“Hostage” tells the story of one such person. She is Mary Hollis, age 24, a beautiful sensuous blonde. From one look at her beautiful face and body, it would seem that Mary could have anything she wanted. But she couldn’t have happiness. She couldn’t have sexual satisfaction.The story portrays the effects of a repressive upbringing on a beautiful girl and their unhappy consequences later.In the case of Mary Hollis, her repressive upbringing and her sexual hang-ups must be f...

Facing my own mortality, I take a stranger to bed so I can feel alive. I'm in a foreign country and will never see him again, so what's the harm?The only thing worse than cancer at twenty-four is having to keep it a secret.Worse still is trading knuckle wraps for head scarfs and mouth guards for IV drips.Like I sought the best coach, my search for the best cancer researchers lands me in Kansas City, far from home and alone.But when I take th...

DESCRIPTION:Sue is an attractive, shy country girl living in the big city, alone and unsure. She meets Paul, a handsome man with a taste for cruelty, who comes to take control of her life. Paul dominates Sue for his own pleasures and a perverse sense of vengeance. As Sue's life spirals out of control, she contemplates revenge against Paul... but, will Sue succumb to dark desires in her heart, or get the revenge she's not sure she'll achieve or truly seeks?EXCERPT:Sue ...

Even though Anna knew that she could very well have been spared death by execution, she continued to live in the fear of imminent demise at the hands of her Soviet captors.Not only did Anna live in mortal fear for her own life. She also constantly feared for the lives of her parents, who remained behind at the Gulag that Anna had been removed from. As much as she had hated the camp, Anna was at least thankful that she had been near her parents.The reason for the beautiful J...

Thaddeus Esax has a grumpy werewolf problem. For a year, he's been mated to Sandulf Hunter, a ghost werewolf he brought back from the dead without meaning to. It's been great. Thad's been happy, and he believed Sandy was too. But Sandy has been sulking for more than a week, and Thad fears their relationship isn't going as well as he believed.The problem with being mated to a ghost is that said ghost never can leave your side, and therefore it's extremely hard to keep secrets. Thadd...

In an attempt to run from his past, John Welsh has spent the last few years building walls around himself. He knows the best way to stay safe is to keep people at arm's length and preferably out of sight. During weak moments, he might wish he had someone, but he's not ready. After all, it takes seven years for the body to replace all its cells. He has four years to go before he's new.Zachary Fane is always on the move, always on his way to somewhere. He's going from job to job, fro...

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder; it kills it.What would you do if the person you can't live without kept putting distance between you? In this box set, you'll find three paranormal MM romance stories about men who have a special connection to someone they need to be physically close to. But something or someone forces them apart.Contains the stories:Black Bird: For seven years, Arlo Barman has been on the move. All he wants is a place to...

A powerful, billionaire rock star. A plus-size telenovela diva. A love forged from hate.Monster.That's Friedrich Hartmann. I'm his dirtiest little secret, the one who could crumble his empire of sand. He might hate me, but he can't stay away from me—or my body. He'll never forgive me for showing up in his city and risk exposing our connection publicly, but I need to say goodbye.Finally.Toxic.That's E...

Aiden has prepared a special Easter egg for his boyfriend, Tristan. He wants to make their first Easter together special, but as the moment for handing over the egg draws nearer, Aiden's nerves get the better of him. What if he has it all wrong? What if Tristan wants nothing to do with the silky satin hidden within the egg?NOTE: This story appears in the collection Aiden and Tristan.

One day, Eason Wickham will push his next-door neighbor down the stairs. Nate Allen might be hot, but he's the most annoying person Eason has ever met. He has no respect for the people living in the building, and night after night, he has a party. Whenever Eason rings his doorbell and tells him to keep it down, he flirts and tries to get Eason to come inside.Calling the cops does not affect Nate's behavior, and neither do Eason's angry Post-It notes. But when Eason is hit by a car ...

Charlene Kane, the eighteen-year-old heroine of "THE CASTING COUCH", is an example of the young American who finds that dreams can come true. Charlene wants nothing so much as to be a successful fashion model.Her dreams of romance vanish, to be replaced by the reality of sordid sexual affairs. For there are many people many cold, ruthless, self-centered men in the crassly commercial world she enters who think they can buy her outrightBut you will have to read to the very la...

Eldred Henstare is a not so powerful witch who's been left in charge of helping the city's lingering spirits to move on. He usually handles it pretty well, but something's wrong with the spirit leading him to the abandoned lighthouse.Mo Vin likes his quiet life in the cottage next to the lighthouse, at least it's quiet until one night when Eldred Henstare -- young, beautiful, and crazy -- arrives. After that night things aren't the same. A man is found dead on the beach outside Mo's...