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Grind (verb): to weaken or destroy gradually
Macy Carrington is not the woman I once thought her to be.
What she does not allow her heart to feel, she gives with her body. The sex between us is explosive and depraved. I’ve done things with her that would never have crossed my wildest imagination, and I can’t ever seem to get enough.
But now I want more from her. I want to figure out her dark secret, expose it and then help her to heal from it. I know, without a doubt, that Macy is capable of love, and I will grind her down until I make her accept the truth of it.
Grind (verb): to wear down, polish, or sharpen by friction
Cal Carson is not the man I once thought him to be.
Strong, determined, sexy as hell and a beast in the bedroom. He is every woman’s fantasy.
He is my fantasy.
But no matter how hard Cal tries to grind me down, my heart and secrets are mine and mine alone.
**Cal and Macy’s story is a trilogy within the Legal Affairs series. All three books—Clash, Grind and Yield—must be read in order. You do not have to read the other Legal Affairs books to understand this trilogy. Views: 865
What happens when your past comes back to haunt you?
Imagine having a secret whispered in your ear, a secret that once revealed, changes everything in your life that you thought to be true.
What would you do if you learned that everything you had was just a lie, a lie that could end everything you ever worked for and destroy everyone you ever cared about?
What happens when all your secrets come spilling forth and your past catches up to you?
Will it consume you?
Will it destroy you?
Six months ago Kade Grayson helped Doctor Samantha Matthews hide from a violent past, one that she wants to keep hidden from everyone. Deep in her heart, she hides her secrets, too afraid to hurt the only people she has left to trust.
What happens when she is forced to face her past?
Will love be enough to save her?
Because her deadly game of Hide and Seek is at its end.
This book is a full length Adult Contemporary Romance and is intended for mature audiences due to strong language and sexual content. Views: 865
Upon realizing that her entire world has always been full of nothing but selfishness, hurtful gossip and longing for worthless possessions, Roberta "Bobbi" Jefferson decides to turn her life upside down. Swearing off relationships and choosing to focus, instead, on her career as a writer, she leaves Los Angeles for the fictional town of Loxborough, in Robin Hood’s country of Nottinghamshire.Upon realizing that her entire world has always been full of nothing but selfishness, hurtful gossip and a longing for expensive yet worthless possessions, Roberta "Bobbi" Jefferson decides to turn her life upside down and begin again. Swearing off relationships and choosing to focus, instead, on her career as a writer, she leaves Los Angeles for the fictional town of Loxborough, in Robin Hood’s county of Nottinghamshire. With her new friends, April Lafferty and Joey Stiles, Bobbi attempts to adapt to a country lifestyle full of smaller fridges, erratic weather changes, food that takes over an hour to arrive and farm animals galore. During her first Nottingham party, Bobbi finds herself in an altercation with Christopher Barnes, a stubborn and rude man who thinks her Eat, Pray, Love trip is a ridiculous excuse to run away from her problems instead of facing them. Before long, Bobbi finds herself spending more and more time with Chris. She realizes that there is more to him than she had originally thought, including the fact that he’s part of the second richest families in the United Kingdom and the owner of one of the biggest law firms in the world. She soon finds herself falling for him, but when her past follows her to England, will she still choose a life with him before it’s too late? Views: 865
Book 5 in the Hells Canyon Shifters series -
Rae Lynn Dormer is about to find out just what kind of monsters are lurking in the wilderness of Hells Canyon. Determined to do a good deed, she gives a stranger a ride to a ranger camp nestled deep in the Seven Devils Mountains. The problem is, when she gets there, her new acquaintance turns into a lion in the front seat of her Honda.
When a burly bear comes to her rescue, she’s just about seen it all. The clan holds her captive, but she’s determined to escape. Jesse, the Seven Devils Clan’s sexiest shifter, is laying claim to her heart, and if she doesn’t escape now, she just might become a part of Hells Canyon forever.
Jesse Hayes is done with relationships. He has too much to protect, and history says he’ll fail as a mate. But when Rae comes barreling into his camp, his inner animal has other ideas. She’s attractive, intelligent and fearless, and he’s ready for a mate as strong as her. But if he doesn’t hide his secrets well enough, they could demolish any chance he has with the woman who is stealing his heart.
Lions and secrets and bears, oh my! Don’t miss the thrilling conclusion to the Hells Canyon Shifters series.
Content Warning: explicit love scenes, language, and sexy shifter secrets.
Adult only bear shifter romance. Views: 862
**In the steamy and suspenseful sequel to Sugar Daddy, a heartbreaking rift threatens to unravel a dangerous alliance... and a fragile new love.**
After posing as an escort for the Sugar Bowl online dating service, Sela Halstead is looking for one thing: payback. She's closing in on the site's heartless founder, Jonathon Townsend, and she needs Beckett North, Townsend's business partner and her lover, by her side. She'd thought that their intimate nights together had forged an unbreakable bond, but after a shocking betrayal, Sela begins to doubt the brilliant bad boy. When push comes to shove, can she trust Beck to do the right thing?
Now that he understands the truth, Beck will stop at nothing to secure the reckoning Sela deserves. But between his desire for her and his disgust for JT, Beck doesn't exactly have a lot of control over his emotional state. Left with no other choice, he must summon all his discipline to maintain JT's trust and pretend that they're still friends. But how far will Beck go to prove his loyalty to Sela? He nearly lost her once. To keep her, Beck might have to kill for her.
**Note: Sugar Rush ends on a cliffhanger. Sela and Beck's story concludes in Sugar Free!** Views: 862
Previously published in the print anthology *Mistletoe & Magic*.
When a fourteenth-century maiden named Odel loses her father, she learns from her aunt that she must marry—and that a handful of fairy dust can separate men from mice. Having sworn off love, Odel is reluctant to greet her many suitors, until one catches her eye. Kind and generous, Michelle shows Odel how good it can feel to fall in love—too bad Odel can't trust her heart. Will Michelle destroy what little hope Odel had for men, or will they be able to keep their love aflame? A classic novella from *New York Times* bestselling author Lynsay Sands. Views: 862
When Manuel is hassled by high school basketball player Latrell, he decides to teach Latrell a lesson in humility on the court. Sure, soccer is Manuel's sport not basketball, and Latrell is several inches taller, but Manuel isn't worried. What Latrell doesn't know is that Manuel is something more than human.On the white painted veranda of a post colonial Bombay hotel, two men meet in the stifling heat of the approaching monsoon. They are a generation apart and their ideologies diverge but they share the same turbulent moment in time; a time of upheaval and monumental shift that is changing their world and unveiling the dawn of an uncertain future.But the storm clouds that gather over world events are also forming over their own private worlds as they confront each other with questions of their past and their future; questions they would prefer not to face. Views: 861
Welcome to New Manhattan, home of Dictator Kay Pierce, and her enemies in the Resistance... Leading them is Amity. Working undercover for them is the man who betrayed her. Because even when her world is broken, Amity will risk her life to fix it. Set in a daring and distorted echo of 1940s America, Black Moon brings this epic series of corruption, romance and intrigue to an explosive finale. Views: 861
Tabitha Leigh has no idea her mundane life is about to change. Shifters are about to enter her life and it will never be the same.Tabitha Leigh has no idea her mundane life is about to change. Every day she gets up, goes to work, comes home—an average, almost drab existence. Lately she’s been getting sick, and she can’t figure out why. As fever and fatigue consume her, she has no idea she’s being followed—and danger stalks her every step.The Alpha of the Alaskan Tigers, Ty Reynolds, has been watching her from a distance to see if she will go through the change. When she finally does, he sees more in her than just the future of their kind. Now that she is embracing her tiger side, he must tell her she is the Queen of the Tigers—and she has a bounty on her head.Tabitha must be protected at all costs; she must embrace her future and her mate. If she doesn’t, it will mean the end of everything she’s come to know and never realized she needed. Views: 860
The exciting new series from PNR author Scarlett Grove continues!
Quick match ...
Big, burly woodworker Angus Grant is an ex-Navy SEAL and second in command on the Rescue Bears crew. He’s eager to settle down, so when he finally gets a perfect match on the shifter-human dating site started by one of the crew, he can’t wait to contact her.
Nerdy, introverted bookkeeper Poppy Robins would like to find a man, but when she signs up on the dating site, she doesn’t expect to get an almost-instant text from a bear shifter saying she’s his mate. Still, she’s ready for a change -- and since she just discovered she might be working for the mob, getting out of town sounds like a good idea.
Slow burn ...
Poppy calls in sick, packs up her pet parrot Malcolm, and heads for Fate Mountain. She quickly learns that Angus is sweet, sexy, and romantic. Falling for him is easy -- but how can she share her job worries when she’s not even sure what’s going on?
Angus knows curvy, bespectacled Poppy belongs with him. But he's reluctant to go too far with a human woman who might not be willing to commit.
Hot trouble
When Poppy disappears on his alpha Levi’s wedding day, Angus has to do the impossible. Can he track his mate and rescue her from whatever trouble she’s in, make it back for the wedding … and still find time to practice his best-man speech? Views: 860
The moon wanes overhead as Vincent leads Leila and their small group onward towards answers. The trail finds them in a dark wilderness at the edge of a haunting lake. A thick fog forces them into a company of a strange man who leads them to his home on the waterfront. Strange visions and flitting shadows haunt Leila as Vincent feels there’s something not quite right about their host and the fog that surrounds them. Dark secrets wait for their reveal as Leila learns that her role as a proxy can bring terrible consequences.
The Luna Proxy series is an episodic serial where each book contains a conclusive story within an over-arching tale. Views: 860
Over twenty stories appear in The Footstool: A Christian Short Story Collection by Kim Bond. Stories range in genre from speculative to literary.Over twenty stories appear in The Footstool: A Christian Short Story Collection by Kim Bond. Stories range in genre from speculative to literary. Kim Bond's fiction encompasses spiritual, paranormal, and sometimes absurd themes tempered with sarcastic humor and honest commentary about society and culture. Her writing appears in Residential Aliens, Full Armor Magazine, among other places. Views: 859
Detective Maria Selena’s nights were just like her days, long and boring. That is, until she answers a midnight call about a suspicious person and meets a mysterious stranger with yellow eyes. His alluring gaze and sensual bite lead her down a path of seduction and lust that threatens to engulf both halves of her life, the light and the dark.Books never die, but they can be forbidden. Medeisia is a country in turmoil ruled by a blood thirsty king who has outlawed the use of magic and anything pertaining to knowledge. Magery and scribery are forbidden. All who practice are marked with a tattoo branded onto their wrists, their futures precarious. Sixteen year-old Drastona Consta-Mayria lives secluded, spending her spare time in the Archives of her father's manor surrounded by scribes. She wants nothing more than to become one of them, but when the scribes are royally disbanded, she is thrust into a harsh world where the marked must survive or die. Views: 859
Colin Cross is a lone bear shifter living on the outskirts of Bear Valley. He likes his reclusive lifestyle, but when he musters the nerve to talk to the woman he has feelings for, being alone just doesn’t seem like enough anymore. When he finds Hadley on an online dating site, it’s the perfect way to build a relationship with her without dragging her into his dark past. Hadley is human, and humans don’t belong in his world, but a little online flirting never hurt anyone.
Hadley Bennett has had it with dating local townies. Determined to cast her net a little wider, she enters the chaotic world of online dating. When she finally secures a face-to-face date with the elusive Bearman28, it’ll be a Valentine’s Day to remember.
And if Hadley can handle his real identity, they just might find what they’ve both been searching for.
Bear Valley Valentine is a 20,000 word short story with heart pounding romance, a thoughtful alpha bear, and spicy Valentine’s Day surprises.
Can be read as a sexy standalone short story.
Content Warning: explicit love scenes and language.
Adult only bear shifter romance. Views: 859
For all of Liz's life she was the perfect suburban housewife however her life is over. In death, as a ghost, she has the opportunity to be the women she always wanted to be. And most of all, be that women with another women-ghost. Is this pure luck or an existential crisis waiting to happen? Paranormal | Ghost | F/F | PG | RomanceLiz’s burial was an anti-climatic memory. First, they put her corpse in a casket. Then a team of professional hole diggers dug a big hole. And, lastly, she was plopped into such hole. It was so much more an act of hygiene than anything spiritual. As a corpse, Liz was a cesspool of disease. The heart of all this was nothing other than anti-plague prevention. The day after her burial, Liz drifted around the graveyard. That post-corpse condition had a far more vague meaning. She had some ideas on corpsehood but she had no clue what this was. Ghosthood, she guessed, but what was that? Was it a vengeance thing or a friendly thing or what? Was the Big Man in the clouds just dicking around? The vast graveyard expanded outwards, for as far as she could see. She searched for something beyond the macabre, a pleasant something in her death. That’s when she bumped into Lilah. Lilah was the most beautiful thing Liz ever saw in death, and that is no insult to her. She was also the most beautiful thing Liz ever saw in life, but she never expected to spend infinity with her.As ghosts, Lilah and Liz lost all opacities and hues. They were floating thick outlines with nothing on the inside like empty coloring books. Even as a ghost, Lilah was a curly-q cutie. From her bouncing perm, plump cheeks, button nose, and notable ass, Lilah was like a spring. Death made her translucent, but she kept her bounce.In life, Lilah was the sweet, sexy neighbor that Liz's marriage kept her away from. Though they barely made it past the small talk zone, Liz found Lilah refreshing and energizing. She did hunger for intimacy, but never ventured. Her marriage couldn’t bare it. Liz's marriage used to be so important to her.But in death, Liz could express her affections. Finally. Lilah sung out Liz’s name as she glided closer.“I never thought you would be so enthusiastic to meet fresh fertilizer,” said Liz. “I can’t believe you are here! Liz, it has been seven months.” “Heh, yeah. I know.” Liz smirked. “I missed you. But I’m sure you seduced a living dead cutie as soon as you went ghost.” “No.” Lilah stared down at her foot’s shape. “I been alone for seven months.”“Jeez. Here I was, happy to not be alone and--” Liz bit down on her lower lip. Lilah’s heavy words were like a push back in the grave. “Fuck, I’m so sorry that you went through that.” “I’m actually okay.” Lilah nudged a curl behind her ear. “I mean, at least it’s you.”Liz petted Lilah's perm while bringing her closer. From the corner of her eyes, she saw Lilah's floating grin. It's weird how in life that would scare her, but in death it was something close to warmth. “I'm glad I can feel you.”Lilah's jaw snapped as she yawned, just like when she was alive. As she gripped Liz's hand, weightlessness pulsed through them.The moon ballooned into view. “I'm tired.” Lilah grinned as she let her go. She curled around a headstone and gestured towards Liz.She was so palpable. Lilah was alluring, even as an outline, lively even without life. She was Liz's hidden secret that she didn’t have to hide any longer.Liz curled around Lilah and breathed it all in. The rusty graves, deep mulch, and organic seeds of hope. Perhaps her life’s marriage was not her death’s responsibility. Views: 858
