was twenty-five, Dane knew he had no right to seduce his best friend’s younger sister. But he selfishly wanted her first time to be with him. He knew he had to leave her, let her grow up and decide from a more mature perspective whether he was more than a teenage crush. Now he’s back, determined to rekindle her love for him—even if he has to tie her to his bed and feed her all her favorite fruits to convince her. Does he want another summer of sex? Or this time will he stay forever?

Tia’s life has been defined by avoiding the priesthood, so when she finds herself on a foreign world with seductively familiar males, she is conflicted. General Jenner Mathwin is striking and his voice sends her body into a full-on riot. Can she trust him when it comes to offering her for sacrifice or will the Lassing priesthood tear her to pieces? She really hopes that her trust is earned because when she offers herself to the star’s avatar, she will be tied hand and foot in a public forum. It may be a little late to change her mind once they bind her…

The moment certified personal trainer Courtney Robinson laid her eyes on fireman Ryan Cornell, she was hooked. The muscular and handsome fireman must be starting more fires than he was putting out. Ryan was certainly the first man she had lustful thoughts for since her heartbreaking divorce one year ago. When Ryan requested her Monday Moaning gym class, the fiery blonde jumped at the chance. Who would have known that their passion would ignite a flame that rocked them both to the core?

They meet at a small North Carolina beach town and take a chance on each other with a trip to Washington, DC. As the memories swirl around them when they visit Arlington, they decide their fate.

Sophie Redding is one of the few humans to have dodged the evacuation of the shapeshifting Sethen. She is on a journey to the Northlands, in a ridiculous outfit and on foot, leaving a trail a mile wide. Commander T'bir is in charge of cleaning out the towns and villages to let his people's city rise from the ground. When a detachment of trackers is unable to capture the human in the red dress, his interest is piqued and he goes on the hunt. Capturing this human may be the tipping point for his people, and her own.

Estelle is a logistical expert, show her a problem and she can solve it. When she is drugged and enslaved, she looks for a way out, sending messages with every outgoing slave and hoping that one will get her plan to the Alliance in time. The escape is on, but she has been shackled to her breeding partner that very evening, linked by a chain they lead the escape until one partner goes on alone. Survivors are offered a place on an Oefric colony world. The shape shifters have a separate town from the arena survivors, and that is where their hospitality ends. Steel leads the charge to design a working village, and since she conveniently made it into the survivors and not the Alliance specialist designation when she landed, let the fun begin. Wyanic is eventually persuaded to look in on the growing village, and imagine his surprise when his true mate greets him when he thought her dead on the ship.

Trying to escape from her personal hell leads Carly to Bastien. Taking on a job as housekeeper, things rapidly are not what they seem around Bastien's homestead. With wild animals coming in from the woods and her vicious ex-husband circling the front gate, Carly is desperate to find security and a feeling of calm. Bastien is an alpha wolf and knows her the moment he meets her on the most basic of levels. From scent to curves, Carly draws his attention and holds it when he should be concentrating on pack business. Just as he's starting to make his move they are separated by secret government lab dedicated to turning soldiers into shifters and Carly ends up in a cage left wondering if he is the one man who thinks she is worth rescuing.

Siri has worked her way through the temple of Ilshara until the goddess tapped her as the Emissary. With her life now revolving around worshipers and organizing the temple she has no time for herself and with the great festival coming up, she needs some me time. She asks the goddess for some time off and is shocked to her toes when it is granted. Life on Allacor is calm, serene and has a slow rhythm that Siri enjoys as she spends her days in baggy clothing that are completely different from her Emissary clothing. While the goddess lets Siri's biology come back to its rhythm, Mirkan, the next clan leader of the Sorro clan is there to seduce her into an attachment to his world. Time passes swiftly and when the representatives from her home world find her she is caught and her disguise stripped bare. When the goddess inside comes out to put her foot down, she surprises her Emissary with a plan for this new world. A plan that includes Siri.

Valeria has fought for her life and sanity at the brutal hands of raiders. She wakes to find herself in her own dreams and memories with a man made of shadows and embers with pointy ears. Morpheus of Admar has tracked his mate across the stars only to find that he has to keep her in her dreams to erase the traumas of the past. His rescue efforts involve hiding at Sector Guard Base Udell where the raiders on their trail meet an uncomfortable surprise. How many mechs does it take to destroy a small fighter? Only one, and she is having a wonderful time.