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Their love makes them stronger together... Unless the world rips them apartJadren El-Adrel knows he's a mess. He's a cobbled-together monster pretending to be a wizard, still unable to master the magic that makes him pretty much immortal and is useless for anything else. Though he's tried to learn to work with his familiar, Seliah, he's still terrified to discover what might happen if he gives himself full access to the depths of her powerful magic. Some questions should never be answered.Seliah Phel got her happy ever after. Jadren loves her; they're together in a safe and beautiful place; and they're finally learning to work together as wizard and familiar. But even she must recognize that Jadren continues to stew in his black moods, brooding that only worsens when he receives a missive from home, his horrible family demanding the unthinkable: that they both return to House El-Adrel.As the denizens of House Phel fight an increasingly pitched battle against the enemies determined to destroy them forever, Jadren and Selly fight their own war-against the past and to overcome their own failings. To become truly stronger together.

A Broken HeartPrincess Salena Nakoa KauPo thought she was over her broken heart. She'd put her first love and childhood sweetheart, Rhyian, firmly in the past where he belonged. His bitter betrayal of her was locked away deep inside, along with her foolishly innocent hopes and dreams. Now Lena has been thrust together with him, the prince of shadows, the one man she could never resist, on a mission to save the world from a terrible cataclysm. Worse, Rhyian refuses to believe her when she says there's no hope for them. An Irresistible LongingRhyian is rather accustomed to being a failure. Goddesses know, he's not magical enough for his sorcerous mother and not alpha enough for his father, the King of Annfwn. It hasn't helped that he's spent the last seven years trying to drown his sorrows-and to forget the one woman he ever loved, whose heart he carelessly shattered in a moment of weakness. Rhy knows he has to change to win back Lena's trust, but how? A Love That Can't DieAs Lena and Rhy struggle to overcome the wounds of the past, they and their friends approach the final confrontation with the strange intelligence intent on rending apart the very fabric of their world. And it looks like it will come down to the pair of them to strike the final blow.But only if they can build a new trust on the bitter past.

Amber Dolors has it bad for her boss. Tall, dark, and smexy, the man has a way of giving orders that… Well, she just melts inside. Even though he's older and getting involved at work isn't smart, especially in her very first job, Amber can't help fantasizing about the delicious Alec, with his English accent and commanding ways. What if he's the one she's been looking for, the man who can initiate her into those dreamy, sensual games she's only read about?Alexander Knight has obviously noticed his hot young assistant. Amber is as adorably nubile as she is whip-smart. But he hasn't risen to the peak of his profession by indulging himself. Integrity and self-discipline are what he lives by-and those don't allow for seducing a sweet, young co-worker who's likely far too innocent for him. Still, he can't help fantasizing about what he'd do to her, especially when she bends over his desk just so…When the simmering, repressed passion between Amber and Alec breaks free, they're both caught up in the tide of longing-and in sating their fierce desires. But they can't forget that they're engaged in a dangerous dance, one that can't be kept secret forever.

Celestina Sala is so far underwater, she can't remember what it's like to breathe. Grief-stricken by her identical twin's death, parenting her orphaned nieces, abandoned by the husband who never wanted to raise children, in debt past her eyeballs, and now just one more laid-off landscape-designer in drought-stricken Los Angeles-it's all Celestina can do to get through the day. Running into her former wealthy-and devastatingly attractive-client, Ryan Black, when she looks and feels her worst is just the cherry on the crap sundae her life has become.When Ryan offers Celestina a way to pay off her debt, by submitting to whatever he asks of her, she's appalled. And tempted.His colleagues and competitors describe Ryan as ruthless in business. It's true. And that no-holds-barred attitude is how he built himself from less than nothing to the immense wealth he enjoys today. So, when he has the opportunity to finally get his hands on Celestina's voluptuous body, Ryan employs every enticement at his disposal. He's wanted her for years-and respected the fact that she wasn't available-and now that she's practically dropped into his lap, he's taking advantage of the opportunity. He'll play fair, however, offering her a contract where she can choose, down to the tiniest details, what she's willing to let him do to her, for what price.He plans to pay very well to be able to indulge his darkest desires with her.

Game designer Emily Bartwell is in hiding. Fleeing online trolls that ruined her career, marriage, and life-pretty much in that exact order-she's made a new life on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest. Yes, it's lonely, but she has her online community for company. And she has her work: Labyrinth, a wildly popular role-playing game, one she's created under the male alias, Phoenix.When sexy writer, Fox Mullins, rents the beach house next door, however, he entices Emily out of her isolation. Flirting, teasing, igniting desires she'd forgotten she had, Fox tempts Emily into playing games of a very different sort-ones where he makes the rules. Fox is delighted by his luck in discovering his gorgeous, single neighbor's simmeringly passionate nature under her oh-so-private exterior. Playing with her, pushing the lovely Emily's boundaries, gives him relief from the painstaking, frustrating task of tracking the brilliant gamer, Phoenix-and discovering his elusive prey's true identity. Exposing Phoenix will be the biggest scoop of his career as an undercover tech reporter.As Fox and Emily push the limits of intimacy, they discover that their fling is leading to something much deeper. They're both keeping secrets that could devastate the other, but which of them will win the game in the end?

It's holiday time at Convocation Academy, but best friends Han and Iliana are finding it hard to celebrate. As a familiar, Iliana is facing her assignment to a life of servitude to a wizard, very soon. And Han… despite being tested by the oracle daily, he is still uncategorized. As Iliana and Han face being separated forever, they at last find the courage-or desperation-to break the rules and acknowledge their deeper feelings for each other. But it will take more than true love to save them from the laws of the Convocation…

A midwinter holiday fantasy romance anthology… A Wynter Fyre by Darynda Jones In a world where vampyres have been hunted to near extinction, the daughter of a demon is sent to save their race. Wynter ends the Blood Wars, but a single drop of vampyre blood accidentally crosses her lips. As punishment, she's encased in stone for a hundred years. When she awakens, she vows revenge. Even if it means her demise. Her quest leads her to the vampyre prince who supposedly started the wars. He comes to her aid after she's attacked, and Gareth's deadly prowess may be exactly what Wynter needs to defeat the woman who created her. Or exactly what she needs to thaw her frozen heart. Of Fate and Fire by Amanda Bouchet The Kingmaker Chronicles meets modern-day New York City! Piers, an exiled warrior from Thalyria, finds himself in the Big Apple just before the holidays. The world and everything in it might be utterly foreign to him, but that won't stop Piers from helping to complete a vital mission for Athena and protect Sophie, a French teacher from Connecticut who's suddenly knee-deep in inexplicable phenomena, danger, and henchmen after an Olympian treasure that should never have ended up in her hands-or remained on Earth after the Greek gods abandoned it. The King of Hel by Grace Draven Castil il Veras, daughter of lesser boyars, attends the gatherings that celebrate her best friend's upcoming marriage to the cursed king of a sorcerous kingdom. She soon learns that even marked by the magic of the Wastelands, Doranis of Helenrisia is everything she's ever desired in a mate-and absolutely forbidden to her. Bound by duty to crown and country, Doranis has traveled to the Caskadan empire to marry a woman who loathes the sight of him. During the prenuptial celebrations, he meets a scribe who finds him fascinating instead of repellent, but Castil is beyond his reach. Fate, however, would have it otherwise, and a beseeching letter from a dying queen will bring them together again in a land gripped by endless winter and old magic. Familiar Winter Magic by Jeffe Kennedy It's holiday time at Convocation Academy, but best friends Han and Iliana are finding it hard to celebrate. As a familiar, Iliana is facing her assignment to a life of servitude to a wizard, very soon. And Han… despite being tested by the oracle daily, he is still uncategorized. As Iliana and Han face being separated forever, they at last find the courage-or desperation-to break the rules and acknowledge their deeper feelings for each other. But it will take more than true love to save them from the laws of the Convocation…

One does not break an oath to the fae…But I am getting much better at finding and exploiting the loopholes. I may have promised the ruthlessly sensual fae lord, Rogue, that he can sire my firstborn child-but I never said when. And I'm not giving into his will-eroding attempts to seduce me until he tells me what will happen to my child.Which he refuses to do.So, I'm holding out against his allure, no matter how he tantalizes me, because the one way to protect my child is to make sure they're never born. Unfortunately, Rogue is as wily as he is persistent, and soon I find myself in more bargains-I must give him a kiss every day and sleep by his side at night. Even as I travel through Faerie, perfecting my sorceress skills and seeking the answers to the questions Rogue won't-or can't-answer, he is constantly by my side, working his way through my defenses.He refuses to let me go. Most terrifying of all, I'm finding I don't want him to…

Be careful what you wish for…. When I walked out on my awful boyfriend, wishing to be somewhere-anywhere-else, I never expected to wake up in Faerie. And, as a scientist, I find it even harder to believe that I now seem to be a sorceress.A pretty crappy sorceress, it turns out, because every thought that crosses my mind becomes suddenly and frighteningly real-including the black dog that has long haunted my nightmares. Now I'm a captive, a pawn for the fae lord, Rogue, and the feral and treacherous Faerie court, all vying to control me and the vast powers I don't understand. Worse, Rogue, the closest thing I have to a friend in this place, is intent on seducing me. He's the most beautiful man I've ever seen, enthralling, tempting, and lethally dangerous. He's as devastatingly clever as he is alluring, and he tricks me into promising him my firstborn child, which he intends to sire… I don't dare give into him. I may not have the willpower to resist him. He's my only protection against those who would destroy me Unless I can learn to use my magic.

Spy, manipulator, traitor… He might be her only salvation.Lady Seliah Phel can't escape feeling like she's one of those fairytale princesses awakened from a long slumber-except that her life is no romantic story and there's no happy ending in sight. Though she has her magic and she's been rescued from the depths of madness that consumed her since adolescence, Selly finds that the years she lost aren't so easily recovered. Everyone treats her like the child they remember. To prove something-perhaps only to herself-she's recklessly volunteered to stave off a host of monsters with only the enigmatically alluring, cuttingly sarcastic, and probably deceitful wizard Jadren El-Adrel for company.Jadren isn't the heroic type. In fact, he's not much of anything. Relentlessly groomed into a shadow of a man by his sadistic mother, he's the perfect spy and tool, with no real will of his own. When he's stranded in the wilderness with Seliah Phel, he figures the outcome is immaterial. Live or die, it's all the same to him. But Seliah is a different story and she isn't like anyone else. Though he reminds himself she's basically a child in a woman's body, he finds it increasingly difficult to resist her artless charms and relentless curiosity.As their predicament goes from dire to disastrous, Jadren realizes his many failures have jeopardized Selly's future, perhaps her very life. Far from home and trapped without resources, Selly has only Jadren to rely upon-the one person she can't possibly trust. There seems no possibility of rescue from their friends and family back home at House Phel, so Jadren and Selly must work together to survive… if they can.

His Darkness, Her Brightness… Together They Defy the WorldLord Gabriel Phel at last holds his dream in his grasp-and faces losing everything. He's finally won the love of his wife, familiar, and mother of his child, and she offers him a heartfelt commitment he can truly believe in. Together they're building a true house, one with a growing family of friends and allies that can help them stand against their enemies. And he's learning to master his magic, to use it as the powerful tool and weapon it should be. But old and new enemies array themselves to take it all away.Lady Veronica, now fully of House Phel, is doing her best to embrace happiness. After all, she has her hands full managing her mercurial and powerful wizard as he navigates taking his place as the head of their house, and with learning her own extraordinary ability. But she fears whatever peace they win won't last long. When their enemies inevitably strike-including, perhaps, her own father-they must be ready to defend all they hold precious. It doesn't help that her idealistic husband insists on making foolishly noble decisions that put them at even greater risk, nor that she loves him all the more for it.As Nic and Gabriel struggle to put their household in order, giving ill-advised safe harbor to Nic's runaway sister and risking their lives to save Gabriel's sister's sanity, their enemies draw the noose tighter on their well laid plans. When the unthinkable occurs, it's up to both of them to trust in the nascent, unknown magic they've woven together.