Showing results by author "Kit Tunstall"

Ordinary Tara Noland leads a boring existence until she sees something she was never meant to observe. Head of the Russian mafia in his city, Alexei Varnakov can't let her go after she witnesses him murdering an underling. He should follow the code of the vory v zakone and eliminate her, but he can't. Instead, he decides to keep the fiery redhead. It's the only way she can stay alive, but she's defiant and fights him at every turn. He can break his little fox with passion, but can he ever win her trust?

When curvy Emma models for a family friend shooting pictures for romance novel covers, she isn't expecting there to be a second model. Cody is hot enough to melt her new panties, but that makes it harder to pose intimately with him and pretend she isn't attracted. It doesn't take long to realize the attraction is mutual, and their steamy photography session leads to a night of intense passion that can't be anything else.

Winning it big. That's the name of the game at Las Vegas's Liege Hotel and Casino, where the hottest fantasies hinge on the roll of the dice and the tantalizing knowledge that anything could happen before sunrise.

Lexie plans to give her virginity to her boyfriend while she has the house to herself. She doesn't expect a cop - who has tormented her since her mom and stepdad married - to interrupt them. When Ryan demands to take Jason's place, she's certain it's just another one of his games. This time, she isn't going to beg him to stop and calls his bluff. As he joins her on the bed, she realizes it isn't a game and never has been. Could the guy who thrives on teasing her be in love with her, and is it possible she feels the same?

As captain of an Irish mafia crew, Shane has everything he wants. Money, women, and power. He can have anything, except the one woman with whom he's obsessed. Mia Kasilli, daughter of a Russian kingpin, wants nothing to do with that lifestyle. When he can no longer be without her, he orchestrates a series of actions that leave her father in his debt and Mia in his power. He's dark and dangerous, the embodiment of everything she doesn't want in a man, so why does she crave him so much?

Ballerina Siobhan O'Mara has been in love with her brother's best friend for as long as she remembers, but Cormac has always treated her like a kid sister. When they're unexpectedly involved in a drive-by shooting, almost losing her snaps his carefully regulated control. Having her is more important than shielding her from the truth about his role in the Irish Mafia, and he claims the woman he needs.

Shy socialite Breanna is used to being overlooked, minimized, and ignored. She's grown up in the suffocating household of her old-money parents and done her best to please them, agreeing to marry a man of their choosing. Just weeks before the wedding, she runs away. As she flees to her friend in Canada, she wrecks her car in the mountains. Rafe, the man who rescues her, is a bear-shifter wintering in his cabin. Snowed in together, the passion flares between them, and he soon realizes she is his mate.

When Lex is taken from her teammates, she expects to be eliminated or harvested for Project Enhanced. Instead, Lt. Col. Jasper Caswell, leader of the black ops group pursuing them, has marked her as his mate. It's a fate worse than death, and she is desperate to escape. The mysterious and handsome Aidan, who works in support services, seems like her best chance of doing so. With his help, she discovers what the group really wants from the shifters who have eluded them.

Clinging to the hope Dr. Daphne Wells can help his teammate and former lover, Malcolm kidnaps the doctor and brings her to Sanctuary. Once she realizes how the black ops group subverted her research, she is eager to help reverse the effects, if she can. While she studies the artificial intelligence systems, Malcolm and the rest of the team set about systematically destroying all traces of Project Shift and Project Enhanced.

Shayla adopted her niece at birth, when her sister turned her back on the baby without a real explanation besides the "strangeness" of the father's people. Aislinn is ill, and the doctors have given up hope, so she takes the girl to Bear Island, where her father and his people live, praying for a miracle. She finds truths she isn't ready to face among a clan of bear-shifters. In Kade, she finds an angry bear denied the knowledge of his daughter's existence.

One moment, completely human and modern-day Carrie Morgan is crocheting in her living room. The next second, a peach alien claiming to be a Celestial Mates agent transports her and her dog 400 years into the future. He leaves her there to be discovered by her supposed fated mate - a blue-skinned cyborg general. The sly agent failed to mention a few things, like the fact humans and cyborgs are at war with each other!

Knox, ex-soldier and sheriff's deputy, is a man used to being in control. When it comes to his stepsister, he wants to own every inch of her, but he's tried to do the right thing and not pursue the need to possess her. Forget his good intentions, because Claire's wicked teasing is driving him to the breaking point. Soon, she'll know exactly what it means to belong to a man like him.

When Dr. Jade Barnes impulsively stops at a bar before leaving for a four month archaeology dig, she spends a single night with a stranger, not even learning his last name. When she slips away the next morning, she doesn't realize she isn't leaving alone. When they meet again, Cody surprises her by how well he takes the news of impending fatherhood. There are further surprises awaiting, like the fact he's a bear-shifter. Initially that terrifies her, but she soon appreciates his strength and protectiveness.

In Seattle for her best friend's wedding, curvy Grace is immediately attracted to the best man, Kingston Meade. He's equally interested in her, especially since his bear insists she is their mate. The attraction is undeniable, but she still doesn't know he's a polar bear shifter. There's also the added problem of leucistic panther-shifter Ashley, who is determined to get her claws into Kingston, and she's willing to slash Grace out of his life to do it. Will the bear king of Emerald City win and keep his curvy human queen?

US Marshal and bear-shifter Lucas Anderson failed to protect his pregnant witness, so when she asks him to adopt her daughter as her dying wish, he can't refuse. Angel is a sweet baby, and he soon feels like Papa Bear, and maybe she'll be the key to help him wear down his mate's resistance.

After Mr. Jordan catches Beth in a compromising position, he assigns her detention. When Beth shows up for her punishment, she's surprised by Mr. Jordan's intention to give her "biology" lessons. Having had a crush on him all year, she's eager to learn. It's against the rules, but rules were made to be broken. SpicyShorts are compact tales that can be listened to in a brief amount of time with no cliffhanger endings or multiple parts.

After yet another heartbreak, newly dumped plus-size Cady finds herself at the local bar, where the two objects of her naughtiest fantasies just happen to hang out. When she confesses her boyfriend has been cheating and admits she can't blame him for picking a slim young chick over her, Jace and Brody make it clear they both desire her. Cady finds herself with the tempting, and awkward, choice between the two cowboys who are both offering her a night of incredible passion.

As the emcee of a charity auction for WishGranters Foundation, Olivia isn't on the bidding list. That doesn't stop billionaire Jensen Meade from offering six million dollars for an evening of her time. He's a perfect gentleman, and they're soon spending all their time together despite her wariness after a previous bad relationship. He knows she's his mate, but she doesn't yet know he's a bear-shifter, and it seems like the wrong time to tell her when someone who's been stalking him switches focus to Olivia instead.

On the night Erin decides to give in to her boyfriend's increasingly pressured demands for sex, she discovers Chip has already moved on. Devastated by his cheating, she finds sympathy in an unlikely person - Chip's father. Jared comforts Erin, but his soothing caresses change to something more. She will lose her virginity as planned, but to an unexpected lover in an all-consuming tide of passion that allows no room for thinking about little things like condoms or consequences....

When Maya investigates a tip about illegal bear fights on a private island, she doesn't expect to discover the bears are actually bear-shifters being exploited for their genetic abilities and as entertainment to build a criminal's gambling empire. Before she can do anything with the information, she's captured and detained. As a veterinarian-in-training, she persuades them to let her care for the fighters instead of killing her. She immediately connects with one of the shifters, slowly winning Hale's trust.