Steamy Romance Historical

As the daughter of a drug dealer, Wavy knows not to trust people, not even her own parents. It's safer to keep her mouth shut and stay out of sight. Struggling to raise her little brother, Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house until one night her stargazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold.

He's a firefighter trying to prove himself. But now he's trapped in a tattoo parlor with a woman he can't resist. I was just trying to warm up. The tattoo parlor where I work is freezing cold, so at closing time, I decide to hop in one of the few tanning beds in the building and warm up. But when the security alarm goes off for some reason, a hunky firefighter breaks in to save me. In the process, he manages to damage the lock. And now we're locked in together. As he works to free us, an attraction starts to build. And it might just be an attraction we can't resist. Trapped with the ...

My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. I still can't decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me. Then there's Jaxon Vega. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years.

Six sizzling short stories by award-winning, best-selling author Suz deMello, including contemporary, multicultural, New Adult, historical, paranormal, shapeshifter, medieval Scottish, vampire and power exchange. What readers have said about these stories: Five stars! Sizzling hot! --Kathy Heare Watts, Goodreads reviewer hot and steamy! --Tina Williams, Goodreads Five Stars! sizzling hot. --Redrabbitt on Amazon.com

A twist of fate leads a lonely spinster into the arms of a stranger and into the forbidden romance of the century. After being humiliated and disgraced by a local debutante, Constance Mills is resigned to her life as a lonely lighthouse keeper. With only her memories and a sweet kitten named Foxy as her companions, she doesn't expect much else. Until a ship tosses a wealthy stranger, with no recollection of where he's come from, out into the sea and into her path. With a head injury blocking his memory, Martim Amorim cannot remember where or even why he'd been traveling. He only knows the ...

“I've summoned you because you're the only man I could ever fully trust with Nathalia's virtue. You're my foster brother and best friend. I need someone to protect and guard Nathalia, and I can think of no one else I would trust with this.” Sir Kay is a retired Knight of the Round Table. For the last decade, he's lived alone in a coastal cottage, taking odd jobs and drinking too much. After many years of solitude, Kay gets an unexpected summons from King Arthur, his foster brother and old friend. What could King Arthur possibly need from him after all this time? King Arthur is living in...

After a snowstorm grounds her flight, Lucy makes a last-ditch effort to get home for Christmas using a rideshare app. She thinks she’ll be taking a road trip with a stranger...but the guy who shows up is someone she knows all too well. He’s the hookup she ghosted a few months ago, and now she’ll be stuck in a car with him for the most awkward road trip of her life.

Mr. Darcy's craving. Miss Bennet's disdain. Can truth set desire free? Mr. Darcy is tormented by desire for Miss Elizabeth Bennet, though she is unsuitable to be his wife. Miss Elizabeth Bennet's blood burns for Mr. Darcy, but she cannot accept him, knowing how he betrayed Mr. Wickham. But compromise forces their hand. Will Mr. Darcy have the courage to risk his sister's secret to win Miss Elizabeth's heart? Lose yourself in an intimate evening with this steamy Pride and Prejudice variation. If you enjoy Mr. Darcy's sensual side, start reading now!

From bestselling author Katherine Harlow comes a fresh and delightful twist on the classic Pygmalion tale—only this time, the roles are reversed. It began with a wicked bet… Wealthy widow Lady Lola Evans had no need of a man, except perhaps the occasional dalliance to warm her bed. She certainly had no intention of parting with her fortune by marrying again. Her days were filled with carefree laughter and sporting with friends. The bet she made seemed simple enough. It was only supposed to be a lark. Something for her amusement; take a common man and turn him into a gentleman. Groom him...

When shy young historian Elise Fairfax and her twin brother Edmund arrive at Brescome Manor to catalog potentially priceless antiques and value the ancient estate, Elise is immediately drawn to the dark, seductive allure of Lord Ivan, the estate's enigmatic master, and her brother gravitates to the prickly Lord Grigor, the Lord’s haughty heir. With each blisteringly hot encounter, Elise falls deeper under the spell of the manor and its huge, wolfish Lord. Will Elise unravel the shocking truth about Brescome Manor? Or will she surrender to the seductive power of a lust that knows no bounds...

Revised and updated! A Christmas Conspiracy Mr. Finlay Weston braves deep snowfall to attend a tedious Christmas party in the countryside for one reason—he intends to take a wife. Miss Stanton is the obvious choice. Her father’s property neighbors his estate. He has already sought her father’s permission. Yet it is her cousin, Amity, who tempts him with her sparkling wit and pretty eyes. A New Year’s Wish Amity doesn’t resent her cousin for living in her childhood home. It’s not Holly’s fault that her branch of the Mayweather family inherited after her father’s death. Of ...

A ball. A ripped hem. Mr Darcy's desires... If Elizabeth Bennet thinks she can hide from Mr. Darcy after pestering him about Wickham during the ball, she can think again. But when Mr. Darcy opens the guest bedroom door and discovers Elizabeth dressed only in her chemise... thinking is the last thing on his mind. Mr. Darcy is Diverted is a 14,000 words steamy, sensual and intimate Pride and Prejudice retelling short story.

Some disguises hide more than identities—they awaken forbidden desires. Lady Theodora Langford refuses to mourn quietly. When her brother’s death is dismissed as a tragic accident, she scents deception. Determined to uncover the truth, she trades her silk gowns for a valet’s coat, slipping into the shadowed halls of Ravenshire Manor as “Theo,” servant to the very man she suspects: the enigmatic and dangerously compelling Duke of Ravenshire. Sebastian, Duke, soldier, and secret keeper, hides his war wounds beneath layers of icy control. But his new valet is too sharp-eyed, too ...

An ancient curse. A sacrifice. A broken spell. Katerina's fate is about to be sealed by a loveless, arranged marriage to a cruel baron. But fate had other plans. In her wildest dreams of adventure, Katerina need imagined being snatched by a dragon would free her from her prison-like fate and open her to a whole new world. It isn't long before Katerina realizes there is more to the mystical creature than just a beast and she finds something inside her stirring in ways she never predicted. Love is a powerful magic, but is it powerful enough to break an ancient curse? Warning: This story ...

A nail-biting story full of romance and hijinks, A Lady's Destiny follows along as our heroine attempts to free herself from her abductors and unravel a mystery before it’s too late. Mrs. Beatrice Marsh has sworn off all love after her husband’s death, despite the fact she’s only twenty-two years old, but her sister Diane is convinced she’s making a mistake. After a matchmaking scheme goes awry and Beatrice is abducted during Diane’s attempt to match her with a family friend, a handsome widower with little interest in moving on from his shadowed past, the unlikely pair are forced ...

NINE OVER-THE-TOP INSANE INSTALOVE STANDALONES IN ONE WILD BUNDLE! THIS IS INSTA-LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN . . . ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE! THIS BOX SET CONTAINS: GIVEN TO THE GROOM (100 pages) TRADED TO THE TRUCKER (126 pages) PUNISHED BY THE PRINCIPAL (121 pages) STRANDED WITH THE PSYCHO (123 pages) WIFED BY THE WARLORD (111 pages) LATE FOR THE LANDLORD (113 pages) VANQUISHING THE VIKING (115 pages) DISCIPLINING THE DUKE (111 pages) SAVING THE SINNER (109 pages) AND EACH BOOK CONTAINS: OVER-THE-TOP STEAM! (Yes, we're going there . . . ;)) OVER-THE-TOP PLOTS (Wait, what's a plot?) OVER-THE...

There’s a voodoo woman in New Orleans who knows your darkest secrets French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas learns he’s permanently linked to the spirit of a man with whom he’d fought a duel during another lifetime. The only person who can free Wyatt from his curse is long-dead voodoo queen Marie Laveaux. To seek her help, he must travel back to Antebellum New Orleans, succeed in his endeavor, or be trapped in the past forever. When Wyatt meets his former lover at the Mulatto Ball, he doesn’t know if he wants to return. While Wyatt is time traveling, detective Tony ...

Introducing book one in the CELTIC LEGENDS SERIES, a star-crossed lovers tale from the RITA-nominated author of passionate, magical romances Conor has lived a hundred lives…but loved only once Born to a powerful Irish priestess, Conor knows he is no ordinary warrior. Some whisper he’s not human at all. He seeks out Brigid of Morna, a reclusive, woodland seer, the only woman who can unveil the truth of his everlasting strength. But Brigid refuses to help him—or to yield her hungry heart. For she knows that a man cursed to live a thousand lives must never fall in love… "An enthralling...

A page-turning story full of romance and mystery, A Lady's Ambition follows along as our heroine attempts to relax in the Scottish countryside away from the social season in London, but unfortunately for her, a deadly mystery awaits. Miss Diane Harrison loves London and everything living in the city entails, except for perhaps her prospects for a husband. Deciding to wait until the next season to debut, Diane escapes to the countryside to visit her cousins, having no idea what’s in store. Instead of a relaxing holiday, she is thrust into a dangerous position by a madman with retribution ...

Makenna Vandenberg's life is about to change. She's the eldest daughter of Baron Roland Vandenberg, and her new stepmother plans to marry her off to the first man who will take her. These same men are vile and twice her age. Unwilling to bend to her stepmother's evil plan, Makenna packs a few of her belongs and disguises herself as a maid. She thinks if she can escape across the sea to her aunts in Norwich, everything will fall into place for her. But she's naive and unprepared for how the real world works. She's blind to people's questionable intentions and lured outside a lowly tavern. ...