Thousands of miles from home, under the lush canopy of the rain forest, she’s found sanctuary.In this world teeming with unusual creatures walks the most exotic of them all—Rio. A native of the forest imbued with a fierce prowess, he is something to be desired and something to be feared.But as Rachael’s past looms and Rio unleashes the secret animal instincts that course through his blood, Rachael fears that her isolated haven has become an inescapable hell. Burning Wild Bred for his innate leopard-shifting abilities, billionaire Jake Bannaconni has spent his life in an emotional vacuum after a tragedy left him to raise his infant son alone. When his path crosses that of an enigmatic young woman, Jake’s life takes a detour he never fathomed.Hiring Emma Reynolds as his son’s nanny, she’s the first human to stir something in Jake, something he’s never felt before. But Emma may not be at all what she seems. What’s raging between them is pure animal instinct—out of control, burning wild, and as hot as the lick of a flame. Wild Fire Called on a dangerous assignment, leopard shifter Conner Vega returns to the Panama rainforest. A member of the most lethal shifter tribe, he carries the scent of a wild animal in its prime and he’s branded with the scars of shame inflicted by the woman he betrayed.Isabeau Chandler has never forgiven Conner—or forgotten him. The mating urge is still with her and when she crosses Conner’s path, passions burn like wildfire. But as Conner’s mission draws Isabeau closer, another betrayal lies waiting in the shadows—and it’s the most perilous and intimate one of all.

    But will Zane strike as swiftly and lethally as the cobra that is his second form?Note: Descriptions for books 2 - 5 contain spoilers for their previous booksSnakecharmA surprising union has brought peace to the avians and serpiente. Soon a child will be born to carry on their royal lines. But Syfka, an ancient falcon, is claiming that one of her people is hidden in the avian and serpiente land. Is Syfka’s lost falcon just a ruse to stir up controversy among them?FalcondanceNicias is a falcon, the son of two exiles from Ahnmik, and images of this distant island have always haunted his dreams. When his visions become more like reality, his parents send him back to the homeland—and a royal falcon—they’ve tried their best to forget. Wolfcry Oliza Shardae Cobriana is heir to Wyvern’s Court, home of the avians and serpiente, whose war with each other ended just before Oliza was born. But hatred is slow to die, and Oliza’s serpiente suitor is found beaten in avian land. How can she be expected to lead a unified society if her people still cannot live peacefully together? Wyvernhail Hai, daughter of a falcon mother and a deceased cobra father, is considered a mongrel by most, an ally by some, and a friend by few. When Hai’s cousin abdicates the throne of Wyvern’s Court, Hai has visions of destruction. Now she will do anything to protect her new home—even if it means betraying the very people who need her most.

    The revolution is coming, and Faythe will be leading the charge.

    Andrea Nash of the Order of Knights of Merciful Aid - with an assist from her friend, Kate Daniels - tries to figure out why the giant three-headed dog who guards the gates of Hades is sniffing around Atlanta.* Originally published in the anthology, Must Love Hellhounds.

    As it is, making up for a past she’d sooner forget leaves her barely polite most days. But Raven leader and loyal Odin warrior, Will Yager, isn’t just nice. He’s gorgeous, hot, and a distraction she simply can’t afford.Yager has wanted Neecy in his life—and in his bed—for a long time. Not just for a night, but forever. And, like any self-respecting Viking, he’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. So what if she’s the most difficult, complex, never-gives-him-a-break woman he’s ever known? She’s more than worth the effort. In fact, she’s worth everything.And if it turns out that twenty-four hours of non-stop, any-way-she-wants-it sex doesn’t work with Neecy? Then it looks like he’ll just have to get a little more creative…This book has been previously published.

    As a selkie, she kept much of her life a secret, even from her good friends the D’Artigo sisters. But now a dark presence from her past has found its way across the ocean, in the form of a man obsessed with possessing her. With the D’Artigo sisters’ help, Siobhan must stop him before he destroys everything she loves.Includes the never before published short story Vanished As well as a preview of Yasmine Galenorn’s Otherworld novel, Autumn WhispersShadow of Mist previously appeared in Never After

    And, unfortunately for him, the price of Maya’s services…is blood. A former cop turned vamp, Maya’s reputation definitely precedes her. Once upon a time, she helped the weak and innocent. Now, she spends her nights terrifying demons and all manner of paranormal beasts. According to the stories, she is the baddest of the bad…and she’s exactly the vamp that Adam needs. The only one who can help him.Maya’s days (and nights) of helping are long gone—she stopped that routine when she bled out in a dirty alley and woke with bloodlust and fangs. But now she’s got a sexy stranger standing in front of her, offering her anything she wants, as long as she helps him find his missing niece. Okay. Fine. Maybe somewhere deep in her cold, cold heart, she has a vague soft spot for kids…and for gorgeous, muscled, hot guys. So she’ll help him. This once. She’ll take the blood payment he offers, and she’ll find the kid.Except…Adam has secrets. The kind of secrets that can burn a whole town straight to ash. The longer that he’s around Maya, the more uncontrolled he becomes as the beast he keeps locked inside himself fights for freedom. Adam didn’t count on falling for the fearless vamp, but now that he’s under her spell, Adam isn’t sure he can ever imagine a life without her…And when someone like Adam finds a mate, that bonding lasts forever.Author’s Note: Strap in…it’s going to be one hot ride. Maya and Adam are about to fight the baddest of the supernatural predators out there. They’re also about to find out that opposites can attract—and ignite. IMMORTAL DANGER is a full-length, paranormal romance with a guaranteed happy ending. It was originally first released in March of 2009, but it has now been revised and updated.

    The first in a series titled, The Wolf Maiden Chronicles, each depicts historical romances between alpha Males and their human wolf maidens.

    But having Alexia return to Dragon's Lair brings along another set of troubles. For not only does she make him senseless with desire, she's also being followed by the enemy.Though tragedy once drove them apart, Alexia didn't count on her return igniting so many powerful emotions. But as each dark night descends, revisiting the marriage bed is a temptation she finds more and more difficult to resist. All too soon Alexia realizes her heart is as much at risk as her life....

    When her uncle leaves her his entire fortune after his death, Dallas' step-aunt and step-cousin are furious. On a cruise, they decide to dump her overboard and kill her.Thane, an ancient mythical selkie, finds a beautiful woman clinging to some driftwood far out into the sea. Deciding to save her, he is stunned to find a sudden and enthusiastic attraction to this human. Realizing he has found his mate, Thane takes her back to his home.When Dallas wakes from her near drowning, she finds herself in a rundown shack. A crazy, sexy man named Thane states he is a selkie and she is his mate. Determined to find her way back to civilization, she makes plans to leave his home. Before this can happen, an overwhelming desire crashes throughout her body, leaving Dallas aching with a need to claim Thane as her own. A Love RebornOver a year ago, Kikomo Aguilera was sailing with her lover when a storm suddenly struck. Fighting to get the boat back inland, her lover shouted for her to go below deck. In trying to save Kikomo, Takuma was swept overboard and presumed dead.Because he sacrificed his life for Kikomo, the sirens have granted Takuma special abilities. He has been turned into a selkie and comes to his lover by night. Once the sun starts to rise, he must wrap himself in his seal pelt and go back to the sea.Kikomo's father does not realize Takuma is alive in the body of a selkie. He forces Kikomo to wed a vile and hateful man who is very wealthy and uses his position around town to his advantage. Hating her father and hating Odell even more, Kikomo tries to find a way to be with Takuma forever. When her intended finds her with a selkie, he devises a plan to rid the world of her lover while getting Kikomo to agree to become his bride.Faith's TearsFaith Henderson is in Scotland on holiday with her boyfriend Sean. There is something mythical and magical about this place. It calls to her heart in a way that Sean cannot understand. Faith is always exploring by herself due to Sean's lack of enthusiasm for this beautiful land. When she walks into the hotel room to find her boyfriend in another woman's arms, Faith runs to the sea and cries for her lost relationship.Rowan Kilgour has been waiting seventeen years for Faith to come to him. His senior year of high school he gave her a pendant, telling her it was to keep her safe. In reality, it marked Faith as his woman. As Faith's tears mesh with the rolling sea, it calls upon Rowan to come forth and finally call her his own.Faith had always admired Rowan from afar in school. When she sees this beautiful man again, Faith does not even question why he is there. With her relationship over with Sean, she explores her deepening feeling for Rowan. When her ex-boyfriend tries to take her back and she pushes him away, it leads to a deadly confrontation with unforeseen consequences.Sealed With A FistYonder Austin is used to taking care of herself. Watched only by her tutor, she learns new and exciting things while her parents are away on one adventure after another. After disaster strikes, killing her parents, Yonder finds that greedy relatives have invaded her house. They abuse their power, her money, and her body, pushing her battered soul to the brink of madness.Aonghus Fulgencio Din Eidyn is the most spoiled son out of the thirteen royal children. As the youngest and only child to be a sole birth, he demands everything and gets what he wants. Brought up by two loving parents and twelve loving brothers, Aonghus feels the world is his palace and everything in it should be his.When Yonder is eleven years old, her greedy guardians take a cruise that leads to disaster. Pirates attack the ship, stranding her on a boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Mishap follows mishap and Yonder makes her way to an island filled with the royal selkie, including Aonghus. After growing to maturity, Yonder realizes that what she feels for Aonghus is not brotherly love, but something else entirely.

    Under a Shifter’s Moon, a mating can take place with a chosen human to produce a child, and the father of that child will become the one Alpha. Now Lyon must choose the love of his Truemate—or accept the decree to save his Pride and secure his future.Strong and selfless, Kitlene is a rare woman whose blood, like her niece’s, carries something of the Shifter within its DNA. Willing to sacrifice herself for the sake of family, she offers herself to the Alpha Cat whose very presence pulls at her soul—and whose love brings with it a deadly complication.

    Okay, I had a huge crush on him. Then he disappeared. But, now he's back and he's in some kind of trouble. He needs my help. I should say no, just on principle, but he's too cute to resist.Did I mention Aer is a dragon?Having a dragon for a boyfriend might not be a bad thing. Of course, first I have to help him rescue his brother--and save the Rikashi, an entire race of dragon shifters.

    It is a duty they gladly accept. But when Bale finds himself fascinated with the vampire, Faith, he fights it. Not only does the longing for her go against a vow he’d made centuries before, he is pretty certain someone is targeting him and his brothers—one of their own—so to protect her, he tries to resist the pull.For Faith Magee, meeting Bale was like stepping out of the pan and into the fire. An injury due to a Demon hunt sends her into Transfiguration, the process by which a child born of a Vampire father turns, one year early and instead of getting out from under her domineering father’s thumb, finds that by taking Bale’s blood, she is bonded to a male who doesn’t seem to want her. And to make matters worse, blood from any other makes her violently ill. With her only options starving to death or giving into an alpha warrior, what’s a vampire to do?

    It's a sacred duty handed down from father to son-a duty he's determined to carry out successfully so his family retains the shapeshifter powers they cherish. Failure means death at the hands of a deadly curse. Desperate to escape the strictures of mourning, Charlotte Webster travels to Egypt with her stepbrother. The freedom of Patria Oasis is heady after the stuffy rules of the London season. It's full of temptation. Sethmet, their guide, is handsome and sparks forbidden desire in Charlotte. Risking censure, she embarks on a passionate affair, secret rendezvous full of lingering caresses and explosive pleasure. Charlotte pleases both man and feline, but she's with the men Sethmet suspects are hunting for the pharaoh's treasure. If Charlotte is involved, he can't protect her from the pharaoh's curse and she'll die with the others. Love, danger and betrayal battle beneath the blood-red desert moon as the lovers steal moments together and fate works its wiles. Publisher's Note: Previously published elsewhere, novel has been revised for Ellora's Cave.

    The local sheriff investigates and begins unearthing things he never imagined possible.An immortal shape-shifter...Nightwalker, Corin von Vadim, inhabits a secluded sprawling estate in the town of Hixton. An enigmatic loner, he hides the fact that during the daylight hours, he rests within the dark confines of the earth, only rising after twilight--a routine he has carried out for five hundred years. Unnerved by the arrival of a sinister newcomer, with the help of two allies--a mortal and an otherworldly daywalker--he is forced to protect his home from invading evil.She is mortal...Angelique Jaffler--a dark-haired beauty drawn to the night--has captured Corin's heart. But can she accept his supernatural world where shape-shifiting immortals are not myth, but reality? And when she becomes a pawn in the sordid game of a rival, will Corin be able to save her from the monster's deadly clutches? Beware the setting of the sun and listen for the call of the wild wolf crying out its warning of immortal presence. You see, this is their time--after the fall of night.

    They're also werewolves. Jake McCallan is the owner of McCallan Lumber and the alpha male of their small pack. His sister Tori has left to find her own life away from weres and his younger brother Trey is nothing but trouble. When Trey shows up and tells Jake about fathering a child during a one night stand, Jake throws Trey out of the pack. Then Jake tries to make it right with the mother. Rebecca Miller has no intention of letting any McCallan run her life or her son's, but when she meets Jake, he stirs something deep inside her, something she doesn't want to acknowledge. But Jake knows the truth the first time he meets the beautiful single mom. Rebecca is his lifemate, the one woman meant for him, and she's as drawn to him as he is to her. And she's had his brother's baby. If that's not bad enough, while drunk, Trey's hired a stranger to kill Rebecca and the child. When several attempts to kill Rebecca fail, it's up to Jake to protect his mate, even if he has to kill his brother to do it.

    Kozakura Sora is a young cockatrice who switches schools for his assigned task of keeping an eye on Karasuma Rin, a basilisk and student council president. However, on his first day Sora flies into Karasuma Kai, Rin's younger brother. A fateful meeting that changes everything...

    The mysterious slaughters continue, revealing a virulent murderous trend that spreads through the Austin greenbelts and alters the lives of a few seemingly unrelated gay and lesbian citizens. Detective Lieutenant Louis Franklin works the case with his partner Marcia Guerrero and they gradually uncover the chilling truth. Relationships weave and evolve punctuated with horror, suspense, eroticism and mystery throughout a year of Austin full moons. Austin lives in terror.

    Shalene Courers leads freedom fighters against the Demrons to retrieve a crystal that is the secret to Earth's defense. When she captures the mysterious Mecah-tall, blond and very sexy-desires flame and the interrogation soon melts under his scorching passion. Mecah's possession of Shalene is more than lust-she's the kismet mate he's sought all his life, only she doesn't believe him. Shalene and Mecah join forces to turn the tide of war, but without winning the heart and soul of his fated mate he stand to lose his greatest battle. Secrets of the Wind By Charlotte Boyett-Compo Prince Ruan is in need of protection-though by his reckoning he can bloody well take care of himself. Ruan is in the sights of an assassin who will stop at nothing to kill him. Major Chastain Neff is a lethal weapon in her own right. As one of the elite Riezell Guardians, she is an expert in all the deadly arts that have made her an accomplished bodyguard to the rich and important. When she is assigned to protect a man who believes she's the one who needs the protecting, she knows she's going to have her hands full with Ruan Cosaint. Queen Annalyn is not a woman to leave things to chance, especially when the mystic's message pointed to a woman fated to become Prince Ruan's consort, the ruler of his heart, his protector and the mother of his children. Warlord's Destiny By Delilah Devlin Mora has no illusions she's anything other than the sacrificial lamb to ensure peace between her planet and the warlike world that demands a royal union with one of their own. However, when she meets the rugged warlord who will be her husband, Mora decides in that moment to win his heart-she'll settle for nothing less. When Lord Tetrik suspects his wife harbors tender feelings, he wonders if he can be the husband she desires. After all, love for a woman is a frivolous thing-and not a warlord's destiny.

    She survived a werewolf attack that made her a psychic. But now she's alive and well and on the run from a government hunter, and part of her burns to be Captured..."For Maya Blake, "well" means no tubes in her arms, no electrodes on her skin, and absolutely no lab coats in sight. A werewolf attack victim who has become a powerful psychic, Maya is the property of a government that wants to keep her locked in a research hospital. She's on the run in a desperate attempt to keep her younger sister, a full-fledged werewolf, from the scientists' clutches, but she underestimates the long arm of the law.Werewolves are Adam Shepherd's specialty. In a world being taken over by a monstrous disease, survivors might hold the key to mankind's survival in their veins. Lycanthropy took his family. Werewolves killed his adoptive family. If he can neutralize pack after pack in the name of a cure, then he's fulfilling two driving needs with one urgent mission."Not all fugitives have fangs, however."When Maya's stunned by intimate premonitions about the hardened, no-nonsense leader of ruthless mercenaries as they capture her, she can hardly control herself. Her hands might somehow know the feel of his smooth, muscular skin. Her lips might know his taste. But her heart knows he must be her enemy. How can the man who threatens to take away her and her sister's freedom ever be her lover?"Publisher's Note: This book contains anal play, menage (m/m/f with m/m sexual interaction), and some violence."

    She lives on the fine line dividing the everyday world from a darker dimension, observing the supernatural community while standing apart.When Mercy travels to the Tri-Cities of Washington for a job interview, she quickly finds herself smack-dab in the middle of a gang war between rival packs of werewolves. And as if fangs and fur weren't bad enough, Mercy must deal with the scariest creature of all: her mother, who is convinced that Mercy is making a mess of her life and determined to set her daughter on the right course.The thrilling adventures of Mercy Thompson-Moon Called, Blood Bound, and Iron Kissed-have topped the New York Times bestseller list. Now Mercy makes her comics debut in an exclusive new story created by Patricia Briggs. Mercy Thompson: Homecoming is sure to please longtime fans and capture new ones with its mix of unforgettable characters and thrilling supernatural intrigue.

    Today is the first day of her internship at a prominent brokerage house at the World Trade Center, and she's late. She doesn't know disaster is right around the corner.LOVEGregor Vasiliev is a financial advisor at the World Trade Center. This shapeshifter hates the office coffee, and while on a donut run he gazes out the window of his favorite coffee shop. There in the street stands the lifemate he's been searching for. If he doesn't act now, he'll lose her forever.IT'S SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.

    Can the calming energy of a human empath prevent a dangerous, untamed weir leader from destroying his pard? Will Cole be the answer to Syndee’s longing for acceptance and a home, or will he be her destruction?

    As a successful litigation lawyer, her brilliance in the courtroom is no compensation for her haplessness in bed. Kelly is afraid she's going to lose her husband Andi if she doesn't do something about it soon.Nicolla Evers, a fiery kitty-cat, lives a glamorous life as a famous adult movie actress. Behind the camera and stardom, she's unhappy and yearns to get out from the industry to live a normal life. The problem is her abusive manager Harry has her in a tight grip, leaving Nicolla practically enslaved.One morning, in a wicked twist of fate, the two shifters accidentally switch bodies. Will the two finally find the life they really want? Or is it only the beginning of an unstoppable sex fiasco?

    Then Bruce comes back outside unexpectedly and Cyndi panics, shifting to hide in one of the saddlebags. She doesn’t realize the bike is a matchmaking reindeer in disguise. Comet knows all about the sexy little critters of Dawg Town, and he’s decided the cute little prairie dawg is just what Bruce needs to cuddle up with him in his North Pole cottage.