December 2014

Sex, love, and Las Vegas...

Roulette is a thrilling erotic adventure with heavy doses of romance and humor.  Thomas Hunt is a young grad student who falls in love with his very untraditional female Domme, Samantha Drake.  Sam isn't into leather or whips, but she craves control and fears letting a man into her carefully regimented world.

As Thomas falls in love, he chips away at the wall around Sam's heart, finding his own inner-Dom in the process.  As she gives in to the need inside her to surrender, she's able to submit more and more to the man she loves.

Along the way, they must nurture their fledgling love while dodging organized crime, a blackmail plot, and a sadistic Dominatrix from Thomas's past.  Roulette is not your standard sappy romance, nor is it hardcore erotica with no plot or character development.  You'll fall in love with Thomas Hunt and never forget him, and the fun adventure plot will keep you turning the pages.

Roulette is loaded with steamy, explicit sex scenes between the couple, yes, but it's about so much more than sex.  There a BDSM role-play element, with both main characters being switches, but there's no cringe-worthy pain in this story.  If you like a great engaging plot, plenty of sex scenes, laugh-out-loud moments, and a couple in love without the tear-jerking drama, Roulette is for you.

Due to profanity, explicit sex, and adult themes Roulette is recommended for open-minded adults 18 or older.

Free Days: 01/23-01/25

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From Amazon Top 100 Best Selling Author, Alexi Lawless, comes a powerful new series unlike any you've ever read...

What happens when curiosity becomes obsession?

Luck is Jack Roman's middle name - and Chicago is his Empire. He lives to work, loves to play, and makes no commitments. But when the mysterious Samantha Wyatt moves into the adjoining penthouse, he's immediately drawn to her, a striking, elusive woman who transitions seamlessly from wood-paneled board rooms to high-stakes, high-risk rescue operations in the most dangerous parts of the world.

Intrigued by her self-possession, aroused by her incredible passion, and disarmed by a vulnerability she cannot hide, Jack pursues her into the nexus of her dangerous present and her enigmatic past. An entire world is revealed to Jack, where living for pleasure becomes fighting for survival. And the only woman he wants may be the one he cannot have...

COMPLICATED CREATURES is a mesmerizing, labyrinthine romantic suspense that will leave you wondering: Do you really want to know everything about the one you love?

Free Days: 01/06-01/07

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Losing her mind wasn't an experience she enjoyed.

After a steamy night of passion with a dark stranger, Arbor's life takes on a surreal edge. Disturbing dreams, lapses in memory, and entire buildings going missing are only a few of her problems. Her search for answers leads her to Detective Trey Murphy, the man in charge of investigating satanic and ritualistic crime for the New Orleans area.

Where do you turn when your mind is the enemy?

Meeting Trey only adds to Arbor's confusion. By day, he keeps her captivated and gains her trust in a way no one else ever has. At night, Arbor's every fantasy is brought to life by two sexy men who steal away her inhibitions. Torn between what her heart knows is real and what her eyes show her, Arbor must find the truth before she loses herself completely.

But, then again, sometimes reality is more twisted than any dream and love is the cruelest form of insanity.

Author Note

Warning: This isn't your typical love story. It's dark with scenes some may find disturbing. Sometimes love is senseless, and the heart is so very stupid.

Free Days: 01/05-01/07

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What happens when Mr. Slow and Steady...

The forecast is smooth sailing for Oliver Chancellor, one of Galveston's premier financier. Destined to take his place in his family's bank, Chance is content with the future that's been mapped out for him, right down to his upcoming engagement to a prim debutante.

Finds himself on a collision course...

But when beautiful Aurora St. Claire crosses his path, Chance recklessly plunges into uncharted territory with nothing but his heart to guide him-and a beautiful woman to tempt him.

With Ms. Full-Speed-Ahead?

Propelled by a lifelong dream to buy the island home reportedly haunted by her colorful ancestors, Aurora desperately needs Chance's help in securing a business loan and she won't take no for an answer. In the midst of convincing the hesitant blue blood to take a chance on her dream, Aurora awakes his hidden streak of red-hot passion. Before they know it, the mismatched pair are all tangled up in a reckless desire and headed for trouble-trouble in the name of love.

Free Days: 01/05-01/31

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Kissing in the Dark is the fourth book in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Grayson Brothers series.

4-1/2 to 5 Star rating on this book and the full series.

Book 1 of series is a RITA winner.

Book 2 of series is an RT Top Pick and 2003 Best American-Set Romance Nominee.

Free Days: 01/05-01/11

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Thirty-one year old Grace Ellery survived being stabbed multiple times in Ohio. Two years later, she moves to Murray, Virginia to get a new lease on life.

On her first day of substitute teaching, her new life is nearly cut short when she finds herself in the middle of a shooting that leaves a married couple dead. Luckily, she is saved by Sam Meadows, a cardiologist, but the shooter has disappeared by the time the police come around.

When the shooter tries to kill Grace again, Sam and Grace realize that the killer won't stop until she is dead. With a killer who has nothing to lose, the question isn't if the killer will attack again, but when and who will be in the crosshairs. A romance/murder-mystery wrapped in the aspects of life: love, family, forgiveness, danger, and death.

Free Days: 12/31-01/04

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The last person cruise director Avery Knox expected to see aboard her very first trip out on Valiant is former college football star, Rip Pollendene. A decade ago, she had turned down his advances at the University of Miami and lived to regret her decision. Why is she so reluctant to take the second chance she's been handed?

Rip Pollendene is the heir apparent to a beautiful island nation. But it's a heritage Rip has ignored and rejected for twenty years. Now his homeland is on the brink of a bloody civil war with outside forces trying to manipulate the outcome. Is that why someone wants him dead?

How much should Rip sacrifice for a country he hardly knows? And is it sheer coincidence that has thrown golden girl Avery Knox back into his life? Can they stay alive long enough to find out if their love really is meant to be?

His Reluctant Bodyguard is the second book in the Adventure Cruise Line series.

Free Days: 01/05/15-01/09/15

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Julia Taylor works as a recruitment consultant for Paranormal Personnel in London. Her normal day at the office consists of seeing clients, searching for new vacancies, updating CVs and visiting employers.

It seems as though she has an ordinary life but in reality Julia is half elf and she works for a recruitment agency for paranormals.

She is normally calm, confident and is not afraid to stand up for herself, but when the meeting with La Caz Corporation doesn't go as well as she hoped, she wants to bury herself under the ground and die.

Nathaniel La Caz is a player and he wants to seduce Julia. The incredible sexual chemistry that builds up between them complicates her life to the point where she can't control her magic. La Caz not only wants her but he also has a craving for her blood. Then her ex-boyfriend Jasper comes back on the scene and nearly exposes the whole paranormal world to humans when trying to protect her.

It doesn't end well when vampires and elves mix. The problems start escalating when Julia witnesses the kidnapping of her cousin Claudia on the busy street. From then on things only go from bad to worst.

Free Days:

12/30/2014-01/01/2015

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On New Year's Eve, American Celine Fontaine falls 700 years through time--and into the bed of a darkly dangerous knight. Sir Gaston de Varennes wants a docile bride who will fit into his plans for vengeance and justice, but by a king's decree, finds himself wed to this defiant, enchanting lady... who's keeping a desperate secret. More than 450 5-star reviews on Amazon! From a USA Today bestselling author. "Irresistible. One of the best romances of the year." -The Detroit Free Press

Free Days: 12/26-01/22

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2014 Kindle Book Review Finalist for Best Romance
                    
Sometimes, a promise kept can change your life.
Reeling from the violent death of her husband in war-torn Iraq, Jordan Phillips is at her wit's end, left to fend for herself and her baby. Alone and desperate in backwater Pelican Pointe, she faces an uphill battle against a judgmental and hostile town as she tries to rebuild her life. But when a mysterious and handsome stranger with a tragic secret appears, her fragile new world threatens to come crashing down around her. A heartbreaking story of love and romance, Promise Cove will hold you breathless until the very last page.

Free Days: 01/05-01/07

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What if your whole life was a lie?

Alexis Ferguson thinks she has everything figured out, but has no idea how wrong she is. Set up on a blind date, she meets a gorgeous stranger and feels that she's known him her entire life, but she has never seen him before.

He awakens in her long-forgotten dark memories, and now she must face the one who ordered her death years ago. Will she learn to use her strange new powers in time to save herself? Will she let him help her? Should she trust him?

Free Days: 01/03-01/10

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Skulking around in the ruins on a planet swarming with treasure hunters, slavers, and bounty hunters isn't good for one's health. But Ankari Markovich needs a few archaeological samples for her latest business venture, a venture that might prove lucrative enough to move her family off the impoverished planet where she grew up. Unfortunately, she has no sooner collected her samples than she's captured by a band of brawny mercenaries. The captain might be handsome, but he's intent on turning her over to some finance lord who has, for reasons unknown, put a bounty on her head, a ridiculously large one at that. If she can't figure out a way to escape before she's delivered to the lord's home world, she could be forced into a life of indentured servitude-or worse.

Captain Viktor Mandrake doesn't usually take on piddling bounty hunting gigs, but when his intelligence officer informs him of a criminal on a nearby planet, he decides it wouldn't hurt to take a shuttle down to collect the woman. But Ankari Markovich is trouble from the start, nearly eluding his elite forces, then fighting and tricking his people left and right. He finds himself admiring her spirit, but according to her warrant, she's a criminal. The safest thing is to keep her in the brig and ignore her until she can be handed off to the man who wants her.

Free Days: 12/28/2014-01/28/2015

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Kissing is overrated.

At least in Vince's mind. The fact that he avoids kissing hasn't stopped him from getting what he wants from women. But now he's shared a little too much with his co-worker, Tori-and she's made it her personal mission to change his opinion. After all, what happens in Sturgis, stays in Sturgis.

Or does it?

Free Days: 12/26-12/28

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Ex-cop Ryan O'Hare takes one look at buttoned-up control freak Liz Garner and just itches to loosen the woman up. Not that he's into her. Because a woman like that comes with way too many expectations. Not to mention, she practically works for him, and he didn't hire Liz to watch after his beloved Harley-stealing Gran so he could turn Liz loose in his bed. Still, there's something about her, a hidden wild side, that makes him wonder what it would take.

Liz must be crazy to work for the insensitive, arrogant, horribly...hot man she's avoided for years. Unfortunately, she needs the money and Ryan's grandmother needs a keeper. (Midnight tango lessons and ziplines with Gran, anyone?) Ryan's rare smile and swaggering confidence have Liz torn between throwing her favorite pinot grigio at his head or throwing herself at him. Can this control freak find a way to let loose with the tough, no-strings guy who once broke her heart?

Free Days: 01/23-02/02

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12th century England: Two men vie for the throne: King Stephen the usurper and young Duke Henry the rightful heir. Amid civil and private wars, alliances are forged, loyalties are betrayed, families are divided, and marriages are made.

For four years, Lady Annyn Bretanne has trained at arms with one end in mind - to avenge her brother's murder as God has not deemed it worthy to do. Disguised as a squire, she sets off to exact revenge on a man known only by his surname, Wulfrith. But when she holds his fate in her hands, her will wavers and her heart whispers that her enemy may not be an enemy after all.

Baron Wulfrith, renowned trainer of knights, allows no women within his walls for the distraction they breed. What he never expects is that the impetuous young man sent to train under him is a woman who seeks his death - nor that her unveiling will test his faith and distract the warrior from his purpose.

Free Days: 12/26-01/31

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Love is stronger than fear...or is it?

The last thing Sara remembers is a conflicted night out with her boyfriend, Matt, and laying out under the dark night's sky. How she came to be seated among the crowd under the Big Top is a mystery. When and how did she get there? She doesn't wait to find out. Whether it's due to basic fear or the scary, hideous clowns, Sara and Matt run. Run beyond the tent walls into the deep, dark alleys of the carnival. What they find along their mad dash to the parking lot will have them redefining their idea of fun zones, thrill rides, and date nights. Fear is an eat-you-alive monster. Refusing to be defined by that monster, they will confront those fears.

What they find-

Perceptions can be excruciatingly misleading...and some monsters have hidden claws.

Free Days: 12/26-12/27

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A lovely Saxon lady, a fierce Norman lord... Can an innocent maid's gentle surrender quench the fires raging in the heart of a brutal enemy knight?  Young Lady Rhiann is captured by the Norman invaders after the fall of her father's grand estate in Saxony and taken to London to kneel before the Norman Duke William who would be England's new king.  By the king's command she is wed to his loyal vassal, Nathan, who was awarded her father's estates for his loyal service to the new monarch.

Afraid to trust her new husband with the secrets of her family's past, but terrified of what her future holds if Nathan proves unworthy of her trust, Rhiann struggles with Nathan's insistence that she give him her complete loyalty and confide all of her secrets to him, and against her own traitorous heart that is softening towards her Norman conqueror.

For his part, Nathan suddenly finds himself lord of a duke's estate with the duke's lovely, young daughter as his new wife.  Distracted by his lust for his new, beautiful bride and his conviction that Rhiann has been less than forthright with him about her past, Nathan is forced to juggle his responsibilities to the king, the oversight of his new lands and the growing mystery surrounding his young wife's Saxon family.  He fears Rhiann's reluctance to confide in him will prove a threat to both of their futures.

Will their growing love for each other be enough to overcome their pasts?

Free Days: 12/26-12/28

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The terrorists want her alive. The CIA wants her dead, and Michael just wants to love her.

Free Days: 12/20-12/31

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Sir Brandon Calvert has spent four years trying to forget the beautiful debutante who broke his heart by rejecting his marriage proposal. Just when he believes he has succeeded, a fateful snowstorm strands him in the company of Lady Cassandra Whitney. Now Brandon must confront the past and the dangerous attraction her nearness threatens to revive!

The last person Lady Cassandra expected to encounter on a snowy road to Bath is the one man she has never succeeded in banishing from her heart. Her reasons for refusing Sir Brandon's proposal are not what he believes. But how can she tell the rigorously truthful baronet that she deceived him? And how can she reveal the truth without exposing shameful family secrets?

Under difficult circumstances, Brandon is intrigued to discover that Cassandra Whitney has matured from a headstrong debutante into a capable, caring woman. He fears she could make him fall in love with her all over again if he is not careful to keep his distance. But how can he do that in a tiny farmhouse, when their kind hosts insist on playing Cupid at every opportunity?

In the depths of a Regency winter, warm affections are quickly rekindled. But can the flame of true love burn bright enough to light the way for two lost hearts to find one another again, before the snow melts and they must go their separate ways? Or will Lady Cassandra get a second chance to say yes?

Free Days: 12/16-12/19

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They say you marry a person and not a family, but tell that to a Larson bride.

A year has passed since his ex-wife remarried and 53 yr old Will Larson's adult sons have decided he needs their help to start dating again. His growing desperation to date retiring high school art teacher, Jessica Daniels, makes Will think suffering their help might just be worth the drama. The skilled sculptor carves masterpieces from stone but soon discovers that he has a lot left to learn about the art of love.

Free Days: 12/14-01/14

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As an undergrad, Sammie Singleton became the muse of an artist she didn't know. But the connection vanished, and now Sammie drowns in the colorless drudgery of corporate America. Lost and abandoned, Sammie longs for the scent of paints, the vibrancy of reds, the soft stroking of a feather brush...

Her world flashes alive the moment she meets Thomas Quidell. Sammie quickly realizes the brilliant and talented Tom is her long-lost artist-and the man she's been fantasizing about all these years.

Tom's touch awakens needs Sammie thought long dead. When he offers a lifeline out of her soul-killing life, Sammie doubts pull her under.  Is she strong enough to find her way back to love?

Free Days: 12/12/14-12/31/15

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AN UNATTAINABLE ROGUE...

For seven years, Lord Garrett Sinclair-- the ruggedly handsome illegitimate son of the Duke of Pembroke--has been traveling abroad with no intention of ever returning home to Pembroke Palace... until his father commands that he must marry by Christmas in order to thwart a family curse or lose his inheritance forever. Haunted by a tragic accident that has hardened his soul, Garrett entrusts his brothers to seek out a bride who will agree to a marriage in name only. Her reward? A sizable share of his inheritance--payable immediately after the wedding night...

A BEAUTIFUL TEMPTRESS...

Lady Anne Douglas has been ruined by scandal and disowned by her father. Facing a life of poverty and spinsterhood, she leaps at the generous terms of the marriage contract to ensure her independence. But the charade of a two-week engagement proves more of a challenge than either anticipated when they cannot resist the intoxicating lure of the marriage bed. Anne knows they will part ways after the wedding. Will she dare risk her heart for two weeks of pleasure in the arms of an irresistible rogue? Or will her surrender become her undoing after a most unexpected turn of events mere hours before the wedding?

Free Days: 12/11-01/11

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Shifters live in the shadows of Seattle, just under the skin of the alpha male, dot-com entrepreneurs who are building a new Silicon Valley in the Emerald City.

Mia is just a college girl trying to earn her business degree and dig out of the poverty she was born into--being a shifter is something she hides, hoping her secret won't sabotage her dreams.

Lucas is a broken alpha, a wolf who lost his mate, his pack, and almost himself--he wasn't looking to rescue a girl or start a pack war. But now he has to keep her safe or it won't just be her life, but his whole family at risk... only his inner wolf can't seem to keep its paws off a girl who has secrets of her own.

Desired (True Alpha 1) is 80 pages or 20,000 words and is the first of six TRUE ALPHA episodes.

Free Days: 12/05-12/19

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ONE JUMP PUTS IT ALL ON THE LINE...

Former SEAL Rio Donovan is one hundred percent pure, sensual trouble. Home from the front lines, he has a new mission: fighting fire as a smoke jumper. He won't back down from the flames or a dare and he loves putting it all on the line when he parachutes into the heart of a wildland fire. When the fire camp gets a much-needed new player, however, Rio lands in uncharted territory. The jump team's newest member is sexy, strong-and female. She's supposed to be just one of the boys, but Rio burns to claim her one heated kiss at a time. This jump, Rio Donovan's putting it all on the line. Body and heart.

INTO THE FIRE... AND INTO LOVE

Kissing a fellow smoke jumper would be career suicide and Gia Jackson has worked too hard and too long to earn her spot on the jump team to jeopardize it all now for a man. The love-em-and-leave-em boys of summer aren't her type and she's hiding a few secrets of her own, but, when her chute tangles with Rio's on a jump, he's thrown into her arms. Literally. She's held firm on the fireline for years-but can she hold the line now against Rio's seductive charm?

BURNS SO BAD is the first book in the When SEALs Come Home series.

Free Days: 12/23-12/27

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After his wife, Sarah, passed away, Dean never intended to marry again. His ranch and his children became his life. However, it becomes apparent that his son and daughter need stability and love in their lives. The demands of raising his children and keeping his head above water financially have taken a toll and Dean grudgingly gives in to his brother's suggestion to find a mail order bride...but the woman who arrives is nothing like what he expected.

Free Days: 12/14-12/18

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