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Authors: Katie MacAlister
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He sighed. “Whisker burn. That is all the red marks are.”
“They are?” She turned to Cyndi. “Cyn?”
“He hurt me,” she said, her eyes filling with tears. “Even if it was just his rough cheeks, I need to see a doctor.”
Amy, Derek’s girlfriend and the other singer in the group, immediately hugged her, her blue eyes worried. Even Terry—bright, cheerful Terry, who always had a joke on his lips—looked somber as he moved closer to the two women. All four sets of eyes watched Harry with an obvious plea in them.
“Whisker burn.” She turned back to face the annoying god with the sexy lips. He raised an eyebrow, and she was thankful that he was clearly beyond such mortal things as saying “I told you so.”
“I told you she wasn’t hurt,” he said with slight smirk.
She pointed a finger at him. “You just knocked yourself off your pedestal, buster. All right, I’m willing to accept that your brother didn’t intentionally hurt her. But she’s very upset, and she does have some nasty rashes, so I think it probably would be better for everyone’s peace of mind if she saw a doctor. If you and Mr. Grabby Hands over there would just get out of here, I’ll get Cyn dressed, and we’ll take her to the mainland.”
His lickable lips tightened as if he wasn’t used to receiving orders—a thought that gave her immense pleasure. Oh, how fun it would be to take him down a peg or two, to remind him that he might think himself a god amongst lesser folk, but in reality, he was just nothing more than a man. An extremely rich, urbane, sexy, and probably quite fascinating man, but still a man.
She looked at the dip on his collarbone. Her tongue cleaved to the top of her mouth. “Temptation is a bitch.”
“You can say that again,” he muttered, giving her a dark look before turning on his heel and leaving the room, dragging his brother with him.
New York Times
bestselling author
bestselling author
KATIE MACALISTER
Steamed
A Steampunk Romance
When one of Jack Fletcher’s nanoelectro-
mechanical system experiments is jostled in
his lab, the resulting explosion sends him
into the world of his favorite novel—
a seemingly Victorian-era world of
steampower, aether guns, corsets, and
goggles. A world where the lovely and
intrepid Octavia Pye captains her airship
straight into his heart...
mechanical system experiments is jostled in
his lab, the resulting explosion sends him
into the world of his favorite novel—
a seemingly Victorian-era world of
steampower, aether guns, corsets, and
goggles. A world where the lovely and
intrepid Octavia Pye captains her airship
straight into his heart...
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KATIE MACALISTER
The Dark Ones Novels
Even Vampires Get the Blues
Paen Scott is a Dark One: a vampire without a soul. And his mother is about to lose hers too if Paen can’t repay a debt to a demon by finding a relic known as the Jilin God in five days.
The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires
Portia Harding is stalked by the heart-stoppingly handsome Theondre North—who’s also the son of a fallen angel. Portia’s down-to-earth attitude frustrates beings from both heavenly and hellish realms—and gets Theo turned into a vampire.
Zen and the Art of Vampires
Pushing forty and alone, Pia Thomason heads to Europe on a singles tour, hoping to find romance. What she finds are two very handsome, very mysterious, and very undead men.
Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang
Pia Thomason is torn between two Dark Ones: her husband Kristoff—who doesn’t trust her—and his best friend, Alec, who is MIA. So Pia goes back to her humdrum Seattle life—but fate has other plans.
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THE AISLING GREY, GUARDIAN
SERIES HEATS UP!
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is soaring to the top.”
HOLY SMOKES
LIGHT MY FIRE
FIRE ME UP
YOU SLAY ME
LIGHT MY FIRE
FIRE ME UP
YOU SLAY ME
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The Novels of the Light Dragons
Love in the Time of Dragons
Tully Sullivan is just like any other suburban mom—except now she’s woken up in a strange place surrounded by strange people who keep insisting that they’re dragons—and that she’s one too. But not just any dragon. She’s Ysolde de Bouchier, a famed figure from dragon history.
Tully can’t shape-shift or breathe fire, and she’s definitely not happy being sentenced to death for the misdeeds of a dragon mate she can’t remember. Yet she’ll have to find a way to solve the crimes of a past she has no memory of living.
The Unbearable Lightness of Dragons
Ysolde de Bouchier is still coming to terms with the dragon part of her, while at the same time trying to free a friend of Baltic—her Black Dragon lover—from the weyr, get Baltic to meet with the dragons who want him dead, rescue a half-dragon damsel in over her head, raise the shade of the man everyone says killed her, and once and for all clear Baltic’s name of the murder charges that continue to plague him. For Ysolde, being a dragon is starting to bite.
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Also by Katie MacAlister
Paranormal Romances
IN THE COMPANY OF VAMPIRES,
A Dark Ones Novel
CONFESSIONS OF A VAMPIRE’S GIRLFRIEND,
A Dark Ones Novel
LOVE IN THE TIME OF DRAGONS,
A Novel of the Light Dragons
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF DRAGONS,
A Novel of the Light Dragons
STEAMED, A Steampunk Romance
CROUCHING VAMPIRE, HIDDEN FANG,
A Dark Ones Novel
ZEN AND THE ART OF VAMPIRES,
A Dark Ones Novel
ME AND MY SHADOW,
A Novel of the Silver Dragons
UP IN SMOKE, A Novel of the Silver Dragons
PLAYING WITH FIRE,
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HOLY SMOKES, An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel
LIGHT MY FIRE, An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel
FIRE ME UP, An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel
YOU SLAY ME, An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel
THE LAST OF THE RED-HOT VAMPIRES
EVEN VAMPIRES GET THE BLUES
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LOVE IN THE TIME OF DRAGONS,
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THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF DRAGONS,
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STEAMED, A Steampunk Romance
CROUCHING VAMPIRE, HIDDEN FANG,
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ZEN AND THE ART OF VAMPIRES,
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LIGHT MY FIRE, An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel
FIRE ME UP, An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel
YOU SLAY ME, An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel
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EVEN VAMPIRES GET THE BLUES
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