Saying Yes

Available from Ellora's Cave at the end of August 2010 - a free story

Zadie's negative attitude leads to the loss of her boyfriend, job and flat. Now she's determined to be a yes girl. Yes, she'd love to flat sit while the owner is away, but one look at the mess and she wishes she'd said no.

No is the last thing Tristan expects to hear when he proposes in front of his girlfriend's family. Humiliated, he hides out in his brother's empty flat without asking because he really doesn't want to hear another no.

What he needs is a woman who'll say yes...yes...yes... Could that be Zadie?

Fight to Remember

Available from Loose-Id

What's my name?

With a twist of his body, Rhyl avoids being staked in the heart but not the demon's shove toward hell. Trapped between slabs of rock, he has to drink the blood of rats to survive. It's a desperate fight to stay sane.

What did I do last night?

For eleven long years, Piper wakes every morning with no idea who or where she is. How can she find someone to love when she can't remember their face or name after she falls asleep? Life is a long, lonely battle.

When will this end?

Werepuma, Keir Sparks, is bound to a demon who forces him to fight in her club. If Keir refuses, she'll go after his brother. There can only be one outcome in the ring. Someone has to die. After seven wins, Keir hopes eight is his lucky number. Survival is a hard-fought struggle.

Three worlds collide and the trio discover happiness in each other's arms. Life suddenly becomes worth living until they learn the price of their love. The only way to keep two safe is for one to die.

Snow Play

coming soon from Ellora's Cave

Single on a couples' getaway? Not the way to spend a vacation skiing the Alps.

Allie, the odd woman out, leaves the couples behind as she takes a tour under a glacier and ends up trapped in the dark. Cold and alone, she resigns herself to a night of misery. But when Zach finds unclaimed skis after the mountain has closed, he follows his instincts and charges to the rescue, bringing more than a helping hand.

He brings enough heat to melt the polar icecaps and change her life forever.

Digging Deeper

Available 29th April 2010 from Cerridwen Press

Archaeologist Beck isn't expecting much to come out of this summer's dig. While his colleague spends the summer in Italy, Beck draws the short straw supervising a group of archaeology students excavating in the grounds of Hartington Hall in Yorkshire. Little does Beck realise when he saves a redhead from the attentions of an amorous ram, that this accident-prone female will throw his ordered life into chaos.

The last thing Flick needs in her life is a digger because some secrets are meant to stay buried. Very deep. But Beck is irresistible. She'd love to get him into bed, though after the incident at the swimming pool, the wall that collapses, the snake bite and the unexploded bomb--a hospital bed looks more likely. As their relationship lurches from one disaster to another, Beck has to dig deep to get to the bottom of this irrepressible redhead.

One thing is clear - you never know quite what you're going to find when you start digging.

Finding the Right One

Available 27th January 2010

Take a gorgeous man and a sexy woman. Add a sprinkling of Greek sunshine and a splash of blue sea. A perfect recipe for love. Except the man is nursing a broken heart. And the woman is nursing a black eye.

Imo needs something to help her forget the man she's left behind in London. When she throws open the shutters of her villa to see a Greek God reclining in all his naked glory, how can she resist?

Working as a sailing instructor in Greece is just the thing Will needs to forget the woman he can no longer have. Not easy when she's rarely out of his thoughts. But when he's attacked by a minx wearing red underwear, he wonders if he's found the perfect way to distract himself.

Finding out if Imo's the right one could be just the cure Will needs... so long as it doesn't get him killed. And with Imo's past in hot pursuit-it might.

Will and Imo's story stands on its own, but if you want to find out how Will came to be reclining naked on a Greek Island, nursing a broken heart, grab a copy of Doing the Right Thing and discover where it all went wrong.

Doing the Right Thing

Available 6th of January 2010 from Ellora's Cave

Addie Winter is single-just one more reason for disappointment in her permanently disapproving mother's eyes. There's nothing she wants more than to be loved but when her own mother can't bring herself to love her, she wonders if anyone can. What she needs is a man-real would be ideal, but she'll settle for pretend. Anything to shut her mother up.

Will Mansell chokes on his drink when Addie offers to pay him to spend the night in her room. Tall, dark-haired and the epitome of Addie's "hero", he can't believe his luck because women usually go for his blond-haired brother. Ed Mansell is a serial playboy with an electric smile who waltzes through life and through women. Lucky for Will and Ed they don't have the same taste in women. But that was before they met Addie.

Far from pretending, Will and Ed set out to prove Addie wrong. But after having no one who loves her, Addie finds too much love can be just as painful as no love at all.

Strangers

Available 2nd December 2009 from Ellora's Cave

Kate Snow's had enough of bad boys until a one-way swim in the ocean puts her on a collision course with one she can't resist. Charlie Storm has turned being a bad boy into an art form. Already a famous pop star, mega-success in the movie business beckons until his inner demons send him spiraling out of control and right out to sea. The last thing he expects to do before he dies is crash into a suicidal woman.

When the worlds of these two strangers collide, their lives take an upward twist. In surviving the waves, they find they can't stand to be apart, in or out of bed. Kate seizes a chance for happiness, seeing in Charlie a man she can finally trust to love her. Charlie can't let go of Kate because she's the only woman able to see the man he wants to be.

But the price of fame is high and when the world wants to drive you apart, life only seems safe in Kate's bed.

Lucy in the Sky

Available 21st October from Ellora's Cave

When you wake up to find a spaceship in your backyard, what do you do? Choose from three:

Phone the police.

Scream.

Go yell at the alien for wrecking your garden.

Lucy storms out of her house to confront the inept pilot and the last option turns out to be both the right and wrong choice when she finds the gorgeous hunk's name is Three. She's torn between fury that he's crushed her roses and decapitated her statue of Eros, and a longing that he enliven her boring life and whisk her to the stars. Three doesn't give her a choice when he throws her over his broad shoulders and takes her into space. Lucy soon finds herself exploring alien territory in ways she never imagined.

Three's efforts to hide and protect her on the mother ship are stymied by his inability to keep his hands-and other body parts-off the luscious Lucy, and it looks as if her immediate fate might be a solo trip into space without a spacesuit.

Reader advisory: Contains hunka-hunka-burnin' male/male sex scenes. Score!

The Misfits

Available 27th October from Loose-Id

It's not easy being a faerie. Holly would know. She's the laughing stock of Fae, useless at magic and has wings that never cooperate. She can't understand why a high-born faerie she hardly knows would want to marry her because she certainly doesn't want to marry him. The mortal world looks far more enticing.

Being a vampire bites. Crippled with guilt over his part in the death of his twin, Dominic is estranged from his family. When he rescues an injured werewolf on the run from his pack, he sees a kindred spirit in the damaged outcast.

What use is a werewolf who can't scent or track? Victim of his conniving brother, Jay is viciously attacked by his pack. The wolves might not want him but once he's living with Dominic, they won't leave him alone.

After a night of passion with Dominic and Jay, Holly's ready to move in with them. But their enemies are intent on keeping them apart and the trio of misfits find themselves in a fight for survival. If they can't figure a way through the web of lies and deceit that bind them, they'll lose more than their families. They'll lose each other.

Susie's Choice

Available from Ellora's Cave

Writer Christian and his partner Joel, an American lawyer, feel certain the advert they place in their local shop window will work.

Wanted. Dead or Alive. Cleaner/housekeeper/miracle worker for two housework-challenged super-busy guys. Three days a week. 9 to 5. Excellent pay for Mother Teresa. Even better for Keira Knightley. And in case we're called sexist - better yet for Daniel Craig.

Susie turns up for an interview with bloody knees, having fallen off her bike and reckons she's blown it. But Christian and Joel think she's just what they've been looking for, someone who can transform their home and their lives.

But Susie has to want them both, and they're not sure she wants either of them. Who'll make the first move?

Power Of Love

Available from Ellora's Cave

Sometimes love lasts a lifetime. Sometimes love reaches beyond death.

Joe is a lost soul.

When Detective Joe Dalziel is killed in the line of duty, the result of a blunder by his girlfriend, Poppy, he ends up stuck between worlds, not quite in heaven, not quite in hell. Joe wakes with gray wings and a mission. He thinks he has to save Poppy from herself and persuade her to let him go. But can Joe move on, or will he destroy himself clinging to the one thing he couldn't hold onto in life? Love.

Poppy is a soul lost.

She's lost her heart, her sanity and the only man she ever loved. Six months have passed since Joe died but Poppy can't say goodbye. Tormented by guilt over his death, Joe is still part of Poppy's life. Everywhere she looks, he's there - talking to her, touching her, sharing ice cream and showers. Not really there, only if you want something enough, can love make it happen?

Sometimes love lasts forever.

Anna in the Middle

Available from Ellora's Cave

Anna is in the middle of a mess.

She's being stalked by a manipulative guy who's about to marry her sister and has everyone convinced Anna is jealous. Her luck changes when she meets tall, dark and gorgeous Jax. But after a steamy night of sex, Anna discovers something that makes her think he's married.

Jax is in the middle of a dilemma.

He's torn between the man he loves and a woman he's just met. Tracking her down means risking what he already has. Jax is desperate to find her, but will she understand what he'll have to tell her?

Will is in the middle of heartache.

He knows Jax loves him, though he's never said it. He also knows Jax has found a woman. Torn between being a good friend and Jax's lover, Will's not sure their relationship will survive. The only way to find out is to locate Anna for Jax. But when Will finds her, he discovers the reason Jax has fallen so hard.

Lightning In A Bottle

Available 24th February 2009 from Loose-Id

Felix feels like he's been hit by lightning. After successfully avoiding responsibility for most of his life, it's thrust upon him when his parents die. As the thirteenth Earl of Sherbourne, he inherits Pevenhurst Castle, the home that's been in his family for four hundred years - and when he can't afford to repair it, he's forced to sell.

Lightning isn't supposed to strike twice, but when the electrifying Erin Markov whirls into Felix's life she gives him more to worry about. Erin's exciting and unpredictable, in and out of bed, if only he could get her to stop dancing in thunderstorms, rollerblading in the middle of the night and leaping around on unsafe roofs. Plus she has this annoying habit of biting his neck.

Erin wishes she could remember who she is. The couple who claim to be her parents leave her in a dilapidated stately home with supplies of a revolting energy drink and instructions not to go out in the sun. Then she discovers sculptor Felix living next door and life becomes far more tasty.

Until the day Erin finally remembers who she is and wishes she hadn't.

Something About Polly

An offer she should refuse

When Polly reluctantly attends a charity auction she doesn't expect to win, she bids on a sealed offer made by a devilishly handsome marquis. From the look on the auctioneer's face as he reads out "three wishes", Polly's sure he's lying. The marquis snatches the envelope before she can read it and invites her to take a risk on the contents or accept three wishes. He's as shocked as her when she accepts his offer of WILD SEX.

An offer she won't refuse.

If trouble had a name, it would be Adrian, Marquis of Shoreham. Tall, dark and magnetic, and everything Polly wants except he's lusting after her best friend. Adrian's one of the pampered elite Polly despises who uses his privileged position to gain every advantage. Polly knows she should walk away and go about her boring, abstinent life. Instead, she finds herself walking towards Adrian on London Bridge, with nothing but wild sex on her mind. An encounter that will lead to --

The offer she never expected.

Available from www.ellorascave.com

Men In Shorts

Anthology

There is nothing like summer, when the weather changes and the men change into their summer shorts. And basketball shorts. And cut-offs. And board shorts!

Here are 11 erotic short stories featuring all those wicked fantasies we've ever had about the mailman, the cop, the athlete, and the gardener.

And G.I. Joe!

With legs bared and muscles flexing, these men in shorts are sure to inspire, entertain, and titillate you!

Contributing Authors: Barbara Elsborg, Dawn Jackson, Adam Carpenter, Neve Black, C. Margery Kempe, Lisa Lane, Heidi Champa, Katy Sirls, Brandi Woodlawn, Karen Sutow, Ryan Field, Savannah Chase, Lexi Ryan

Available from www.ravenousromance.com

Falling For You

She lives for the moon

Every month, for five days around the full moon, Jo has the overwhelming urge to jump almost every male she sees. Convinced she's gone crazy, she seeks medical help but finds none. All she can do to stop the hunger is run. One wrong step and Jo's life plummets in a direction she didn't expect. She falls into the lair of a badly injured vampire.

He lives for the night.

Alek can't believe the angel who's dropped from the sky. With a knife wedged in his chest and too weak to move, he's given up and is waiting for sunrise. But when the beautiful jogger crashes into his lair, Alek finds more than a way to survive - he finds a reason for doing so.

Every dog has its day.

Lyall, alpha werewolf, wants Alek dead so he can take his land. He wants Jo alive to breed more wolves. But Lyall hasn't reckoned on the power of love. Annoying Alek is a big mistake. Annoying Jo could be fatal.

Available from www.loose-id.com

Perfect Timing

How to seduce a priest

Dress as a nun with red lace underwear and stiletto heels. Check.Drop face first in your dessert and wait for the mouth to mouth. Double check.Okay, so he isn't a Priest, and Daisy isn't a Nun, but Jake is her best shot at rescuing her getaway from disaster.

Daisy books a sixties murder mystery weekend, thinking hippies, free love and tie dyes, not Zimmer frames and false teeth. So she misses one tiny word on the details. Over. As in, over sixties, over the hill and when will this weekend be over?

From the moment she arrives, rolling in with a sheep, she makes quite the impression. Like an escaped mental patient. And sliding down the well-waxed banister and landing on her bum in front of Jake... not a good idea. When her charming host dresses her as a nun, Daisy wants to scream. Another impression she didn't want to make. Pious. She begins to wonder if she should go home and write this weekend off. On the other hand, maybe not... He did wear that costume well.

Bless me father, for I have sinned... or I'd really like to.

Available from www.ellorascave.com

The Consolation Prize

You are invited to spend four days at Sunset Spa, Washburn Hall. Accommodation and nourishment provided. All spa treatments included.'It should have been a big thrill - an all expenses paid trip, but it was the topping on Chloe's really bad night. She'd lost her promotion, destroyed a pair of designer pumps and given in her notice. Washburn Hall, where her family died, was the last place she wanted to go. But Chloe is pulled towards the spa by forces beyond her control.

Luka is handsome, rich and gay. That's what he'd like everyone to think. Luka is a Trueblood, a fertile vampire. Not a bad thing, unless being staked out in the sun and fried to a crisp is appealing. But his secret is out. Shanghaied into stud service, he's chained up in a basement.

Chloe wonders if the gorgeous naked man in chains is part of the all-inclusive package. Free him and run. Simple enough. After all, the only thing between Chloe and the man of her dreams is a few horny vamps, a decent set of bolt cutters and a step-grandmother from hell. Piece of cake.

Who said the trip to the spa wouldn't be fun?

Available from www.loose-id.net