Launching a brand new Romantasy series, a gorgeous gift edition of modern fantasy romance short stories focusing on majestic dragons.Dragons may be fierce but they are symbols of great power, and the bond between human and dragon, once forged, can never be broken. Or can it? Can romance deal a deathly trail of vows abandoned, or forgotten, and can realms beyond our time conjure tales of Dragon Lords, warrior princesses and great rivalries? Modern writers have sough...

Bowie is back in Philadelphia and making a life for himself. New job, comfortable apartment, his family nearby. He's fine without Smith. Just fine. At least, he was fine until he came home from work to find the man who broke his heart waiting in his apartment. Asking for a favor. No apologies for months of silence. Bowie doesn't owe Smith anything. He should protect his own heart. He ought to keep far away from Smith. Never touch him again. Definitely not share a bed and pretend they're in...

Jarrell isn’t happy about being a thief, but sometimes it’s the only way he can make ends meet. Broke and alone at Thanksgiving, he breaks into an apartment in a wealthy neighborhood. He’s only looking for cash, but when he spots an unfamiliar book by his favorite author, he impulsively takes the book as well. Reading it, he finds a letter used as a bookmark and realizes the recipient hasn’t finished the book. He decides to return it and accidentally wakes the owner.Edmond is a shy...

RILEY -- Shane has been my favorite person for my entire life. I've always loved him, and now I'm in love with him. I know he cares about me, too, but I'm sure he just thinks of me as his best friend's kid. Now that he's finished with active duty, he'll probably start dating, and I'll have to pretend to be happy for him. At least I'll have this Christmas vacation with him and my family to look back on. I wasn't planning to ever tell him how I felt, but now we're snowed in together and I'm ...

This was always meant to be a marriage of convenience. It just wasn't supposed to involve two grooms.Julius Rivier didn't object when his parents arranged his marriage along with his career. All right, he wasn't exactly happy about the prospect, but he accepted marriage with Genia Lang as part of the new partnership between their families, just one more step in the pursuit of money and power. He had never intended to come out, and love was a fairy tale for children, anyway. But his...

Halloween is supposed to be a night for safe scares and harmless tricks, not terror ... or romance.College student Colin agrees to take his little cousin trick-or-treating, anticipating nothing worse than having to shepherd a bunch of sugar-crazed third-graders and a poorly-trained puppy. When the kids run ahead to peek into the local supposedly-haunted house, it seems like a harmless bit of mischief until the puppy crawls through a basement window and is lost. Colin promises to get...

Sequel to Tricks with Cats and DogsHalloween is supposed to be a night for safe scares and harmless tricks, but for Colin and Barney it became a night of terror -- and romance.Barney and Colin barely survived their night of supernatural danger. This morning they're braving the wizard's house one last time -- or so they hope. If they find the books Barney needs to master his new abilities and make it out safely they should have a respite. They totally deserve ice cr...

Trajan is descended from dragons. He mostly passes for human -- except when it comes to reproduction. His kind don't take mates, finding partners only long enough to incubate their eggs. Caught unprepared by a rare fertile period and longing for a child, Trajan takes a human back to his hotel. He knows it's wrong to use Elias without telling him the truth, but it's only for a few days. No harm done. After all, there's no reason for them to see each other again. Even if the sex is amazing, ...

Liam works hard. Liam stays out of trouble. Liam gets good grades. Liam has strict parents. Liam ... doesn't have a lot of self-discipline. He hasn't been away at college long before his grades start falling. He needs to improve if he's going to keep his scholarship. And just maybe he could impress Professor Levin with his brains, instead of stammering like an idiot every time spoke to the man.Blaise Levin likes research and being the smartest person in the room. He doesn't enjoy t...

Sometimes one decision changes your life.Javier made a mistake and paid for it with jail time and parents who won't speak to him. But with supportive friends and hard work he's back on track, holding down a job and going to college. He doesn't need anything else on his plate -- especially not a preppy rich boy who doesn't look like he's ever had a problem in his life.Brandy made a mistake and now, instead of attending Princeton with his friends, he's at a city college full ...

Harlan is only in Vegas for two nights for his brother's wedding. His parents want Harlan married, too, and not to a man. What would people say? Not that Harlan cares. He doesn't like most people, and he enjoys making sure they dislike him in return. He can play nice long enough to finalize a contract or get laid, what more does he need? He definitely doesn't need a date with his smart-mouthed waiter. But he wants one. Maybe more than one.Apolo doesn't get paid enough to take crap f...

Sequel to Office Hours Liam always did what he was supposed to do: stay out of trouble and get good grades. He thought college would be his chance to go wild, but instead of partying, he spent his first semester frustrated, flustered, and crushing hard on the one man he couldn't have -- his brilliant, sarcastic professor, Blaise Levin. Now the term's over, Blaise isn't his teacher anymore, and Liam has an unexpected chance to make his fantasies a reality. Blaise has built a life on rules a...