Short Stories/Novellas
The plan was perfect. Slinky black lace dress. Leg-slimming stilettos. Some toys to expand the boundaries of their normal routine. Her husband’s favorite meal. The only point Lisa missed was telling him ahead of time. When Rick comes home with his boss in tow, Lisa has to scramble to make herself decent. Now if only Rick would wait for the boss to leave before trying out the toys. But he’s never been a patient man where sex is concerned…
Theirs…for the night? For now? Forever? Lori Meadows has been crushing on her two coworkers, Brad Collins and Marc Quinn, since she’d started working for the same company. She’d been burned in a work romance once in the past, though, and knew better than to even consider trying again. Brad and Marc enjoyed sharing their women, and needed a new partner since their last relationship ended. They thought Lori would make the perfect sub, but how awkward would work be if she turned them down? Then a mysterious business card turns up with it, the way to test their idea. A series of odd occurrences finds Lori trying out a BDSM club for the first time, matched with a mysterious man who the club had chosen for her. She hopes this isn’t the stupidest thing she’s ever done, but what she’d witnessed on the tour of the club had her dripping for more. She’d never know if she’d like it until she tried it, right? WARNING: This scorching story contains extreme scenes of the kind you only imagine when you’re alone at night. Definitely not for the faint of heart! Proceed at your own risk.
A panther shaman rescues the wolf-shifter she has seen in her dreams. Their attraction is fiery, but also forbidden. Nidawi believes the only life that she and Tawahona can have is in their dreams. Taw is determined to spend his life beside her, and but to do so he has to prove there is something more powerful than love bringing them together. Only then can he convince Nidawi and their people to allow them their happiness. This mystical novella straddles the lines between paranormal and fantasy, with romance as its driving force, written in a sensual, literary style.
When the Duke of Hartshorne returns to London to assume his title, he barely hopes his heart’s desire still waits for him. But she’s engaged to another man, so he fights to forget her and get on with his life.Having given up hope of that Hart still loved her, Lady Marjorie Gideon agrees to marry someone else. Then he fails to show up for their wedding. She fears something bad has befallen him and asks the only man she trusts to find him.The favor she asks of him will require every ounce of his honor to take on, and no one believes him to be an honorable man. Except Marjorie. For her, he would do anything—even if it means she marries another man.
(This novella was originally published in The Heart of a Duke anthology). For the past year, Lady Charlotte has waited patiently for her turn at possessing the magical pendant given to her friends when they were young. A gypsy girl swore the necklace would lead the wearer to the heart of a duke, which only made sense since Lady Eleanor was betrothed to the Duke of Langley at the time. Now Charlotte’s three friends and her sister are all married or betrothed, and not one of them has landed the most eligible, and quite unbearably handsome, Langley. Does Charlotte stand a chance? Langley had thought his fate was settled: he was to marry the young lady his father had chosen. Then she fell for another, and since then, every marriageable miss he set his sights on has done the same. His mother wants him to marry and get on with providing an heir, but he has lost interest in the entire matter.The final young ladies on his mother’s list have come to stay at Hawking Hall, and the meek and mousy Lady Charlotte seems perfect, until she comes right out to say she has no desire to marry him. Never a man to back down from a challenge, Langley is intrigued. What would it take to change her mind?