Maggie Shayne

He's an unwilling loner? Luke Brand wants a family. Aside from an overprotective mother who died young, he's never had that. At least not until he drives his rig into Quinn, Texas to meet the family he's never known. His cousins welcome him with open arms. Three months later, he's still there, selling his semi to buy an abandoned house for back taxes, dreaming of settling down with a wholesome woman and raising some kids of his own. Opposites attract? Jasmine is not what some would call wholesome. She's a waitress and sometimes exotic dancer at a Chicago club. A classically trained dancer, Jasmine doesn't mind doing what she has to. It's all for her son, Baxter. She'll do anything to protect him from the world. Danger pursues? When Baxter witnesses a murder at the club and becomes a target himself, Jasmine takes him and runs. Posing as her best friend, shot dead by the same killer who's after Bax, she heads for Texas to hole up in the house her roomie inherited but wanted no part of. The only problem with her plan is the sexy cowboy who's already living there.

To save innocent lives, they'll have to risk their own.

Rachel de Luca's uncanny sense of perception is the key to her success as a self-help celebrity. Even before she regained her sight, she had a gift for seeing people's most carefully hidden secrets. But the secret she shares with Detective Mason Brown is one she has promised to keep.

Rachel de Luca has found incredible success writing self-help books. But her own blindness and the fact that her troubled brother has gone missing have convinced her that positive thinking is nothing but bull.

Journey to the world of the Carpathians with #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan—joined here by masters of vampire romance Maggie Shayne and Lori Herter—in an original anthology that takes dark fantasy to rapturous new heights. Dark Crime by Christine FeehanBlaze knows who killed her father and she has merciless plans for payback. Until a phone call from a seductive stranger pleads with her to wait. Retribution is in his blood, too. Now, he and Blaze will be united in the blood of the guilty. Tonight, vengeance is theirs. Dead by Twilight by Maggie ShayneBloodsuckers may be an accepted minority but one of them is getting away with murder. Until a female vamp teams with a mortal detective to end the killing spree. Now the night belongs to them—and so does every pleasure and danger lurking in the shadows. Cimarron Spirit by Lori HerterWhile excavating an Anasazi ruin, archeologist Annie Carmichael uncovers the resting place of a centuries-old vampire who finds in Annie the liberating mate he has longed for. But how much is Annie expected—or willing—to surrender for the man she now desires?

Salvar a los vampiros, salvar al mundo Seg n una antigua profec a, solo exist a una posibilidad de evitar la completa aniquilaci n de los Inmortales. Los gemelos James William y Brigit Poe, mitad humanos, mitad vampiros, cre an que ellos eran esa posibilidad. Sin embargo, la clave la ten a la mortal, y solitaria, profesora Lucy Lanfair. Mientras el verdadero Armaged n se acercaba, el odio hacia los vampiros desat una guerra que ninguno de los bandos pod a ganar, y adem s provoc que James abandonara sus principios y arrastrara a Lucy a una letal batalla en la que no deseaba tomar parte. Pero Lucy pronto descubrir a que el alma del poderoso inmortal estaba en sus manos y que su destino no consist a solo en detener una guerra, sino en salvarlo tambi n a l de su oscuro fantasma interior. Si fracasaba, la raza de los vampiros morir a... y con ella su propio coraz n.

It's bad enough when you have to deal with ugly dresses, drunken wedding parties, and embarassing relatives. But what happens when your wedding really is from hell? From Maggie Shayne, the story of a curse of the McLellan brides, and the one woman who decides to break the spell. Haunted by the ghosts of her ancestors, Casey McLellan must find the absolute right man to marry - or face certain death. Jeaniene Frost's Bones is a little too busy to hunt down a criminal mastermind and rescue a damsel in distress. So he sends his friend Chance to do the job. What was supposed to be routine turns out to be anything but once Chance lays eyes on the crime lord's (reluctant) fiancee. Terri Garey's Nicki Styx has gotten pretty used to the ghosts that are now a part of her life. But a ghost...at a wedding? When unexplained events disrupt a ceremony, it's up to Nicki to convince the ghost to take a back seat. Violet Wynston-Jones is getting married - or she was, until vampire Payen Carr hears about the ceremony...and finds out the true nature of her groom-to-be. Now, with her former lover on the scene and an evil society set against them, Violet and Payen join forces in Kathryn Smith's "The Wedding Knight."