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Eine übermenschliche Kreatur macht die Einöde von Alaska unsicher und hinterlässt ein grauenhaftes Blutbad, wo immer sie auftaucht. Für die Pilotin Alexandra Maguire wecken die Morde Erinnerungen an ein schreckliches Ereignis aus ihrer Kindheit. Da tritt ein Fremder in ihr Leben, der überraschend tiefe Gefühle in ihr weckt. Der Vampirkrieger Kade wurde nach Alaska geschickt, um die brutalen Morde aufzuklären.

Du bist bereit, alles zu riskieren. Aber bist du auch bereit, alles zu verlieren? Teresa Hamilton wollte immer nur eines: Tänzerin werden. Doch als ihr großer Traum nach einer Verletzung plötzlich in weite Ferne rückt, ist es Zeit für Plan B: ein College-Abschluss. Kurz darauf trifft sie am Campus nicht nur ihren großen Bruder Cam, sondern auch dessen besten Freund Jase - der Teresa einst den unglaublichsten Kuss gegeben hat, den die Welt je gesehen hat.

Facile's chief pastry chef, Lydia Conner, has watched the jerk at table seventeen run her fellow kitchen staffers ragged all night with his special requests and substitutions. But she knows she can sweeten his sour mood with one of her legendary desserts. No man alive can resist her special flourless chocolate cake...except for the jerk at table seventeen.

Mark is a reclusive dominant who confines his sexual interests strictly to the online world. On his routine afternoon ferry ride, he meets a woman who rouses the master in him, and the line snaps between the virtual and real worlds. She begs for him to take her over, and bring them both fulfillment and healing. He wants to refuse her but he finds himself agreeing to spend one day with her. It is a mistake, because the anger he holds inside is fully capable of destroying a soul as rare and beautiful as Nicole's. But no master, not even one as strong and disciplined as Mark, can resist the offer of a submissive who wants only one thing - to be his forever.

Determined to remove herself from the rules and regulations of her overbearing religious parents, Avery escapes to college and is determined to make it on her own. Working as a bartender, and mere weeks before her college graduation, she finds herself face to face with 30 members of an outlaw motorcycle club. She had no idea when the president of the club walked in she'd go weak in the knees for the gorgeous tattooed biker.

Noah Fisher has worked for months to make Sky High the most prestigious charter airline in California. He's long overdue for a break - something involving ski slopes, cold beers, and hot ski bunny babes. The itinerary doesn’t include being hijacked by Bailey Sinclair, gorgeous widow of one of Sky High's wealthiest (ex-) clients. But here they are, and being crammed in a cockpit with the scared, stubborn, unbelievably sexy former model could get Noah in serious trouble….

Forget the French perfume and the boxes of candy, the Hallmark cards and the gift certificates. The birthdays in this collection are observed in more carnal ways, with suitably sexy presents for all. In Simone Harlow's "Happy Birthday", a tough policewoman gets the tables turned when naked Nick arrives to tame her. In Marilyn Jaye Lewis's "The Birthday Party", an unexpected menage a trois in the dark proves the perfect gift.

Best Gay Romance 2009 is short fiction at its finest on the subject of love-first love, true love, and love everlasting (with makeup sex, wake-up sex, and everything in between). The romantic possibilities range from a surprising encounter between two blue-collar buddies to a brief airport rendezvous that become something more, and a reminder to us all that it is never too late for love. A self-confessed true romantic, Richard Labont has gathered a sensational collection of stories about finding love at home, at work, at any age, and often, in the most unexpected places.

budding butch in the Brylcreem era, Lorraine "Lon" Harris fantasizes about a South Pacific island full of women, where everyone will be free and accepting, and she'll never have to wear an eyelet blouse again. Spurned by her high school English teacher, Lon turns to a new friend, the brash, purple-haired Violet, who draws Lon into the lesbian underworld of suburban Los Angeles, to the sordid 28 Percent Club, a private bar where those with "contaminated passions" cling to each other.

"My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up" follows the narrator on a dizzying ride through past and present, from a group home for troubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shooting galleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches for deeper and darker thrills. In "Other Desires", a flood of unsettling memories backgrounds the narrator's involvement with a loose-knit family of lost souls. "Tears" explores the disturbing complexities of an S&M Internet hook-up.

Three passionate novellas from The Secret Library range that offer essential, sensual reading. Hungarian Rhapsody, by Justine Elyot: Ruby had no idea what to expect from her trip to Budapest, but a strange man in her bed on her first night probably wasn’t it.... Restraint, by Charlotte Stein: Marnie Lewis is certain that one of her friends, handsome but awkward Brandon, hates her guts. The last thing she wants to do is go on a luscious weekend away with him.... A Sticky Situation, by Kay Jaybee: Forced to work together on a week-long conference in an Oxford hotel, Sally is dreading spending so much time with arrogant new boy Cameron....

Marjorie Ivarsson fällt es nicht leicht, Männer kennenzulernen. Zum einen ist die schüchterne Blondine mit ihren 1,85 Meter größer als die meisten Menschen, zum anderen verbringt sie ihre Abende lieber damit, mit Rentnern Bingo zu spielen anstatt auszugehen. Deshalb ist sie mit Mitte zwanzig auch noch immer Jungfrau. Doch mit ihrem ruhigen, eintönigen Leben ist es vorbei, als sie zu einer Hochzeit auf eine tropische Insel eingeladen wird.

Zwanzig Jahre sind vergangen, seitdem der Orden der Vampire seinen größten Gegner besiegt hat. Doch die Welt ist in Aufruhr und die Vampirkrieger finden keine Ruhe. Unter den Kämpfern ist auch Mira, die von den Ordensvampiren aufgezogen wurde. Ihr einziges Ziel ist es, den Tod eines geliebten Freundes zu rächen, und so stürzt sie sich in jede Schlacht wie eine zornige Furie. Doch eines Tages wird sie mit einer Wahrheit konfrontiert, die alles infrage stellt, wofür sie gekämpft hat.

Bei der Tierärztin Tess Culver taucht ein Mann auf, der aus mehreren Schusswunden blutet. Sie kämpft um sein Leben, ohne zu ahnen, dass es sich bei dem gutaussehenden Fremden um einen Vampir handelt...

Shying away from commitment of any kind, Jenna Fallon's rules in life are to have none. So when her car breaks down en route from California to Vancouver - and she's forced to hitch a ride with a sexy stranger - she's thrilled to discover they share the same no-holds-barred views. As a globe-trotting marine biologist, Mark Chambers is used to changing locations - and women. Yet as he and Jenna make their way up the Pacific coast, camping, skinny dipping, and having scorching hot sex, Mark's not so sure he wants to say goodbye.

Expertly weaving a cast of compelling characters with a moody, multilayered plot, Sally Beauman once again shows why she’s the reigning mistress of drama and suspense. Part mystery, part allegory, and part love story, Sextet reveals the yearnings and dangerous desires of the human heart as it hurtles to a stunning climax.

Tara Lincoln è la madre single di un figlio adolescente, lavora come organizzatrice di eventi e non ha nessuna intenzione di disperdere le sue energie in storie d'amore, almeno fino a quando il ragazzo non andrà al college. L'ultima cosa di cui ha bisogno è condividere la vita da jet set di una star del football come Mick Riley, anche se il loro unico, bollente incontro ha dimostrato che Mick è un campione sul campo tanto quanto in camera da letto. Tara ha già fatto l'errore di scommettere sull'amore, perdendo tutto, e non ha voglia di partecipare di nuovo a un gioco così pericoloso, soprattutto con un dongiovanni matricolato come lui. Ma quando Mick si mette in testa di vincere, non c'è niente che possa fermarlo, e ha già in mente la mossa perfetta per abbattere le difese di Tara.

As a divorce lawyer for Manhattan's elite, David Greenfield is privy to the intimate, dirty details of failed marriages. He knows he's lucky to be married to Blair - a Barnard dean and the mother of their college-age daughter, she is a woman he loves more today than he did when they tied the knot. Then seductive photographer Jean Coin asks David to be her lover for six weeks, until she leaves for Timbuktu.

Fear, grief, and pain.... the perfect mixture for the deadly cocktail that drives KoKo head first into danger as she tries to hold onto her throne. Betrayal, distrust, and a struggle for power almost destroys all that she has built. Kayson is back on the scene and refuses to bow to anyone. The power is up for grabs and there are many hands in the pot. There's a boss that will live to the end, but who will succumb to The Pussy Trap's Death by Temptation?

All Jason Parker wanted was to do was throw a nice anniversary dinner for his parents at Facile, just one nice dinner that his parents didn't end up planning, cooking, or funding. It's too bad that his family seems hell-bent on ruining it. Between his older brother stealing credit for the planning, his uncle stealing the silverware, and his sister' stealing everyone's joy, it's enough to send Jason running for the comfort of Facile's bourbon supply.