Rumplestiltskin is not his name and this hunk's no gnarled old goblin.Fairytale Fantasies, Book 2In his quest to land her a rich husband, Gwyneth's father has gone one step too far and bragged to the king's steward. Now she faces an impossible task: spin a room full of straw into gold by morning, or their lives are forfeit. She despairs, until a black-garbed figure offers to solve her problem for a price. One kiss.He returns the second night, and the third. With each sensual encounter, the stakes escalate along with her attraction to her mysterious visitor. Then he claims the ultimate price—her child—and she realizes too late she's made a deal with the king of the Underworld.From the moment he kisses her, Ragnorak knows Gwyneth's child will be a worthy heir for his kingdom. But with each touch, he wants more. He wants her to be queen of his strangely beautiful world—and for her to want to stay. But that will mean giving her the...

New York lawyer, Connor Baines, and a primitive Native American healing woman named Aiyana meet every night in their dreams. At first only vague erotic couplings, their encounters grow increasingly intense and real. They communicate nightly and share a bond that transcends time. But is it strong enough to bring them together in the physical world? And which one will be forced to give up all that is familiar to join a dream lover in a foreign world?

An uptight concert cellist. A freewheeling rock guitarist. Does love stand a chance?Kelly, cellist with the symphony orchestra, has always been too busy working to enjoy life. When Ren, lead guitarist for an up-and-coming band moves into her building, he rocks her world. She's never had sex so sizzling. Ren continues to assault her barriers even as she tries to push him away. Then he goes on tour, which she thinks proves she was right not to get involved. Only problem is his band's hit song haunts her everywhere she turns and she can't drive the man out of her head.A tragic accident makes her rethink her fear of commitment, but is it too late to offer him the love she withheld? Kelly takes a drastic step to prove to Ren she's willing to change. She can be just as hip as any rock groupie. Overcoming obstacles of her own making, uptight Kelly releases her inhibitions and lets love take control.This is a previously released title.Warnings: Explicit sex and language.

They once faced each other on a battlefield. Now soldier-turned-spy Jonathan Reese must keep watch over the man he's never forgotten. A close encounter reveals Karl von Binder, the count's son, also recalls the day he spared Jonathan's life. Sparks fly between the former enemies and Jonathan begins to lose perspective on his mission. He knows he must maintain distance because the heat he encounters in Karl's touch stirs him far too deeply for his own good. He can't keep away—especially when he suspects someone is trying to kill the nobleman.The spy becomes a protector as Jonathan guards the man he's begun to care for. Together the men try to puzzle out who would benefit from Karl's death—and how much they're willing to trust each other when a torrid sexual fling threatens to become an affair of the heart.

He left his seamy past...and found a steamy romance.When Louis Guzman signs on with a Hollywood nanny agency and scores a job offer on his very first interview, he's thrilled for the chance to start fresh—and hopeful that no one will delve too deeply into his checkered work and romantic past.Helping an amicably divorced Beverly Hills power couple raise their two adorable children is the perfect situation. Too perfect to let a vibe of attraction to the handsome producer tempt Louis to flirt his way to a pink slip.Since he came out, Dan Krefman has been too busy with his job to experiment with his newly embraced sexuality. But with undercurrents sizzling like live power cables between him and his kids' hunky Latino nanny, he's finding it hard to maintain his distance.Louis promises Dan—and himself—that just one encounter will get the lust out of both their systems. But it's only the beginning...and when Louis's past crawls out of the shadows,...

Danger, conspiracy, love, and redemption combine in a steam-driven fantasy.Lady-in-waiting to an impetuous princess, Lily Nightingale is banished from court after protecting her mistress's reputation. The cause of her eviction, magnetic performer and charming ladies' man, Kier Rohann, becomes her unlikely traveling companion.Footloose Rohann thought he'd put his miserable past behind him, until he spotted the man who destroyed his life. But any revenge plans are aborted when he's banned from the palace along with the frustrating Lady Lily. This sensible, steadfast woman possesses all the qualities he's avoided in his sexual dalliances, yet he is increasingly fascinated by her.After uncovering a conspiracy to take over the kingdom, Lily is determined to return to the capital and warn the king, while Rohann wants to run as far as possible from danger. Will a man who has avoided any attachments in life sacrifice himself for the greatest challenge of all—love?

Behind every beautiful shoe is a sexy shoemaker.A Fairytale Fantasies StoryWill Shoemaker works his fingers to the bone to make quality footwear worthy to grace the feet of the king's six daughters. But recently his one-of-a-kind creations have been coming back to him in tatters.Determined to find out what is destroying his shoes—and threatening his position as royal cobbler—Will follows the princesses and discovers they're dancing their nights away in a fairy world. The princess with the fastest feet is Iris, whom he has long loved from afar.With an arranged marriage looming in her future, Iris wrings as much pleasure as possible out of her last days of freedom. Yet even as she whirls in the arms of an elven prince, she dreams of the lowly cobbler and fantasizes that it's his work-roughened hands on her delicate skin.In a magical realm where anything is possible, Will and Iris shatter all barriers between them and find the ultimate...

Jaded lord, stalwart cop, instant attraction.Lord Avery Wickersham wakes from a night's debauchery at a bordello to police officers pounding on the bedroom door. During the vice raid, Constable Connor Tate is ready to arrest the lord and his two male sex partners when Avery's glib tongue earns a reprieve for his friends if not for himself.From this grim beginning, men as opposite as summer and winter slowly work their way to an unexpected spring. Avery is ripe for a change in his aimless life, while Connor struggles between duty and desire. Overwhelming passion takes them by storm, but can a rush of lust evolve into love when their lives are so different?While Avery attempts altruism by volunteering at a charity mission, Connor uncovers government corruption and an evil man who brings torture and death to his victims. The duo join forces to try to stop the killer, but when one of the lovers faces peril, their time may run out.

When love strikes a killer, can a man of violence truly find redemption?The right-hand man of a notorious mobster, J has no identity outside of his work—until the night he meets Nikki Larson. Sent to intimidate the strong-willed bar owner, he falls for her fast and hard.Returning home after her father's death, Nikki is once again forced to clean up his mess. To settle her family debt, a mob boss wants to use her bar in his criminal enterprise and sends an enforcer to back up the proposition. Nikki refuses to show fear to the henchman assigned to monitor her. In fact, she enjoys taunting J, even as she's strangely attracted to his gloominess.When a rival gang invades the bar, J rescues Nikki and they go on the run from both the mob and the law. J's growing love for Nikki demands he choose between the only life he's ever known and an uncertain future with a challenging woman who might not love him back. Two wildly different people struggle to find...

A young minister’s celibacy is challenged by an earthy, Appalachian woman.A Midsummer Night’s Steam storyOn a blistering summer afternoon, Reverend Nathan Andrews climbs a mountain to meet backwoods members of his congregation. Fresh from seminary, the young man isn’t prepared for the onslaught of lust that hits him when he encounters a sensuous girl picking blackberries.Determined to implement his outreach plan, he helps her harvest the fruit. But their potent sexual chemistry is too intense to deny and they engage in passionate sex surrounded by the beauty of nature.Grace is earthy and primal, the opposite of the proper young lady he expects to take as a wife some day. Can there possibly be a future for a college-educated minister and a primitive mountain girl? Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language.

Driven from his family when his sexuality is exposed, Jonah discovers drama, passion and intrigue in a traveling carnival—and in the enigmatic owner, Rafe Grimstone. The preacher's son and the lord who's rejected his former life in England feel the heat of attraction from the moment they meet.Open-hearted Jonah is willing to risk hellfire and damnation for brief moments of pleasure with Rafe, but the older man is frozen in a past he can't escape no matter how far he runs. As Rafe struggles to choose between responsibilities of his present and his past, mysterious accidents assail the close-knit carnival community.Will the perpetrator be revealed before the traveling show is ruined? And will Rafe finally reveal his true self to Jonah or continue to mask his identity like the changing images in a house of mirrors?Previously published as House of Mirrors.

Congo Free State, 1888On a mission deep in the jungle, Oxford anthropologist James Litchfield comes face-to-face with a local legend: a wild man who wanders with mountain gorillas and lives as one of their own.The chance encounter with the savage, whom James calls Michael, leads to a game of observation and exploration. Their mutual curiosity turns to an attraction—one that Michael has never experienced and James is desperate to deny.When members of the expedition unearth James's secret discovery—a living specimen of man at his most primitive—Michael becomes a pawn in their quest for fame.As their relationship deepens, James is compelled to protect Michael from the academics who would treat him as nothing more than a scientific acquisition and London society, which threatens to destroy their passionate bond...85,000 words

Confronting the darkness of his past, he finds the light of his future.After years gadding about Europe, Everett Gerard can no longer avoid his responsibilities. Word has come that a child bearing the unmistakable Gerard stamp has shown up at the family estate—and he realizes it's time to face his demons.As his carriage nears the gates of home, he fights the urge to flee the memory of the horrible crime he witnessed as a child. Yet the Abbey delivers surprises and delights he never expected.Miles Kenway was content with his quiet life as the Abbey's bailiff, until the wild child, clearly a bastard son of some Gerard, upends his peace with constant pranks and mischief. And when the master of the house arrives, an unsettling attraction heats Miles's blood.As they clash over the fate of the ancestral land, they battle a powerful desire to grapple in ways that could disrupt the delicate balance between master and servant. But when the boy's real sire...

Struggling actress Tara has grown used to the idea that her career might not progress beyond an occasional commercial—until her best friend’s brother, Luis encourages her to make a big move. Soon Tara is taking more than career risks as she plunges headlong into a steamy relationship with the guy she crushed on as a teenager. But war veteran Luis has issues of his own.

A struggling single mother.Rianna Cutter strips to survive. It’s the best paying gig for a young woman with little education and puts a roof over her child’s head and food on the table. Working toward a better life for her son, she has no time or energy for love. A tough criminal businessman.Jonah Wyatt is ready to make a big change, moving away from his successful pot growing business into a legitimate enterprise. He’s all business all the time and has no interest in finding love he doubts even exists. Could love be more unexpected?Their first interaction has all the romance of a business transaction, but from that rough beginning, Rianna and Jonah tentatively reach out to one another. As their barriers dissolve, the awakening of new love is threatened by family drama.