Showing results by author "Helen Hardt"

After being left at the altar, Jade Roberts seeks solace at her best friend's ranch on the Colorado western slope. Her humiliation still ripe, she doesn't expect to be attracted to her friend's reticent brother, but when the gorgeous cowboy kisses her, all bets are off. Talon Steel is broken. Having never fully healed from a horrific childhood trauma, he simply exists, taking from women what is offered and giving nothing in return...until Jade Roberts catapults into his life.

Jade Roberts is in love with Talon Steel but no longer welcome in his home. While she resolves to move on, she still longs for the passion she and Talon shared...and when her boss asks her to dig up information on the Steels, she's only too happy to comply. Talon and his brothers are hiding something, and Jade is determined find out what it is. The moment Talon saw Jade he wanted her, ached for her, craved her...and now his desire has become his obsession.

Jade Roberts's love for Talon Steel is the real deal, and she's more determined than ever to help him come to grips with whatever is haunting him. To that end, she continues her investigation of the Steels...and unknowingly attracts some dangerous foes from their shrouded history. Talon loves Jade deeply and longs to possess her forever, so he faces his worst fears and exposes his rawest wounds in an attempt to heal.

Jonah Steel is intelligent, rich, and hard-working. As the oldest of his siblings, he was charged by his father to protect them. He failed in the worst way. Dr. Melanie Carmichael has her own baggage. Although the renowned therapist was able to help Jonah's brother, she is struggling with feelings of inadequacy. When the oldest Steel walks into her office seeking solace, she can't turn her back.

Vampire Dante Gabriel is starving. What he craves is red gold - human blood. After being held captive as a blood slave to a female vampire for years, he has finally escaped. Unchained at last, he follows his nose to the nearest blood bank to sate his hunger. ER nurse Erin Hamilton expects just another busy night shift...until she finds a gorgeous stranger vandalizing the hospital blood bank. Though her logic tells her to turn him in, she’s pulled by stronger and unfamiliar emotions to protect the man who seems oddly infatuated with her scent.

Jonah Steel is knee deep into trying to solve the mystery surrounding his family and his brother's abduction, and the arrival of his best friend has complicated the situation...although not as much as his infatuation with his brother's therapist, Dr. Melanie Carmichael. The quiet humility of the blond beauty has him enthralled, and he burns for her as he never has for any woman. Melanie Carmichael is intelligent and driven, yet filled with regret. She has fallen in love with gorgeous Jonah Steel, but fears she may never be able to tell him.

Jonah Steel has fallen in love with Melanie Carmichael but refuses to make a commitment until he has solved the mystery of his family's past. A new threat has surfaced, and he needs to eliminate it. Melanie loves Jonah but has yet to surrender completely to his needs. Still, she wants a promise that he can't yet make. While the ghosts of her past still hover around her, she joins him on his quest for answers.

Ryan Steel, his world recently upended by an earth-shattering secret, now faces yet another potential revelation surrounding the Steel family mystery. He no longer fully trusts his siblings or the woman he loves. He's alone - alone and terrified and immersed in a conundrum that becomes more twisted each day. Ruby Lee loves Ryan and desperately wants to help him. She'll do whatever she must to see him through this troubling time, but her own shrouded past still haunts her, and she's determined to put an end to both of their mysteries once and for all.

Ryan Steel and Ruby Lee are in love, but before they can move forward with a life together, they're determined to bring resolution to the many unanswered questions they still face. To complicate matters, new threats arise with the arrival of two startling figures from their pasts. As they race against time to find answers, unexpected forces pull them apart.

Ryan Steel is known in Snow Creek as the handsomest Steel brother with the most jovial personality. Now that his busy grape harvest and winemaking season is over, he's happy to spend time with his family and help his brothers, Talon and Jonah, celebrate their impending nuptials. The Steels are taking a well-deserved break from the conspiracy surrounding them...until an unlikely woman and a long-buried secret shatter Ryan's world.

Includes Blood Bond Saga: 1, Blood Bond Saga: 2, and Blood Bond Saga: 3 by New York Times best-selling author Helen Hardt featuring vampire hero Dante Gabriel and ER nurse Erin Hamilton. Vampire Dante Gabriel is starving. After being held captive as a blood slave to a female vampire for years, he has finally escaped and follows his nose to the nearest blood bank. ER nurse Erin Hamilton expects just another busy night shift, until she finds a gorgeous stranger vandalizing the hospital blood bank. 

Dante Gabriel is angry. Someone has violated the woman whose scent has left him emotionally paralyzed, and he’s become unhinged. He vows to protect Erin Hamilton - mostly from himself. Erin has other ideas. She’s determined to figure out the strange man who keeps leaving her aroused and unsatisfied. When she pushes Dante for answers, he goes looking for them himself. What he uncovers could put Erin in mortal danger, with him as her only salvation.

This volume contains Blood Bond Saga: 4, 5, and 6. Vampires are real. That fact has left Erin Hamilton thinking she’s headed for crazy town. Still, she can’t deny the intense emotion she experienced when Dante Gabriel bit her neck and took her blood. Her body responded to his bite in a way she never could have imagined. Dante refuses to glamour Erin Hamilton into giving him her blood. He loves her, and he wants a true blood bond with her, not a forced one that is easily broken. Soon Erin realizes the mystery of the disappearing women is much more sinister than she’d first thought....

Vampires are real. That fact has left Erin Hamilton thinking she’s headed for crazy town. Still, she can’t deny the intense emotion she experienced when Dante Gabriel bit her neck and took her blood. She’s in love, and her body responded to his bite in a way she never could have imagined. Once Dante tastes Erin’s blood, he’s addicted forever and cannot live without it. He’s heartbroken when she bans him from her life and threatens to have him arrested if he comes near her again. But neither can live without the other now, and danger is coming for them.

Now that Dante Gabriel recognizes the blood bond Erin Hamilton has formed with him, he has unwound a little. Still, he must find a way to convince her that she must complete the bond for both their sakes. Vampires are rapidly dying out, and humans have long considered them nothing more than a myth. How can he make her understand?

Dante Gabriel has developed some abilities never before seen in a vampire his age. Without Erin Hamilton, he’d be on the brink of insanity, but she’s always there, always willing to give him what he needs, and he’s determined to keep her safe from the vampires who want her. His questions are still unanswered, and he considers turning to an evil source for results. Erin trusts Dante completely but still seeks outside help to keep the vampires away. Another dream leaves her more frantic to solve the mystery of the disappearing women and help Dante find what he’s looking for.

Breaking into a cemetery isn’t anything Dante Gabriel ever thought he’d do, but he has no choice. He must recover his father’s body so he can claim his estate. Help arrives from two unexpected sources, but their plan is interrupted. Erin Hamilton’s best friend is a wolf shifter. The man she loves is a vampire. His father is a ghost. She can deal with all of that, but new worries have surfaced. The missing doctor has returned to the hospital, and his strange actions are disturbing…but not as disturbing as the odd dreams that begin to plague her. 

Once bonded, never broken. Those words from the ancient Vampyre Texts are what keep Dante Gabriel going. He refuses to glamour Erin Hamilton into giving him her blood. He loves her, and he wants a true blood bond with her, not a forced one that is easily broken. Though she tries, Erin finds she can’t resist Dante. When he comes for her, she always submits willingly, despite her best intentions. 

Dante Gabriel needs Erin Hamilton’s blood. The hunger is all-consuming, and his health and life are in danger - and so is hers. Still, he refuses to force her to feed him. She must come to him willingly. Once she does, they will be bound for eternity. Erin feels like she’s been transported to another world. Ghosts, werewolves, and vampires are real? Even her best friend is not what she seems. Erin tries to escape this new reality by delving further into the mystery at the hospital. 

Breaking into a cemetery isn’t anything Dante Gabriel ever thought he’d do, but he has no choice. He must recover his father’s body, so he can claim his estate. Help arrives from two unexpected sources, but their plan is interrupted. Erin Hamilton’s best friend is a wolf shifter. The man she loves is a vampire. His father is a ghost. She can deal with all of that, but new worries have surfaced. The missing doctor has returned to the hospital, and his strange actions are disturbing but not as disturbing as the odd dreams that begin to plague her.