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Payne, twin sister of the Black Dagger Brother Vishous, suffers a devastating injury, and brilliant human surgeon Manuel Manello is called in to save her. Their attraction is instant, and as powerful as it is dangerous. But as human and vampire worlds collide, a centuries-old score catches up with Payne and puts both her love and her life in jeopardy.

Ever since the birth of his daughter, Nalla, Zsadist has been regressing further and further into the life he led before he met Bella, his beautiful shellan. He has been waking up in cold sweats due to nightmares from his past, hasn't made love to his wife, and won't hold his baby girl, for fear that he might hurt her. While Nalla's presence had consisted of only joy and excitement in first couple months of her life, now it seems to be driving the couple apart. Bella is afraid that she and Nalla just may need to leave her hellren.

Anne Ashburn is a woman consumed - by her bitter family legacy, by her scorched career as a firefighter, by her obsession with department bad boy Danny McGuire and by a new case that pits her against a fiery killer. Strong-willed Anne was fearless and loved the thrill of fighting fires, pushing herself to be the best. But when one risky decision at a warehouse fire changes her life forever, Anne must reinvent not only her job but her whole self.

Featuring one of the Black Dagger Brotherhood's most iconic couples, Blay and Qhuinn find themselves looking forward to their official mating ceremony. When tragedy strikes just before the happy event, all hope seems lost - and everyone in the Black Dagger Brotherhood rallies around the two of them. Will a freak winter storm bring the unthinkable, or will a warm heart in winter ensure that true love is not lost?

The battle between good and evil has left the future of humanity in the hands of a reluctant saviour and his band of fallen angels. Seven deadly sins that must be righted. Seven souls that must be saved. Fallen Angel Jim Heron has completed his first task: helping Vin Di Pietro to redeem his soul. Now he must identify and battle a demon that can take any form. Worse still, his old boss Matthias wants him to assassinate Isaac, a member of The Firm who's gone AWOL - and Jim's pretty sure he's supposed to save him.

En las sombras de la noche, en Caldwell (Nueva York), se desarrolla una sorda y cruel guerra entre los vampiros y sus verdugos. Y existe una hermandad secreta de seis vampiros guerreros, los defensores de toda su raza. Ninguno de ellos desea aniquilar a sus enemigos con tanta ansia como Wrath, el campeón de la Hermandad de la Daga Negra. Wrath, el vampiro de raza más pura de los que aún pueblan la tierra, tiene una deuda pendiente con los que, hace siglos, mataron a sus padres.

Seven deadly sins. Seven souls that must be saved. One more no-holds-barred battle between a fallen angel with a hardened heart and a demon with everything to lose. Isaac Rothe is a black ops soldier with a dark past and a grim future. The target of an assassin, he finds himself behind bars, his fate in the hands of his gorgeous public defender Grier Childe. His hot attraction to her can only lead to trouble - and that's before Jim Heron tells him his soul is in danger.

Ever since the death of his shellan, Tohrment has been unrecognizable from the vampire leader he once was. Physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair, he has been brought back to the Brotherhood by a self-serving fallen angel. Now, fighting once again with ruthless vengeance, he is unprepared to face a new kind of tragedy. When Tohr begins to see his beloved in his dreams - trapped in a cold, isolated netherworld far from the peace and tranquility of the Fade - he turns to the angel in hopes of saving the one he has lost.

In this finale, Lydia and Daniel are bracing themselves for his inevitable decline but first, they must go on a rescue mission that will put both their lives in danger.

When Cait Douglass resolves to get over her broken heart, throw off her inhibitions, and start really living, she's unprepared for the two sensual men who cross her path. Torn between them, she doesn't know which to choose - or what kind of dire consequences could follow. Jim Heron, fallen angel and reluctant savior, is ahead in the war, but he puts everything at risk when he seeks to make a deal with the devil - literally.

This is a world where sin and salvation collide. This is a world where a cynical fallen angel struggles with the seven deadly sins and seven chosen souls. With the spellbinding Immortal, the riveting series that "changed the face of paranormal romance" comes to an epic close as mankind's reluctant savior struggles with his greatest challenge yet.

Mels Carmichael, reporter for the Caldwell Courier Journal, gets the shock of her life when a man stumbles in front of her car outside the local cemetery. After the accident, his amnesia is just the kind of mystery she likes to solve, but she soon discovers they're in over their heads with his past. Over their heads with passion, too.... As shadows walk the line between reality and another realm, and her lover's memory begins to come back, the two of them learn that nothing is truly dead and buried.

Held captive by a dark, seductive vampire with an unworldly hunger, the beautiful Claire Stroughton fears her life as a lawyer has irrevocably taken a turn for the worse. But when this deeply sensual-and highly dangerous-vampire convinces Claire that his desire for her is stronger than his lust for blood, she is compelled to give everything up to him, body and soul...in The Story of Son.

Durch den Tod des Patriarchen hat das Ansehen der Bradfords gewaltig gelitten. Sein schlechtes Management hat zudem das Bourbon-Geschäft der Familie an den Rand des Abgrunds gebracht und den Betrieb verletzlich für die Konkurrenz hinterlassen. Seine Erben tun alles, um die Dynastie vor dem Untergang zu bewahren. Da kehrt der verlorene Sohn Maxwell Bradford nach Jahren der Abwesenheit auf das Anwesen zurück und scheint alles zerstören zu wollen, was seine Geschwister so mühsam bewahrt haben.

Seit Generationen geben die Bradfords in Kentucky den Ton an. Der Handel mit Bourbon hat der Familiendynastie großen Reichtum und viel Anerkennung eingebracht. Doch hinter der glänzenden Fassade verbergen sich verbotene Liebschaften, skrupellose Machtspiele, Verrat, Intrigen und skandalöse Geheimnisse.

Eine mächtige Dynastie: skrupellose Machtspiele und verbotene Gefühle.

Die glänzende Fassade der Bradfords beginnt zu bröckeln, als William Baldwine, der Patriarch, tot aufgefunden wird. Zudem ist das komplette Vermögen verloren. Es liegt nun an Lane, den Betrieb und seine Familie vor dem Untergang zu bewahren...

Ruthless might as well be Gray Bennett’s middle name. When the renowned Washington, D.C. insider talks, powerful people listen. But Gray hasn’t come home to Saranac Lake to play politics. Or play at all. A tragedy has shaken the unshakable Gray Bennett to his hardened core. And so has the most unlikely of women. The mousy redhead who used to run around the Moorehouse B and B - the one he never noticed - is now all fiery hair and lush curves. But sweet Joy Moorehouse is too innocent for a cynic like him.

Antiguo esclavo de sangre, el vampiro Zsadist todavía lleva las cicatrices de un pasado lleno de sufrimiento y humillación. Conocido por su innegable furia y su siniestro carácter, es un salvaje temido tanto por los humanos como por los vampiros. La rabia es su única compañía, y el terror su única pasión, hasta que rescata a la hermosa aristócrata de la diabólica sociedad de restrictores.

Dentro de la hermandad, Rhage es el vampiro de más destructivas pulsiones. Es el mejor luchador, el más rápido, el más impulsivo, y el amante más apasionado; porque en su interior arde una feroz maldición impuesta por la Virgen Escribana. Poseído por esa fuerza oscura, Rhage teme el momento en que su dragón interior se desate, convirtiéndolo en un peligro para todos los que están a su alrededor.

Butch O'Neal es un luchador nato. Un duro ex policía de homicidios y el único al que se le ha permitido el acceso a la Hermandad de la Daga Negra. Y quiere adentrarse más aún en ese mundo, para comprometerse con la guerrera contra los restrictores.