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The Lord and the Scorpion


Shiree McCarver - 2006
    Sauda Mauri is a trained assassin. She has been a slave and an assassin for many years and now she has a chance at a new life as a free woman if she can complete her final mission. Running from her Japanese master she is traveling under the guise as Lady Francis’s nursemaid so she can get her assignments from the head of the Queen’s Secret Service. She does not need any complications and Lord Ethan Clare is more than determined to be just that. When she is hurt protecting the Queen, she awakens to find Ethan at her bedside. He has been asked to help her uncover who the culprits are behind the attempt on the Queen’s life. Their union changes the destiny of many and attracts the attention of a madman who is determined to get the Blackamoor woman out of their lives forever.

Falling For A Monster


Delilah Hunt - 2017
    Chase accepts his lot and path in life by keeping to himself, knowing he can depend on and trust in no one but himself. Until his path crosses with Larke. The one person who has every reason in the world to despise him, but instead treats him like a man who is worthy of her compassion, trust and so much more. Larke Taylor has never forgotten her harrowing encounter with the boy who’d threatened her harm at the tender age of nine. Thirteen years later, she is shocked and heartbroken to see the man Chase has become, after rejecting her innocent offer of friendship. His very presence frightens and intrigues her like nothing else. But beneath the hate-inspired tattoos telling her everything she needs to know about him, Larke finds it hard to deny all the other signs that speak to her heart. The ones telling her that Chase is much more than a monster. He is a man deserving of love and way more than the life he leads, even if he doesn’t realize it. As their relationship deepens, both are defenseless to defy their desire and all-consuming need for the other. Larke knows while Chase is the only man who captivates and holds her heart, he is also the one person who has the power to shatter and burn it to ashes, if he refuses to put her above his legacy of hate. *This book contains racial slurs and graphic sexual language. If the theme of this book and any of these warnings offend you, please ignore and move along.

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.

The Stranger Next To Me


LaShawn Vasser - 2014
    Everyone always wondered how their friendship stood the test of time. Especially since they were polar opposites in everyway, except for one thing. They were both in love with Tim Horne...Sabrina’s husband. Although they’ve seen each other through the best and worst of times, one decision will change the course of their lives forever and leave them both wondering who is The Stranger Next To Me? Steamy love scenes for mature audiences only.

Three Wishes


Seressia Glass - 2002
    Years of trying destroyed her marriage and left Maya unwilling to give her heart to another man. Taylor Whitfield has a wish: to have a mother. The seven-year-old never knew her mother and longs for someone to love her and her father. Nic Whitfield also has a wish: to make his daughter happy. He knows that she desperately longs for a mother, but he doesn't want to put his heart on the line again. A chance encounter turns neighbours into friends, and friends into lovers. When love makes wishes on the verge of becoming true, will the trial of prejudice and past secrets create a family? Or will it destroy their hopes of happiness?

Chance Encounter


B.D. Anderson - 2015
    Carson, Virginia, may be where she was born, but it’s not where she sees her future. An inbound freshman at Howard University, she has her eyes on a bright, new life in the nation’s capital where, she will truly blossom into the woman she is destined to be. She can’t wait to start her journey. On her way home one night, her car runs out of gas. Stranded, she walks the short distance to a local filling station. En route, she encounters Billy Weston, a local boy who has admired her from afar for a while. Just sixteen and still in high school, Billy lacked the courage to talk to Paris before. But now that he has a chance to be her hero, he digs deep to find his bravery. For Billy, it is love at first sight and he realizes that a romance between two people of different races presents a complication. In 1965, interracial romance is a dangerous dream to pursue and Paris is resistant to becoming involved with him. Determined to win her heart, no matter the cost or peril, Billy romances her with a single-minded pursuit. Despite their differences in age and race, her future and his present, and the crippling intolerance and racism their relationship faces, they will fight for their love…together.

Bound Through Time: Past


Twyla Turner - 2019
    Becoming an orphan twice over, she has no one and fills her lonely days living vicariously through the adventurous stories of love in the historical romance novels she adores. Little does she know that a trip to visit the Scandinavian lands once occupied by Vikings would catapult her back nearly one-thousand years in the past like a heroine in one of her favorite books. Thorin is the newest chieftain of his clan after the unexpected death of his eldest brother. Used to life as the baby brother, he's done nothing but chase skirts and glory in battle. Is he really ready to lead an entire village? And would anyone try to challenge his seat as the leader of the richest clan on Iceland? Just as Thorin attempts to find his way as the chieftain, a mysterious woman with skin of bronze and hair as dark as night is dragged before him. Now as his captive, her beauty sets his blood on fire. Her spirit challenges him at every turn. And his weakness for her threatens his precarious place as chieftain. Ellie's fear of losing those she loves, jealousy and danger lurking around every corner, and being from two different worlds could rip them apart. Will Ellie stay? Or will she be forced to return to her own time?  Find out in the sweeping time travel romance, Bound Through Time: Past. Warning: This novel contains adult content. 18+ only

Aphrodisiac


Mercedes Keyes - 2008
    Carina Artess, southern born, African American, -William O'Malley, southern born, wealthy, Caucasian. These two people were destined to be, if only they can find a way to heal from a tragic past.

Taming Val


Trevion Burns - 2014
    Young, rich, and notoriously single, Val was sure he had all the time in the world to drink, party, and enjoy the beautiful women who were constantly at his disposal. Best known as the Romanovsky brother who thrived on living in the fast lane, he always partied hard with the distant dream of having a wife and a family one day. If that dream had any chance of coming true he knew he had no choice but to settle down... and fast. But with who? Late night trysts and one night stands were his calling card. There wasn't a single woman in his life who he could picture being the mother of his child. Except the one woman he knew he could never have. Zoey Black would always have deep love in her heart for the Romanovsky family. They'd taken her in at fourteen when she’d been at the lowest point in her life, with no place else to go, and treated her as their own. Ten years later, the Romanovskys were still apart of her life--as far as Zoey was concerned, they were her family. The parents called her “daughter” and the four brothers called her “sister.” Well, not all four. Val Romanovsky never called her "sister", and as secrets, lies, and betrayals are revealed, Zoey would finally understand why. Interracial erotic romance. Strong sexual content, strong language. TAMING VAL is the first novella in The Romanovsky Brothers four-part series

The Wolf and The Thief: An Interracial Romantic Suspense


Emery C.F. Bryant - 2020
    

The Viking Wants Forever


Koko Brown - 2008
    What’s that they say? Be careful what you wish for? Well that’s a motto Reese should have tattooed across her forehead. Because Loki, the Norse god of mischief, has just the remedy for the boring life of this woman who denounces his existence. His recipe for disaster? Take a 30 year-old woman and send her back in time as a pawn for revenge. Couple her with Eirik Sigurdsson, a Viking Warlord, too arrogant and baggage-laden to be of any use for anything, but battle and bed. Mix thoroughly, folding in a heavy dose of pride, a tyrannical king, and a sympathetic goddess. Bake at high until a white-hot love is unleashed and then forever frozen in time. NOTE: The Viking Wants Forever was previously published as Frozen in Time. The story has been expanded by 42,000 words.

Rising


Kassanna - 2015
    Life tried to break him a long time ago. He fights for his truth, to hell with what everybody else thinks. Savannah Joy Regis prays for love, after only knowing abuse for most of her life. She's gotten use to hiding the scars and slowly she rebuilds her life away from the people who created her own personal hell. When the leader of the Aryan Southern Chapter, New World Watch, crosses path with the one woman he knows he can't have...hell hath no fury like a man determined. To Riley, Savannah's very existence is reason enough to take his last breath. Blood in...blood out. He's willing to take the chance and life for the woman he claims will never be the same. Just maybe he can rise above it all. ***Sequel to Falling*** WARNING - You maybe offended by the language and subject matter

What the Earl Desires


Aliyah Burke - 2011
    Yet, fate being fickle, introduces a mysterious woman into his life. Societal dictates say he has no business wanting her...he does. Najja's in England for one thing, however, meeting Colin changes everything. After he unexpectedly becomes Earl of Clifton, Najja withdraws. Her excuse? His title. Her vow.Colin doesn't care, but wanting and /having/ Najja are two different things. For Najja can never truly be his so long as another controls her. Obstacles are meaningless when a love that spans the continents is...What the Earl Desires

Home Run


Camilla Stevens - 2017
     
 Carter Fox is the powerful home run hitter for the Houston Sluggers. Baseball was the only good thing in his life. Then she winds up with one of his home run balls in her hand. Jordan Douglas has three priorities in life: Law school. Graduation. Job. There is absolutely no room for a playboy baller. Then she winds up with one of his home run balls in her hand. An overt show of bravado. A case of misread intentions. A slanted news piece that gets picked up nationally. Pretty soon all of Houston is talking. Damage control leads to something deeper… …until a tiny, little curve ball is thrown into both their lives.
 Now the game is changed forever.
 This is a STAND ALONE, BWWM Romance in the Texas Heat Romance Books, with an Unexpected Baby. WARNING: Due to quite a few extra steamy scenes, and Adult language 18+ only!! Includes preview chapters for High Stakes the next book in the Texas Heat Romance series.

The Color Of Trouble


Dyanne Davis - 1994
    Because she's black, she assumes she can't be prejudiced. She ignores her heart's reminder that she left Jonathan because he was white. She also ignores the warning bells that tell her she's with her finance, Doctor Steven Anderson, because her parents approve of the colour of his skin. With him, she can have the babies her parents will love, the babies she couldn't have with Jonathan. Jonathan Steele finally has what he wanted, a promising career with a good law firm. Love is the last thing on his mind. He thought he had it once, but spent seven months of his life in jail, betrayed by the woman who claimed she loved him. Kari's purchase of a timeshare brings Jonathan and his firm back into Kari's. Can they dismiss their past or will final judgement sentence them to try again?