Change isn't necessarily a bad thing; werewolves know this better than most people. Rebecca Howarth had a quiet, contented, safe life, despite having been changed into a werewolf as the result of a vicious attack. Then, suddenly, everything that she thought she knew about her life, as a woman and as a werewolf, is turned on its head.  The safety she'd felt had been a lie. Now she has to figure out how to rebuild her life from the rubble and how to find real safety for those she loves, and herself. Callum Lennox spent almost six years of his life in jail for a crime he didn't commit, no easy task for a werewolf.  Now he's back on the outside, and nothing is as he expected it to be, least of all the woman for whom he surrendered his freedom.  Callum has to reclaim his place in the world, and in the pack, but it won't be the same one he left behind. Life for Rebecca and Callum will never be the same again; especially when they find out that they're linked by more than the urge to howl at the moon.

Powerless

Desire and Delirium:  A collection of erotic short stories - retold fairy tales - familiar, but not as you know them. The stories included are based on Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Little Red Riding Hood.**~** After Midnight **~**Sure, everyone knows the story of what happened to me before I married the Prince. They know all about my evil stepmother and my shallow-as-a-puddle stepsisters.  They know all about my mysterious, wish-granting guardian. They know all about the balls, the gowns, and the crystal slippers. What they don't know is what happened afterwards...  **~** Beauty Within **~**Their tale is as old as time... Beauty is a dutiful and loving daughter. Circumstances beyond her control twisted and turned everything, until she barely knew which way was up. Her commitment to her family is her only certainty, and taking care of them has become her life. Adam had a settled life, an advantageous one, but his own selfish actions destroyed it. He has had to learn to live with the consequences of that fateful decision. Capricious fate brings them together, giving them an opportunity to change their destinies. But are they brave enough to grasp that chance?**~** Strange Safety **~**In the original fairy tale, Goldilocks was an obnoxious little girl - not so in this short story. In this retelling, she is a woman seeking safety, shelter, food. She finds a seemingly abandoned house in the woods and has no choice but to trust in the goodwill of the owners when they return. In the original fairy tale, the three bears are a family, and so they are in this story, although they are  a band of brothers bound by circumstances thicker than blood. When they find a strange woman has made herself at home in their house, there's only one thing to do...**~** Cry Wolf **~**Cherry's life is thrown into turmoil when she visits her grandmother and ends up at the centre of a brutal whirlwind of violence, the kind that only ever existed in her nightmares. Afraid and unsure of who she can trust, Cherry is simply trying to pull the pieces back together so that she can reclaim herself. As she's wandering, lost from her path, she comes across Chris Hunter. He sees the strong woman that she's forgotten how to be.  He holds her, and helps her to remember what she wants from her life. But her knight in worn denim and scuffed work boots isn't everything he appears to be.

Desire and Delirium

The criminal underworld is balanced on a knife-edge, weighted by respect, fear, and greed. For years an alliance has held true between the different factions that compete for control of New York, but the suspicious death of the founding father of that coalition throws the underworld into chaos. The Italian mob has been gutted by continued RICO persecution since the Seventies, but although their power has been diminished, their time is not yet over. The Yakuza and the Triads arrived with the first immigrants from Japan and China, but they've always had to compete with the home-grown factions. The Mexican and Latin cartels have been extending their reach from the West Coast since the drugs trade exploded, as have the Caribbean gangs from the south, but the biggest players are the Russians. Once criminal enterprises born of resistance to the corruption and persecution of government- now bolstered and legitimized by the corruption of the oligarchs - they are now a mafiya that has the implicit backing of their country to do whatever they like. Alessia Dioli is the granddaughter of Don Tosetti. In the way of the legitimate world, her marriage is one of politics and power. Her grandfather founded the alliance. Her husband is the don of one of the families that makes up the jigsaw of peace and profit. Her life has been molded around the dangerous activities of the men who control it. Nikolai Volkov is pakhan of his family, their leader, although not their figurehead; that honor belongs to his grandmother, and he would have it no other way. Irina Volkov rose from the collapse of the Soviet Union like a phoenix and spread her wings to fly to America, bringing the remnants of her family with her. Having paid in blood during the wars between the Vory and the Suki, she found a place where her children and grandchildren could grow strong, where her family could become again what it had been. Under her rule, under Nikolai's leadership, the Volkovs have flourished. As the puzzle pieces scatter and the players fight for dominance once more, the city burns. People die loved ones are lost, and new alliances are forged. Alessia and Nikolai must fight to survive, to protect their own. Ultimately, they have to decide if the trust they instinctively hold for each other is true, if they can be stronger together.

Alliance - Red Star, #1

Anna is struggling with the aftermath of her messy divorce.  She's trying to discover who she is without her husband by her side. She's trying to figure out how to deal with betrayal, how to trust again, and she's trying to figure out where she wants to go next. The world is her oyster, but the world is big and scary and full of selfish people.  She knows that goodness and joy are out there, but, boy, does she feel jaded. When her friend, Samantha, suggests a holiday, a break from the daily grind, Anna jumps right into the planning. An escape from reality, even for a few days, sounds ideal. Admittedly, she'd prefer a beach holiday with cocktails over a long weekend of camping and warm wine, but funds are limited and maybe getting back to nature will help her reconnect with the world...... Except that they pick an unfortunate spot to pitch their tent. Anna finds herself... somewhere. She could be in another dimension, an alternate reality, or maybe she's stuck in a nightmare; it's not quite the escape she had in mind. All she knows is that she has to wake up, get home, find the ruby slippers and kick her heels three times. She'll do whatever it takes to get back. The possibility that she might never be able to return is something that she isn't ready to accept without a fight.

The Other Side

Elthrinn and Gorren are not a match made in fate. Gorren is the youngest prince of a family that rules a nation of shapeshifters. He is forced to marry Elthrinn for respectability's sake, to please his father, to forge an alliance. She is forced to marry Gorren to protect the people that she loves, because she has no other choice. Her uncle, ruler of her country, will imprison and torture anyone she holds dear if she doesn't comply with his demands. Elthrinn, innocent in nature and torn from the chaste life of a priestess, has to learn to live in an entirely new culture, as well as adjust to married life. Gorren has to learn to accept her differences, and the impact that they have on everyone around him. Somewhere along that journey of discovery, they fall in love, but that love might not survive a treachery that threatens to destroy everything that they know and love.

Searching the Darkness - Erythleh Chronicles, #2

Steve 'Dizzy' Disraeli has been the Sergeant at Arms of the Priests MC, Louisiana for fifteen years; he's been a member for more than twenty.  Now his president has a big task for him, Samuel Carter has asked him to travel to move back to his native Texas to head up a new charter of the Priests MC.  He's got a lot of work to do, and he needs to find a way to make a home now that he is no longer surrounded by the family he has known for more than half his life. Althea 'Thea' Colby is just trying to get along as best she can.  It's not easy being a single mama, but she's giving it her all.  Her son, Josh, is her world and the only man worth having in her life.  She spent some time on the sidelines of the biker club in the town she calls home, but never had any plans to get drawn in any further. But the Rabid Dogs MC has disappeared without trace or explanation, and now there's a new MC in town and they seem to have brought a truckload of trouble with them.  Thea and Josh are at risk from the MC's enemies, and her heart is certainly at risk from the President of the club himself. Thea has to fight to keep her tiny slice of family whole.  Dizzy has to fight to build a family from nothing.  As they endeavour to survive and endure the trials in their way, they may find that the roads they're looking for are one and the same.

Bones by the Wood - Kairos, #2

Polly Fairchild has just turned twenty-one. To say that she celebrated her birthday would have been to suppose that anybody had remembered or cared that the event had taken place. In the eyes of our modern world, she's a young woman with her life before her. In her world - post Civil War London, thriving and reborn following civil war, plague, and fire - she's an old maid who will likely spend her life as a spinster. She is stuck in the boarding school that has been her home for the past thirteen years. Her father, a respected judge and attorney at law in the New World, dispatched her to the other side of the world following the death of her mother. Five thousand miles away from her father, she has found, at least, respect for her own merits, rather than a life lived under the sad cloud of grief and disappointment. Polly has long since come to terms with the notion that she isn't wanted, but then a letter arrives which contradicts her assumptions. She is given an opportunity to undertake a journey that will change her life. Nathanial Weston's life was tied to the sea before he left his mother's womb, but it hasn't turned out quite as he expected. As the son of a fisherman, he always knew his life lay out on the waves, but being press-ganged into the Navy changed the path of his future. Now he is Captain Nate West, a mutineer turned pirate. He owns a fearsome reputation and commands a skilled and vicious crew. He is further away from his first life than he has ever been. Nate is chasing a valuable prize in order to pay a debt, but when he captures it, he finds a treasure beyond anything he ever expected or even dreamed; one that might prove life-changing.

Riding the Tempest

How can we give animals the best life-for them? What does an animal need to be happy? In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into how animals think, act, and feel. Now she builds on those insights to show us how to give our animals the best and happiest life-on their terms, not ours. Knowing what causes animals physical pain is usually easy, but pinpointing emotional distress is much harder. Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals and then explains how to fulfill the specific needs of dogs and cats, horses, farm animals, zoo animals, and even wildlife. Whether it's how to make the healthiest environment for the dog you must leave alone most of the day, how to keep pigs from being bored, or how to know if the lion pacing in the zoo is miserable or just exercising, Grandin teaches us to challenge our assumptions about animal contentment and honor our bond with our fellow creatures. Animals Make Us Human is the culmination of almost thirty years of research, experimentation, and experience. This is essential reading for anyone who's ever owned, cared for, or simply cared about an animal.

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