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Publication Date: May 22, 2012
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Fierce Love Fierce Love by Phoebe Conn
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-833-4
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

Their affair is the main attraction…and the distraction a killer has waited for.

Magdalena Aragon never thought she'd answer the summons of a father she's never known. The world-famous, many-times-married matador has provided everything she needs–except his time. There's only one reason she packs her bags for Spain: what her psychologist calls "closure". 

In spite of herself, she's drawn in by her father's charm, irresistible despite his desperate illness. Then there's his handsome protégé, a rising star in a sport she hates, yet he sets her passions on fire.

With a past as shadowy as his Gypsy heritage, Rafael Mondragon has always had to fight for what he wants. His freedom, his dream to become a star in the bull ring, and now his mentor's daughter, who stirs his every dark desire.

Certain she won't be staying long, Maggie escapes from the craziness of her newly discovered, fractured family to indulge in a red-hot fling. After all, Rafael is the last man she could ever love. Her heart has other ideas.

The heat from their affair captures the attention of the wrong people–the tabloids, and someone who has a twisted sense of honor. By the time Rafael realizes Maggie is the real target, it could be too late to save her.

Product Warnings: Hot sex, dangerous secrets, men who challenge death for sport.

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Worlds Apart Worlds Apart by Barbara Elsborg
Genre: Paranormal, Red Hots!!!, Ménage & More
Length: Plus Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-830-3
Price: $6.50 Limited time sale-priced for $4.55

Love has never been so close–or seemed so far away.

I love you. Niall is in hiding, but not from the police. He's trapped between the world he longs for and a place he can't leave behind. Cursed to hold his tongue, unable to claim what he wants until it's given, he's allowed one year to capture his heart's desire. But speaking those three simple words, the most important words in his life, might very well kill him.

I can't love you. As a private investigator, Taylor walks daily through the ashes of love burned out. He's witnessed the aftermath of love–destroyed marriages and wrecked lives that leave behind nothing but bitter memories of betrayal. He's convinced that love will never plant a seed in his heart–until Niall sparks a completely unexpected reaction in both mind and body.

I want to love you. Roo has spent her entire life bouncing from relationship to relationship, offering her heart only to get it trampled on. When she finds herself out in the cold again, she discovers love can come from the most surprising of places. Her choices are simple. Do the right thing. Do the wrong thing. Do nothing. The wrong choice could be simply devastating…

Product Warnings: Beware faeries with killer tattoos and girls dressed as chickens–broken hearts can follow… Or lots of love. And lots of sex–three-way, two-way, every which way. But no chicken sex. Thank god.

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Waking Up Waking Up by Arianna Hart
Genre: Paranormal
Length: Short Story, ISBN: 978-1-60928-856-3
Price: $2.50 Limited time sale-priced for $1.75

It's not nice to mess with a goddess. She'll change your life–whether you like it or not.

When Ciara Callahan goes to New Orleans to celebrate her divorce, she expects to get drunk and let her hair down a little. Waking up naked in a strange hotel room complete with a strange man singing in the shower–and the new tattoo on her wrist–definitely wasn't part of the plan.

Memories of a night of incendiary sex? Oh yeah, those are burned into her brain. But how the tattoo got there is a mystery. Deciding discretion is the better part of valor, she sneaks out and heads directly for the next plane back to Connecticut.

Declan emerges from the shower to find an essential ingredient missing from his tangled sheets. Ciara. But their connection is unmistakable–every time she touches her tattoo, an overwhelming wave of desire brings him to his knees.

There's only one solution: find her. And convince her their meeting wasn't mere chance–it's a once-in-a-millennium chance to free him from a goddess's curse. And seal them together for the adventure of a lifetime.

Product Warnings: Contains lots of hot vanilla sex steamier than a bowl of gumbo, and a bad boy with an uncanny ability to charm a goddess out of her panties.
 

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The Shift The Shift by Kate Sherwood
Genre: Gay Alternate Worlds
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-60928-959-1
Price: $3.50 Limited time sale-priced for $2.45

Two men, too many monsters.

Raised off the grid, Cash has trained all his life to protect humanity from The Shift–a mysterious force that creates monsters capable of unspeakable destruction. For Cash and his warrior family, risks are just part of the job and death is an ever-present possibility.

When his daredevil tendencies defeat a monster but leave him over his head in a puddle of green goo, Cash figures his number is up…until he's plucked to safety by a devastatingly handsome stranger.

Toby needs no weapons to fight The Shift, that's why he's perfected the art of laying low. Sudden moves draw unwanted attention, but he can't stand by and watch Cash drown. Big mistake–it isn't long before Cash is returning the favor, rescuing him from kidnappers intent on harnessing his genetic enhancements.

On the run with danger nipping at their heels, romantic sparks fly between them. But there's no trust without truth, and things get complicated when Toby reveals everything Cash has fought against is a lie. The time has come to decide who's the real monster–and whose side he's on.

Product Warnings: Super-romance, Super-sex, Super-heroism. Super-hot. Moments of Super-cute.
 
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Lucidity Lucidity by Raine Weaver
Genre: Paranormal
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-61921-090-5
Price: $4.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.15

He's found the woman of his dreams–in the midst of his worst nightmare.

Carlotta Phelps never considered herself special, except for a peculiar ability to control the course of her dreams. Other than being a handy cure for nightmares, it's a pretty worthless talent. Until she's recruited for the One Hundred, a team of lucid dreamers whose combined visualizations have been proven to affect reality. 

With a giant asteroid hurtling straight toward Earth and the scientific technology to avert it uncertain, the dreamers are the fallback–the last line of defense. And the man who's been assigned as her bodyguard is messing with her focus, big time.

Ex-Special Ops soldier Parker Munroe has no idea why he's been assigned to protect the luscious, gentle-eyed Carly. She's a frustrating temptation, but he's a hard-core realist. The only power he believes in is brute force.

Then he learns that his charge, who practically lives in lacy negligees, wields an awesome power–and an even bigger responsibility. She and her kind are being hunted by an enemy he can't even identify, against which all his skill with weaponry is useless. If he can't find a way to protect her, the world is as doomed as the heart he's already lost.

Product Warnings: This title contains a hero who packs a really big gun, government conspiracies, hot-buttered murder, witch hunting, and drop-your-drawers-there's-a-new-sheriff-in-town-and-she's-carryin'-cuffs kinda sex.

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RETRO ROMANCES ARE HERE!

 
Body and Soul Body and Soul by Jennifer Archer
Genre: Retro Alternate Worlds
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-61921-023-3
Price: $3.99 Limited time sale-priced for $2.79

Be careful what you wish for…

Stressed-out wife and mother Lisa O'Conner wants:

a. The carefree life of the young college girl who works in her husband's law office

b. That same girl's flawless face and head-turning body

c. A little "me" time

d. All of the above

All it takes is a fortune cookie and a simple wish to grant Lisa her heart's desire. Switching bodies with the beautiful, vibrant, and young Tory Beecham, Lisa assumes the situation is only temporary, so she sets out to enjoy her break from reality while she can. Soon she's dodging the advances of one gorgeous young man after another…and falling in love with her husband all over again. But is it her soul Michael's drawn to, or Tory's youth and beauty?

This book was previously published by Dorchester Love Spell in September 1999.

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Stolen Kisses Stolen Kisses by Sally Falcon
Genre: Retro Contemporary
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-988-1
Price: $3.99 Limited time sale-priced for $2.79

She's going to get that rascally rabbit…

Jessie DeLord couldn't help but be charmed by the six-foot-tall rabbit she met at a costume party. It took a lot to pull off such an…interesting outfit, and Trevor Planchet definitely had confidence to spare. Before the night was out, she found herself lost in his arms, enjoying more than just bunny kisses. But if there was one thing Jesse knew for sure, it was that a six-foot-tall rabbit was not marriage material.

Little did Jesse know that TV sportscaster Trevor Planchet was one of Little Rock's most eligible bachelors. The moment he met Jessie, Trevor couldn't resist her fun, flirty attitude. Trevor was a man who couldn't help but give in to his devilish impulses…and Jessie DeLord was the ultimate indulgence.

But could the love of a good woman overcome this dedicated bachelor's commitment phobia?

This book was previously published by Kismet Books in September 1992.

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Love and Dreams Love and Dreams by Patricia Hagan
Genre: Retro Historical
Length: Plus Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-995-9, Series: The Coltrane Saga
Price: $4.99 Limited time sale-priced for $3.49

Neither shipwreck, amnesia, kidnapping nor deception can keep these star-crossed lovers apart!

The Coltrane Saga, Book 6

When Colt Coltrane meets Russian prima ballerina Jade O'Bannon it is a case of love at first sight. But tragedy strikes when, on a voyage to America, a raging storm wrecks their ship, and Jade sees Colt swept overboard. Rescued from certain death by wealthy businessman Bryan Stevens, Jade slowly allows herself to think she might begin to love him. The only thing holding her back is the belief that Colt might actually be alive.

Then at a glittering ball, Jade is jolted by the sight of Colt. When it appears he does not recognize her, she thinks he is pretending due to each of them being married to someone else. But then she discovers he suffers from amnesia due to the blow to his head when he fell overboard.

Jade knows she cannot just announce the truth to Colt, that it will take time to ease into the reality of their situation. But, as when they first met, the two are inexplicably drawn together and fall helplessly into each other's arms…and in love. Too bad Bryan is willing to do anything to keep what he believes is his–Jade.

This book was originally published by Avon Books in September, 1988.

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Night Thunder's Bride Night Thunder's Bride by Karen Kay
Genre: Retro Historical
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-976-8, Series: Blackfoot Warriors
Price: $3.99 Limited time sale-priced for $2.79

To save her life, they must expose their hearts.

Blackfoot Warriors, Book 3

When lady's maid Rebecca Cothern journeyed westward, she never thought to leave her mistress's side. Yet as Katrina Wellington completes her own journey with White Eagle, Rebecca waits at Ft. Union under the protection of Blackfoot warrior, Night Thunder.

Despite what she's been told about the wild nature of the native tribes, Night Thunder is different. Kind, gentle, honorable to a fault…and handsome in a way that makes her breathless for his next touch.

Though Night Thunder relishes stolen moments with the beautiful white woman, circumstances dictate that he should keep his distance. Until she is stolen away in the night, and he discovers he cannot simply ride into the enemy camp, kill the guilty and sweep her to safety. The thieves are vengeful malcontents from his own tribe, which leaves him only one way to save her from the worst kind of violation.

He must claim that she is his bride. Not only that, she must willingly bare all–heart, soul and body–to claim him as hers.

This book has been previously published.

Product Warnings: Contains warm, sensual love scenes that are certain to have you reaching for your own true Night Thunder.

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Sterling's Reasons Sterling's Reasons by Joey Light
Genre: Retro Contemporary
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-61921-003-5
Price: $3.99 Limited time sale-priced for $2.79

When a wounded hero seeks solitude from the world, only a determined woman can save him from a lifetime of anguish and isolation.

All it took was one moment for Police Officer Joe McDaniels's life to change forever. A bust gone bad has resulted in the death of his partner–and the bullet was from his gun. Cleared of all wrongdoing, Joe nevertheless blames himself for the death of his best friend. Hiding from the world, he retreats to an isolated beach house on the Maryland shore.

When Sterling Powell finds Joe, she can see behind his cynical façade to the wounded man below. Day after day, she forces him to participate in daily life–jogs on the beach, regular meals and conversations. And when she sees a spark of desire in his eyes, Sterling thinks of nothing but giving in to their mutual attraction. But she is supposed to be there to help him, and love was definitely not part of the plan.

This book was previously published by Kismet Books in June 1991.

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In 2001, Shakira released her album “Laundry Service”.  On that record is the excellent song, “Underneath Your Clothes”.  Her lyrics tell us, “You own the place where all my thoughts go hiding, right under your clothes is where I find them”. When we read our romance novels, aren’t we all waiting for that scene where we finally get to see the secret underneath the hero’s clothes?

The first “secret” revealed by the undressing of our hero is to what extent our hero is muscled.  Authors commonly give us above average height heroes, but the men are put together on a spectrum of muscle mass.  My favorite hero body type depends on the novel setting.  I love a Viking to be a man that resembles something just this side of a wall.  Thick, muscled biceps should catch the flickering firelight as he lifts the fur mantle from his chest and lays it on the ground for his woman.  While calves don’t get much ink, my mouth always waters at the graphic description of buckskin breeches straining across my Regency heroes thighs.

Modern day heroes I like to picture longer and leaner.  A designer suit hangs well on the smooth swimmers body.  Once he tosses his jacket aside and rolls up his pressed white shirt, I want to see lean, corded forearms…perhaps a foreshadowing of territory farther south?

And what about when the sheriff finally puts down his gun and unbuttons his staid brown shirt.  I catch my breath imaging the rippling abs of a man who spends his tormented nights beating up the police station’s punching bag.  The open shirt shows us just a hint of the golden hair trailing down to the waistband.

There is one more treasure hidden beneath the hero’s clothes that holds appeal for many readers.  That certain appendage is difficult to blog about while “stopping at the bedroom door”, so forgive my puns.  Personally there are certain “lengths” that writers go to that push me out of the fantasy, but who I am to say that isn’t exactly what the next reader wants.  Needless to say, I am certain that no matter the words the author uses, each reader applies their own idea of proportion perfection to visualize the vampire lord’s “burden” when eases his need in his lonely marble shower.

Isn’t that part of the appeal in escaping into a romance novel?  Every romance reader can create “her territory” underneath the hero’s clothes. If the author insists her Viking is the hulk without all the green, how can she stop you from picturing 6’1” of lean flesh who could be Ryan Gosling’s body double?

~Margo Lukas

Half Moon Rising

"…a story too thrilling to put down." MrsGiggles.com

 

What's New in eBook at Samhain!
Publication Date: May 15, 2012
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Plastered in Stonington Plastered in Stonington by Rosemary Goodwin
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-704-7, Series: Kate Bart Mysteries
Price: $4.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.15

Sour grapes are the least of their problems…

Kate Bart Mysteries, Book 3

The new skill decorating Kate's resume–licensed PI–officially qualifies her to be Dutch's partner in crime fighting. Unofficially, their personal relationship has grown well into serious territory.

Both halves of her life are called into service when Kate is hired to redesign the tasting room at Fiona and Cameron MacPherson's winery. It doesn't take long to figure out all is not sunshine and roses at Goose Pond, and Dutch agrees to look into some serious safety issues that have led to a string of mishaps.

When another incident results in a death, and it's clear that this time it's no accident, Kate and Dutch dig deeper to zero in on who's responsible. The neighboring vintner who covets Goose Pond's winery? The tasting room totsie seen skulking about with the MacPhersons' sulky son?

As their investigation comes closer and closer to bearing fruit, the bullets start flying –and it seems that whoever's pulling the trigger wants them all to pay the piper–in blood.

Product Warnings: Contains an interior decorating PI with a talent for finding trouble, and her tough-and -tender PI boyfriend who can't wait to get his hands on her. If only it's to pull her out of harm's way.

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Vance's Rules Vance's Rules by Anne Rainey
Genre: Contemporary, Red Hots!!!
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-61921-089-9, Series: Blackwater
Price: $3.50 Limited time sale-priced for $2.45

His tools, his rules…

Blackwater, Book 2

Looking at Vance Jennings now, no one would guess that the tough-as-nails building contractor once suffered a broken heart. Twelve years has blunted the pain of the breakup with his high school sweetheart, but not the memory. Until she shows up on his doorstep asking for a second chance.

One look at the sexy redhead, and Vance adds a foot or two to his rock-solid emotional barriers. No way is he letting her back into his life. But he'll be happy to let her close enough to sample her delectable body.

Shayla Riggs is no longer the vulnerable teenager who was forced to give up her first and only love. She's older, wiser, and determined to make things right. Except the changes in Vance throw her for a loop. He's definitely not the sweet boy she remembers. In fact, the grown-up version lights her up hotter than a firecracker.

It takes only a kiss, a caress, to bring back the explosive passion they once shared. But if Shayla can't find a way to break through the bitter walls around his heart, it just might destroy them both. Again.

Product Warnings: This story contains a stubborn woman intent on seduction and an alpha male with some naughty ideas of payback. Let the fireworks begin!

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Nailed to the Wall Nailed to the Wall by Jayne Rylon
Genre: Contemporary, Red Hots!!!, Ménage & More
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-859-4, Series: Powertools
Price: $4.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.15

The crew is back and they're dirtier than ever.

Powertools, Book 5

Five sexy men with a penchant for love and lust in any variation have formed a crew. They work hard and play harder–together. Though their partnership began in construction, renovating houses and selling them for a mint, they've formed a bond around their shared goal to provide women, and each other, with the ultimate sexual experience.

Over the past year, as each member discovered his soul mate–or two–they expanded the reach of their circle, lighting up their nights along with their souls. Monogamous relationships and the desire to start families threaten to put their libertine revelry on the back burner. Will the passion that bonded them fade away? How will the new crew wives cope with the complex relationship the men will always cherish and crave?

Determined to prove they stand by their men, the women decide it's time to flex some muscle and give the crew a dose of girl power. They collude to take the guys as their horny hostages, using some big guns: boudoir photos, a pillow fight and a calculated foray into partner swapping. But will they have the guts to go through with their plans?

Product Warnings: By Book Five in this series, fans will attest that anything goes in the crew. Be prepared for ménage in every flavor–m/f, f/f, mfm, fmf, and more–along with a slew of that's what he said jokes. No throwing tomatoes at the author, please!

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A Patch of Darkness A Patch of Darkness by Yolanda Sfetsos
Genre: Urban Fantasy, Shape-shifters, Angels & Demons
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-688-0, Series: Sierra Fox
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

All it takes is one weak seam for everything to fall apart.

Sierra Fox, Book 1

In a perfect world, Sierra Fox would have stayed away from the Council she left years ago. But in this world–where spirits have the right to walk among the living–it's her job to round up troublesome spooks and bring them before that very same Council.

Though her desk is piled high with open cases, she can't resist an anonymous summons to a mysterious late-night meeting with a bunch of other hunters, each of whom seems to have a unique specialty. The news is dire: something is tearing at the fabric of the universe. If the hunters can't find who or why in time, something's going to give in a very messy way.

As current cases, family secrets, new clues and her tangled love life slowly wind themselves into an impossible knot, Sierra finds herself the target of a power-sucking duo intent on stealing her mojo. And realizing she holds the key to the last hope of sealing the widening rift.

Product Warnings: Spook catching: may contain traces of ectoplasm and otherworldly nasties. Not recommended for those with allergies to ghosts, demons, and with boyfriends who think your power is theirs. While reading, avoid dark patches and stay to the light.
 

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Monster Monster by Joely Skye
Genre: Gay Alternate Worlds
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-59998-130-7, Series: Minders
Price: $3.50 Limited time sale-priced for $2.45

True love…or a trap?

Minders, Book 1

Josh Mackay has studied his quarry for two months, and now it's time to earn his pay. Bringing in an escaped Minder–a psi who can bend anyone's mind to his will–takes a specialist.

Luring the surprisingly naïve Kiran Brunner to a safe house is almost too easy. As the tranqs take hold, though, the beautiful monster's last plea, don't let them hurt me, tears at Josh's conscience. To his horror, they do just that.

Kir let his loneliness and instant attraction to Josh lure him into a trap he should have sensed. Even as his consciousness fades, he sinks psychic hooks into Josh as a pure reflex, a survival instinct honed by years of abuse at the hands of the agency.

Even though Josh's job is done, he finds he can't simply walk away. Not only because of what Kir is, but why the agency wants the boy back. Trouble is, he doesn't know if he's doing the right thing…or if his will is being twisted by the mind of a murderer.

This book was previously published by Samhain Publishing.

Product Warnings: This emotional, angst-ridden story is part one of a three-part story and ends in a cliffhanger. The author recommends they be read in order for maximum enjoyment of mind-bending m/m sex.

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Zombie Zombie by Joely Skye
Genre: Gay Alternate Worlds
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-59998-174-1, Series: Minders
Price: $3.50 Limited time sale-priced for $2.45

Dreams of escape become his worst nightmare…

Minders, Book 2

Two years after Josh McKay captured escaped Minder Kiran Brunner, Josh's life is in ruins. Desire had a hand in letting the beautiful monster sink psychic hooks into his will, and now he is essentially a prisoner of the agency, his every move watched for any hint of a connection that could lead to Kir.

Unable to stand by and let an amoral Minder destroy his lover, Kir extracts Josh from the agency's compound and sweeps him away to a secluded cabin to heal. It's just the two of them, Kir and Josh. Both wounded at the hands of the agency, both struggling to find the will to trust each other through the agency-induced barrier of hatred and fear.

Kir has all the patience in the world. What he doesn't have is time. Whatever love they have rebuilt may be too fragile to withstand the future they face…

This book was previously published by Samhain Publishing.

Product Warnings: This emotional, angst-ridden story is part two of a three-part story and ends in a cliffhanger. The author recommends they be read in order for maximum m/m enjoyment.

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Minder Minder by Joely Skye
Genre: Gay Alternate Worlds
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-59998-333-2, Series: Minders
Price: $3.50 Limited time sale-priced for $2.45

The power that brought them together could be the force that destroys them.

Minders, Book 3

Although Josh and Kir have each narrowly escaped the grip of the agency, they haven't escaped its long, devastating reach. Josh has gone to ground, desperate to keep a lid on an implanted compulsion to kill his lover.

When he learns Kir is in danger, though, he has no choice but to come out of hiding and use every deadly skill at his disposal. Then try to pull away before he unwillingly takes aim at Kir.

Kir is having none of it. Now that he has Josh back in his life, he's confident his powers as a Minder–and their love–will keep them both safe. But Josh is not the same man who disappeared almost a year ago. The agency has seen to that, and they have a fallback plan to bring Kir back under their control…or see them both dead.

This book was previously published by Samhain Publishing.

Product Warnings: This emotional, angst-ridden story is part three of a three-part story. The author recommends they be read in order for maximum m/m enjoyment.
 

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Publication Date: April 24, 2012
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Just One Night Just One Night by Chloe Cole
Genre: Contemporary, Red Hots!!!, Multicultural
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-60928-951-5
Price: $3.50 Limited time sale-priced for $2.45

He's got one shot. Better make it naughty…

Micah's new living arrangement with her best friend is quickly becoming unbearable. Not because Tomas isn't a good roommate. When they're alone, he shows her his sweet, loyal side. It's just that he shows the rest of his parts to half the women in town. If she can't scrape together the money for her own place soon, witnessing the aftermath of his late-night carousing is going to break her heart.

Then again, if it's going to break anyway, maybe she should just go ahead and make a move on the man she's loved since high school. And risk his rejection a second time.

It hasn't been easy for Tomas to share space with the one damsel he can't bear to see in distress. To have her within easy reach has been torture. His foster mother's words echo in his head: a classy girl like Micah deserves more than the likes of him. But lately Micah's been rattling his cage. If she does it one more time, she'd better be ready for the animal she awakens.

Unfortunately for him, Micah's hot little hands are already wrapped around the bars…

Product Warnings: Contains a Latin bad boy with twelve years worth of fantasies to get out of his system, and his goody-two-shoes best friend who learns that her inner bad girl likes handcuffs and spankings. Beware. This book could cause a riot since there's only one Tomas to go around.

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Dealing with David Dealing with David by Katriena Knights
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-773-3
Price: $4.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.15

It's tough to win the game of love if you don't understand the rules.

Though Tony Mullin agreed to put on a medieval costume, complete with pointy hat, for her best friend's marriage vow renewal, another round of wedding bells will never be in her own future. Been there, done that, still sifting through the ashes of broken dreams.

Yet she can't take her eyes off the Armani-clad mystery man among the guests–and no one's more surprised to learn it's David Peterson, the erstwhile nerd who mooned over her in high school. He not only grew up to be a hunk, but a rich one as well. Pity she's sworn off men.

Last David knew, sweet, artistic Tony married the high school quarterback. He made his fortune developing video games, but the torch he carried for her still smolders. His surprise that she's ditched the jock quickly turns to determination to win her heart at last…though she seems just as determined to play keep-away.

David didn't become successful by giving up easily. A freak snowstorm plays into his strategy, but debugging a few gigabytes of computer code seems easier than figuring out how to win this wary woman's love.

This title was previously published.

Product Warnings: Contains strange Colorado weather patterns and video game heroines with breasts that could put your eye out.

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Handle with Care Handle with Care by Josephine Myles
Genre: Red Hots!!!, Gay Contemporary
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-965-2
Price: $4.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.15

The best things in life aren't free…they're freely given.

Ben Lethbridge doesn't have many vices left. After raising his little sister to adulthood, he wasted no time making up for the youth he lost to responsible parenting. Two years of partying it up–and ignoring his diabetes–has left him tethered to a home dialysis regimen.

He can do his job from his flat, fortunately, but most of his favourite things are forbidden. Except for DVD porn…and fantasizing over Ollie, the gorgeous, purple-haired skateboarder who delivers it.

Their banter is the highlight of Ben's lonely day, but his illness-ravaged body is the cruel reality that prevents him from believing they'll do anything more than flirt. Not to mention the age gap. Still, Ben figures there's no harm in sprucing himself up a bit.

Then one day, a package accidentally splits open, revealing Ben's dirty little secret…and an unexpected connection that leaves him wondering if he's been reading Ollie wrong all this time. There's only one way to find out: risk showing Ollie every last scar. And hope “far from perfect” is good enough for a chance at love.

Product Warnings: Contains superhero porn comics and a cute, accident-prone delivery guy with colour-changing hair. Readers may experience coffee cravings, an unexpected liking for bad mullets, and the urge to wrap Ollie up and take him home.

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Betting the Moon Betting the Moon by Beverly Rae
Genre: Paranormal, Red Hots!!!, Shape-shifters, Vampires
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-780-1, Series: Cannon Pack
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When magic takes hold, there's no bluffing the heart.

Cannon Pack, Book 4

Mari Thornton, professional gambler, prides herself on playing high-stakes poker the old-fashioned way: with skill, charm and luck, and without using her magic. She's determined to win the Las Vegas Poker Extravaganza's gold bracelet and million-dollar prize, but Tucker Manning's raw, sexual appeal is throwing her concentration off. Way off.

An up-and-coming poker whiz, Tucker plans to enjoy every second of this tournament, especially when he feels Mari's magic brush up against his werewolf power. With luck, he'll win and win big, taking both the tournament and the green-eyed beauty whose magic oozes out of her hot body like honey. Proving that last year's winner is a cheat will make the victory all that much sweeter.

When she senses Bryson Bascomb's dark, supernatural influence over his opponents, Mari agrees to Tucker's proposal to help expose the vampire's trickery. But Bascomb isn't going down without a fight. And the fallout leaves Mari wondering if she can trust Tucker with her life. Or if in the end, he'll throw in his hand…and throw her under the bus.

Product Warnings: Mix in hot glamour, wild fangs and sexy incantations, and you get a no-holds ride of sex and winner-take-all thrills. And maybe, if you're lucky…true love.
 

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Random Acts Random Acts by Alison Stone
Genre: Romantic Suspense, Sweet Romance, Men In Uniform
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-824-2
Price: $4.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.15

Second chances can have a terrible sense of timing.

As a child, watching her mother always pick the wrong man left Danielle Carson wary of opening her heart to anyone–except Patrick Kingsley. But circumstances came between them and left Danielle with a broken heart. Now she buries the pain of what might have been by channeling all her energy into her career. When a family crisis brings her back to her hometown, she is forced to face the past–and the disturbing fact that her sister's car accident was staged to mask a brutal beating.

A police officer and widower, Patrick guards his heart as fiercely as he guards his beloved daughter. Seeing Danielle again unexpectedly reignites their old flame, but no way will he introduce a woman into his daughter's life. Certainly not one whose values on faith and family are so different from his own.

Despite their best intentions, they are drawn together–until Danielle learns Patrick had a hand in putting her sister in harm's way. Her fragile trust is crushed, but Patrick is the only man who can help her stop the villain before everything they both love is destroyed. Faith, family…and their second chance at forever.

Product Warnings: This title contains a shadowy criminal, dark family secrets, meddling family, and a heroine who's determined to show her old crush that she's moved on. Or has she?
 

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Grimm Tidings Grimm Tidings by Shiloh Walker
Genre: Paranormal, Angels & Demons
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-877-8, Series: Grimm's Circle
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Never fear the pain. Fear what lies behind it…

Grimm's Circle, Book 6

In his mortal life, the only thing Jacob liked better than money was a good brawl–until he stuck his fist into the wrong fight, and a demon sent him spinning into a new life as a Grimm.

Now, a hundred years later, he's been called to protect someone too much like himself. A woman who could let the chains of her past drag her down unless she learns to let go. A woman who fights like there's no tomorrow, because she clearly doesn't want a tomorrow.

Celeste thought her second chance at life would be an opportunity to fix some of her worst mistakes, to set things straight. She couldn't have been more wrong. She's trapped by the past and her regrets, and nothing–not even her darkly sexy new trainer, Jacob–has a blade sharp enough to cut her loose.

Chains are Jacob's specialty, but his help comes with a price. To her, the cost is her heart. To Jacob…something much more.

Product Warnings: Contains a heroine with enough fight in her to put the 300 to shame. And a hero who knows how to take a punch.

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Bewitched, Blooded and Bewildered Bewitched, Blooded and Bewildered by Robyn Bachar
Genre: Paranormal, Vampires, Angels & Demons
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-963-8, Series: Bad Witch
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

It's better to be a bad witch than a dead one.

A Bad Witch story

One thing stands between Catherine Duquesne and happily-ever-after with her soul mate Lex–her unwanted bond with billionaire vampire Zachary Harrison. Married life is hard enough without adding an uninvited vampire to the mix, and being tied to Zach endangers more than just her relationship. If Zach dies, she dies, and with his new seat on the necromancer council being challenged by older, more powerful masters, his life expectancy is dwindling fast.

Vampire politics is only the beginning of Cat's problems. Hunters are stalking magicians, abducting entire families and killing anyone who resists. As the current Titania and Oberon, Cat and Lex must protect their people, but Cat's dark past keeps the victims from seeking their help. Worse, the former Titania's granddaughter wants to oust Cat from the job, believing her vampire ties make her unfit.

To break the bond Cat must broker deals with devils on a journey that will take her to hell and back–literally. Freedom comes at a high price, but Cat will risk anything to save her people and her marriage.

Product Warnings: This book contains explicit language, faerie shenanigans, a field trip to hell, even more magician sex, and gratuitous violence against vampires, demons, hunters, helicopters and the kitchen sink. And if you want to know how the very sexy Lex swept Cat off her feet, check out Blood, Smoke and Mirrors.

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Love's Rhythm Love's Rhythm by Lexxie Couper
Genre: Contemporary, Red Hots!!!
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-702-3
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His music moves the world. Can his love move her heart?

Nick Blackthorne knows all about words of love. They're the reason he's the world's biggest rock star. The irony? He turned his back on love a long time ago, lured away by the trappings of fame.

An invitation to a friend's wedding is a stark reminder of how meaningless his life has become. When he enters that church, there's only one woman he wants on his arm–the one he walked out on a lifetime ago. But first he has to find her, even if all she accepts from him is an apology.

Kindergarten teacher Lauren Robbins once had what every woman on the planet desires. Nick. Their passion was explosive, their romance the stuff of songs…and it took fifteen years to get over him. Then out of the blue Nick turns up at her door, and all those years denying her ache for him are shattered with a single, smoldering kiss.

But molten passion can't hide the secret she's kept for all these years. Because it's not just her heart on the line anymore…and not just her life that'll be rocked by the revelation.

Product Warnings: Remember your first crush on a rock star? Now add smoldering sex, a raw and undeniable passion, soul-shattering orgasms. And secrets…

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Wolf Hills Wolf Hills by Bianca D'Arc
Genre: Paranormal, Red Hots!!!, Shape-shifters, Vampires
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-777-1, Series: Brotherhood of Blood
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Danger prowls on two legs…

A Brotherhood of Blood story

Detective Sally Decker's Wyoming trip to visit her newlywed friend, Carly, turns into a dangerous adventure into the unknown when she learns Carly's husband is a master vampire, and there's a pack of werewolves living just up the road. As if that wasn't alarming enough, the sexy Alpha wolf has taken a shine to her.

Jason Moore is an Alpha on a mission to make Sally his own. His very public seduction doesn't sit well with the pack's available females, but instinct tells him that Sally can handle anything, including any werewolf bitch dumb enough to challenge her.

Romance gives way to a call to arms when the pack's children come under attack. Their rescue mission turns into a mating dance and the hunt is on in more ways than one. Their attraction is mind-bendingly hot, though startling revelations about his magic and her origins could drive a wedge between them forever. Can love help them bridge the chasm between their worlds?

Product Warnings: This book contains bombs, bullets, bare-knuckled and bare-naked lust, and some serious ass kicking. Please do not feed the frisky furballs, unless you're willing to risk drawing back a bloody nub.

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A Hint of Frost A Hint of Frost by Hailey Edwards
Genre: Fantasy
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-756-6, Series: Araneae Nation
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Hope dangles by a silken thread.

Araneae Nation, Book 1

When the head of the Araneidae clan is found poisoned in her nest, her eldest daughter, Lourdes, becomes their clan's new maven. If her clan is to survive, she has but one choice: she must marry before her nest is seized. All she needs is a warrior fierce enough to protect her city and safeguard her clansmen. Such a male is Rhys the Cold.

Born the youngest son of an impoverished maven, the only things Rhys has to his name are his sword and his mercenary reputation. His clan is starving, but their fondness for the flesh of fellow Araneaeans makes them unwelcome dinner guests. Torn between loyalty to his clan and fascination with his future bride, Rhys's first taste of Lourdes threatens to melt the cold encasing his heart.

Amid the chaos of battle, Lourdes's sister disappears and is feared captured. Lourdes and Rhys pursue their enemies into the southlands, where they discover an odd plague ravaging southern clans as it travels north, to Erania. Determined to survive, Lourdes will discover whether she's worth her silk or if she's spun the thread by which her clan will hang.

Product Warnings: This book contains one mercenary hero with a biting fetish, one determined heroine who gets nibbled, and an answer to the age-old question, "What does dragon taste like?" Matricide and sibling rivalry are available upon request. The house special is revenge, best served cold.

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Born to Be Wild Born to Be Wild by Elle Kennedy
Genre: Contemporary, Red Hots!!!
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-966-9, Series: Welcome to Paradise
Price: $4.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.15

Being bad never felt so good…

Welcome to Paradise, Book 3

Bree Lockhart was always the good girl–on the surface. During her senior year of high school, however, her inner bad girl was lured out to play by reckless, carefree Jake Bishop. Her parents' worst nightmare, and the man she's never forgotten.

Twelve years later, she's home for a charity event and up for auction. The highest bidder? Jake. This time around, he wants more than a wild ride–he wants it all. But she's not about to risk her heart on another fling that'll just leave it in pieces.

Jake once reveled in showing Bree how good it is to be bad. But convincing her he can be good for her is going to take some very special tactics…

Product Warnings: This book features a bad boy soldier determined to chip away at a good girl's resistance with hot sex, hot sex, and…more hot sex.
 

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Replicant Replicant by Dani Worth
Genre: Science Fiction, Red Hots!!!, Ménage & More
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-61921-158-2, Series: The Kithran Regenesis
Price: $3.50 Limited time sale-priced for $2.45

When a bounty hunter returns to her destroyed planet on the hunt for an escaped alien, the last thing she expects to find is love.

Jarana Gothbrun is the number one Tracker in the galaxies, famous for tagging Replicants–shape-shifting aliens who can take on humanoid forms once they have someone's DNA. She has two more Replicants to catch in her current job, ones who escaped from a high-security prison planet. Unfortunately, one of them is currently on her home planet, Kithra. She hasn't been back since a Replicant kidnapped her and took her off planet prior to its destruction.

Maska is engaged to Erik, who has no idea the love of his life is an escaped prisoner. Or male. When Jarana uses an untested device to force Maska's shift to his native form, it puts him in danger and pisses off everyone on the planet. Her plan to fly in and out with her prisoner is put on hold as she has to deal with the people who've come to love Maska. Not to mention her own grief at the destruction of Kithra…and everyone she loved.

Product Warnings: Contains an angsty and sexy gender-bending alien, a confused, angsty and sexy human and an angsty too-tough heroine. Lots of sexy loving and oh, did I mention the ANGST?

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The Vow The Vow by Lindsay Chase
Genre: Retro Historical
Length: Plus Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-985-0
Price: $4.99 Limited time sale-priced for $3.49

To shape her life, she may have to sacrifice her heart.

Hannah Whitby's dreams of marrying for love are dying too soon. Faced with backbreaking labor on her uncle's tobacco farm or a loveless marriage, she chooses the lesser of the evils. Perhaps one day she and Reiver Shaw will become joined at the heart, as her long-dead parents once were.

Time and again she proves her worth not only in the childbed, but as a helpmate in making Reiver's silk mill a success. Yet even as she earns his respect, the ultimate prize–his love–eludes her.

Only one man sees her true worth. Reiver's artist brother, Samuel. Yet to succumb to Samuel's desire to fulfill her, body and soul, could come at too high a price. As she fights a battle on several fronts–her marriage, her desire, and keeping the business afloat amid the escalating conflict between North and South–Hannah must come to a decision.

To break under the strain, or grow strong…and make the choices that define a lifetime.

This book has been previously published.

Product Warnings: Contains a plucky heroine who learns her true worth lies beyond a man's definition. You may not agree with all of her choices, but you'll cheer for her all the same. Happy ending guaranteed.

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Baby Makes Three Baby Makes Three by Sharon DeVita
Genre: Retro Contemporary
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-998-0, Series: Heartwarming Love and Laughter
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If he's such a man's man, then why did he just win a Mother of the Year award?

"Wild Bill" Cody has a problem. The author of a popular series of action-adventure novels, he has also been penning an anonymous column of motherhood articles based on his experience raising his two-year-old nephew. When his handiwork lands him the magazine's coveted Motherhood of the Year award, he knows that if he accepts the award as himself, his book-writing career will be over. He needs a mommy stand-in. Stat!

Maggie Magee is perfect for the role. The assistant headmistress of a prestigious girls' academy, Maggie will make a perfect imaginary mom for Bobby. Too bad she is adamantly against the idea. In fear for her own job should she go along with this harebrained scheme, Maggie finds herself reluctantly agreeing to participate. But as the awards draw nearer, both Maggie and Cody start to see fiction become fact as their partnership becomes something more…and baby makes three.

This book was previously published by Silhouette Romance in April, 1988.

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Love and Splendor Love and Splendor by Patricia Hagan
Genre: Retro Historical
Length: Plus Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-994-2, Series: The Coltrane Saga
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From glittering salons in France to the sumptuous world of the Russian Empire, their love knows no boundaries.

Raised by a cruel aunt after her mother's death, Dani Coltrane is thrilled to be reunited with her father, Travis, and his wife, Kitty, amongst the glittering lights of Paris. But when a surprise inheritance from her mother's family leads Dani to a hidden cache of art, little does she know that the valuable art holds an even bigger secret–the location of a priceless Faberge egg. Unfortunately for Dani, many would kill to possess this treasure.

Russian nobleman Drakar is on a mission to restore his family name. Banished from the courts of Imperial Russia, he knows that if he can only find the location of the egg, all will be restored. But one look at the beautiful Dani Coltrane and his priorities change.

Unwilling to give up her hard-fought freedom to any man, Dani simply cannot resist the intense passion she finds with Drakar. And Drakar soon realizes that the greatest treasure of them all is the fiery woman in his arms.

This book was originally published in October 1987 by Avon Books.

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White Eagle's Touch White Eagle's Touch by Karen Kay
Genre: Retro Historical
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-975-1, Series: Blackfoot Warriors
Price: $3.99 Limited time sale-priced for $2.79

Two worlds. Forbidden love.

Blackfoot Warriors, Book 2

Katrina Wellington is vexed. She must marry to obtain the rest of her inheritance. But her uncle, who left her in New York with a governess to make his fortune out West, has suddenly decided he must approve of her fiancé before he will loosen the purse strings to her dowry.

Swallowing her outrage, the socialite treks to the same wilderness that claimed her parents' lives years ago. Some small part of her is crestfallen that her uncle is not waiting with open arms. Only three guides, Indian guides, await her, and one of them is far too handsome for his own good.

At first, White Eagle does not like the spoiled, willful niece of the white trader. When he catches a glimpse of the vulnerability behind her prickly exterior, he can't resist challenging the dazzling beauty to rediscover her true inheritance–the inner strength bequeathed to her by her parents.

Close contact on the trail soon arouses a soul-stirring passion and in its turn, love. But love may not be enough to sustain a relationship that is forbidden in both their worlds.

This book has been previously published.

Product Warnings: Contains a captivating passion that could lead to a romantic evening spent in the company of one's own love.

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The Lawman's Surrender The Lawman's Surrender by Debra Mullins
Genre: Retro Historical
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-983-6, Series: The Calhoun Sisters
Price: $3.99 Limited time sale-priced for $2.79

Finding the truth will take some fast talking–and a faster gun.

The Calhoun Sisters, Book 2

Susannah Calhoun has always been able to charm her way into anything she wants. But when she is arrested for a murder she didn't commit, she realizes there's no sweet talking her way out of this one. The victim is the brother of a U.S. Senator, who demands Susannah be tried in his home city of Denver. He's even summoned a U.S. Marshal to make sure she gets there.

Marshal Jedidiah Brown reluctantly accepts the assignment as a favor to a friend. He already knows Susannah's trouble from the way sparks flew the first time they met, but he doesn't believe her a murderer. When a lynch mob busts her out of jail and tries to hang her, Jedidiah realizes he has to buy time to prove her innocence.

Pursued by the man who would see Susannah dead, the road to Denver is filled with peril as they search for the witness who could clear her name. Their time alone on the road brings them closer than ever, but the witness proves elusive, and Denver looms on the horizon–the end of a journey that could end with love. Or the gallows.

This book was first published by Avon in March 2001.

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Walking in Fire Walking in Fire by Cathryn Cade
Genre: Paranormal, Multicultural
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-837-2, Series: Hawaiian Heroes
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

Born to defend his people, he will sacrifice everything–for her.

Hawaiian Heroes, Book 1

Nawea Bay, a remote Hawaiian paradise, is just the haven Melia Carson needs to escape the chill of heartache. Instead, she finds herself swept up in a tropical heat wave, fueled by her unexpected attraction to a handsome native she meets on a snorkel tour.

He's big, powerful, hot enough to melt her defenses–and he's not all he seems. How else could he survive an injury that should have killed him…and why does she dream of him garbed in ancient native dress and wreathed in flames?

David "Malu" Ho'omalu is on the Big Island to find and destroy a cache of dangerous designer drugs before they can be sold to his people. Fending off amorous female tourists is part of the job, but one look in Melia's blue eyes, and his instincts scream that she is his.

As Melia surrenders to the desire burning between them, she discovers more than a fiery heritage that defies modern logic. She discovers a man who would descend into the molten heart of the volcano to protect his island. And her…if she can find the strength to trust her heart to him.

Product Warnings: Hot, hot Hawaiian hero with volcanic passion on his mind. Better pack a heat-proof bikini for this island paradise.

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Illicit Intuitions Illicit Intuitions by Nikki Duncan
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-640-8, Series: Sensory Ops
Price: $4.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.15

Love could be their greatest liability.

Sensory Ops, Book 3

Ava Malia knows three things. She was once a kickass covert operative. She will eventually adjust to her new team, the FBI Specialized Crimes Unit. And the only way to finally be free of her professional past is to solve her first case and get her hands on a game-changing technology. The only problem? Success rides on her ability to swallow her distaste for the persona she must adopt in order to earn the trust of a mysterious scientist.

Dr. H escaped childhood captivity with three things. His sister. Complete control of his gift. And an engulfing distrust of anyone in the government. Adjusting to a life of freedom hasn't been easy, but he's found peace in solitude. The sexy woman auditing his empathic studies, though, has a way of getting under his skin that's both arousing and disturbing. Plus, his psychic ability warns him of secrets so deeply buried in her psyche, they'd be better left alone.

Yet their instant attraction strips away all their protective barriers, down to the foundation of a new, fragile trust. And a vulnerability that, when an old enemy opens fire, could blast away any chance of a future.

Product Warnings: If you don't like mysterious heroes who can see into strong heroines, sexy love scenes, empaths, or quirky characters… Oh come on, who doesn't like those things?

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Good at Being Bad Good at Being Bad by Cathryn Fox
Genre: Contemporary, Red Hots!!!
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-60928-674-3, Series: Boys of Beachville
Price: $3.50 Limited time sale-priced for $2.45

Sometimes a good girl just needs a little naughty.

Boys of Beachville, Book 1

Public relations specialist Allison Cooper is more than ready to handle a career make-or-break assignment: to develop and market a charity calendar featuring hot men. Her only problem is Mr. July, a sexy cop who happens to be her ex-lover.

Trying to keep his image squeaky clean–a must for her promotion–raises all sorts of challenges, especially when this bad boy is throwing a little kink into her plan.

Image is the last thing on Carter James's mind. He agreed to be Mr. July on one condition–that during his promo month, Allison never leaves his side. He wants her back, and to make that happen he needs her undivided attention to teach him good from bad. Unless bad is what the lady wants…

Product Warnings: Contains frank language, hot sex on the beach, and illegal but sexy use of handcuffs. Author cannot be held accountable for aroused state of mind or ruined manicures upon completion of this steamy book.

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The Scarred Heart The Scarred Heart by Denise Patrick
Genre: Regency
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-873-0
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

Sometimes, the greatest casualty of war is trust.

Lionel Cantrell has all but given up hope of finding his missing wife and child. He left them in the care of his parents and older brother while he went abroad to fight the French, only to return to a marriage in shambles, a daughter who cannot possibly be his, and his wife and son fled to parts unknown.

Until now. At a former comrade's house party, Lion comes face to face with the object of his five-year search. Emma, whose cold reception is keenly edged with barely concealed panic.

When Emma's perfect marriage to her childhood sweetheart crumbled into an unendurable year of humiliation and torment, she had no choice but to take their son–and her sanity–to build a new life under an assumed name. Her chance meeting with Lion threatens to expose long-buried emotional scars. And physical ones, the origins of which he must never know.

Emma's stubborn refusal to explain why she won't return home only fuels Lion's relentless curiosity. So does their undeniable passion. Time is on his side, and his well of patience is deep. But Emma's trauma runs far deeper…perhaps too deep for love to reach.

Product Warnings: Contains a heroine caught in a treacherous web of deceit not of her making, two adorable children, and a hero determined enough to make things right.
 

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Cat Scratch Fever Cat Scratch Fever by Jodi Redford
Genre: Paranormal, Red Hots!!!, Shape-shifters
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-770-2
Price: $4.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.15

Who says a wolf can't make a pussycat purr?

Perfect timing has never been Lilly Prescott's long suit. Seconds before a showdown with werewolf Dante Morgan, who owns a property that by rights should belong to her, she goes into heat. Not a simple event for a lynx shifter. No, she's doomed to weeks of frustration that can only be soothed by frequent rolls in the hay–or her hand. Unfortunately, Dante accidentally witnesses the latter.

Left shaken and highly aroused in the snow, Dante can't believe he's attracted to the woman who drives him crazy, and not in a good way. Worse, his father has issued an ultimatum. Marry, or abdicate his place as pack leader. On the other hand, it's the perfect leverage. Lilly will get her land…in exchange for a wedding ring and all the sexual satisfaction she can handle.

Marry Dante? No doubt he's a poster boy for Hunks 'R' Us, but he's rude, arrogant and Lilly's sworn enemy. Not to mention the thought of losing her independence is frightening as hell.

When they find themselves falling victim to their own charade, though, it's anything but hell. It's heaven, and the last thing either of them wants. The real thing.

Product Warnings: This book contains redneck werewolves, inconvenient hormones, and a whole new use for cat toys. Uncontrollable meowing may occur.
 

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Spice and Smoke Spice and Smoke by Suleikha Snyder
Genre: Red Hots!!!, Gay Contemporary
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-60928-835-8
Price: $3.50 Limited time sale-priced for $2.45

When the cameras stop rolling, the real scene begins.

To their adoring public, Avi Kumar and Trishna Chaudhury are Bollywood's sweethearts. Behind closed doors, their open marriage lets them freely indulge in all manner of forbidden passions. The arrangement suits them both, but as they begin filming on the set of their new movie, the heat of new and rekindled flames singes the pages of what they thought would be a fresh script.

When costars Michael Gill and Harsh Mathur arrive on set, the sexual temperature goes up exponentially–at least for Trish. She can't take her eyes of Harsh, for whom she's carried a torch for years. Avi's instant attraction to Michael, however, bounces off Michael's solid wall of resistance.

Meanwhile, ex-boyfriends Vikram Malhotra and Sam Khanna, cast as fictional enemies, are finding it harder and harder to control the very real demons that once cost them the love of a lifetime.

Once the music starts, though, they all have no choice but to dance . And pray the fallout doesn't ruin all their careers…and destroy their love.

Product Warnings: This book contains gay and straight sexytimes, smoking, drinking, references to drug use, and a gratuitous musical number involving The Beatles.

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Haevyn Haevyn by Darcy Abriel
Genre: Kink/BDSM, Ménage & More, Gay Alternate Worlds
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-863-1, Series: Humanotica
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

Duty and honor demand the ultimate sacrifice.

Humanotica, Book 2

Everyone has their poison. For Haevyn Breina, it’s her inability to resist a dare. This time it’s a challenge from her friend and lover, Grisha, to sneak into the popular, illegal cage fights that always end in all-male orgies. Eagerly she snaps up the gauntlet, unaware that she will end the night forever changed.

When expatriate humanotic warrior Entreus locks eyes with Haevyn at the sex-fueled event, he is instantly captivated. Despite a duty that binds him to an exiled malevolent sorcerer, he seeks her out in a shattering, illuminating encounter.

Grisha’s plan is in motion—to bring both his warrior lovers together and heal their scarred souls with a combined passion that he alone cannot provide. But Haevyn’s tormented past refuses to die. And Entreus will not rest until the Core that ruined his life is destroyed.

Amid ever-tangling emotions and a brutal plot to take over the city, the three lovers walk a tightrope that could be cut at any moment. Fighting for justice, bound by duty…and a love that could alter the foundations of their world.

Product Warnings: Watch out for oiled-up, naked trinespined warriors battling for top position, feisty tracer females that fit oh-so-snugly in between, and sexy nights that segue into complex relationships. Beware of tebitcheckers wielding those nasty little contulators at illegal, testosterone-drenched cage confrontations.

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Worth the Scandal Worth the Scandal by Karen Erickson
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-774-0, Series: Worth It
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

Strictly business? Try telling that to her heart…

Worth It, Book 1

Alexander Worth, President and CEO of Worth Luxury Goods, is a man never to be crossed. His unwavering sense of responsibility to the family business requires him to always be in complete and utter control. Until it comes to Tessa Crawford.

She’s quietly professional, shy, voluptuous…and she works for him. Which means she is the one woman he must never touch, no matter how hard his gut twists with need for her.

After rising above her disadvantaged childhood, Tessa knows the last thing she should do is risk throwing it all away by falling into bed with her sexy boss. But on an extended European business trip, all self-imposed barriers burn away in the heat of their sizzling chemistry.

Once back home, though, whispers of corporate espionage turn into full-blown scandal—and Tessa finds out the hard way where Alex’s loyalties lie. Determined to soldier on, she picks herself up and carries on with a secret, yet welcomed burden. Never guessing that Alex will make a reappearance in her life, ready to show her once and for all that family does, indeed, come first.

Product Warnings: Contains a sweet-yet-strong woman, and a bossy alpha male brought to his knees by the woman he desperately loves. Involves enough begging and groveling that the reader may be tempted to “accidentally” leave it for her significant other to “find”. For instructional purposes only, of course!

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Natural Evil Natural Evil by Thea Harrison
Genre: Paranormal, Shape-shifters
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-61921-110-0, Series: Elder Races
Price: $3.50 Limited time sale-priced for $2.45

Attempted Murder. Passion. Betrayal. It’s a dog-eat-dog world.

Claudia Hunter is on a road trip through the Nevada desert when she sees the body of a dog on the side of the highway. Pulling over to investigate, she quickly determines that the enormous animal is clinging to life. While working to save him with the help of the local vet, Claudia realizes there’s something about the creature that seems more. Other. Wyr. Which makes this case of animal cruelty attempted murder.

Too injured to shape shift, Luis Alvaraz is reluctant to tell Claudia what he knows about his attack, afraid it will only make her a target. But the sheriff is corrupt, and his attackers know Luis is alive and vulnerable. To make matters worse, a sandstorm is sweeping into town, and if they're going to survive the night, Luis will have to place all his trust in Claudia.

Product Warnings: Take a gorgeous man temporarily stuck in the dog house, add a strong, take-no-prisoners woman, mix in encroaching enemies and a raging sandstorm and stir to combine. Enjoy with a freshly opened can of whoop-ass.
 

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Shadow Visions Shadow Visions by Gabriella Hewitt
Genre: Paranormal, Multicultural, Shape-shifters, Angels & Demons
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-60928-759-7, Series: Shadow Warriors
Price: $3.50 Limited time sale-priced for $2.45

When the last shadow warrior falls, so will all humanity.

Shadow Warriors, Book 2

A shadow warrior on a mission, Manuel must track down a demon who is sacrificing women marked with hummingbird tattoos. He is in danger of losing his humanity to his eagle spirit until he comes across Ixa Reyes, a beautiful San Diego detective working on the same case, who also bears the mark of the Aztec sun god. She is his salvation and redemption from a past filled with failure. Only she wants nothing to do with him or her heritage.

When a demon kidnaps her grandfather, the wind god, they must work together to save him and all mankind. Manuel has twenty-four hours to help Ixa control her elemental power over wind—that is if he can control his own desires to claim her body and soul. Because if he should fail this time, the god of war will usher in a new era filled with blood and destruction such as the world has never known.

Product Warnings: This story contains an ancient Aztec warrior struggling to control the beast within, a heroine more than able to match his strength, demons out for their very souls, and a battle that may very well determine the fate of all humanity.

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Bobby Bobby by Cat Johnson
Genre: Western, Cowboys, Men In Uniform
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-60928-642-2, Series: Red, Hot, & Blue
Price: $3.50 Limited time sale-priced for $2.45

When the reality TV cameras stop rolling, things really start to heat up.

Red, Hot & Blue, Book 6

Deputy Sheriff Bobby Barton agrees to put up with a reality TV show in his town for two reasons: it’ll be good for local business, and the producers promise to keep out of his. Except the show keeps creeping into his personal life. Plus, against his better judgment, he finds himself hoping that the show's assistant producer, Christy Dunne, will creep into his bed.

Christy never mixed business with pleasure, but Bobby has her breaking all her own rules. When she makes a decision that can cost her job, suddenly she’s scrambling to keep her career from crashing. Though landing in Bobby’s bed might make it worth all the uproar.

With cameras all over town, a meddling executive producer manipulating everyone's lives, their own scruples getting in the way, and the show’s deadline looming, Bobby and Christy can’t think about love.

Then again, how can they not?

This book has been previously published and has been revised from its original release.

Product Warnings: Contains one sexy, brooding, overprotective officer of the law who uses his handcuffs for more than catching criminals.

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Everything You've Got Everything You've Got by Erin Nicholas
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-956-0, Series: Anything & Everything
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

A girl, a guy, a set of handcuffs… What more could happily ever after possibly need?

Anything & Everything, Book 2

Luke Hamilton’s requirements for the perfect woman are straightforward: live, work and play in his beloved hometown—and get along with his mother. Dr. Kat Dayton’s got it all. And Luke’s noticed. It’s obvious to him that his long-time friend belongs with him, especially after the world-rocking kiss she lays on him at his birthday party.

While Kat can’t deny she’s imagined a kiss like that—and more—for years, she’s less convinced they’re destined for happily ever after. Still, Luke figures that’s nothing a friendly kidnapping and a three-day road trip won’t fix.

Kat would love to let Luke in, but if he discovers the truth—that committee meetings bore her to tears and she’d rather have a root-canal than go to another potluck—his white-picket-fence dreams will be crushed.

Being stuck in an RV with Luke should be three days of flirtatious fun, but for Kat it’s heavenly hell. The close confines and good old-fashioned lust are making a mockery of her perfect-woman façade, and if he finds out about the mistake that might cost her job—and force her to leave town for good—it’ll take more than a sexy pair of handcuffs to keep him close.

Product Warnings: Contains a man who's willing to do anything for the perfect woman, an RV and surprise road-trip to help him prove it, and a woman who's wondering just what the hell she's gotten into.
 

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Carried Away Carried Away by Kate Donovan
Genre: Retro Historical
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-61921-012-7, Series: Happily Ever After Company
Price: $3.99 Limited time sale-priced for $2.79

His ship, his rules…

The Happily Ever After Company, Book 2

Russell Braddock, founder of The Happily Ever After Company, always hopes his matches will result in flying sparks. But in this case they could ignite an inferno he can’t control.

Neglected by her handsome but practical fiancé, Erica Lane channels her romantic fantasies into finding a dashing, adventurous husband for her friend, Sara. To her delight, the mail-order-bride company she consults quickly finds the perfect mate—for Sara, of course. But when Sara balks, Erica must take things into her own hands and journey to the prospect’s Caribbean hideaway, hoping that her fiancé will be moved to pursue her and finally declare his undying love.

Captain Daniel McCallum was trapped by a pretty bride once, and he won’t be making that mistake again. But Erica’s wild auburn locks, tantalizing body and infectious laugh drive him wild with desire. The honorable thing to do is return the Boston beauty to her intended. If they happen to get carried away during the voyage…well, it’s his ship, isn’t it?

This title was previously published.

Product Warnings: Contains a sheltered city heroine who daydreams out loud, and a lusty sailor with an eye for things that shine—when it comes to treasure, and women.

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Southern Hospitality Southern Hospitality by Sally Falcon
Genre: Retro Contemporary
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-987-4
Price: $2.99 Limited time sale-priced for $2.09

In this battle of North vs. South, love is the true winner.

When Northerner Logan Harrington meets Southerner Tory Planchet, sparks immediately fly. Forced to leave his beloved Boston for the South—Arkansas, no less—Logan has no idea what Tory sees in the place. His assignment to write about the Rally Car circuit is preposterous, and he has no problem letting everyone, including Tory, know it.

As far as Tory’s concerned, Logan Harrington can’t leave town fast enough. From the tip of his blond head, to the bottom of his polished shoes, he screams arrogance. How could her father possibly know his family? And if Logan expected her to be a sweet Southern magnolia blossom, he was sorely mistaken. In fact, with her, he’s going to get a taste of Southern Hospitality he’ll never forget.

This book was previously published by Kismet Books in July 1990.

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Love and Fury Love and Fury by Patricia Hagan
Genre: Retro Historical
Length: Plus Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-993-5, Series: The Coltrane Saga
Price: $4.99 Limited time sale-priced for $3.49

The bestselling Coltrane saga continues with Travis and Kitty’s son, Colt.

The Coltrane Saga, Book 4

Colt’s long-lost half-sister Dani was raised somewhere in Europe, and he hasn’t seen her in fourteen years. But now he has to find her in order to learn what she plans to do with her share of the family fortune. Too bad the evil and conniving Gavin Mason has found someone to impersonate Dani so he can get his hands on the money.

Briana de Paul is willing to go along with the ruse because she needs help for her ailing brother. But it is forbidden love at first sight between Colt and Briana, as he struggles to keep his desire under control. However, one moon-swept night, they yield to their passion, and Briana is forced to admit how she tricked him into believing they were kin.

On a quest to find the real Dani before Mason can, Colt and Briana are swept from the rugged deserts of Nevada to forbidden Parisian nights, from the wintry Alps to magnificent Monaco mansions, where they suffer untold danger and incredible intrigue as they fight for a love that no man can destroy.

This book was originally published by Avon Books in September 1986

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Gray Hawk's Lady Gray Hawk's Lady by Karen Kay
Genre: Retro Historical
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-974-4, Series: Blackfoot Warriors
Price: $3.99 Limited time sale-priced for $2.79

Different worlds, one heart.

Blackfoot Warriors, Book 1

When Lady Genevieve Rohan joins her father in the farthest reaches of the American West, she expects to bring a bit of genteel English charm to his dry, academic existence. Instead, she finds her father desperately ill, and it’s up to her to finish his study of the Indian and publish his work—or face the wrath of his creditors.

Her troubles mount when the men hired to capture a member of the Blackfoot tribe don’t bring her a docile maid to study. They present her with a magnificent warrior—proud, outrageously handsome and simmering with fury at the loss of his freedom.

The white woman is beautiful beyond compare, but Gray Hawk can’t think past his plan to exact revenge against this meddling foreigner. It’s ridiculously easy to escape, then turn the tables and take her captive. When anger turns to passion, then to love, he embarks on a new quest. To claim the stubborn, red-headed vixen as his own.

Yet as their hearts strain toward each other, pride conspires to pull them apart…unless they can each find a way for their hearts to become one.

This book has been previously published.

Product Warnings: Contains a raging, simmering love, consumed by its fire and destined to explode at any moment.

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High-Riding Heroes High-Riding Heroes by Joey Light
Genre: Retro Contemporary
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-61921-002-8
Price: $2.99 Limited time sale-priced for $2.09

After a most unusual inheritance, Victoria Clay is bound for Glory! Glory Town, Oklahoma, that is.

To her shock, Victoria Clay was willed one half of Glory Town, a restored Oklahoma village where tourists gather to experience the excitement of the Wild West. Captivated by the spirit and splendor of the tourist town, Victoria is determined to embrace her new life in the “Old” West.

Wes Cooper resembles the gunslingers that wow the tourists every day—but Wes is the real thing. Hired to teach the men how to shoot and rope and ride, he isn’t going to leave Glory Town until his job is done. Too bad Victoria resents his every decision.

Sparks fly between Victoria and Wes as they battle for control of Glory Town…and the sharp desire that burns between them.

This book was originally published by Kismet in March, 1993.
 

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Do you remember the popular phrase “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful”? Yes? Good. But let me change it up a bit.

Don’t hate me because I’m finished.

I know you’re wondering what I’m talking about. Have I finished my latest book? I have, but that’s not what I’m talking about. Besides, there’s always another book waiting right behind the last one. Have I finished cleaning my house for another week? Right again, but you’re still wrong, too.

I’m talking about the fact that I’ve completed all my holiday shopping. I know. Some of you are amazed, some of you are happy for me (thank you!), and still more of you are trying to hide your envy. Whichever group you fit into, don’t despair. It’s not too late for you to tie up the gift search early, too.

I learned a long time ago that the best way to enjoy the holiday season is to get the presents purchased, wrapped, and shipped before the first weekend in December. Do I miss out on sales by shopping early? Perhaps. But I also miss out on a lot of crowds and last minute scrambles for the elusive perfect gift. Do I miss running through the mall and checking out the decorations? Not really. Now I can meander through the mall at my leisure, take in the joyous sights and sounds, and return home to a tree with presents already under its lighted branches.

So take it from me. Shop early, shop online, do whatever you have to do to get the presents bought before the rush of the season. After all, shouldn’t we enjoy the real meaning behind the celebration instead of worrying about finding a cozy new robe for Grandma? Isn’t it more fun to go to the holiday parties and events without a list running through your head? (By the way, eBooks make great gifts and require no wrapping!)

Happy holidays, everyone!

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Publication Date: November 15, 2011
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Rocky Mountain Heat Rocky Mountain Heat by Vivian Arend
Genre: Western, Red Hots!!!, Cowboys
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-551-7, Series: Six Pack Ranch
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

He's the one who taught her to ride. Now all he wants is to ride her.

Six Pack Ranch, Book 1

Blake Coleman is old enough to know that acting on impulse causes nothing but a heap of trouble. But when trouble's a western-hat-wearing blonde with slim legs that go on forever, what's a man to do? Wanting the sweet girl next door is just wrong. The responsible thing to do is keep his hands off.

Jaxi has other plans for Blake's hands, and his heart. She may have once considered him a big brother, but that was a long time ago. She's all grown up now and ready to convince him that she's perfect for him. Except he can't seem to see past the big "don't touch" sign that's apparently still hanging around her neck.

When Jaxi ends up living right under Blake's nose, the undeniable heat between them slides off simmer and leaps up to barn-burning levels. However, a few of the younger six-pack Colemans have decided Jaxi's brand of trouble is worth risking a few busted bones.

That is, if Blake's finally ready to let go the reins and fight for what he wants…

This book has been previously published and has been revised and expanded from its original release.

Product Warnings: Sexy cowboys seducing and being seduced in trucks, pool halls and barns. Droolworthy country charm, a little double-teaming, a few secrets and a whole
lot of brothers to look forward to. Anyone wanna go for a ride?

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Once Upon a Winter's Eve Once Upon a Winter's Eve by Tessa Dare
Genre: Holidays, Regency
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-60928-882-2, Series: Spindle Cove
Price: $0.99 Limited time sale-priced for $0.69

Some wallflowers bloom at night…

A Spindle Cove Novella

Violet Winterbottom is a quiet girl. She speaks six languages, but seldom raises her voice. She endured bitter heartbreak in perfect silence. The gentlemen aren't beating down her door.

Until the night of the Spindle Cove Christmas ball, when a mysterious stranger crashes into the ballroom and collapses at Violet's feet. His coarse attire and near-criminal good looks would put any sensible young lady on her guard. He's wet, chilled, bleeding, and speaking in an unfamiliar tongue.

Only Violet understands him. And she knows he's not what he seems.

She has one night to draw forth the secrets of this dangerously handsome rogue. Is he a smuggler? A fugitive? An enemy spy? She needs answers by sunrise, but her captive would rather seduce than confess. To learn his secrets, Violet must reveal hers–and open herself to adventure, passion, and the unthinkable… Love.

Product Warnings: The heroine packs a pistol, the hero curses in multiple languages, and together they steam up a cold winter's night.

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Day Shift Day Shift by Missy Jane
Genre: Paranormal, Vampires
Length: Category, ISBN: 978-1-60928-694-1
Price: $4.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.15

The sun's not the only thing that's too hot to handle.

President Vardin isn't the first vampire politician to make empty promises. Humans can work at night, he says. Humans will be safe on the streets, he says. It's all bull. I'm still stuck on day shift at Langley's Round The Clock Emporium, trying to earn enough to live from night to night.

If I thought the sun's harsh rays had turned society upside down, watch what happens when I witness a murder in the alley. The police keep bombarding me with questions until a detective with a bad attitude walks in and takes over. He's unbelievably hot, way out of my league, and way, way out of my comfort zone. Because he's the one thing I fear most. A vampire.

Then I learn why the police seem so interested in me. My ex-husband is drawing a series of murders in his new comics. I'm in every one of them, and it looks like I'm supposed to be the last victim. The detective's interest in my past–and his protective instincts–are bordering on unprofessional, but I can't seem to bring myself to care.

Because the last place I should want to be is the safest place on earth…a vampire's embrace.

Product Warnings: If you like your vampires sparkly and emotional, don't read this book. It contains an overworked, underpaid, bloodsucking hero who might break your heart.

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Risk It Risk It by Natasha Moore
Genre: Contemporary, Kink/BDSM, Red Hots!!!
Length: Short Story, ISBN: 978-1-60928-689-7, Series: Paolo's Playhouse
Price: $2.50 Limited time sale-priced for $1.75

Time to put out…or get out.

Paolo's Playhouse, Book 2

On the outside, Amy has the American dream. Two busy kids, a job she loves, a big house thanks to her husband's climb up the corporate ladder. What she hasn't had in a long time…is sex. Sure, she's too exhausted at night to think about it, but maybe Will's long hours at work aren't the real reason he rarely touches her anymore.

Feeling her marriage teetering on the edge, she rents the voyeur room at Paolo's Playhouse. Maybe bringing back the memory of the one wicked thing they used to do together will relight the sparks.

Will loves his wife, but she's never been one to take chances–except for the time before kids, when they'd camp out in a club's back booth, getting all worked up watching the dirty dancers. Their careers have seriously cut into their "us" time, and if she's booked them a sexual playroom, it sounds like she's serious about solving the problem.

When Will shows up way, way late, Amy wonders why she bothered, and if her plan to relight the flame has only made it painfully clear that it's too late to try.

Product Warnings: Sparks flying, angry words flying, clothes flying, and a loving couple trying to find their way back to each other.

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The Closer You Get The Closer You Get by L.A. Witt
Genre: Red Hots!!!, Gay Contemporary
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-552-4
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

The virgin isn't the only one with something to lose…

Sequel to The Distance Between Us

Self-described manwhore Kieran Frost is loving the single life. Two years after moving to Seattle, he still has his friends with benefits, Rhett and Ethan, plus a never-ending supply of gorgeous, available men wandering through the bar where he works. A relationship? Spare him the drama and heartbreak. He's got no complaints about his unattached lifestyle.

When Rhett's daughter introduces him to newly-out-of-the-closet Alex Corbin, Kieran's interest perks up. After all, the quiet ones are always the freaks in bed. But Alex isn't just shy and reserved. He's a virgin in every sense of the word, having never even kissed anyone else.

Kieran is no one's teacher, and his first instinct is to run like hell in the other direction. But his conscience won't let him throw the naïve kid to the wolves for someone else to take advantage of. The plan is to introduce Alex to his own sexuality, pull him out of his shell, then go their separate ways.

It's the perfect, foolproof plan…assuming no one falls in love.

Product Warnings: This sequel to The Distance Between Us contains a curious virgin, a shameless slut, a trip to a sex shop, and one stubborn heart. Oh, and a dildo.
 

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Eastern Ambitions Eastern Ambitions by Mari Carr, Jayne Rylon
Genre: Contemporary, Red Hots!!!, Ménage & More
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-547-0, Series: Compass Brothers
Price: $4.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.15

He's lost everything. Can he win her heart?

Compass Brothers, Book 3

Sam Compton never liked getting his hands dirty, at least not on Compass Ranch. Armed with a business degree, he's about to become the youngest VP at an illustrious Wall Street investment firm. Until his partner in an office romance turns into an ultra-refined snake in the grass.

Staggering from the punch of betrayal, another blow threatens to level him. His father is dying. He races home to lend his brain to his brothers' backs at the ranch, and finds something he never expected. A sophisticated yet playful woman stimulates his mind…and parts below the belt.

Compass Ranch gave Cindi Middleton's wounded soul everything it needs: a home, acceptance, and respect–not to mention unlimited sex–from the ranch's sexy cowboys. Despite their instant and intense sparks, Sam's defection to the bright city lights she left behind is a big red flag. She's been there, done that, burned the T-shirt.

Yet the heat of their attraction brings them circling back to each other's arms…until a certain snake reappears, threatening to endanger the acquisition of the one thing Sam has realized is truly priceless.

Product Warnings: Tissue alert! The authors recommend you have a few on hand while reading this book. To make up for any sniffles, a host of cowboys with open arms await to console you, distract you or make your wildest dreams come true.

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A Little Wild A Little Wild by Kate St. James
Genre: Contemporary, Red Hots!!!
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-624-8
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

She wants a piece of his rock. He needs her, rock steady, in his heart.

Tess Sheridan won't let anything stop her from making partner at a prestigious law firm, especially her notoriously soft heart. The result? She's a handful of clients away from getting her name on that brass plate. And she hasn't had sex in over a year.

When her best friend dares her to test-drive her erotic fantasies with a gorgeous stranger, she figures, why not? Loosening the reins will give her inner nympho some well-deserved pampering without jeopardizing her career goals.

Zach Halliday has enjoyed his bad-boy reputation to the fullest, but now it's time to leave the relative safety of the family corporation and prove he can stand on his own in the business world. That doesn't mean he'll pass up an opportunity for some incredible phone sex with the beautiful strawberry blonde he met in a bar.

When business overlaps with the bedroom, Zach sees something special in Tess and is determined to convince her he's the man she needs, anytime, anyplace. She can backpedal, but come hell or high-climbing-wall, he wants the fascinating, complicated sex bomb in his bed. Over and over again…

Product Warnings: This book contains explicit, melt-your-panties sex (phone and otherwise), and inappropriate use of wild cherry ice cream. Insights on rejuvenating your own inner nympho may be inspired upon reading.

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Phoenix Rising Phoenix Rising by Corrina Lawson
Genre: Paranormal, Men In Uniform
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-548-7, Series: The Phoenix Institute
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

He was born to be a weapon. For her, he must learn to be a hero.

A Phoenix Institute story

Since birth, Alec Farley has been trained to be a living weapon. His firestarter and telekinetic abilities have been honed to deadly perfection by the Resource, a shadowy anti-terrorist organization–the only family he has ever known. What the Resource didn't teach him, though, is how to play well with others.

When psychologist Beth Nakamora meets Alec to help him work on his people skills, she's hit with a double-barreled first impression. He's hot in more ways than one. And her first instinct is to rescue him from his insular existence.

Her plan to kidnap and deprogram him goes awry when her latent telepathic ability flares, turning Alec's powers off. Hoping close proximity will reignite his flame, she leads him by the hand through a world he's never known. And something else flares: Alec's anger over everything he's been denied. Especially the passion that melds his mind and body with hers.

The Resource, however, isn't going to let anything–or anyone–steal its prime investment. Alec needs to be reminded where his loyalties lie…starting with breaking his trust in the woman he's come to love.

Product Warnings: Contains telekinetic sex, nuclear explosion sex hot enough to melt steel, and various and sundry swear words.

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Wight Mischief Wight Mischief by JL Merrow
Genre: Gay Contemporary
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-550-0
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

A stranger could light up his world…or drive him deeper into darkness.

Will Golding needs a break from his usual routine, and he's been looking forward to a holiday helping Baz, his friend-with-benefits, research a book about Isle of Wight ghosts. When an evening beach walk turns into a startling encounter with Marcus Devereux, Will can't get his mind off the notoriously reclusive writer's pale, perfect, naked body. And any interest in ghostly legends takes a back seat to the haunting secrets lying in Marcus's past.

Marcus, painfully aware of his appearance, is accustomed to keeping to himself. But the memory of tall, athletic Will standing on the beach draws him out from behind defenses he's maintained since age fourteen, when his parents were murdered. While his heart is hungry for human contact, though, his longtime guardian warns him that talking to anyone–particularly a journalist like Baz–is as dangerous as a day in the sun.

As Baz gets closer to the truth, the only thing adding up is the sizzling attraction between Will and Marcus. And it's becoming increasingly clear that someone wants to let sleeping secrets lie…or Will and Baz could end up added to the island's ghostly population.

Product Warnings: Contains perilous cliffs, elusive might-be ghosts, a secret tunnel, and skinny-dipping by moonlight.

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Hotblooded Hotblooded by Erin Nicholas
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Novel, ISBN: 978-1-60928-751-1
Price: $5.50 Limited time sale-priced for $3.85

Her mama always said the women in their family were hotblooded…

And it's been causing Brooke Donovan trouble her whole life. But it wasn't until her mother took on the most powerful man in Honey Creek, Texas, that Brooke truly realized the daughter of the town whore didn't stand a chance. When she left, it was supposed to be for good. But now, thanks to her late husband's deal with their hometown, she's back in the last place on earth she wants to be. Temporarily. As soon as her debts are paid off, she's outta here. Until in walks the one man who can make her rethink everything.

Dr. Jack Silver fixes things. So, when he learns his uncle is responsible for Brooke losing her husband, his sense of honor drives him across Texas to make amends. Instead of a broken woman, though, he finds a gorgeous, feisty physician's assistant trying to survive in a town that wants her gone. She also has a mile-high fence built out of pride–and a clinic that's at risk of going belly up. She may not want his money, but the clinic? He can fix that. He just never expects that in setting Brooke back on her feet, he'll be swept right off his own.

Product Warnings: Contains a hot-blooded woman, a man who really likes that about her, a town with a long memory, and a cappuccino machine that makes it all worthwhile.
 

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Kithra Kithra by Dani Worth
Genre: Science Fiction, Red Hots!!!, Ménage & More
Length: Novella, ISBN: 978-1-60928-807-5, Series: The Kithran Regenesis
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A frustrated spaceship captain, her trusty second-in- command, and a handsome alien prove that three is definitely not a crowd.

The Kithran Regenesis, Book 1

Spaceship captain Lux Moyans is currently piloting missions for The Company. When her second-in-command, Kol Frega, informs her they've been ordered to Kithra, she's furious. A year on an uninhabitable planet? She'll only be flying supply missions! But her ship–Kol's design–is the only one that can withstand the planet's gases…and Lux is one of the few pilots with the skill to navigate the debris fields resulting from the explosions that killed most of the planet's Gwinarian race.

Kol is the engineer who learned to manipulate the indestructible metal on Kithra, and he and a surviving Gwinarian will be her only company on planet. When they pick up Egan Lothbrun, Lux knows there will be trouble. She's already attracted to Kol and she doesn't need another man to arouse her either mentally or physically. Lux doesn't want or need the complications that emotions bring. Yet, when she learns Kol and Egan share a painful past, she realizes getting Kithra livable won't be her only challenge.

Keeping her heart intact might be harder.

Product Warnings: A cranky pilot, a sexy second-in-command and an irresistible alien join…forces in more ways than one. And yes, there are close encounters of the sexy kind.

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