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Sara's life turns upside down when someone leaves her a funerary urn, black roses, and death threats on her doorstep. Fearing her work as a stripper and showgirl has put her in the sights of a demented stalker, she turns to her best friend and fellow dancer for help. Instead of a safe haven, all Sara finds is betrayal. Hunted by creatures she once believed were stories meant to frighten children, she is given a choice: become one of them, or die.
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The next time a friend dared her to steal something, Kelsie would say no. Should the friend also be a succubus, not only would she say no, she would run for the nearest border faster than a bat fleeing the dark depths of hell. Under normal circumstances, she didn't even mind serving community service. It added spice to an otherwise boring day and gave her something productive to do. Hoping to contain her prankster ways, the judge teams her up with...
3) Old Secrets
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Karma and Jake return in this thrilling conclusion to the Balancing the Scales trilogy. Unable to find new leads on the terrorist organization they hunt, Karma and Jake set off to the one place they might find answers: Tibet. But something lurks on the horizon-something dark and dangerous enough that the United States, China, and Japan join forces to put an end to it. While Karma wasn't the first to be betrayed and terrorized, she vows to make certain...
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Being the mate of Jake Thomas isn't what Karma expected. He wants to keep her safe. She wants to find out the truth behind the kidnapping of baby Annabelle Greenwich, the case that had resulted in their marriage. The truth can only be found in murky waters, and with a betrayer in their midsts, Karma is forced to choose between the man she loves and justice. In order to untangle the web of lies destroying her life, Karma partners with a rogue wolf...
5) Wild Wolf
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After making his escape to Russia, Declan McGrady believes he finally has the chance to start over. Mysterious deaths in the place he's chosen as home serve to shatter his delusions. He can't hide forever, and in Russia, folklores aren't just tales of the past: they're real. Alone, Declan has no chance of stopping the wild wolf preying on the innocent. For any hope of victory, he must rely upon those he'd abandoned on Bodwin's mountain-if he dares....
6) Steel Heart
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With the Hope Diamond locked around her throat, Jesse Alexander finds herself in the unfortunate position of being a walking national treasure. With the Starfall stone poised to pulse and flood the world with more of its magic, she must figure out how to remove it before she becomes its pawn yet again.Unfortunately, the stone has a mind-and plans-of its own. Add in a determined tiger, a wolf out for revenge, and an ultimatum to find her clan's missing...
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Cursed by the lover of her former captain, Catalina de la Corona, the Pirate Princess of the Seven Seas, has lived an unnaturally long life and longs for the day she can find eternal peace. Hiding in plain sight as an investment banker, she waits for the end of eternity and the death she has rightfully earned.
When a rich client's fascination with her captain and her lover threatens to exhume the watery grave of Catalina's past, she must take up...
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Nothing was worse than waking up as a squirrel. Not knowing where she is, why she's a squirrel, and why she should be in Georgia comes a close second.Vicky does know several important things. First, she's not supposed to be a squirrel. Second, two-legger males are intriguing creatures. Third, she likes one particular two-legger male more than the others, and she means to keep him.Finding her true self is only the beginning. Vicky must hunt those who...
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Becoming a bounty hunter and taking on the call sign of Murder Mittens wasn't Harri's brightest move, but what's a lynx to do with millions of debt while working a customer service gig? The scars deforming her face won't remove themselves, and she'll bag and tag every criminal in the United States to get rid of them if necessary.Being assigned a handler could make or break her, but did the powers that be really have to toss Sebastian Sumners her way?...
10) Double Trouble
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Layla, a recovering drug addict, reformed kleptomaniac, and general troublemaker, believes she has a one-way ticket straight to hell to go with her general rap sheet. Instead of jail time, she's ordered to perform ninety days of community service.
Her job is simple: she must keep two unicorns out of trouble.
It doesn't take her long to learn the truth: she's been assigned to a dose of double trouble, and wherever the unicorns go, chaos and mayhem...
11) The Flame Game
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Bailey and Quinn are back for one last action-filled adventure!
A corrupt police chief is on the loose, and it falls to Bailey and Quinn to put an end to him before he finds some way to weaponize the spreading rabies virus, create yet another batch of potent gorgon dust, and otherwise wreck Bailey's happily ever after.
With a pair of orphaned gorgon whelps to care for, more animals she can shake a stick at, and her husband's determination to make...
12) Water Witch
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When Dustin Walker's witchcraft awakens, he discovers he harbors a leviathan, one that could destroy him-and his family-should he fail to learn how to control his powers.
Dustin Walker first appeared in the Witch & Wolf standalone novel, Beneath a Blood Moon, and is featured in the majority of stories in this anthology.
While some of these stories were first revealed to newsletter subscribers, there are numerous never-before-seen tales in this volume.
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13) Catnapped
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When someone steals Diana's cat, a former lab animal rescued from death's door, she calls on one of the most dangerous beings in the universe for help. Cutting a deal with the devil isn't the smartest move, but there's no way in hell she'll abandon Mr. Flooferson the Magnificent to his fate.
Teaming up with the son of a demon, an angel, and one hell of a woman might push Diana to the limits of her courage and sanity. Unless she wants to sell her...
14) Shadowed Flame
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Matia Evans has it all, except for one thing: she can't see color. With an adopted family who loves her, a company she helps her father run, and more prospects than she knows what to do with, she's in no place to complain that her world is limited to shades of gray, black, and white.
Her inability to perceive color isn't the only strange thing about her: all souls have shadows, and she can see them. Unfortunately, there are humans who are worse than...
15) Wolf Hunt
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What should have been a preliminary scouting job for a future art heist turns into Declan McGrady's worst nightmare when he discovers the gallery's owner has exotic-and live-tastes. Breaking a group of werewolf women out of a hostage situation is above his pay grade, but he's left with no choice.
Worse, what he doesn't know might kill him-and dump him back into the world of black ops at the cost of his freedom or his life.
WOLF HUNT takes place...
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Long before Nicolina Desmond manifested her powers as a wizard, she was a Normal girl with extraordinary circumstances. In order to prove herself and escape her father's chokehold on her life, she's determined to get on the fast track towards an independent life.
However, she never anticipated how meeting Richard Murphy would change her life..Tales of the Winter Wolf follows the adventures of Nicole and Richard. These short stories and novellas contain...
17) Karma
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Karma Johnson has spent her entire adult life working to become a member of FBI's Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team. She's earned her transfer to CARD, but when she's caught up in the kidnapping of an infant from a festival, she learns what it's like to be the victim. Pretending she's a teen keeps her alive while trying to get herself and the baby to safety.
But the kidnapping only scratches at the surface of a far more nefarious scheme, one...
18) Pack Justice
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Sean's guardian angel is a feline, but his spirit cheetah prefers rival attorney, Andrea Morgan, over him. Trapped in a failing, dangerous marriage and stalked by an accomplice of one of the most dangerous criminals he's ever prosecuted, Sean's troubles are just beginning.
A vacation should have offered him a chance to save his relationship with his wife, Idette. Instead, Sean learns he isn't the only one with a secret, and his discovery of his wife's...
19) 101 Ways to Die
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Officer McMarin of the NYPD is in for the ride of her life when the Chief Quinns storm into her station, promote her to the rank of detective, and relocate her to Manhattan. Saddled with the dubious honor of being Chief Bailey Quinn's primary rider is only the beginning of her woes. Her first case delves into the dark waters of the many ways in which a person can die. At the heart of the mystery is one Alec Mortan, a forensic accountant with a knack...
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Warning: This novel contains excessive humor, action, excitement, adventure, magic, romance, and bodies. Proceed with caution.
Fetching a cat out of a tree should've been a quick, easy fifty bucks in Kanika's pocket. Instead, following one stray thought, the devil pays her a visit and leaves her with a debt to repay. Owing the devil a favor is bad enough, but her life is turned upside down when it's time to pay the piper. First, she doesn't want...
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