Stunned, her eyes rose. She attempted to pull her hand back, but he held on. It was difficult to comprehend all put upon her: kidnapped, her mother leaving without a search for her, and now this man thinks she is going to marry him."Come, let's toast to our official engagement."He led her to the other side of the room where he poured champagne while her mind whirled. She hadn't noticed the bar where other liquor bottles set. Handing her a glass, she took it with shaky finger...

Cassandra Jones' nights become filled with realistic exploits of passion with a man she's barely met.It all began the night she dumped her two-timing fiancée and Elan Takoda accused her of a federal offense when she had opened a package of peridot gems intended for him.Months later, miserable, and clueless as to how to stop fantasies, she went along with a plan he had to free them both. When it didn't work, what she then learned would bring her both uncertainty and sorrow.

[Revised]Ready to fight, she found Rico on the front porch and walked up to him, poking his chest. "You had us brought here!" she said with her voice raised a hair below yelling. "Do you know how frightened I was? How I feared we were a pawn in a war between your father and one of his adversaries?" She backed him up against the wall of the building. "How is what you've done different than him?""Kitten, if you'd—""No! Men came here with guns last night. They could have kille...

"Maybe. Zack, I have a strange feel about what's to come.""I told you, it's the two of you together that is stirring them up," Zack told her."You're being redundant.""Stop sucking face and things will quiet.""Ha, ha.""What?" Bobby asked."Zack says they're jealous and trying to get my attention, so we need to stop sucking face." His eyes narrowed, and she found it amusing to watch him look around the place. "He can't see us." She tapped the he...

Jackie's used to the antics of her husband, Lenny, and his twin brother, Randy, but this time they decided to include her in their latest bet. She had forty-eight hours to figure out which one of them she was married to. However, she decides to turn the game around on them by following through on a long-time fantasy to have both brothers at the same time. [menage a trios]

Banished from her home, Lillian Basford picked herself up and set out to start a new life. When Samuel Wadkins came along and gave her a real-life taste of what her dreams with him had teased her with, she became torn between her life as it was and what it'd now become. [historical fairy tale - rewrite of an old English Tale, Cap 'o Rushes]

She heard the whir and crack about the time it hit her ass."Stop!"She was too close to stop. The whip came again and air whooshed from her lungs. She pressed her hips into the leather, trying to grind her nub against it. Again the tail hit its target. She rose up, and then down. "Give it to me," she begged.Nothing. A moment later, she heard the latch release and her arm moved. She watched him kneel on the side she faced. His expression smoldered with darkness. He mov...