The start of an epic enemies-to-lovers hockey romance from USA TODAY bestselling author Rachel Reid—book two in her fan-favorite Game Changers series.

Nothing interferes with pro hockey star Shane Hollander’s game.

Now that he’s captain of the Montreal Voyageurs, he won’t let anything jeopardize that—definitely not the sexy rival he loves to hate.

Boston Bears captain Ilya Rozanov is everything Shane’s not. The self-proclaimed king of the ice, he’s as cocky as he is talented. No one can beat him—except Shane. Publicly, they’re enemies. Privately, they can’t stop touching each other.

The smart thing to do? Walk away, once a few secret hookups turn into a struggle to keep their relationship out of the press. The truth could ruin them both. But for Shane and Ilya, secrecy is soon no longer an option…

Maya has lost her sense of self. An underappreciated stay-at-home mom in an unhappy marriage, she embarks on a week-long solo vacation with the hope of finding herself again. But as she arrives in sultry North Florida, she thinks all that awaits her is umbrella drinks, warm sand, and a new perspective. Maya has no idea her entire life is about to change.

Maya just wants to feel young and sexy again. As she enjoys a drink at a tiki bar on her first night, she is lost in her thoughts-until a dashing man introduces himself. After Rafael and Maya share an intimate dance, they part for the night. Maya thinks it is nothing but an innocent attraction- until two goons show up at her door a few minutes later and reveal they are holding her sister hostage. Suddenly, Maya is caught not only in a dangerous web of deception, but also a passionate affair with Rafael-who is actually a CIA agent in the midst of a complicated case.

In this sexy, romantic tale, a woman lost in the demands of motherhood and a lifeless marriage sets out to find happiness and discovers her true self in the process.

Glenn Annah Andersson. What a handle to be hampered with your entire life. Annah was the farthest thing from masculine that any person could image. With flashing green eyes, bouncing blond curls, and a bodacious body, no one would suspect this petite bombshell was studying to be a conservation officer or that at home awaited her two small children.

Enter Lachlan MacGregor, a divorced conservation officer whose daughter's death has left his private life a closed topic. A chance meeting in a crowded hallway starts a series of events rolling out of Annah and Lachlan's control. Annah had forgotten she was a woman with needs. Now she can't seem to concentrate on anything except her raging hormones. Determined to stop this insanity and get back to the serious business of her life, Annah propositions Lachlan to a single night of delights. It works too, for a while.

The attraction between the two can't be ignored. While they privately struggle with their attraction a mountain rescue goes bad and an officer is killed. Someone has been illegally baiting a cougar as well. Lachlan vows to protect Annah and her family and make them his own.

Desires of the Heart contain stories of romance, erotica, love, and friendship. It is a series of variations on the theme of love, a fantasy of dreams, and fiction, drawn from the experience of many people, some real and some imaginary. The stories cover the full range of our lives, from youth and young adulthood to family experiences, even life and death. The final story takes place one afternoon and shares a mature love-tempered-marriage covering two life-times of living together. it is, as promised, a series of themes that, hopefully, touch us all. It is a consideration of our love and desires, as they are, could be, or might have been.

Libiya is known for her pure and ambitious character and has never had difficulty refusing temptation or peer pressure; however, after experiencing The Feeling of love once meeting the funny and tender personality of Qalbee, she loses moral direction. As their friendship matures, Qalbee struggles with a domestic secret that weighs emotional distress in which he has yet to reveal to Libiya; and is unable to reciprocate Libiya's affection. Libiya and Qalbee go in and out of one another's lives as personal trauma and tragedy bring them together and tear them apart. It isn't until years of bad decisions finally catches up with Qalbee that he realizes his heart won't beat if he were not to have Libiya back into his life again... but is this revelation too late? This riveting story entails moral controversy, tragedy, and unconditional love that struggles the test of time.

In 1969, newlywed Dorothy Tucker envisions herself living with her husband in quaint Minden, Louisiana, surrounded by their families, raising a family of their own, and becoming part of Minden history. The joy doesn't last long. After the birth of their child, James Lee, Dorothy obtains a divorce from her abusive and philandering husband, Fred. But Fred's parents are not about to lose control of their grandson.

When Dorothy loses custody of James Lee through Child Protective Services, she flees to California to start a new life, vowing to reconnect with her son someday. While waitressing and attending college, she meets and marries Jesse Barns, a black airman stationed at LAX. Together, through the haze of racism fueled by their mixed marriage, Dorothy and Jesse raise two children.

Twenty-five years later, she receives letter from James Lee, who says he wants to meet with her. The letter reveals James Lee as a racist who has just been released from prison. Dorothy must determine if this man, her firstborn son, will be a positive influence in her family's life, or if his racist attitudes will bring them all down.

Claire and Dorotea are best friends and beautiful women. Their affable rivalry turns serious in a game that has been played out over two hundred thousand years. It's a competition that has shaped the very course of human culture, and created a penis of a size disproportionate to its function. Claire is well educated and highly intelligent. She knows what she wants and how to get it. She lectures in anthropology. Studying for her PhD, her thesis is The Role of the Clitoris in the Evolution of Love. She quotes Shakespeare and feminist interpretations of Darwinian theory. Dorotea is an independent, professional photographer. Although she studied the same things with Claire in high school, she's now an artist, not a scientist and she has two things that Claire wants. One is a photo album, the existence of which she only accidentally reveals to Claire. It is locked and hidden in a darkroom. No one else has ever seen it. Inside are photos like no other. The second is something Dorotea will take to the other side of the planet to avoid losing. But when she gets there, the same forces that drive Claire will nearly kill her and make her lose what she's found ... until someone special intervenes.

Cataclysmic change has engulfed the land. The shadows have broken free and now hunger for revenge. Long imprisoned souls have revolted as fearsome gods and goddesses are on the prowl. The holy and unholy are both confused, for everything has now changed and will never be the same. evil incarnate, awakens in the distant future to find himself the only inhabitant of the alien planet Desperia. His mind twisted and broken, haunted by all the dead from the many holy wars that have ravaged the universe. friends, Melinda and Gabriel, back on Earth. Sharmion knows that he must escape back to the past and return to Earth for even here on Desperia, thousands of light-years away, he can feel IT, The Beast, and IT is coming delusion. People are running wildly, terrified, pointing into the night sky. At first, he sees nothing and then he notices the ultimate horror, the stars are blinking out one by one. He then knows that IT, The Beast is coming and soon all existence will be Lost in the Echoes of the Voiceless.

New revised edition Billionaire John Farrington is obsessed with the idea of offending God to the point that God would want to confront him in person. Farrington has abducted priests and nuns to commit sexual atrocities with the most grievously genetically deformed people he can find. People that he's also abducted and kept in such a high state of sexual intensity, with a drug his company produces, that they are just ravenous for physical contact. The abductees, with basically no self control, commit some of the most depraved sex acts, over, and over again. Westmore and Bryant, a photographer and journalist, are given the rare opportunity to interview the reclusive Farrington and see inside his mansion and operation. Only to find the horrors within, and who have become pawns in the mysteries they find behind every door. Farmington's plan may work, and to make sure he's successful, he will do whatever it takes to have the deity of man face him.

A villainous heroine finds herself plunged into a seductive world of power, politics and murder in the court of the vampire king in this bloodthirsty debut from an unmissable new voice in fantasy romance.

The daughter of a powerful but disgraced Blood Worker, Shan LeClaire has spent her entire life perfecting her blood magic, building her network of spies, and gathering every scrap of power she could. Now, to protect her brother, she assassinates their father and takes her place at the head of the family. And that is only the start of her revenge.

Samuel Hutchinson is a bastard with a terrible gift. When he stumbles upon the first victim of a magical serial killer, he's drawn into the world of magic and intrigue he's worked so hard to avoid - and is pulled deeply into the ravenous and bloodthirsty court of the vampire king.

Tasked by the Eternal King to discover the identity of the killer cutting a bloody swath through the city, Samuel, Shan and mysterious Royal Blood Worker Isaac find themselves growing ever closer to each other. But Shan's plans are treacherous, and as she lures Samuel into her complicated web of desire, treason and vengeance, he must decide if the good of their nation is worth the cost of his soul.

Confessions continues the fast-paced excitement of the hard-bitten detective Martin Jackson and Cornelia, his beautiful stripper and hit-woman client introduced in our book Skin In Darkness published in 2006.Following the death of a minor league writer, a mysterious woman whose own past is full of contradictions is called in to investigate his life and to discover the lost manuscript of his memoirs, as they may incriminate VIPs.

Set in the world of fine art and led by three generations of strong women, "The Art Lover" tells the story of three couples and how they each finally find love. Foremost to this tale is the childhood attachment, adolescent estrangement, and adult reconciliation between artistically-gifted Kate Germaine and her mother, Joanne. But it is also about the passion that museum director Phillip Gambrell and art teacher Janovar Savocek come to share, and the arduous and ultimately triumphant courtship of the art collector Countess Elena D'Allessandro Ricci by her confidential agent, Eduard LaValle. From the home of a portrait painter and his wife to the galleries of a great museum, and from the classroom of a brutally brilliant art teacher to the isolated retreat of Riablo, the legendary modern artist, the love of art and the art of love beautifully merge in this epic tale of discovery.

Richard K. Byrne's first novel, Seduction In Numbers, chronicles events that he has observed in his personal life and those that he believes lie ahead for mankind. The novel reveals the lust, sexual adventures, crime, and self-indulgence of real individuals he has known in his business life. Not even a natural disaster that sets the world back one hundred years slows down their erotic desires with a growing number of lovers. "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? This writer knows "

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