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When former Royal Marine Michael Sinclair finally - literally - found the girl of his dreams, he could never have imagined the web of deception in which he would find himself entangled. Strong-willed with a dark past of her own, a gift of precognition made life difficult (to say the least) for beautiful Paige O'Neal - but then so did living in a haunted house along with the handsome ghost of film actor Erik Fletcher.

She is desperate to remember. He is aching to forget. Together, they are not broken. But together, one may not survive. Jade wakes up with no memory of her past and blood on her hands. Plagued by wicked thoughts, she searches for answers. Instead, she finds a boy who doesn't offer her answers, but hope.

Over the course of a single night, mystical fires tore through the sky and reduced most of Earth to ash. Ten years later magical fire burns again, but this time it's in the hands of a young girl named Skylar. Exiled from her adoptive home, Skylar must now struggle through ruined lands and religious zealots who believe she's an agent of the Devil. An even greater threat exists in the form of shadowy sorcerers from another world who covet her blood.

Oh, that stranger's hands!

This title first appeared in an anthology from Ravenous Romance, editor Rachel Kramer Bussel, entitled The Lust Chronicles.

Once a princess of Leithe, Lorelei was exiled from her homeland and led to the city of Dunvarak in the tundra of Rimian. The people of Dunvarak call her Light of Madra, and nearly every one of them has a story about the white hand of light who saved them from death during the War of Silence. She is their savior, and being a savior is no small task.

Ginnie Dare is the communications officer for her family's spacefaring shipping company. They arrive at Eshu for a routine supply drop and discover the entire settlement's population has vanished. Their search of the site reveals nothing out of place, except the people, but ends in a tense confrontation with the natives. During the conflict, Ginnie discovers an alien artifact that may be the key to diffusing the conflict. Can she decode the artifact before it's taken by the Sector Defense Force?

Nicholas Anthony's spirit has been corrupted. A moment of spite four hundred years in the past turned him into an immortal monster. Now he is obsessed by an unnatural hunger, feasting on the good in others while seeking the good in himself. But unlike the vampire of myth, it's not the taste of blood that draws him, but the very essence of his victims. The soul.

From the dawn of civilization, they have lived among us. Their violence matched only by their beauty and ferocious sexual hunger. The unholy children of Garaaga - half human, half demon - travel our world, struggling to find their place in it. Watching. Feeding. Killing. Daemons of Garaaga chronicles three generations of these children as they stake their claim on humankind in our ancient past.

Rusty McCenery is the powerful witch of Avalon, living in a world much like ours, just more magical. She's beautiful and talented, and the master of her destiny - until two men shake her very foundation with their protestations of love. Ian McAllister is as handsome and almost as powerful as Rusty, but can't be trusted. She leaves him behind but their whirlwind romance changes her life forever. Alex Cameron, a one-time lover who finds her again many years later, offers Rusty a very different type of love....

Charity Grath's sister, seamstress Martha Grath, knows she wants handsome Nehemiah Jemison as her husband, but a recurring dream of his death makes her fear she will never have him. When a shocking murder takes place in the snowy woods of the neighboring Hutterite colony just before Christmas, Martha is in for the shock of her life. Can she solve the mystery that entangles Nehemiah and his family, or will the couple's future together be jeopardized?

Loosely based on the It's Just Lunch® dating service, Confess is the first in a series of tales revolving around the It's Just Sex no-strings fantasy fulfillment service. WARNING: Catholics may find the story premise offensive. Well, "good" Catholics, anyway.

Nick Spinelli's normal life as a homicide detective has been catapulted into a whirlwind of chaotic holiday adventures since he met the exquisite Shannon O'Hara. Nick had hoped to spend his first Valentine's Day with Shannon in a traditional manner, starting with a nice dinner out and then ending with a long warm adventurous night in her arms. His plans quickly change when cupid is found murdered in a back alley. Shannon is linked to the victim, and when another cupid turns up dead, it is discovered that she’s linked to him too. Is it possible Spinelli is next on the killer's list?