Lori Handeland
1) Just once
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"Frankie Sicari is roused from sleep late one night by a key rattling in the front door lock. It's her ex-husband, Charley Blackwell: a man she hasn't seen for nearly a quarter of a century. What's baffling is that Charley seems to think they are still married, and has no recollection of his current wife, Hannah. When medical tests reveal shocking findings, Frankie finds herself reluctantly caring for the man who left her twenty years earlier, while...
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After discovering that the father she'd been told was dead is, in fact, alive, thirteen-year-old Rayne Houston runs away. She takes along her new friend, the Timinator, aka Tim, a young boy she found hiding behind a garbage can in her hometown of Las Vegas. Tim needs a daddy too, so the two of them hop a bus to Illinois and begin The Daddy Quest.
Nicole Houston is frantic when she discovers her daughter is gone. Her lies are coming back to haunt...
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The secret they've kept can either bring them together or tear them apart.
Youngest sibling and only sister, Kim Luchetti comes home to the Illinois family farm after her father's heart attack. Eight years ago she vowed never to come back, believing only distance would allow her to forget the tragedy that broke her heart. Returning means she must face everyone's questions, including those of her first love, Brian Riley, the only one who knows her...
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What's love got to do with it?
Jilly Hart has been called many things. Gold digger. Trophy wife. Serial bride. She's led a difficult life, so she doesn't believe in love or magic, only assets. She doesn't ever plan to be poor or hungry again. However, when she finds herself a widow for the fourth time, she discovers all she has left is a nineteenth-century inn in South Fork, Arkansas. She heads there with plans to sell the place and start her quest...
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Bobby Luchetti, a U.S. Special Forces soldier, has a mission: go to Mexico and rescue Dr. Jane Harker, the kidnapped daughter of a U.S. senator. Fresh from discovering that the woman he loved has married his brother, Bobby's desperate to concentrate on his work. He expects this to be a routine assignment–until he meets Jane. She's unlike any other woman he's encountered, and the attraction between them is undeniable. But he can't do anything about...
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What do you do when you need a mommy too?
Once upon a time, Tim Luchetti went searching for a daddy and found one in Dean Luchetti. Now it's time for Tim's Mommy Quest and he has the perfect woman picked out: his principal, Stella O'Connell. Unfortunately, Dean and Stella have history... a lot of it.
Stella left Gainsville, Illinois right after high school, never planning to come back. But an attack at her Los Angeles school has put her on mandatory...
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"If anything ever happens to me, go to 445 Briar Lane, Wind Lake, Minnesota."
Foreign correspondent Colin Luchetti receives this cryptic note from his missing brother, Bobby, an Army Special Forces officer. The address leads to Chasing Rainbows Day Care Center owned by Bobby's pen pal, Marlie Anderson, who knows nothing about his brother's disappearance. With all avenues closed, Colin decides to stick around Wind Lake and hope he finds a clue that...
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A Nightcreature prequel short story featuring Edward Mandenauer France, 1944 and the Nazis are up to no good in the Black Forest. The leaders of the resistance have sent me, Renee, to find out what they are concocting in an isolated castle. On the way, I am captured by Gestapo Major Edward Mandenauer. But Edward is not what he seems. Together we infiltrate the castle and discover the beginnings of a werewolf army. Can we stop it? Will we be able to...
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Elizabeth Phoenix is one of a select few with the power to battle those who have escaped from the darkest level of hell-demons bent on destroying humanity and reclaiming earth once and for all. Liz is determined to stop yet another Doomsday. But this time, it's going to be more difficult than ever because someone she thought was dead isn't dead anymore ... and is bound and determined to destroy Liz and everyone she loves in the upcoming Apocalypse.
Liz...
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Is anything easy when you're saving the world?
After a demon comes calling and Megan Murphy's bar blows sky-high, she's suddenly on the run with her klutzy day shift bartender, the exceedingly gorgeous Quinn Fitzpatrick.
Quinn has been in love with Megan from the moment he saw her. Too bad he's living a lie. He isn't as klutzy as he makes out, nor as human as she believes. Quinn was sent to protect Megan from anything that slithers.
But there's...
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Elizabeth Phoenix once used her unique skills as a psychic to help in the Milwaukee Police Department's fight against injustice. But when Liz's foster mother is found viciously murdered-and Liz is discovered unconscious at the scene-her only memory of the crime comes in the form of terrifying dreams ... of creatures more horrific than anything Liz has seen in real life. What do these visions mean? And what in the world do they have to do with her...
12) Chaos Bites
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It's not the end of the world-yet. But Doomsday once again lies in wait for demon-slayer Elizabeth Phoenix. Several weeks ago she had no choice but to kill a man she loved. Sawyer was a witch and shape-shifter, a sorcerer of incredible strength. And now he's started to invade her dreams ... in the most dangerous and sensuous ways imaginable.
Through her nighttime visits with Sawyer, Liz has acquired a new set of paranormal powers. She has also received...
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It took the near annihilation of humanity for Liz Phoenix to understand the true meaning of her premonitions. Liz 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. She battled these beings once, thwarting Doomsday but losing most of her soldiers in the massacre. Now she must replenish her troops quickly-because the supernatural war isn't...
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She thought her date was out of this world.
Actually, he was not of this world . . .
We've all been on bad dates, nightmare dates, dreadful experiences that turned out to be uniquely memorable in the very worst way. But at least our partners for these detestable evenings were more or less . . . human!
Now Kim Harrison, Lynsay Sands, Kelley Armstrong, and Lori Handeland -- four of the very best writers currently exploring the dangerous seduction...