There is one problem. Darla doesn’t view it as so much of a problem, more like a catastrophe. She’s fallen in love with Rock. Her feelings have grown too strong to keep inside. But her family won’t allow it. No matter how much they think of Rock—and they do think highly of him. Rock comes from the most prominent family of owls in Banff. He walks and flies with honor. Darla’s family is good friends with him. But Darla is a leopard and Rock is an owl. Leopards and owls don’t mate.

To read an excerpt from Chapter One, click HERE.

Lorie O’Clare is an award winning erotic romance writer with over 40 books published. Her stories range from the wild lives of werewolves to the passionate and thrilling world of romantic suspense. She is an EPPIE Winner for 2006 and she also won Reviewers’ Choice Award for 2006. Lorie currently resides in Kansas with her three boys and two dogs, a Boston Terrier and Beagle.

 

Burned once too often, true crime writer Lacey Richards has sworn off love. Instead, she explores her deepest desires through her anonymous—and very provocative—blog. Anonymous, that is, until her dark and ultrasexy neighbor discovers her dirty secret. 

Stockbrocker-turned-carpenter Byron Hawthorne gave up life in the fast lane, hoping to start over in a new city. When he learns his alluring neighbor is the one writing the sizzling blog that keeps him up all night, he can’t resist offering to fulfill her fantasies in the flesh. But Byron isn’t the only man provoked by Lacey’s writing. Now Lacey doesn’t know who she can trust—and who she can dare to tease.

To read an excerpt, click HERE. 

Tracy Wolff lives with four men, teaches writing to local college students and spends as much time as she can manage immersed in worlds of her own creation. Married to the alpha hero of her dreams for twelve years, she is the mother of three young sons who spend most of their time trying to make her as crazy as possible. Tracy also writes under the pseudonym Tessa Adams.

Determined to put his roguish past behind him, the Earl of Camdonn arranges to marry the proper Lady Elizabeth. But when an accident lands the Earl in the expert hands of a beautiful Highland medicine woman, all well-laid plans are thrown to the wind- and, just as in the old days, his passions run high…

Ceana MacNab has terrible luck with men. Resigning herself to the healing arts, she has steeled her heart against love. Then fate sends Cam her way. Even though he’s a well-bred Earl-and Ceana a low-born Highlander-their all-consuming passion may lead the way to lasting bliss.

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As a child, Dawn Halliday traveled the South Pacific with her family on their homebuilt sailboat. The months spent on the sometimes-quiet, sometimes-raging seas sparked her love of adventure and grand romance. Since then, she's earned degrees in Computer Science and Education and held various jobs from bookselling to teaching inner-city children to acting, but she's never put down the pen. When she doesn't have her head buried in a book, you can find her playing video games or posing as a baseball mom in California where she lives with her husband and three children.

Micah Hudson has painful secrets he’s run hard from. He has new friends, a new life, but he’s about to be confronted with the one person who reminds him of all he’s tried to forget—Angelina, the sister of his oldest friend David. She knows everything about his past, including how he and David fell in love with the same woman, and how they decided the best way to prevent her from tearing them apart was to share her between them. But then a terrible accident left Micah alone…

Micah lost the two people who meant the most in the world to him. Angelina lost her only family. And she kept her deepest secret close to her heart. Her love for Micah. No longer willing to wait, she decides it’s time to go after him and bring him to his knees. She knows his secrets, his desires, his kinks and fetishes, and she’ll use whatever it takes to reel him in. Behind the easy going, loves women exterior lies a man with dark needs and passions. She can give him what he wants. But will he decide she’s what he needs?

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Maya Banks is the pen name for Sharon Long. As Sharon Long, she writes exciting historicals and contemporary romantic suspense. She also writes erotic southern romance under her pen name, Maya Banks. She lives in Texas with her husband, three children and assortment of cats.

Jean Johnson sneaks between the covers of such classic fairy tales as Beauty and the Beast, Puss n' Boots, and Sleeping Beauty, and refashions them into bedtime stories for adults only. With clever gender twists, hot fetishistic turns, other-worldly desires, and explorations into forbidden territories, Bedtime Stories reveals a veritable garden of sensual delights that gives new meaning to the term "happy ending." 

Jean Johnson lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest, where she's writing so much, she has very little time for reading, alas. She still wants to live in a castle with decent plumbing, central heating, and internet access, and is working on acquiring the funds for it. One of these days, she will hold auditions at the nearest pet shelter for the role of author's cat.

Bombshell heiress Amber Pontiero is looking for fun—and she’s going to find it in Luke and Jay, two of her former lovers now eager to complete the perfect threesome. There are no rules—only soul-stirring pleasure. But things change when Luke starts looking into Amber’s family tree, specifically her great-great grandfather Curtis. The gunsmith was once at the center of an infamous love triangle of his own—one that ended in Curtis’s murder and a royal scandal for Lady Ellen and the Duke of Auburn.

The past reveals something else: the forbidden course that Curtis and Lady Ellen followed, driven by irresistible passion. It’s a path of consuming desire now repeating itself a century later, leaving Amber to realize that when it comes to love there is a point of no return—no matter what the risk.

Sheri WhiteFeather is a Waldenbook's # 1 bestselling author. She has won numerous awards, including reader's and reviewer's choice honors. She writes a variety of romance novels for Silhouette Books. She also writes erotic romances for Berkley. Sheri has become known for incorporating Native American elements into her stories. She has two grown children who are tribally enrolled members of the Muscogee Creek Nation. Sheri is of Italian-American descent. Her great-grandparents immigrated to the United States from Italy through Ellis Island, originating from Castel di Sangro and Sicily. She lives in California and enjoys ethnic dining, shopping in vintage stores and visiting art galleries and museums.

Sophie Renwick lives on Lake Erie’s north shore with her daughter and husband. A fantasy geek, Sophie draws inspiration from Star Wars (Anakin Skywalker is the ultimate tortured hero!) Excalibur, Highlander, and those awesome Ring Wraiths in Lord of the Rings. She always draws heavily on her Scottish upbringing, and treasures those stories her grandparents used to tell her about fairies, and midgies and those enchanting Night Woods. Many of those stories have made their way into her Annwyn world.  Hot in Here is Sophie’s first erotic contemporary release, and Velvet Haven, the first book in the Annwyn Chronicles, is her first erotic paranormal.

The national bestselling author of Fragile returns with a luscious new blend of sex and suspense.

Quinn Rafferty is working as a bounty hunter for a private detective agency in St. Louis when a new neighbor catches his eye. He's drawn to her-but he has his own soul to mend before he can worry about anyone else.

Sarah McElyea is on the run, but not for the usual reasons a woman goes on the lam. She has a plan for her future. And as much as she finds herself attracted to her gruff, tough neighbor, she can't risk telling him the secrets she's hiding.

But Quinn must get closer to Sarah when she turns out to be the target of his new missing persons case, and both Quinn and Sarah will have to expose their true feelings-as well as their fragile hearts-if their love is to survive. 

To read an excerpt, click HERE.

Shiloh Walker is an American author of contemporary and erotic romance novels and novellas. She writes in many romance subgenres, including paranormal romance, fantasy romance, and romantic suspense. Most of Walker's earlier works were published as ebooks.

When Valerie left for the big city, she kissed her foreman husband, Mason, goodbye—along with the best sex she ever had. Now, seeing him brings back sizzling memories. But their rekindled fire threatens to burn them both. 

Watching Gage wrangle untamed horses with a gentle but firm touch leaves Brea hot and bothered. But can she live out her fantasy with a man who may ask more than she’s willing to give? 

Ranch hand Walker Morgan can’t afford to lose his job by getting too close to his new boss, Jolene, no matter how much she tempts him. But Jolene’s prepared to take the first step, because what Jolene wants, Jolene gets. And Jolene wants Walker.

To read an excerpt, click HERE.

Jaci Burton (Joey W. Hill) is the award-winning author of multiple titles of paranormal, contemporary and erotic romance fiction. She writes for Berkley Sensation, Berkley Heat and Elloras Cave Publishing.

Recommended Read! “…a book you won’t forget anytime soon. Erotic, emotional…suspenseful. The combination of those, along with Ms. Black’s superb writing, makes Delicious a have-to-read and a keeper…” 

Luc Traverson’s entire future is planned out—but there is one very sexy obstacle in his path: Alyssa Devereaux . She’s a former exotic dancer turned strip club owner and restaurateur. Recently, Alyssa and Luc shared one night of wild abandon that left Luc terrified by his loss of self-control—and Alyssa desperate for more.

Fulfilling a promise, Luc is the guest chef for Alyssa’s restaurant debut. The sight of her makes Luc wild, so how can he survive a week without letting loose and ravaging her—especially when she’s begging for it? Luc’s desire for her explodes when he realizes he isn’t the only man desperate to have her. But one of the others is deadly. And that’s not the end of Alyssa’s secrets…which are as dark and mysterious and enticing as her fantasies.

You can read Chapter One, by clicking HERE.

Shayla Black (aka Shelley Bradley) is the national bestselling author of 25+ sizzling contemporary, erotic, paranormal, and historical romances for multiple print and electronic publishers. Shayla has won or placed in over a dozen writing contests, including Passionate Ink’s Passionate Plume, Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence, and the National Reader’s Choice Awards. Romantic Times has awarded her Top Picks, a KISS Hero Award and a nomination for Best Erotic Romance of 2007. She lives in Texas.