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Bearly Begun


Isadora Montrose - 2015
    She hasn’t had energy for a lover in years, but she’ll happily lay down her virtue for manly Leonard Benoit , if he will help keep her boys out of jail. Desperate, bachelor bear-shifter Leonard Benoit hails from remote, womanless Yakima Ridge. Thisburly, handsome backwoodsman is in Portland hunting his life-mate. One meeting with BBW Erin ignites his shifter passions—permanently. To win his destined bride, he undertakes to take her kid brothers in hand. With two suspicious young’uns scrutinizing his every move, how can Lenny woo this reserved city woman the way instinct tells him to? But dancing the bedtime waltz with his luscious, fated mate without revealing his shifter secret is a bad plan. What’s a shifter to do when his one and only mate decides her dreams do not include marrying a man who turns into a nightmare? Fair warning: This novella contains multiple scenes of rapturous passion between a woman-starved shifter and a man-hungry BBW. If the primal lust that can erupt between a bear and his fated mate disturbs your sensitivities, keep looking. Because the bears of Yakima Ridge believe a bear bond is best forged in bed. Book One in the Bachelor Bears of Yakima Ridge series, Bearly Begun has a HEA with no cliffhangers, and can be read alone.

Boss With Benefits


Talia Hunter - 2017
    One arrogant boss. One determined woman. Escaping a painful past, Rosa is thrilled with her new job running the beautiful Lantana Island Resort. There's only one fly in her tropical cocktail: her gorgeous new boss, Dalton. He might be hot, but he's also arrogant, infuriating, and has plans to sell the resort.Not if Rosa has anything to do with it. This. Is. War. 1-Click to start this funny, romantic, and sexy new series now! "I loved this story. It’s unpredictable, heart warming and just plain good to read." ★★★★★

The Witch on Twisted Oak


Susan C. Muller - 2013
    Secrets are revealed. An old enemy is out for revenge.Detective Ruben Marquez is thrust back into his childhood memories when he investigates a gruesome murder that occurs only feet from his mother's home. Is the killer somehow connected to his own past? Is the beautiful, mysterious daughter of the victim, someone he can trust? Or is her revelation that she’s a witch a sign he should stay clear. But how can he, when it appears she’s next on the murderer’s to-do list?In the ultimate test of courage, he uses himself as bait to protect all he holds dear . . . his career, his family, and the Witch on Twisted Oak.

Capture Me (Hollywood Dreams)


C.J. Thomas - 2016
     He had a knack for getting women to take off their clothes and light ’em up. Billionaire Liam Rising’s lens was long. He knew just where to point and shoot to make the biggest flash. The first time I heard his sexy European accent pass his sensual lips, I wanted to lift the hem of his shirt up, just so I could kiss my way down. Then my life threw a devastating curve ball no one saw coming. It would be easy to forget about all that went wrong in my life by losing myself in him. The thing was, I never saw myself being a model, but with him around, a man who clearly liked to take charge, maybe I could make an exception. All he had to do was point his long lens and shoot. Mature audience 18+

The Gift Boxset


J.S. Donovan - 2018
    These stories have accumulated over 300 five-star reviews and have been boxed together for the first time! The Highland Murders Rachel Harroway, a homicide detective with the ability to see the dead, balances the responsibilities of being a mother alongside her life's calling to guide orphaned spirits home. Teaming up with her long time homicide partner Jensen Peak, she hunts for the latest crafty killer to strike in her little corner of the Appalachian Mountains.  The investigation gets personal when her adopted daughter enters the crosshairs. How far will Rachel go to protect her own? How much will she be willing to give up? The Haunting of Rachel Harroway In 1983, a family of four was murdered in their nineteenth century Queen Anne manse. There were no witnesses, no real investigation, and no survivors. Over thirty years later, the house is suddenly back on the market. Ready to settle down, a young married couple moves from New York City to their dream home in the quiet town of Highlands, North Carolina. However, as past secrets come to light and unpredictable strangers violate their privacy, the couple's hope for a fresh start twists into the fuel for their darkest nightmares. The Lost Orphans A murder twenty-five years forgotten, a female detective with the ability to communicate with the dead, and a killer without boundaries clash in the heart of winter. It's Christmas, and there's been another murder. Rachel Harroway, a homicide detective gifted in the arts and communication with the dead, tracks a serial killer lurking in the shadows for the last twenty-five years. The closer Rachel gets to solving the mystery, the more the unforgiving Appalachian winter weather and supernatural energies push back, forcing Rachel to decide how far she'll go for a man society has forsaken.

Front Range Cowboys


Evie Nichole - 2017
     FIVE full-length books. Guaranteed NO CLIFFHANGERS. Cowboy’s Last Down Football is the only thing I’ve ever cared about. Then I twisted my knee. My career is over. There’s no place to go but home. Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys. My mama raised five of them. But I’m no good at ranching and I’m no good at business. I’m no good for anything. Then Maggie smiled at me. She gave me a job. She gave me a purpose. My life is a mess and Maggie is holding the broom and the dustpan. I love her more than football. I love her more than life. Her hands soothe the demons away. Beneath her touch I am alive. When I take her hand I know there’s going to be a tomorrow. Even broken down cowboys get one more chance. Stuck Up Cowboy The man in the mirror drips blood and diamonds on the remnants of a life that went wrong. I have a child to raise and a business to run and yet my life is in the bottom of a bottle. No one sees me. No one cares. Once I found solace on the back of a horse. Now I drink my cares away. Then Aria came back into my life. She knew me before. She knew me better than I knew myself. Sometimes an old bronc needs a place to heal. He needs a soft touch. Aria awakens me. The bottle has no pull anymore. In the saddle I find my redemption and in her arms I find my home. Scuffed Cowboy Boots I have everything. She has nothing. I see her everyday. She works. She begs others for handouts. Still her pride is formidable. I admire her. She is everything I am not. Her strength gives me the courage to fight. I want her. I crave her. Still she cannot be bought. Then they take her. They want to crush her, to use her, to take her life and her hope. But then I realize. I would move mountains for this woman. I would change my life. I would give all that I have to make things right. If only it’s not too late. Cowboy Falls My body is broken. I think there’s a scar on my back the shape of a horseshoe. Eight seconds can be the longest moments of your life when they’re spent on the back of a raging bronco. The horse wanted me dead. I lived. At least I think I lived. Some days it’s hard to tell who won and who lost. I’m broken inside. Then I met her. She is everything I am not. She is strong. I am weak and getting weaker. She expects more. I want to give it to her. But the bottom of a bottle is almost too much to resist when the pain is so bad I feel as though I am underneath that horse again. How many times can I fail before she will walk away? How many times will she forgive me? What will happen when she stops? Cowboy Lies When life is a lie and death is a lie, what happens in between? Sometimes I wonder when it will all stop. In a world of lies she is the only truth. I’ve known her all my life. When she was just a girl I held her hand and watched her cry. Back then I was helpless. Back then I could do nothing to make things right. So many things have gone wrong. So many times people have let her down and taken advantage of her. Not anymore. I’m done watching her cry. I’m done letting others walk all over her. She is mine.

Stolen Time


Elizabeth Lennox - 2017
    Always one to play by the rules, Jane isn’t sure how to handle Detective Tony’s brazen interest. Between being in her friend’s wedding together and investigating the murder – plus the allure of opposites attracting – the ending was inevitable.

Pillow Talk


Luke Prescott - 2017
    Find their secrets and expose them. With her calculating ways, and cunning personality, there’s a reason she’s the best. She’s very successful with her expertise in getting men to talk and business is booming. Until her next client, Owen Thompson. He has a secret and no amount of pillow talk is going to reveal it. As the CEO of one of the biggest multi-national companies around, she wants to know what’s going on inside his head, and his pants. Sometimes secrets are better left unsaid, especially when that secret is yours.

The Society, Book 1


Ellie Danes - 2017
    It doesn’t matter what it is, I have it or can find it, for a price. The one thing I want for myself I can’t seem to get, her. She likes nice guys and nice things. Everything I’m not. That was until the night I rescued my brother’s business partner. Now I’m part of his underground society, a way of repaying his debt to me for saving his life. It’s also the way she’s going to be mine.

Ghost Writer


Netta Newbound - 2017
    With her deadline looming, she finds the only way she can write is by ditching her laptop and reverting back to pen and paper. But the story which flows from the pen is not just another work of fiction. Unbeknown to her, a gang of powerful and deadly criminals will stop at nothing to prevent the book being written. Will Natalie manage to finish the story and expose the truth before it’s too late? Or could the only final chapter she faces be her own?

Starborn


Samantha Jane - 2017
     Dr Willow Trilby is a psychologist with a secret. Her obsessive research into paranormal abilities is more than a professional curiosity; she’s an emotional telepath. Lucas Black is a memory-wiping assassin for a secret society of people with metaphysical powers. When Willow’s research threatens to expose The Order of Orion, she lands on Lucas’s hit list. Will he follow orders, or will he follow his heart and defy five hundred years of tradition to protect his supposed enemy? STARBORN is an urban fantasy romance and the first book in The Orion series. Each book features a different couple and their happily ever after. An ongoing storyline across the series means that the books should be read in chronological order. *Contains mature themes and adult content.

Daddy’s Wild Friend


Charlize Starr - 2017
     But he’s dad’s best friend and I can’t avoid him. And do I really want to? He’s the sexiest man I’ve ever seen. I can see that he wants me. That he wants to show me how it’s done. And I’ve grown up. I want to kiss him under the Mistletoe. I want to be his date to the Navy Ball. I want to… Stop! What am I thinking? He’s way too hot. And waaay too close to daddy. There’s no way I’m ending up in his bed. Except I already have… And I want more… This is a 110-page older man younger woman romance with a bad boy and a good girl. It is a stand-alone story with an HEA, so no cliff-hangers! Lots of steam and mature language guaranteed. Most definitely for 18+ readers.

Dragon Badge


Scott Moon - 2012
    Who could have predicted what a person would do to possess another soul? Michael Prim is a cop’s cop, taking down drug dealers, killers, and all kinds of predators, until he realizes a sorcerer has a vendetta against him and is using hellhounds, demons, and soul slaves to exact revenge. MICHAEL PRIM Michael Prim is a hard charging beat cop soon to be thrust into a world of dark magic. He has always been a bit of a freak: different, strange, and always needing to prove himself. His last memories of his father were of bedtime stories—the mercenary war, dragon slaying, and demon fighting variety. He knows how to come down hard on wife beaters, pedophiles, and cop killing drug lords, but nothing has prepared him for the sorcerer who is coming for his soul. KEITH MARIN Keith Marin takes a new prostitute under his wing and tries to protect her, because she continually winds up in the gutter raped, tortured, and clutching a strange jar with a preternatural magnetism. He begins a dangerous dance with the sorcerer who has found his way to Blue Point, and discovers people from all walks of life who are slaves to the soul jars and little more than zombies. When two homeless layabouts who frequent his beat turn up driving a BMW, wearing tailored silk suits, and carrying serious firepower, Marin takes his investigation to the next level.NICOLE SIMMONS Nicole Simmons has come out of hiding and reinvented herself—as a rookie cop. She begins to doubt her choice as soon as she is assigned to a training officer who is the archenemy of her kind. She should kill him and disappear again, but she had hoped this time would be different. DRAGON BADGE Michael Prim does what any good cop would do after discovering a soul reaving sorcerer is hunting on his beat, he goes to war, even as hellhounds and Rashfellen warriors come after him. He gets a little help from his friends—a tough as nails veteran and a zombie like prostitute who holds a soul trapped in a magical jar—but when the apocalypse comes, there is only his most hated enemy, the gang member who murdered his partner, to stand against Travass Isegurad and his demons.

Afterglow (Four Corners Book 1)


Artemis Anders - 2018
    But when a friend's party means facing her ex and the woman he left her for, Teagan skips town and heads to the scorching heat of Arizona.She never expects to meet Aaron, an Army Major who's smoking hot... and also coming off a divorce. He's so not her type, but he gives her two days and one sizzling night to remember.When Teagan returns to Colorado and her man-free existence, Aaron keeps finding excuses to see her and inch his way into her heart. But when Aaron's past finds them, it threatens to shatter their connection... and break Teagan's heart for good.If you love steamy romance with heart-stopping twists and an HEA, you'll love Afterglow.Afterglow is a standalone novel in the Four Corners series.

A Death Displaced


Andrew Butcher - 2012
    A vision that could save her ...Nicolas Crystan, struggling to cope with his traumatic past, shuffles through life keeping mostly to himself ... until he has a disturbing daydream of a woman's death. At first he tries to forget it, but when real life mimics the daydream, he realises it was no ordinary fantasy—it was a vision of the future. To save a life, he must act fast.When Juliet Maystone escapes death, defying fate, she becomes 'displaced' in this world. All she wants is to return to her bustling day-to-day routine, successfully running her own business, but as hard as she tries, she can't ignore that things have changed for her. She has to face up to the fact that being 'displaced' comes with an unexpected ability.On Lansin Island, a quaint place with a dark history of its own, Nicolas and Juliet must learn to use their newfound abilities and work together to unravel a mystery more connected to Nicolas than he could ever have imagined ...A Death Displaced is the first book in a paranormal suspense/contemporary fantasy series with light romance.