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NEW EDITION WITH NEW STORIES!Here's a roadmap to Edge of Night. Welcome to an eclectic collection of horror and paranormal short stories.~~~~~~~~~It takes guts to read the stuff woven into nightmares.It's a tough job, but you're up to it.Welcome to my world. A world where magic holds court and the dude next door just might be a demon. Or a shifter. Or an alien.You've done time at the edge of night. Nail-biting, stomach-churning time filled with hissing snarls, menacing growls, the whoosh of unnatural wings, and the flash of hellfire. Time that lasts forever but is over within seconds because it becomes unpredictable in places like that. You don't want to stay, but it's too fascinating-in a grisly, macabre, toe-curling kind of way-to turn your back on. You recognize it, though. The place just at the threshold of darkness where it's not quite safe anymore. Evil broke its bounds at the edge of night, or maybe it always ran free and we've been deluding ourselves all along.Join me for an even dozen supernatural tales. Monsters, demons, gods-fallen and otherwise-ghosts, aliens. A touch of science fiction. More than a splash of romance. From magical lands to a chilling glance into the past, Edge of Night has something to tempt everyone.Everyone who doesn't mind sleeping with the lights on...

Sparks igniteFlames turn hotScorching hotBut what would you expect from two dragons?Zachary Marston, dragon shifter, hasn’t done a whole lot of shifting lately. Nope, he spends his time buried in law books as he presides over Superior Court in Denver. He’s convinced himself things are great, but his dragon has other ideas. His bondmate is a tough adversary. After it threatens to abandon him, Zachary gives in and agrees to a meeting with a few other shifters. Maybe he can help out—before returning to his cushy courtroom. Chloe’s always longed for a bondmate of her own. After her twin brother links with a lion, she ups the ante, casting every spell she can think of, but none of them work. Even the smoking-hot dragon shifter who crosses her path can’t ease the sting of remaining mateless. Vampires are gaining strength, draining mage magic to augment their own. Shifters and mages—the good ones—have to mobilize fast. Libra to his bones, Zachary slings words Chloe’s way, but she’s a Leo and not intimidated by anyone. They’re an unlikely pairing, but destiny won’t be denied. Like it or not, a shifter’s mate is in the stars.

An exiled dragon shifter.A restless witch.A wild, unruly spell.What could possibly go wrong?Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Stillwater, California, which was exactly why Liam settled there. What better spot to avoid discovery? Banished by his dragon-shifter kinsmen for sexual improprieties, his sentence has ten years to go. The only snag is he has to find a mate before he can return to Xara, the dragons’ home world.Aisha has a problem. She’s stuck tending a herd of Arabians, and she’ll be there forever if she doesn’t produce another witch to take over. To do that, she needs a man. No one permanent. Just someone to grace her bed long enough to get her pregnant.Intent on fulfilling her obligation to the Colewright witches, Aisha casts a love charm aimed right at Liam. She has no idea what he is—or that his magic overshadows hers by a country mile—and her spell backfires. Badly. She’s picking up the pieces, determined to move past the humiliation, but another spell snaps her up right alongside Liam.Impossible to ignore, hot, sweet, and urgent, Heart’s Desire snares them both.

Release date: August 14, 2018A newly-minted cave lion shifter + an eagle shifter who's lived long enough to know better = irresistible allureStrong and self-assured, Jeremiah is the closest thing his mage kinfolk have to an alpha. He takes his responsibilities seriously, which hasn't left time for much of anything, and it's about to get worse. Mages are in trouble. A few signed on with vampires, causing human deaths. Because of them, all mages are being smeared with the traitor brush.Renee's eagle bondmate jerks her awake one night with the terse message a cave lion, one of the most ancient of the animals, has bonded. According to the bird, they have to drop everything and go to Colorado. Reluctant to weave the fabric of lies she'll need to cover her absence, she finally gives in.She's horrified to discover the lion bonded with a man who used to be a mage. A mage. The rogues who joined up with vampires. She wants to hate Jeremiah, but it's a tough sell. Not only is he gorgeous, he's smart and kind and funny. None of it matters, though, because he doesn't like her, either.Are the hurdles too high? Or is a shifter's mate truly in the stars?

Niall's nothing if not charming with his Irish brogue and dashing good looks. Jaguar shifter and player to the core, he's a love 'em and leave 'em type. His job as a paramedic keeps him busy and offers under-the-table opportunities to splash a wee bit of magic around.In a world where magic is all but invisible, Sarai and her family fly beneath the radar living on a small ranch outside Denver. She only takes her wolf form on the darkest nights when discovery is unlikely. Captured by a vampire consortium hellbent on world domination, she watches with horror as they siphon her power, diverting it to kill humans for sport.An unnatural fog causes a ten-car pileup. Niall nearly chokes on the thick, malevolent power hanging around the accident site. Anger running just below boiling point, he takes his jaguar form and follows a scent track, making a discovery that changes everything. For once, he curses his curiosity and wishes he'd left well enough alone. Vampires are rising. Fueled by shifter magic, their evil threatens not just him but magic's very existence.

A runaway spell is the most dangerous weapon of all.Alpha for the few remaining Sea Shifters, Leif's been playing fast and loose with death for years. Plagued by a poisoned ocean, treacherous sea gods, illness, and bad bargains, he's learned to roll with the punches. Setting ancient antagonism aside, he joined a group of land Shifters, pledging both his help and that of his pod.A vulture shifter, Moira embraces her life on Arkady, a small polar cruise ship. She faces problems-ones that may kill all of them-but at least she's free. No more sneaking around hiding from Vampires and not having enough magic to shift, courtesy of short rations and toxic air.Leif yearns for Moira, but Sea Shifters don't mate with their land cousins-ever. Besides, they have their hands more than full. Not only is there no time for love, there's barely space to breathe as they wend their way through a volatile obstacle field littered with demons, hostile gods, and ancient horrors bent on their destruction.

A woman running from her magic.A man who's given up.Mutant culture colonies.A doomed ship.After violent, out of control magic killed her sister and drove her father mad, Kayna Quan ran as far and as fast as she could from the mixture of Chinese and Celtic power boiling through her blood. Fresh out of residency, she opts for a tour in Antarctica. Money is short, so she hires on as medical officer aboard a Russian research vessel headed for McMurdo Station.Brynn McMichaels' stint on remote South Georgia Island is a fancy, probably overplayed, escape from a crappy breakup. He may have left an irate woman behind, but he could have picked somewhere closer to get away.When cultures of the single-celled organism, archaea, begin shifting into another form, overgrowing the bins in his lab, he's convinced the isolation got to him until a call from an old buddy at McMurdo reveals a similar phenomenon. Intrigued, Brynn agrees to lend a hand. The weather's too uncertain to send a plane, so he hitches a ride aboard Kayna's ship, bringing his mutant culture colonies with him.And that's only the beginning…

One of three remaining demon assassin witches, Colleen is almost the last of her kind. Along with her familiar, a changeling spirit, she was hoping for a few months of quiet, running a small magicians' supply store in Fairbanks, Alaska. Peace isn't in the cards, though. Demons are raising hell in Seattle. She's on her way to kick some serious demon ass, when a Sidhe shows up and demands she accompany him to England to quell a demon uprising.The Sidhe might be the best-looking man Colleen's ever stumbled over, but she doesn't have time for him-or much of anything else. She, Jenna, and Roz are Earth's only hedge against being overrun by Hell's minions. Even with help from a powerful magic wielder like the Sidhe, the odds aren't good and the demons know it.Sensing victory is within their grasp, they close in for the kill.

Pioneer your own journey.Part guidebook, part self-help manual, Grit is a 4-Letter Word covers mental preparedness for living with only the gear on your back and a nimble mind. But it isn't a "how to" set of instructions, mostly because there are as many ways of enjoying the wilderness as there are backcountry travelers.The beauty of wilderness travel is discovering what works for you.Ann Gimpel is a clinical psychologist. She's also a mountaineer and a vagabond. The wilderness has played a huge role in her life.Stories speak to us at a bone-deep level, so this book is packed full of stories from the author as well as others. Read them with an open heart. It's how they were written.Appendices covering gear and backcountry kitchen ideas have been added, along with a resource guide, but this is only a starting point.Read. Absorb. Ask questions. Live your dreams.

Hope's had her eye on Charlie for a long time, for all the good it's done her. He's not even aware of her existence-other than as a fellow agent working Black Ops for the CIA. Her friends, Glory, Honor, and Charity, found men to love, so Hope knows it's possible. But the odds aren't in her favor. Not in a world of normal humans where she's a genetically modified aberration. Hell, even she refers to her kind as freaks. What man in his right mind would want one of those in his bed?Charlie swore off women after his last marriage went down in drama-tipped flames fifteen years ago. His first mistress is danger. He fell in love with the adrenaline rush when he signed on as a Navy Seal right out of college, and he never got over the thrill of pitting himself against the impossible.Hope caught his eye the night she escaped her compound, but years of ignoring anything resembling a feeling made it easy to ignore the attraction-until they're paired on a mission. Her intelligence and resourcefulness impress the hell out of him, but her half-naked body, exposed after an animal attack, forces him to face feelings he was certain he'd buried for good.

.Charity's luck never ran strong because her original configuration was unstable. Her handlers designed experiments to fix the problem, but only made it worse. Sick to death of living under their thumb, she jumps at a chance to escape. She's barely settled in as a CIA special operative-a role where she can put her augmented mind and body to use-when her wobbly genetics decompensate.Tony's a freak-a genetically altered superhuman waging war against the government. He snaps up an offer of amnesty, walking away from his role as a genetic researcher to work for the CIA. When Charity collapses in a severe seizure, he labors to save her life, but nothing's working. In a last ditch effort, he joins his mind to hers and discovers he wants her more than he's ever wanted anything. Only problem is she hates every single male freak for how they treated women in the compounds.Charity recovers from her medical crisis, but all she can think about is Tony. Furious, determined to never let anyone like him near her, she blocks him from her mind, but he seeps back in anyway. Loving someone like Tony is a huge risk, a gamble that could throw her already volatile genes into a tailspin.Knowing all that, why the hell is she considering it?

Honor takes a huge chance and flees her compound one wintry night. A genetically altered woman, she has no memories from before her kin staged a rebellion seven years before. Because of her enhanced physiology, she finds a home working for the CIA alongside four other women just like her. There are still plenty of rules, but they're different, and she's figuring out how to blend in.Milton Reins burns through women and marriages. After the third one implodes, he swears off hunting for a replacement. Running the CIA is a more than fulltime job. There's no time for anything else in his life, which is fine until Honor comes along. Training in the gym throws their bodies together, and makes him remember the feel of a woman in his arms. Milton aches for her, but she's a freak, the CIA term for test tube humans designed by scientists.Honor wants Milton with every bone in her body, but it's a terrible idea, especially after she delves into his head and sees his ambivalence toward her kind. Need drives them together, but their differences create roadblocks every step of the way. Fueled by anger and fear, she shuts him out. So what if the sex was great, she's done.Or is she?

After years as a black ops CIA agent, nothing surprises Roy Kincaid, yet his current assignment is close to a bust. How could his target-renegade genetic freaks-drop off the radar as if they never existed? Burnt out and discouraged, he hunches over a meal in a backwater diner when a half-frozen woman with the look of an abused runaway staggers through the door. On his feet in an instant, Roy kicks himself. His first instinct is to help her, make certain she stays long enough for the bluish cast to leave her lips. His second is to finish his meal and leave. The world is full of broken women. It's not his job to fix them, but he can't take his eyes off her. Glory's telepathic ability blares a harsh warning. Roy hunts those like her, but damn if he didn't buy her dinner. Maybe she can fool him, just for tonight. Add a dry motel room to the meal. If she plays it very cool, he'll never find out she's on the run from the same group he's targeted for death.Enhanced genetics only go so far. A roadblock and her face on a Most Wanted flyer shatter her fragile truce with Roy. If her Handlers find her, they'll kill her. If Roy finds out what she is, she'll be worse than dead.

Lara and Trevor flee Seattle in the wake of rising chaos. Demons converge on what's left of civilization, urging it to implode even faster.Constantly hungry, besieged by dark forces, Lara and Trevor need every resource they've developed as a couple to keep from ripping each other apart. Neither of them trust Lara's half-baked magic, but it's all that stands between survival and certain death for them and their unborn child.The remote location that was supposed to solve all their problems actually made them worse. Rash choices throw Trevor into a confrontation with his deepest fears, but he doesn't back down. Lara's life hangs in the balance, and he'll do anything to get her back. Anything.

Widespread rioting, plus shortages of fuel, food, and electricity lure demons across the veil to invade Earth. Drawn by anarchy, they're out of control, drunk on their own power, and growing stronger by the day.With her life crumbling around her, Lara McInnis is reluctantly roped into channeling her psychic talents to locate a missing teen. Her lack of skill strands her in the murky underbelly of a world inhabited by dark forces.Trevor Denoble's Celtic blood yields unexpected gifts. After years of uncertainty, Lara is really and truly finally his, and he's determined to keep her by his side. No stranger to violence, more blood on his hands is a small price to pay to keep the woman he loves safe.

Lara McInnis reads auras and flirts with an elusive ability to foretell the future. Ambivalent about her magic, she's done a fine job sidestepping most of it. After several patients-and a student or two-describe the same cataclysmic dream, ancient evil bursts its bounds, and she can't ignore her power anymore.Trevor Denoble shields his secrets with a stunning body and a boatload of British charm. The airline he works for folds. Lara's changing into someone he barely recognizes, and the rest of his carefully crafted life isn't in much better shape.Living in a world teetering on the edge of anarchy, Trevor and Lara face painful decisions. Her burgeoning paranormal ability scares the hell out of him. Meantime, she does her damnedest to survive her magic in a world gone mad. A world where the rules have changed and there's no one left to trust.

Head of the shifter underground's security force, Johannes has his hands full. When Max, the underground's leader, is almost killed by sniper fire, Johannes breaks a cardinal rule to save his friend and makes a discovery about himself that changes everything.Daria's been a healer in one capacity or another for hundreds of years, but wholesale slaughter aimed at wiping out her kin is something new. Called to the governor's mansion after Max gets shot, she finds him wallowing in a river of his own blood. By rights he should be dead. She questions Johannes, but he remains stubbornly silent-after telling her an outright lie.If Johannes wasn't so knockout gorgeous, and she wasn't so wiped out, Daria would've left after treating Max. Instead, Johannes talks her into staying, then orders her to work for the underground. As head of security, it's his right to commandeer personnel. Daria is torn. Johannes is the most compelling man she's ever met, but he's also arrogant. Compounding the problem, her cat thinks he's their mate. After he runs roughshod over her, she doesn't care about anything except getting as far away from him as she can, but escape isn't possible.A series of lethal attacks throw Daria into Johannes's path-and keep her there. He's desperately attracted to her, but anything beyond sex with any woman isn't part of his life plan. His cat says she's their mate, but it doesn't alter Johannes's staunch refusal to consider anything that might turn into love. He has his reasons. They've served him well, and he sees no reason to change them now.

Author's Note: Wolf Born is book two in the Underground Heat Trilogy. All three novels are full length shifter romances with happy-ever-after endings!You can buy the books individually, or in the boxed set titled Underground Heat.Max leads a double life in a futuristic California that's almost out of resources. Despite grave risks, he ran for state governor to protect his people. He's also leader of the shifter underground. Threatened with genocide, many shifters have gone into hiding. Some blame Max and the underground for their plight, rather than the governmental edict that's meant death for so many.Audrey works for Max. Unlike most humans with low levels of shifter blood who bless their lucky stars they avoided the purge, she wants to be a shifter. If she could find a way to finesse it, she'd quit her job in a heartbeat and go to work helping the shifter underground. The only sticking point is Max. She's been half in love with him forever.Against a dog-eat-dog political backdrop where no one knows who their allies are, Max and Audrey spar with one another. Max fears she's part of the group trying to kill him. Audrey has no idea about Max's double identity and worries she won't be able to walk away from their fiery attraction to help the underground.After a second attempt on his life, Max faces critical choices. Will he follow his head or his heart?

Author's Note: Roman's Gold is the kickoff volume for the Underground Heat Trilogy. All three books are full length shifter romances with happy-ever-after endings!You can buy the books individually, or in the boxed set titled Underground Heat.Once respected members of society, shifters are running for their lives. In a futuristic world where resources are scarce, Kate uses her human form to work as a sex surrogate. Furious at what looks a lot like genocide for her people, she joins the shifter underground.Devon's been a cop for a long time. He has shifter blood, but not enough to change into anything, at least not until the police department insists on a series of infusions to make him better at tracking shifters so they can be imprisoned-or killed.Devon's latest assignment is Kate. From the moment he sees her, he can't get her out of his mind. But she's the enemy he's sworn to eradicate. As he tracks her, the line between hunter and hunted explodes.Against reason and wisdom, Kate and Devon defy the rules. If their passion doesn't save them, it'll doom them forever.

Tamara MacBride has a much bigger problem than hiding her shifter side from the world. By the skin of her teeth, and with a smattering of Irish luck, she manages to kill her sister's murderer. Escaping from the scene of the crime is much harder than she anticipated. Just when she thinks she might be safe, her cab driver shrieks and slumps over the wheel.An unknown assailant terminates Lars Kinsvogel's target. Pleased by the outcome-after all dead is dead-he exchanges the glitz of Monte Carlo for a nearby airport, intent on collecting the private plane he left there. He's no sooner arrived when a cab jumps the curb, and he races over to investigate. There's not much he can do for the cabbie, but his passenger is still very much alive.Trying to hustle Tamara out of the cab is tough. She's frozen by fear, but when Lars lays out the rest of his plan to move her out of danger's path, her temper flares. He can't leave her alone in Monte Carlo. Can he convince her to trust him in time to save her life?

As an agent for an international espionage firm, Miranda has her hands more than full. Between secretly lusting after her boss, Garen, and making sure the dirty little secret about her double life as a wolf shifter remains hidden, she's still a virgin at nearly thirty.Sent to eliminate the head of a human trafficking organization in Amsterdam, she barely escapes with her life. Injured, frightened, and under attack the second her private jet lands in the U.S., she's not certain where to turn.Garen's watched Miranda just as surreptitiously as she's been eyeing him. Unfortunately, the fact that she works for him is a showstopper. Plus, he has a few secrets of his own that have kept him single. When Miranda insists on heading up a covert operation, he can't come up with a plausible reason to stop her. Watching her sprint headlong into danger damn near kills him. He wants to hold her, love her, protect her.Miranda's life is on the line. Will Garen risk exposure to save her?

Magic levies a steep price on anyone brave enough or stupid enough to dabble in it.Wizards never forgave Ned for not being one of them. They didn't exactly come out and say his life was expendable, but they didn't have to. He figured it out fast enough when they conscripted him into their long-running war the second he was old enough to fight. Isolated, different, he puzzled out how his brand of magic worked on his own.Fleeing the tide of doom wiping out humanity, Amanda and her family escape to a remote corner of California, where they eke out a hardscrabble existence. With her parents at each other's throats and her brother mysteriously gone, Amanda encounters malevolent power beyond her wildest imaginings. Captured by the Undead, she's about to join their ranks when Ned shows up.Defying a direct order from his wizard battle lord, Ned dives into the fray. He might not know Amanda, but it doesn't matter. She's in trouble and needs his magic.It's good enough for him.

Cara, a mountain guide with a hard luck past and John, a doctor running as hard as he can from his own demons, become unlikely allies. Fire raging through the Sierras forces them away from their planned route and makes escape a dicey proposition.Cara struggles to outwit the inferno before it's too late. John's long-denied psychic side escapes its bonds, refusing to be ignored any longer. He recognizes the fire for what it is: magical creatures bearing the worst news of all. Fire dragons want Earth for themselves, and they'll stop at nothing to make it theirs. Protecting Cara from the destiny that's finally hunted him down turns into John's top priority, but spirit guides shanghai him, forcing his hand.He never wanted a woman in his life. Too many complications-but something about Cara touches his heart.She was burned out on men and vowed she'd spend the rest of her life in the mountains, guiding clients-but something about John sings to her soul.If they can survive the dragons that set the earth ablaze, a different kind of heat just might bind them to each other.

Hello Darkness:Earth magics collide, forcing Moira Shaughnessy to take a chance on a man who hurt her so badly she never forgave him.A ranger for the U.S. Park Service, Moira is in serious trouble. Fleeing from her cheating husband, who's a Native American shaman, she stumbles into the arms of a man she never thought she'd see again. He hurt her once by choosing his magic over her. Would she be a fool to take a chance on him now?Alpine Attraction:Tina made a pact with the devil seven years ago. It's time to pay the piper-or die.Independent to the nth degree, Tina meets everything in her life head-on-except love.Caught between misgivings and need, Tina signs on as team doctor for one of Craig's climbing trips to the Andes. Though he was the love of her life, she pushed him away years before to keep him safe. Even if he doesn't love her anymore, there's still no one she'd rather have by her side in the mountains. And if she's going to die, she wants to make things right between them.A Run For Her Money:Sara's day begins like any other. A routine extraction in tandem with a local Search and Rescue team. Routine crashes to a halt when she ends up trapped in a hut, high in the Sierras. Four days later, running out of food for herself and her dog, she makes a bold dash for safety.Jared's walking the Muir Trail when all hell breaks loose. After hunkering beneath a boulder pile for days, he dares a difficult cross-country route, hoping it'll put him into position to approach a backcountry ranger station. He locates the station, but it's locked tight. He's packing up to leave when a helicopter lands, with Sara at the helm. There's no time to trade war stories. It takes a leap of faith, but they throw in their lot together. Can they face the impossible and come out the other side unscathed?

An idealistic woman.A naïve man.A life-shattering mistake.Juliana is relentless, driven, focused. An archaeologist, she's clawed her way to the top of the heap. It's a lonely heap, but the only man she ever loved proved men aren't worthy of her time.Discarded by the woman of his dreams midway through college, Brice never offered his heart again. A world-recognized expert on lung diseases, he has his work. Usually it's enough.It's almost Christmas, and Juliana is called home from a dig to see her dying twin one last time. She and Brice are thrown together after a fifteen-year hiatus. She tells herself nothing's changed, but her heart sings a different song. If she listens to it, there's only one true love.

Dark, dangerous, magical men who live to annihilate evil.Not all witches join the Coven. Fiercely independent, Isla heads up her own small band in the San Francisco area. She's never needed help before, but dark sorcerers drive her and her group into hiding, trapping them.Sam's worked for the Coven as one of their enforcers forever. He's been there so long, the Coven is the only mistress he knows. It's a lonely life on the road thwarting wickedness and Black Magick with his guns, his magic, and his horse, but it's been enough to satisfy him. Until now.A group of witches is in deep trouble. They're not part of the Coven, but Sam is sworn to protect all witches and he rides to their assistance with several of his brothers. Nothing prepares him for the outspoken spitfire who ends up riding double with him. She's forthright, opinionated, and downright hostile, but he's drawn to her self-sufficiency-and her undeniable beauty. Soon, Isla is all he can think about.Dark forces are on the move. Protecting the woman he's falling in love with is at the very top of Sam's list. If they manage to survive, he'll tame her. Claim her. Make her his.

Dark, Dangerous, Magical Men Who Live to Annihilate Evil.Joshua committed his life to fighting Black Magick. Not sure who he hates worse, dark sorcerers or the clerics who tortured and mutilated his family, he lives on the road with his horse and his magic, working as a Coven enforcer. Breana Giraud is the only woman he's ever loved, and until very recently she was married to someone else.Breana's husband, Don, sold his soul to the devil, embracing dark practices. Along the way, he corrupted their daughter. While Breana could've turned him in to Coven justice without a second thought, she couldn't bring herself to implicate her child. Still reeling from her daughter's death at the hands of evil, and grateful her husband met the vicious end he deserved, she feels broken, damaged. The last thing on her mind is falling in love.Joshua tries to hold back, give Breana room to mourn her losses, but if he has his way, she'll become his wife. With Don dead, and the path to his heart's true love finally clear, he'll do anything he can to make her his. Even if it means fighting his way past the dark mages' leader, who wants her for his own.