Showing results by author "Kathi Barton" in All Categories

Reyna Sharp, Renie to her friends, just wanted to work out the time she had left alone, with no one bothering her. When she was a baby her mother had given her away in a Faustian deal with a demon. She had until her twenty-fifth birthday then she was supposed to spend eternity in Hell. Arryn was next on the list of Mystics to take a mate. He had just lost another charge, and wasn’t up for anymore heartache. He didn’t think his heart could take being attached to a mate only to lose her in a few short months… The war between good and evil had gone on since the beginning of time. But ...

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...

Recommended for 18+ Mystic Protectors Series: 1. Riss 2. Agon 3. Galin 4. Aaryn 5. Valyn 6. Tholan (Coming 11/12/2018) Jennifer Hale had been in the hospital handcuffed to the bed for five days. The winged man standing guard had not left her side since she’d been brought in, and the fact that no one else could see him gave her the willies. The man robbing the diner where Jenny worked had shot her in the leg, and then she had killed him with his own gun. It was kill or be killed, but the local authorities hadn’t seen it that way—until now. They were releasing her and as of now she had ...

Galin knows it’s his turn and he isn’t having any part of it. He makes no bones about making it clear to Boss either that he both knows what he is up to and isn’t going to cooperate. He doesn’t now or ever want a wife. “This boy you are going to protect is somewhat of a problem child. He has had a great deal thrown at him, but—” “Boy?” Boss nodded and frowned. “No, I’m sorry, but it should be a woman, not a boy. I’m not…you’re going to assign me my wife to care for. I don’t want one, but I know it should be female. What is this about?” He pushed the file back...

Agon “She is not going to be my wife. In any way, Riss.” Riss nodded as Agon started pacing again. “I want to touch her. Feel her body close to mine and kiss her. I have a need to taste her mouth to see if it tastes as good as I think it might. Then there is my body. I cannot control it around her. I run so hot and hard that I feel as if the world knows that I need her in ways that are not right.” “She will taste better than you can ever dream of, and her body will give you pleasure in ways you cannot imagine.” Agon stared at him for several seconds. “But you cannot touch her....

His love for her was forbidden… Riss has been around since the beginning of time and watching his charges be born, grow up, and die has taken a toll on him. Until lately, being a Protector has always been enough… The Archangel Michael, Riss’s mentor and superior, decides with the help of their “Boss” to change things up a bit―like the rest, he doesn’t want to lose one of his best Protectors. Riss is assigned to guide and protect Kala. Riss is not happy about the changes and hopes this is his last assignment as a Protector before he can quit and live his last year on Earth and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paige Dresher didn’t trust men. She had three little girls to raise, and life had been hard. The deadbeat who had fathered the girls denied his involvement, leaving Paige and the girls to make it on their own. It didn’t help that the only place Paige could afford was a dump, and her girls deserved better than that. They all did. When the landlord shot Paige and one of her daughters, she thought it was the end. Jeffery Griffin knew about the new arrivals. He just wanted to come over and welcome them to the family when he found a strange man who smelled like the little girls roaming in ...

Xavier’s Hatchlings 1. Finn 2. Theodore 3. Milo 4. George 5. Dover 6. Hadley Toby Deaver had been searching for George Manning for quite some time. The teapot had spoken to her and made it quite clear that she needed to find George. Loading up her family, her grannie and her son, Shawn, into the car, they headed to the small town in Ohio. George had already discovered the gem beneath the clay, but he and Imp weren’t quite sure what Toby’s involvement might be and were taken aback when Toby announced that she knew they ...

Mystic Protectors Series: 1. Riss 2. Agon 3. Galin 4. Aaryn 5. Valyn 6. Tholan Tholan had made a grave mistake. He had thought his charge dead and had taken her before it was her time, causing a rift in her family’s timeline. He knew he deserved to die for his mistake but was given instead a thousand years of solitude to reflect on his mistake. Parker Brooks loved her da, and when he was arrested for robbery and murder, a crime he wasn’t even physically able to commit, she confessed to it to keep him out of jail. Parker spent ten years in prison for a crime neither of them had committed...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Kylie Washington’s business is failing, and there isn’t much she can do about it. Short of living in her car and eating scraps for the rest of her life, she has to take the Hunters' offer. She has her father to think of, he made the paper what it was. Curtis has loved Kylie his entire life—but she loves Daniel. Stepping back from the beauty has been the hardest thing he’s ever done. But he will help her and her father even if he has to beat her butt to make it happen. But someone else wants the Washington building too. There is something inside that he wants badly enough to kill for...

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 ...

Dane Wallace’s psychic vision of a murder keeps her parked on a park bench night after night in order to rescue a hapless victim—a man whose face she can’t see clearly. Her intensions are to rescue the man and get back to her private life. Jamie Grant, a strong, handsome college professor, is unaware of the danger lurking around the corner. He’s taken by surprise by two assailants and an unlikely rescuer, a tall gorgeous stranger. Dane has had a hard life with people closest to her not believing in her abilities and punishing her for something she couldn’t help. Dane may have ...