The Soldier's Poisoned Heart (True Love and Deception) (Victorian Historical Romance Book 1) (25 page)

Melissa's a single mother, struggling to pay the bills. Joe's a billionaire politician, searching for answers about the deaths of his father and brother. Melissa doesn't know that she's an integral part to finding those answers.

After Melissa's fired from her job, Joe asks her out on an impulsive date, offering her money for her company. Reluctant, she agrees to a shopping spree and dinner with this mysterious man. After being pampered Melissa is swept off her feet and taken to a beautiful restaurant.

When she gets there, he makes a scandalous request that leaves her confused and conflicted. Will she give him what he wants, in exchange for a charmed life for her daughter? Will she sacrifice her morals for her child's future? What would
you
do?

Arizona's never been so hot as in this steamy erotic romance.

Abigail is fresh out of high school and on the road trying to find herself and some independence. Her mom might not ever forgive her for hitchhiking across the US alone, but at least her dad promised to keep the money flowing.

Things were fine until a crazy old lady left her stranded in the middle of the Arizona desert. No one will stop for her, and the unbearably hot day is quickly turning into a frigid night.

Out of the darkness, an unlikely savior arrives. Chuck's not exactly the kind of person you expect to be riding a motorcycle through the desert, but he's handsome and he's kind enough to offer Abigail a ride into Phoenix. She happily takes him up on the offer.

When a rival gang blows up Chuck's bike while Abigail and Chuck are both sleeping, though, a once innocent young woman finds herself thrust into the dangerous world of motorcycle gangs, guns, and drugs. Will she survive long enough for her one night stand with Chuck to turn into something more?

Do you ever dream of tentacles touching you in your most intimate places?

Joanne Lagrasse is a newly graduated college student living the life. Well, if the life is sitting in your apartment all day trying to research monsters for a novel. The strange book her favorite professor gave her is full of ramblings by what must be a mad man, which makes for uneasy reading and a loner lifestyle.
She pushes herself to go out to the beach, though she takes the tome with her.

When she decides to ignore her professor's warning and reads a chant out loud, she finds herself faced with a giant monster and its lewd tentacles, each one eager to fill her holes.

Close protection is difficult when the woman you're guarding is off-limits... and getting closer by the second.

Noah Walker's job is... complicated. It says "Bodyguard" on the door, and certainly he provides protection services, for the right price. But more than that, he is a vessel. Magic is real. And the source of magical power is lovemaking.

But it's not as simple as it seems. Compatibility is a key factor, and it has to be just right. Jane Everett is all wrong--but Noah never could turn down a woman in need. So for now, the name on the door is about right. But with her looks, and her eagerness, for how much longer?

She wanted him all along... she just didn't know it yet

James Trapper, like most college students, hoped mostly to pass the time between the Spring and Fall semesters lying in bed.

Instead, he found himself doing favors for a friend of his mother's -- a total bombshell with a ton of money, and all James needed to do was help with some computer trouble. He screwed up, though, and badly: It seemed awkward to sit there with such obvious arousal, but getting caught taking care of it in the bathroom was worse.

Can he ever be forgiven? And more importantly, can he make her see him as a man, instead of a boy?

She's gambling one night on her whole future

Tracy Bennett is a chemist, and she's working on a particularly interesting project for the government -- all top secret, of course. The goal? Mind control. She wasn't the first person chosen for the job, but the last one ended up violently attacked in a trial gone wrong. If Tracy manages to bring in a working drug, it could mean she is set for life, but the threat of making a deadly mistake pushes the deadline back further and further.

One night, her husband tells her that he's solved it. He's read her files, and he's solved the puzzle of the mind control drug's flaw. All he wants from her in exchange for the solution is one thing: He gets to be the first to test it, on her...