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In the heat of a blind-date photo shoot, my obsession for her ignites. After we part ways, her image carves a path through my thoughts, leading me to dark places. Disguised by a mask, I cater to her every desire as I play the part of a stranger, but the secrets I harbor threaten to shatter the illicit passion we've found. Then she catches the eye of someone else, casting a sinister veil over our connection. I morph into her protector, even though it means she might end up hating me in the end.

The one good thing Jasmine Joyce’s father did was leave her the family ranch when he died. With the slice of heaven she calls home, Jazz created a sanctuary for those recovering from addiction and mental illness. Jazz knows hard work helps heal the soul; the ranch “guests” find it by the shovel full. The anonymity clause should protect everyone, but because of it, when Jazz welcomes her newest resident, she doesn’t know she is about to open a door into the past.

Hunger of the Hollow Heart is a descent into the quiet wounds we learn to carry. In this raw and haunting collection, Ashley Marie explores the places where grief settles, memory lingers, and where healing demands its own kind of surrender.

Martina Delgado is the leader of Coven Madrid. Known as the most powerful witch in the vampire world, an air of mystery surrounds her. She keeps her connections to her coven sisters and loves nothing more than to put the likes of Matthew Browne in his place. Fiercely loyal, she takes no pleasure in fools and has maintained her peace for a long time. That is until Matthew comes to disturb it. Matthew Browne is whiling away eternity in a cloud of smoke and at the bosom of every beautiful being with interest in New York City.

Gwen and Pete have never quite found their footing over the years. When they met, she was a sophomore in college, and he. . . was undead. After an attack shocks the realms, Gwen is separated from her coven and needs the protection of a vampire clan in Berlin. Walking the tightrope of her new life, Gwen must decide what she truly wants . . . While she still can.

It’s the Fall of 1986, and Phoebe Miller is a rock journalist for Titanium Magazine. Her newest assignment involves following Damien Bell and his band, Revolver, on their last North American tour before they head back into the studio to record their sophomore album. Damien is loud, obnoxious, has a reputation for excess, and he hates journalists, but he seems to have a soft spot hidden beneath all of that bravado. Phoebe prefers to be a fly on the wall, but she has a nasty habit of falling for men who she knows will break her heart.

Madame Bathory was a demon. A nightmare. A story told throughout the years to ensure the obedience of children refusing their bedtimes. She was a monster who masqueraded as human, bathing in the blood of the innocent to keep her disguise until the righteous trapped her within the walls of her own castle… a sentence passed for crimes she felt no remorse for. Bathory was gone. A bad memory. It’s funny how memories can resurface. And so I did. Waking in the rubble of my castle prison, I found all had changed. All but the hunger. I was free to begin again. To feed.