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Zafira and Jade's little game has escalated into a plot bigger for them to handle. They both know if they don't work together, it will lead to mutual destruction. But who will fold first?

Abigail James has worked hard to get to where she is: a stylist at a Hollywood film production. But that means she must uproot her life and start anew in a completely different place! It’s only by chance that she runs into single father Danny, but that chance meeting changes her life completely! Billionaire producer Daniel Cliff is media-shy and reclusive and wants to keep it that way. He sees the beautiful plus-size Abby as a chance to start anew with his son. But fate has more in store for Abby and Danny than that.

Amanda is fed up with her love life and decides to take a break from it all. A king in need of someone like her has been waiting. Will Amanda be able to give the king and his two bodyguards what they need? Love makes one do crazy things, and falling for a blue skinned alien with tentacles is no exception to the rule.

What do you do when your husband of 10 years is cheating on you and you decide - well...he is not getting half! You bump him off, of course! Told from two different perspectives, the wife’s and the husband’s, Virtuous Woman vs. Cheating Man is a black-humor romp that takes you into the depths of the twisted id, inside the human heart, and causes you to emerge - a little dazed and confused, but still hopeful: that in all this craziness in this world, there might still be - true love.

Months after she first went to the bridge, Mercy has been declared healed. However, life still isn’t all sunshine and roses, as evident when she’s stood up on a date. Yet there is someone waiting for her. Acedia, the leader of the Seven Sinners, wishes to personally congratulate Mercy on completing her healing journey. Then the darkness returns, ready to claim Mercy’s soul.

Mercy has never considered herself special, which is why she can see right through her coworker’s “flirtations” for what they really are: harassment. After finally putting everyone in their place, Mercy heads home to find the last of the Seven Sinners in her room. Vanity, the Goddess of Self-Absorption, is ready to teach Mercy how to love herself. But Vanity isn’t very aggressive. If Mercy wants her life back, she’s going to have to take it. Again. And again.

The fifth story in the Sins of Mercy series. Worn down by harassment at work, Mercy makes a new friend who informs her she needs to get “angry” again - to feel the rage of a woman scorned who won’t take bull from anyone and knows how to get what she wants. But how is Mercy to ever feel the sweet release of rage again? As fate would have it, a goddess is waiting for her. Wrath, the deity of righteous anger, wants to whip Mercy back into hating shape.

The sixth story in the Sins of Mercy series. In the grandest of miracles, Mercy is developing a social life. Thanks to her new friend, Mercy spends an evening out enjoying the company of energetic strangers who flirt with her, share their knowledge, and make her feel a little less alone. Yet Mercy shows she’s still on her way to healing when she’s unable to indulge in the same revelries as everyone else. Luckily there is yet another new friend waiting at home: Excess, the jolly goddess of many kitchen talents.

No one is more productive at work than Mercy, who is blessed with lust and avarice - and both sins leave her with too much energy! For a week, Mercy has not slept a wink, opting to, instead, put in overtime at work, clean her house every day, and probably train for a marathon, too. It's gotten to the point where her coworkers are noticing her for all the wrong reasons.

This book captivates readers by providing them with a visual or mental movie of the difficult voyages many African leaders and members of the Diaspora, such as African-Americans undertook, for the well being of mankind. It’s exhilarating and empowering because it allows readers to see themselves inside of those who have laid the solid foundation for their future successes. It promotes cultural awareness because it features legendary achievers whose exemplary characteristics influenced our history.

And then daddy dearest enters stage left. So, I met my father. I beat the crap out of him, but I haven’t killed him yet. Yet being the operative word. I still haven’t made up my mind about that. I had my to-do list before I broke out of Scorchwood and killing him was a major part of my big kill list. I mean, the man framed me, sent me to prison in Hell, then had a mad warlock experiment on me. So, now we are uneasy allies. The fate of two realms is resting on my shoulders. That doesn’t mean I might not still decide to kill him if we manage to pull this off.

I’ve made allies in prison. I know the truth about my fire dragon Fergus. All of us have been wronged in whatever this plot was that they’ve framed me for. I haven’t forgiven Rathmore for what he did to Roman. My kill list is growing, but luckily, I’ve made friends with a few psychos in prison. I’ve got a wolf, a demon, a vampire, and Fergus perfectly happy to help me complete my list and kill anyone who gets in my way.

Lizbeth is in trouble. Damaris knows she’s discovered his plot to overthrow his brother Alto, the current head of the vampire family, and take his place. To keep her quiet and eliminate the threat, she poses, he’s set her up and framed her for murder. Fleeing for her immortal life, she knows that every vampire blood-related to Alto is sacred and plotting against anyone who has consequences. Luckily, someone in the shifter community offers her shelter and to introduce her to someone who can help.

Jaloon is a 14-fingered alien woman on a colonized planet in the far-off Andromeda galaxy. It is a pipeline between alien cultures she can barely comprehend, and she is simply a lowly cog in an interstellar alliance between races at war with an unstoppable enemy. Jaloon must contend with assassins, violent galactic criminal organizations, and her own malicious family, while trying to pay off a massive debt to a faceless mega corporation.

Life taught Emelise that you cannot trust a man to be there when you need him. After losing her mother, Emelise moves to New Orleans with high hopes. Just when she thinks are going smoothly, fate steps in and her world is turned upside down. Caine became Alpha of the Black Water Pard at the age of 22. After a failed relationship with a human, he'd resigned himself to the life of a bachelor. Little did he know his world was going to be rocked by a woman who proved that dynamite comes in small packages.

"Pick a mate or I'll do it for you." Unwilling to sacrifice her dreams of loving the man she commits her life to, Lily makes a drastic decision and disappears into the night. For six years, her life was untouched by her old pack, but all of that changed when he walked into Gathering Grounds, the coffee book shop she worked at.

He has no problem leading women on just to get information. He has just been asked to spy on the Royal family of Belgium to uncover an assassination plot. Their number one suspect, the daughter of the Prime Minister, who, like him, finished university top of her class, speaks nine languages, and is a black belt. Derek’s boss warns him that the last agent on the case quit because she was impossible to read. Always up for a challenge, he is determined to find her vulnerabilities and know her better than she knows herself.

Jilted by her mail order fiancé, Maybelle Lewis is stranded at a Dodge City saloon counter in the company of handsome, alas, pestering drunk. When the marshal determines Maybelle’s would-be husband is a work of fiction, she dives into the bottle with the handsome drunkard and wakes up married after all. In the sober light of day, Maybelle and Rafe McElroy brainstorm ways to un-jam their fix, but addictive heat and unbridled passion have a few ideas of their own.

Sweet, beautiful mail order bride Merla flees one horrible life in Wichita, only to find herself in another horrible one in Dodge. Her husband-to-be is not the kind loving man his letters portrayed him to be. But Merla’s rescuer John “Mac” McElroy is more handsome than handsome should be. When he doesn’t like to see a beautiful woman abused, he and his three brothers take her home to his mother.

Amanda is fed up with her love life and decides to take a break from it all. A king in need of someone like her has been waiting. Will Amanda be able to give the king and his two bodyguards what they need...? Love makes one do crazy things and falling for a blue-skinned alien with tentacles is no exception to the rule. A race against extinction and a passion comes alive in something that Amanda never thought was possible.