For the Soul of an Outlaw

Don’t miss the thrilling final book of T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Outlaw Shifters series Genie isn’t what people expected. She isn’t just a squirrel, but a shifter in hiding named Tenlee. She’s dug herself into a deep hole, and now her past has come back to haunt her and hurt her friends in the Two Claws Clan. Not only that, but the man she loves had left the ranch, and left her in despair. The fury of the crows is growing by the day, and she could end this war by simply turning herself in. But when mountain lion shifter, Kurt, comes back, it’s not so simple to leave. Now she has someone to stay for..and also someone to fight for. Kurt is a simple man. He wants his son to be safe, his friends to be happy, and he wishes he could live to see both. He’s done something that has poisoned him though, something that ended his old Clan, and now the consequences are steep. But when he finds a girl trespassing on Two Claws land, the course of his life is changed forever. He was wrong about Genie. And though her secrets run deep, and she feels dangerous, there is something about the wild beauty that has his heart racing. And now life isn’t so simple. He still wants his son to be safe, and his friends to be happy, but now he’s desperate to save himself and get to know the mysterious shifter who has completely stolen his heart. Content Warning: Explicit love scenes, naughty language, and piles of sexy shifter secrets. Intended for mature audiences.
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Night's Surrender

Aspiring actress Abbey Marie Cordova knows more than most people do about vampires—she was born among them, the only human child in a centuries-old family of the undead, and determined to stay that way. But a chance encounter with dark, mysterious Niccola Desanto rocks her to the core. Nick is a vampire, and he’s the only man who has ever made her feel so beautiful, so cherished, and so passionately desired … Nick has spent hundreds of years on his own, and the decadent pleasures of the world have lost their appeal. Rumor has it the vampire who made him has regained her humanity—the temptation to find her and demand to know the secret is overwhelming. But one glance at innocently alluring Abbey changes everything. Drawn to her with dangerous, consuming passion, Nick will need more than a lifetime to love her… More Children of the Night RT BOOK REVIEWS Career Achievement winner in Paranormal Romance!
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The Body Double

"Have we met?"He laughs again and turns to look at me. "Every day of our lives," he says. His face is familiar. I've seen him before, the stubble and the angles of his jaw. "Where have I seen you? I’m usually good with faces."He smiles and turns back to his coffee. "Oh, just about everywhere," he says."There's a diner at the wrong end of the highway. I've seen it before, but I don't know where."Frank pulls into a diner parking lot to get something to eat. The service is terrible, the cook is rude, and the food leaves something to be desired. But who is that man at the other end of the counter, and why is he so familiar? Something about him is wrong. He's a phantom, haunting the depths of Frank's peripheral vision. Has this all happened before? Is this guy a ghost from his past?From THE BODY DOUBLE:"Have we met?"He laughs again and turns to look at me. "Every day of our lives," he says. His face is familiar. I've seen him before, the stubble and the angles of his jaw. "Where have I seen you? I’m usually good with faces."He smiles and turns back to his coffee. "Oh, just about everywhere," he says.I take a bite of my hamburger, and it's about like every other diner hamburger I've ever had."We come here every day," he says.I look over at him, and he's stirring his coffee. "I've never been here," I tell him.He looks over, raising one eyebrow at me. "Sure you have. You were here yesterday. We had this conversation, only you asked me how old I was.""I wasn't even in the state. You're thinking of someone else.""No," he says. "It was you."
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The Promotion (A Short Story)

A clandestine agent will do anything to get a promotion . . . even hunt a young boy.G.R. Agent 102498 loves his job. "Collecting lives" is what he was made to do. He has worked hard to climb up from the bottom, but lately he feels stuck.He has been a Level 2 Agent for long time now, and he feels he is ready to be promoted to Level 3: Random Works.When he happens across a couple, whose son is just days from turning three, he knows he has finally found the Collection that will convince his superiors to promote him.His boss agrees to the collection, but adds some treacherous conditions of his own. And to make matters worse, a beautiful Agent shows up in his hunting grounds looking for a promotion of her own.This story is approximately 11,000 words long.
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Revenant

HELL HATH NO FURY . . . For five thousand years, Revenant believed he was alone in the world, a fallen angel beyond any redemption. Now he finds he has a twin brother who had all the light and love Revenant was denied. Caught in a tug of war between Heaven and Hell, he must weigh his thirst for revenge against his desire for a mysterious female named Blaspheme—a female whose very origins could deliver him into salvation . . . or destruction. LIKE AN ANGEL SCORNED Blaspheme has a deadly secret: she's the forbidden offspring of an angel and a fallen angel. Hunted by both heavenly and satanic forces, she has survived only by laying low and trusting no one. When Revenant claims he can save them both, how can she possibly believe him? But the powerful angel is persistence incarnate and for Blaspheme, there's no place she can hide in Heaven or Hell where he won't find her . .
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Rain Drops: Three Free Samples

Two FREE novels by #1 bestselling author, J.R. Rain, including:MOON DANCEDARK HORSECollection of two FREE novels by #1 bestselling author, J.R. Rain, including:MOON DANCE(Vampire for Hire #1)Six years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire.In Moon Dance, the world at large thinks Samantha Moon has developed a rare skin disease, a disease which forces her to quit her day job and stay out of the light of the sun. Now working the night shift as a private investigator, Samantha is hired by Kingsley Fulcrum to investigate the murder attempt on his life, a horrific scene captured on TV and seen around the country.But as the case unfolds, Samantha is about to discovers that Kingsley isn't exactly who he appears to be; after all, there's a reason why he survived five shots to the head...DARK HORSE(Jim Knighthorse #1)Dark Horse takes place in Huntington Beach, California. Surf City, U.S.A. Written in the tradition of Robert B. Parker's Spenser and Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, Dark Horse introduces a new hard-hitting, wise-cracking hero with a modern twist.When high school student Derrick Booker, the only black student at a posh Orange County high school, is accused of killing his white girlfriend, ex-college football hero and detective Jim Knighthorse is hired to dig a little deeper into the murder. It doesn't take long for Knighthorse to realize that not all is as it seems at tranquil Huntington High, from a band director who preys on the innocent to a vice-principal with a secret agenda of her own. Not to mention someone's hired a professional killer to keep Knighthorse permanently off the case.As the investigation continues, Knighthorse's personal life is shattered by the discovery of new evidence relating to his mother's unsolved murder, a murder dating back twenty years. Reeling from the discovery, a determined Jim Knighthorse sets out to bring two killers to justice.
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BestsellerBound Short Story Anthology Volume 3

A collection of tales by a variety of authors.A collection of tales by a variety of authors.Stories include:Winter Blues by Maria SavvaSkins by Jess C. ScottWhisperer by Jaleta CleggThe Wars Within by Jaime McDougallThe Old Bookshop by Julie Elizabeth PowellScale of a Dragon by J. Michael RadcliffeCounting Blessings Along the Horseshoe Canyon by Sharon E. CathcartEve & Ian’s New Love Life by Cynthia Meyers-HansonLaundry Day by Stacy JubaThe Day the Lights Went Out by Cliff Ball
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The Strangers at St Stephens. The Vampire Across the Hall 4

Daisi Malone lives in the Presidio building in Sydney Australia. It's a strange place with vampires, faerie psychologists and ghosts also residing there. In the fourth story of the series, Daisi and her friends investigate a strange plague of shoes which leads to a confrontation with sensitive jugglers and shadows in the local cemetery.The fourth story in the Vampire Across the Hall series. Daisi Malone is back and getting into trouble again. Hundreds of shoes are strewn randomly on the streets of Newtown and Daisi, Madden, Eliza, Mark and Anna investigate. Their research leads them to a weird group of jugglers and spooky shadows at the local cemetery. Vampires? Faeries? Ghosts or other supernatural beings? And what do the exspellers have to do with it?
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Nightshifted

From debut author Cassie Alexander comes a spectacular new urban fantasy series where working the nightshift can be a real nightmare. Nothing compares to being Nightshifted. Nursing school prepared Edie Spence for a lot of things. Burn victims? No problem. Severed limbs? Piece of cake. Vampires? No way in hell. But as the newest nurse on Y4, the secret ward hidden in the bowels of County Hospital, Edie has her hands full with every paranormal patient you can imagine-from vamps and were-things to zombies and beyond... Edie\'s just trying to learn the ropes so she can get through her latest shift unscathed. But when a vampire servant turns to dust under her watch, all hell breaks loose. Now she\'s haunted by the man\'s dying words-Save Anna-and before she knows it, she\'s on a mission to rescue some poor girl from the undead. Which involves crashing a vampire den, falling for a zombie, and fighting for her soul. Grey\'s Anatomy was never like this..."Cassie Alexander\'s first book about Nurse Edie Spence is dark and energetic. You\'ll really enjoy it; I\'m looking forward to reading the others in the series."-Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Vampire Mysteries
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Holding On To Heaven

Serenity has always known she was different. Being able to speak to the dead will have that effect on a person. All she's ever wanted was to be normal and now as she prepares herself for her sophomore year of college, she's getting her chance. Or so she believes. It's too bad her destiny has other plans.It was supposed to be a routine assignment. I was to be Serenity’s guardian until she is ready to take her rightful place in the fight against Hell. It was quickly turning out to be anything but that. When I wasn't spending every moment protecting her from herself, I was falling head over heels in love with her. It is forbidden but I can’t help it. Serenity may be just another human to the rest of my family in Heaven but to me she is so much more. She is special and I will stop at nothing to make her see it. The problem is I’m not the only one watching her. As badly as Heaven wants her safe and protected until it is time, Hell wants the very same thing. It would seem that young Serenity is part of a much bigger plan, one that even I hadn't been clued in on. Do I risk everything to protect her, including my very existence, or do I do the unthinkable and let Hell have her? - Archangel Gabriel For as long as I remember I've heard them. By the time I turned 12 my mother was positive I was losing my mind and went ahead and hospitalized me. The voices couldn't get to me there. It was the one place I was safe. At least until it wasn’t anymore. My grandma told me I was special and the abilities I have are a gift. The problem is she was dead when she told me. What she believed to be a gift is really nothing more than a curse and I want nothing more than to be rid of it, for good. That is until I met Ryan. Suddenly I don’t feel like such a freak anymore. If someone like him can understand it then maybe it really is the gift my grandma believed it to be. Maybe I’m different but in a good way. Maybe I really can change the world. - Serenity He has finally chosen his bride. The one being in the entire world that he deems his equal. The only problem is she’s human. Serenity was given a gift at birth. The very gift he wants to utilize when the time comes for his own gain. I've been sent to infiltrate her life, because as close a part of it as I can in order to prepare her for her destiny. It should have been easy but it’s become harder than I ever imagined. Not only do I have to deal with one of Heaven’s most powerful angels making his presence known but I also find myself questioning everything I've ever known as I begin to fall for Lucifer’s bride. - Ryan
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Mute

A young girl has survived the concentration camps of the horrible Vacont, and now she has to find some way to adapt to what most people consider normal life. A story about getting over the pain that life gives us, friendship and most importantly, hope.Written by 16 year old Aura Redwood for an English project that ended up being a lot longer than it needed to be.Four decades had passed since the last Relic war ravished the oppositional lands of Windpass Isles and Gaedia – a war that ceased in a bloodied truce.Drewth is a Light Elemental and Commander knight under Western Gaedia’s lordship, Syndirin - a high wizard and the king’s Arbiter. Syndirin, with questionable and unclear motive, promotes Drewth as his apprentice, and commences the personal training of Drewth in the ways of magic. Drewth then becomes the unwitting subject of Syndirin’s experimental meddle with the mythical powers of Darkened Light, despite the danger, and despite what sacrifice.Torius, a castle knight in Southern Windpass Isles kingdom and Mundane-born, is taken captive by a conspiratorial clique under Lord Syndirin, where he discovers from these captors their insidious campaign to rekindle the long dead Relic war, in pursuit of Relic’s power.Enflamed by an unforgivable betrayal of Syndirin, vengeance transforms Drewth forever within – his Element undergoes a rare alteration, he turns renegade to Gaedia, and allies with Torius, the escaped prisoner of Syndirin’s clique. Together they battle for their lives out from the now enemy territory of Gaedia.They find themselves fatefully party to a band of peasant prisoners with rare abilities invoked from the trials they face in their likewise escape from the treasonous Arbiter, Syndirin.And if odds turn to favor in their fight for survival, there is still threat to hand of a devastating magic war, a campaign in itself to acquire both kingdom’s all-powerful Relics in the wake of their mutual destruction.
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Beasts and Maidens

In a world in which all men are beasts until they fall in love, a young witch will do everything she can to break the curse.An ancient curse turned all men into beasts until they fall in love. Forced to live in the forest, their only hope of becoming human again is an annual ceremony.Going into the forest is forbidden, but Selene doesn't always follow the rules. After befriending a beast, she knows very well that they're just like everyone else on the inside.Selene uses her powers as a witch to do everything she can to free the beasts from their fate, but the curse isn't easy to break, and no matter what she tries, it might not be enough.
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Salem's Sight

16 yr. old Salem Cabot blames herself for her father’s death. And her mother for everything else. Salem struggles against the knowledge that she's become psychic since the accident that killed her father. At first her visions are a mere annoyance, but when she sees her mother fall victim to a gunman, Salem must fight to harness the ability she fears. Will she save her mother? Or run out of time?A psychic riddled with guilt.A murder that must be stopped. A ghost determined to help. 16 yr. old Salem Cabot blames herself for her father’s death. And her mother for everything else. Salem struggles against the growing knowledge that she has become psychic since the accident that claimed her father’s life. At first her visions are a mere annoyance, but when she sees her mother fall victim to a gunman, Salem must fight to harness the ability she fears. Will she save her mother? Or run out of time?
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An Equal Measure

JOURNALIST Josie Fox lives a solitary but enjoyable life. When her half-sister Amy crashes her beloved car and suffers severe head trauma, later lapsing into a coma, Josie rushes to her side. Amy's neurosurgeon is not optimistic in his prognosis. Josie is then faced with the more than likely possibility that Amy will never regain consciousness.JOURNALIST Josie Fox lives a solitary but enjoyable life. When her half-sister Amy crashes her beloved car and suffers severe head trauma, later lapsing into a coma, Josie rushes to her side. Amy's neurosurgeon is not optimistic in his prognosis. Josie is then faced with the more than likely possibility that Amy will never regain consciousness. Josie investigates the car accident and learns, much to her dismay, that Amy had tried to take her own life. Josie employs her investigative skills and uncovers the reason for Amy choosing to commit suicide - her boyfriend reneged on his promise to marry her after his divorce became final. While Josie sits at Amy's bedside, praying for her full recovery, she comes up with a plan to pay back Amy's boyfriend for his callous disposal of her sister.
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Gilded Destiny

Darker than vampires. Hot, immortal passion. A tragic love story.Calli's memory returns when she falls in love with the monster who took it from her. Nycholas wants just one thing before his final darkness falls: three nights with Calli.A woman's memory returns when she falls in love with the monster who took it from her.Calli tattoos her skin to fill the holes in her memory, thanks to an accident that left her mind damaged and empty. But a nasty encounter with a fired employee leaves her in the arms of her unlikely savior: Nycholas, a predatory, serpentine Vesper on the run from his brutal master.Nycholas’ clandestine world holds the secrets to mankind’s origin and survival… but he only wants one thing before his time is up: a few colorful nights with Calli, the fragile, tattooed, human woman he pursued and saved.The more Calli learns about Nycholas, the more her own darkened memories return to her. Despite her haunted past, she loses herself to passion and desire with her immortal captor.Now, Calli must overcome the demons of her past, or allow Nycholas to kiss her memories away and spare her the trauma of loving a doomed immortal. But each choice comes with dire consequences – some that endanger not only herself, but her family as well.
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