PRIMAL HEAT
Kensington Aphrodisia ♦ Genre: Paranormal; Shifter; Sci-Fi/Future ♦ Release Date: November 2010
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The world changed in the blink of an eye. The Kith returned to Earth, and humans learned the terrible truth. They were lesser beings, slaves, abandoned to colonize a barbaric planet the Kith discovered centuries ago. They might have gone on in ignorance, but the Emperor of the Kith knows that his One is among the Kin. He sensed her the moment she reached maturity, and he will tear the planet apart if he must to find her, to claim her, to bond his mind and body with hers.
Wicked Lord
Sergeant Major Bren Preston doesn’t believe for a second that the powerful Kith brought an entire armada across space for a woman. No matter what the Kith ambassador claims–or how attractive she finds Lord Farid Arjun–she knows Earth will never surrender to the Kith fleet. But when she finds that her own commander, General Arthur, wants the planet for himself, she’ll have to decide what she’s willing to risk to save her people. Farid might be able to help her. For a price. He’s desired her from the moment he first saw her, and he’s not going to settle for less than everything she has to give. Her body, her heart, her mind, her hard-won independence. She’ll have to surrender herself to him if she wants to save Earth.
Carnal Empress
Jana Townsend was once a normal woman with a normal life. Until the day Emperor Kyber showed up and claimed her for his own. Nothing had ever felt so right, so perfect. But it was over far too soon. General Arthur’s men captured Kyber and spend months torturing him before Jana and the Kith forces can free him. Now, Jana and Kyber can’t find the common ground they’d once had. Both of them have changed, become different people, but the bond between them can’t be broken. They’re too damaged to move forward, but they crave each other too much to let go. The only thing they can agree on is that before the Kith leave Earth, they have to keep the planet from General Arthur’s clutches. For Kyber, justice and vengeance go hand in hand, and working with Jana to fight a common enemy shows him that the one thing he can’t lose is her.
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STOLEN PASSIONS
Samhain Publishing ♦ Genre: Paranormal; Shifter ♦ Series: Forbidden Passions – Book One ♦ Release Date: November 2, 2010
King Leonidas I of Sparta became legendary for his bravery in the face of an onslaught of Persian forces under the command of Xerxes I. So impressed with the Leonidas’ courageous death, the hunter goddess Artemis made his sons more than men. They became wereleopards, and over the centuries have scattered to the four corners of the globe.
The current ruler of the Leonidas family, Hector, went missing the same week as his eldest son’s mate. An uneasy truce exists between the wereleopards and werewolves of America. Each claim half of the country as their territory–wolves in the east and leopards in the west. But someone aims to upset that balance, and Hector’s sons must uncover the plot…and save their father.
Lyra Marcus is attacked and left unconscious in the middle of the desert. When she awakens, she realizes the horror of her predicament. She’s a werewolf in the heart of wereleopard territory. Worse still, she’s discovered by Zander Leonidas, one of the sons of the most powerful leopard family. She might die at her enemy’s hand, but she won’t go down without a fight.
Zander has no intention of killing the little she-wolf who landed on the doorstep of his family’s resort, but he wants to know how she ended up there. What he never expected was to find himself drawn to a wolf. Sex is one thing, but the urge to mark her as his mate is almost irresistible. A woman like her shouldn’t fit him so well–a match between their kinds would rock the foundations of their world.
But whoever left Lyra for dead doesn’t intend to fail again, and Zander’s not about to let anyone touch his woman.
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FLEETING PASSIONS
Samhain Publishing ♦ Genre: Paranormal; Shifter ♦ Series: Forbidden Passions – Book Three ♦ Release Date: February 22, 2011
King Leonidas I of Sparta became legendary for his bravery in the face of an onslaught of Persian forces under the command of Xerxes I. So impressed with the Leonidas’ courageous death, the hunter goddess Artemis made his sons more than men. They became wereleopards, and over the centuries have scattered to the four corners of the globe.
The current ruler of the Leonidas family, Hector, went missing the same week as his eldest son’s mate. An uneasy truce exists between the wereleopards and werewolves of America. Each claim half of the country as their territory–wolves in the east and leopards in the west. But someone aims to upset that balance, and Hector’s sons must uncover the plot…and save their father.
Cleo Nemean is on the run from her violent past when she takes a job at Refuge Resort. She spends an evening toasting her escape and ends up having a one night stand. The catch? Her one night lover is Adrian Leonidas, her new boss . . . and they accidentally marked each other as mates.
Just when things couldn’t get any worse, her werebear ex-fiancé tracks her down, bent on bringing her back under his control. Terrified, she bolts, leaving behind the safety of Refuge . . . and the protection of her new mate. The one thing she can’t risk is Adrian’s life.
Adrian is a man of supreme control. Whether he meant to mate with Cleo or not, she’s now his woman and he’s not about to see her harmed before he has a chance to explore the undeniable heat between them. He follows her and uses her as bait to set a trap for her ex. He’s going to end the threat to her life once and for all.
But the trap is sprung too soon and it leaves them both in mortal danger.
While they survive the encounter, they’re left to wonder who tipped off the werebear about their location. It’s one too many bad coincidences for the Leonidas family. They need to find out if there is a traitor in their midst . . . and how all of this ties into the disappearance of their father.
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EMBRACE THE NIGHT
Kensington Aphrodisia ♦ Genre: Paranormal ♦ Release Date: June 1, 2011
Witch Chloe Standish is a biochemist working on a cure for werewolves when her research partner and ex-boyfriend Damien ends up murdered. And she’s the only suspect. She’s brought in for questioning only to find the detective working on the case is the warlock she spent a wild night with after Damien dumped her for a vampire. As if her day couldn’t get much worse, she finds that her other research partner sold out their work to terrorists who want to overthrow the werewolf pack leaders. They killed Damien for his part of the formula, and now only thing that’s missing is Chloe’s work.
The last thing Detective Merek Kingston needs is to feed the obsession he’s had for the witch who disappeared from his bed after the best sex of his life. She’s the one thing he didn’t see coming. And that’s the worst part–his ability to see the future is dormant where Chloe’s concerned. Only the most important people in his life let his gift rest, and he’s lost every single one of them. He doesn’t want to deal with the possibility of losing someone else he’s come to love, but if he doesn’t protect Chloe, he might lose her anyway. The consummate cop can’t let an innocent woman die, regardless of the cost to himself. Even if it means dragging the city girl out of Seattle and locking himself in a room with her to guard her day and night, he’s not going let terrorists take what’s his.
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WANTON
Harlequin Spice Briefs ♦ Genre: Paranormal; Shifter ♦ Release Date: TBA
It’s been two long years since Jenise’s life was shattered by the death of her mate–a man who was literally the other half of her. She’s slowly pieced the crippled shards of her soul–herself–back together. She’s found she was stronger than even she knew. But her instincts lead her to a man who she gave too much to before. Can she trust them now? Can she trust herself to hold on to her sense of self in a mating?