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Born to be Wild
In the not-so-distant future, humans have been driven belowground in order to survive. It’s the only life Senator Andreas Barken has ever known. Sterile. Oppressive. Dead.
Topworld, rogue humans called Weeds wander the surface, raiding belowground civilizations in order to survive. Desperate to escape his claustrophobia for at least a few days, Andreas hires the most notorious Weed of them all in order to fake his kidnapping. Rumors say Reb Slater is violent and degenerate, but what they don’t tell Andreas is the most crucial detail of all...
Reb Slater is also a woman.
With everything he has ever believed thrown into chaos, Andreas quickly forgets his reservations when he witnesses the wild beauty of the world. It’s too magnificent not to become entranced, just as Reb is too haunting to ignore. His heart is lost, but his kidnapping comes with an expiration date. Too soon, he has to go back, and leave both Reb and his newfound freedom behind...
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Detective Brady Lindstrom deals in death, and not just because he’s a homicide cop with the slaughter of a
century to solve. Ten years ago, vampires murdered his lover. Ever since, he’s looked over his shoulder,
ready for vampires to strike again. Or maybe just the one he loved.
Exhausted and angry about the needless deaths he has to investigate, Brady worries that the killers he’s
looking for aren’t even human. Those fears are compounded by an unexpected visitor, the battered and nearly
broken Cole Singer, the lover he’d long ago given up for dead. When Cole offers to trade information on
the killers in exchange for sanctuary, Brady realizes he doesn’t have a choice. He just can’t turn his
back on the face of the only man he’s ever loved. Even if he’s a vampire…
As It Should Be
For fifty years, Nora Ensley has mourned the premature death of her husband. Now, on the day of what would
have been their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary, she receives a surprise gift from her best friend. When
Nora falls asleep wearing the emerald pendant, she isn’t all that surprised to slip into the most realistic
dreams of her life. The day Marshall died.
Nora takes charge and changes circumstances, forcing him to stay home so the fatal crash never happens.
But dreams can’t last forever. Eventually, she is going to wake up…
Ruby Red Rebels
To a casual passerby, it’s just a small country bar in the middle of nowhere. To a vampire in the know,
it’s the most popular hangout in the entire state of Texas. To Serena Darville, though, Ruby Red is the
last hope for an answer to all her deadly troubles.
Walking into the bar to retrieve the bracelet she needs to save her father’s skin – and her own – is the
most dangerous thing she’s ever done. She doesn’t need or want a vampire’s help. Not even if that vampire
is peacemaker Max Markow, there at Ruby Red with his own grudge to settle.
When an unexpected bar fight gets them locked away in a cellar to die, Serena and Max are forced to work
together in order to escape. In such cramped quarters, passions flare. All they have is each other, but
only time will tell if that’s enough to survive.
Mercy of These Bones
Four years ago, Mathias Larsen broke siring laws to save a lover’s life.
Four months ago, that lover turned on him, leaving him for dead.
Now, Mathias has followed her path of death to Las Vegas, straight to the last vampire who wants to see
him: his sire. The man he left for a woman who stabbed him in the back.
Edmund has found love again in nightclub owner, the very human Darby Bell. He doesn’t want to believe
Mathias’ warnings, but a murder that hits too close to home gives him no choice. While he struggles to keep
Mathias and Darby safe, emotions run high as old love collides with new. But the clock is ticking. The
vampire Assembly is coming to town, the local police are alerted to Mathias' nocturnal activities, and
passions are flaring. Time is running out. By the time death strikes again, all bets are off.
LOVE ROMANCES CAFE BEST OF 2007 NOMINEE
A Sentry's Touch
They followed their destiny and discovered love.
Orphaned at a young age, Iris Bridge carries scars on the palms of her hands from the fire that killed her
parents. Now a top-notch trauma nurse in the Alaskan wilderness, it’s her job to respond if disaster
strikes. When a helicopter crash brings a strange man named Avi into her care, she knows what to do…until
his wounds mysteriously heal and Iris discovers the reason he’s come to town. He wants to take her back to
the land he calls home—Varana.
Avi’s quest to find Iris has led him across planes and taken half of his lifetime. Iris is a Sentry and as
her Guardian, it’s Avi’s duty to protect her. It matters not that Iris, taken from his world, doesn’t
understand who or what she is; the strikingly handsome shapeshifter is honor bound to protect her.
When strange creatures start attacking Iris and her friends, she has no choice but to trust in Avi and
hope he’ll lead her to the truth. What she finds, however, is so much more. Iris discovers her own power
and, in the arms of her fated lover, her destiny to possess A Sentry’s Touch.
Fantasies, Vol. IV
A blood-pumping vampire urban fantasy, a steam punk futuristic science fiction, a sensual time-travel and
a gritty contemporary--these four steamy tales of erotic romance, each uniquely different from the other
and all set in New York's famed Grand Central Terminal, are guaranteed to ignite your fantasies.
And Then There Were by Vivien Dean: What demon hunter Ryan Nixon thinks is a routine hunt in Grand
Central Station turns into an orchestrated nightmare when the vampires turn the tables. Corralled with some
of the best hunters in the world, Ryan comes face to face with the woman who saved his life a decade
earlier. Tala Mamola is beautiful, deadly, and the object of his hero worship. Together, they must figure
out a way to break the spell trapping them in the station, or together, they will die.
Price of a Tattooed Soul
Lydia Nicholls lives an ordinary life. She works, she has the occasional date, she struggles with her
weight. Only one thing sets her life apart from others--the anonymous music boxes she receives every year
on her birthday.
When she turns thirty, everything changes. This box comes with a name. As soon as Lydia utters it out
aloud, she disappears from her ordinary LA life and wakes up in the care of the man responsible for the
annual gifts. The only catch is...she's in Montana. In 1894. With a man who has magic at his fingertips.
It takes little time for her to grow comfortable with her temporary host, but in spite of his gentle
nature, Del Wessner is a man with a past he's determined to shield Lydia from. Together, they'll weather
mysterious attacks on his home, not-so-mysterious attacks on his Kootenai friends, and the fact that in
less than a month, Lydia will return to Los Angeles and her own time. Alone.
The Ice Butterfly
Ten years ago, a searing affair nearly derailed Tomas Dalmau’s budding career. Now Rana, the winter
elemental who robbed him of more than his innocence, has struck again.
As a sentinel, charged with keeping order in the paranormal world, Tomas knows his witchcraft can’t touch
Rana. He asks for the case anyway. Why? Because he has a weapon the other sentinels don’t have. And he is
bound and determined to take back what she stripped away the first time they met.
The only problem is…desire doesn’t die. No matter how cynical you are.
Witches Night
Witches Night is the first in our series of anthologies celebrating Halloween night, when the veils
between worlds are thinnest and anything can happen. To kick it off properly, we’ve put together a
collection of spicy, saucy, magical tales of witches and the people who love them. From the dabblers and
charlatans to the full-fledged sorceresses of old, each of these stories is filled with curses and spells,
wit and passion by authors familiar to our readers as well as some new, exciting faces. Seven very
different witches, seven passionate, engaging stories that will draw you completely under their spell!
The Way You Look Tonight by Vivien Dean: A charming sequel to Two Lives in Waltz Time,
Maddy and Cash have one last night in the U.S. before moving to England, and Cash intends to make the most
of it.
The Canvas of Her Skin
All Mark Douglas wants to do is paint his landscapes in peace. His agent has different ideas. When she
demands Mark take a life studies class in order to bring more warmth to his work, the last thing he expects
is to meet a woman who turns everything he believes on its ear.
Free-spirited Tallulah Weaver inspires Mark to do more than paint. He seeks her out beyond the classroom
walls, though somehow even that encounter doesn’t turn out as he expects. Is she simply fresh inspiration?
Or will Mark finally get past his fears to take the promise of a new beginning she’s offering?
Two Lives in Waltz Time
Art restorer Maddy Cardinale loves her job. In fact, the only downside to working the night shift at her
prestigious New York museum is fellow restorer Cash Vinci. As charismatic as they come, Cash is the most
confident man she has ever known. He’s also handsome, sexy as hell, and determined to get under her skin,
no matter what the cost.
When an unusual painting arrives at the museum, neither of them anticipates the magic unleashed by a
fleeting touch of the canvas. Suddenly, Cash and Maddy aren’t in their workshop any more. They are both
dressed to kill, plunged into the alternate reality of the posh 1940’s nightclub portrayed in the painting.
Even worse, the couple learns all too quickly that the club sells more than drinks, and the only reason
Maddy doesn’t have to offer more than a dance to the male clientele is because everyone believes she is
engaged to Cash.
Dependent on one another as never before, the pair must work together in order to unravel the spell that
has them trapped. Vengeful ex-girlfriends, jealous mobsters, and surprise enemies drive the couple into
each other’s beds and hearts, sharing secrets as well as passions. The only question is, will they survive
long enough to admit their true feelings to each other? Or will their dance be cut short?
2006 RT AWARD NOMINEE
Under a Rogue Moon
All it takes is one bad night for hunter to become prey.
When werewolf hunter Flanna McRae allows a single wolf to escape from her monthly hunt, the last thing she
expects is for him to come after her. But fellow hunter Jason Randolph is convinced otherwise. His
months-long hunt of the Romm pack has led him straight to the doorstep of her quiet English home. He
doesn’t care that his quick-witted charm seems to get under Flanna’s skin. All he wants is to finally get
his kill.
Until Flanna manages to get under his skin as well.
Their explosive affair is inevitable, but with the full moon less than three weeks away, Flanna’s
convinced they are living on borrowed time. Romm is deadly and relentless, and it’s going to take more than
the passion Jason inspires to stop the werewolf from destroying everything she cares about. Or is it
finally enough?
Chains of Jericho
Declan Jericho is a vampire with a purpose. His best hope for success is a brilliant young cancer
specialist, but unfortunately, saving the undead isn’t exactly the career path Dr. Maya Sheldon has in
mind.
Maya finds her entire belief system thrown into question when Dec kidnaps her from her hospital, taking
her to his home so that she can develop a cure for the mysterious illness that is killing the young
vampires in his care. Her instincts as a doctor kick in quickly. Vampires or not, she’s unable to abandon
her charges. Working with Dec, it soon becomes clear that there's more than a professional interest between
them, but as their attraction grows, darker secrets threaten their newfound relationship. Dec has his own
reasons for wanting the young vampires cured, and he’s not telling.
2006 EPPIE FINALIST
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