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“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...

The wedding had been the most beautiful one that he’d ever been to. Marica, the newest Archer in the family, had been a lovely bride. And the way that she looked at his brother Sherman when they were walking around the reception area made him think that there couldn’t have been a couple more in love than the two of them. It sort of made him jealous when he saw them. However, Darrel didn’t want the same thing for himself. Jealously was one thing. Having a wife and family wasn’t for him. Not now, anyway. Caitlyn Snow wanted justice, not handouts. Her brother was brutally murdered four...

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 ...

Morgan’s Leap Carroll Leslie Bailey Marley Scout Shiloh Marley Golden and his five brothers were the first of their kind. Born leopards, they were blessed with the magic of being the first leopard shifters. Morgan, their mother by proxy, raised them to blend in with humans and to be good men. Blessed with immortality, they all lived together on Morgan’s Leap, a sanctuary for all nature. Sin had come into town to rescue her little brother, Cody, from her deadbeat mom. She was ever so grateful to Morgan for helping them out. When a man she’d never met, Marley, entered the room, Sin had ...

The Sons of Crosby Series 1. Jason 2. Chase 3. Elliot 4. Grayson 5. Ryan (Coming Soon) 6. Sean (Coming Soon) Misty Quartermain met Sean Crosby in college. One night, before they’d met, he’d saved her from a vicious vampire attack and after that they become close friends. He’d shared his family secrets with her and took a little of her blood so that they’d always share a connection. Sean knew Misty wasn’t his mate, but he’d always felt protective of her. A few years later, when Misty and her family were in trouble and on the run, Sean enlisted his family to come to their aid. ...

The Sons of Crosby Series Jason Chase Elliot Grayson Ryan Sean Rachel Daniels was in over her head, and it didn’t take a genius to see it either. Her niece and nephew had been through a lot, and it was up to her to take over where their mother had failed them. Now finding out that she was Sean Crosby’s mate had her head spinning. She was just getting used to the idea of being a mother. Taking on the role of being a mate to a vampire was another daunting matter. Sean Crosby had always been considered a loner. Now finding himself with a readymade family, Sean couldn’t be happier. Sandy ...