Can a lonely widow and an orc with secrets find true love together?LynethAfter my husband's death, my village pushes me into the forest during the monster mate hunt, where I'll be claimed as an orc's bride.I've vowed I'll never love another, but then I'm claimed by Madr, a strong, handsome orc who I suspect is hiding secrets. On his dragon-like vox, he flies with me toward his home. His warm arms keep me safe, and his teasing touch ...

Can a wounded orc hero protect his treasured mate from a cruel captor?Nia: I spend my days healing those forced to battle in my stepbrother's arena and my nights hiding. I've resigned myself to the fact that with my burn scars, I'll never find love. Until my stepbrother commands me to heal his latest acquisition—an orc who was severely injured during capture. I've only heard of orcs, but I do my best to heal him and prepare him for the battles he'l...

I want to begin a new life far from my village. Will that life include an orc who vows to adore me?KailaWhen a man in my village makes demands I'm not willing to give into, my younger brother and I flee into the forest. It's the night of the Monster Mate Hunt, but the orcs who are gifted with brides in exchange for protecting the village will be too busy with the other woman to notice me. Until Turren claims me as his mate. I'm not interest...

Maggie: After my twin sister and I are kidnapped from Earth, we're separated. When the ship transporting me crashes on a distant planet, I'm captured and sold to a lizard alien. Now I'm trapped, forced to dance in a bar under the watchful gaze of a tyrant. I've resigned myself to never seeing my sister again when a blue-skinned Zuldruxian named Davon is hired as a bouncer at the bar. He's fierce and kind, with teal-colored eyes that hold secrets, and he watches out for me....

Alwen: A year ago, one of the males in my village hurt me. When he tried to do it a second time, I took care of that problem—permanently. Then I'm selected for the annual Monster Mate Hunt where two village women must enter the forest to be claimed as an orc's bride. If an orc tries to take me, I'll handle him just as I did the man in my village.To my dismay, I'm captured by a band of treacherous thieves. I'm planning my escape when an enormous, snarly orc attacks ...

Will I be burned by the flames of Detective Dragon?Hannah: The building I'm renovating to turn into a B&B in the cozy coastal town of Mystic Harbor, where humans and monsters live in harmony, is either haunted or someone's trying to sabotage me.After someone rips up my flower beds for the third time, and the local law enforcement can't find any clues, I head to Monsters, PI, where I hire a much-too-gorgeous dragon shifter to determine if I'...

My ex-boyfriend was transformed into a medusa, and he's set his eyes on me.Ten years ago, I was convinced I'd one day marry my high school boyfriend, Darrow. But when a mad scientist experimented on him and others in Petrified Woods, they were changed into monsters. My parents dragged me from town before I could make sure Darrow was okay. Not long after that, they told me he was dead.Now, I'm back in Petrified Woods to be the maid of honor at a friend's wed...

Kerry: After I'm taken from Earth and dropped in an alien forest, I resign myself to never going home. There went my dream of finding someone to love. Then a gorgeous, severely wounded alien stumbles into my campsite. As I nurse him back to health, I start wondering if this seven-foot-tall guy with shadows flickering in his eyes could be the one.Nevarn tells me he was traveling to the clan he grew up in, that he was banished for a crime he didn't commit, and that h...

An alien pirate promises to give me a child. But what if he steals my heart?Aliens are real and they're eager to Slake. What's Slaking, you ask? It seems Xilan males go into a voracious heat period every three years, and there aren't enough females to fulfill the needs of these beastly aliens.Enter me, and some other Earth females who are eager to have children. We travel to a space station, where we're introduced to brawny alien males in dire need of Slaki...

I've been hired to teach an alien warrior social skills to woo a mate. But now he's trying to woo me.When the elderly duchess I cared for dies, her slimy son—my ex—tells me he wants me back. Um, no. I flee, and at the Intergalactic Employment Agency, I'm offered a job teaching an alien warlord sophistication so he can woo a mate at the upcoming Match-Mating Soiree. If anyone can domesticate a brute, it's me.In between teaching Forje how to converse politely...

Can an orc commander protect a lonely woman from the dangers in his world?RhoslynWhen my sister is chosen for the Monster Mate Hunt—an annual event where two women must sacrifice themselves to the orcs for the good of us all—I volunteer in her place. The orcs hunt me as I bolt through the forest. I'm captured by the gruff, growly Commander Jaus, who expects me to cook and clean, plus sleep in his quarters with him at night, despite insistin...

An alien warrior has made me an offer I can't refuse. In exchange, he can do what he wants with me for one week.I want a child, but that's impossible now that Earth men are sterile. Then, a ping from a distant planet reaches us. Aliens are real, and they're interested in getting to know Earth women better.The Xilans fall into an insatiable urge once every three years. It's called the Slaking. There aren't enough females to give them what they need, so like ...