Wizards sent there are never heard from again.The moment I arrive, I'm forced to complete a series of initiation tests with a snarky, too-hot fae. If the creatures trying to kill us don't do him in, I just might. Yet my birth father is on Darkwater Island, and while he could be just about anyone, I'm determined to track him down. He stole something from me when I was a baby, and I want it back.Once I get what I came for, there are two ways out. Survive the Challenge--another series of trials that take place in the ever-changing, magical catacombs beneath the island. Or I can fulfill the secret blood bond I made with the Master Seeker. Eliminate someone and the Master Seeker will transport me home....Except the person I must kill is the wizard I'm falling for.This book is 71,000 words.

    As the magical infiltration specialist, she’s used to being a ghost.But when her entire team is murdered, she finds herself in a foreign land without any allies.Caught between finding their murderers and her own government thinking she’s a suspect, Cora assembles a new team to seek the truth. She must unravel the mystery of Lucius’ Project Phoenix and find out what secret her team was killed to protect. But is he an ally or her worst enemy?Don’t miss Project Phoenix, the first book in The Dragon’s Dream Saga by D.C. Fergerson! This cyberpunk sci-fi fantasy will have you turning the pages to the pulse-pounding finish!

    But faced with a terminal illness, she was left with very few options. Little did she know, her hunky new apprentice holds the cure for her ailment - and her heart.Despite his father's ideals, Valen always felt a connection to humans. He sought to understand them, and having previously trained under the King's head potion master, mixing tinctures in an apothecary was a natural choice. But how could he have known his new teacher would be so intoxicating?Valen knew that giving Dragon blood to humans was punishable by death, but how could he let the woman who brought him peace die? Will their love sway an entire kingdom, or will Valen's Royal bloodline be the source of their doom?

    After all, he’s managed to live a full century with the curse a Carver put on him. But now, a demon is chasing him, and the magic residing in his curse could literally unleash Hell on Earth. Ciaran needs a Carver to undo the curse and stop a catastrophe. But when he seeks out this generation’s Carver witch, he discovers he wants her to do much more with him than just lift a curse. All her life, Samantha Carver has heard tales of the dangerous murderer her great-grandmother cursed, so it’s no wonder that when the man shows up in her yard, she tries to shoo him away. But the unsettlingly sexy man won’t go, and the more Samantha gets to know him, the more she questions what she’s always heard. Is the simmering attraction Ciaran and Samantha share enough to overcome a hundred years of distrust and misunderstanding? Or is their relationship—and Samantha’s sleepy town—doomed? I hope you all enjoy my Halloween Standalone! Book 3 of my latest series Lumberjack Bears will be available November 4th :). Happy Halloween!! - Emilia

    

    But the Black Bear Shifter has come a long way since then.Graduating with honors from the local community college and opening his own Taqueria in Barvale was like a dream come true. Life was good. Almost perfect.If only he could forget that one passionate night he’d spent with a gorgeous stranger in Cancun last spring break. He’d spent a week celebrating his upcoming graduation, leaving his friends high and dry to spend his days and nights in her company. A year later, he still dreamt about the beautiful Estella Baron.Imagine his shock when she comes to Barvale looking for her husband. Him!

    She’s too busy for that thanks to a more than hectic work schedule with a crazy Hollywood tyrant for a boss.But there’s something about her new personal trainer, Mick, that Karen just can’t get out of her head. She can sense his intense, animal heat, and feels like she has an unusual, strong connection with him right away. But does he feel the same? And what happens when Karen's movie star crush asks her out on a date? Watch how Karen and Mick’s story unfolds. The heat level is off the charts as all the hot sex, passionate romance, and drama ensues! Tiger Pawed is a BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance. This is a standalone novella and the first story in the Shifter Heat series. These paranormal romances can be read in any order. Gonna make you sweat - this novella includes steamy scenes, spicy language, and sizzling hot content. If you like the sound of that, then this book is for you!

    

    de Long and Rebecca Hamilton come together to bring you book one in the Mated in Hell Trilogy, an Alpha vs. Alpha M/F romance for readers who enjoy the man coming out on top. With the prospect of war on the horizon, two rival packs must come together to solidify an uneasy truce. Tessa LaCroix, alpha mistress of the Kumori pack, is too fiery and competent to be passed around like some decoration. So when her father sends her to the Nefari pack to become their alpha leader's mate, she's furious. More aggravating, Marrock is the worst kind of alpha: proud and unmoving, more animal than man. But her own feelings betray her as she comes to know the man beneath the beast and realizes the animal in her wants the animal in him.Liam Marrock was perfectly happy running his pack without a strong huntress defying him at every turn. However, the prospect of a ceasefire with the Kumori is too alluring to pass up. Unfortunately, it's not half as alluring as the headstrong spitfire now sharing his home, all the while cursing his name. But Tessa soon proves she's more trouble than she's worth, when her strong-willed attitude causes his packmates to test his authority. As tensions escalate and the truce is tested, Tessa's quest for independence may cost him his life. Fans of Jamie McGuire, Laurell K. Hamilton, and Sherrilyn Kenyon will love this paranormal shifter romance with BDSM influences.

    But that’s not the problem. Gabe has sworn never to take a mate, and he's utterly undone by his primal, protective reaction to the dead werewolf’s human wife. ANNIE BELO DIDN’T KNOW werewolves existed; now on the next full moon she will become one—and she’ll have to trust her husband’s killer to help her through the change.

    

    Family. Love. This box set includes the complete stories of the Alexander Shifter Brothers: Kane, Cade and Jacob. Kane Kane hates rules, but he’s not afraid to break them… especially for the woman he desires. Kane wants Damesha from the first time he lays eyes on her, plain and simple. But he knows how strict the clan rules are about outsiders, and he knows the Alpha, his own brother, is not going to make any exceptions for him. But he will do whatever it takes to have Damesha, even if that means turning against all his brothers! Cade Cade wants a wife but not love. As head of the Alexander Shifter Clan, all he cares about is his duty to clan business, to family. But they keep throwing women at him and he keeps rejecting them, again and again, and now rumors are spreading that maybe he doesn’t like women at all. So he does what he does best, he handles the situation... by ordering himself a bride! He could tell that Jacqui is a bit of an ice queen. But he wasn’t expecting her to be so breathtakingly beautiful… he wasn’t expecting the electrifying attraction between them and he wasn’t expecting that she could be the true queen of the Alexander Shifter Clan. Jacob Jacob has always obeyed his brothers, his clan… until he meets Sabrina. The battle is coming. The Alexander brothers are about to face an old enemy in the biggest fight of their lives and they’re not sure if they can win... Jacob’s adopted brother, Jadrian, is in trouble with the vampires. Jacob knows being adopted by a shifter family must have made Jadrian feel like an outsider and he’ll do whatever it takes to help his brother, including getting involved with the vampire queen Sabrina. Though he isn’t sure he can trust her, his lust for her is undeniable. But Sabrina has plans which go far beyond just mating, and Jacob may be the key...

    One that some vampires would kill her for.Problem is...she doesn't know it yet.Riley was a normal twenty-four-year-old girl. She lived in the city, worked as a private investigator, and went home each night alone. All that changes with one missing person's case.On the hunt for a missing girl, she's thrown into a world of supernaturals she never imagined existed. And with the discovery of her unique ability, her life is now in danger.Luckily, she has two new men in her life who are desperate to keep her safe. Lucian, a vampire with devastatingly good looks and old school charm. And Aiden, her new live-in werewolf bodyguard with his boy-next-door appeal and laid-back attitude. But will they be enough to protect her?With people continuing to disappear around the city, it's becoming obvious there's something bigger going on...something none of them could have anticipated.As Riley tries to navigate the ever-growing threat against her life, her deepening feelings for Lucian, and the idea that maybe she never was normal after all, she's beginning to wonder if she'll survive this.And to top it all off, she still has a missing person's case to solve.

    I signed up to be a surrogate, nine months of discomfort and a big payoff…At least that was the plan…I thought the past was behind me.But somehow it has a way of catching up with you.I have a debt to pay, a debt no one knows about.Not even my extremely hot boss, Nikola.I might be a wolf, but I want his jaguar.He heats my blood and makes my knees quiver.Makes me dream of being mated.Something I’ve never allowed myself to dream of before.But something lives inside him, something dark.I’m supposed to be afraid, but I can’t seem to trust my instinct.My instinct yearns for his caress.When I learn that I’ve been matched with him through the Paranormal Surrogate Agency, everything changes.Was this a mistake?Or was it fate?Only time will tell.Can he save me from my past? Or will his darkness ruin my future?