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Tempted


Rebecca Zanetti - 2012
    The alternate cover edition can be found here.CONSTANT DANGEROn the run from a mental institution and her vindictive half-brother, it's safe to say that Sarah Pringle's happy life as a schoolteacher is on hold. Too bad that as far as self-defense goes, "run and hide" is the best she's got. And with the monsters that started her escape hot on her heels, that's not going to cut it for long...INSTANT LUSTThat is, unless Sarah has a bigger, badder, hotter monster on her side. Max Petrovsky is right at the top of the list of alpha male ass-kickers. And he knows exactly what Sarah's up against. Good thing, because the minute he sees her something primal kicks in, turning everyday attraction into red-hot desire. As long as they're cooperating, why not mix some pleasure with business? Of course, Max should probably tell Sarah he's a vampire himself...<27,000 words

Volatile: The Empress and the Executioner


Jeanie Johnson - 2007
    She has spent half of her young life avoiding matters of the heart. And she’s spent ninety-five percent of that time avoiding the one male that always sets her heart racing and her blood pumping: Lukas Montague, the Commander of the Locke Brotherhood. Being the only female Scout for The Society and having a peculiar relationship with the ruler of the Vampire Nation has set Star apart from “normal” vamps. Of course Lukas Montague is anything but normal. He’s also not patient. After 200 years of Star avoiding him, he’s decided that it’s time that she realise that she belongs to him. Lukas’ patience is put to the test by events that come dangerously close to spiralling out of control. What happens the end … well read on and you will find out!

Army Beasts


Dahlia Rose - 2011
    Far away in Midas, Wyoming so that Lieutenant Zane Wakefield couldn’t find her. He was a military man, and she could deal with that. What she couldn’t deal with was the secrets and the lies to cover up what he did for the military. So when she ran, she gave up all traces of her old life and embraced the new. It brought her peace and security until there was knock on her door at midnight and there stood the man who plagued her dreams. From the time she let him in, his green eyes drew him in. Everything came flooding back, the yearning and the intense need for the man that made her heart ache.Lieutenant Wakefield was in trouble, and there was only one person he could trust, and that was Promyse. His boss sent him away until they could clear his name and prove someone was trying to destroy the unit from the inside out. She left in the middle of the night, but he always knew where she was. How could he not? He was part of the Army Beasts, and his job was to find people who didn’t want to be found. He could understand why she disappeared. His life was a difficult one. But now he was on the run for something he didn’t do, and she was his safe haven. But could the woman he never stopped loving still be his when she learned his true nature?

Prey


Kassanna - 2013
    As a bounty hunter she’d never failed to get her man. Until her boss assigns her a new case.Eldridge “El” Kuhne has done what ever necessary to protect his pride. He understands there might be repercussions for some of his decisions. But when his consequences comes in a lithe package with skin the color of deep bronze and a scent of sugared ginger. He’s prepared to accept his fate.The same forces that thrust them together now threaten to snatch them apart. And the sins of a brother could cost El everything.Words: 23,350 (approximate)

7 Degrees of Alpha


D.J. Parker - 2016
     *Synopses are inside *

Rowan


Imani King - 2015
    I got the job as a professional muralist for New York’s wealthiest citizens, and I had the perfect relationship with a man I wanted to start a family with. Five years later, I’m single, barely employed, and thousands of dollars in debt to New York’s best infertility treatment centre. It turns out the only thing I couldn’t control was my body -- it betrayed me and left me with a diagnosis of untreatable, inexplicable, devastating -- infertility.When a cowboy billionaire appears out of the blue, offering an exorbitant amount of money for a job I can complete in a month, there’s no question that I’m hopping on a plane to New Mexico. It’s the perfect opportunity -- to forget the family I’ll never have.But when the limo rolls up to Rowan Corbett’s estate in the middle of nowhere, I know that there’s one more thing I won’t be able to control. With thick black hair, sapphire eyes, and a jawline that could cut steel, Rowan looks like he just stepped out of a wild west book from fifty years ago. As the weeks go by … I start to wonder, can love be the cure I’m looking for? Rowan is a standalone romance with an HEA.

His Purrfect Mate


Aliyah Burke - 2013
    What he doesn’t need is a cute little and most definitely sexy distraction named, Aida Roberts. Or the emotions meeting her stirred up within him. But this dark-skinned vixen didn’t seem to realize what she had done to him, or what she means to his soul.Aida Roberts loves her life in South Africa. She has met all kinds of people, some who need help and some who don’t, but all interesting. When she runs into the larger-than-life Dane Sidorov, she wondered if he didn’t actually need help despite his portrayal calm and confidence. There was something wild and untamed about him as he stared at her with his amazing eyes. A feeling of “safety” and “danger” emanated from him. Would this unusual man be able to let her in, or would his secret drive them further apart? When the darkness threatens, will Dane sacrifice himself or allow her to help save him? Can he accept the fact she is nothing less than…His Purrfect MateWord Count: 79,153

Tiger Bound


Tressie Lockwood - 2013
    Even when his father died, she was there for him. All because she'd been in love with him for years. When Heath asks to be her lover, she thinks things are headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, Heath's father had been sitting on a secret that could blow their fledgling relationship apart. The pills Heath had been taking all his life weren't to help him through debilitating headaches but to suppress his true nature. Heath's father didn't want it known that Heath is a white tiger shifter. Heath's secret is out, and someone wants him dead or alive. In order to protect Deja, Heath breaks up with her and leaves town to get answers.Deja refuses to be tossed aside by the man she loves. She knows Heath is facing danger and uncertainty, and to be with him could mean her own death, but he needs her more than ever. She doesn't care that there's a violent beast inside of him and someone hunting him down. All she knows is she will fight to stay by his side and go wherever he goes. Now the two of them have to stay ahead of the enemy and find out the truth of Heath's past before it's too late.

Day One


JanJan Untamed - 2020
    He lifts me to my feet, holding me against him for a moment more when he feels the same chill. We are in a trance that lasts long enough to rattle the universe. I squeeze him tighter. He loves me harder.“Evee.” He speaks my name from his heart. “Do you know how often I dreamed of you loving me the way I love you? I would trade my eyesight for my hearing just to hear you speak those words to me.”We walk arm-in arm, on a narrow stretch of grass between the sand and the trees with our hearts wide open to one another. Holding on to each other because we want to, and for no other reason. This is beautiful. To love without shame. To love without fear. To allow someone in your heart to see the darkest parts of you knowing that they will love them too. I am free to love him as hard as I want. I am free to love him as I am. And my Kiah is here for it all.

Destined For A Lycan King


Marcelle Sixx - 2019
    All she wanted was her mother's approval and to finish college so that she could go off and enjoy her life. That is of course before running into a salt and pepper-haired middle-aged man with eyes like warm honey, a demeanor of a king, and money that could make anyone else she thought was wealthy tuck their wallets in shame. Josiah lost his wife nearly twenty years before meeting this chocolate enchantress, and something happens to him. Something that makes him quiver inside and want to do more than call out to her. However, with his responsibilities as King of Lycanthropes, trying to get close to a young woman that's beneath him won't be easy. His erotic dreams and valet deem it possible for Quisha to be his. With a sporadic son, deceit within the empire, and his own guilty conscience getting the better of him, obtaining Quisha to make her his queen seems impossible.

Lilly: The Complete Locke Series


Tiya Rayne - 2020
    Men fear me as if I am death himself and women want me as if I am a gift from the gods. I am the great elf Assassin and the last of my kind. So, what's my secret to surviving in the Locke? It's simple: don't form attachments and never get involved in other people's problems. I've lived by those rules for centuries. But, one chance meeting with a doe-eyed little girl changes everything. One decision sets me on a cataclysmic journey.LillySafe, predictable, boring Lilly. That's what my friend calls me. She also says I’m the last living twenty year old virgin. She may be right. But all of that changes when I get one night with a handsome stranger. What could go wrong?One Decision alters their future.One Decision sets their path.One Decision may save their world.This is the complete story.This book contains sex and strong language and is not recommended for readers under 18.

True Mates


Zena Wynn - 2008
    Her life is all about control...her control. She owns her own business, her own condo, and conducts her relationships the same way she runs her business--by her rules. Any man that doesn't like it is welcome to leave.Alex Wolfe is the town of Refuge's only veterinarian. He's also a shape-shifter, and the Alpha of the Raven Pack. He's been waiting for the woman who can complete him, his one True Mate. Even though the odds of finding her are slim, he refuses to settle for second best. Once he finds her, he'll never let her go.Their worlds collide when Kiesha is snatched out of her nice, safe world and mysteriously teleported to a clearing in the woods outside of Refuge. She's out of her element and things are out of her control.Life just got a little bit more interesting...

Unbreak My Heart


Christine Gray - 2018
    The time of holding tongues, hiding behind smiling masks, and fucking to drown out matters of the heart are over. Edwin knows he fucked up. He knew it the second he bent the woman over the couch to stroke his way to release. Like a flood gate, he knew that wasn't going to be the last time he would cheat. However, he's not going to make another mistake in losing his wife. Edwin's willing to fight the gates of hell to keep Janelle at his side, but is he willing to reveal and deal with the emotional cancer that had been eating away at his heart? Does Janelle even care? Or is it her own fear of finally admitting the linger feelings that she's always harbored for Edwin. To speak the truth, would mean saying what she had kept hidden; "I hate you Edwin! Not because you were sharing your dick like Tic-Tacs. I think I have always hated you!"

Le Roi Du Sang


Tiana Laveen - 2019
    Please be advised. This book is 452 pages long. ROI & REIN DU SANG BLURB Alexandre Marseille was born during the Hundred Year War in France, a member of the royal House of Valois. His parents, both ruthless underworld monarchs, instilled endurance in their children above all else. Yet, while most of his family perished over time, he remained a survivor. For a 400-year-old vampire, staying in power has its share of challenges. Alexandre has now established his empire in New York City, living an opulent life and running a successful law firm. But his ultimate goal is one alone: to find his soulmate, his bestowed Blood Queen. Once he sets eyes on Venus Anderson, Professor of Art History, he will stop at nothing to get her, and the relentless, sensual pursuit begins. Venus Margaret Anderson remembers vividly what it was like to be human. To smell the yellow Jessamine flowers and feel the warm sun on her flesh in the South Carolina heat. But being human sometimes meant she wasn’t treated humanely at all ... for Venus once lived as a slave, on a plantation owned by a cruel master. Until the day she made her escape to freedom, changing her destiny forever… The two twisted soulmates are bitten from the same bloody cloth, but it will take all the demons of Hell and all the prayers in Heaven to convince Venus that Alexandre is not always the ruthless monster he appears to be. Separate, they are forces to be reckoned with; together, they are an explosive power couple destined to leave an indelible, blood-stained mark upon the world. But, with all good things, there are those who wait in the shadows, working their black magic to drain and destroy this love at the onset, casket officially closed... Will Venus step into her destiny and become the Reine Du Sang she was born twice to be? Will Alexandre Marseille prove to her he is capable of love, and that he can provide the sacrifice, training, and protection she so desperately deserves? Turn the pages of this bloody, hell-bound book to find out!

The Witch Who Will Be Queen


Courtney Dean - 2020
    Amani Giles is content with her quiet but hectic life even after she calls off her engagement with her college sweetheart. Helping others consumes her days, but she spends lonely nights in her condo nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Canton, GA. Raised by a single mom and her grandmother, everyone knows the Giles family, but Amani knows nothing of her family history. However, when she meets one of her charity’s biggest donors at her gala, the supernatural world collides with her otherwise routine life. Aleksandr Morozov is the CEO of the Kamenev Corporation, the owner of Tantric, a renowned BDSM club, and the country’s most eligible bachelor. Aleksandr also has a secret—while he is a successful businessman to most, he is also the Vampire King . . . although he stops following the traditions of his kind after his mother’s unsolved murder. He no longer believes in the lore surrounding the Prophecy of Old, but all that changes when he sees Amani and discovers the stories about True Mates are real.  A BWWM Paranormal Romance. For mature audiences.