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Anitra Lynn McLeod - SWAT 4 - Kiss of Intrigue



Murder and intrigue are no way to start a relationship…



Oliver Arnaud isn’t like the other wolf-shifters in Cooper’s pack, but he’s been flying under the radar for so long he assumes he’ll never have to reveal his secrets. When he’s mistakenly identified as a murderer and drugged, he finds himself gaining a mate in the most unusual manner.



Despite working three jobs, Josh Daniels finds time to stalk the man he believes responsible for his brother’s death. When his plan to kidnap and interrogate the mysterious Dom goes horribly wrong, Josh scrambles to keep his independence, not to mention his sanity.



Thrown together by a twist of fate, Oliver and Josh must learn to trust each other as they dig deeper into the death of Josh’s brother. When keeping his secrets conflicts with getting justice for his mate’s brother, Oliver must decide what’s more important.



Anthology - Steamed Up



Inventors, pilots, tinkers, and soldiers; magical metals to replace an aging heart or a ruined limb; steam-powered fantasy worlds of clockwork nightingales, automatons, dirigibles, and men. The stories in this anthology visit diverse times in the history of modern man, and the men who populate these tales face war and cruelty, masters and autocrats, illness and poverty and greed. Yet the heat of romance outmatches even the steam engines, and time and again, the gears of love rule the day.



The Steamed Up stories include:



The Clockwork Nightingale's Song by Amy Rae Durreson

Caress by Eli Easton

Swiftsilver by Bell Ellis

The Clockwork Heart by Kim Fielding

The Galatea's Captain by Anka Grace

Screws by R.D. Hero

The Golden Goose by Mark Lesney

Spindle and Bell by Augusta Li

Ace of Hearts by Mary Pletsch

Five to One by Angelia Sparrow

Untouchable by Layla M. Wier



Beckett Swift - Black and White YA



Tray is a teen street artist who feels trapped by the city and draws on public walls as a way of maintaining his sanity. Then he meets Kyle and a powerful friendship begins. The friendship of a frustrated black youth and the white teen who admires his graffiti art is the subject of this short story.



Beth D. Carter - A Wanted Man



The world has changed. No one knows how the Z-disease happened, but no cure is available. Humanity is a forgotten concept, and to survive the scavengers and roaming plague scouts, one must blend in or become invisible. And above all never trust anyone.



Atticus Sandin is a loner, avoiding human contact as much as possible. Until he discovers a young man on his own in the deserted wasteland and he can’t help but be curious. So he watches, content to admire from afar. But when bounty hunters come for the young man, he makes the choice to step in and save him.



Kit McKittrick escaped the brutal confines of imprisonment just before he was to be sold into being a sex slave. But the slavers aren’t the only ones who want him. The underground scientists have finally found him, and they want him because he’s the only person born immune to the plague.



Kit might be wary of the handsome loner, but he realizes Atticus might just be the person he needs to stay safe, if only he didn’t feel so attracted to the man.



Eden Cole - Kite and Wolf



Sheriff Duncan McGregor is a wolf shifter who is comfortable with his life in small-town Maine. He's never had a problem obeying the chief, his alpha, but when Kite Dowling comes to town, bringing trouble with him, everything changes. Duncan's wolf recognizes Kite as his mate, and Duncan can't bring himself to run the sexy bird shifter out of town like he's ordered to. Duncan welcomes Kite into his bed, but can he afford to let him into his heart, especially when an alpha wolf ex-boyfriend comes calling for Kite?



Holly Meadowes - War and Love



Prince Argo Gola of Matonia is less than keen on the prospect of an arranged marriage but will do it for the good of his kingdom. Still, Prince Sharif is beautiful, smart, and witty, so he thinks he could easily get use to it. However, before he can get use to it his father, King Herman is assassinated the night of the wedding.



Prince Argo is thrust into the position of King, as well as husband, along with trying to find out who killed his father and dealing with the possibility of civil war. Still, this doesn't stop him from slowly falling for his husband, which causes a great deal of trouble when he is kidnapped by the same people who killed his father.



Betrayal and enemies are around ever corner, and the new King may have to choose between his husband and his kingdom.



Jemma McKenzie - Ride Hard Cowboy



When Jake Channing hired a country singer to entertain at his gay club, he just wanted to give his guests a taste of Nashville. What he didn't expect was to be blown away by the hottest bachelor in country music.



Riley Edge was a rising country superstar who had begun to work his way into the hearts of the South. When asked to play a private event at the most popular gay club in Nashville, he couldn't pass up the opportunity to expand his fan base. He didn't know he would find himself in the bed of the unlikeliest of lovers. He also had no idea it would turn his life and his career upside down. After all, fame, sex and scandals come at a steep price.



Joey James Hook - Xander Series - Drawing by Heart



Kay Xander-Doyle thought college would be the best years of his life, and they are. The biggest problem with spreading his wings is that he feels like his boyfriend, Johnny Collins, is pulling away the more Kay gets out into the world. Through the friends he’s been making, he meets Drew Robinson, a sweet, charismatic guy with an eye for elegant detail. Drew pulls Kay in, leaving him at a loss for how to move forward with Johnny. When the unexpected happens and he has to make a life-or-death choice between the past and the present, Kay will have to choose how to best protect the ones he loves.



K.A. Merikan - Zombie Gentlemen - Stung



October 1907, Honeyhill

Twenty years into the zombie Plague



Victor is a man of delicate sensibilities, not fit to do backbreaking labour on a farm ran by the mob. Upon arrival in Honeyhill, he decides he needs an anchor, an alliance with one of the guards, if he wants to survive. That anchor comes in the form of Crunch, a hunky ex-sailor with a pair of tight leather trousers and a ruggedly handsome face.

But from day one, Victor knows he won’t last long with the hard physical work assigned to him and the torment he suffers at the hands of a sadistic guard. He needs to run, and his new alliance might prove to be a burden instead of solace.



If Crunch wants Honeyhill liberated, he needs to focus on his job, not on protecting Victor, one of many new arrivals on the farm. Distraction is the last thing he needs after months of undercover work. But it’s hard not to get seduced by Victor's big brown eyes and fingertips that don’t know work. Hundreds of people depend on Crunch keeping his identity a secret, revealing it could be fatal for both him and Victor, and a failure of his mission.

Thankfully, Victor would never be dumb enough to try and escape through a forest that's swarming with zombies. Would he?



Kody Boye - The Diary of Dakota Hammell



Dakota Hammell was an ordinary teenager until he ran away from home at the age of sixteen, but after being brutally beaten, raped and left for dead, there seems to be little hope in his life—that is, until a man claiming to be a psychologist walks into the alleyway he’s lying near-dead in and offers him a second chance at life. John tells Dakota he can stay with him as long as he wants, but there’s a catch: For each day he stays, he has to write a journal entry about his life, his problems, and his potential future. With little choice, Dakota agrees, but is wary of the situation, as past experience with strangers has shown to have negative effects. But when things with John begin to work out and life becomes nothing out of the ordinary, his heart finally begins to open and his journey can finally be told.



A story of hope, of healing, and ultimately, of friendship, The Diary of Dakota Hammell offers a brief glimpse into a life of fractured teenager who has lost everything but his ability to write



Lynn Lorenz - WereWolf Fight League 2 - Ashland



Dan Stoltz has worked for years under his mentor Murphy to train sparring werewolves for the WWFL. Finally ready to start his own business he takes the money he's saved, buys a license to train, and goes to the slave auction house to buy his first fighter.



Ashland's owner has lost him for failure of back taxes and he's up on the auction block. His former master abused him, underfed him, didn't put him in fights or keep up with his training, and he's not in the best shape.



When Dan sets his sites elsewhere, Murphy insists Ash is the better choice, and so, against his better judgment, Dan purchases Ash. Ash might not look like much at first, but as they work together, Ash looks better than better. Now it seems Dan might get a better return on his investment than he could have expected, because he discovers that he burns with desire for his slave and Ash might just feel the same.



Marcy Jacks - Luna Werewolves 11 - First Time With a Shifter



Elija Austen is on a mission, prevent the destruction of his family’s pack at the hands of a rival pack. Nowhere in that mission is there room for finding his mate. But when he finds him in enemy territory, helping them, he has to act.



John Butcher is a veterinarian, and he takes his job seriously. He never even knew werewolves existed before he was kidnapped and brought to a pack to treat a sick omega, but now that he’s here, he will do what he can.



Then he discovers that these werewolves have no intention of letting him leave alive, and the man who saves him, who happens to be a gorgeous shifter himself, doesn’t believe that John was just an innocent victim. John has to decide whether or not he can go back to his old life, or risk everything for the one person who makes his blood run hot, who looks at him like he’s the enemy.



Marcy Jacks - Luna Werewolves 17 - In Love With Monsters



Alpha wolf Rabbit McKormick has met the perfect man. Sweet, talented, attractive as hell, and more importantly, attracted to Rabbit as well. Better than all of this is when Rabbit takes Benjamine Stiles off for some alone time and discovers they're mates. Then Benjie stabs him in the stomach with a silver knife.



Benjie can hardly believe he went to bed with a werewolf. He's not a hunter, but his father is, and Benjie knows a trick or two for defending himself. Despite this, he can't bring himself to make the killing blow, and another group of alphas from a rival pack come in and take them both.



The oddest thing is when Rabbit defends Benjie. So when Benjie escapes, he has to choose whether or not he wants to take the risk setting Rabbit free as well, because of a new and barely there feeling Benjie has for Rabbit, that has the potential to become so much more.



Max Vos - A Christmas Memory



J.J. has always hated the holidays. Presents, decorations, the traditional family Christmas…It’s all his colleagues in the staffroom can talk about. J.J. avoids these conversations like the plague. He’d do anything to keep his co-workers from seeing the real J.J, the gay man who doesn’t want to be noticed. When he slips up and reveals that he is all alone with no plans for Christmas, the well-meaning ladies of his high school want to take him in for the holidays.



Oh hell….



Enter Coach Adam Sutton who comes to his rescue—and now J.J. is trapped by this hulk of a man who won’t take no for an answer. And he would have to be someone J.J finds attractive, wouldn’t he? Too bad he’s straight and J.J’s not about to step out of the shadows and make a move on him. He likes his arms where they are, thank you very much.



But Adam has a secret, one which is going to turn J.J’s world upside-down. Adam wants to give J.J. a Christmas to remember, but as it turns out, both men’s lives are never going to be the same again…



Nya Rawlyns - The Strigoi Chronicles - Fane



The Church gave him sanctuary and purpose. It took fanatics to unleash the man, but a web of deceit and betrayal threaten to destroy him and everyone he cares about.



Roman Theodore Brandt - Ghosts



We came here to get away, and to be in love. What we found was a lonely home in the Midwest.That's life, they tell us. That's normal. Get up, eat, wash the dishes, go to bed. Live life in the living room. When you die, you'll be buried face down on top of your father and his father, each new arrival sending the last closer to hell.



Suppose I don't want to live this way anymore?



Ghosts is the story of a man who lives in absolute boredom and exhaustion, a state of suspended animation between Kansas and Ohio. How exactly does one escape this life? By becoming a ghost.



Scarlet Hyacinth - A Tail Like No Other 4 - Undead Have Bunnies, Too.



Life is not easy for a carnivorous rabbit. I would know. I am one—Vesper, the white, hunting-challenged carnivorous bunny. I’ve always been completely unappreciated by my warren because of my inability to hunt. Finding a mate was next to impossible. Until now. The wait was worth it, because I’ve met Count Vlad Dracula. A vampire. My mate.



Suddenly, sucking is very appealing. As is every other form of intercourse my libidinous bunny mind can come up with. But Vlad has other ideas. He wants to woo me properly, to introduce me to the lifestyle of a vampire’s mate. Despite my lustful instincts, I’ve respected his decision. Being thrust into a vampire family is strange, especially when fur-obsessed sisters are involved. Sadly, Vlad’s plan backfires when a mysterious witch attacks us.



Now, it’s up to Vlad to rescue me from her clutches. I only hope he will do so before the damn bitch slaughters my fur with her abusive petting.



Talia Thorne - The Hunted



When a mission in Barcelona goes far too easily, Alexander Lewis trusts his partner/lovers instincts over his own and they go off the grid. That night, their hotel room is bombed and they wake up to find reports that their fellow agents are dead or disappeared, and that their control has gone silent. Alone, cut off, abandoned, Alexander and Lance must work together in order to find out who wants them dead.



Toni Griffin - Atherton Pack 3 - Corey



Ethan Stone grew up in the foster care system, moving from house to house, never having a home of his own. When he meets his mate, Corey Jones, he's overjoyed at the prospect of finally getting the one thing he wants more than anything.



Corey's had his heart broken in the past and vowed never to go down that road again, sticking to one night stands only. It's a lonely way to live but it's better than the soul crushing devastation he's felt previously. When he meets Ethan Corey does the only thing he can in order to protect his heart, he runs.



Ethan won't give up his chance at love and a home that easily though, and will a costly mistake cause the entire pack to be put in danger?