Holley Trent

Wealthy luxury boat maker Tim Dowd had all but given up on dating. He’s far too picky and his darker cravings don’t exactly qualify him as husband material in his conservative community. When an unforgettable newcomer arrives with a short-term aim of developing a new subdivision, Tim can’t help but wonder “What if?” Valerie Lawson has the full package. She’s stunning, smart, has a wicked sense of humor, and possesses lustful urges that rival his own. But the ambitious architect is a rising star and had never planned to stay. Her next big job is thousands of miles away, and Tim can’t follow. Valerie doesn’t think a woman like her can have it all. Tim might need to recruit some help from unexpected places to convince her that she can. ____ Note: This is a HOT one! This is an erotic romance with lots of safe and consensual play.

Lowdown Dirty

"Dara and Adrien Valliere are soul mates and best friends...but they’re not lovers. Their marriage may be unconventional, but it’s satisfying and loving, and they’ve never needed anything or anyone else. Until they met writer Stacia Leonard. Stacia built a career on maintaining close ties with her fictional characters while keeping everyone else at arm’s length. She avoids intimacy, apart from a few one-night stands when the loneliness and need become too much. But when Adrien Valliere, her cover model and long-distance friend, invites her for drinks, she’s too fascinated to refuse. Dara recognizes the physical attraction between her husband and Stacia and sees it for what it is: an opportunity to help Adrien get what he needs. Dara can breathe easy knowing that both she and her husband are happy. Before long, though, it’s clear that Stacia’s connection isn't just with Adrien... She and Dara have something special, and it’s something neither of them can -- or want to -- deny"--Back cover.

Plot Twist

Writing Her In

Contessa Dahl has spent most of her life in a haze. As a rudderless orphan, most of her decisions involved her fists and feet and choosing to either fight or run. At twenty-eight, she’s chosen to clean up her act, and just in time. She’s destined to be a special kind of leader. Born into a reclusive group of Viking descendants in rural New Mexico, Tess was meant to become a link for them all—their queen and conduit. Her childhood abduction and the death of her parents meant her people, the Afótama, have had a hole in their web for too long. Now that she’s back at home, it’s Tess’s job to mend it. But she can’t do it alone. She needs a perfect mate to fill in her psychic gaps, and two men claim to be fated for the job. Harvey Lang, her childhood champion, and the group outsider Oliver Gilisson would fight to the death to win her. However, Fate has another monkey wrench thrown into the works for the reluctant new queen: to gain full control of her considerable power, she must find a way to keep them both. ___ A MFM psychic Viking ménage romance. Also available in The Afótama Legacy: The Chieftain's Daughter, Viking's Pride, and Viking Flame, The Viking's Witch, and A Legacy Divided.

The Viking Queen's Men

Three Part Harmony

Milly Taiden

J. M. Klaire

Bella Love-Wins

Alyse Zaftig

Liv Brywood

Scarlett Grove

J. K. Harper

Jacqueline Sweet

Suki Selborne

Olivia Arran

Cynthia Fox

Auriella Skye

Gericault

Edith Hawkes

Anya Nowlan

Elianne Adams

17 Brand-New, Exclusive, Stand-Alone Paranormal RomancesCelebrate the festive holiday season with hot stories from some of your favorite USA Today & New York Times Bestselling authors! Burly bears, prowling panthers, charming cheetahs, winter witches, and fiery dragons are waiting to heat up your sheets. These passionate heroes and feisty heroines can't wait to share their little bundles of joy with you!Burden by Elianne Adams - Beaten, imprisoned, and even starved, Violet has reason to be afraid of any male. But with a baby on the way, she has to decide whether she will live in fear, or risk her body and heart to claim her true mate.Tempt Me Cowbear by Liv Brywood -Recently divorced, Donna is ready to finally live her own life. But when she meets cowboy Brody at Curvy Bear Ranch, she has to decide if she's ready to give up her new freedom to take a chance on the love of a lifetime.My Wound to Bear by Olivia Arran -Recovering from a horrifying and painful past, Gina's future is uncertain, until she meets a certain sexy bear shifter. Is he the Christmas miracle she needs to heal her broken soul...and her heart?Panther in a Pear Tree by Cynthia Fox -When a hunter showers the mountains of Mistletoe Hollow with bullets, he sends panther shifter Leah straight into the arms of her human crush. Is it time to abandon her shifters-only mating policy?The Christmas Spirit by Gen G�ricault- Whiskey-brewing witch Hazel Fortescue and alpha grizzly Hudson Holloway come together to save his nephew from a Christmas spirit.Deputy Bear by Scarlett Grove - Harper Brown left her cheating ex and moved to Fate Mountain just before Christmas. When she finds her new boss dead, she becomes the prime suspect! Good thing she has Deputy Bear Knox Carter to keep her safe and solve the case.Mountain Bear's Baby by J.K. Harper -Bear shifter Shane Walker left his brawling past behind. Then Jessie shows up with his baby son. Can he tame his wild bear and be the man his sudden family needs?Father Shiftmas by Edith Hawkes -Security guard Joseph Stone likes his routine, but one snowy night an intruder changes everything when he's left holding a crying baby.An Impawsible Christmas by JM Klaire -Mix four shifter weddings, a dragon coronation, a stranger fleeing for her life, a found baby, and an ultimatum--mate or die--all together for a very interesting Christmas at the castle.Wolf Mate's Secret by Bella Love-Wins -Robin's ski slope encounter with gorgeous playboy, Dr. O'Halloran, turns into a smoldering night with unexpected secrets, and gifts that keep on giving.The Dragon's Christmas Baby by Anya Nowlan - A dragon will do anything for his fortune. Even more so if the fortune is a curvy, sassy woman and a baby he didn't even know he had...Cheetahs Never Run by Suki Selborne -It's not easy being a single mom, or a witch with no magical skills. When her cheetah shifter ex Quinn shows up in Rocky Falls for the holidays, Tyla is forced to share her biggest secret.Enchanting Her Alphas by Auriella Skye- When a water witch running from her past meets two sexy wolf shifters, it leads to a steamy holiday encounter and a cute, little revelation.The Honeybear's Secret Baby byJacqueline Sweet - Outlaw shifter Jordan and by-the-book Sebastian shared only one night together, but it left a secret new life growing inside her. When he catches her mid-heist, will he turn her in or be the Alpha she needs?Dragon Baby by Milly Taiden - Thane will do anything to protect Lily and their baby, including killing anyone who threatens their existence.Angel by Holley Trent - Single dad Grant's got a ranch to run and a wolfpack to lead. His sweet holiday guest, Angel, could be a mom for Pete, but a weak mate may be a liability in an unstable pack.The Panther's Christmas Surprise by Alyse Zaftig - Amani didn't just see a lethal panther morph into a naked man, did she? She just uncovered a dark secret that might get her killed.

Shifters in the Snow: Bundle of Joy: Seventeen Paranormal Romances of Winter Wol

Kit Fawkes

Amanda Jones

Kim Fox

Tessa Rowan

Eleven retellings of the Beauty and the Beast fairytale featuring shifters

Taming the Beast

Prince in Leather

The Norseton Wolves Mate Call Collection

Christy Newton

Jennifer Lawler

Susan Conley

Jaye Shields

Witchcraft is afoot in these five paranormal romances featuring some seriously seductive sorcery. Smart, sexy, and more than slightly supernatural, these enchantresses beguile their heroes with the greatest magic of all: love. That Magic Mischief: When her boyfriend dumps her out of the blue, Annabelle's hopes of walking down the aisle seem lost--until the metaphysical takes matters in hand. After all, what's the point of being a witch if you can't manage a spell to fix your broken heart? Luckily, transplanted Irishman Jamie Flynn is more than ready to be charmed. Secrets of the Sky: Sparrow Reed might look like an angel, but she's actually a witch who can change into a songbird. When her best friend's problems drop Sparrow in an underworld fraught with threats, Rowen Aerion of the Knights of the Fog has his hands full trying to keep her alive--and his love may be her biggest danger of all. Lessons in Magic: Recently unemployed and rudderless, Phoebe agrees to get her late aunt Edna's house ready to put on the market. While cleaning up cobwebs, she unexpectedly discovers her witchy, latent family talent for summoning demons. Noah Rossi, wizard in training, comes to the rescue, but can he save her from accidentally destroying the universe? Naturally Enchanted: As a struggling journalist, Owen Cooper has to make a name for himself, and a tip that a real-life witch is living on Mango Cove may just lead to the big story he needs. Undercover as a shipwrecked tourist, he worms his way into Ezra's family and their secrets but soon discovers the fetching sorceress has a tight hold on his heart. A Demon Bewitched: The last time Claude Fortier fell for a woman, Gulielmus killed her. Nearly 200 years later, Claude's lover is back...sort of. Gail Colvard may have been born with his sweet Laurette's soul, but her new-and-improved incarnation is a witch who isn't taking any mess--not from him nor dear old Dad, either. Sensuality Level: Sensual

5 Spellbinding Romances

Bewitched and Bothered

Brook Williams was raised to avoid drawing attention at all costs. At twenty-eight, she wonders if her mermaid mother’s paranoia isolated Brook and her siblings from society to a harmful extreme. When Brook intervenes to save a stranger from a careening truck, however, she quickly learns her mother’s obsessive concerns were entirely justified. There’s just something about Brook that Cooper Koning can’t get off his mind. At first, he thinks his infatuation is due to the concussion sustained when she shoved him out of traffic. Then he realizes that she’s simply perfect…perfect to free him from a looming future being the king of Souersland. His candid Hail Mary proposal comes with few strings attached: Brook marries him, he’s tossed from the line of succession, she gets a wad of cash for her struggling swim school, and they go their separate ways. Of course, Cooper soon realizes that he’d be foolish to let her go. Now that she’s left her little world, though, the mermaid skeletons in Brook’s closet can no longer stay hidden. Her mother left the sea to escape a burdensome duty, and now that duty is Brook’s. And in a strange twist of fate, that mantle may mean that it isn’t even Cooper’s human family who should rule Souersland, but Brook’s magical one. Can a relationship built on fables endure? Or will the star-crossed spouses quickly decide their differences are too tremendous to overcome?

Wish Out of Water

Rosalinda Gutierrez, the Hotel Beaudelaire's night auditor, finds a beautiful bouquet of roses on her desk on Valentine's Day. She quickly learns her secret admirer is someone she's been quietly fantasizing about for several years. They've been two ships passing in the night: she works nights, and he works days. Trevor Reed tends the five-star hotel's grounds, and in his free time cultivates flowers nearly as stunning as Rosalinda. The unsophisticated gardener is pleasantly surprised the white-collar girl is receptive to his advances, and when she escalates their friendly date to an erotic fantasy, he figures she'll want him only for the night. Rosalinda has other things in mind. She likes men who can make things other than money, and Trevor's quiet dominance pushes all the right buttons for her. She doesn't care that he's just a gardener, but now she has to make him believe it.

As Sweet

Lisa Cartwright thought she’d be spending the holidays getting over her ex Joey Novak. They just can’t seem to properly break up. When his company sends its staff to Lisa’s retreat, she has to play nice, even if that’s the last thing she wants to do. Joey has marriage on his mind and intends to use their close proximity to remind her of how good they are together. However, an interloping coworker insists on proving him wrong. His new rival, timid editor Finch Alice, has decided that she’s tired of undeserving men getting all the happy endings. She hopes she can be bold for once in her life and show Lisa that she can have more. But Lisa and Joey’s relationship is a more loving and complicated thing than Finch initially thought. That doesn’t mean she was wrong. Lisa does deserve more. But it turns out that so do Joey and Finch…and surprisingly, in ways that may involve each other. Other Plot Twist Novels: - Writing Her In - Three Part Harmony

Working Title

Contessa Dahl has spent most of her life in a haze. A rudderless orphan, most decisions involved her fists and feet: should she fight or should she run? At twenty-eight, she's ready to clean up her act, but Tess might be a bit premature because she's destined to be a special kind of leader. Born into a group of desert-dwelling telepathic descendants of Vikings, Tess was meant to become a link for them all-their queen and conduit. Her kidnapping and the subsequent death of her parents meant her people, the Afotama, have had a hole in their web for too long. Now that she's back at home, it's Tess's job to mend it. But, she can't do it alone. She needs a perfect mate to fill in her psychic gaps, and two men claim to be fated for the job. Harvey Lang, her childhood champion, and the group outsider Oliver Gilisson would fight to the death to win her. However, to gain full control of her considerable power, she must find a way to keep them both."

After a month as a "guest" of the Foye gang, quiet nurse Miles Bennett is itching to be able to leave their isolated ranch. But were-cougar second-in-command Hank Foye wants to take her as his mate. If she doesn't agree to accept him, he'll be cursed to spend the rest of his life on four paws. With no family waiting for her back home, Miles decides to stick around - Hank is cute, and staying in town means she'll get to stay with her friends. Hank expected to be paired with Miles's brash friend Hannah, not meek and mundane Miles. But his goddess says this is his one and only chance for a mate, even if Miles is a liability in a world where shifters fight to lead and roam. Now he not only has to attend to Cougar affairs but play bodyguard, too. Surprisingly, the sweet young woman brings his long-repressed passions roaring to life. She deserves to be loved unconditionally, but he sees her as the embodiment of everything he can't have. Can he get his house in order to lead a group of restless Cougars and earn his mate's trust? Sensuality Level: Sensual

The Cougar's Trade

It has been nearly a thousand years since the Afótama have had a chieftain, and the old Viking gods have decided it's time to return some power to the tribe's men. Harvey Lang and Oliver Gilisson have barely settled into their roles as queen's consorts when new powers awaken along with undeniable hungers.Queen Contessa now has two chieftains and twice as many problems. She's not only in the midst of using her powerful psychic abilities to track long-missing clanspeople, but now has to contend with mercenaries targeting the Afótama's New Mexican desert home and a megalomaniac fairy queen wants to take Ollie's sons. Further, her two men seem to have forged an incendiary connection that has left her feeling cold.If Harvey, Ollie, and Tess are to be the leaders who finally return magic to their people, they must first come to terms with having power of their own. And to balance their strengths, they may have to become a true ménage instead of a sometime threesome.

The Chieftain's Daughter

Acting as an emissary for her pregnant cousin Tess, Nadia Hall’s mission is to locate a missing member of her clan’s royalty. She sets up a temporary base in Florida expecting Tess to send backup, but Nadia doesn’t expect it to show up in the form of one of the two men she’s been aggressively avoiding for months. And when man number two arrives out of the blue, her crippling anxiety about connecting to her fated makes the usually assertive woman run and hide. To complicate matters, her mates Thom Vaughn and Jeff Alstrup butt heads in a way only a sexually frustrated fairy and a fire-wielding modern Viking can manage. It seems the men don’t have a problem sharing Nadia—the issue is the men don’t know if they can share each other. If the powerful trio can’t strike an accord, not only will Nadia’s mission potentially get derailed, but the three will be unable to compensate for the changes in their magic that their union has sparked. With Nadia being psychically linked to the rest of the Afótama clan, she can’t afford to lose control. None of them can. Viking Flame is a MMF ménage romance. Also available in The Afótama Legacy: 1 - The Viking Queen's Men 2 - The Chieftain's Daughter 2.5 - Viking's Pride 4 - The Viking's Witch 5 - A Legacy Divided

Viking Flame

Dasha Maurice isn’t in the market for a serious relationship, much less one with one of the leather-wearing fairies residing at her best friend’s beach motel. Sure, Ethan Gotch is built like a linebacker and tongue-numbingly sexy, but he’s also a smidge intense and has a pesky ex who insists he’s her fated mate. He’s not. He’s Dasha’s. Being the only human in the fairy clique makes Dasha the perfect little soldier to play messenger in the fairy realm. She can’t be detected by raging Queen Rhiannon’s magic, and can help pull more oppressed Sídhe to freedom. The realm is collapsing and the people need a way out. When Ethan’s ex pulls a stunt causing Dasha to get stuck in the realm, she starts to believe she was right keeping her distance from the fairy, but that’s the least of her concerns. If Dasha can’t accept what it means to be the mate of a shapeshifting fairy knight and work a little magic of her own, the two may never make it home alive.

Knight in Leather

If Saul Ade had known that stepping into his sister’s life would make him a player in the goddess Allendra’s unforgiving game, he would have never left the shadows. If he doesn’t accept the mate she has chosen for him by the rise of the next Blood Moon, the Sídhe will become human. Unfortunately, the woman he must make his love is a mermaid who once tried to drown his sister’s human best friend. If he’d wanted a mate at all, reckless Laurel O’Cuilinn wouldn’t be it. Laurel’s devastated to learn that Saul would rather cede Allendra’s challenge than to be with her, but she’s too practical to sulk. Four weeks isn’t much time to make Saul cast aside his grudges, and she’ll do what she must to help the Sídhe retain their magic—even if it means turning on some of the mermaid charm her fated mate finds so repugnant. Allendra’s not the only one who can play games. But unlike the goddess, Laurel plans to play for love—not with it.

Fated & Forbidden

Surrendering Saul

All preschool teacher Gillian Wright wanted was to pick up a third job so she could buy her students Christmas gifts. She didn’t think she’d be the one getting picked up instead. Her new boss, Nicholas Roth, is the big man in charge at Santa Incorporated—what Gillian thought was a seasonal staffing agency. But the sexy CEO has a holly jolly secret. He’s an equal opportunity employer and most of his staff are elves. Santa has another secret. When he’s not delivering toys for his charity, he’s contending with political unease in the magic realm. To take his father’s throne as king of the elves, he has to get married…and only magic-proof Gillian will do. Gillian agrees, thinking Nick will cut her loose after the busy Christmas rush, but he has other ideas. Nick wants a permanent Mrs. Roth and thinks he’s found his true mate in Gillian. Too bad Gillian doesn’t agree.

Holley Trent

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