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Lee Staunton and Dirk Krause have been seeing each other for a couple of months when they get the bad news: The firehouse they work at will be closed unless they can come up with the money to complete some maintenance and repairs. The union wants to stand and fight. There's just one problem: The only suggestion for how to raise the money is Lee's. And Dirk hates it.

When raiders fall upon Urquhart Castle, Elisabeth Grant, the daughter of the castle's lord - a highlander by birth but educated in the lowlands - is left defenseless when her cowardly father abandons her. At the last moment, her life and her maidenhead are saved from the raiders by Angus MacGregor, the proud highlander she had only hours earlier ordered locked in the pillory for his insolence toward her.

After being separated by death for over 1,000 years, alpha werewolf Blasius has found his mate, reincarnated into the body of Detective Ryan Miller. Ryan was injured in the last battle between hunters and werewolves, and Blasius has no choice but to force him out of his human life and turn him into a werewolf to keep death from separating them once more. As a new werewolf, living by the laws of the pack is entirely different from the laws of a human, and Ryan doesn't know if he can adjust to this new way.

Jason Snowe woke up in a nightmare. Kidnapped and thrown into a cement hole, he is chained to a werewolf, and is to be used for food when the wolf becomes too hungry to go without! Mick Stewart despises the fact that he was caught by a bunch of lowbrow hunters, but there is always a silver lining. The human they chained him to is his mate, and though Jason is wary of him, they both agree that working together is their only chance of escape.

Living on his French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the striving chancer of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Having accrued considerable wealth through a long career of crime, he tires of his idyllic retirement. Highsmith's chameleon longs to get back in the game, so when a friend needs a favour, he relishes the opportunity.

Wade is a throwaway, forced into prostitution at 14 and living on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Nearly four years later, and now calling himself Trick, he's still struggling to survive. While huddled in a doorway on a cold, rainy morning, he thanks his lucky stars when an expensive Mercedes pulls up and rolls down a window. Phoenix, known as Master P, may be a big intimidating Dom, but he has a soft spot for vulnerable young men. When he sees a homeless kid trembling in the cold, he has to stop and pick him up.

A series of seemingly motiveless murders of supernatural creatures points to a vigilante targeting the supe community of Scranton. Markowski wouldn’t normally have much of a problem with that, but his daughter may be next on the killer’s list... Justin Gustainis was born in Northeast Pennsylvania in 1951. He attended college at the University of Scranton, a Jesuit university that figures prominently in several of his writings. He is currently a Professor of Communication at Plattsburgh State University.

It hasn't been easy, but horse trainer Dan Wheeler is beginning to build a new life for himself, finding his place in California with his lovers Evan Kaminski and Jeff Stevens. When things are going well, it's spectacular: there's affection, humor, and passion. But things don't seem to go well all that often. Dan continues to struggle with the loss of his previous lover and sometimes doubts that he even deserves to be happy; Evan is jealous of every rival for Dan's attention - including Jeff; and Jeff worries that he's too old for the younger men and wonders if he should bow out completely.

Jeff, Evan, and Dan have been living happily together for the past two years. They still have problems, especially between Evan and Dan, but they're mostly able to convert the interpersonal disagreements to sexual tension - and then resolve it - so nobody's complaining. Then Dan's long-lost sister shows up seven months pregnant and on the run from the law, and the situation goes from complicated to overwhelming.

Phillip Keyes is recovering from the time he spent as a nearly wild werewolf after the death of his wife. Practically estranged from his pack and his son, he wants to be left alone. Trevor Knight recognizes his mate the second he sees him, and the two quickly become friends before realizing it's something more, but Phillip's denial of their mating only hurts them both. Trevor can be patient, and he won't push for much, knowing that Phillip is still grieving and doesn't want anyone to think any less of his deceased wife, so they both agree to keep their mating a secret, for now.

Forced to do what he had to do to survive a brutal past, Con is jaded and angry at life. When his twin is nearly killed in a car accident, he takes the first job he can find to pay for her special care needs. He tries to put the past behind him, only to find that it comes back with a vengeance to slap him in the face. Desperate and alone, he is literally brought to his knees to do what he must for her. Con finds the online sex business pretty stimulating, as a hot Dom steps up to teach him a thing or two.

Trask Jacobs has a past life that he's desperate to forget. He's been running from it for years and crossed the country to get away from it. Putting the past behind, he's gone on to make a new life, obtaining a position as an executive chef at Invitation Only, the hottest new BDSM club in Austin, Texas. All he wants to do is hide in the back of a kitchen and be left alone to find peace. Valentine Kaporov is a gorgeous professional dom at the club and the minute he's hired, the Russian transplant becomes one of Invitation Only's biggest draws.

Grit is a kid whose run the gauntlet. Suffering tragedy at a tender age and coping with it the only way he knew how, the boy has lived a lifetime in his 18 years. Forced out of the only home he's ever known and onto the mean streets of Los Angeles, Grit must find the means to survive but does he have the will anymore? When two unlikely heroes step into his life, Grit reluctantly accepts the safety they appear to offer.

Kaden Markwell, spoiled rich kid, has always chosen the hard way to learn life's lessons, though he doesn't see it that way. Now that he's been caught in an act that, should it get out, will embarrass his millionaire father and ruin his mother's career, he's taken things a step too far. Kaden has no choice but to finally do what his daddy says as he's sent off to an old family friend to get his act together.

It will take more than angels and demons to stop him. Reporter Spencer Finch is embroiled in the hunt for a missing book, encountering along the way cat burglars and mobsters, hackers and mysterious monks. At the same time, he's trying to make sense of the legacy left to him by his late grandfather, a chest of what appear to be pulp magazines from the golden age of fantasy fiction.

When Tristan Scott ran away from his pack to avoid the roving eye of a cruel alpha, he never expected to save the life of Isaac Foster as he was drowning in the river, nor did he think the gorgeous man with purple eyes would be his mate, or a hunter of werewolves. Isaac has hunted werewolves ever since watching his family being murdered as a kid. He hasn't had time for relationships, but there's something about Tristan he can't get enough of.

Worth, a beaten, burned, and broken submissive, is brought into a BDSM club by the man who's supposed to protect him but when the beast sets up a scene between the boy he calls "It" and two other Doms, he tells the men to punish him as hard as they possibly can and hold nothing back. After all, the world "It" comes from, doesn't have safe words.

Heath is the popular new Dom at Invitation Only, Austin's answer to BDSM club goers. The rancher turned Dom has an unsurpassed way with rope. As Red Tacoma, the club's promoter, thinks up new and exciting events for the club's members, a sexy young drag queen approaches him and makes a suggestion to help the club break new ground.

How will Dallas deal with his newly submissive tendencies? Will Cuss finally settle down with one man who will make him believe there really is something called love? And will Stix be able to settle for a vanilla relationship and commit to the new man in his life with no regrets? Things are about to heat up at Invitation Only and burn brighter than ever. One Dom, one sub, and a switch will fan the flames and find love everlasting.

Stix is a young man who's just trying to make his way. Nearly five years ago, he'd lost his first job when he was caught in the barn with the farmer's son. He counted himself fortunate to have found work at the Lazy E Dude Ranch and Winery in rural Westburg, Texas. What's more, Stix has always known he was different. Horses and leather are all he's ever known and loved but he craves something more.