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He's my best friend's brother, and he's completely deranged. Dark, disturbed, and hell-bent on making my life as his new tutor an actual living nightmare, he's the enemy I should shy away from. Secrets are locked behind my red lips, just as his are concealed by his pressed tie and crisp school uniform. We are more alike than either of us are willing to admit. Tobias says heartless boys never kiss... But he kissed me.

Skye is reunited with her friends and lovers in the Ha’kan, but the shadow of the sorceress looms over her. Even as her magical power increases, she knows she is no match for the woman who seeks vengeance for her great-grandfather’s infidelity. But Skye is no longer a child, and her years with the highly sexual Ha’kan have taught her a few things as she considers an entirely new way of dealing with her nemesis. As the Second Great War threatens, it is uncertain if the Alliance will hold. The Goddess of the Underworld stirs, having waited centuries for this moment.

Two years have passed since the fateful battle in the Underworld. The mythic warrior Raine and her dragon lover, Talan’alaith’illaria, have settled down to a life of domestic bliss. The peoples of Arianthem enjoy a peace unknown for centuries. A storm brews in the Underworld, however, as the Goddess Hel fumes in her realm.

Separated from her children, Raine guards her sleeping dragon lover at the top of the world. Although Hel continues to threaten Raine in her dreams, training with the strange phantasm, Sentinel, seems to keep the Goddess at bay.

Syn is a womanizer and a rogue. Her name fits her perfectly, for she is indeed a sinner - flawed and unrepentant. She also happens to be the best thief in all of Arianthem. When Syn enters a contract to steal a series of enchanted stones, she runs headlong into the roadblock that is Lady Jorden - a noblewoman far above Syn's station in life who is pursuing Syn like no other. And Syn, who has run from everything in her life, finds herself wanting to give in to that wicked smile.

Colt Holliday knows all too well how life can sometimes just piss you off, but he’s learned to control his anger issues. Or so he thinks. When an ancient god takes over his soul, Colt is faced with a rage unlike any other. Now when he gets mad, he hits like a category 5 hurricane after too many shots of Patrón. Colt soon finds himself in an insane world of mythical creatures—vampires, werewolves, and demons—hiding among humans.

John Devonte and his Wargear have a new home in the Deadlands. The Deadlands have been sealed by the Draconic Emperor's scalemancers. The only way for John and his Wargear women to survive is to penetrate the heart of the Deadlands and find the "Omphalos," the navel of the world. Whatever power lies there, John isn’t sure, but the Draconic Emperor is willing to kill for it. If John can find it first, he might just find himself with the power to rival anyone else in the world.

Presley McDaniel lives her life from moment to moment. Making permanent decisions means obligation, and that would force her to stop being the family disappointment. Waitress, fitness instructor, dog walker…you name the hourly job and she’s probably held the position. But when her grandmother can no longer run her book shop in Fawn Hill, a town so small it barely has its own zip code, Presley steps up to help.

Paul Watkins always wanted to believe in the supernatural. Poltergeists, werewolves, witches, he desperately wanted them all to be real. Then he discovered they truly do exist—and it’s his task to protect them. After a beautiful woman who claims to be hunted by dangerous men catches a ride, his life changes forever. He’s taken to a strange and magical mansion, told that he’s its new owner, and that he has the power of Talismancy: he can enchant objects, places, and people, infusing them with magical power.

Lily Grantham has always done what she’s been told. The daughter of a senator, she grew up as the good girl of Fawn Hill, and carried that torch right on through to adulthood. Her only wild streak? Bowen Nash. She loved that boy since the day they laid eyes on each other, and it nearly ended them both. A decade later, and Lily still can’t move on, even if Bowen has made it clear he doesn’t love her anymore.

Tall, dark, and…Russian. Three things that Elena swore she’d never fall for again, but that’s exactly what happens when she meets Dimitri Razin on an international flight leaving Moscow. His penetrating blue eyes peer straight into the core of her soul, leaving her vulnerable and all too aware that he’s the kind of man she had fantasies about before her world fell apart.

The day Mona died, she found her true life in the realm of the dead. She discovered her wild and seductive side. She learned the truth about her magic. And she fell in love with a dark prince.

Forrest Nash is a smug know-it-all. With his brains, ridiculous good looks and penchant for disobeying the laws of both the police and the dark web, Fawn Hill’s resident genius is cockier than any man Penelope Briggs has ever encountered. It doesn’t help that their six-year age difference makes him completely ineligible in her eyes. Add in the fact that he doesn’t want marriage or babies, and that should eliminate him from the dating pool forever. But it doesn’t mean she can’t sleep with him. Once. Or twice. Or ten times.

Paul and his companions are at Becker State Park, preparing to raise the Mansion and restore it to some semblance of flight. As they do, a group of supernaturals emerges from the woods, battered and frightened. They’ve been attacked by a madman called "the Hunter" who has returned after a long time away. They speak about him with almost mythic intent, treating him like a figure from a dark fairy tale. Little does Paul know that at that moment, the Hunter may prove the demise of himself, his supernatural companions, and the House of the Talismancer.

Lord Primcock: An Erotic Steampunk Series of Devices & Desires begins in Victorian London with The Vanity Mirror as genius inventor, philanthropist, and playboy aristocrat Lord Primcock breaks in Adra, a brazen new footman. They both have dark desires, but only one can be the master. The Vanity Mirror begins the training of the alabaster-skinned Adra.

I must stop hotshot developer Bruce Clynes from cutting down the trees, especially the oak tree, in the glade he owns near Lake Michigan. The oak tree has grown there and been my home for more than 300 years. I only have five days as a human in a woman’s body before I must resume my existence as a tree spirit in the oak tree or be stuck in this human body.

Avery knew life as an undercover DEA agent was dangerous, but she never imagined that in less than a day her entire world would fall apart. Her cover was blown and the man who exposed her set her up to be taken by her enemies, framed her for taking bribes, and killed her partner. Only the intervention of a mysterious group of men saved her from a fate worse than death. Now she is on the run from the very law she used to uphold, and her only hope of clearing her name is to find the men who saved her life.

As a strong initiate of the Sawa sect, Kei never expected to be given the boot, while someone else cheated their way up the ladder. But here he was, kicked out, speeding across the planet, with one chance left to prove himself: His mission to infiltrate the enemy sect, and steal what makes them the most powerful family on the planet. Fail, and lose everything he’s ever strived for. Fail, and lose the one thing he loves the most, his family. For Kei, failure is just not an option.

When I left Manhattan to go to a technology conference in the Cayman Islands, only to run right into my competitor Hansen, a.k.a. the Tech God, I should have known things would get complicated.

An ancient darkness from the time of humanity's original sin. From the distant past, when Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree, he rose. Half man, half creature, a fallen angel. He creates Children of the Night, who feed on blood. Risen from the underworld, he walks the earth for eternity as punishment and now punishes all those who cross him.