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“Do you know what you are to me?” She shook her head as he whispered to her. His mouth was doing incredible things to her and she wanted more. “Mate? You’re my mate. Do you know what that means?” Her body seemed to come alive at his words. She struggled to pull from him and he let her go, but he didn’t back off. She moved back from him as far as the wall and tried to get her mind to function again. She was not going to be his mate, not any man’s. “You have to go. I won’t bother you anymore if you do the same for me.” He moved to within a foot of her and she put up her ...

Xavier’s Hatchlings Finn Theodore Milo George Dover Hadley Finn Manning had so much on his plate, he wasn’t sure which end was up. He’d been there six months, and the pile of work on his desk hadn’t diminished by one sheet of paper. None of the construction projects the family had lent the money for had even been started. The foreman was a bully, and Finn had had enough. Rachel Merkel had literally felt the earth move from beneath her feet. The plates she had been stacking at the restaurant crashed around her when she hit the floor. Her sister-in-law Sandra, instead of being ...

18+ Erotic Shapeshifter Romance, fantasy romance, paranormal fantasy The Manning Dragons Cooper Hudson Lincoln Lucas Tristan (Coming Soon) Xavier (Coming Soon) Lincoln figured the new artist in town would be one of their mates. He’d heard she was a real ball buster and thought that maybe she would be Tristan’s mate because Tristan said he couldn’t handle that. But when Ginger introduced him to her sister, Grace, he knew from the moment he touched her she was meant for him. Grace was in shock. Garrett had taken her into his office when the show was still going on and told her that she ...

Cindi Janis was worried. The murders had been all over the newspapers. Young, redheaded women were found murdered, too many to be just a coincidence. Cindi hadn’t heard from her Aunt Caroline in quite some time, and she fit the description of one of the victims. So did she, for that matter. A short trip to Ohio and Cindi could claim the body if it was indeed her aunt and get on with her life. But what she found when she got to Ohio wasn’t on her agenda. Xavier Manning wanted to help; someone needed to go to the airport to pick up Miss Janis to get this nasty business of identifying the ...

Xavier’s Hatchlings Finn Theodore Milo George Dover Hadley Pembroke Black had always had a lot on her plate. As a child, she could not tolerate her father, and Pem had moved in with her grandparents when her mother died. When she was old enough to move out, she joined the Army and served the front lines as a doctor. Stitching people up was what she did best. Coping with her own emotions was another story—Pem found little joy in this world. When Pem’s grandda passed away, Theo Manning was there to help Pem’s grandma any way he could. That included keeping grandma safe. He had no idea...

The Manning Dragons Cooper Hudson Lincoln Lucas Tristan Xavier (Coming 12-10-19) Wynter Dawn had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. She had gone to the mall to get a well-deserved birthday present for her mother when all hell broke loose. She had taken four bullets herself, but too many others had died. Now, the police were trying say she was an accomplice and pin the blame for the others’ deaths on her. They were going for the death penalty. Tristan Manning had never met Wynter before, but when Xavier rescued her from the courthouse, Tristan was called to Cooper’s home. When he...

Living a life of exile made for a lonely existence. Banished from her realm for a crime she didn’t commit, that’s the life that the king had condemned Harley Pennington to. Sentenced to a life of solitude away from the people she served, the people she loved. With her departure she was given a warning, that if she fell in love and took a mate that she would be brought back and immediately put to death and her new mate along with her. The Limo that Keith Golden was riding in was in a horrific accident rolling down an embankment. He was trapped and felt his life slipping away until a ...

Golden Streak Series 1. Ryland 2. Alistair 3. Neal 4. Brock 5. Jules 6. Keith Rayne Morrow trusts no one, she’s been burnt too many times. All she wants is to lay low and keep her little flower shop open. But too many people owe her big money and refuse to pay up. If she can’t collect soon she’ll have to close. Golden Towers needs to decorate their building, but Rayne misses her appointment and is immediately suspicious when the Goldens wish to work with her anyway. Especially since she knocked their enforcer, ...

Recommended for 18+ The Wait Family Series 1. Cain 2. Quinn 3. Sin 4. Lilliane 5. Jasmine 6. Grace Anne Cain Waite watched the girl beneath his lashes. She was skinny he thought but very pretty. He wondered at the conversation she and the nurse was having enough that when the nurse left he followed. He wanted to help the girl and asked for permission to do so. “Damon Grant knows me. He can vouch for me as a doctor. I just want to see if I can help.” It didn’t matter really once he got back to the girl as she was lying in a pool of her own blood and unconscious. The girl went by many ...

Recommended for 18+ The Wait Family Series 1. Cain 2. Quinn 3. Sin 4. Lilliane 5. Jasmine 6. Grace Anne Does she always have to be so bossy, Andrew thought to himself? Quinn Waite was Cain’s sister and worked for his wife, Alyssa as a secretary and her own personal security. Quinn owed Alyssa that much for saving her from being killed by her own father. Quinn had been married in the past to an abusive man and once her sister Sydney found out, she taught her self-defense causing the man to sign the papers for divorce. Andrew Miller works as an attorney for Alyssa at her company Howard ...

Lenore MacFinley, Lenny to her friends, is a homicide detective, and a damn good one. But when she finds herself next on the hit list, things turn deadly. Broke and critically injured, Lenny wants nothing to do with the handsome, bossy Were Tiger. Jules Golden finds himself tricked into meeting his new mate. He has made a name for himself as a potter and an artist, and is happy with his life the way it is. A new mate isn’t part of his carefully laid plans. “You’re my mate. Do you know what that means?” She nodded, then shook her head. “You either do or you don’t, Lenore. Which ...

Recommended for 18+ The Wait Family Series 1. Cain 2. Quinn 3. Sin 4. Lilliane 5. Jasmine 6. Grace Anne Jasmine or as Cain calls his sister, Jazzie is a best-selling romance author known as Jasmine Blackwell. No one in her family knows that is how she is supporting herself and she wants to keep that a secret not just from them, but from everyone who knows her. Nathan is still working on his self-confidence. Since leaving the life of drugs and alcohol, his sister, Alyssa is helping him get back on his feet by having him work for her and giving him projects to be proud of. Jazzie has made ...

Recommended for 18+ The Wait Family Series 1. Cain 2. Quinn 3. Sin 4. Lilliane 5. Jasmine 6. Grace Anne Lilliane loved molding little children’s minds as a kindergarten teacher at Jefferson Elementary School in Nashville. But when 2 men came to the school shooting and injuring herself and killing others, she wasn’t sure this is what she could do anymore no matter how much she loved it. When she was healed enough to leave, she was going to have to live with Cain and Alyssa back in Ohio. Shamus McKee wanted so bad to be a detective. It’s all he had worked for. He was tired of just being...

A wet washcloth was handed to Alistair and he slapped it none too gently on the back of her neck. She tried to lift her head and he pushed her back down and glared at his brother. He had to take his anger out on someone, and he was the perfect target for it. “You had to scare her off on the first day, didn’t you? You just couldn’t stand the fact that you didn’t know that Colette wouldn’t work for you and that I’d found you suitable help in the meantime.” His brother started to speak, but Bronwyn lifted her head again and he shoved her back down. “You should be horse whipped....

Recommended for 18+ The Wait Family Series 1. Cain 2. Quinn 3. Sin 4. Lilliane 5. Jasmine 6. Grace Anne “Christ, love a dub, he was scrumptious!” Grace thought to herself when the model walked in to do the cover of her catalog. But what she didn’t know immediately was that he was the wrong model. Grace is on a time crunch to get her Christmas catalog done on time and has to model her own clothing line. This was completely against what she wanted to do but had no choice. Michael Cunningham wants the Washington building from G.A. Waite and he is going to get it from him. Him? It ...

Recommended for 18+ The Wait Family Series 1. Cain 2. Quinn 3. Sin 4. Lilliane 5. Jasmine 6. Grace Anne Sydney was nothing if not direct. She was a captain in the military and had been sent on another assignment. Being in the Army was her life. She was one of Cain’s sisters. On a fateful mission, Sin was injured and left for dead but it wasn’t how the stars were aligned for her life to end. She had been shot 5 times on her right side, once in the right shoulder, and in her belly. The outcome didn’t look good for her. Once recovered as best as she could be, she went to stay at one of ...

Royce Hunter is wealthy, happy, and a confirmed bachelor. He runs his family's multi-billion dollar corporation, lives life in the fast lane, and has a family that mostly irritates him, but he loves very much; including his mom. One day he is stopped from entering his own building by a security guard, Kasey York, who insists that he get badged in. He knew then that somehow his life would never be the same. Kasey doesn’t have the time or the energy to deal with an overbearing man like Royce Hunter, who is clearly out of her league. Her mother is dying, her aunt needs special care, and she ...

Dalton’s Kiss Series 1. Bancroft 2. Stanley 3. Donald 4. Clyde 5. Ramon 6. Brian In all his years—and Brian Tessler being an ancient immortal vampire, he’d seen many—Brian couldn’t believe one of his best friends, Banny, the king of all vampires, could do something like this to his parents. His parents had been imprisoned on Banny’s orders due to a great debt they apparently owed, and Brian had no money to cover a debt of that magnitude. Another thing Brian couldn’t understand was how they had amassed such a debt in ...

Archer’s Dynasty 1. Delmar 2. Peter 3. Robert 4. William 5. Sherman 6. Darrel Nothing was going right for Tally. Her brother was threatening to sell his kid off again if she didn’t pay up. She was afraid he’d do it this time, too, if she didn’t come up with the money. Now, the neighbors were fighting again. When the gun next door went off, Tally took a bullet. William Archer was already in a bad mood. The woman had taken a bullet for him, then slammed the door in his face. He would help her, and that would be the end of it. The entire family had been trying to marry him off, and the...

Archer’s Dynasty 1. Delmar 2. Peter 3. Robert 4. William 5. Sherman 6. Darrel Sherman Archer was feeling good about his trip to DC. A vacant seat had opened up as a sitting judge, and he’d been recommended for the job. He wasn’t sure that he wanted it, but he was looking forward to seeing what they had to offer. FBI Agent Marcia Hammond was in charge of the nine candidates for the four vacant positions for sitting judges. She made a point to meet each candidate personally before the testing began. Sherman was the last man to ...