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Priest


Claire Adams - 2016
    After getting an upsetting phone call I go to a bar and meet a super fine guy. One thing leads to another and I end up sleeping with him. I never have one night stands. I never sleep around. Until now. It's not until I go to my first Sunday service at my new church that I realize who I slept with...the one person in church that is COMPLETELY off limits. Oh my... Priest is a FULL LENGTH, Standalone priest bad boy romance. No cliffhanger and has a HEA. Includes 2 free bonus full-length novels for a limited time.

Desired by the Pack Bundle: Parts One, Two and Three


Emma Storm - 2014
    ~*~This 60,000-word bundle includes parts one, two, and three of the ongoing serial novel DESIRED BY THE PACK, a paranormal romance that follows the complex relationship between January Cabot and the Peace River Guardians werewolf pack. Please note: love scenes are fully realized and at times include explicit language. Some love scenes in the series also feature multiple partners in their human and wolf forms. Intended for readers 18+. Additional note: this story is ongoing, and continues beyond part three.~*~ PART ONE Full-figured nurse January Cabot wants the same things many other women want, but she’s stuck between two worlds, too human to mate into a werewolf pack, but too werewolf to marry a human man. Life is an endless, grueling cycle of 12-hour shifts and 72-hour bouts of Heat, the sexual frenzy that afflicts werewolf females once every month. Predictable, unchanging, soul-crushing... until alpha werewolf Thomas Becker prowls into her life and brings the Peace River Guardians pack with him.PART TWOIt's been nearly three weeks since January Cabot came face to face with alpha werewolf Beck and the Peace River Guardians alpha pack. While she counts down the days until she can take a home pregnancy test, unsure whether she hopes for a negative or a positive, Beck and the Guardians watch January closely, looking for evidence that she might be the dangerous target of their hunt. When January makes plans to flee the reach of the pack, the Guardians make their play to grab her for their own. PART THREEUnable to continue denying her nature and resisting the pull of the Peace River Guardians, January Cabot finds herself growing more and more distant from her life among humans. While she is discovering a home and conquering her shortcomings with her werewolves, the friend she left behind tumbles down a dangerous path that might lead him to his death.

Never Wanted More


Stacey Lewis - 2014
    He’s bound and determined to break them down. On the outside, Peyton Williams has the perfect life: influential parents, successful siblings, and wealth at her fingertips. But to Peyton, there is more to life that what you have and who you know. College is her ticket out—her ticket to find her own path, her own life. Intelligence and talent are Wyatt Parker’s tickets out the scrutiny of his family-life and upbringing. Determined to break out of the stereotypes that suffocate him, Wyatt takes academics and sports seriously. But when he starts tutoring the gorgeous, but aloof, Peyton, he sees that there’s more to her than he realized. Can Wyatt teach her that money can’t buy happiness? Will he learn that things aren’t always as they seem?

Dirty


Paula Cox - 2017
     When you kill for money, you know that your story probably doesn’t have a happy ending. But when I met Stella, I knew I might have a shot. She’s everything I’m not… pure, innocent, and without a glimpse of how evil the world can be. Her ex wanted her dead, her father wanted her safe. Me? I want her legs wrapped around me while she screams my name. I want to save her so I can keep her for myself. But all I did was put her in more danger. Now I’m doing everything to keep her alive. And when the dust settles, I’m going to make her mine…or die trying. Dirty is a full-length, standalone romance novel with steamy hot sex, NO CHEATING, strong language, a happily every after ending and NO CLIFFHANGERS. Contains dark and disturbing themes, and over the top sexiness that may be uncomfortable for some readers. Also included is a BONUS book: MINE

A Time to Rise


Tal Bauer - 2016
    Deep in the Vatican, a brotherhood exists, sworn protectors of the earth, and they stand against the darkness. Operating in secret and silence, they protect our world from the sinister, the etheric, and the evils that exist beyond the Veil.But it's a lonely life, and Alain Autenburg knows that more than most. His lover was ripped from him years ago, and he vowed never to get close to another soul again. Even when the loneliness presses down on him, and his empty heart cries out for something more.Something more comes in Cristoph Hasse, a new soldier arriving in Rome to serve in the Pontifical Swiss Guard. Young, brash, and fitting in at right angles everywhere he goes, Cristoph struggles in the murky, deceptive labyrinth of the Vatican. Propelled forward by a past he can't understand, Cristoph collides with Alain as both men crash headfirst into the darkest secret of the Vatican... and of the world.

Slayer's Kiss


Cassi Carver - 2012
    But where her magic falls short, her fists get the job done. The criminal element doesn’t stand a chance once she hits San Diego’s dark streets. When two smoking-hot tenants move in next door, she thinks her love life might finally be heating up. Just being near Gavin and Julian is enough to make her want to offer her body on a platter. Gavin and Julian know it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out. They’re fallen angels sent to watch over the king’s daughter, one of the last females of her kind. Trouble is, she doesn’t seem to think she needs watching—unless they’re watching her shimmy out of her clothes. No matter how tempting her guardians, Kara’s not about to let anything stop her from tracking down a sadistic killer who carves into his victims and leaves them for dead. Even when she realizes her target may be the very scourge of heaven from which her angels swore to protect her… Warning: Contains a kick-ass heroine with a foul mouth, a kind heart and a raging libido, and two fallen angel warriors who wouldn’t have her any other way. Watch out for sex in the clouds, a magical island of hedonism and a love triangle that gives new meaning to the term “hot-wings”.

Vespers


Irene Preston - 2016
    He is at the command of the White Monks, who summon him at will to destroy demons. In return, the monks provide for his sustenance and promise the return of his immortal soul. Sarasija Mishra's most compelling job qualification might be his type O blood… The 22-year-old college grad just moved across the country to work for some recluse he can't even find on the internet. Sounds sketchy, but the salary is awesome and he can't afford to be picky. On arrival he discovers a few details his contract neglected to mention, like the alligator-infested swamp, the demon attacks, and the nature of his employer's "special diet". A smart guy would leave, but after one look into Dupont's mesmerizing eyes, Sarasija can't seem to walk away. Too bad his boss expected "Sara" to be a girl. Falling in love is hard at any age… The vampire can't fight his hungers forever, especially since Sara's brought him light, laughter and a very masculine heat. After yielding to temptation, Thaddeus must make a choice. Killing demons may save his soul, but keeping the faith will cost him his heart.

Crushed


Christine Michelle - 2020
    Too bad I had to trust my life to part of his lifestyle, because I was in trouble. Big trouble. Huge trouble. I was in the type of trouble that gets people dead, or worse. Yes, there was a worse, it came with what they would do to me before the dead part.I’d witnessed my best friend’s rape.I’d testified against the man who had done it.Unfortunately, half his family ran this town by planting themselves firmly in local business, government, and law enforcement positions. The other half ran a criminal underground organization that catered to running drugs, guns, and girls to those who could pay. I stepped in it deep by trying to protect my friend who didn’t stick around afterward to have my back. Now, the only person I can trust is the one I flat out do not trust with my heart. My heart may just be the price I end up paying for my life though.Crusher:I wanted her back then, but knew I wasn't good for her.Now, she needs me. She needs my club. There won't be any going back once we get started.Mica will be mine like she should have been from the beginning.

Shadows


Kristen Proby - 2019
    Not even when I am alone. I see the unquiet dead, the souls that wander through the French Quarter. They can’t move on, and I can’t stop seeing them. I wear malachite for protection, and I control what I let in. It’s the only way to stay sane. Everything changes the day Cassian Winslow joins my ghost walking tour and knocks my world off its axis with green eyes the color of the stone around my neck. An unspeakable evil is loose in New Orleans, taking young women and leaving a bloodbath in his wake. More shadows lurking for me. More unhappy dead. There might be a way to stop it. Open myself up to Cassian. If I do, it could spell his death. But if I don’t, it’s mine.

Wicked Ride


Rebecca Zanetti - 2015
    Her short skirt and sex-kitten heels are tools to lure her suspects into talking about the deadly new drug hitting the streets. She can take care of herself and then some. Unfortunately, she can’t seem to get that through to Kellach Dunne.Kellach is a fresh import from Dublin, and he’s landed at the heart of a vicious motorcycle club that deals in guns, narcotics, and mayhem. He’s all male, all rough power—and all interference in her damn investigation. Maybe he’s one of the good guys. Maybe not. Lex knows an affair with an immortal like him would risk everything. No matter how delicious he looks…

The Raven


Sylvain Reynard - 2015
    But an innocent walk home after an evening with friends changes her life forever. When she intervenes in the senseless beating of a homeless man, his attackers turn on her, dragging her into an alley. Raven is only semi-conscious when their assault is interrupted by a cacophony of growls followed by her attacker’s screams. Mercifully, she blacks out, but not before catching a glimpse of a shadowy figure who whispers to her…Cassita vulneratus.When Raven awakes, she is inexplicably changed. She returns to the Uffizi, but no one recognizes her and more disturbingly, she discovers that she’s been absent an entire week. With no recollection of the events leading up to her disappearance, Raven also learns that her absence coincides with one of the largest robberies in Uffizi history – the theft of a set of priceless Botticelli illustrations. When the baffled police force identifies her as its prime suspect, Raven is desperate to clear her name. She seeks out one of Florence’s wealthiest and elusive men in an attempt to uncover the truth about her disappearance. Their encounter leads Raven to a dark underworld whose inhabitants kill to keep their secrets…

Seduction


Erik Henry Vick - 2020
    There’s bound to be a little crazy under his black hat.His life just got ten times more complicated. His new half-vampire and half-succubus partner is smart, sexy as Hell, and keeping a big secret from everyone.Oh, and their lieutenant? She's the ghost of a Van Helsing.Their case? Tracking down the entity responsible for leaving the drained body of a young man in Riverside Park.

Bad Boys of Romance


Kasey MillsteadRebecca Brooke - 2014
    Fighting For Switch by Kasey MillsteadEveryone knows that Switch and I are a couple, but no one knows the circumstances surrounding when we first got together.It's not because we don't want them to know.Or, because we're ashamed.We're not.It's just that we'd rather concentrate on the present, rather than the past.But, it's haunting me, and I need to get it off my chest.So, here it is. Our story. The story of a woman and a man who fell in love when they had no right in doing so.Shifting Lines by Abigail LeeLuke Green is content with the business he owns, the women that pass through it, and the nights he spends alone. When Riley Scott storms into his life, all lines he had drawn are shifted around, leaving him with a choice. Will he allow her to enter the place no one is allowed or will he send her on her way like the others before her?Dash by Shantel Tessier Tabitha Knight has spent the last year of her life in a relationship that made her lose herself. Now that it's over all she wants is a night out and to have some fun. What she gets is much more. Erik Dashling always finds himself in trouble. One day he finds himself behind bars where he gets offered an opportunity he can't turn down. But what happens when the woman he decides he wants has the power to take it away?Steele by Vicki GreenSteele: Fighting to stay aloneThe need to be lovedAlone. He wants no one, needs no one, but himself. In need of money, Steele Ryker finds a bar in a desolate area in the desert and secures a job as a bartender/bouncer. The biker bar fills him with the fights he craves and the women to fill his lonely nights until.... She walks in.Kallie Pearson is out for one thing, a good time. She’s bored of all the normal guys, the normal hot spots and finds a bar that holds just wants she’s been longing for.... Danger. What she doesn't know is just how much danger it holds.Ryder by Rebecca BrookeAll you want is to be invisible…Ryder Harris has spent most of his adult life moving from one place to another. He learned a long time ago that people always let you down and the only person you can rely on is yourself. When Ryder’s bike breaks down outside a small town, he’s left with no choice but to hang around. Running from his past, hiding who he is usually easy. That’s what he does. At least until the tough talking Ryann walks into his life and some of the secrets he thought he’d never reveal push him into the one thing he never wanted.To be seen.Destined Havoc by Nina LevineA man who walked away from it all.A woman who craves it all.A destiny they never saw coming.Havoc Caldwell lost everything two years ago and left town a bitter and hard man. Now he lives life as a nomad with no ties or commitments to anyone but himself and his club, Storm MC.Carla Walker is searching for more out of life. She grew up with no father, and her family struggled to make ends meet. Now she wants it all - a man who will make her his number one priority, a successful career, and a family of her own.A chance encounter leads to a one night stand, and neither expect it to go any further. Havoc has no desire for a relationship and Carla could never see herself settling down with a biker. Sometimes though, a destiny you could never imagine exists and as much as you fight it, there’s no way you can escape it.Scar by Morgan Jane Mitchell“They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but that’s bullshit. What doesn't kill you leaves a scar. More than the eyesore down my torso, I was a scar, the jagged, fucked up remains of a tragedy.”Scar’s Nomad status gives him a chance to fulfill his one wish, but his lonely mission is interrupted when a possible one-night stand goes horribly wrong. “They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but what if I can’t live with myself anymore?” Finding the blonde face down in a puddle of her own blood jeopardizes everything. Saving her and keeping her quiet could get Scar killed, but when Emery wakes up, her shocking proposal for him to kill her starts the ride of his life.Waiting on Walker by Casey PeelerIn the small town of Barber, country music, motorcycles, and reckless teenagers are the norm. Chauna Jackson and Walker Brantley are no exception. The summer nights keep them hot, but they keep each other hotter. That is, until Walker disappears from Chauna's life when she needs him the most.After losing everything important in her life, Chauna replaces her love for Walker with hatred. Fifteen years later, Chauna has quit waiting on Walker. She is ready to focus on her life, career, and friends at Boondocks until the unthinkable happens. Walker rides back into town, andhe quickly realizes Chauna wants nothing to do with him, but will he take no for an answer?Will Walker be able to win over Chauna, or will the memories of their past be too much for their future to handle?Against All Odds by Dee AvilaCole West leaves his life in California behind and heads east to race street bikes professionally. Cutting all ties from his former life, he forms a wall around his heart. As he races, he finds drinking and screwing his way through each city is the only option to move on. He is still in love with his high school sweetheart. Rylan Goff the girl his dad made him choose racing over. The girl his father made him leave behind. Now she’s here, on the race track of the first race of the season, Daytona Beach Bike Week. As soon as Cole sees her, he knows it’s Rylan. At first, she has no clue who he is. Once the truth comes out and all past secrets are revealed can they reconnect?Available for a strictly limited time

Veiled


Karina Halle - 2016
    He had other plans for her.Death.It's something that Ada Palomino has always known so well, having grown up in a house of horrors, surrounded by a family plagued by ghosts and demons and things that go bump in the night.But after the sudden and tragic death of her mother two years ago, death has never felt so personal. Or so close.Now eighteen, Ada is trying to move on with her life and the last month of summer holds nothing but sunshine and promises with her first year at a Portland design school just around the bend. That is until her increasingly violent and realistic dreams, dreams of other worlds, of portals and veils where her mother is tortured and souls bleed for mercy, start to blend into reality. Ada has to lean on her older sister, Perry, to try and make sense of it all but even then, she's never felt more alone. Then there's Jay. Tall, handsome and deeply mysterious, Jay would be just another stranger, a familiar face on the bus, if it wasn't for the fact that Ada has met him before. Every night. In every single dream. And the more that Ada is drawn to him in both worlds, the more she's in danger of losing everything. Including her heart.And her very soul.

Furbidden Mate


Jessica Snow - 2017
    But that won't stop him from claiming her. Plus-sized Katerina Headley is on a mission. She’s out to prove that real men do love curves. On a night out of fun, she attracts more than her share of trouble and the sexiest wolf this side of the universe. Liam Greyson. Heir to a billionaire fortune that just so happens to be a gorgeous wolf with a killer bod. But being with him will brand them both as outlaws. Bears and wolves don't mix. It's forbidden. But that won’t stop Liam from helping himself to Kat’s curves. Or filling her belly with triplets. They’ll face danger at every corner. Liam may need more than a killer set of abs and a tight ass to keep them all safe.