For Kylie, the miracle of her survival is also her burden-as a doctor at one of the clinics for the infected, she is forced to witness endless suffering. What's worse, strange things are happening to the remains of the dead, and by the time she befriends Ben Archer, she's beginning to wonder if a global pandemic is the least of her problems.... Thistle & Thorne by Ann AguirreAfter a catastrophic spill turns the country into a vast chemical wasteland, those who could afford it retreated to fortresses, self-contained communities run by powerful corporations. But for Mari Thistle, life on the outside-in the Red Zone-is a constant struggle. To protect her family, Mari teams up with the mysterious Thorne Goodman. Together, they'll face an evil plot in both the underworld of the Red Zone and the society inside the fortresses that could destroy those on the outside...for good. Sun Storm by Karen DuvallSarah Daggot has been chasing storms since she was a child. But after the biggest solar flares in history nearly destroy the planet, she becomes a Kinetic, endowed by her exposure to extreme radiation with the power to sense coming storms-in the cosmos and beyond. And she's not the only one. Sarah believes the Kinetics are destined to join forces and halt the final onslaught of the sun. She'll vow to keep trying to convince the one missing link in their chain of defense, the enigmatic Ian Matthews, up until the world ends.

    Especially not when I plead for him to leave.He's always there, watching and waiting.And I can never look away.Not when I want him to come closer.The ShadowI didn't mean to fall in love.But now that I have, I can't stay away.I'm mesmerized by her smile, by her eyes, and the way she moves.The way she undresses...I'll keep watching and waiting. Until I can make her mine.And once she is, I'll never let her go.Not even when she begs me to.While not required, it is highly suggested to read the novella, Satan's Affair, first.This book was previously banned on Amazon due to the trigger warning. Please read reviews or go to the author's website.

    First crushes and last rites; dark spells and bright magic; forbidden lovers and enchanted beings -- and always, always the hungry games of desire. Pucker up for a darkly sweet collection of ghosts, shape shifters, fairies, unicorns, vampires, and demons in tales from today's biggest writers of the paranormal persuasion.

    Is that how it goes?No one should have to be on the run from their family. Family is who you can trust, right? Dark magic users are the ones on the don’t trust list. Yet, when Greta learns the werecat tribe plans to sacrifice her on the full moon to steal her potent magical blood, she ditches common sense in favor of running to the one man who can protect her. Will Dayne kill her as he has so many others of her kind, or is his grudge against her family strong enough to save her?CLAIMED:… Vampires claiming amnesiacs is the new black.Anthony is cold, ruthless, undead, and hard to like. Yet, all it takes is one human with amnesia, to soften his heart. Ever since being bitten, Charlotte hasn’t been the same. More than anything, he wants to return to a time when she saw him for the man he is, instead of the monster she’s discovered. A time before she feared him. In the midst of a power struggle for vampire king, it soon becomes clear that the only way to protect a fragile human in his care is to claim her as his mate. Meanwhile, his deepest wish is to have his lover awakened from the memory loss that took everything... not just the memories he meant to erase. MATED:A classic, sweet werewolf love story. Or maybe not.Be small. Be invisible. It’s an odd life mantra for a human woman in a world of monsters. But Jane’s blood contains a touch of vampire magic, making her their victim over and over. With her faster-than-normal healing time, she’s an ideal punching bag for the abusive vampire she’s been living with, the one she thought might protect her this time. Paul owes a debt to the werewolf alpha, and Cole doesn’t care how he gets paid: flesh or coin. $10,000 or Jane? The human is a small price for the vampire to pay to be debt-free.Cole is attractive and warm---so different from the coldness and death Jane has grown used to. If the werewolves didn’t have a worse reputation than the vampires, being taken by the alpha might feel like rescue, but Cole’s growing possessive nature, makes Jane fear he’ll only abuse her like the others. If he doesn’t, could becoming an alpha’s mate free her from the vampires for good?

    This decadently naughty box set includes twenty-three stand-alone novellas, full of hot alien alpha males, breathless passion, and reluctant surrender. Take an exhilarating trip beyond the stars, that’s sure to leave you turning the pages late into the night. Featured authors: Sue Lyndon - Promised To The Alien Tarrz is the biggest, sexiest, and sternest Tar-quan male Lana has ever met - and he happens to be the very stranger to whom she’s been betrothed! He leaned down, until his face was level with hers. “I suggest you keep your opinion on the Earth-Tar-qua trade agreement to yourself, little human, unless you want to endure the strap on your wedding night. If I heard my mate speaking as you just did, I would punish her severely for disrespect. If not for the Tar-quans’ assistance, your dome cities on Earth would have perished long ago.”Taken aback by his great size, she studied him for a moment. God, he was huge and muscular - intimidatingly so. Having glimpsed plenty of Tar-quans before, when they came to visit her dome city, she had not expected to see an alien this large here in the city, and she felt a stab of pity for whichever human woman found herself mated to this male. He was easily more than too heads taller than her, and aside from his size, this particular Tar-quan seemed overly stern.An involuntary tingle raced across her bottom at the thought of enduring a punishment from the no-nonsense male who was glaring down at her. Despite her fear, her face heated and a sudden ache throbbed between her thighs. She quickly lowered her head, hoping he did not notice her blushing. Sara Fields - Sold To The Enemy Captured by enemy forces, Commander Aubrie Kent is imprisoned, sold at auction, and purchased as a slave by the leader of the very planet she was sent to attack. He vows to break her and claim her as his own, but can he command her heart? Will she let him? Renee Rose - Their Zandian Mate (Zandian Masters #9)/(Zandian Brides #1) Three Zandian warriors..One female assigned for reconditioning...They'll punish...Demand...Claim...Teach... Cari Silverwood - Fated Possession (The Machinery Of Desire #3.5) While on a chaste pilgrimage to the Chasm, Sassik buys Blue to save her from violation! Yes, he will train the stubborn human and punish her when needed, but when Blue willingly opens her legs for him, he understands the depths of his twisted desires. Selling her can be his only option... The gritty, violent world of Aerthe will crush the life and spirit of anyone not able to fight for their existence with weapons, teeth, and claws. But Blue is from Earth! Having recently escaped from being kept as a blood-slave, being owned is way down at the bottom of Blue’s bucket list. If she can’t escape, maybe she’ll do the next-best thing and take down Sassik while trying. This is a dark romance with rough sexual scenes and kink. This book can also be found as a bonus story in Branded Possession, Book 3 in The Machinery of Desire series, and is a spin-off story based in the same world of Aerthe. Grace Goodwin - Claiming His Virgin (Interstellar Brides: The Virgins #0.5) Elite Hunter Zee is scarred from his time in the Hive war leaving him too much of a monster to seduce a beautiful, innocent virgin. Even if his Mark calls to hers, connecting them body and soul, he knows that after just one look at him and she will never surrender the three sacred virginities. Never accept him as a mate...Blindfolded and seduced, Helen has never seen the Hunter whose voice makes her tremble. She knows something isn't right, but she can't say no to the mysterious and demanding Hunter whose kiss makes her burn - and whose touch makes her beg in the darkness of night...Zee has everything he thinks he needs, until another takes advantage of his new mate's innocence... and tries to claim Zee's Interstellar Bride for his own! Cynthia Sax - Dark Warlord (Refuge #2.5) Battling the Barbarian... All Chamele Warlords have a destined mate, a gerel they are fated to spend their lifespans with. Batu, being genetically enhanced, believes he's the sole exception. He devotes himself to battle, is resigned to living a solitary life, dying with swords in both of his hands... Then he sees her! Genine is a warrior female intent on protecting her loved ones. To keep them safe, she must face Fighter Batu in the ring. If she loses to the barbarian, she becomes his to do with as he wishes. And he wishes her to submit to his deep voice, rough touch, passionate kisses. If she defeats Batu, she will have to kill the one male she was destined to love! Dark Warlord is a short companion story in the Refuge series and is meant to be read after Dark Flight. It is a SciFi Romance set in a gritty, dark world. This story was previously part of a box set. Lee Savino & Lili Zander - Draekon Rescue (Dragons In Exile #5.6) Dorothy Pitts is having the Worst. Day. Ever. Her boss is creepy, her customers are jerks and she was passed over for a badly needed scholarship. But nothing beats getting sucked up into an alien spaceship, transported across the galaxy and waking up as a lab rat in an illegal breeding program. It's up to 2 hunkie dragon shifters to save the day... Addison Cain - Strangeways Their invasion of our world was nonviolent, seamless. But they have come to conquer and take who they will. We don’t have a choice. They can make us like it. They can make us desire them. They can make us do anything they want! Kallista Dane - Her Savage Mate Crash landed on an alien world... Lost in a jungle... Captured by a savage! Now I have a choice! Mate with their prince - or die!It’s been a rough day! Except I don’t have a choice. Not really. The High Priest threatens to put my entire crew to death unless I agree. So I make him a deal. I’ll mate with the future king and give him an heir - in exchange for their freedom...Turns out my new mate is a mouth-watering, seven foot tall bronze hunk. He’s so hot he could be the star of one of the tacky romance novels I’m secretly addicted to!Unfortunately this planet requires females to obey their mates or be disciplined. I’m not the submissive type, so I get punished by my new mate. A lot! But I’m determined this alien alpha will never break me. Night after night, I defy him!As time goes on, his stern discipline and passionate lovemaking are awakening dark desires in me. Wicked desires I’ve never felt before... I don’t know how much longer I can hold out! Maren Smith - Her Consort She was a salvage operator, patrolling the depths of deep space. He was a professional consort to royalty, built like a Neanderthal. Twice her width and twice her weight. His six-pack abs had six-pack abs. She knew, because she’d seen them. The only two people on a ship the size of a city… it really was kind of too bad they didn’t get along.... Ava Sinclair - Vanquished Mate As an investigative journalist, I intended to expose the Ythilian mating ritual. I never intended to end up captured by a dominant warrior determined to make me his!My plan was to disguise myself as a Ythilian female, sneak into the field, and document the rush of warriors taking to the mating grounds to capture and claim their mates. I play the role well. Too well, in fact. When the warrior chieftain, Khon, mistakes me for a native Ythilian, he captures me!Now, Khon has declared me his mate for life, and nothing I say can dissuade him. On this planet, the warriors rule over and thoroughly spank disobedient female mates. This culture represents everything I oppose! And yet, I find myself shamefully responding both to the humiliating correction and unexpected pleasure of being taken again and again by this strong, primal male...My own government, fearing a political incident, refuses to save me. They say I must live with my mistake. But how can I? When it means completely submitting to a fearsome warrior whose threatens to vanquish me, body and soul! Emily Tilton - The Warrior’s Pleasure-Girl The He’Ban long ago gave up bodily reproduction between their very-differently-evolved sexes. But, He’Ban warriors have a weakness for the human girls who seem designed by DNA to excite their lust! Can human Tera find love with the captain of the deadliest ship in the He’Ban fleet before another, crueler He’Ban warrior claims her as his prize? Ashe Barker - The Enforcer He is hers! Her prisoner, her responsibility! Convicted felon Xyker Ramone is not absconding, not on her watch! Erin Stein pursues her quarry with single-minded intent, but Xyker has no intention of returning to the penal colony. Erin is stunned to find herself his captive and law enforcement takes on a whole new dimension! Korey Mae Johnson - Conquering Kayla As the twelfth child of a royal household, Kayla is used to being overlooked, but that changes when her planet is conquered by aliens. Claimed by two stern, handsome brothers, she is soon getting plenty of attention, as she is shared, enjoyed, and thoroughly mastered by her new mates! Ivy Barrett - Becoming A Private Pet Kidnapped from Earth, Kate Deacon is now the property of Exotic Pets, Inc. Jexton Farr’s job is to train the beautiful little human, rewarding her when she is obedient and punishing her sternly when she is not! But when the time comes for her to be sold, will he be able to give her up? Jane Henry - Finding Sitra When Sargothian native Cy Brak returns to his home planet seeking solace in a brothel, he is furious to find himself paired with his best friend’s sister! She begs to be tied up and dominated, but her fantasies may not align with the punishment he has in mind. A surprise alien attack - leaving them alone and stranded - ups the stakes! Jaye Peaches - Under Contract Brax’s contract is simple! Find, extract, and rehabilitate an absconded human female!Kleo’s attempt at escaping an arranged mating has failed and she is now under the firm control of Brax, an enhanced alien from Helle, who must return her home to await her fate. But will Brax stick to the contract? Katie Douglas - Her Biker From Mars Hot Martian biker, Sy, just wants a snow cone. Instead, he has twenty-four hours to save a slave girl in a life-or-death situation, and the trade-off, is that Sy has to assassinate the president of Earth. Can he do it? Loki Renard - Doubly Dominant Trissa Teovy is a college dropout hitching her way across the galaxy when she’s caught by a seven-foot-tall Kilvoy lawman named Kero. He sets out to teach her a lesson that’s long overdue, but taming Trissa won’t be easy. The feisty little human is too much for any one man to handle, but fortunately for Kero, there’s two of him! Maria Monroe - His Human Bride In a war-torn galaxy, arrogant Prince Zor Maxis’ marriage to a princess from Ostara will create an essential alliance between the two planets. But what happens when he chooses the only human around? Megan Michaels - Dravven’s Submissive She committed a crime. She has a six-month sentence - marry the Prince and become a submissive on the Dominant, alpha male ruled planet. Seems simple. But is it? Myra Danvers - Swallowed Darkness Imprisoned... Starved... Weak... He’s a warrior caged in the armpit of the universe, a man of worth who owns nothing but his pride and a thirst for vengeance. So why had they sent her? A human. A pathetic, fragile creature full of madness and lies, burdened with an impossible ultimatum - contend with a monster, or die! Sophie Kisker - The Ghost In The Stars Siridin is on the run, after killing his brother’s murderer! Keelie was kidnapped to satisfy an addiction Anterins have for human women! Each sees the other as the source of their troubles! And the dominant ship captain refuses to believe the nectar slave’s stories of whispers in the night...Publisher’s Note: The stories featured in this collection involve MF and MFM pairings. They include spankings and sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this box set.

    1 The Bastard Stepchild - George R.R. Martin 2 Death by Dahlia - Charlaine Harris 3 The Bleeding Shadow - Joe R. Lansdale 4 Hungry Heart - Simon R. Green 5 Styx and Stones - Steven Saylor 6 Pain and Suffering - S.M. Stirling 7 It's Still the Same Old Story - Carrie Vaughn8 The Lady is a Screamer - Conn Iggulden 9 Hellbender - Laurie R. King 10 Shadow Thieves - Glen Cook 11 No Mystery, No Miracle - Melinda M. Snodgrass 12 The Difference Between a Puzzle and a Mystery - M.L.N. Hanover13 The Curious Affair of the Deodand - Lisa Tuttle 14 Lord John and the Plague of Zombies - Diana Gabaldon15 Beware the Snake - John Maddox Roberts 16 In Red, with Pearls - Patricia Briggs 17 The Adakian Eagle - Bradley Denton

    The throne room. The bedroom.They burn brighter than the rest.They wield power as easily as they breathe.They stop at nothing to get what they want.Royalty, CEOs, mafia kings, demons, and more.When love conquers, will they fall to their knees for the person they can't live without?Reign is a collection of thirteen brand new romance novellas featuring men and women who rule their empires but not their hearts.

    And I'm the only one who can save her.In a life like mine, there is only danger dressed up in money and power. I'm a monster in expensive suits and an opulent home. Brigit is an innocent angel with only the clothes on her back.She's on the run from a nightmarish arranged marriage, and I'm her only hope in the city. If she works my business she'll be able to buy herself a new life.But the moment she steps into my life is the moment she's trapped forever.She thinks she can tempt me and slip away like a thief in the night. She thinks I can make her mine and then let her go.She's never been so wrong.Richer Than God is an intense dark billionaire romance. It is the first in a breathtaking new trilogy.

     It's that time again! The Monster community is abuzz with whispers of the most anticipated party of the year. This deliciously exclusive event has tongues wagging even amongst the who's who of the monster community. It will once again be held at an undisclosed location on All Hallows Eve. Don't worry all you underprivileged socialites, The Monster Ball isn't just for vampires, witches, and werewolves. Other creatures of the night have as much of a chance to attend. Watch for your ticket but not in the mail. The silvery slip of parchment is said to appear in your hand by the light of the moon. If you find yourself a fortunate recipient best to keep it to yourself. There are some who would kill for the chance to attend. Because as every good monster knows... what happens at the ball, stays at the ball. xoxo, Elvira Fans of dark fantasy, paranormal intrigue, and romance will devour this story. Scroll up and get your ticket for The Monster Ball today.

    The rules of this new life are simple: submit everything—mind, body and soul. But the further Ellie falls under Dublin’s control, the more she comes to realize that it’s not just her sanity at stake, but her heart and a whole lot of blood too.

    Fallon’s mask is real, what you see is what you get. Growing up with two loving parents in Chicago, graduating in Chicago, and now working a job she loves, she enjoys her life. Her untarnished world is shaken when Luca crosses her path. Luca’s mask is tightly controlled. Distrust, rivalry, and violence rule his life.When confronted with insecurities, when the one you love wears his mask perfectly, when your life unravels and you don’t know why, do you keep trusting the person you love? Everyone has a façade. Everyone has an ulterior motive.A contemporary romance/ romantic thriller in dual point of view. Contains sexual content and violence.

    Find out What Lies Within each of these inspiring stories and watch as the characters learn to accept what makes them special. This collection features a series of fascinating short stories and excerpts for upcoming novels - all written by your favorite authors!M. SinclairL. StarfyreF. EastA.J. MaceyMelody CalderEverly TaylorLara G. ElmoreAshley AmyEileen TroemelPick up your copy today - all proceeds will be donated to Epilepsy Foundation!Contains +18 content.

    To talk to an immortal is suicide. Yet, I've been marked by both. A Vampire. And the King of the immortals. My life is no longer my own. And now I know the truth, my life was never mine to begin with. It was theirs. It's always been theirs.

    Watching her. Memorizing her. For ninety-two days, I’ve looked into those lifeless green eyes. And for ninety-two days she has inspired me in ways I never knew possible. A muse, unbeknownst to her. Motivating me. Encouraging my darkest desires. I’m a man who knows what he wants. And what I want is the beautiful and broken Holland Howard. My name is Jensen Payne—photographer, autocrat, lecher, Scopophiliac. I am who I am and I will not—cannot—change. WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS POSSIBLE EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS FOR SOME READERS. PLEASE TAKE THIS WARNING SERIOUSLY. Recommended for readers 18+ ONLY.

    Now she devotes her life to finding a vaccine against vampirism, hoping to wipe out her memories—along with every bloodsucker on the planet. But there’s one thing she cannot destroy: her searing, undeniable attraction for the one man she should hate and fear the most . . .A VAMPIRE OUT FOR REVENGEA member of the renegade vampire MoonBound Clan, Riker is haunted by demons of his own. When he recognizes Nicole and remembers how her family enslaved his loved ones, his heart burns for vengeance. But when he kidnaps Nicole and holds her in a secret lair, his mortal enemy becomes his soul obsession, his greatest temptation, and, perhaps, his only salvation—a hot-blooded lover who could heal him with her touch . . . or bury him forever.