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Tracy has been in love with Jordan Kendall forever. When Jordan gets together with Peter Alvarez, she couldn't be happier. She fell in love with the handsome Fed at first sight, and she knows the sparks are there for all three of them. But while Peter seems receptive, Jordan still thinks of her as a kid. So Tracy takes the biggest gamble of her life. When it works, she's thrilled. Until she realizes that Jordan can't trust that they're forever - and that Peter is keeping a secret.

Josh and Alex have devised what they believe to be a sound, logical method for finding a wife. Then Penelope Primrose enters their lives, and suddenly they're not as interested in their logical plan as they had been. The more the brothers indulge themselves in Penelope, the more they want her. Penelope accepts a job offer from Kate Benedict, never expecting to find love under two honchos. She can neither explain nor deny the instant passion that brothers Josh and Alex Benedict ignite in her.

A ruthless killer shows a real hunger for fame. Struggling through the wilderness, an infected man tries to lead zombies away from his family. Hell hath no fury like a woman murdered. Civil War soldiers discover the secrets of a Southern swamp. Can Christmas magic survive the zombie apocalypse? A ship of the dead hunts the living on the high seas. Dinner in a diner takes on divine import. A 200-year-old vampire has a little surprise waiting for his next victim.

Sean is being held for questioning at the police station while Scarlet and Janice fear for their lives. Ryan is their sole protector because Cortland is kept in the dark about the situation. Scarlet doesn't want him to know the truth so she can spare him. When they travel to New York, things go from bad to worse. It becomes clear that Sean doesn't have a good chance of evading prosecution, Sean's mom seems to dislike Scarlet more than she did before, and Scarlet has to fearfully look over her shoulder every moment.

When she emergency lands her uncle's new plane at their airfield, Tamara Jones reluctantly agrees to accept Morgan and Henry Kendall's help in getting the Piper fixed. She may even indulge in some fun and games with the two sexy flyboys, but she knows there's no way they could really be aiming for forever. The brothers Kendall fire her jets, but she knows better than to trust in love. Blood will tell, and there's no way she wants to end up like her parents, racking up exes at the speed of sound.

Twenty-first-century women don't need a man - or two or three - to make their lives complete. That's been Susan Benedict's mantra for some time now. The sadder truth is, she doesn't know if she'll ever find any men as important to her as her relatives are - both past and present. Enter Colt Evans and Ryder Magee, two rough-and-tumble wildcatters who arrive with more on their minds than just drilling a well on Susan's property.

Welcome to Lusty, Texas, a town that's earned its name and is proud of it! In the aftermath of tragedy, Kelsey Madison found a new beginning in Lusty. Uninterested in affairs of the heart, she decides there's nothing wrong with having a little fun, as long as it's only physical. Matthew and Steven Benedict knew Kelsey was the one for them the moment they saw her. They set out to woo her with flowers, chocolates, and wild sex, but her future with the brothers Benedict is threatened by unknown enemy.

NFL quarterback Zolt Hamil was America’s heartthrob, until a career-ending injury changed his life. Years later, that injury still haunts him, and so does the hallucination of a young, sable-eyed, blonde beauty whom he conjured that painful day on the football field. After many one-night stands, only she hold his heart. His seraph. His angel. On the first day at his new job at a law firm in Scottsdale, Arizona, Zolt comes face-to-face with his hallucination, Irelyn Wilkes.

All Mariamne Niege wants is to finish her thesis and get a job. Unfortunately, she's a Guardian now, and her visions of the future have grown so intense, she's blind to the world while in their grip. Her Watcher, Hanson, is sleeping on her couch and scaring her roommates when he's not shepherding her through the visions and calming her worsening nightmares. Then the earthquakes start, warning of an even bigger disaster - a cataclysm that could level her beloved city and claim countless innocent lives. A disaster her visions say are triggered by Hanson....

Theodora Morgan knows she's a little strange. Her talent for healing has marked her as different all through a life spent moving from town to town when someone notices her strangeness. Now, she has a home, and she doesn't want to leave, but she's been found. The Crusade wants her dead because she's psychic; the Dark wants to feed on her talent; and then, there's Dante. Tall and grim and armed with black-bladed knives, guns, and a sword, he says he's here to protect her. But what if he's what Theo needs protection from most?

Rowan is no longer a civilian in the shadow war. Her talents are fully trained, and she's become something she never dreamed of - a cool, clinical, lethal psionic operative. Working as Henderson's second-in-command, she's utterly focused on two things: repairing the Society's infrastructure and rescuing Justin Delgado. Yet under her shell of calm and gentleness, her rage is simmering...and it's about to break loose.

When Rowan Price stumbles across Delgado's team in an abandoned house, he is assigned to make contact with her, bring her in, and keep her alive - because Rowan is one of the most powerful psychics the resistance has ever encountered. If the government gets its hands on her, she could very well mean the downfall of the resistance, because nobody, not even Rowan, is quite sure how far her talents extend. The Society will welcome Rowan, if she can stay alive long enough to join them.

A vampire named Bitsy. A grieving father's rage. An intergalactic cosmetic saleswoman. Loving wives, thwarted mistresses. Demons, ghosts, gods, and angels. Telepathic dinosaurs and humanoid robots. What do these diverse elements have in common? Stories about them have sprung from the imagination of Karen E. Taylor, a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author. In Mexican Moon and Other Stories, the writer of the popular Vampire Legacy series will take you on a tour of distant planets, drafty castles, haunted houses, and the most frightening place of all.

When an intergalactic cosmetic saleswoman crashes on a planet populated with sentient, genetically altered dinosaurs, she certainly doesn't expect to meet the male of her dreams. But what she discovers about the planet's inhabitants will change her life forever.

Love is a powerful emotion. In fantasy, it can turn monsters into men. Or men into monsters. Then again, maybe we're all just a little bit of both. The erotic and erotic horror stories featured in this collection depict love, hate, and sex, and all the many variations in between.

Mara Hawthorne found the perfect attic apartment in a small town far away from the heartbreaks of her former life in New York City. Her new home has everything she needs: an abundance of natural light for painting, a handsome landlord, and peace and quiet. But something secret hides in the shadows and watches her every move. All her life, she has wished for nothing more than someone to love, someone who would love her and never leave her. Be careful what you wish for.

Something's not quite right about the neighborhood of Woodland Heights. Five years ago six children disappeared in this suburban heaven. When Laura Wagner moves into a house that had been vacant for most of those five years, this something comes alive.

Sean and Scarlet are finally blissfully happy together. Their past is behind them. But after Sean and Scarlet travel to Connecticut to reveal their engagement, tensions escalate, family secrets are revealed, and an unexpected visitor ruins the weekend. When they return to Seattle, Scarlet refuses to get married at his family estate, which infuriates Sean. Their arguments escalate until another secret is revealed.

A broken heart and a preference for solitude leads Web Baker to driving a street sweeper on the night shift for Basil City. His mother wants grandchildren, and his sister is intent on fixing him up with every dimwitted beauty she can find. Add that to the late night antics Web encounters on his nightly shifts and he has more than enough excitement to keep him on his toes, but nothing could prepare him for the woman who stumbles into his sweeper's headlights.

Now that Sean and Scarlet are together, Scarlet couldn't be happier. They were meant for each other and would make any sacrifice to be together. With her greatest friend as her new lover, their relationship was perfect. But when Sean asks her to move back to New York, she hesitates. She doesn't want to leave her brother after finally reconnecting with him so they agree to make the coast-to-coast trip every weekend. When Penelope shows up at Sean's apartment pregnant and penniless, Sean has to decide what he really wants. Will a baby interfere with the happiness that Scarlet has recently found?