Starting over in Denver with a whole new circle of friends and family, Asa Cross struggles with being the man he knows everyone wants him to be and the man he knows he really is. A leopard doesn’t it change its spots and Asa has always been a predator. He doesn’t want to hurt those who love and rely on him, especially one luscious arresting cop who suddenly seems to be interested in him for far more than his penchant for breaking the law. But letting go of old habits is hard, and it’s easy to hit bottom when it’s the place you know best. Royal Hastings is quickly learning what the bottom looks like after a tragic situation at work threatens not only her career but her partner’s life. As a woman who has only ever had a few real friends she’s trying to muddle through her confusion and devastation all alone. Except she can’t stop thinking about the sexy southern bartender she locked up. Crushing on Asa is the last thing she needs but his allure is too strong to resist. His long criminal record can only hurt her already shaky career and chasing after a guy who has no respect for the law or himself can only end in heartbreak. A longtime criminal and a cop together just seems so wrong . . . but for Asa and Royal, being wrong together is the only right choice to make.

Josiah Reynolds' daughter, Asa, spent her adult years striving to make the world a better place. However her chosen life has exacted its toll. Asa is broken in body and spirit. Suffering an injury, Asa Reynolds flees to Key Largo to heal and reassess her life. Asa is depressed and feels she has made foolish mistakes in the past that have cost her much happiness. Still, Asa can't stop being Asa. She sees a little girl in need of help and decides to intercede the way only she can. And best part of all, Asa might have made a friend with Eva Hanover, owner of the Last Chance Motel. Eva tells Asa that the motel is magical and miracles happen. While Asa doesn't believe Eva's stories, she would welcome any help—even if it comes from mermaids and manatees.

Asa tries to give her classmate a biscuit. Nami evades her classmates' playground game of acorn-throwing. Happy decides she's not interested in doing anything other than lying down on her sofa. Each of these three stories begins in a reasonable place-but by the end you'll find yourself in another world altogether.

This is book 3 and the finale of the Banks Family Mafia romance series! The only thing worse than running away is being caught and dragged back by a monster.I've spent five years escaping my past.My mobster father wants his precious daughter back in the family fold, but I'm not coming back without a fight.Asa is supposed to bring me back unharmed, but he can't keep his hands off me.And as much as I'm falling hard for the hitman's savage touch, I can't let him drag me back to my father's dirty world.Then I find out that Asa has some hidden plans of his own.Plans not so different from my own.If we can work together, I might actually have a shot at finding the freedom I've always craved.It's a match made in heaven…Until we get to my father's headquarters and find out things are worse than I ever could have...

This is book 2 of the Banks Family Mafia romance series! Book 3 is available everywhere now!The only thing worse than running away is being caught and dragged back by a monster.I've spent five years escaping my past.My mobster father wants his precious daughter back in the family fold, but I'm not coming back without a fight.Asa is supposed to bring me back unharmed, but he can't keep his hands off me.And as much as I'm falling hard for the hitman's savage touch, I can't let him drag me back to my father's dirty world.Then I find out that Asa has some hidden plans of his own.Plans not so different from my own.If we can work together, I might actually have a shot at finding the freedom I've always craved.It's a match made in heaven…Until we get to my father's headquarters and find out things are worse than I ever could have...

This is book 1 of the Banks Family Mafia romance series! Books 2 and 3 are available everywhere now!The only thing worse than running away is being caught and dragged back by a monster.I've spent five years escaping my past.My mobster father wants his precious daughter back in the family fold, but I'm not coming back without a fight.Asa is supposed to bring me back unharmed, but he can't keep his hands off me.And as much as I'm falling hard for the hitman's savage touch, I can't let him drag me back to my father's dirty world.Then I find out that Asa has some hidden plans of his own.Plans not so different from my own.If we can work together, I might actually have a shot at finding the freedom I've always craved.It's a match made in heaven…Until we get to my father's headquarters and find out things are worse than I ever could...

He’s a wounded special forces soldier back home for good and focused on family. She’s a professional matchmaker concentrating on everyone’s happily-ever-after but her own. Will a last-minute and unwanted date lead to true love for this reluctant pair?Asa was injured during his last deployment overseas and returned home shaken and damaged. He throws all of his energies into helping his sister and her kids through her painful divorce; never taking any time for himself or making any real connections with anyone outside of his family.Hillary is a self-made woman. She owns her own matchmaking service where she pairs lovers together and boasts of a high marriage success rate. Too bad she can’t find a love of her own, because how could she possibly find the time for that, right?


Dinah Sachs and Asa Thayer have had a love affair, conducted in afternoons stolen from the office of the magazine where they work. But now that the affair is over, Dinah, in an act of lingering passion, invents a narrative of Asa's youth, imagining the events that shaped the "happy, handsome man" who, in her words, "was born to stomp on my heart." Witty and sexy, funny and immediate, Asa, As I Knew Him is a a seductive dialogue between love and memory, obsession and illusion. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Larry Feldman desperately needed a kidney. After two god-awful years on dialysis, watching his life ebb away while waiting on a transplant list behind 74,000 other Americans, the gun-toting couch potato decided to risk everything and travel to China, the controversial kingdom of organ transplants. He was confident he could shake out a single, pre-loved kidney from the country's 1.3 billion people. But Larry urgently needed his cousin Daniel's help… even though they had been on the outs with each other for years. But wait: Larry was never one to not get his money's worth. Since he was already shelling out for a trip to China, he decided to make it a twofer: he arranged to pick up an (e-)mail-order bride while he was at it. After a tireless search of the Internet, he already knew the woman he wanted. An unforgettable adventure, Larry's Kidney is the funniest yet most heartwarming book of the year.

Immortal Vikings are among us Leif Skarsganger and his elite band of immortal warriors have been charged to protect humanity from the evil Norse god Loki. Under attack from Loki's minions, Leif is shocked to encounter a dark-haired beauty who fights like a warrior herself. Wounded and feverish, the Viking kisses her, inadvertently triggering an ancient Norse bond. But when Naya Brisbane breaks away and disappears before the bond is completed, Leif's warrior spirit goes berserk. If Leif doesn't find her fast, he's going to lose himself to permanent battle fury. But Naya doesn't want to be found...and he'll do anything to find her. Because they're both running out of time.

The sixth book in the scorching hot NEW YORK TIMES bestselling MARKED MEN New Adult series Royal Hastings has been a cop, first and foremost, for most of her adult life. So when a call-out goes wrong and her partner ends up in hospital, she finds herself suspended from the job, indefinitely. With too much time on her hands and a heavy load of guilt weighing her down, she seeks solace in oblivion – otherwise known as a golden-eyed bartender with a rap sheet as long as her arm. Asa Cross has spent his live on the wrong side of the law, but a near death experience has left him rebuilding his life and relationships. But being good is tougher than it seems – especially when being bad looks as good as Royal does. On paper, the cop and the con seemed doomed to heartbreak – but when love has stolen your heart, how can you walk away?

The world knows her as a porn star. . . but it's her way with words that will touch you again and again. Asa Akira's perceptive, funny, and straightforward writings on love, sex, death, marriage and celebrity come together in a surprising book of essays. Personally revealing as well as universal, Dirty Thirty marks the coming of age of a new literary star.

A masterly locked-room mystery set in a near-future Orwellian state—for fans of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Dave Eggers' The Circle, and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games Do you live to play? Or play to live?The year is 2037. The Soviet Union never fell, and much of Europe has been consolidated under the totalitarian Union of Friendship. On the tiny island of Isola, seven people have been selected to compete in a forty-eight-hour test for a top-secret intelligence position. One of them is Anna Francis, a workaholic bureaucrat with a nine-year-old daughter she rarely sees and a secret that haunts her. Her assignment: to stage her own death and then to observe, from her hiding place inside the walls of the house, how the six other candidates react to the news that a murderer is among them. Who will take control? Who will crack under pressure? But then a storm rolls in, the power goes out, and the real...

SUMMARY: Larry Feldman desperately needed a kidney. After two god-awful years on dialysis, watching his life ebb away while waiting on a transplant list behind 74,000 other Americans, the gun-toting couch potato decided to risk everything and travel to China, the controversial kingdom of organ transplants. He was confident he could shake out a single, pre-loved kidney from the country's 1.3 billion people. But Larry urgently needed his cousin Daniel's help . . . even though they had been on the outs with each other for years. But wait: Larry was never one to "not" get his money's worth. Since he was already shelling out for a trip to China, he decided to make it a twofer: he arranged to pick up an (e-)mail-order bride while he was at it. After a tireless search of the Internet, he already knew the woman he wanted. An unforgettable adventure, "Larry's Kidney" is the funniest yet most heartwarming book of the year.

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On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies mutilated and defiled – and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall…So begins Ã…sa Larsson's spellbinding thriller, winner of Sweden's Best First Crime Novel Award and an international literary sensation. Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she'd left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the revivalist church his charisma helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor and a dogged policewoman. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark, wrenching, and impossible to guess…

"What do porn stars find erotic?" is a question that has baffled the minds of adult film fans for decades. Thanks to adult film star and best-selling author of Insatiable and Dirty Thirty, Asa Akira, we finally get our answer—everything! No one knows the world of sex and eroticism better than those in "the industry." They've seen and done it all, from the weirdest fetishes to the most extreme positions, and now in this hot, new erotic collection they are going to test our own sexual repertoire. Asarotica features twenty-two erotic short stories by some of your favorite porn stars: Joanna Angel, Kayden Kross, Nina Hartley, and Asa Akira herself, among others. Original, authentic, eye opening, and arousing, Asarotica guarantees to "get you there," and to inspire a whole new generation to seek out unexpected pleasures...in books or in the bedroom.

An ingenious new series... Fast paced perfection."-Romance Reviews, 5 stars, TOP PICKShe can't let him discover...Immortal Vikings are among usAstrid Irisdotter is a Valkyrie-a fierce warrior fighting to protect humanity from the evil god Loki and his brutal minions. She's on an urgent mission for her queen when everything goes hideously sideways. Undercover agent Luke Holden arrives on the scene just in time to save her life-and put his own on the line.Luke may have saved her, but that doesn't mean Astrid can trust him. Tempers flare as they hide secret upon secret from each other, but Astrid's inner warrior knows what it wants...and it will not take "no" for an answer. Viking Warriors Series Viking Warrior RisingViking Warrior RebelPraise for Viking Warrior Rising: "Breathes fresh air into paranormal romance...Vikings are the new Vampires!"-Night Owl Reviews,...

Tales of the Valkyries: An Anthology

Product DescriptionIn the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Thorne. Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna. Her sleep has been disturbed by haunting visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? Joining forces once again with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Martinsson is drawn into an investigation that focuses on old rumours about the disappearance of a plane carrying supplies for the Wehrmacht in 1943. Shame and secrecy shroud the locals' memories of the war, with Sweden's early collaboration with the Germans still a raw wound. And on the windswept shore of a frozen lake lurks a killer who will kill again to keep the past buried for ever beneath half a century's silent ice and snow.