She's bound ... and determined to pass his test! Dominant Thorne tells his submissive playmate Eileen that their weekend in Maine is a test for both of them. She thinks he's testing how they like the rules he set for the trip: Skirts and no underwear. Addressing him as "sir". Asking for permission to come. Most important of all, obeying him and letting him take charge.Best test ever! They already know their kinky chemistry is off the charts. There's no way to fail. If she gets "punished", that's just part of the fun.As the weekend wears on, though, Eileen starts to doubt herself. Their experiments in oceanside spanking and hotel-bed bondage are scaldingly hot. But getting caught in the rain with Thorne shouldn't feel as sweet as it does. And that's not even getting into how much she enjoyed 100 percent vanilla candlepin bowling. Thorne's her Dom and play-partner, not her boyfriend, and if she starts getting confused about their roles, the Harvard...

The ocean is on their side. But the fight is on land—and it's about to get dirty.Duals and Donovans: The Different, Book 4Long held captive as the Agency's secret weapon—a blind witch with visions—Meaghan has come to a line she refuses to cross. Rather than betray the infant "child of five bloods" to the Agency's scientists, she chooses death. Except when she throws herself into the ocean, she doesn't die. Her repressed water magic comes to life. When the sodden, delirious witch drifts into Kyle's arms, his otter dual instincts tell him to get her to the Donovans as fast as possible. Even though one particular surfer-dude Donovan broke his heart.Declan Donovan continually kicks himself for pushing Kyle away, but his touchy combination of water, earth and lightning magic is too volatile, and Kyle wanted more than Deck was ready to give.When they come together to help Meaghan control her new magic, it...

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When love is outlawed, only the bravest lovers can defeat an inhuman foe.A demon in the guise of a goddess is "purifying" the great city of Dakura by killing off its stores of love, desire, and beauty. Once the city is void of color and passion, the demon can claim the city for its base to conquer the whole mortal world.Anchali, a priestess of the goddess of love and desire, infiltrates the temple of the false goddess, along with her reluctant guardian Thanom, a soldier whose wife was murdered in a demon-inspired purge. They're hoping to get information to pass on to a rebel general who hopes to roust the cult from Dakura. What they find, though, tells them this isn't a job for warriors.It's a job for lovers, using the power of passion to enact an ancient ritual.Anchali can perform the ritual. But first she has to convince a broken-hearted man to love again.Compared to that, defeating a demon is child's play.Warning: Contains more explicit violence and less explicit sex than usual...

Contemporary Romance

When you make the Devil's bargain, be prepared to take the heat. A lot of heat.Chronicles of the Malcolm, Book 2Most of Xia's early memories are repressed, thank the Great Cat Mother. But her body remembers how to kill.The longer she and her fellow Malcolm crewmates are holed up on Cibari hiding from assassins, the twitchier she gets—until the planet's insanely sexy warlord, Rahal Mizyar, borrows her skills to take out slavers.Rahal suspects Xia is his mate, but the human-raised female never learned the finer points of felinoid rituals. The solution: make her fall hard and fast for him, even if it means playing dirty.Hired to determine if Xia is the long-missing granddaughter of the felinoid prime minister, Cal Janssen has finally tracked her down. Getting past Rahal, though, is a problem—until he's mistaken for a notorious arms dealer and playboy. And he finds himself the object of both Rahal's and...

Their chemistry’s explosive. Too bad someone wants to blow them up. Cat-girl space racer Sarr’ma Settazz’s plan: Enter the reality show The Great Space Race. Hide she’s also an engineer. Steal super-secret technology. Win. Easy-peasy bloxfruit squeezy! Falling for her grumpy, overprotective, smoking-hot human race teammate? Not in the plan. Miner Tripp Gallifer’s plan: Enter The Great Space Race. Protect his playful cat-girl teammate while she handles the actual flying. Win. Pray the psycho who kidnapped his sister will honor their bargain: Tripp keeps silent about the crime and hands over the prize money, and his sister goes free. Falling for the brilliant female he glimpses behind Sarr’ma’s bouncy façade? Not in the plan. Then the kidnapper ups the game to attempted murder and all secrets must be revealed—including their feelings. Sarr’ma and Tripp concoct a scheme worthy of the wildest reality show to save Tripp’s sister and themselves. But they’ll need to trust each other to pull it off. Will their love be enough to let them win the biggest prize of all?

Love has a trick up its sleeve...Duals and Donovans: The Different, Book 2Some guys just don't take rejection well. Sure, Akane's affair with an uptight sorcerer's boy toy backfired, but two hundred years locked in a mortal body is cruel and unusual punishment for a Trickster avatar. To free her fox form, she needs sex magic with a male of her own kind. Except none exist.Adorable Trickster-touched fox dual Taggart Ross-Donovan is the closest she's found. Even better, he's married to Paul Donovan, whose red magic sizzles the air around him. One night with them will generate the extraordinary power needed to set her free.The last thing Tag and Paul expect to find under a sorcerer's curse is a kitsune, a beautiful one who gets under their skin without even trying. Tag is more than ready to take the risk she needs. Paul has reservations, but it's nothing Tag can't overcome with a little sensual persuasion.No one goes into the ritual with more hope than...

What happens in Vegas lasts forever...if you're lucky.A Duals and Donovans StoryLas Vegas is the wrong place for an inexperienced witch like Paul Donovan. But he has no choice; his family owes a debt of honor to a half-fae casino owner, whose guests have been dying under mysterious circumstances. The normy police haven't connected the dots between the deaths, and the owner has called in his marker.When Paul literally runs into fox dual Taggart Ross, the instant, powerful attraction between them bristles with red flags. Not only should there be no sparks between him and this "hillbilly with a tail", the fact is a dual couldn't have committed murder-by-magic. But until he's got proof, caution rules.Tag's own suspicions are on high alert. Magic killed his favorite uncle, and Paul, who senses Tag's dual nature way too easily, should be a prime suspect. Except Tag's libido responds to the witch in a way that shouldn't happen.Whatever this thing is...

To save the one they love, they re going in with spells blazing Duals and Donovan: The Different, Book 1 Elissa Donovan is a real green witch­when she and her lion-shapeshifter husband have sex, the blazing heat is recycled to warm their house. Now her beloved Jude has been kidnapped by a shadowy government agency, and the last place she can turn for help is her high-powered family, who considers her magic mediocre. When Rafe Benedict gets Elissa s call for muscle to back up her magic, he risks his law enforcement career to answer. He s spent a lifetime hiding his Dual ability, but something about Elissa and Jude s magic awakens the cougar within him. Tempting, bronzed Rafe is the perfect fuse for Elissa s sex-fueled magic. Danger lies in breaking her vows; joining with anyone other than her true mate could not only send her marriage up in flames, it could burn out her powers in a last, all-or-nothing explosion. But Jude is worth the risk. And for Rafe, potential heartbreak is nothing next to the chance to help the two people he s coming to love. First, though, Rafe needs a crash course in Cougar Warning: This title contains evil fae, guys with guns, shadowy government conspiracies, a snarky ghost, and smoking-hot, three-way sex.

A Duals and Donovans storyDr. Maggie Krantz had been willing to die to atone for the mistake of working for the Agency, which was performing government-sanctioned torture of shapeshifting duals and other supernatural beings. At least it would get her out of her contract! To her surprise, though, death wasn’t the end. It was a whole new beginning. A chance to fight back against the Agency as she hadn’t dared to do in life.And a chance to get to know Bill Wade, another lively but not exactly living resident of the Agency compound.Bill may have been dead since World War II, but he’s the hottest man (or spirit) Maggie’s ever met. He’s thrilled to help her sabotage the Agency in the name of an America where all species are equal. Soon, Maggie develops a crush on her fellow ghost—maybe more than a crush. He’s acting flirty—maybe more than flirty. But can someone as shy and awkward as she was in life learn to trust...