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Colliding in Free Fall
At forty-three, Jay McGhee doesn't know how much longer he'll be able to withstand the physical rigors necessary for active duty in the Roseville, Indiana Fire Department, but that doesn't mean he's willing to be put out to pasture just yet. For most of his adult life, he's had to place his needs on the back burner, including the fact that he's a gay man in a small rural community. His career is not going to take the same route.
When twenty-seven-year-old Frank Kaplan breezes into town, Jay ignores his immediate attraction to the younger man. After all, he's an old pro at pretending. The long-haired, tattooed drifter shouldn't even be his type, but the friendship they strike up satisfies a space in Jay's life he never realized was empty.
Two men. Two lives in flux.
No regrets.
Dead Man's Curve
Obsession brings them together. Now they risk losing everything if they can't let it go...
Playwright Spencer Szabo channeled his obsession with the mysterious death of Kip Palmer, a C-list 1950's actor, by writing a play about him, a show he's been repeatedly told is unmarketable.
Then hotshot director Mick Darby returns to New York with the burning desire to put Dead Man's Curve onstage where it belongs. Spencer's never met anyone so driven or determined before, but it's more than the level of professional respect the men seem to share that compels Spencer to agree. Something about Mick draws Spencer to him, something he can't quite put his finger on. It might be the intense physical attraction. It might be the easy friendship that starts almost as soon as they meet.
Or it might be something entirely different...
Wranglers: The Defense Rests
They started out on opposite sides of the conference table. Now, lovers Sam Kimball and Derek Rossi find themselves assigned to the same case, for the first time since they started sleeping together. There's only one problem...Derek doesn't want to take the case.
Derek's frustration has both men lashing out at each other. Somehow, they have to find a way to resolve their differences before the situation destroys what they have...
Wranglers: Voir Dire
Attorney Sam Kimball finally gets what he’s wanted ever since meeting Derek Rossi across a conference room table—his legal rival in his bed. The sex is fantastic, but Derek makes it clear from the start this is a no-strings arrangement. That’s why Sam doesn’t bother letting Derek know about the weekend he needs to spend in Napa as best man in his friends’ commitment ceremony.
But when Derek finds out, and inexplicably agrees to go along as his date, Sam is both excited and terrified. This will be the first time either of them has met the other’s friends. He has no idea how Derek is going to handle it, or worse, if he really wants to handle it at all...
Chains of Jericho
Declan Jericho is a vampire with a purpose. His best hope for success rests on the shoulders of a brilliant young cancer specialist, but saving the undead isn't exactly the career path Dr. Maya Sheldon has in mind.
When Dec kidnaps Maya from work, the last thing she wants to do is help him. Then she discovers what he wants her for: develop a cure for the mysterious illness killing the young vampires in his care. Vampires or not, she's unable to abandon them. Her interest in Dec quickly shifts from professional to something more intimate, 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...
Wranglers: Discovery
Derek Rossi is used to being one of the best young lawyers in San Francisco...until he loses a case to his legal rival, the sexy and irrepressible Sam Kimball. The passionate, two-month-long court battle has left Derek frustrated, angry, and ready to take it out on Sam. But when Sam surprises him with a kiss, Derek has absolutely no idea what to do. All he knows is his preoccupation with the other lawyer now includes more than wrangling in the courtroom with him.
The only problem is, Sam honors Derek’s request to leave him alone. Derek thought that was what he wanted.
But now, with memories of the kiss consuming him, Derek doesn’t know what he wants at all anymore...
Prime Passions
When love reaches its prime, there's no resisting the passion.
Sexual heat can't be denied in this trio of tales about older women and the younger men who fall for them. In "Moving On" by Bonnie Dee a widow is seduced by a hot young moving guy and opens herself to the possibilities of life once more. When a repressed divorcee places an online sex ad in Veronica Wilde's "No Strings Attached," the young man who answers it unlocks her heart as well as her fantasies. In Vivien Dean's "A Spark of Snow," a burned out cop rediscovers more than her love for life when a gorgeous young teacher shows her passion doesn't care about age.
Three women with experience to spare, three hot men with passionate hearts, three unforgettable stories of rebirth and second chance love.
A Spark of Snow by Vivien Dean: After fifteen years as a cop in LA's Juvenile Division, Rachel Foley is burned out. Quitting doesn't feel like a real option, so she takes a leave of absence to travel across the country and visit her sister. White Bluff, Illinois is a far cry from the urban lifestyle Rachel's accustomed to, but a few weeks with family seems to be the break she's looking for. All she wants is time to regroup. A gorgeous twenty-four year-old with a killer smile and a body too distracting for its own good should not be on her agenda. Even if that's the only place he would like to be...
Still, Life
When Joe Grace, an assistant DA in Los Angeles, discovers the best friend he had growing up has been taken in for questioning on a murder investigation, he drops everything and flies to Chicago. To help, he tells himself.
The last person Israel Jones ever expects to show up in his defense is a blast from his past, but now that Joe’s in town, Israel is convinced the truth will surface. Someone out there killed his son’s murderer, and though the police believe he was seeking vengeance, Israel claims he’s innocent. Together, Joe and Israel have to unearth the real killer, but to do that, Joe needs to find out about the life Israel has had without him.
Even if it means facing all his own ghosts as well...
What We May Be
Fashion is Jared Harvey’s life. Once a top model, now an aspiring designer, he never expects to be attracted to a man who wouldn’t know his Versace from his Valentino.
But Rick Paulson makes Jared rethink everything he’s ever assumed he wanted in a man. Rick’s generous, built like a brick house, and best of all, hungry to let Jared take control. Together, they ignite passions in each other neither wants to extinguish. So what if Rick doesn’t care about Jared’s Cavalli?
Life’s more than a runway, especially with a man like Rick around...
Interlude
Sometimes, it’s better to be friends than lovers...or is it?
Onstage, AJ Mobley is smart, clever, and commands attention. Offstage, he’s shy and lost to everything but his music. The reason for the difference? Tyrone Dahl.
For the past two years, AJ and Tyrone have been the star attraction at the Reno bar, Heat Wave. Their "dueling pianos" act is fast and funny, but their camaraderie isn’t just under the spotlight. They’re best friends away from the show, too. An opportunity to take their act to Las Vegas seems like the perfect next step in their careers. There’s only one problem—AJ’s been in love with Tyrone almost from the moment they met. He’s hidden it well; after all, Tyrone might be bisexual, but he’s also never lacked for company. AJ would rather be his friend than another notch on his bedpost.
But Vegas beckons. And Tyrone wants to take the leap. The last thing AJ can ever do is deny his best friend...
Crave
After a grueling night in the ER, all Dr. Pete Coen wants is to decompress at his local watering hole. He’s not interested in casual hook-ups with sexy strangers, though Duncan Burgess is as seductive as they come. But their chance encounter seems not so random when Pete discovers he’s not a stranger to Duncan after all.
One explosive night changes his entire life. Pete saves Duncan’s life, Duncan saves Pete’s, and still, the danger for both of them has only begun. Pete doesn’t want to believe stories about demons who feed on pleasure, but Duncan has had centuries to perfect his powers of persuasion. They have no choice but to join forces.
Because sex can be killer. Even for the best doctor in town.
2010 EPPIE FINALIST
Walk Among Us
As an artist in New York City, Calvin Shumacher finally has the life he’s always wanted. In fact, only one thing can get him to come back to Illinois—his father’s funeral. All he wants is to bury his dad and hightail it back to New York, but a sniper at the graveyard puts those plans on indefinite hold.
So does Matthew Soto. The gorgeous gunman who speaks of monsters wearing human faces. And predicts there won’t be a body for police to find.
Calvin doesn’t know what to think when Matthew claims he didn’t do anything wrong. All he knows is that this man’s haunted eyes seem to pierce right into his soul.
But as each of Matthew’s assertions comes true, Calvin slowly realizes this killer could be the only thing standing between him and an unspeakable evil…
2009 EPPIE WINNER
Blood of Souls
Sometimes doing the right thing means giving up everything you love...
There isn’t anything Annie Pontin won’t do for her lover, the reclusive artifact collector Quin Black. As his personal assistant, she even takes care of the most valuable item in his collection, a ruby-encrusted sword that dates back more than two thousand years. One day while cleaning it, she cuts herself on the blade. The next thing she knows, the sword is gone, and in its place...a young man named Theodotus.
Theo claims to know Quin, but when Annie asks Quin the whole story, what unfolds is out of this world. She isn’t prepared to hear how he sold his soul in order to be with Theo, his dead lover, forever, nor does she want to hear that he’s lived for centuries. The only problem is, Quin refuses to let her walk away. He wants them both. Now he and Theo just need to convince her to stay...
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.
2009 EPPIE FINALIST
LOVE ROMANCES CAFE BEST OF 2007 NOMINEE
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.
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?
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?
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