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Will saving her father's crumbling estate cost her everything? Liam Black hides a sensitive side. If losing his parents was a tragedy, then finding out his father had been unfaithful to his wife-Liam's mother-is a tragedy Liam can't even begin to process. It leaves him questioning everything he's ever known. If his parents' happy marriage was a sham, what hope has he got to find a woman to love and settle down with? Not even his two brothers' happy relationships can convince him otherwise. Then he sees the fearless, gorgeous woman on stage at a once yearly charity auction-a woman he met once and can't stop thinking about-and despite his cynicism, his heart is lost. Harper Franks isn't going to let a little pre-auction nerves get to her now. Not if it means snaring the billionaire sheikh she hopes to attract. She'll do anything to pay the debts inherited from her father and rebuild his bed and breakfast. What she doesn't expect is for Liam to outbid the sheikh with a figure that surely not even an infamous Black brother can afford? So why don't her financial woes seem half as bad when she's in his arms? She'll just have to figure out some other way to save her inheritance, because there is no way in hell she'll add to Liam's burden with her own problems.

She'll do anything for her family. He'll do everything to claim her.After Amber Clayton lost her parents at the tender age of seventeen, leaving her and her older brother all alone in the world, she is determined her brother won't now lose his marriage and his daughter thanks to his gambling addiction.She'll pay off his debts herself if need be!Waitressing at a party for a sheikh who is renowned for giving his staff great bonuses seems like her lucky break...until she spills a whole tray of drinks over Sheikh Basam. Amber's supervisor is furious and tells her she's finished. But the sheikh has other ideas. Pulling her aside, he gives her a proposition.Be his girlfriend for seven days. All she has to do is pretend to be in love with him and dissolve any idea of marriage between him and another woman, Maram, who is perfect for the role as his wife, if only he was attracted to her.Of course Amber isn't interested...until he tells her to name her price. Hope fills her from the inside out. Her brother's gambling could be paid off for just seven days of inconvenience.It seems too good to be true.But without risk there is no reward.All she has to do is keep her heart intact. Easy, right?

My innocence for his sick retribution. IsabellaThat's what Salvatore Costa, mafia underboss and now my kidnapper, demands from me. I tell him to go to hell. I hate his guts, and yet, my body betrays me and my mind won't stop thinking dirty thoughts about him. It doesn't mean I won't try to escape...after I kill him. SalvatoreI need to avenge my sister's forced marriage to my enemy, Ethan Agostino. Turns out his sister, Isabella, is the perfect sacrifice. She will submit to me and become a slave to my every dark desire. I just have to ensure my heart never rules my head. Because in my world, love equates to weakness, and nothing will stop me from becoming the next Costa Don.

A woman traumatized by her past. A man waiting to heal her. When supermodel Lacey Morgan fled a violent marriage, she also left behind the one man she couldn't have and can't forget. Kane Sampson fills her fantasies even as her husband and Kane's half-brother, Leeroy, fills her nightmares. She returns home to face her past so that she can put it behind her. Except her attraction for gifted artist Kane, hasn't diminished over time, it has intensified. Just as Leeroy's hate and possessiveness has also festered. This time she won't run. But has she left it too late to claim the only man she's ever wanted?

He's running from the past. She's afraid to face the future. Can they create a perfect today?Princess Takisha Hakim never thought she'd desire another man again. Not after Sheikh Fayez's rejection, and certainly not after her sick and depraved marriage to Sheikh Arif. She's learned the hard way that wealth and power comes at a cost and accepts she doesn't deserve to be loved. Then she sees gardener, Akeem Al-Dagher, and all her doubts fade away. Perhaps a commoner is just what she needs?Akeem Al-Dagher enjoys his simple life as a gardener. For the most part, hard, physical labor drowns out the memories of his past and helps him to forget about his family and the brutal war that made him the hero he never wanted to be. He might have been a killer in the past, but nurturing plants soothes his black soul. A pity his life gets complicated the moment the princess begins to take a personal interest.He doesn't belong in her world anymore…does he?

Warrior Alita Silver has one chance to prove herself, and competing in the Virgin Hunt Games will show everyone on her planet she deserves the promotion that's been held just out of reach. But this time, the rules of the games have changed. The virginal women have gone from being the hunted to being the hunters. And then she meets her competitors... Stetson Jamb remembers Alita from their last encounter-a little too well. Mostly, he remembers that she left him for dead and destroyed his life. Winning the games would not only earn him the credits he needs to rebuild his life, but would also satisfy his need for revenge. If only he didn't want her so damn badly. Apparently, revenge isn't the only dish tempting him... All's fair in war and sex, and with the rules turned upside down, the lines between the pursued and the pursuer are quickly blurring. It's not just a question of winning anymore. It's a question of who lives, who dies, and who comes...last.

Marry the Don, Ethan Agostino...or be killed.SabrinaThat was the choice given to me after I was caught snooping at Ethan's family home under the guise of one of his party guests. I might have been dumb enough to think I could glean information from him to take back to my family-his mobster rivals-but I'm not completely brain-dead. I'll marry the sadistic bastard and hope I'll live to regret my decision.EthanI can't believe I'm marrying a woman who is a direct threat to my criminal kingdom. Not only is her family my rivals, they became my bitter enemy when they murdered my older brother. But then our rivalry goes way back. Little wonder my father wants her dead. Except there is something about her that thaws my frozen heart. I'll keep her as my wife for as long as my fascination holds me in its grip, then I'll discard her. And I will...eventually. Because if I don't and my feelings for her grow, someone else will use her against me and kill her anyway.

EARTH, YEAR 2344 Morgana Dion, Princess of Aladdia, is hiding a secret. Her biological mother isn't the queen. But although Morgana has commoner blood running through her veins, it won't stop her from sacrificing everything she is to be in the Virgin Hunt Games and stop a vicious enemy from destroying her planet and her people. If that means submitting to King Leon-another royal from another, far more powerful world-and signing a contract to impregnate herself to his son, Garrett, who is one of ten hunters in the Games, then so be it. That Garrett is now more cyborg than man shouldn't matter, he has more royal blood flowing through his veins than she'll ever have.Garrett might know his first name, but he has no clue who he really is. Only that he woke up with cyborg parts after an explosion all but tore him apart. These days he has more pressing concerns, thanks to living in a squalid, dog-eat-dog prison ship in the middle of space. When he's given an opportunity to fight for his place as a hunter in the Virgin Hunt Games, he jumps at it. After all, the victor will never again return to the space prison.But though he's prepared for a society who will never really accept him, nothing can prepare him for the one hunted he wants in the games, a woman who looks at him with equal parts loathing and desire.But if beauty really is skin deep, can he convince Morgana that there is more to him than what she sees? Each book in the Virgin Hunt Games series is STANDALONE: * The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 1* The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 2* The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 3* The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 4* The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 5* The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 6

She's fed up with her mundane life. He yearns to escape the danger that surrounds him.Jasper Finch wants to leave the Earth city of New Faxian behind where he and six other rares-the last surviving Strazans with extraordinary powers-are forced to live thanks to the freshwater river cutting through the city. Water nourishes his species and stabilizes their powers, which are volatile on Earth. A pity his relentless enemy is tracking him down. Then he meets an intriguing woman, and leaving becomes the furthest thing on his mind.Suzy Grant is over her career as a car saleswoman, but then it's fair to say she's over everything and everyone...until a young man with afro hair and a ripped body walks into the car yard. That she is too old for him is as painfully obvious as his reluctance to buy a car. So why is he so reluctant to leave? But getting to know the real him comes at a price. He isn't what he seems...and he has pitiless alien enemies that make her reconsider the serenity of her humdrum life.

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He's a bounty hunter sent to Earth to capture her. She'll fight tooth and nail for her freedom. Sienna Moore is a revered rare-a Strazan native with unique powers-who escaped to Earth with six other Strazanian rares from their vicious, Dronian enemy. Survival is now her only plan. After she shifts into human form, she uses mind control to conceal her true identity. Except, nothing can stop the Dronians from closing in on her, or the bounty hunter from yet another planet who is now also on her trail. Gray Bastine has only one goal: track down Sienna and capture her before the Dronians find and kill her. With his own planet in danger of becoming the Dronians next world to conquer and destroy, he'll use force if necessary to get Sienna to tell him everything there is to know about their common enemy. A pity she isn't so easy to acquire. The longer it takes to claim her, the more he realizes her safety is no less important than those of his own people. Even worse, their attraction is making this a mission impossible.

Elyse Wellston escapes from her brutal, violent ex-fiance to a remote cabin in Australia. Fearing for her life, Elyse knows it doesn't make sense for her to react the way she does upon meeting the enigmatic Dane Maddox.Only when she discovers he is a werewolf and she is his weren-his mate and a werewolf herself-does she begin to understand the hot, sexual yearning within. No longer does she need to act out a desire she doesn't feel. Dane is everything she wants. But will her ex end her happiness and her sexual fulfillment before it even has a chance to begin?

If losing each other the first time was devastating, leaving the second time might prove impossible. Aiden Black decided the moment he lost his parents at sixteen that loving someone meant losing them too. Now he enjoys his one night stands and the notoriety of being a love 'em and leave 'em playboy. As long as the women he sleeps with understand the rules, he's fine with that. Then his old school crush takes part in the nightclub auction and he can't resist bidding and winning her for the night. After all, he was on the cusp of admitting his feelings for her before his parents' deaths put an end to it all, it's now beyond time he expels her from his past for good. Luna Morgan never got over the hurt and betrayal of Aiden turning his back on her at the tender age of sixteen. All these years later she'll do whatever it takes to reignite his interest before she gets to be the one who leaves him this time. But will spending one incredible night with her flame from the past be enough to douse her feelings, or will it reignite them hotter than ever?

Heiress Loretta Shaw is notorious for her loose morals and sexual needs. Trouble is, it's taken her one too many one-night stands to realize that no man can extinguish the sexual fire she feels toward her guardian, Cray Diamond.A long-ago curse made Cray immortal-a gargoyle, a guardian, who is impelled to protect a human chosen by the curse. He is imprisoned in stone during daylight hours but dusk returns him to flesh and bone to carry out his immortal duty.That Cray can shift between human and living gargoyle at night bothers Loretta not one bit. She's seen him naked many times and her desire for him-in any shape or form-knows no bounds. She's tired of his resistance. He's her gargoyle … and she wants him in her bed.

Celeste has a secret she will fight tooth and nail to protect. She is human in every way but one-hideous bat-like wings, a permanent legacy from her once-cursed gargoyle father, Cray. But she is seriously attracted to Pascal Daniels, despite him being the son of a mobster, and every woman's most dangerous fantasy.Pascal is used to attention from women, but he's looking for someone special. He's fascinated by the ice queen, Celeste Diamond. He thinks hers is the perfect female form, one he'd do anything to possess. Pascal has decided it's way past time to warm up the mysterious, elusive Celeste.And perhaps he'll share some secrets of his own.

Alexia Leigh will do anything to honor her father's death, and prove that shape-shifting big cats really do exist. If that means chasing down the one person who might confirm that claim, then that is what she'll do.But she never expects Blake Powell, the key to the shifter race, to rescue and seduce her. She never anticipated wanting him like he's her last damned breath!Never in her life has she felt so alive and experienced such raw pleasure … and now she's torn between him and the proof she desperately needs.

A hot-blooded gargoyle, Zahlee knows that Steele, her gargoyle lover and leader of the Triskellon clan, is her perfect match in every way. But she burns for just one more touch from Saul, the human lover she left behind so many years ago. The same human she entrusted to raise and care for her son, Pascal-to keep him safe from the dangers of the gargoyle lifestyle.Steele banishes Zahlee from the Triskellon clan and forces her to return to Saul and extinguish all yearning for her mortal ex. She quickly discovers a renewed lust for the only man she has ever loved. Their chemistry cannot be denied and combusts into a raging wildfire she never wants to end.Zahlee yearns for happiness with her son and her human lover. A gargoyle must sacrifice much to live in the human world, but is she willing to give up everything for their love?

EARTH, YEAR 2340 After the death of her parents, Larissa Lockheart is the first to admit she's had too much loss in her life. That she now craves one more death, specifically the man who sent her parents to an early grave, is what makes her enter into the Virgin Hunt Games as one of the ten hunted. She'll do whatever she can to make Felix pay for his sins and fall in love with her, then humiliate and degrade him in front of an audience of billions. If he also just happens to die a gruesome death in these violent and bloody Games, then so be it.Felix Manson doesn't need the huge prize money on offer to whoever wins the Virgin Hunt Games. He's already wealthy beyond compare thanks to owning his own planet, where he holds elite weekend sex parties. He's here for Larissa. He's already spent a small fortune blackmailing the officials to ensure she'll be his mate in these Games. A born risk taker, protecting Larissa with his life seems like a small sacrifice to finally take her body-again and again-and then win her love.But nothing is what it seems in these Games, with powerful emotions distorting as the seven bloodthirsty days count down to the end. Only time will tell if love really does conquer all. Each book in the Virgin Hunt Games series is STANDALONE:* The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 1* The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 2* The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 3* The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 4* The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 5* The Virgin Hunt Games, Volume 6

She's an outcast. He's a newly appointed sheikh. It can't possibly work-can it?Zania Akhtar has only one regret in life: falling for the smooth lies and seduction of an older man, the same man her once best friend and Sheikha of Imbranak imagined herself in love with. Now Zania is scorned by her friends and strangers alike, and with no money and apparently even less values, she has no one to turn to-until Sheikh Kain Al Hadi of Dumak, proposes an idea to her.Sheikh Kain Al Hadi is in a dilemma. Not only is his beloved widowed mother desperate for him to marry and create heirs to the throne, he can't keep his eyes off a young and beautiful commoner whose reputation is in absolute tatters. There is only one thing for it-a fake engagement. It will restore Zania's reputation while getting his mother off his back about marriage and babies. Then once the dust settles, his libido is quenched and her mother realizes her mistake, he and Zania can go their separate ways.But things don't always go according to plan.

Can he protect her from his own enemy? Nero Hart is one of only seven alien survivors, all of whom are Strazanian rares blessed with special powers. But nothing can save them from their power-hungry enemies, the Dronians, who wiped out the innocent Strazanian people. Nero and the six other rares are forced to flee their planet and survive on Earth, where they each become human and lay low. Nero becomes Jack, a nondescript male whose memories are wiped out for his own safety. But he can't escape his past forever. Recollections start flooding back, compromising his very existence. The danger further snowballs when he rescues a gorgeous human woman from her violent ex. A woman he can't seem to let go. Brynn Monash was never a believer in fairytales, until her knight in shining armor appears and saves the day. Too bad her knight comes with scales and a fin, as well as bloodthirsty enemies determined to hunt him down. But Nero will do everything he must to keep them both alive and safe, even if he has to draw on every one of his unstable alien powers to do so. Then Nero realizes Brynn isn't some helpless damsel in distress and there is more to her than meets the eye. Were they always meant to be together?

She desires the man of her dreams. Can she resist the attention of another? Sheikha Aisha Al Wahed might be the sister to Sheikh Hamid-one of the most renowned and unconventional Sheikhs on the planet-but it doesn't mean she is cut from the same cloth. She wants what almost every girl wants: to marry the love of her life. That she's had a crush on Tabari Usamah for so long makes her more determined for him to notice her. So why is Dhamar, one of her brother's many friends, distracting her beyond all reason?Sheikh Dhamar Qadir desires one thing-Aisha Al Wahed. A pity she is besotted with another man not worthy of her affection. But Dhamar won't give up, he'll do whatever is necessary to make her fall in love with him, and he's not above using every tool in his arsenal to make that happen, including removing Tabari from the picture and sending him away. But will his interference cost him the love and respect of the one woman he wants above all else?

A sheikh wishing for anonymity. A photographer wishing for great success. As a freelance photographer Holly Petersen has never shied away from hard work and a little risk. But traveling alone in the desert in a clunky sedan definitely isn't her best idea. Not when her car breaks down and she's stranded on a goat track in the middle of nowhere with only sand dunes for company.Until a ruffian on a camel appears from nowhere like an angel from heaven. A pity he's no angel. He's an inebriated devil who expects her complete obedience if she wants to be saved. And staying alone in the desert with little hope of rescue is too much of a risk, even for her.Hamid Al Wahed was never meant to be the sheikh of his small but prosperous country. That had been his older brother's life ambition before his sudden death thrust Hamid into the role of leader. Having an unlimited supply of booze and women might be its one saving grace, but even that doesn't stop him from craving the solitude he needs by camping out in the desert.It's there that he stumbles upon a western woman with bright red hair, a death wish and no survival skills, and he realizes he craves even more from his life. And that more is Holly. But first he has to coax her into staying with the fake him...the anonymous savage she imagines he really is.

James Edward Bowheart is at breaking point. Between his long hours working as a barman at a nightclub and his training to become a doctor, his visions that are escalating along with his drug taking, he can't take much more. Until the woman he loves gives birth to her son. It's James' turning point. He needs to get clean. Then he sees Marina with the biological father of her baby and all of James' good intentions come undone.Except nothing-not even drugs-can quell the events that unfold around him. He loses a patient under another doctor's care, a patient James knew how to treat, while his courageous sister pieces together her visions of a young woman's disappearance thanks to the dark specter of a murderer who seeks absolution from his sins.When he thinks things can't possibly get more complicated or his sanity more tested, will his inner journey see him deflect a fated disaster, or will he again succumb to the burden of his psychic ability?