She's lost her virginity to the man who is set to take over her father's business. How did such a thing happen? Years later she's forced to answer that question when she faces the smooth debonair stranger who's responsible for the only reckless thing Zuri has done in her life.Christophe Montague is a very pragmatic man. But after a painful breakup he seeks comfort in the arms of a young woman to forget. It works. For the next few years he channels his energies toward monetary success not love. The Oasis, a now bankrupt resort on the island of Martinique. Christophe learns it's prime real-estate and does what he and his company does best--he buys it. To his surprise the island resort is the family business of the young woman from his one nightstand. Her fight to keep control of her company throws Christophe into a sexy web of lies, deceit and ultimately love under the island Sun in paradise.

    But Steven has been best friends with her sister since they were in high school, and even though she's now twenty-three to his thirty-five, Odessa feels like Steven doesn't realize she's grown into a woman. She's wrong of course. After his grandfather died, Steven felt like the only family he has is Sherise and Odessa, and he doesn't want to screw that up for a night in the bed with Odessa. Still, he can't stop wanting her. She's grown into a desirable woman, one who is so beautiful that men are always after her, making Steven want choke every last one. Not until they are thrown together on a beach for their summer vacation are the two able to explore the desire they have for one another, but what's going to happen when the vacation is over, when their lives take separate directions? Will Steven admit that there is more than lust between them, or will he lose the thing he has been trying so hard to hold onto all along?

    Ned is attracted to Fiona, but thinks she'll always see him as just a big nerd. Fiona is attracted to Ned, but figures a brainiac like him would want an equally intelligent woman by his side. So Fiona cooks up a plan that would get Ned a potential promotion at work and get her a job that she thinks will please Ned. In between the pretend relationship and the real one, sparks fly. When the truth Fiona has been hiding is revealed, will their friendship be strong enough to hold them together? Or will this be the end of the friendship that, according to their friends, should have never lasted this long in the first place?

    To her shock, the man in the limo, Jason Rascone, is the same man she spent a tumultuous, sex-charged night with nearly a decade ago. Not only is he still that gorgeous, Alpha-Male hunk they called Bulldog Rascone, but he is also the mayor of their Florida city and a man many women would love to hold. Liz has had too many disappointments in her life to want to go down yet another dead end street with yet another bad news player, but she can’t stop thinking about him. . .Jason Rascone has many issues on his plate, not least of which is an upcoming re-election campaign. But when he sees Liz Morgan again, the woman whose virginity he stole years before, he knows he has to have her again. Not just for the hot sex he just knew she could provide, but because deep within him she has been able to penetrate a wall no other woman has been able to scale. And he has to have her in the worse way . . .Romancing the Bulldog is an interracial romance about two people who decides to cling to each other when so many forces conspire against them. In Jason and Liz we find two very different people who cannot get enough of each other sexually. But they quickly discover that their attraction is far more than a physical thing, but is a love thing, and when it matters the most they hold on for dear life and become even more determined to ride every tide that seeks to wash their newfound, yet profoundly heartfelt, love away.

    A real life knight in shining armor, except he isn't in armor he's in a suit. But the first time Lena Douglas lays eyes on Stephan Grayson that's what he seems to her. He saves her from a violence that still haunts her nights, but at least he's there to hold her should she wake. But the nightmare's not over, it stalks them both now. Something from her past that will not let go. But then neither will Stephan. He saved her once and he's not about to let anyone, especially Lena, stand in the way of what is happening between them. But will Stephan always be there to shield her from her past?

    A balls-to-the-walls type of woman who started her company with nothing more than a strong idea and a loan and turned it into one of the Top Fortune 500 companies in America. There's only one person she trusts implicitly and that's her personal assistant Xavier Sun, who, much to her dismay, has just turned in his resignation. Maryam is the one woman Xavier can't live without. She may be in command in the boardroom, but he's in control in the bedroom, and if he learned anything from being by her side for the last seven years it was Maryam doesn't know how to take 'no' for an answer. So it's no surprise to him she basically forbids him to quit. Leaving is the last thing on Xavier mind, however. He's willing to put his job on the line, if it will get Maryam to realize the depths of her feelings for him. Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse.

    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?

    The heroine, Jade, is the owner of a cleaning service, the hero, Reed, one of her clients. She's been attracted to the Reed since their first and only meeting when they signed the cleaning contract. One morning she arrives to find him asleep--in the nude. They quickly become insatiable lovers, but Reed (whose mother has been married five times) has problems committing. The relationship reaches the crises point when Jade falls in love with him and wants a commitment he doesn't want to give. It's up to Reed to decide what's more important: his freedom or making a commitment to the woman he loves.

    But after one unexpected, totally hot Friday evening encounter on her office desk of all places, she's convinced that maybe he returns the feeling she's harboured for him in the fifteen months they have worked together.Her euphoria doesn't last for long, though. The very next Monday she watches in shock as he kisses the young woman who drops him off to work at the office and then saunters in looking as though she had kept him up all night.Is there an innocent explanation for the kiss and Stephano's bleary-eyed appearance? Did his father suffer chest pains and have to be rushed to the hospital where the doctors kept him in all night for close monitoring? Or is it just an excuse Stephano's using to cover his night of pleasure with another woman?This novella is 30,141 words in length.

    Her long time, live-in boyfriend is lazy, trifling and a cheat. She keeps telling herself that one day she is going to leave, that one day her future will start. But as the years fly by that one day never comes. There is never enough money, never an opportunity. Trudging along her depressing existence, she runs headfirst into her one day in the form of one seriously fine former Marine and hometown hero.Emory couldn’t explain it. There was something about Kennedy that touched down to his core. It wasn’t just her beauty, but the woman haunting his every thought. It killed him to see her working her fingers to the bone for a man that didn’t deserve her. All he wanted to do was gather her in his arms and make it all better. But how could he if she refused to lean on him, even just a little?

    She should be happy�and she should say yes when Luc proposes marriage. But one thing stands in her way: Sawyer Underwood, her impossibly sexy ex, who disappeared almost a year ago.When Sawyer returns, he has one goal in mind: to win Hayden back, and away from his long-hated rival, Luc. Sawyer's willing to do anything it takes, and he'll use all his powers of persuasion to convince Hayden that he's the man for her�especially in the bedroom. But Luc's not willing to give Hayden up without a fight!As the two men battle for Hayden's affections, she is torn between them. If only they could reach a compromise�then maybe she wouldn't have to choose...77,000 words

    In this compilation of short chronicles, the hottest list of talented, best-selling authors from every genre will take you on an erotic tour through five floors of fantasy. The Cage Chronicles is a monthly publication featuring authors from every genre.

    Someone to Love"God, I'm happy she's gone," one of Jill's friends said. "Yeah, looking at her face makes me sick to my stomach." Words like those have followed Raina every since she was a child and half of her face was destroyed by a tragic fire. Once upon a time, she was one of the ‘beautiful ones’ with her hazel eyes, light brown skin and long flowing hair. But now, Raina only watches the world around her. Too ashamed of her looks to actually interact, she finds joy in following Bill with her eyes. With her head down and her hair obscuring her scars she manages to get by.Bill doesn’t like anyone and has little patience for Jill’s flirtations. He has been described as looking like Brad Pitt on crack—and it’s not very far from the truth. The only thing that matters is getting through the work day so that he can get high. But one day he literally crashes into Raina and for the first time in either of their lives they allow themselves to actually be ‘seen’.The Way HomeJamie thinks too hard, reads too much and doesn’t much care for her looks. At fourteen, she knows that she’s never had a real childhood. When her mother died she was the one that had to step up to the plate and run the household—and for the most part she doesn’t mind at all. And then one day she sees a white boy coming from the woods who was dirty, hungry and obviously uncared for but with eyes so lost that despite her normal shyness she offers to help him. As they come to terms with the fact that their lives transcends the ‘norm’, Kenny and Jamie’s relationship reaches heights that they could have never imagined, and lows that their love may not survive.Baby Girl and the Mean BossNicole wasn’t sure why she had gotten the nick name Baby Girl when she was not-by far-the youngest employee of The Down Home Calabash. Her much younger co-worker complained, gossiped or talked about how attractive their boss was. But Nicole didn’t have the luxury of a fantasy existence. She was on a mission to make money and to get her degree and her plans most definitely did not include Marty. Besides he was mean and he yelled at her!But once she experiences a tragic accident, Nicole sees a different side of her sexy, boss. But each has their own secrets and if they can’t express their heartfelt emotions their relationship might be doomed even before it begins.

    But Sin doesn't see them, lost in a world of her own...until sexy private investigator 'Mac' Garret McAllister steps into the club.In one night of erotic passion, the man turns her world upside down. Mac pays homage to her beautiful body with delicious, carnal ferocity. When the sun comes up, she cuts out. She can't let him get too close to her heart...But two years later, they reunite. Still on fire for her, Mac is ready to do whatever it takes to ensure his woman stays right where she belongs - in his arms and his bed. Forever this time.

    But Craig has hated her from the moment he met her at his aunt's house. His dislike for her grew after his aunt left her as the sole owner of her company, Luscious Lips.Craig Clark Evans is determined to uncover how Shea tricked his dying aunt into signing over all the stocks of the family business to her and not him, but every time he looks into her dark eyes, his desire for her grows and other, more pleasurable thoughts enter his mind.However, it doesn't matter how much he might want the ebony goddess in his bed, he plans to do whatever it takes to get his family business back. Will Craig come to his senses before it's too late and Shea's love for him is gone forever?