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A winter escape When Portia DiNapoli accidentally witnesses a deadly crime, she becomes the Russian mob’s most wanted. But she’s not running anywhere—she’s teaming up with undercover agent Kyle King to protect the small town she loves. But what blooms between them is an instant, lethal attraction that could be the love of a lifetime. Or one they won’t survive…•Emily Walker is back home for her brother’s wedding. The joyous occasion is marred by a blizzard, a murderer on the loose…and Brodie Langtry, the man who broke her heart. As he searches for the ‘Ice Cold Killer’, Brodie becomes convinced that Emily is his next target. How can he protect a woman who wants nothing to do with him—a woman he’s terrified to let out of his sight?•A murder in the tiny town of Frost Falls is big news. And a mysterious local with the same first name as the victim has police chief Jason Cash intent on finding out who Yvette LaSalle really is. But Yvette is hiding dangerous information, and Jason is the only man she can trust…but how much? Because the truth will get them both killed.

The Love Under Fire Collection from Mills and Boon Including the titles:Love Under Fire: Snowbound SeductionLove Under Fire: Past WrongsLove Under Fire: Secrets and LiesLove Under Fire: Second Chance Seduction

A thrilling double collection of romances from Mills and Boon Including the collectionsLove Under Fire and Midwives’ MiraclesTitles Include:Love Under Fire: Snowbound SeductionLove Under Fire: Past WrongsLove Under Fire: Secrets and LiesLove Under Fire: Second Chance SeductionMidwives’ Miracles: Special MomentsMidwives’ Miracles: Healing HeartsMidwives’ Miracles: From Midwife to MumMidwives’ Miracles: Unexpected Proposals

Hocus pocus Tired of his desk job, Ethan Pierce decides it’s time for a more exciting occupation. This straitlaced vampire may be ready for demons and blood magic, but nothing can prepare him for Tuesday Knightsbridge. She’s brash, she’s bold and she’s the sexiest woman he’s ever met. She also happens to be a witch…and the key to saving the world.•After Kelyn Saint-Pierre’s sacrifice to save witch Valor Hearst from a gruesome death, he’s certain that any spark between them is gone. Valor wishes she’d known about his feelings before she ruined everything. There may be a way she can repay him…but it won’t be easy. The two are pushed close together on a dangerous mission, but will their passion only bind them further in pain?

The ultimate witchy romance collection! Including the spellbinding titles:Seduced by the EnemyI Put a Spell on YouA Hex Gone Wrong

A triple bundle filled with every story your heart could desire Including the titles:New York SecretsItalian NightsParisian Love StoryArgentinian AwakeningsLondon CallingSpanish SeductionDare Me To Crave YouDare Me To Want YouDare Me To Need YouI Put A Spell On YouA Hex Gone WrongSeduced By The Enemy

Hocus pocus Tired of his desk job, Ethan Pierce decides it’s time for a more exciting occupation. This straitlaced vampire may be ready for demons and blood magic, but nothing can prepare him for Tuesday Knightsbridge. She’s brash, she’s bold and she’s the sexiest woman he’s ever met. She also happens to be a witch…and the key to saving the world.•After Kelyn Saint-Pierre’s sacrifice to save witch Valor Hearst from a gruesome death, he’s certain that any spark between them is gone. Valor wishes she’d known about his feelings before she ruined everything. There may be a way she can repay him…but it won’t be easy. The two are pushed close together on a dangerous mission, but will their passion only bind them further in pain?

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.She''s keeping secrets.Now he must keep her alive.A murder in the tiny town of Frost Falls is big news. And a mysterious "vacationer" with the same first name as the victim has police chief Jason Cash intent on finding out who Yvette LaSalle really is. Especially with someone now after her. Yvette is hiding dangerous information, and Jason is the only man she can trust…but how much? Because the truth will get them both killed.

This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.He''ll fight tooth and nailTo keep her safe.When shots are fired, wildlife officer Joe Cash responds to the call and finds himself face-to-face with Skylar Davis and her pet…wolf. It''s Joe''s job to protect all endangered species–including the pretty vet''s menagerie of rescues. As the threats intensify, Joe realizes Skylar could be the key to busting a ruthless poaching ring. But she''s keeping a secret that could cause more harm than either of them can imagine.

Recruited by a secret paranormal organization to hunt demons, Jack Harris never guessed the revenge he sought for his partner's death would be this complicated. Jack's worldview is black-and-white--until he is ordered to follow Mersey Bane, a beautiful woman who is also a familiar with shape-shifting abilities. Mersey belongs to the Cadre--a peaceful hermetic order that captures and studies Otherworldly Entities--which is at odds with Jack's organization.As Jack delves deeper into the inner workings of the Cadre, he finds himself drawn to Mersey like a moth to a flame.She may challenge all his beliefs, but she brings color and passion to his world. Jack doesn't know whether what he feels for Mersey is love or lust. But if he doesn't figure it out soon, they may become the hunted instead of the hunters.

The prequel to FAMILIAR STRANGER, and a new release in the Dark Enchantments series by USA Today Bestselling author Michele Hauf:He was supposed to be researching night hounds. Caratacus Bane, member of the secret hermetic order, The Cadre, was perfectly happy traveling the world in search of the elusive beast. Until a familiar stumbled across his path and purred her way into his heart.Mirabelle isn't supposed to be enslaved to the witch, and she is trying to escape so she can have a good life as a free, shape-shifting familiar. First sight of the handsome man in the forest and she knows he's the one who can free her—and maybe even give her a happily ever after.

Sebastian DelaCourte has lived centuries, always seeking, wondering about the woman who made him vampire. He desires love. He needs blood.Scarlet Rose captures his heart, and promises love—but not without forcing the two to face the twisted fate of time and undying passion.A macabre paranormal romance featuring vampires, time-travel, an angry ghost, and rock 'n roll. Set in contemporary Los Angeles and 18th century Paris. This is the first authorized digital edition of Dark Rapture. This version also includes the sequel Wicked Angels.

Beguiled by the devil Himself, her only hope was the vampire who could not love her dark and tainted heart.Blu and Creed's daughter, Kambriel has come to Paris to 'find herself' and finds more than she bargained for when the man who seduces her with extravagant gifts and fine things reveals his true nature. Now she is desperate for freedom.Johnny Santiago falls for the beautiful vampiress singing at Club l'Enfer, yet he doesn't expect his rival to be the devil Himself. Can he rescue Kam from the dark prince before she loses her soul and forgets everything and everyone she has ever cared for?Note: while written for adults, this story is also New Adult because characters are in their mid-20s. Not recommended for under 16 because story contains sex, language and violence.

Max Fitzroy, the legendary Highwayman, had slain scores of demons with a razorlike whip and a burning need for revenge. Now, to rid himself of the demon inside him—who'd cursed him with immortality and stolen all sensual pleasures—Max needed a witch's familiar, the one creature he'd made a career of killing. But the Highwayman wasn't prepared for the familiar named Aby. The sleek and sexy conduit to the demon world saw past his swirling shadow as easily as he scaled the walls she'd erected to protect herself. Max needed Aby to grant him his freedom, and then he needed to slay her. But how could he destroy the only creature he'd desired in centuries?

She may be an angel, but when she's bad, she's very, very good at it.On Christmas Eve, Luke Dawson loses his wife Merit during a vampire attack. One year later he struggles with surviving—as a vampire—and without his wife. When a very familiar angel falls into the Seine, she emerges with one goal: to find the person who is keeping her from getting her halo. That person emits so much love for her, she can't move on—and she really wants that halo.Merit doesn't remember him, but Luke loves his wife even more now. Can he sacrifice that love for her—and let her go forever—to grant her the halo she desires?

Wicked women are his undoing...Musketeer Arnaud de Sillegue d'Athos is ready to bid adieu to the King's Guard and to lay down his sword. Yet he's been charged with one final mission—to apprehend a dangerous enemy of the king, the Belle Dame Sans Merci. Despite his desire to pursue a woman who causes such destruction, Athos refuses...until he sees a sketch of her. It's the same villainess with whom he had been locked in a passionate embrace.Emmanuelle Vazet never gives up control, even if briefly, yet in the arms of a blue-eyed stranger, she felt the need to give in and let desire take over. But now circumstances have placed her at the scene of a murder. Her reputation has preceded her, even if she is innocent. Now her nameless lover is the enemy. A royalist. A musketeer who could be her undoing...unless she becomes his undoing first.Action, adventure and swashbuckling set in 17th century France! If you're a fan of Alexandre Dumas' musketeers, this story continues the adventures following The Four Musketeers (and preceding Twenty Years After), and explores Athos's life when he desires to muster out of the musketeers and retire to Blois. D'Artagnan, Aramis, and even Mordaunt (before he is known by that moniker) make an appearance. All for one, and one for all!

Escaping from bloodthirsty vampires, Belladonna Reynolds ran straight into the arms of a werewolf. As a man Severo drew her in with his dark good looks; as a beast he astounded her with his insatiable sensual appetite. Whether afraid or aroused, Bella fled to his lair when threatened by evil.Severo tried to keep Bella--his mate--safe from the vampiress who held a malicious desire for revenge against him, but he alone wasn't enough. Now Bella has taken the form of his most cursed enemy. How could he desire the very thing he'd spent his life destroying? And even if he did, what would the werewolf do to Bella on the next full moon?

Winter, 1433 — and Jeanne d''Arc''s ashes still glow… In the battle between Good and Evil, the Black Knight''s sword fells enemies with silent grace. The Knight has sworn that fallen angel Lucifer de Morte and his cruel brotherhood will pay for their reign of terror over France — and over the d''Ange family, where nearly all have died a terrible death. All but one…Yet the Knight''s hard-won battles and dented armor hide a larger secret. For "he" is actually Seraphim d''Ange. She is traveling to de Morte''s demesnes, executing his demon henchmen along the way. Now, aided by Baldwin, a family retainer, and San Juste, a mysterious stranger, Sera grows closer and closer to her final target. Yet little does she know that there is one more aspect of power she herself holds…

Invaded by a cavalcade of vicious dragons, the villagers of St. Renan are snatched up when they venture beyond the walls.Yet Rhiana Tassot — who senses the dragons from a distance, who determines their attack scent from a mating scent, who is blessed with the instincts of a dragon, who dares stand before the fiery beasts without flinching — cannot use her skills to defend her home.For the lord of St. Renan forbids her to track the beasts — not in fear for her safety, but by some twisted desire to protect the dragons. So conflict rages within and without the village and a long-held secret begins to stir beneath their very feet. Rhiana''s knowledge of dragons is no accident — and others begin to suspect why…

Disenchantment threatens those who enter the mortal realm... The Red Lady plots to destroy faeries who linger in the mortal world, by draining their essence. Only those without glamour can withstand the succubus''s wicked enticements. So now Gossamyr de Wintershinn, half faery, half mortal, vows to use her wits, fighting ability and hint of glamour to face the Red Lady in her Paris lair. But this is Gossamyr''s first trip to the war-ravaged mortal realm, and it seduces with its own enchantments. With her new traveling companion--a soul shepherd with more than one secret--Gossamyr takes the first steps to save her people. Yet as she strives to defeat the Red Lady, she discovers that incredible power can be found in the truth--and in learning true names. And a danger, as well...

The desire for knowledge draws Scarlet Rose to the dark side as she plunges deeper into the decadent world of vampirism—with or without her lover, Sebastian DelaCourte's approval. Wicked Angels twines medieval Spain, 18th Century Venice, and contemporary Los Angeles in an intriguing, fast-paced tale of love, betrayal, and the search for answers to a darkness that never ends.

Let the battle for souls begin.Sin eater, Desdenova Fleetwood dreamed of falling in love—but knew it could never happen to her. When the mysterious soul bringer, Blackthorn Regis, demands she give up her livelihood, the two question their very reason for living—and loving.

France, 1745: Louis de Lavarac, a soldier devasted by the blood he has spilled for the French king, is enchanted by the mysterious yet haunted Sabine Bassange. Rumors tell her striking eyes hide a painful secret, and some say she is touched by madness. Louis desperately hopes that with his love he can free her from the shadows, heal his shattered heart, and bind them together in eternal ecstasy.

Vicomte Gabriel Renan was just trying to dispose of his ill-gotten fortune when the mysterious stranger attacked him. Now he's been told he may become vampire if he cannot make it to the full moon without drinking blood. Easy enough. Or will the madness that threatens lure Gabriel to follow the night?Too many secrets Roxane Desrues holds to her breast. She only wishes to rescue her brother, but is distracted by the handsome vicomte, and the reality that he may become her greatest enemy should he transform to vampire. Together they will learn what they can to overcome—but ultimately, they have only one another to trust in the battle between good and evil.

More Than Words: Bestselling authors & Real-life heroines We all have the power to effect change–we just need to find the strength to harness it. With every good deed done, and helping hand offered, we are making the world a better place. The dedicated women selected as this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award have changed many lives for the better, through their compassionate hearts and unshakable commitment. To celebrate their accomplishments, bestselling authors have written stories inspired by these real-life heroines.In this book, Michele Hauf honors the work of the Barta sisters–Berni, Romi, Lexi and Marni Barta–and the not-for-profit organization that they founded, Kid Flicks.We hope More Than Words inspires you look inside your heart and to get in touch with the heroine inside of you.

Fast Fiction Paranormal – quick reads to transport you to another world Charlotte and John's evening turns deadly when some uninvited guests show up at their friend's party—a horde of hungry zombies. The couple is in a fight for their lives when a new, heroic side of John emerges, and he vows to protect Charlotte no matter the cost….

Fast Fiction Paranormal - quick reads to transport you to another world Every winter solstice, white witch Ananda must steal a beating heart to replenish her power. But years of feeding on other people's passions have left her hopelessly lovesick—without anyone to love. Ananda knows there's one heart that can quell these unrequited desires…if she can claim it before her strength runs out.Half-human, half-demon, Vashon reaps lost souls for a living. He can't imagine what a witch would want with his black, unfeeling heart. But he's not about to give in—to Ananda's beauty, or to her fearsome magic. Vashon is desperate to experience love, and Ananda's passionate soul is ripe for the reaping.

The witch's redemption… Kelyn Saint-Pierre always had a bit of a thing for Valor Hearst. But after he makes a harrowing sacrifice to save the witch from a gruesome death, Kelyn's certain that any spark between them is gone forever.Valor wishes she'd known about Kelyn's crush before she ruined everything. There may be a way she can repay her smoking-hot champion…but it won't be easy. Circling the globe on a dangerous mission that pits them against deadly magic and dark creatures, Kelyn and Valor are pushed scorchingly close together. But surrendering to passion may only further bind them…