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The problem is that the characters are real or they easily could be. No vampires or time-travel or other devices to temper that reality. The story opens with Witches, vampires, demons, shifters and more can be found in the anthology, Midnight Seduction. This book contains 13 sensual and erotic short stories of the paranormal kind.

I found these stories to be well matched and very interesting. The world building in this book is complex and detailed. Slavery is once again an accepted part of society. Old evils are also loose on Earth. It's been a while since I've read a story that stayed with me. In the first story, we are introduced to Helio Dayspring and Griffin Hawkes. When their planet was invaded, Helio was captured an Very hot but very predictable 'kidnap the daughter for revenge' story.

That's not to say that I didn't enjoy it for what it was. Jason Kane's family was ruined by Catherine Farrell's con man father. He spent his life planning his revenge. This story is a follow-up to Convincing Arthur. I recommend reading that one first to fully understand the dynamics of the relationship. Leopold "Thorn" Thornton and Arthur Barrington have been together for three months. At first it was won Cassie left Brody in a fit of temper.

It's taken her more than two years to come home. She knows it will take a lot of work if Brody is to ever trust her again. When Brody demands her complete obedience, Cassie believes she's up to the task Leopold has spent the last ten years engaging all sorts of debauchery just to keep his mind off the one man he cannot have. He has loved Arthur for more than a decade but Arthur has been 'involved'. Now Arthur is coming to visit and Leopold Ysbail was given in marriage to Bedwyr ap Owain, son of the king of Gwynedd as part of a peace settlement.

Bedwyr is called 'Grave Knower' because of his ferociousness in battle. Swept into an unexpected and passionate reunion with her trusted childhood friend Grieve, the Fae prince who taught her how to harness the wind, Cicely finds herself with a fierce and territorial lover. Caught between two evils, both vying for supremacy, Cicely must fight for her family and her future. As she discovers the hidden secrets to her own heritage, will she lose her soul in the process? You can find out more about these and all my other books on my website: Or for your kooky Aunt Phyllis who keeps sending you the family tree info.

You can watch a 2-min book trailer video that explains everything at http: My short story collection, I Remember the Future , published by Apex Publications, is still in print. The book includes all ten of my Hugo nominees and all four of my Nebula nominees. You can find a list of places where the book can be bought at http: Did that catch your attention?

I have a story in the anthology Women of the Bite: Lesbian Vampire Erotica edited by Cecilia Tan. And for the zombie lovers on your holiday lists I have three poems in Vicious Verses and Reanimated Rhymes edited by A. Nothing says holiday spirit like stories about Satan!

My anthology Sympathy for the Devil collects over 30 stories about the Great Tempter, written by authors far more talented than myself: Give the gift of evil this year. Stillwater is a troubleshooter for Homeland Security. In THE FALLEN he is undercover at the G8 Summit in Colorado Springs when a group of terrorists takes over the resort, puts all the world leaders on stage in suicide vests, and threatens to kill one world leader every hour until their demands are met. The newest and final book in my WebMage series is SpellCrash. Cyberpunk meets contemporary fantasy with a liberal sprinkling of humor over the top all in a big bowl of Greek mythology salad.

Or, start with book one, WebMage. Great gift for mystery readers—soft-boiled and cozy and for junk-lovers, thrifters and scavengers everywhere. Visit my website http: Thanks for the opportunity to find readers — Happy reading holidays to all! The book comes in economic paperback and and also in a beautiful library binding hardcover. Oh — and a haunted carousel.

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Carousel Tides was just published by Baen at the beginning of November. A hidden war fought for for hundreds of years in the back alleys of London! It was a morning like any other, frigid and gray, when Emily Snow took to the streets of Victorian London to earn the pennies that would keep her and her little brother alive for another day. And once seen, she can not turn away; once engaged, she must join in the latest battle in a war that has been waged for centuries. Doing nothing is not an option, for the Invisible Order-a secret army dedicated to preserving our world against the Faerie-knows about Emily, and its members will do anything to control her.

Buy Invisible Order at Amazon. Thanks for the opportunity, John! My husband, author Ari Berk, and I have a new illustrated book about William Shakespeare for middle-grade readers and up. His Life and Times invites you to wander the streets of Elizabethan London with the Bard as your guide. Shakespeare himself offers personal stories and comments on his family, friends and rivals.

Interactive, playful, and beautifully illustrated, this book is an ideal gift for young readers and adult lovers of Shakespeare and English history. Sex, drugs, and a modicum of violence! All this and more can be found in my horror-thriller novella Hiram Grange and the Digital Eucharist. It is available at Amazon and other fine book emporia.

My apologies for sucking at html: His Life and Times can be purchased on Amazon at: The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart is a satirical dark fantasy that follows twin brother graverobbers Hegel and Manfried as they travel across medieval Europe in search of the fabled tomb-cities of Egypt. Combining adventure, fantasy, horror, humor and humours , and folklore with meticulously researched history, the book seems to be a love-it-or-hate it kind of text: More reviews, both good and bad, , and in a number of formats including both e and audio versions , as well as at your local bookseller of choice.

Chaz Domingue works as a professional Babysitter in New Orleans. His job is to integrate and protect the recently deceased into their new and improved lives—a position he reluctantly accepted after his father was murdered. Nine lives are all a person can get—and a powerful group of desperate, high-level Nine-Timers will stop at nothing to possess the keys to true immortality.

Unfortunately, this places Chaz at the lethal center of a maelstrom. Available from Amazon here: The product description is good as any:. Moreover, the collection strikes one as having been written by someone whose literary sensibility is already fully formed. The first book centers on Malian, the Heir to the warrior House of Night, who must discover both the full bitterness of the Derai legacy and begin to resolve it, and Kalan, a young man thrust into a hateful life who is striving to break free.

Follow the link to read the first 70 pages: There is a Nordic doom pervading the tale strongly reminsicent of Tolkien; an unrelentingly dark haunting atmosphere … The Heir of Night managed to keep me completely hooked from beginning to end. First is the host of intriguing characters that weave in and out of the story … There is the sense of a grand scale at work here; not of one family, one race, or one country at risk, but of immeasurable worlds that hang in the balance.

Squid is about a kid forced to spend summer vacation helping his uncle run a weird seaside museum full of shrunken heads and FeeJee mermaids and the like. Together with his friends — a girl training herself to be a superhero-detective, and a fierce Atlantean princess — they must battle the severed head of an ancient witch to prevent the destruction of California. Purchase at Mysterious Galaxy or wherever books are sold.

Norse Code is a contemporary fantasy about a conspiracy of Norse gods accelerate the end of the world. Pitted against the conspirators is Hermod, a wayward god of little account, and Mist, a renegade valkyrie. The climactic battle scene takes place in a CostCo parking lot. The compelling prose and epic blend of mythological and modern elements make it clear that van Eekhout is an author to watch.

Published by Doubleday Canada. A great series for teens and up. You can read more about it on my website at http: Twitter is kcdyer And you can find it here on Amazon: When he puts it on, he summons an Ogre from outer space. Join Jared, his off-beat friend Doug, an Ogre, an Angel, and three short Trekkie Elves as they try to solve a murder and figure out why the Dragons are returning to Earth.

You can visit http: Ladies and gentlemen, please allow me to pimp the Onyx Court series of London-based historical fantasy novels. Each book is set in a different century, and concerns the interactions between mortal London and the faerie court hidden beneath their feet. Because of the time gap, each book stands more or less on its own, though there are minor spoilers for previous books, and certain effects that might be lost by reading them out of order.

Midnight Never Come late sixteenth century: In Ashes Lie , mid-seventeenth century: A Star Shall Fall , mid-eighteenth century: This is the most recent. Publishers Weekly on Midnight Never Come: There are a variety of ordering links on each of those pages, so you may select whatever store you like best including Book Depository, which has free shipping worldwide. And if this is your kind of thing, next year will see the publication of With Fate Conspire , set in the late Victorian period, with all kinds of industrial-technological hijinks.

Ghosts of Ascalon , which I co-wrote with Jeff Grubb. The fifth book in my series, The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, was just released in October. And the best way to summarize the concept of the series is this: And what if those places were REAL? And what if the Caretakers of this book — up to the present day — were some of the most-loved authors, and artists, and scientists, and scholars from history, who used their adventures in the lands depicted in the Geographica for stories here in OUR world?

AND the books are fully illustrated. More info is at the website in the link on my name above; and the books are available from all major brick and mortar AND online booksellers.

But by arrangement with my family-owned local bookseller Crossroads Books, I sign and sketch a dragon in every copy of all five books sold at Crossroads, and they can also be purchased and shipped in time for Christmas here:. Through no fault of their own, they become pawns in a game of jealous one-upmanship between Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of Faery.

The mischievous Puck with the help of a magical crow tries to keep the peace, but at what cost to the kids? But suddenly his life is changing. He steals a magical book of fairy tales. For sixth grade, he is assigned the meanest, toughest teacher in school. And he discovers that even in his world, there might be such a thing as a fairy godmother. This is his time for adventure. The first novel follows Evie, a woman who can track anything by scent, who tries to help out an old lover and, in the course of it, runs up against a very nasty Irish mob.

Spiral Hunt takes her deep into the magical undercurrent of Boston, through curses and imprisonments and betrayals and, of course, the Red Sox. And Soul Hunt — which, again, goes on sale at the end of the month! You can get a quick look at all three and an inside peek at the first two here. Lately, he finds those nightmares returning, along with the helpless certainty that something more terrible has followed him out of the past.

Had Grandpa worked in the circus? No, the wagon was older than that, someone said. A blind old witch? No, tons of mosquitoes swarmed you at once if you got too close, and lightning bugs avoided that part of the yard. Three-lobed Burning Eye — Annual vol. V is now taking orders for our limited edition single printing. The print anthology of the online speculative fiction magazine collects issues , and features stories of horror and wonder by: Blood Lines is an urban fantasy series set in the Texas Hill Country—a great place for things that go bump in the night…and day.

A great anthology from SmartPop Books in which I have an essay. A woman gets rid of a bad husband and leads an interesting life thereafter including an Object of Power, a sorta-quest, a supernatural adversary, romance, adventure, tragedy and humour. Booklist and Publishers Weekly both gave it a star, and you can check out links to various reviews, posts, a trailer, an excerpt AND the Big Idea feature all collected and available at http: Try the excerpt via Amazon or Google Books.

Look it up on Goodreads for more reader-reviews. Available at all online bookstores and direct from the publishers Small Beer Press. Hi, Bob Crelin here. Take a peek inside these books at my website Thanks for the opportunity, John!

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Heavy on motorcycles and death-defying escapes, light on romance, and sprinkled with literary mystery to lead readers to classic works. Check it out at http: Yeah, I went there. Crafty of Scalzi to make us do this all by ourselves! Any online bookstore should have it. Not for the faint of heart read the reviews on Amazon before you gift it to someone , but if you have a friend who might like a gory, frightening, homoerotic thriller, give them this one.

Some have called this a love story. God and the angels he created are not like us. We might be made in his image, but we are fundamentally different. Crow shows us this in many uncomfortable ways: I felt bludgeoned by the time I finished. For your holiday gift consideration: Check out my website for availability at online retailers: The End of Baseball is the most rollicking, free-spirited baseball story in years, the unvarnished truth of that incredible season and the men who lived it.

A tall, broad-shouldered jack-of-all-trades from Sawyer, Pennsylvania, Tom has a knack for fixing things. He also hides a secret talent: Stranger still, he answers them. Which is all well and good—until the soul-shattering plea of a terrified girl sends him on the darkest journey of his life…. Heeding the call and leaving his home for New York City, Tom discovers a secret world beyond the range of mortal perception—a world of angels and demons and those who serve them.

With the guidance of a knowing stranger named Erin, Tom learns that he himself is one of The Called, born with a divine purpose and a daunting task: Thrust into an epic battle of the sacred and the profane, Tom Nash must find the girl who prayed for his help—because her fate will determine whether humanity deserves to be saved, or damned for all eternity….

A reader will care about them in an edge-of-their-seat way. Fast-paced and thrilling, this is definitely one of my favorite original novels of the year. This is a must-read for urban fantasy fans. Read the first two chapters for free on my website. Available through Amazon in print and Kindle e-book, as well as some bookstores. Libby Carter wanted to get away from it all, so she took a job mining asteroids as far out into the inky blackness as possible.

However, her escape turned into a trap, leaving her stuck in indentured servitude, living on a tiny rock in space. As she tries to dig herself out, she gains friends and finds adventure. Cave-in rescues, planetary collisions, and other mishaps keep her new family fighting to stay alive. Henram , author of Red Dragon Codex. Outside, a squirrel was wedged into a hole in the tree. Jane stopped copying her spelling words, checked to be sure Mrs.

At first, Jane was sure she must be mistaken, but as she watched, the squirrel opened the tiny suitcase and began arranging nuts and acorns inside. Thank you, John Scalzi! Ah, crud, I munged my code. If there is any way for that to be edited, please do; I clearly forgot to close my link tag.

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This is what I get for posting right after waking. Thanks for the lovely PR op, John — and I do so covet that new office of yours. The first 50 pages of each are posted at my website: If you do like them, the books are available from the usual suspects, including Amazon. If you have a kid between the ages of on your list, and they really need a book that combines Greek mythology, wrestling, and elementary school investigative reporting, may I recommend. I have three novels available in the US. They have been spotted in bookshops fans sent me pictures! My books are far future soft SF, heavy on the intrigue but with a fair bit of action when the plot threads converge.

And I do like a good convergence of plot-threads. Principles of Angels is available here: But we knew that already. Book 1 of The Vineart War. Fourteen centuries ago, all power was held by the prince-mages, who alone could craft spell-wines. Then a demigod called Sin-Washer broke the First Vine, shattering the magic. In ASW, princes still rule, but Vinearts now make spellwines, less powerful than in days of old. Only his master believes the magnitude of the danger.

And only Jerzy can gather the information needed to stop it…before there are no more Vinearts left at all. Betrayal, long-simmering hatreds, and the meaning of friendship. Not a single vampire, sparkly or otherwise — and a Nebula nomination for best novel! Offering one of the most original approaches to fantasy adventure; highly recommended for all fantasy fans. This intoxicating high fantasy will satisfy oenophiles and bibliophiles alike. Rigor Amortis Absolute XPress, October is an anthology of very short zombie erotica stories ranging from sweet to raunchy to gruesome.

How can you have a sweet zombie story? Song of Scarabaeus is my debut novel from Eos soon to be Harper Voyager. The book is available at online, major and independent bookstrores across the land. It was released earlier this year and has a starred review from Publishers Weekly. But not just any thief. You can read the first two chapters free here!

And thank you John for giving us a chance to post about our books without being pushy, insane promote-o-bots! Birders may find many of their questions answered—Where did the cardinal get its name? How can I tell one heron from another? How the heck did all those starlings get here, anyway? Cashwell is a storyteller. A very literate, observant, insightful storyteller.

No, it was better—I could laugh out loud in delight as I turned the pages without fear of scaring the birds. Declaring himself a victim of birding compulsive disorder, Cashwell, an English teacher in Virginia, does an excellent job of describing his fascination with observing and listening to birds. Not much that is even vaguely related to the avian world escapes his pen. As he travels along woods and marshes, college campuses, seashores and library shelves, he shares adventures and observations some few acerbic, some funny, some irreverent, all entertaining. AMITY follows the life of a reclusive, apathetic-yet-likable anti-hero as he works to become a member of a group of online troublemakers, then, realizing how horribly cocked they have made his life, tries to detach himself from them before he ends up in a shallow grave in the Las Vegas foothills.

Group Activities to Build Cooperation, Communication and Creativity is a virtual springboard for creativity. The book makes a great teacher gift for the holiday. Thanks so much for the opportunity! Look inside the book at http: Then they find out they have to wait weeks or even months! This book will give kids something to do with all that wiggly extra energy.

Making their own Epcot hideaway? LEARN how to make their own spending money for the trip saving you cash and teaching them responsibility at the same time! There are chapters devoted to each of the four parks and one that covers the other fun stuff at WDW—the water parks, parades, campground—you name it! In particular I write Spellcracking books, set in London, filled with magic, mayhem and murder — and liberally spiced with hot guys, kick-ass chicks and super-cool supes! I work for Spellcrackers. Not that vampires are the big bad any more, not since they launched a slick PR campaign — oh , and they brought the goblins on board.

Now the vamps are sought-after celebrities, and Getting Fanged and taking the Gift are the new height of all things cool. Happily Ever After tells the story of how I went from wishing my husband dead to falling back in love with the same person. You can order it from amazon: How to Parent with Your Ex is exactly what your friend who is divorcing needs to get her through the rough patches.

Written by an attorney, and filled with practical, hands on info. Both books are available from Amazon, BN, and Borders, but please consider ordering from your local indie. My adopted indies are BookPeople [http: As I explained in my Big Idea piece here https: You can learn more about the program at http: I suggest my own relatively new science fiction trilogy. Of these the first two have been published and the last will be available soon. This is a futuristic history of a clan, the Ghulfs, set in the 23rd and 24th centuries—a realistic space saga that tells the story of the discovery of the Eight Worlds, gamma space, and the acceleration effect.

But these are adventures and dramas in which character , rather than science, is the dominant feature. Another take is this is a grand Goddess tale. Some of you may still remember my earlier novels, not least Karma Affair , A Hostage for the Hinterland , The Purgatory Zone , my novella collection A Splendid Freedom , and my short stories and novellas published in Galaxy , If , Analog and elsewhere.

On a winter night outside a small town in northern Michigan, a woman is found hanging in a tree filled with shoes. The woman in the tree, Gracie McBride, has lived a mysterious and troubled life since leaving the town of Starvation Lake eighteen years before. Feel the chill in Michigan winter and in the rich complex characters that populate the little town of Starvation Lake. Think faeries are all goodness and light?

The Bad-Ass Faeries Anthology Series takes you back to the day of malevolent, mischievous, and warlike faeries…transported into the modern day.

Hardcore Negotiations Have Begun! Whether it is dirtside or up among the stars, the battle lines are drawn, which side are you on? Find out in the Defending the Future Anthology Series. Four anthologies with my short stories out this year and all are fine, fun reading of many new voices in the field of horror, superheroes, science fiction, and shared world fiction. Both are from Wizards of the Coast and available in bookstores or online. City can even be loaded onto that fancy new e-book reader that your favorite geek is getting for Christmas.

The final book of my Blood of the Southlands Trilogy came out earlier this year. All three books are published by Tor, and sample chapters for all three can be found at my website: This book grew out of the http: The How-To will be released by Bellarosa press later this month. Here is the url for the site: Teya is a captive of a king, until an ambassador from another country decides to rescue her. All she must do is take him to her homeland. It sounds too good to be true, and she realizes she might only be exchanging one prison for another.

Available at Amazon http: Sunset Tuttle, in ECHO, was armed with a starship and a loyal pilot, He spent his life trying to find a civilization out there somewhere. Naturally everybody laughed at him. Eventually he gave up, retired, and ultimately died in a boating accident. Thirty years later, evidence surfaces that Tuttle may have found something.

But if so, why did he keep it quiet? Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict starts asking questions, and finds he has started down a strange and dangerous road. Happy Holidays from Charmaine Gordon. Signed copies available through http: Samuel Harrigan is a murdering lowlife. Isiah needs Samuel to keep looking for the crystal skull, so he has to protect Sam and keep the Devil at bay. Available at Amazon and all the other places John mentioned above! It should have been a simple enough task, but the Sorcerer has more followers than Isiah ever imagined, and a plan bigger than anyone could have dreamed.

With the help of some powerful new friends Isiah desperately tries to track down the Sorcerer and his cult of blood before they manage to change the world forever. Also available at Amazon and everywhere else. The Dark Faith anthology, edited by Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, is an exploration of various flavors of faith including faithlessness through the lens of horror.

Feel free to also give a copy to your local junior high school library, because it would really help my sales if it got banned. My latest book is only available in Spanish for now: The Big Idea interview Scalzi did with me about the book back in the ficlet days seems to no longer be online, so basically it offers thirteen fairy tales retold with writers as protagonists and recounting the joys and struggles of the writing life.

There have been vampire books, werewolf books, mermaid books, dark faery books, steampunk books, and dystopian books, but latina paranormal pearlescent skeleton superheroines ala Dia de los Muertos? Consuela is a typical suburban Latina teen until she unwittingly slips into the world of the Flow. She can remove her skin and create new ones out of anything—air, water, feathers, and fire—and a mission to save ordinary people from dying before their time, Consuela joins other teens with extraordinary abilities, bound together to safeguard a world they can affect, but where they no longer belong.

Yet when murder threatens to undo the Flow, the Watcher charges Consuela and the elusive, attractive V to find and stop the mysterious killer when all Consuela really wants is to get back home alive. The first is the Path series: Each book is complete in itself and follows different characters as they each must join in the battle to save Crosspointe from invasion and destruction. These books have a slightly Dickensian, darkly urban feel.

They can be read in any order. The last series is The Horngate Witches series. The first is Bitter Night and is available now, and the second, Crimson Wind, comes out in a few weeks. These books are set in the modern world. Max, my main character, is stuck in the middle as she seeks to free herself from enslavement to a witch, while at the same time protecting the people she loves. This series is very apocalyptic. For chapter samples and more info, come to my website and prowl around!

Waking up undead is just the beginning. Blood-sucking and pointy stick phobias seem a small price to pay. Now she must unselfishly save her classmates from fashion disasters and other fates worst than death. No color palette to speak of. More chains than a bike rack. More info at http: Hi John Compliments of the season and how generous of you, thank you! Hello to all your visitors and regular readers. This comes to you from a sizzling Adelaide in South Australia where the temperature today will likely hit 36 degrees Celsius, or roaring toward the happy hundred in Farenheit.

The Valisars are vested with a unique magic that has remained dormant for scores of decades but is re-awakened when barbarians from the Steppes, led by the warlord Loethar, begin their invasion to dismantle all the royal families of the Set to forge an empire out of blood. But a courageous few set in motion the battle to return the Penraven throne to a Valisar. This is a complex trilogy of shifting alliances, terrible sacrifice, and I promise some surprises for readers with a tale that twists and turns to the last page.

The whole trilogy is now published and available worldwide. Happy reading, happy holidays and I hope everyone who is on the move travels safely. I have my pen and paper out jotting notes over theses great recomendations. Okay now for a little pimping of my own.

The tension between the Aeternus, an ancient vampiric people, and humanity has been mounting for over a century. But when rogue vampires begin to drain humans in order to achieve an illegal blood-high, all bets are off. After the death of her parents, Antoinette Petrescu devoted her life to becoming one of the top Venators, the elite hunters who destroy the rogue Necrodreniacs. Her kill count is legendary and her skills superb. But now the serial killer who killed her parents has returned.

And to stop him Antoinette must join forces not only with the Aeternus, but also their most legendary killer. One that is both dangerously attractive, and involved in buried secrets of her past. More dangerous still, a dark attraction grows between them—one that could doom both races. Together — and with dire consequences — they bring back to the light something meant to be forgotten. A world away in London, an absent father, haunted by the voice of a banished angel, presents his daughter with an impossible friend — a clockwork ballerina.

For two centuries a bullet-removal specialist has wielded instruments of angel bone in service to a forgotten power… and now he vows to find someone else to shoulder the burden, someone with a conscience of their own, a strong mind and a broken will. For a hundred years he has searched for the perfect contender, and now he has found two: Now he travels the dark road between worlds, no longer entirely boy nor wholly beast, but with one goal in mind: Only the creature he has become can save Hope. But is it too late to save himself? Synopsis A sizzling collection of short stories about creative ways three people can enjoy erotic adventures together.

I wish there were more. The entire selection was sexy and intriguing, and I truly was entertained by them all. Escaped is a powerful and intense story that has thrills and some very hot, steamy scenes. Jaycee Manz has been on the run since her sixteenth birthday. After growing up fast and depending on no one, how is she supposed to handle three male werewolves who claim to be her mates?

Can she learn to trust them or will she continue to run? Dane Glassgo, alpha of his clan and a special ops commander, specializes in tracking. Nothing or no one will stop him from claiming Jaycee, not even her fear…. But he is bound and determined to stop anyone from hurting her…. Mark Glassgo shares alpha duties with his elder brother, but when Dane finds his mate, Jaycee, he is shocked to learn she is also his mate.

Alpha Remi LeBlathe, one of the most powerful weres in the country, has always protected what is his. When Jaycee comes into his life, mayhem erupts around them, but Remi is used to mayhem and uses it to his benefit. Together, all four try to find peace, and the most powerful alphas in the U. But can the independent Jaycee be claimed? In this sizzling werewolf menage story, love, lust and power take center stage in the struggle for ultimate survival. Reminder once again to keep the descriptions compact. The longer the comment, the more likely it is to get skipped. Book Two in the Harpe Series Book.

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