Lucy and Aiden have been friends since they were kids. Best friends. And they'll never be anything more. Or at least, that's what Lucy keeps telling herself... **Warning: This new adult romance series contains adult situations and mature content.

    Daniel Greyson, their affair is as illicit as it is steamy. She's ready to take their sexy D/s school girl game to the next level, but he doesn't think it's the right time.She's determined to prove him wrong and The Ties that Bind's annual Auction Night is the perfect place to push the limits of what they can become. Alexa doesn’t care if her forbidden workplace romance is a ticking time bomb, or that it has the potential to destroy both their careers.She's ready to take their sexy-school-girl bedtime game to the next level with cuffs, collars, and chains. Oh my!Dr. Greyson doesn't think it's the right time.Her chance to convince him otherwise presents itself in the form of Auction Night, the annual charity event at The Ties that Bind.It’s the perfect place to test their limits. She'll give up one night, one week, one month, or one year of her life for the right price.Daniel decides how deep they'll explore their fantasies.The Auction decides for how long.Alexa is ready for more, but will Daniel bid on a chance to see if his intern is ready to surrender control? Can she be the submissive he craves?Devour this forbidden love story. Scroll up and one-click your copy today.__________________________________The Ties that BindIndulge your fantasies.The Masters at The Ties that Bind are waiting."If you enjoy sizzling chemistry, simmering kisses, and a walk on the wild side, you'll fall in love with The Auction Series."Alexa is the first standalone book in The Ties that Bind: Auction Night series by bestselling author Ellie Masters which features Off the Charts chemistry, steamy romance, HOT Alphas, and passionate women. Let these stories sweep you away. They're fun, flirty, deliciously dirty reads you can devour in an afternoon.Let yourself go. Enter the sensual world of The Ties that Bind: Auction Night and one-click your copy today.

    So when she's invited to spend two weeks of her summer with her best friend's wealthy family, she hopes it will be just what she needs to get her mind off the troubles that wait for her at home.Jonah Silver has reluctantly agreed to spend two weeks with his family before taking a job that will keep him in Japan for the next year, but because of his tense relationship with his father, he starts looking for a way out the moment he arrives at the beach house.After a chance encounter with his sister's beautiful friend, Jonah discovers a distraction in Jessica that might make this summer worth it after all. Desperation keeps them coming back to each other night after night, but it might not be enough when their family troubles threaten to destroy what fragile pleasure they've found in each other.

    Worse than that? She's broke. Her boyfriend recently left her, so she's stuck paying her hefty apartment rent alone. After two months unemployed, there's no money left. With no immediate family to turn to, Red reaches out to her estranged grandmother, a reclusive writer living on an island off the coast of Charleston. Several days later, Red receives $30,000 and an invitation to visit. James Wolfe is not Red's grandmother - but he's the only person waiting for her at the boat dock. Red has something he needs. He won't take "no" for an answer, and he doesn't mind screwing her over to get it. He lost his conscience six years ago, when he went off the grid. Since then, life is about him - and the renowned oil paintings he does under the mysterious pseudonym "W." Until the moment he sees her. Then Red is all he wants. And Wolfe will have her - any way he can. * This story is the first of three serials about Red & Wolfe. Red & Wolfe Part I was originally published in The BEND Anthology, a collection of stories from the authors of The Erotica Consortium.

    Books Included:Mafia Romance -- Dirty CurvyDark Romance -- Her Curves: His Obsession (Book 1 in the Her Curves series!)Mountain Man Romance -- Mountain Man's Curvy Love

    He thinks his next remodel is going to be like every other before, but Cybill, a newly single blonde bombshell and his newest client, has other plans. DON'T SLEEP WITH THE CLIENTS --it's an unwritten rule and one Hunter is more than happy to break.Warning: If you're looking for something hot and dirty short read, Falon & Nix Stone are about to deliver. Spread Wide is a steamy short story, filled with passion, heat, and lots of play. It's an over-the-top insta-love tale that will leave you panting for more.

     I had the brightest of futures. And the one in front of me was vivid. I carved out my own place in the world. But I wasn't always proud of what I did. I should have known that my mistakes would catch up to me eventually. One moment changed everything. I woke up in a cage. A prison of my own making. But I didn't know why... Every question had a price. My dignity. My sanity. My innocence. It all belonged to them. My freedom had a price too. I just had to confess my sins. But which one would open the cage? Kelli's Note: This is brand new series and it is a Dark Romance. You've been warned. The world isn't always perfect. Everyone has flaws. Everyone has secrets. Some of them can break your heart. Some of them can shatter your mind. You're invited to join me in my Descent into Darkness. This is a standalone full-length MFM novel, but there are elements from this story which will carry on throughout the entire series.

     She looks like Tinkerbell and thinks like Wonder Woman. Her latest trip, a month in Italy, is coming to an end when she spots an old friend across the piazza. Fig Dragoni, heir to an iconic Italian tire company always lusted after the funny girl he went to high school with in Manhattan. But his shyness got in the way. Now years later a chance meeting ignites an old spark. He’s not going to blow his chance this time. When the two embark on an Italian adventure, all the walls come down and passion storms the castle. La Dolce Vita! *A Standalone Love In Italy Novella*

    And Pain “I am going to break you. That’s the whole purpose of this exercise. From the moment the door inside that room closes, I am not going to be Mr. Nice Guy. I am going to do everything in my power to hear you scream, and I won’t stop until I hear you beg for mercy. Do you wish to proceed on that basis?” Today my name is Lois Reeves. I have an appointment with dominant “James Leverett” this morning, because my next assignment requires that I be a “submissive” and I have no idea what that entails. I’m about to find out… by jumping in at the deep end. Excerpt “Why do you like meting out pain? Do you enjoy hurting women?” If possible, his smile got wider. “Is that what you think we do here? Hurt women?” He paused, and I resisted the urge to squirm. “Are women all over the world,” he leaned over the desk to give me the full weight of his stare, “crazy enough to pay for that kind of thing?” His pen tapped sharply on the desk, daring me to answer. “All over the world?” The words didn’t come out as I’d intended them to, ending up as more of a pathetic whisper. Backing up against my chair, his large frame making me rather uncomfortable in the fragile emotional state I was in, there were a couple of seconds silence as I deliberated my next move. Needing desperately to get back to normal so I could return to work, I needed the release that I suspected only this kind of scenario could bring, without me being back in the field of course, which wasn’t going to happen until I was cleared. I’d been off work for six months now, and the inactivity was killing me. For someone who lived their life on the edge, sitting down in front of the TV channel hopping every day was one of the worst punishments possible. The adrenaline junkie in me was clamouring for a high, and I was going to sate it - one way or another.

    They go for supermodels and actresses, skinny-girls who never eat and spend all day working out. I'm not that girl. So when he locked his fiery brown eyes on me for the first time, I couldn't quite believe it was really happening to me. It was the second night I spent with him that I'll never forget. The Long Drive Home (bonus short story) Big Girls Do It Wetter Chase went to New York...without me. It was only one night, one delicious, sinful night, but it awakened something within me, and now, with him gone, I have no one to satiate my sudden, ferocious hunger. Then I woke up one day and looked at someone near and dear to me in a whole new light. And my world was rocked once again. Big Girls Do It Wilder I'm going. Going to New York City to be with gorgeous, mysterious, rockstar Chase Delany seemed like a crazy dream, a fantasy come true. The bright lights and music, and his tight, sexy leather pants called to me...and I answered. Chase might want more and I just might give it to him, if I could only forget what I started with Jeff back in Detroit.I thought I had my love life all figured out, I thought I knew what I wanted, and then things went and changed on me all over again... Big Girls Do It On Top I fled New York with my heart breaking and a million questions. Foremost in my mind was whether Jeff would even see me after the colossal mess that New York turned out to be. I discovered the answer, but that only spawned even more questions, many of the yes or no variety...

    He has his surgical slate at New York Presbyterian, he has a charitable foundation providing surgical tools to hospitals in Africa, he has his Brit Invasion cover band, Mersey, and he has his secret life as a Dominant in Manhattan’s BDSM community.Into bondage, D/s and the occasional dungeon scene, Drake keeps every part of his life separate, the divisions between them neat and tidy. His weeks are filled with surgeries, music and D/s sex, and none of the well-planned and scheduled parts of his life intersect.That is until Kate McDermott crosses his path and screws everything up.Now, nothing is neat and tidy anymore, for Drake is smitten and things are going to get messy…Drake Restrained is a novella in the Unrestrained Series, which explores the early days of the relationship between Drake and Kate from Drake’s point of view.

    Refusing, she runs away, although she can't go far on a steam ship. Only as far as the stateroom of a very handsome soldier. There's only one guaranteed way to save a woman from a bad marriage, and that's to marry her himself. Ann is surprised Robert will go to such lengths to protect her, but stunned when she won't just be marrying him, but his fellow soldier, Andrew, as well. Author note: This is a panty melting prequel with two hot soldiers and a woman they vow to protect. This MFM is all about the woman!

    EL BOMBERO is the story of Firefighter Tony Ramirez and his beloved wife Sophia, sweethearts since high school, who run into the biggest challenge of their lives: Sophia can no longer tolerate the danger her husband is in every day.

    Not for closed-minded individuals or readers under the age of 18. Bella Darcy is personal assistant, muse and plaything to wealthy businessman Mr. Pettifor. Their 9-5 relationship is unconventional, but mutually satisfying.Mr. Pettifor is alpha male personified - demanding, stern, insatiable, emotionally closed-off and seemingly indifferent to anything that doesn't involve six zeros behind it. Bella had never wanted more until the day she heard passionate cries that didn't belong to her, coming from his office. Deeply hurt and realizing that she cannot be with a man who can so blatantly be with another woman while she is mere feet away, Bella turns in her letter of resignation, throwing Mr. Pettifor into a tailspin.

    After losing her job as a party clown, Larissa's roommate gets her a gig working for an escort service. Her first client is Senator Chase Underwood: hot, married, and the current presidential candidate. Will his penchant for sexual domination destroy his prospects of world domination?PART II: DisclosureLarissa Jacobs' financial debt may be a thing of the past, now that Senator--and the all-but-certain future president--Chase Underwood has offered her a lucrative position in his campaign. But, like the rest of Chase's staffers, Larissa is asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement; only Larissa's NDA comes with some interesting stipulations that may make or break their arrangement.PART III: ExposureLarissa Jacobs has finally found the man of her dreams in presidential candidate Chase Underwood, but her dreams of happily ever after have been put on hold indefinitely. When a feature in the L.A Times exposes their affair, Chase and Larissa are thrust into the center of a scandal that will rock the nation and the very foundation of their love.PART IV: ClosureAfter the scandal caused by her affair with presidential candidate Chase Underwood, Larissa Jacobs is flown to his lavish villa in Tuscany. Larissa watches the news coverage of Chase's victory and fantasizes about him storming into the villa and making good on his promise to marry her. But her fantasies are becoming less and less appealing with every day they spend apart. It doesn't help that the hot Secret Service agent assigned to guard her has become the only person she can speak to.Will Larissa remain true to her promise to wait for Chase? Will Chase finally put his love for Larissa before his career?