A STAND ALONE story in the bestselling SIX PACK RANCH series by New York Times Bestselling Author Vivian Arend​

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It’s the quiet ones who take you by surprise.

Beth Danube’s emotionally abusive husband is dead and buried. So is her heart. It’s no big deal, she has all she wants: her three little boys and a fresh start in a small Alberta town. What she doesn’t want is another man in her life—not now, maybe not ever.

After ten years of unsatisfactory, missionary-position sex, she never expected her libido to reawaken. One look at sex-in-boots Daniel Coleman in a Calgary bar, though, blows the dust off her sexuality.

Sensing an edge of desperation, even fear, beneath Beth’s come-on, Daniel finds himself giving in to the powerful urge to let his normally subdued desires run wild. The lady wants non-judgemental, non-vanilla sex? She’s got it—in and out of the bedroom.

At first, friends with blazing-hot benefits is more than enough. Then she realizes Daniel is burning away the protective fortress around her heart…and the guilty secret she dare not reveal.

Previously published in 2012

I got caught f*cking my intern. Now I have to marry her. 

I'm a doctor that likes going in hard and deep. 
I seduce with surgical precision.
And when I meet Harbor,
I can't take care of the bulge in my pants.
What I want to do to her they don't teach in medical school. 
I want to make her moan my name, beg for more. 
So, when my boss asks me to chaperone her to a weekend workshop, I take the responsibility seriously. 
She's innocent and raw, and seeing her with those sexy glasses makes me want to take her into my examination room and lock the door. 
I've got a cure for the ache between her legs, and it starts with 'D'. 
That's until my boss finds us in compromising 'position'. 
I've got one day to get her to agree to marry me or I'll lose my job. 
I'm a single dad. I can't afford to be out on my a$$. 

Hell, maybe it's time to go all the way. 
Maybe it's time to make a baby with Harbor....

**This is a full-length 50,000 word novel, standalone single dad and virgin romance. No cheating or cliffhangers. HEA guaranteed. For a limited time, I've included an exclusive and very k*nky bonus story: Daddy and His Friend. Grab your copy today.**

This isn't your kid's fairy tale, and I'm no ordinary beast.
Years of killing in the military have hardened me, scarred me, making it impossible to give a sh$t about relationships.
Then comes along Belle Fontaine. The innocent virgin daughter of the man whose company I want to buy. She's twenty-four and drop dead fu@king gorgeous.
I always say love at first sight is for pansies, but she has me second guessing that.
My c@ck stands to salute her the moment she walks into my office.
Purchasing her father's company is more of a mercy buy for me, but she tries to get more than it's worth.
Wrong move.
Now, I will make it... hard... for her.
The only way I will buy the company is if she agrees to come to my private island for one month.
I'm sure she's heard the rumors about my secret room. I can sense her fear and desire.
Whips and chains aren't the only secrets she'll discover.
This steamy fairy tale contains some light BDSM, and the beast will surely win over the beauty.

Rich, arrogant Junichi has been handed everything he’s ever wanted in life, and now I’m going to be another one of his toys.
My tough girl exterior hides a world of abuse that I’d give anything to escape. Seduce Junichi and all my problems will be solved: it sounds too easy.
But Junichi is much more than I ever bargained for. There are sides to him he hides from the world, but he’s let me in. As he begins to heal the hurt in my soul, I pray he never learns who I really am.

Captain Dominic Holland leads a crew of skilled covert operatives and talented scientific personnel. He’s taken them to all corners of the earth to protect the United States from biological and chemical warfare. When his CIA handler, Meredith Webb, gives him a mission to investigate a disturbing lead on a laboratory based out of an abandoned oil rig, they discover the most terrifying threat to mankind they’ve ever faced—a genetically engineered biological weapon called the Oni Agent.

Back in the United States, Meredith discovers a frightening connection between the CIA and the Oni Agent. But her investigations are short-lived when the Agent spreads and brings mankind to its knees. Cities burn as it turns humans into warped creatures hell-bent on destruction.

Dominic and Meredith vow to do everything they can to combat the Agent and find a cure. But will their efforts be enough to turn the tide—or is humanity’s fate already sealed?

Jay Allan's Blood on the Stars...

War rages between the Confederation and the Union. Shattered fleets watch each other warily across a war torn frontier. Both sides are licking their wounds, gathering strength to continue the fight.

Captain Tyler Barron and the crew of Dauntless are finally enjoying the rest they’ve earned while their aging battleship Dauntless gets the repairs and refit it desperately needs. But their respite will be short-lived. In the Badlands, deep in the haunted vastness of pre-Cataclysmic space, a new discovery threatens to upset the balance of power.

Orbiting a world in a distant system is an ancient battleship, vastly larger and enormously more advanced than anything possessed by the contending powers…and the Union has already sent forces to seize it. The Confederation has no ships close enough to intervene, to get there before the enemy…none save Dauntless.

Barron and his crew must race across the Badlands, find the ancient artifact, and somehow hold it, keep the Union forces from taking it, until reinforcements arrive. They will be outnumbered and outgunned, but there can be no retreat. Not this time. Nothing less than the fate of all human-inhabited space is at stake.

If the Confederation is able to rediscover the technology of the ancients, it will be safe for generations to come, its defensive forces untouchable by its enemies. But if the Union gets there first, if it can adapt the incredible power of mankind’s lost technology, it will gain the power to enslave all humanity.

This fight isn’t for territory. It isn’t for position or tactical advantage. It is for the future.

Blood on the Stars Series

Book 1: Duel in the Dark
Book 2: Call to Arms
Book 3: Ruins of Empire
Book 4: Echoes of Glory
Book 5: Crucible of Fire (Coming Fall 2017)


 

If you can't take the heat, get the h*ll out of my kitchen.
Cooking and f*cking are what I do best.
But loving a woman is where I fall short.


I've only cared about three things in the world:
My daughter.
My restaurant.
And bulldozing any *sshole who gets in my way.
That was it for me - until I hired Amber Foster as my newest chef.
HOT would be an understatement.
She's a spitfire and she's got more balls than all the men in my kitchen combined.
I want to flip her over easy and scramble her until she screams my name.
Today's special? Sausage with a side of Grade A beef, and if I'm feeling lucky, a nice tossed salad.

She's got serious talent but she needs my direction - I just hope I can keep my di*k in my pants long enough to show her the ropes.

**This is a full-length 50,000 word novel, standalone Single Dad, Boss Romance. No cheating or cliffhangers. HEA guaranteed. Included in the Kindle Version is an exclusive older man younger woman romance!

REALLY BAD NEWS--THE BABY-SITTER COULD BE A MURDERER!
A year following Boston-based auto mechanic Alex Glauberman’s first brush with murder, mystery, and the life of an amateur detective (in RETURN TO SENDER), he’s recovered from cancer and chemotherapy; he’s studying tai chi for its pleasures and therapeutic effects; and he’s getting on with his life. Then, in the space of a two-minute phone call, he’s ensnared in another mystery.

His anniversary dinner with girlfriend Meredith comes to an abrupt halt when a quick check-in with the babysitter yields the news from Alex’s sleepy nine-year-old that the babysitter has left: “She said it was an emergency. She said the emergency was that somebody was dead.”

More worrisome still, the babysitter, college student Suzanne Lutrello, cannot be found, and then her ex-boyfriend is savagely killed.

Alex’s newly minted private detective skills come quickly into play, but he soon discovers he isn't the only one looking for Suzanne. As he outruns her pursuers and their threats, he navigates the world of old Boston money to its intersection with small-town corruption, high-end prostitution, and drug-addiction recovery, in a life-or-death finish amid the stark white New England winter woods.

For fans of Jewish detectives like Rabbi Small, Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, Rebecca Schwartz, Jake Samson—even Moses Wine (without the wisecracks); and those who love vintage male sleuths like Ellery Queen, Gideon Oliver, Stanley Hastings, and almost all British detectives--the ones who're not too cozy, yet not too hard-boiled. This case is more of an action adventure story than a traditional mystery—but trust us, it’ll appeal to fans of the traditional mystery as well as those who’ll appreciate Alex’s putting his tai-chi training to good use. How do we know? Because Alex is one of those dependable detectives all too rare in crime fiction—a private investigator you actually like to be with. Not too smart-mouthed, not too close-mouthed, just…kind of a mensch.
 

Jane Ryland-meets-Cold Case—two killer murder mysteries in one!

Badass reporter-turned-writer Leah Nash is no stranger to danger or deceit. In these two sequels to Susan Hunter’s stunning cozy noir puzzler Dangerous Habits, Leah takes on lies, drugs, and murder in small town Himmel, Wisconsin with the same smartass fearlessness as she did in her chilling debut.

DANGEROUS MISTAKES

Susan Hunter's not quite hard-boiled, not quite cozy sequel catches back up with savvy, independent sleuth Leah Nash along the icy twists and turns of small town mystery in Wisconsin, spiraling down a rabbit hole of fraud, layers upon layers of family secrets, and murder.

“All of us are dying,” states a cryptic Betty Meier to no-nonsense (and oft-accused smart-mouth) reporter Leah Nash one morning, Hours later, Betty’s house ends up torched—and Leah’s covering it for the tiny Himmel Times Weekly. And then she receives a midnight phone call from a mysterious young woman named Isabel, begging her to investigate the death of her wealthy father, Garrett Whiting, a renowned surgeon with possible ties to fraudulent activity. Boohoo, thinks our heroine. Except Isabel found him in his study with a bullet to the brain and a poisonous rum and coke in hand.

DANGEROUS PLACES

Things are finally looking up for Leah Nash. A former investigative reporter (and admittedly reputable smart-mouth), she’s now a full-time true crime writer. And after the publishing of her first book, she’s finally home-sweet-home in small town Himmel after a whirlwind 3-month book tour. But her homecoming library reading is interrupted by Sammy, a childhood friend whose brother was long ago accused of murdering his high school sweetheart, Heather. Sammy begs Leah to re-investigate Heather’s mysterious disappearance—a cold case decades old. And when she does, she discovers town secrets even she never saw coming.

Who will like it: Fans of not quite cozy, not quite hard-boiled mysteries featuring strong female leads: think Nancy Pickard's series featuring true crime author Marie Lightfoot, fans of reporter sleuths like Hank Philippi Ryan’s Jane Ryland, and writers like Louise Penny (Three Pines, Canada) and Christine Kling (the Florida Keys). And, of course, the hit T.V. series Cold Case.

I have it all.
Money. Fame. Women
But now – I only want her.

As a star linebacker, I’ve had my share of fun. Girls throw themselves at me and until now I’ve been happy to let them.

Until I met her…

Tammy Rose. She’s gorgeous.
She doesn’t know it. She gets my jeans bulging and my head spinning.
And the best part? She has no idea who I am.

It’s hard for a guy in my position to find a girl I can trust. A girl I could make mine forever – and until now I’d given up on the idea.
But after the night we spent together, I knew she was the one.

But I screwed up. I made a mistake and I don’t know if I can make it right. It’s been two years…
Two years since I felt her, smelled her, looked into those gorgeous eyes.
But now I’m back, and I’m not letting her go. Not this time – not when she’s the mother of my child.

The Longest Game is a stand alone instalove romance with no cheating, no cliffhanger, and of course – a HEA, and plenty of steam to keep your Kindles hot! Disclaimer: not responsible for undergarments that need replacing ;)
 

SHE HUNGERS FOR HIS LIGHT
She calls herself Valerie Tate. One of the few vampires left on earth, as beautiful as she is powerful, Valerie has resisted her craving for human blood for years, just as she once hid her true gender. But the night she lays eyes on the most enticing man she's ever seen, her appetite can no longer be denied. He radiates goodness and light-and searing sexual energy. Valerie must have him. Taste him. Consume him. For he is temptation-and he is her destiny . . .

HE BURNS FOR HER DARKNESS
Lance Soleil is a rugged war veteran who runs a homeless shelter in Portland. At first gaze, he knows what Valerie is-and wants her even more. But when he welcomes a pack of werewolves into his shelter, he attracts the attention of Valerie's oldest rival-her bloodthirsty brother, Radu, who hopes to become the first vampire President of the United States. Valerie knows Radu has a hidden agenda, and with Lance's help she is determined to stop his unholy rise to power. But first, she must risk their growing love by fully revealing herself-as the one and only Dracula . . .

USA Today Bestselling Author, Erin Bedford, brings you a modern day Peter Pan with a bad boy twist!

Sometimes the grown-ups have all the fun.

Wendy

She came to the Never Isles to get away from the stress of everyday life. To find adventure and maybe even a little bit of romance. What she didn't expect was to get swept up by the charming sea captain with a gleam in his eye. A gleam that told her he wanted to do wicked things to her and lord help her she might just let him.


James

He wasn't looking for adventure, he'd had his share in the navy. After a dishonorable discharge for a crime he didn't commit, he was friendless, jobless, and on the run. His only solitude was the Never Isles where nobody knew his name. Until she literally fell into his arms. Can he find solace in her carefree heart before his past crimes catch up with him?

A standalone novel with a HEA and no cliffhangers!

Check out the Fairy Tale Bad Boy series full of sexy vampires, mysterious faes, and alpha werewolves readers are comparing to Christine Feehan.

All ex CIA-analyst Kurt Vetter wants is some peace and solace after facing loss after loss.  But fate has other plans for this reluctant hero. Danger and destruction pull him back into a world he thought he left long ago. Teaming up with Amanda Carter, an enigmatic woman of strength and confidence, they take on perilous and death-defying missions in this three-book Reluctant Hero Series. 

Grab on to your seats and enjoy the thrilling and exhilarating global adventure as Kurt and Amanda clash with traitorous CIA operatives and hunt down notorious nuclear arms dealers -- all while preventing the world from descending into anarchy at the hands of a crazed madman.

This omnibus edition contains all three international espionage thriller novels in the Reluctant Hero series:
The Patriot Paradox
Pressed
Blood in the Streets

When friends become lovers, is their relationship screwed?

WILL

Cassie is more than a friend with benefits, and I love helping her overcome her shyness in the bedroom. Now our teaching assistant has his eye on her too and all my primitive instincts are taking over. Maybe I'm being a bit possessive, but what have I got to lose?

CASSIE

I told Will that once should be enough, but he's determined to make me scream over and over again... I feel truly sexy for the first time in my life, but with a new wager on the line I'd better think twice before falling for my best friend.

This sequel to the sexy new adult romance novella Once Should Be Enough can be read as a standalone--but you might want to sit down (on a towel). If you like your romance hot and fun, then Don't Think Twice!

The complete Blood Destiny box set. This series has sold over 100,000 copies - now you can read all five books together.

Bloodfire

Mackenzie Smith has always known that she was different. Growing up as the only human in a pack of rural shapeshifters will do that to you, but then couple it with some mean fighting skills and a fiery temper and you end up with a woman that few will dare to cross. However, when the only father figure in her life is brutally murdered, and the dangerous Brethren with their predatory Lord Alpha come to investigate, Mack has to not only ensure the physical safety of her adopted family by hiding her apparent humanity, she also has to seek the blood-soaked vengeance that she craves.

Bloodmagic

Mack is trying to lead a quiet lonely life in Inverness in rural Scotland, away from anyone who might happen to be a shapeshifter. However, when she lands a job at an old bookstore owned by a mysterious elderly woman who not only has a familiar passion for herbal lore but also seems to know more than she should, Mack ends up caught in a maelstrom between the Ministry of Mages, the Fae and the Brethren.

Bloodrage

Feeling attacked on all fronts, Mack is finding it harder and harder to keep a rein on her temper. Forced to live at the Ministry's academy of magic, attend anger management classes and deal with the predatory attentions of Corrigan, the Lord Alpha of the shapeshifter world, her emotions start to unravel.

Blood Politics

Living in London, and with the opening of the new improved city version of Clava Books mere days away, things appear to be settling down. Other than the terrible nightmares about dragons, that is. Or the fact that she's being constantly tailed by a string of mages, shifters and faeries, all of whom are constantly demanding her attention. And that's without even bringing the temptation of Corrigan, Lord Alpha of the Brethren, into the equation.

Then, when a local dryad asks her for some help, things really start to fire up. There are some long hot summer days ahead...

Bloodlust

All Mack has to do is defeat a necromancer, win back Corrigan and live happily ever after. From the streets of London and Russia, to the beaches of Cornwall, will she be able to ever win the day?

MARSHAL DILLON RIDES INTO DUBLIN …And the bad guy population starts dropping. But maybe you’d better hide your women.WELCOME! is the first tale in the humorous, rollicking series of Dublin tales featuring dashing detective Jack “Dildo” Dillon by Patrick Emmett, the appropriately Irish pseudonym of Mike Faricy. Jack’s no less libidinous than Faricy’s popular Dev Haskell, but he’s a bit more mature, and way better with a gun. Think action-packed: Marshal Dillon Rides Into Dublin.Jack's a U.S. Marshal in Dublin, escorting a fugitive named Daniel Ackerman and having a wonderful time--at first. All goes smoothly and he’s had a splendid tour of the fair city in the company of Garda (Officer) Ann Dumphy, the lovely colleen assigned to mind him, up until the transfer of the prisoner at the airport. It seems Ackerman’s Russian partner would prefer that Ackerman not stand trial in the U.S., and sends a team of his thugs to prevent it. Suddenly Marshal Dillon finds himself in a very wrong place at a very wrong time. He ends up in hot water with the American Embassy for carrying a gun in Dublin, but the Irish authorities might just have a little different take on things...WHO WILL LIKE IT: Fans of Dev Haskell and rascals like him. Also for fans of Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, Lee Child, strong Minnesota men – especially when transplanted to Ireland, and drinkers of Guinness everywhere. Faricy is the next Carl Hiaasen. Crime Scene Mike Faricy is the author of the bestselling Dev Haskell series as well as the bestselling Corridor Man series which is written under the pseudonym Nick James. He is the winner of the 2016 International Crime Masters Silver Award.

The second book in the bestselling new series by New York Times Bestselling Author Catherine Vale.

Don't get killed by a bloodthirsty Warlock or his legion of darkness.

That’s been Kaye’s goal since discovering that a murderous Warlock sent a gargoyle to kill her.

Now forced into the shadows of the Hallowed Forest, as a ruthless army of darkness hunts them down, Kaye must form uneasy alliances, and unravel the secrets of her true identity.

Magic Burn is the second book in the urban fantasy Shifting Magic series. Don't miss this thrilling world of otherworldly magic, in the battle against dark forces. For those who love paranormal romance mixed with urban fantasy, this is for you.

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What's the price of love?

Tom Macaulay is a financial wizard, a master of the market. He plays to win, and the game always goes his way. But to stay ahead of his rivals, he must pull off the biggest deal of his career - and to do it, he needs new ideas and a new perspective.

Fresh out of college, Veronica 'Ronnie' Haas wants to prove she can settle down, be an adult and hold down a job. Tom wants her street-smarts and computer genius to make his deal happen - and when they're thrown together, he wants her for much more.

But every game has winners and losers. When Ronnie learns the real cost of the deal, she has to make a choice: will she follow her conscience, or follow her heart?

Whether you are on your first date, approaching your golden anniversary, or somewhere in between, these dating books are for you! Discover practical relationship wisdom and creative conversation starters that will draw you closer together than ever before! 

Stanley and Richie, two naive teenagers, entered the woods in search of a haunted house. The pair hoped to capture evidence of the supernatural for their classmates. It was supposed to be a fun and simple weekend excursion. Unfortunately, the friendly pair were unaware of the terror lurking in the woodland – a family of savages, a family of violence. Only one of them would emerge from the woods unscathed, only one would be allowed to join the family in a shocking crime spree...

Jon Athan, author of Mr. Snuff and Butcher Road, brings you an uncompromising vision of provocative horror. Are you willing to join the family?

WARNING: This book contains scenes of graphic violence, disturbing themes, and some sexual references, including references to sexual abuse. Many of these scenes involve minors. This book is not intended for those easily offended or appalled. Please enjoy at your own discretion.