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One crisp December night, Keira Carlesso takes in yet another stray, this time, a man. Dalton is a brilliant scientist with no home for the holidays. As Christmas works its magic, two strangers become friends, then best friends, then something much, much more.

As the clock strikes twelve on New Year's Eve, the fairy tale is over for all of Petras when Queen Tabitha, refusing to live in a loveless marriage, asks her husband for a divorce. But anger erupts into passion, and when Tabitha flees the palace she's carrying King Kairos's heir. Discovering her secret, Kairos kidnaps his wife. Against the backdrop of his secluded island paradise, he proves there's no escaping his royal reach. He will use the desire that's gone unsated between them for too long to ensure his wife returns to his side.

Liz Phoenix arrives in Los Angeles to find a nest of varcolacs--half-human, half-dragon creatures who want to destroy the sun and moon--and works to stop yet another Doomsday with the help of her former lover and her mentor.

Liz Phoenix is one of the sacred few on earth who has the psychic powers to fight the malevolent forces that have tried to wipe out the human race since the beginning of time. As the new leader of the federation, Liz is marked for death by a Navajo witch with a link to her past. To survive, she must rely on her few remaining allies--her mentor, a shaman with too many secrets, as well as ex-lover, Jimmy Sanducci.

When psychic Elizabeth Phoenix's foster mother is viciously murdered, her former lover Jimmy Sanducci opens her eyes to a supernatural war that has raged since the dawn of time.

A young woman enjoys a passionate reunion with a magnificent man from the sea, and the dark mission that binds them both.

Brilliant and ambitious dressmaker Marcelline Noirot is London's rising star. And who better to benefit from her talent than the worst-dressed lady in the town, the Duke of Clevedon's intended bride? Winning the future duchess's patronage would mean prestige and fortune for Marcelline and her sisters. To get to the lady, though, Marcelline must win over Clevedon, whose standards are as high as his morals are not.

Cerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden. As a new queen is crowned, however, things long hidden in the woods descend on the kingdom itself.

When former lovers Hannah and James get stuck in an airport on their way to visit their families, they soon realize that the best things in life can't be planned and sometimes love is sweeter the second time around.

Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamorous model for Christian Dior, Grace mixes with counts and princesses, authors and artists, diplomats and politicians. Amongst those she befriends are Pablo Picasson, Julia Childs, and the future Jackie Kennedy. But when Grace falls in love with the handsome Phillippe Boyer, she doesn't know that he is leading a double life, nor that his past might hold secrets and lies that will turn her life upside down.