"Enjoying pain with your pleasure is something you either get, or you don't. If you get it, then you don't really need it explained, because you know how good it feels, and if you don't get it then no amount of talking is going to convince you it makes sense." But sometimes you have to explain the unexplainable, especially if the love of your life needs to understand, or she'll leave you. Jason Schuyler is one of Anita Blake's best friends and favorite...

It was the middle of November. I was supposed to be out jogging, but instead I was sitting at my breakfast table talking about men, sex, werewolves, vampires, and that thing that most unmarried but sexually active women fear most... Anita Blake needs to be concentrating on a dangerous situation: the ardeur-the sexual power that flows between Anita and Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City; and is reaching new levels. The unexpected effect of this...

"I'm young, good looking, and one day I'll be Alpha Male of my family's Pack. But Professor Irene Conridge acts like I don't even exist. Now she's got enemies coming out of the woodwork and I have to protect her. Of course, it doesn't hurt that while I work to secure her safety, she'll be hanging out at my house - right where I want her"--P. [4] of cover.

I live in a magical world. A world filled with vampires, shifters, and mages.Mysteriously, I was born without powers.After living the past two years in a personal hell, enduring abuse from a fiance I didn’t choose, I finally snapped. An act of self-defense against my fiance angers my father, and in retaliation for my actions, he creates the ultimate contest. One that only the most powerful magicals can compete in to win my hand in marriage.It sounds...

Set in a small Scotland town, neither Damian MacGowan nor Suzanne Wood can explain the mysterious and powerful attraction between them, while Damian knows his secret may keep them apart forever.

My name is Arizona Smoke, and I'm the proud owner of a house haunted by my dead Gram, best friend to a cocktail dress loving werewolf, and apparent soul mate to four plumbers who also happen to be elemental dragons. Besides rippling pectorals, tattoos, and … uh, nice, long pipes, the guys also have control of the elements. Supernatural law (whoever heard of such a thing anyway?) dictates that since I stumbled upon the guys in their alternate forms,...

A werewolf pack is only as strong as its weakest link and ours … ours is a traitor. The only people I can trust now are my mates, the seven alpha males I call my own. Allies and enemies wear the same skins: witches, demons, faeries, vampires … werewolves. It's impossible to tell what's hiding beneath the carefully crafted facades, the sinful slashes of smiling lips. Magic died in our people long ago; today, it blinks sleepy eyes and wakes up....

"Kidnapped then released deep in the woods, Brandi is on a harrowing run for her life, hunted by beasts straight out of a horror movie. But there's an even bigger, more vicious creature in the woods--the deadly werewolf who saves her life. Jason is much more than a man, dangerous and intimidating, and Brandi still finds herself wanting every unbelievably sexy inch of him. When he investigates the desperate screams near his secluded cabin, Jason's...

In the debut of Sarah McCarty's gripping Shadow Wranglers series, rogue vampire Caleb never wanted to bring Allie, the woman he secretly desired, into his dangerous world, but when she's targeted by his enemies, he may have no choice.

Half-shifter Shaya may hold a submissive role in her wolf pack, but she refuses to let an Alpha male interfere in her life. When Nick refuses to claim her as his mate, she runs off to hide among the humans. Nick can barely control his urges for Shaya, but knows his degenerative brain condition will ultimately destroy him. Yet when she runs away he pursues her-- and discovers Shaya's feisty and passionate side in the processHalf-shifter Shaya may hold...