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Thad moved slowly. For as much as he wanted her to tell him what was going on, the need to touch and be touched by her was driving him over the edge. Her scent, too, one he was sure didn’t come from a bottle or from soap. This time when he pulled her to him he didn’t let her pull back. “I want to taste you. Then I want to take you upstairs and fuck you. What better way to spend a hazy afternoon than getting sweaty between the sheets.” She pushed at his chest, but he didn’t let her go. “If I’m barking up the wrong tree, Nurse Ericks—” “I don’t bark, Mr. Galloway, I howl...

“Good morning, Diamond. And to what do I owe this pleasure—” “Don’t fuck with me and I won’t you.” He started to snap at her, but he simply nodded and sat down. “I’m here about my sister. She’s hurt, did you know that?” “I hurt her yesterday when I moved her away from…” Diamond was shaking her head. “Then I don’t understand. How else was she hurt? If you’re talking about the wound on her back, I didn’t cause that one.” “Jeffery Benetton did that and a great deal more to her. And yesterday trying to get away from you, she hurt herself even more. She ...

Sloan Crane is a vampire on a mission. He knows from the moment he catches Opal’s scent that she is his mate. The last thing in this world Sloan wants is a mate, but he won’t let that monster, Fletcher, have her either. Just because he doesn’t want her doesn’t mean he wants her to die. And he has two choices: let her bleed to death or change her without her permission. Opal Erickson is beyond furious. Up until now she might not have exactly been happy with her life, but it was hers. In the blink of an eye that bloodsucker has stolen her freedom and turned her into a bloodsucking ...

Stephen Silva is a three thousand year old vampire. He is too set in his ways and has existed too many years to find a mate now. But the woman did save his life. He couldn’t just let her die, could he? Clarice Kelley, Clar to her friends, is hiding out from her stepfather and has been for several years. She’s a loner and prefers it that way, because she always winds up getting hurt whenever anyone gets too close to her. She only killed the vampire because he would have killed her friend. Now the vampire she saved won’t leave her alone. He doesn’t want her and makes no bones about it...

“Please. I’m begging you, just kill me.” He turned back to her and she could see his eyes. They were beautiful. A warm dark brown that made her heart pound. Shaking her head slightly, she grabbed the fur on his chest. “Do it, damn it. What the fuck are you waiting for?” Lou shook him then and he growled again. “Kill me.” Ginger Louise Cavanaugh, preferably Lou, has been on the run for the last ten years. She hadn’t run far enough because that bastard foster father had found her and beaten her again. Now the judge orders her to work out her ninety day sentence at the Force ...

Dane Murphy, Murph to her friends, had always been special. Not only smart, she had…abilities. Abilities that would make her a target. While attending college at fifteen, she’d formed a deep friendship with Rider Lanning. He was the brother she never had and one of the few people she knew she could trust…. They hadn’t spoken in years. How did he know to contact her now? The gunshot wound was bad…she wouldn’t last much longer…. She wanted to tell him that she’d left him everything…the money…the houses…. She was too weak, she lost the connection before she could tell him...

Mac McManus has everything going for him, but he doesn’t see it that way. All he sees is his limitations. Like his father, Aaron, he is a vampire—forced into the darkness and to sustain himself on blood. He hates himself for what he has become and would rather meet the sun than remain immortal as a vampire or drink from another. It’s not anything he wants his family to know about. He strikes a bargain with his aunt, the Queen, to get what he wants—an end to his suffering. In the bargain he must save a woman, his mate, from another vampire, Zachariah Roberts, a murdering fiend that ...

Sam Hunter lived a double life. On the surface she was a baker, but behind the scenes she smuggled people away from abusive situations. Being the owner of Sam’s Baked Goods gave her a place to call home, a place that was untouched by her secret life. Tucker James was a vampire fleeing from his cruel maker. He came to Aaron’s Kiss in hopes of swearing allegiance to Aaron MacManus and becoming a member of his Kiss. He just wanted to be a part of a realm of vampires that didn’t starve their subjects and beat them. Sam’s peaceful life is shattered when her secret life comes back to ...

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 ...

Rythen has no beginning or end he just is. Rythen is the Maker of Magic. In the beginning, Rhthen, created Elizabeth to govern magic while he rested. Now, her contract is up and he’s come to collect. He feels no ill will toward his creation, it’s just her time is up. Elizabeth must die. Elizabeth isn’t ready to go and everyone at Aaron’s Kiss is in an uproar to try to stop the inevitable. Kim Craft is Logan’s new secretary. She’s human and has no idea that she’s surrounded by supernatural beings, until Rythen suddenly grabs her and kisses her. Now she’s afraid she’s just ...

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...

Bailey Morrison isn’t human. She is a beauty, with all the right parts to make up a stunning woman but there is so much more of her. She is also a hired killer to the Queen of all magick. Her DNA ~ mixed up like a lethal cocktail gives her abilities unlike anyone has ever seen. And when she is to help Pete Marshall, computer wiz for a pack of wolves, she gets involved with Aaron and his kiss of vampires as well. Tristan St. James likes order. He lines things up in neat rows, sharpens pencils to the exact height and he wears a tie to everything. He is aghast with state of Aaron’s office ...

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 ...

The waiter came over and sat their drinks in front of them. Reilly waited until he was gone before she looked at Rachel to ask her about the celebrating. She had a strange look on her face. “What?” Reilly turned around and saw Mr. Hunter coming toward her. “Fuck. He just doesn’t give up, does he?” “You know him? Well, that makes this easier.” Reilly had a strange feeling she wasn’t going to be celebrating like her agent thought she might. “Reilly Harlequin, I’d like you to meet the man who’s just commissioned you to make a premier piece for his new lobby, Daniel Hunter...

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 ...

J. M. Hunter had signed the order for Joey’s apartment building to be torn down. Every time Joey tried to get into the Hunter building to see the lawyer to plead their case, she could never get past the guard. Now, almost a year later, she was still homeless and working at a dead in job trying to save up enough money to get an apartment, one with heat, as well as electricity. Instead, she had to save Jesse’s mom from dying in a fire and have the shit beat out of her by someone while doing it. Jesse couldn’t understand why the woman wouldn’t just shut up and do what he told her to do...

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 ...

Connor had to get help for his momma. Mr. O had hurt them both bad this time but they still got away. And Connor was determined that he would never catch them again. Now if only he could get to the clinic to get some medicine they could move on. At seventeen, Charlotte or Charlie to her friends was tossed out of her home because she’d gotten ‘soiled’ her mother said. A slut like her didn’t need to be around her good friends from the church. Charlie didn’t care, she had Connor and that’s all that mattered. Until one night a man decided that he wanted her. When he took her then ...