<p><strong><em>He was hired to protect her.</em><br><br>Samantha</strong><br>Someone doesn't like what I write. That's okay, erotic romance isn't for everyone, but I like it and it pays the bills. First, there were private messages on social media, followed by emails—both full of vitriol and venom. Coming home after a day out in London, I knew someone had been in my home. I got on the first flight out of London and landed in Chicago.<strong><br><br>Kingston</strong><br>A mercenary with a dark history. I thought I'd never see the light of day again until Robert Fitzwallace walked through the door and dragged me out. After two years of healing, Fitz recruited me to head up the operations for the new Cerberus Group in Chicago. Like our counterpart in London, headquarters are located over a lifestyle club—the Windy City's newest and best...Club Southside.<br><br>After pacing in...

<p><em><strong>I won't let my mate slip away again.</strong></em><br><br>I will have to use all my CIA skills to solve the murder of my father and clear my brother's name. My brother hired Kennedy Greyson, lawyer extraordinaire and my bonded spirit, to defend the family.<br><br>We have a past neither wants to admit to, much less try to fix. I move in a shadowy world that frightens and repulses her. But she knows the core of the man she's fallen in love with is honorable and worthy.<br><br>As a human, she is unaware of the existence of shifters. She must work her way through the mire of small town jurisprudence and her own feelings to solve not only the whodunit of Cyrus's murder but the secrets that lie at the heart of Looking Glass Falls deceptions.<br><br><em><strong>Author note:&nbsp; STRONG is a steamy, second chance, paranormal romance. It is a complete story in the Ghost Cat...

<p><strong><em>A predator prowls the Sea of Cortez, protecting a mystery that has been kept silent for almost a century—damning information that some are still willing to kill for.<br></em></strong><br>Mason Lockheart is a highly decorated Navy SEAL with a mission that he can never reveal to anyone... even the curvy redhead who's determined to bring everything up from the depths of the sea. Mason's family has been part of a clandestine patrol since the USS Kracken went down. He has taken on a solemn duty to protect its final resting place and its covert mission.<br><br>Twenty years ago, Shiloh Whitaker's mother was murdered to keep her from revealing what she knew. As a child, Shiloh watched as her mother's killers got away, running from her home into the black of the night. Now later, she's a celebrated marine biologist and treasure hunter, but her real calling is to find the Kracken and prove her mother's suicide was...

She ran from her mate. Now she must be punished.Darby Callan doesn't want a mate, but it isn't up to her. Her old pack has been disbanded, and when the powerful, handsome alpha of a well-established pack makes it clear that she belongs to him, her instincts reveal the truth of his words despite her furious protests and attempts to escape.Jean-Michel Gautier knows that his new mate's past makes her wary of him, but an alpha cannot tolerate disobedience, and when Darby defies him he strips her bare and spanks her until she is sore and sobbing. Her beautiful body's response to his dominance is obvious, and his stern correction leaves her helplessly aroused, but before he claims her he plans to make her beg.Naked and quivering with desperate, shameful need, Darby cannot help pleading with Jean-Michel for the climax she has been denied, and soon she is crying out with pleasure more intense than she would have ever thought possible as he makes her his. But when the vicious brute who once hurt her comes looking for Darby again, can she trust her new alpha to protect his mate?

<p>There is legend that when the Big Ben chimes thirteen times, the lions in Trafalgar Square will come alive to roam the City of London.<br><br>Corinne Adler, Night Concierge for the famed Savoy Hotel, knows just how wrong that legend is for each time Big Ben has struck thirteen, demons have tried to escape their prison in another realm. The responsibility of being Guardian of the Tower Clock has fallen to her, a duty which her family has served for almost two centuries.<br><br>Eddy Chastain is the last of the reoccurring characters in the erotic romance novels written by Sage Matthews. He is a hacker extraordinaire and prefers to remain deep with the pages of Sage's books. But there is something about the Night Concierge of the Savoy that haunts him... a memory of sorts from a man who's creator never gave him much of a backstory.<br><br>When the stars align to cause Big Ben to strike thirteen, Corinne knows she and the lions must...

She never wanted to be a wolf. That won't keep her mate from claiming her.Taken captive, held prisoner, and turned against her will by the leader of a rogue pack, Shannon Livingston was just about to be sold at auction. Then an alpha wolf decided she belonged to him.The moment James Norris sets eyes on Shannon, bare and on display yet still fierce and proud, the former special-ops agent knows the beautiful spitfire is his mate. Disobedience quickly earns Shannon a sound spanking, and despite her fury at his bold dominance, her helpless arousal is undeniable as she is claimed hard and thoroughly with her well-punished bottom still burning.But when another band of wolves attacks the auction before James has time to put his rescue plan into action, mistrust born of harsh experience leads Shannon to seize her chance to escape. When her mate tracks her down, will she remain defiant or surrender to her instincts at last?

When her father's will leaves control of the family ranch to Ryder Malone, the very same man who once broke her heart, Sierra Morgan is more than a little upset. The last time she saw Ryder she shot his hat right off his head, earning herself a long, hard spanking on her bare bottom that left her sore yet helplessly, infuriatingly aroused, and she had hoped to never see him again.Ryder has not gotten over Sierra, and this time he isn't going to let her run off without giving him a chance to tell her how he feels, even if that means lassoing her and tying her to a chair.If she wants to inherit the ranch she loves, Sierra will have to work alongside Ryder for a year and convince him she is ready to run it. Though she plans to spend that year making his life a living hell, when she pushes the stern, handsome cowboy too far she soon ends up over his knee again. But this time her body's response to his dominance cannot be ignored, and when Ryder takes her in his arms and claims her thoroughly Sierra is left in no doubt that she belongs to him.Sierra is not used to doing as she is told, however, and when she is reckless with her safety she quickly discovers that Ryder will not hesitate to punish her in ways that leave her cheeks blushing crimson and her bottom sore both inside and out. His stern, shameful correction merely increases her need for him, but once the ranch is finally hers, will she still want him by her side?

Before he claims his mate, she must be brought to heel.Skylar Owen is not used to taking orders from anyone and the last thing she wants in her life is an alpha who will demand her submission, but her world is turned upside down after a band of rogue wolves attacks her small, all-female pack. Ordered to disband her pack so that she can be matched with a mate, Skylar defies the Ruling Council, only to be hunted down and captured.Though he can tell Skylar will be trouble the moment he sets eyes on her, Dylan Grainger knows how to tame a wayward woman, and it isn't long before the beautiful, feisty redhead is tearfully promising obedience as her bare bottom is soundly spanked. But Dylan quickly realizes that Skylar is much more than just a headstrong female in need of an alpha's firm-handed correction.With each passing day, he grows more certain that she is his mate, and he knows that soon he must claim her, mark her, and take her hard and thoroughly. But will she resist her instincts, or will her body's response to his bold dominance leave her in no doubt that she belongs to him?

This doesn't matter. This doesn't matter. This doesn't matter. This doesn't matter. This doesn't matter.

She thought she could run from her mate. Then he lassoed her.Riley decided years ago that she would be better off on her own, but when the alpha of the local pack finds out there's a lone wolf causing trouble on his turf he takes matters into his own hands.As far as Cameron Nichols is concerned, Riley will be joining his pack whether she likes it or not. Her only choice will be whether to submit to his authority with or without needing to be stripped bare and spanked over his knee until she is kicking and crying and promising obedience. When she chooses the latter, the Navy SEAL turned cowboy is more than happy to oblige.But Cameron knows instantly that Riley isn't just a feisty female in need of an alpha's firm hand. She is his mate, and she knows it too, despite her best efforts to deny it. No matter how many times she tries to run, he will always chase her down, punish her thoroughly, and then mount and claim her so roughly that all she can do is scream her helpless, shamefully intense pleasure into the pillow as her body betrays her and surrenders ever more completely to his demands.

She was not asked. She was claimed.Sloan has lived among shifters long enough to know what happens when an alpha takes a mate, but she never imagined that her turn would come to be marked and mastered. Until today...Today Gareth of Ravenscar decided she was his, and she wasn't given a choice in the matter.Now, with her cheeks blushing, her bottom burning, and the evidence of his rough conquest still dripping down her bare thighs, she is beginning to understand what it truly means to be claimed.

He's big, he's mean, and he's going to be rough with me.I hadn't seen Hoss Bishop since the day I stood him up, and I don't know what I expected to happen when I walked through his door, but I know what did happen. He blistered my bare backside with his belt and then rode me so hard I could barely stand when he was done with me.Hoss is a brute, but my life is in danger and he's the one man I trust to protect me, so I'll have to take everything he gives me. He'll use me hard and often, but maybe that's just what I need...