This is a collection of short stories with the common thread of Christmas. The stories includes contemporary and western genres with each having their own unique voice as they tell a story of the discovery of love.
“Christmas in Bayeaux” by Stephanie Burkhart
Aiden is tired, from life, from war, from death. He just wants to find a bit of piece and he has never forgotten the beautiful Noel, the girl he has been attracted to since she was an exchange student in his home. Read More »
Shannon just needed to make it through this one last assignment and then it was over. She would never have to see Rafe again, never have to think about those emotions boiling under the surface. She could do it. She just needed to open the door and face Rafe, go find the demon ravaging the city, kill the demon and then make her escape from…her sexy vampire partner named Rafe. Whoa, did she just say “sexy”?
Dr.Jon Sharpay was tired of his experiments failing, tired of being alone, and most of all tired of his thirst destroying! He longed for a challenge, and then he saw her — Kat Von Braum, or more precisely, he watched her as she sat there on the television refusing to admit anything that the interview was claiming. He could sense the connection. Read More »
Before you read this book, you need to make sure to carve out plenty of time. You are not going to want to put this one down. It is an adrenaline rush from the first page to the last page, and every second in between. It will have you thinking - just one more page and then the next thing you know it is an hour later. Alien Tango is the second book in Gini Koch’s series. While you do not have to read them in order to love this book, I would definitely say to fully appreciate the complexity of the book’s characters and their dynamics you should read the first book Touched by an Alien before this one. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.
Myka Michaels was a healer, and her life belonged to those she served. She longed to find a place to call home but she was duty bound. Dremarai was her latest assignment, a magic filled world of shape shifters void of technology who were faced with extinction due to the deaths of their pregnant women and children. Her job was to use her physic talents to treat the pregnant women and learn what was causing their deaths. Read More »
Think before you speak: this was a hard one for Michael Cromby. His mouth had landed him in some very sticky situations in the past and it wasn’t looking like his luck was going to change anytime soon. Michael knew he was going to find himself on the receiving end of something disappointing - that was just the way his life went so why shouldn’t he say what he wanted. Now enter a bolt of lighting and a mischievous out-of-this-world angel, and Michael is about to find out that even this down-on-his-luck ex-con has a chance for some redemption.
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What do you get when you cross a match-making Vampire named Cody, a duck, a cat and a carpenter? A hot little ménage a trios destined to be mated. Cody has a knack for eyeing up his clientele and finding perfect matches. One look at Bailey the Siamese, Drake the duck, and Keith the all-too-human carpenter and he has the perfect drink for them: the Duck Fart. These three won’t know what hit them.
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This is one of those stories that finds you reading the last page and saying, “Wow, I can not wait for the next one!”
Just imagine a land that exists at the edge of our consciousness, where a group of Outsiders live. Their pledge is to protect us from the evil that silently lurks, waiting to destroy us. They have been protecting us for centuries, but that is all about to change, for a prophecy no one believes in has finally been set in motion, and an evil unlike any other has been born. Read More »
Like Tooth and Claw: Shapeshifter Erotica
is a collection of erotic shifter stories, each written with unique voices, each telling a journey of self discovery.
“Hunter, Prey” – Marie Carlson
Aisha was a woman that knew what she wanted and wasn’t afraid to take it - a hunter in high heels. She wanted Finn and she was going to have him anyway imaginable. Finn was fascinated by this beauty who took what she wanted so much so he broke his own rules and stayed around. Aisha is about to learn that sometimes the hunter becomes the hunted, which might not be so bad after all.
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The Earth is gone! Its been destroyed by a comet, but mankind still exists in a state of chaos. Just after losing their home planet, you would think that the survivors would rally together. Think again. Three fractions comprise what is left: the combatants (the fighters), the nukes (the scientists) and the shippers (the builders and fliers). The shippers (aka the shitters) are the meanest of the three, the common enemy of both the nukes and combatants; Read More »
“Fear and Desire” was a short, powerful little novella that had me glued to the pages and had me feeling the anxiety, fear and frustrations right along with Cassie, the heroine.
Cassie knows fear. She faces it on a daily basis in hopes that she can learn to really live. Choosing to live on the top floor of a hi-rise, having to take an elevator just to get home, were all choices that Cassie made to take control of her life. At least that is what she is telling herself. Even though she knows her attempts to squelch her uncontrollable fear of heights isn’t working, she still goes through the motions each and every day hoping things will change Read More »
It’s said that to truly understand someone, you should walk in their shoes. I am not sure that Dr. Jackson, county coroner, really thought he would find himself doing just that. Thanks to a young werewolf dying during a midnight run, Dr. Jackson comes face to face with the pack’s clean-up crew. One sexy frustrated mage, one spell gone awry and Dr. Jackson finds himself lying under a white sheet, paralyzed, being wheeled into the unknown. What more could happen? Well, with mage-in-training Emma around, life was like a loaded gun - literally.
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In a race against time, an alien will find his soul mate in a scientist who is afraid to believe in the very thing she researches. Can they learn to trust each other in time to save the Earth and those they love from the little gray aliens that have come to destroy all that they hold dear? Undercover Alien is a terrific little story that is filled with those little elements that just make you laugh out loud and experience the everyday struggles right alongside the characters. Read More »
Earth Ambassador to Enyo, Commander Joon of the Bell Amity Sisterhood finds herself on a ship with two Enyo warriors headed towards Earth after being accused of magically interfering with the Enyo Council of Elders. Joon finds that her two warrior companions, Mythos and Helas, warriors each with their own demons, intrigue her as no men have before. Read More »
Amystia, you are one lucky Vampire Queen having the sexy King Dagan as your exclusive consort for over 5,000 years. Getting to play with both Dagan and Warren, his lovely second in command, for the last 1,000 years is even better. Now, if all goes right, you and Dagan are going to make the arrangement with Warren a little more permanent. You just need to overcome that pesky little death spell killing your immortal King. I just hope it involves Warren and some sex magic.
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Imagine waiting 500 hundreds years to find your soul mate and for them to remember you. Alexander has spent the last 500 years traveling the world searching for his beloved Elsyabeth, waiting to find her and waiting for her to remember their love. He has finally found her and, this time, he won’t let anything stop him from convincing her they are soul mates, not even the fact that he is an Irish Wolfhound. Read More »
Shelby is an accountant. She doesn’t really lead an exciting life but she is okay with that. What Shelby does have are some wickedly illicit dreams, and should those dreams just happen to star her scrumptious employers son, Noel Holiday, oh well. Who was she to complain about that? Even accountants have needs. So what if Noel might be her boss in a roundabout way? A girl could still dream. Read More »
Gaius had some serious issues with his first wife; she called him a jackal and heartless, and perhaps his actions had warranted the name calling, but, really, to send a living curse after him for 2000 years was a little over the top. His curse is never far behind, tormenting him and hurting anyone he gets close to until he meets a modern day thief who believes the man he has become is worth risking it all for. Anne-Marie lives her life by her own set of rules. Pulling herself out of the poverty she was born into, Anne-Marie has perfected her art; there isn’t a place she can’t slip in or out of with silence and ease. Read More »
Once again, Louise Cooper has weaved a world that is complex and vivid. A world were Chaos rules. Eclipse is the second foray into this world and it starts up where Star Ascendant left off. The overall story is the same as the first book, but this one just looks more closely at the players and the intertwining of their lives. The Lords of Chaos still rule the realm and their high Lord, Yandros, has decreed that the Lords will not interfere and their disciples shall have free will to choose their own path. Read More »
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