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With characters ranging from supernatural demons to modern-day cowboys, alternative

illustrated men to Victorian dandies, the addiction to history and atmosphere is ever-present, and laced through with sensual pleasure. My latest projects include werewolves, rodeo cowboys, and fist-fighting rednecks.

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Out of Control
by Emma Hillman

Scared she'd always be too human for the five shape-shifting lions who wanted to claim her as a mate, Jade left the Pride who’d adopted her as soon as she turned eighteen. Now she's back, and only just realizing how much her departure affected them all.

They're so intent on seducing her, she's having trouble resisting. One, maybe she could have, but five sexy men eager to claim her?

Surrounded by men who won't take no for an answer, and with the future of the Pride in

jeopardy, Jade needs to decide who she can trust…starting with herself.

Bride of the Wolf
by Abigail Barnette

Commanded to marry the son of Lord Canis, a powerful ally of her father and King Edward,

Aurelia knows she is about to venture into a den of wolves. For the men who live at Blackens

Gate are no ordinary men, able to change at will into enormous, bloodthirsty beasts…and as a

mere human, Aurelia is a reviled outsider.

When the wolves escorting his brother’s bride to Blackens Gate turn on her, Sir Raf Canis finds himself in the unlikely position of rescuer. After losing his leg—and his place in the pack—Raf refuses to bring himself further shame by failing to deliver the lovely Aureilia. But the innocent maiden proves to be a temptation even he cannot resist.

Within the dark, dangerous forest, a love begins that neither can deny. To protect Aurelia, Raf must betray everything he has come to believe about his life among wolves, and risk death to

save the only woman ever to touch his wounded soul.

Overlord’s Chosen
by Bronwyn Green

Dark Destinies Book One

Elizabeth Louden has been chosen to provide Micah Bleddyn, the Overlord of Maelgwn, with an

heir. However, she’s not interested in the honor. In a land where only men are allowed to use

magic, women found to possess supernatural abilities are punished—often by death. She knows

it’s only a matter of time before her secret is revealed.

Micah has no desire to rule his father’s empire, but after his older brother vanishes, he has no choice. Faced with invading forces, treachery among his own people, and now, a mate hell-bent

on escape, he’s had enough. Realizing they have no allies but each other, Micah and Elizabeth

reach a reluctant truce in their bid to stay alive and keep Maelgwn safe.

Reawakening
by Charlotte Stein

Forever Dead
Series, Book One

June has spent the last two years of her life trying to avoid death at the hands of murderous

psychopaths and ravening zombies. So when Jamie turns up on the scene, careless, still whole

and promising her safety on a little paradise island, she isn’t quite sure she can trust him.

Especially when he tells her that it’s just him, and his equally big, burly, handsome friend Blake.

But Jamie and Blake are even better than her wildest dreams—sweet and funny and charming.

And worst of all: sexy as hell. Though they're trying to be gentlemanly with her, all she can think about is how much she wants to get tangled up in them, and forget the nightmare the world has

become. She's waiting for her reawakening—back to life and happiness and love.

And they seem like just the right sort of men to wake her—body and soul.

Infernal Devices
by Abigail Barnette

All Steamed Up: Book One

The Two Aces. Victorian London’s most salacious secret, the club is a place where erotic

fantasies are played out among clockwork automatons and aether powered machines. Where

nothing is off limits and the pleasures are as wicked as the imagination will allow...

Permilia Deering goes to The Two Aces looking for the sexual excitement that she knows she

will not find with the man to whom she is affianced, notorious cold-fish Wallace Sterling. On her first visit to the club, she meets the Ace of Spades, a masked stranger who drives her to heights of passion she’s never dreamed possible—and makes her seriously reconsider becoming a

mannerly society wife.

When Wallace Sterling first glimpses his fiancée standing outside The Two Aces, he assumes

she’s uncovered his secret identity—the Ace of Spades. But Permilia has no idea that her

intended is living a double life, and Wallace worries that he’ll be out of the picture once she gets a taste of what the Ace of Spades can offer her...

Three Ways to Wicked
by Melinda Barron

Bestselling Author Krisily Carmichael needs a break from her life. Her horrid ex-boyfriend sold naked photos of her, and now she’s plastered all over the nation’s largest skin magazine. So

when an advertisement for a rental cottage near Bath appears in her mailbox, she snatches up the offer.

When she arrives at the remote English cottage, she finds a charming country home with a huge

botanical garden…complete with four magical beings trapped inside.

Victim of a wayward spell, the Sorcerer Uriel and his alchemist cousins, Bythos and Acolius,

have spent centuries trapped inside their garden with an evil witch who wants their secrets.

Krisily’s arrival sets off a string of events foretold to bring about the witch’s end. Unfortunately, they have to contend with the witch’s curse, which took one sense from each of the men.

But the four of them find a way to communicate, and they come together in a blaze of passion

that helps them to destroy the witch and meet their destiny.

Alpheli Solution
by Anny Cook

Bootcamp class seems to be the answer to her prayers. In her wildest dreams, she doesn’t

consider meeting not just one, but two hunky vampires who take her—in the car, in the shower,

in the living room, in the hot tub, in hand—as they teach her everything she’ll need to know

about her new vampire life.

For centuries, Pierre has loved and pursued Julian with no success. After a hostile takeover of Julian’s financial assets, Pierre is positive Julian will have nowhere else to turn. Julian, though, chooses to teach the Vampire Bootcamp class rather than surrender to Pierre on unequal terms.

When one of Julian’s students approaches him for help identifying her sire, Julian is stunned that she is his alpheli—an extremely rare mate whose blood will allow him to subsist on real food.

What will that mean to his love-hate relationship with Pierre?

There are just one or two problems. Danamara is descended from Pierre’s bloodline. And she’s

on someone’s hit list. Julian and Pierre find unexpected erotic rewards and eternal love when

they join together in a brutal war to protect their alpheli’s life.

We Kill Dead Things
by Sommer Marsden

Zombie Exterminators
Series, Book One

Poppy thinks her life is weird working the food court at Parktowne mall, until in one brief

moment of creeper killing, things change forever. Now she's a freelance zombie exterminator

along with her long lusted after co-worker Garrity (her not-so-secret crush), a somewhat lusted after bad boy Cahill, and pretty gay boy Noah.

When the four are hired to do a ballsy zombie clean up at St. Peter's Hospital, Poppy finds out just what's more scary than creepers: The Evoluminaries, a zealot cult who think zombies are

part of God's chosen, who happen to end up thinking Poppy might make a mighty good zombie

incubator. She finds herself finally sleeping with Garrity, being hunted by a crazy preacher man and stumbling over the fact that Cahill and Noah have become lovers somewhere in the chaos.

And that's all on the job.

Just another day in the life when you kill dead things...

Oriana and the Three Werebears
by Tia Fanning

Oriana Ricci has taken over the family business—flying cargo and rich tourists around Alaska’s barely inhabited Kodiak Archipelago. When her plane malfunctions and she’s forced to make an

emergency landing, she finds herself stranded in the middle of a National Wildlife Refuge. With no civilization for miles and no hope of rescue, she thinks all is lost… Until she stumbles upon the entrance to an underground bunker.

Jack, Jordan, and Jonathan McMathan own and operate a secret intelligence firm contracted by

the US Government. Hidden away in an old Cold War spy station located the middle of the

Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, the brothers are not only able to do their top secret jobs safely without fear of discovery, but are better to protect their other, more personal secret: They have the ability to shift into Kodiak bears.

Like a fairy tale gone bad, the brothers return home to find their lunch tasted—or eaten, their computer chairs adjusted—or broken, and a beautiful blonde sleeping in one of their beds. This situation poses a big problem for the brothers… Their location is now compromised. But more

importantly, what are they to do with the lady?

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