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One-night stands are kind of my thing. Hit it and run because I have no desire to get tied down to a woman. Honestly, I have no desire to see the women I get in bed more than once. We can pass on the cuddling, coffee dates, and telling each other all our hopes and dreams. I'm just not that guy. At least, I wasn't, until a beauty - unlike anything I've ever seen - ambushed my life by walking into the bar, one night.

Raymond and Violet find themselves back in Manhattan, caught up in the love they have found for one another. Tensions are high, and not the good kind. The real world waiting for them isn't as happy to accept their union. Ray's parents are irate. No one approves of Violet. And the worst part of it all is that Ray's career is being threatened by a force that refuses to be unseen. A force that threatens to tank Ray's career as well as Violet's. Raymond is torn between his family and Violet. She is torn between her happiness and Ray's. And when storms collide, they never mix.

When you have a chance to plan the wedding of all weddings, falling for the gorgeous groom is out of the question. How does one ignore the sparks, the attraction, and the forbidden fruit right in front of them? Trying to keep her head down, Lilac Freesia (yes, her mother had a bad sense of humor) just wants to get the job done and pretend she doesn't feel anything.

She is far too stubborn and feisty for his tastes. He is too controlling and domineering for hers. When they meet, sparks fly but it could never work. He wants a perfect submissive wife who will be a help in daily life and a vixen between the sheets. She wants an equal partner, not someone with his head stuck in the 1950s. When they are thrown together to uncover a dangerous scandal in their small town, they will finally give in to their mutual attraction. But will it last?

Meet Josh Sterling - gorgeous, arrogant, rich as sin, and heir to the Sterling Empire. And now, my new boss. Josh waltzed into my hometown. I even changed my schedule to show him around. He seemed sincere at first, so I let him have me. Did you hear that? I slept with him. Big mistake. And then, I found out that he was playing me all along.

Sir Ezra is an Elysian Bell; he has a frightening potential that he keeps hidden deep beneath tight layers of steel armor. He secretly loves a dark queen whose touch would mean his death. Banished for brutally slaughtering the Prince of Erle and husband to the queen, Sir Ezra can only dream of seeing her again. Every night, his soul travels to distant lands, remembering the queen and a single night of horrific bloodshed. Recalled to the queendom, Ezra hopes to catch at least a glimpse of the woman. Instead, he finds a nation in rebellion and the queen to be an elusive phantom.

Their world was ending, all the heroes were dead, the leaders confused, and their enemies were head and shoulders above them. But there was no one else; they were the dregs, the last worst hopes. Nehring Ardgour has summoned Skoll and Hati from hell. They have torn through the proud and ancient country of Engevelen and the angelic Methueyn Knights that protect it. Armies have died; cities have fallen. None of the great remain. No brilliant inventors, no powerful knights, no master wizards. No heroes.

Robert, Koria, Eloise, and Gregory went to the New School, hoping to change the world. They thought that mathematically-based dynamics, the enlightened age's answer to wizardry, would give them the power to make everything better. Their hopes were naïve. Protestors are condemning the creation of a new vaccine. The city is seeing a series of hangings; is it murder or sacrament? The cloaked man is back to stalking students. The long-absent demons Skoll and Hati reappear and begin slaughtering. But the real question is, will Nimrheal return? If he does, who will die first?

Quill Chabon is a bear shifter who had been trapped in a shifter camp for years and released when they became illegal. On the outside, he’s recovered. On the inside, he’s still badly hurt. Dawn Wolf is skittish of humans and doesn’t really trust anyone but her brothers and their partners. Quill is given the mission of recruiting her. But Dawn’s emotional connection to the world, to her shifted form, to the natural world, opens up something inside him that he didn’t know existed. He’s drawn to her delicate nature, like a flower that shouldn’t be picked.

Little do they realize, they're falling in love on borrowed time. Something is up with the shifters in Portland, Oregon. And if there's one person who's going to get to the bottom of it, it's Diana Paul. As the executive director of a center that offers all sorts of services to shifters, Diana is extremely protective of her clients. All except for one extremely annoying - extremely attractive - wolf shifter named Orion. Orion is used to taking care of his siblings, he's been the protector who's been doing it his entire life.

Phoenix Wolf hates being human. If it were up to him, he'd stay in his wolf form in the wilderness for the rest of his life. But it's not up to him. It's up to the forest fire that nearly killed him, forcing him and his siblings to venture into Portland, Oregon for medical attention. While he's healing, his body forced into its human form, Phoenix does everything he can shut out the world. But he can't shut out the hot little redhead who has been assigned to be his mentor while he acclimates to life as a human.

Nina Aydin will never marry again. An abusive marriage years earlier left the ballet instructor leery of men, yet she desperately wants a baby. Only one man has caught her eye: the mesmerizing master chief of SEAL Team Six. From his dance moves to his dimples, Santiago Rivera would make the perfect father, as long as he agreed to play by Nina's rules - a donation at a fertility clinic with no intimacy allowed. When he gets a clear message from God to take the traditional path, he risks losing Nina entirely.

Life is long, especially for Arturo. Though he was born a mortal, now he’s a bear shifter and the former right hand man to a demon. He’s been alive for more than four centuries, kept alive by his connection to the demon who has enslaved and tortured him at every turn. And they wonder why he’s such a jerk.… Now, Arturo is made to endure a new kind of torture. He’s trapped with a group of seven travelers who, to their credit, are attempting to slay the demon.

Navy SEAL Lt. Mitch Thoreau’s vacation to Spain coincides with Catalonia’s bid for independence. On the streets of Barcelona, the tension between the separatists and the national police suggests imminent unrest - not the best time for a vacation. Meeting the proprietress of Hotel Leonardo makes it all worthwhile.

Tre Sullivan has never met a woman like Caroline Clifton. In so many ways, she’s everything he’s not. She’s bubbly, effusive, affectionate, filled with wonder, and - oh, yeah - she’s not a bear shifter, like him. Tre, along with seven others, has found himself catapulted into a new adventure where their souls are at stake and a demon is haunting their every footstep. Their newest quasi-ally, the demon’s former right-hand-man, Arturo, is creepy, ornery, and not making things any easier for the group.

When you have a chance to plan the wedding of all weddings, falling for the gorgeous groom is out of the question. How does one ignore the sparks, the attraction, and the forbidden fruit right in front of them? Trying to keep her head down, Lilac Freesia (yes, her mother had a bad sense of humor) just wants to get the job done and pretend she doesn't feel anything. Except, what if she can't walk away from the job of a lifetime - or the man of her dreams?

Acts of genuine creativity used to bring mortal punishment. But now, wizardry is dead and Robert, Koria, and Eloise live in a world where change and invention are possible. Robert hopes that mathematically-framed dynamics will enable him to change the new world. But he keeps having prophetic dreams where his friends are all murdered by a mysterious cloaked man, and the grain protestors are more menacing than ever. Desperate to change the future, Robert recklessly pushes the bounds of both dynamics and reason.

The man sitting by my hospital bed is my husband: the kind of man a woman doesn’t forget. And yet, I don’t recognize him. I can’t remember anything of our life together, or the love we shared. Even as his touch sets my body on fire and I learn to crave his discipline, my memories remain hidden from me. I need answers. But the more I search for them, the clearer it becomes that remembering may cost me everything.

Divine retribution for invention is now a thing of the past. Young, optimistic, quick of mind, and quick to act, Robert thinks being invited to the New School is an invitation to change the world. Nothing is as simple as it first seems, least of all change. Robert is surprised and frustrated by everything from his classmates Koria and Eloise stalking him, to protestors claiming that the new grain is poison and its inventors should be murdered like in the old days

Banding together with others is a necessity. Finding like-minded individuals is crucial to survival. But join up with the wrong people, and it could be your last day. What will Jake, Aby, and Meg do, now that they're once again on their own? Will they try once again to find a group to join? Or will their next attempt at communal survival be their last? Survive the Collapse is a post-apocalyptic EMP thriller. It's book two in the End of the World series.