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What happens when you can't say no? What happens when desire trumps restraint, and a seemingly innocent glance triggers a red-hot, clothes-in-a-heap quickie? Short in length but long on arousal, the stories in this collection take pace anywhere, any time the mood strikes. In Frenzy, editor Alison Tyler offers an unabashedly lustful selection of "brief encounters" of the sexual kind.

A faerie curse promises that one perfect love awaits Laird Nial Maclee. To claim its passionate promise, he must find his fated lady while avoiding the traps, snares and schemes of females lured by his position, looks, charm and the blasted legend. A single misstep will condemn him to his father's fate - a lifetime of craving the love he can never have nor ever forget. Despite his vow never to face that fate, Nial knows that a laird must put the needs of his clan first, even if it means wedding the wealthy heiress and daughter of the only rival clan on the Isle of Skye, "Heather the Hag." ...

Russian gypsy Prince Vladimir Batalova didn’t await meeting his soul mate. He’d known her for years. She was the daughter of Tobar, the gypsy who married Vlad’s mother and saved her from her abusive marriage. Vlad’s noble father abhorred the youngest son produced by his idiotic marriage to a dirty gypsy. Tobar accepted Vlad, treating him as family, equal to his own son, Nic, and his daughter, Mala. Vlad returned Tobar’s affection and considered Nic his brother, but Mala? He’d never felt brotherly about Mala. Vlad spent years dreading the letter that would tell him of Mala’s ...

Ever since the nation's most important secret meeting - the Constitutional Convention - presidents have struggled to balance open, accountable government with necessary secrecy in military affairs and negotiations. For the first 120 years, a culture of open government persisted, but new threats and technology have long since shattered the old bargains. Today, presidents neither protect vital information nor provide the open debate Americans expect.

In June of 2012, I suddenly found myself in a caregiving role with my dad overnight. Due to an accident my mother had, I stepped into a caregiving role that was unfamiliar and unexpected. I realized that you can know someone all your life but have no clue how to care for them physically, emotionally, and mentally. I also realized that caregiving stretches you in ways that you can't prepare for a head of time.

Rose learned that her wastrel brother had finally hit bottom when his “bank” – gambling hell owner Jack Richards – appeared at her country home to announce his ownership of her hand and to take immediate possession of her body. She didn’t learn of her longstanding betrothal to a Highland laird until her servant, Neddie, announced it as they fled England for Scotland. Lovely Laird Ramsay Sutherland didn’t learn of his betrothal to the English Rose until she and Neddie appeared, shortly after pressure from clan elders convinced him to enter a betrothal with Flora MacKenzie whose ...

Of late, Peter Crandles couldn’t manage to swive a woman – not even a doxie at a Of late, Peter Crandles couldn’t manage to swive a woman – not even a doxie at a brothel. The whores would gladly accommodate the handsome and wealthy future Earl of Standings, but the bloody houses had to stop disappearing first. He couldn’t get the deed done with an accommodating widow or a servant at a ton gathering. The strangest things kept intervening, like flying desserts and lady hawks. But nothing was stranger than the blue-eyed serpent, unless it was the serpent’s effect on Peter. It made ...

Would You Be Willing is an invitation toward wholeness. We all desire more freedom and joy in our lives. We serve a loving, powerful God, yet he lets us choose. We have the power to choose Jesus as Lord and Savior in our lives and get to know him through his word. We have the free will to choose expressions of faith when we repent of sin and receive forgiveness and his blessings.

What bondage is stronger than family ties? What is more erotic than desire hot enough to sunder such sacred bonds? After her Mother dies with her fiancée, Jessi goes to live with her almost-stepfather's sons, the Jamison brothers. She grows into a tomboy and is sent away to learn to be a “lady”. She learns her lessons too well, and returns as a temptress who inspires the eldest, Jake, to a passion so strong it can’t be hidden, contained, or controlled -- feelings no longer brotherly on any level. The desire between Jessi and Jake disgusts the other two Jamison brothers who use every ...

Dipping your pen in the office ink can spell - MURDER. The Ballinger Law Firm had one longstanding rule: no one could dip their pens in the office ink. The rule was never a problem until Gemma Marshall walked into a job interview. From the instant she entered, both Ballinger brothers were interested in much more than her legal aptitude. When Gemma walked in for her interview Mark Ballinger had just hired his associate, a candidate Jed would have hired as well. The brothers' parents, the Senior Partners in the family firm, promised that in exchange, Jed could pick his associate from any of ...

The Duke of Sedgewick’s best friends asked for a favor - they wanted him to teach their little sister about sex. He should have said no because if it went too far, he might love her to death. Beneath the famous Sedgewick honor lies an infamous secret. Despite popular wisdom, Sedgewicks do fall in love - they just can't marry for it. The unbroken line of unions for wealth and power wasn't spawned by respect for bloodlines, but rather by a centuries old faerie curse. Any woman a Sedgewick wed for love would die before she birthed a child. Each duke betrothed himself to a woman he could ...

As a half-breed who would never belong to his tribe, he sold himself for food, shelter and survival. As the Savage Lord who would never belong to the ton, he sold himself for social acceptance. As a man with nothing left to lose, he's learned that survival doesn't mean as much as self-respect and he'll never sell himself again. Keeping that vow might cost him his heart, his soul and his future. Colt grew up under the not so tender care of the stepfather who named him "Sky Who Walks" as a permanent reminder of his blue eyes that proclaim he can never be a real warrior. Disowned by his ...

(Formerly Titled - E-mail Enticement; The Billionaire's E-mail Seduction) In seeking to avoid his family's tradition of falling in love at first sight, Greek Billionaire Alixander Angelis stepped right into fate's twisted path. His ex's bed hopping wins his freedom from his marriage, but Alix doesn't want freedom from Rachel, his ex-wife's much younger half-sister. He plans to dabble in romance with Rachel to give her time to mature. But she's a Carolina girl who is older than her years. She gives him an ultimatum - he must court her publicly and claim her fully or she'll walk away. Alix ...