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I’m engaged to a woman who should be perfect for me. She’s smart, intelligent, and from a family that can bring huge expansion to my syndicate. There’s only one problem; it’s just a business arrangement. My fiancée loves another man, and I am falling head over heels for a woman who’s too young for me. I’ve got to shut it down before I’m in too deep and wreck the life I’ve been building up around me. But when she pursues me, desire pulls me toward her.

I can't speak. I have no one. I live my life below the radar, burning crime scenes for the mafia. Most of my life I've managed to quash the loneliness down until it left me nothing but a hardened shell. Until I found her. Until I took her. Every moment near her drives me to new levels of obsession, and I'll do anything to keep her.

Socialite Lily Montgomery has done her best to stay out of the spotlight since her mother's death. For five years, she's carried the burden of being an heiress—felt the pressures of upholding her legacy. But she never once believed she was in danger. Until her car is chased and run off the road. Lily can't shake the feeling that the horrific crash was more than a random act of violence. It felt personal. As if someone wanted her to feel terrified and helpless.

When Jackson, Elliot, River, and Thomas were hired to protect a socialite, they weren't expecting to form a connection with her. Lily Montgomery has become more than a job to them; they need her as much as she needs them. But they'd been distracted, too intoxicated by her to notice the real threat had been right under their noses the entire time. Until they find Lily beaten and unconscious.

Judith's a passionate historian with a lust for knowledge. That lust has led her to a very special museum in the sleepy little town of Winslet, Connecticut, where she's about to learn that anything can happen. The museum holds a special secret in the heart of one of its forgotten exhibits that sends Judith on a tailspin journey into the past. Mistaken for the goddess Freyja by the shield maidens and bearing a magically thick, throbbing new weapon, Judith uses her magical gift, quick wits, and her knowledge of history to survive in even the stickiest of situations.

When Carl Lockhart rekindles a friendship with Jessica, his high-school crush, he soon forms an easy-going relationship with her 15-year-old daughter, Rianna. Until the moment she kisses him. Taken aback, Carl rejects her advances, but despite his reluctance to admit it, Rianna’s right when she points out he has feelings for her that go far beyond friendship. With a grudge against Carl and a taste for all things pure, Carl’s boss, Stephen, views Rianna as an irresistible opportunity.

Be careful what you wish for! An eight-hour orgasm? What should be divine becomes an exquisitely agonizing ordeal for Tessia, who makes the ultimate quivering sacrifice to the god called the Blesser; but for Avia, who takes Tessia' s place when she's unable to live up to her commitment to the god, it's a revelation as well as an act of devotion.

Henry’s heart has long been devoted to Olivia, his sister's dearest friend, and Olivia has always loved Henry–like a brother. Olivia Danville witnessed a passionate seduction at a formative age, and her unexpected education stirs wanton desires which would make her treasured friend, the handsome and valiant Henry, despise her. With her father called to duty against Napoleon, Olivia’s mother asks Mr. Seldon, the new vicar with the face of an angel, to counsel the young debutante in preparation for matrimony.

In this 3,500 word short story, we learn the allure of power, greed, sex, and darkness...and how it can all make a good girl go bad. When Duvessa Doyle took the job in the little town of Winslet, she stumbled into a world beyond her greatest imaginations and experiences things few could ever understand. But her hunger for power brought the sensual darkness of the Aberration Order to her door. The Time Keeper Society aren't the only ones tasked to time, but the difference is that the Aberration Order disrupts it. Assassinations, kidnapping, and deliciously dark deeds.

The amorous historian is back and ready for her first official mission. Her destination? The high seas in the year 1719, where her weapon of steel may be the one thing to save the beautiful redheaded pirate queen Anne Bonny from certain doom. Along the way she gets into steamy trouble, but there's nothing she can't handle. Meanwhile, back home in her time, there's something sexy brewing with her boss, and maybe they'll go down in more than just history. Sexy humor and balmy sensuality combine. Come along for a wild ride on the high seas!

Ariella has ached for something forbidden for as long as she's swam the currents of the Atlantic Kingdom, where her father controls every move with his fearsome trident. She aches for the surface, and a life where she might walk on two legs and feel the heat of a human man's passionate embrace. An impossible dream, since her father hates the surface and loathes humans. But her sister’s lover, Olasa, offers her a chance. However, it comes with a price. Once Ariella has her experience, she must be bound to Olasa forever.