May 17, 2012

Keeping the Faith

Cover image of Keeping the Faith Keeping the Faith by Troy Seate

On sale date: 6/3/2011

Category: Western, Erotic, Romance

Description

Johnny, a wrangler, and Faith, the apple of her mother and father’s eye, meet at a fiesta in a small New Mexico town. She’s different from any girl Johnny’s ever met, the kind of girl that tickles the thought of settling down. At a late night rendezvous, they reveal everything there is to know about each other, except for one ominous circumstance. Faith’s father is the Territorial Marshall and he doesn’t take kindly to what happened between the young couple along a riverbank. The Marshall sets out on a quest to make the young cowboy answer for his misdeeds and bring an end to this sudden, lovesick couple’s plans to reunite. While Johnny dodges the man in search of blood, a train awaits the couple if they are allowed to carry out their plan. But philosophies are bound to clash during the final showdown between generational attitudes.

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For the Love of Liberty

Cover image of For the Love of Liberty For the Love of Liberty by Christine DePetrillo

On sale date: 5/21/2011

Category: Interracial, Historical, Romance

Description

Grace Heaton is a Patriot ready to fight for independence. Desperate to get involved, she slips on her brother’s clothes and plans to sneak toward battle, but a cry of pain in the night changes everything.

Isaac Fields is a runaway slave. He enlists with the powerful British army in hopes of winning the freedom he so deserves.

When Isaac is quartered in Grace’s Boston home, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness take on an unexpected meaning.

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The Promise of Canaan

The Promise of Canaan
by Jane Kent
On sale date: 3/4/2011
Category: Erotic, Multicultural, Historical,Romance

Description
When Underground Railroad conductor Quin Sutton is captured and sold into slavery, his only goal is to regain his freedom.  Yet, when the opportunity to escape presents itself, he does not hightail it north as any sane man should and would do.  Instead, he heads straight into the heart of danger to honor a year-old promise to a little boy named Thomas…to find Thomas’s sister, Evangeline, and conduct her to freedom.

But Evangeline is not the teenage girl Quin expected; she’s a full-grown woman, and a very beautiful one at that, and, from all appearances, she is most definitely not the saint described by Thomas.  Though Quin is disappointed and appalled by the woman Evangeline seems to be, it will not stop him from fulfilling his promise.

Evangeline was born a slave and she has dreamt of freedom every day since she was old enough to understand what the word slavery meant.  But she has secrets this stranger, Quin, knows nothing about and beloved people she will never leave behind.  Quin’s assumptions, without even hearing the reasons for her initial refusal to leave, are judgmental, arrogant and downright offensive…not to mention, very wrong.

Such an inauspicious beginning does not bode well for the long, dangerous journey to freedom.  But as the truth and the secrets are revealed, Quin and Evangeline discover that they have much more in common than only the driving need to escape slavery.  Their antagonism changes to respect, admiration, friendship, and eventually the love of a lifetime.

But happy ever after is as much a dream as freedom for the two fugitives.  They still have many perilous miles to travel and a risky border crossing ahead of them.  And both would rather die than be captured…or see the other captured…and returned to a life of slavery.

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A Taste of Honey

A Taste of Honey
by Jane Bonander

On sale date: 2/18/2011
Category: Erotic, Historical, Romance

Description
British born Honey DeHaviland wanted one night of passion before she saved her widowed father, a Greek scholar, from financial ruin by entering into a loveless marriage.  Who would have thought that the stranger who gave her that passion would be the very man who was to ferry her to Crete to marry another?  The journey proved fateful, for Honey fell in love.  But she couldn’t afford to marry a penniless man, and from what she could see, her dream man was truly penniless.  When she accidentally learned that he was, indeed, wealthy and he proposed marriage, how could she accept without appearing shallow and mercenary?  Her refusal is the finest performance she has ever given.

Nick Stamos, born in Greece but educated in Boston, used his boat to transport goods from island to island, mostly as a favor to the locals.  Although he rarely spoke of his true wealth, he owned a vast vineyard on Santorini and was a prosperous man. But when a soft-spoken professor asked him to bring his daughter to Crete to marry a wealthy Greek, Nick found himself face to face with the very woman he had “saved” from two drunken sailors the night before.  Their night of passion was one he would never forget.  And when he learns the reason for her arranged marriage, he wants to make her his own.  Her refusal makes him question many things.  Could he have been so wrong about her feelings for him?

Through hot, sultry days and warm, Mediterranean nights, the lovers ignore their ill-fated destinies and revel in the sizzling, sultry depths of their passion.

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Dragon’s Curse

  

Dragon’s Curse
by Nancy Lee Badger
On sale date: 6/25/2010
Category: Erotic, Romance, Historical, Paranormal

  

Description
Brianna MacLeod has accompanied a shipload of her guardian’s friends to a remote island off the coast of Scotland. She eludes these Highland hunters to keep her innocence…and her gift of sight. Her attitude against falling for womanly desires changes when she nearly drowns. Saved by the talons of a terrifying winged beast, she awakens—naked—in a cave, beside an unusual man.

Cursed by a vengeful witch to transform into a dragon at inopportune times, Draco MacDonald hides on this deserted island to live alone: until he plucks a servant girl from certain death. Fueled by jealousy, and tempered by fear for her safety, he succumbs to an unfamiliar desire to mate. Her kisses propel him to dare to make her his own.

Set in 1592 on the Scottish island of Staffa, the cursed hero battles a ghostly witch, a hunter set on rape, and his own growing desire for a young woman with premonitions of his death. 

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Beyond Castle Walls

 

Beyond Castle Walls
by Troy Seate
On sale date: 4/2/2010
Category: Erotic, Romance, Historical

 

Description
Even in medieval times, romance can be found in the most sensuous of settings. Alas, an outlaw and a maid find themselves in a place beyond the castle walls where a silver key holds the power to express most deeply their passion and reveal their brave new world to one another

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Shiva’s Necklace

 

Shiva’s Necklace
by Troy Seate
On sale date: 3/19/2010
Category: Erotic, Romance, Historical

 

Description
Eroticism is always intriguing, but faraway places give it a special allure. During the Victorian Era, a young man finds himself enchanted by a beautiful woman who possesses something he is asked to investigate. Neither of them could have known his pursuit would lead to trysts that stretched from mysterious Bombay to the bowels of the Roman Coliseum. Such liaisons form dreams of far away places and promote the possibilities of travel.

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The General’s Maiden

  

The General’s Maiden
by Katina Abram
On sale date: 2/5/2010
Category: Erotic, Romance, Historical

  

Description
The Roman General Iairus is captured by the fresh faced beauty of Alexia, a highborn young lady. He wishes to have her as a reward for his services to his country. Famed for his prowess and feared by friends and foe alike, Iairus is used to having his own way. But his erstwhile choice Alexia spurns him for she doesn’t like him or his arrogance in just wanting her as if she were a thing and not a person.

Given his position of favour with the emperor, he has his way and kidnaps her. But a battle ensues between both of them where misunderstandings threaten to defeat Alexia’s fight against being his woman and Iairus has to learn that love can conquer all. 

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Eve of the Dragon

  

Eve of the Dragon
by Kerri Nelson
On sale date: 12/12/2009
Category: Erotic, Romance, Historical

  

Description
When college student Chloe Griffith elects to spend her Christmas break backpacking through the Fuji mountains of Japan, she has no clue that she’s about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime.

During Chloe’s first day of hiking near the village of Ginowan, she watches as a fierce Asian warrior slays a dragon to save his village.

Fascinated by the extreme turn of events, she stays in the village to learn more about this dark, sexy warrior.

She soon learns that the village is caught in a time warp and that the warrior is doomed to repeat the same battle every single night.

Chloe must find a way to help the village and save her lover. Will the magic of Christmas be enough to break this ancient curse? 

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Spirit of Christmas Past

  

Spirit of Christmas Past
by T.J. Seate
On sale date: 12/11/2009
Category: Erotic, Romance, Historical

  

Description
Elizabeth waits for Harold in their London home, circa 1880. When he arrives, they make rapacious love in front of the fireplace in celebration of another year. Yet, something is amiss. When the maid comes on Christmas day, she finds Harold alone, passed out on the Persian carpet, naked and exposed. She fantasizes what it would be like to be intimate with her employer and does things of which Victorian society would not approve as he lies at her feet unconscious. The truth about herself and the amorous couple is exposed as Christmas carolers wind their way past the well appointed house in London. 

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Love’s Lonesome Serenade

  

Love’s Lonesome Serenade
by Troy Seate
On sale date: 11/12/2009
Category: Erotic, Romance, Historical

  

Description
Sin and saddles were rudimentary ingredients in the Wild West, but sometimes, romance on the range bloomed amidst the sagebrush. This star-crossed love between a saddle-tramp and a songbird is reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet or Running Bear and Little White Dove but with more sensuality and adventure. Smiley Red finds Katie in a saloon and, after making quick work of her aged keeper, he and she ride to Greasy Bend where they are safe in each other’s arms. Until a posse shows up, looking for trouble…and Red.

Smiley and Katie must face the elements in the Badlands until they can sneak back to Greasy Bend and hatch a plan that will allow them to escape once and for all. But the question is can they outrun and outsmart the posse? 

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Coming Home

Coming Home
by Rhiannon Neeley
On sale date: May 4, 2007
Category: Erotic, Historical, Romance

Description
On an unexpected Christmas leave from the jungles of Vietnam, Tom Stabler finds himself at home, but in a life he no longer fits. The farmhouse where he grew up seems too close, his parents and grandparents older and frail. Tom the man is uncomfortable in the skin of Tom the boy. So much so, he’s beginning to think he should have stayed in Nam, where his memories were innocent.During a restless pre-dawn morning, the girl he’s dreamed off for months arrives unexpectedly. Tom is afraid he’ll feel disconnected to her, too. Then what dreams will he have to take back with him?

Susan Swenson, the sweet, farm girl Tom loved in high school, has rushed home to be with him, not as a girl but as a woman.Touches lead to kisses; kisses lead to skin gliding against skin and a deep loving that produces a small miracle. As the sun crests the shore of a nearby lake, Tom fulfills Susan’s dream of passion. With her own heat and desire, Susan helps to heal Tom’s soul and shows him a way to come home.

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