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A Match


M.L. Briers - 2018
     Wasn’t it just like Grammy to do the devious thing and not tell her the whole story? What she should have done was turned on her heels and left the moment that she found out her sisters were coming to town, and how she wished she could have. But a spell had gone horribly wrong, and she didn’t have the heart to throw her Aunt under the bus, but Grammy, that was a different matter. Cassidy should have known that what you saw wasn’t always what you got where family and spells were concerned, and boy was she in for a shock when a plan went just as the spell caster knew it would? Matchmaking wasn’t for the faint-hearted, and neither was finding out that your match was an alpha wolf shifter with one thing on his mind – wooing. Join one crazy family of witches that are in for the ride of their lives in this romantic comedy that will leave you howling with laughter.

The Captain's Mate


Sydney Lain - 2014
    Stuck on a space station, he meets a warrior that stirs desire that rattle him to the core.Captain Tyran Holder longs to find his lifemate. After years of hard sexual play, he’s ready for something more. Then his dream comes true when a man falls into his life. He recognizes Zander as his lifemate and offers the difficult brat an indecent proposal, a way off the space station and to protect him from the bounty hunters chasing him by becoming his contracted lover.Zander is reluctant, but the intense sexual attraction shakes his world. He accepts the offer and indulges in a little hard play as Tyran breathes life into his sexual fantasies. Will this warrior turn his dreams into reality or into nightmares?

Beyond Cutting


Vicki Clifford - 2013
    This is no ordinary hairdresser. Viv Fraser Ph.D and stylist to the Edinburgh establishment, has a double life as an investigative journalist and finds herself involved in some hair-raising, not to mention explosive scenes, as she trawls the seamier side of her city. In this fast-paced mystery Viv investigates the case of a missing teenage boy, but her efforts are hampered by people trying to save their own skin. Always top of his class, Andrew’s school blazer turns up on a river path without him. As she picks at the veneer of the Capital’s gay scene Viv discovers an unsavoury mix of lies, jealousy and sexual deceit. Determined to find Andrew, she ignores threats on her life and continues to dig in places that even Detective Marconi has yet to explore.

The World of Richelle Mead Free Digital Sampler


Richelle Mead - 2012
    Enter the addictive world of Richelle Mead with this free e-book sampler; features excerpts from "Vampire Academy," the first book in the internationally bestselling Vampire Academy series, and "Bloodlines" and "The Golden Lily," books 1 and 2 of the Bloodlines series, a Vampire Academy spin-off series that follows beloved, fan favorite characters on exhilarating new adventures.

Kindred Book Bundle


Nicola Claire - 2012
    I have waited five hundred years for you." At its heart, Kindred is a romance story that just happens to feature sexy vampires, vampire hunters, and a kindred connection between the two never before seen. This book bundle includes books 1- 3 in the Kindred Series as follows: Kindred: In a world where vampires, shapeshifters, ghouls and magic users co-exist in relative harmony one young woman finds herself the centre of all supernatural desires. Born to hunt them and destined to love them, Lucinda Monk must find the strength required to save them and hold them all dear. But can she trust any of them? And is she more than she appears?Blood Life Seeker: Lucinda questions how she feels about Michel. Is it real, or is it just a result of the joining and Bond? Temptation appears in the form of a hedonist playboy vampire. The vampire governing body, the Iunctio, decides to investigate the latest kindred joining of Nosferatu and Nosferatin. And Lucinda and Michel must prove they are no threat to Nosferatu as a whole, or suffer their wrath.Forbidden Drink: Lucinda battles with the fact that she has lost so much control in her life and she tries to take some of it back. The Iunctio is still watching her, human vigilantes are killing vampires in Wellington and her best-friend is acting strange. Not to mention the two Master Vampires who are fighting for her heart and neither of them intends to play nice. Could her life get any more complicated?

Love Bytes


Gail Pruszkowski - 2011
    But before the big day arrives, he gets dumped by a text message and it looks like he'll be spending another Valentine's Day on his own. Ben decides to make a life-changing move. Instead of suffering V-Day depression alone in Los Angeles, Ben will be suffering culture shock in London where he relocates for a new start.Sexy Welshman Rhys Wynn welcomes Ben into his hostel—and his bed. They share a strong connection, but Ben backs off. He would rather spend Valentine’s Day alone than risk another broken heart. Rhys knows they belong together, but his secret prevents him from pursuing the young American. He's a vampyre who's already lost one soul mate, and he won't risk Ben's life.Can love conquer all, or will history repeat itself?

Sex on the Hoof


Silvia Violet - 2011
    Mortal peril. True love.Deer shifter, Jason Fleetfoot, has turned his life around. After years of taking chances, he’s working as a crime lab technician, and he’s determined to forgo the risky behavior of his past. Then he meets Drew Danvers, the only undead detective in the city. Jason hates vampires, or does he? Drew defies all the stereotypes of his kind and something about him has taken hold of Jason and won’t let go. Jason might just dare to take a chance on a man others would label a risk to his health if not his very life.This edition has been re-edited and expanded by over 35%.

Ray of Sunlight


Brynn Stein - 2015
    He’s been in and out of juvenile detention for the last four years and thoroughly expects to end up in an adult penitentiary at some point. He hates life and everyone in it, especially this latest community service that he earned in lieu of juvie yet again.CJ Calhoun has big plans. He wants to bring joy and happiness to sick and injured children for as long as he can by performing as a clown. The problem is, he has stage-four cancer and a horrible prognosis.When circumstances throw these two polar opposites together, they find they have more in common than they imagined. CJ discovers Russ’s talent for art and arranges for Russ to create a mural in the hospital foyer, which leads to a tentative scholarship to the Art Institute. As life changes in ways neither of them could have expected, Russ must work harder than ever to better himself as CJ struggles with his deteriorating health.

Adapt: The Scourge Wars Book 2


Derek Belfield - 2019
    The first clutch has hatched, and their forces have been reinvigorated for a conflict with the rest of the world. Unfortunately, their entry into the realm of Somnium hasn’t come without its costs. Far to the east, the Lord of Light’s mortal enemy, the Vallyr, have learned of their budding settlement. In an effort to wipe them out once and for all, Mors dal Ventrix, Patriarch of the Vallyrian Collective has summoned his army and sent them west. While the Scourge leadership is on the warpath, things aren’t so easy in their capitol city of Bastion. The Cult of the Leech saboteurs plague the city, a strange Prophet claiming to be from the Lord of Light has arrived, and the Scourge must struggle to recruit enough warriors to fend off the much larger Vallyrian forces. In book two of the Scourge Wars, Slate must accomplish one thing: adapt or die.

Let Down Your Hair


L.M. Brown - 2012
    Deep in the Enchanted Forest, he finds Robert, a cross-dressing painter who lives alone in his tower. Mistaking him for a woman, Prince Aiden is determined to have Robert as his bride.When the prince of his dreams shows up at Robert's tower, he is far from happy, especially when the handsome prince refuses to believe he is a man. Can he convince Prince Aiden to love him as the man he is, or is their happily ever after doomed from the start?

Destined Prey


Bailey Bradford - 2015
    Moving from Wyoming to New York hadn’t turned out the way he’d thought it would, and a bad breakup leaves him bruised in more than just the emotional sense.He doesn’t expect to be glad he’s back on the Double T Ranch with his brother, Rhett, and he sure doesn’t expect to find the place crawling with coywolves, wolves, and coyotes. There seems to be some kind of animal-warfare going on, and he and Rhett are caught in the middle of it.Coywolves—the hybrid of wolves and coyotes, hated by both, and more predatory than either. Add in the fact that all the battling species are shifters, and there’s bound to be trouble.Ben Akers is part of his brother’s pack. The only coywolf shifters in existence, they find themselves under constant attack from wolf and coyote packs determined to make the Akers pack extinct. But coywolves don’t die out so easy, and when Ben’s life takes a surprising turn in the form of one sexy human named Jack Tucker, they’re both in for surprises, danger, and, if Destiny rules, an abiding love that most people—and shifters—only dream of.

Broken Vows


Evangeline Anderson - 2007
    After being accused of being gay, Daniel has decided to find out one way or the other. Unfortunately, he stops at the Crimson Quarter, where vampires roam, by mistake and gets marked by one of the Lost. He’s saved in the nick of time by a Guardian, a vampire who protects humans, from becoming even more of a victim. When that Guardian introduces him to the kind of love that can happen between men, Daniel is at once lost and found. His only problem is that he needs to convince his vampire that they need to be together. If he’ll listen. Gabriel is a Guardian, atoning for the pain and bloodshed in his past. When he saves a young man from becoming an unwilling victim to another vampire, that young one’s purity is too much to resist. He needs to mark him for his own safety, but he didn’t count on falling for the boy. Gabriel feels the need to give him time, even after a mind-blowing sexual experience. Eight long years pass…can he break his vow and claim Daniel as the right one for him, or will he keep himself in a self-imposed prison for the rest of his long life?

Matteo


Lynn Hagen - 2016
    It is only after Matteo kills his maker that he discovers his blood must be purified every five hundred years. The problem is, the purification can be done only by a descendant of his maker. With time running out, Matteo must find a descendant before he suffers the bloodless death.Paris Marcellino is sent by a cutthroat, wannabe gangster to deliver a package to The Red Tower—the most notorious casino in La Vita Vegas. When the package starts bleeding, Paris is forced to the penthouse of the Don of the Vegas mafia. Paris thinks he’s about to die, but a contract is offered and a bargain is struck. All Paris has to do is survive a vampire feeding from him for the next thirty days and he’ll be rich beyond his wildest imagination. If life was only that easy.

Vampire Girl: Christmas Cognac (Vampire Librarian Book 2)


Karpov Kinrade - 2018
    The expectations are high, the disappointments inevitable, and family is… well, tricky, even at the best of times. This December, I'm going home for Christmas. It's the one time a year I actually get to see my family, and usually it's fine. This time? Well, let's just say navigating the normal crazy will be extra special with a vampire husband that none of my family got to see me marry, a fresh blood craving of my very own, and a more than slight aversion to the sun. Add to that an ex-boyfriend of mine is in town and causing trouble, and my best friend's husband has a big secret, and you have a cocktail for trouble not even my husband's very expensive cognac can ease the strain of.  Tis the season. Hopefully, we'll make it to the New Year alive. Well… as alive as we vampires get. THE VAMPIRE GIRL SERIES Book 1: Vampire Girl (USA Today bestseller, April 2016) Book 2: Midnight Star (USA Today bestseller, May 2016) Book 3: Silver Flame Book 4: Moonlight Prince (USA Today Bestseller, February 2017) Book 5: First Hunter Book 6: Unseen Lord Of Dreams and Dragons (a standalone novel in the VG universe) Novellas in the Vampire Girl Universe: Copper Snare Vampire Librarian: Crimson Cocktail Christmas Cognac

Mated to the Alpha: Full Collection


Wolf Specter - 2016
     Ethan is a normal guy, until he is hired to entertain the werewolves during the annual Mating Ball. He goes in expecting to have a good nigth and make some extra money on the side. What he doesn't expect is for one of the Alpha wolves to show an interest in him. Max, a succesful entrepreneur and one of the top Alpha's in the city, has been getting pressure from his all sides to find a mate, settle down and prove his Alpha genes. Only, he has no interest in doing any of those things, until he meets Ethan. He wants nothing else than to take Ethan as his mate, even if the man insists that he is straight. After a wirlwind night, Ethan wakes up pregnant. Something neither of them realised was possible. Now the two men need to navigate the next steps of their relationship, living together, getting married and all the while trying to keep the pregnancy out of the media. It isn’t easy, not on either of them, but they are hell bent on making it work, for the baby, for their families and for each other. This box set consists of the FULL Mated to the Alpha serial, this includes: Omega's Fate, Omega's Home, Omega's Pack, Omega's Bond, Omega’s Love, Omega’s Wedding, Omega’s Baby and Omega’s Future. All eight books in one handy bundle!