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From the creators of the NY Times & USA TODAY Bestselling Anthology Taming the Alpha comes…
A Taming the Alpha Big Box Set of Spicy Paranormal Romance Tales featuring OVER 25 stories from New York Times, USA Today and Bestselling Authors
Limited Time Boxed Set
Stories include:
V. M. Black - Vampire Games
A yacht trip with a billionaire vampire holds even more dangers and secrets than Cora can imagine.
Terah Edun - When Darkness Falls
If New York City falls, the rest of the world will follow. Holidays be damned.
As the junior demon hunter for the Southern region, Rhiannon Slator’s job involves a lot more low-ranking minion banishments than she’d like. In short, she protects the human regions of Hell while her friends go off and fight the mega-demons of Heaven. But when New York City is hit with the most deadly attack in its history, she’s upended not only from her low-level job in the boondocks but forced center-stage into a demonic battle for power… just in time for the holidays.
Cathryn Fox - Wrapped Up (Stone Cliff #4)
Thanks to a little holiday magic, Carter Reed might finally get off the naughty list.
Business deal behind him, attorney Carter Reed can’t wait to put Stone Cliff Resort and the festive town of Deerfield in his rearview mirror. Once upon a time, he believed in Christmas, but that was before Santa had permanently placed him on the naughty list.
When snowy roads and a stray dog send his car into a spin, foiling his attempt to get to the airport, a woman comes to his rescue. Suddenly, he can think of all kinds of ways to pass the time, but when she tells him he hit a magical wolf and he’s soon to get everything he needs, he’s more determined than ever to get out of town. He doesn’t believe in magic, and the last thing he needs is more false hopes and empty promises.
Biologist Josie Walker takes one look at Carter and can’t help but wonder if her Christmas wish has been granted. She’d like nothing better than to take him home and unwrap him, but Scrooge is determined to get out of town. When his every attempt to flee is thwarted, Josie knows the wolf is keeping him there, because sometimes what you think you want isn’t necessarily what you need.
Carter soon finds himself caught up in Josie’s spirit of Christmas. Making new memories with her has him wanting to ask for things—a family of his own, someone to love - things Santa had refused him as a child. But when the storm abates and he’s finally free to leave, will he get on the plane and turn his back on the one girl who has thawed his frozen heart or find the courage to break his rules and ask for everything he’s always needed?
Carina Wilder - Christmas Past, Christmas Presents
Sometimes the best gifts are the ones that you can’t wrap.
When aspiring journalist Kiara heads to Micah Drake’s party on a snowy night, little does she expect to spend time with the man himself. He’s a known recluse, a mysterious billionaire and the most gorgeous man she’s ever seen.
Christmas is going to be interesting this year.
Chloe Cole - Hunted (New England Nightwalkers #1)
Bookish librarian or vampire hunter?
Librarian by day, vampire hunter by night…
When nightwalker Gabriel Thorne is tasked to do recon on Zara Matheson, he thinks it’s a waste of time. This shy bookworm’s edgiest achievement is winning a blue ribbon for the county’s best pumpkin pie. It’s only when he meets her face to face that he realizes his mistake. Because while she might look like an angel, Zara brings out the beast in him.
Zara Matheson hasn’t been the same since the mysterious death of her father, and she’ll do whatever it takes to get to the bottom of it. When her investigation leads her to Club Nitris, she slips into the seductive world of dominance and submission with a man who rocks her to the core. But is their searing attraction blinding her to the danger that surrounds her?
Mandy M. Roth - Heated Holiday (Bureau of Paranormal Investigation #2)
She’s fire…
He’s fangs…
It’s a match made in… Ohio?
Michelle M. Pillow - Stirring Up Trouble (Warlocks MacGregor #3)
From the Highlands of Scotland to the valleys of Wisconsin…
Magick, Mischief and Kilts. Some Warlocks excel at brewing up trouble.
hen Scottish Warlock Fergus MacGregor is around their new neighbor Donna Montgomery, he feels something he hasn’t felt for a long time. He is still holding on to the memory of his first love who died centuries ago. He’s tried everything to bring Elspeth back from the dead. None of his magic spells, potions, sorcery or incantations have worked. His family thinks it’s time he moves on.
Is fate giving him a second chance at love, or will falling for Donna stir a powerful supernatural force that intends to cause nothing but trouble?
T.S. Joyce - Baby It’s Cold Out Bear (Fire Bears #4)
All she wants for Christmas is a sexy bear shifter.
Emry Mason doesn’t expect to be pulled out of an icy ditch by a registered bear shifter, and she certainly doesn’t expect her rescuer to be as alluring as Graylan Young. He’s rented a room at the house she lives in, and with every growly encounter, he’s laying claim to her heart. But Graylan isn’t much for the festive season, and to win Emry over, she has one rule. Must love the holidays.
Graylan is only in town for a little while before his inner animal will demand he move on. But when he meets Emry, his life is turned upside down. Not only is she beguiling and different from every woman he’s ever met, but she has him wishing he could ignore his nomadic instincts. He might not be into the holidays, but suddenly all he wants for Christmas is to settle down with the woman he’s falling for.
R.E. Butler - Blitzen’s Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters #1)
On Christmas Eve, Arctic shifter Arian finds his fated mate in a human woman.
On Christmas Eve, romance writer Charli watches as something plummets into the woods behind her home. When she investigates, she discovers an injured reindeer who quickly transforms into a man.
When arctic shifter Arian’s sleigh harness breaks during the Christmas Eve run, he knows he’s lucky to be alive after the fall. But he’s even luckier to have found his fated mate in the alluring human, Charli.
When Arian contacts his people to tell them the news, he’s surprised to discover they don’t believe that Charli is his mate and are coming to see him before dawn on Christmas Day. Arian refuses to consider a life without Charli and will do whatever is necessary to ensure they’ll be together forever.
Jaycee Clark - Thief Of Souls
Devon and the playboy vamp will do whatever it takes to stop an evil witch from devouring more souls.
Immortals are powerful beings, but soul eaters are dangerous even for them. Can Devon and Francisco stop the soul thief before she becomes too powerful?
Soul Thieves are real. Francisco Beauxchamp knows that fact all too well. Devon McClane wishes she didn’t have to work with the playboy vamp, but they’ll do whatever they must to stop the evil witch from devouring more immortals.
J.C. Andrijeski - A Glint Of Light (Bridge & Sword Prequels #6)
Can the leader of the seer military save the imprisoned woman he loves from her own darkness?
Everyone told him she couldn’t be saved…
But Balidor just can’t let her go.
Everyone told him Cassandra couldn’t be saved. All of them - even Allie and Jon, her childhood friends—believe she’s too far gone, that she would never come back. After Cass betrayed them by joining the dark being called Shadow, the rest of his team mostly wants her dead, but Balidor can’t bring himself to let her go.
Using his psychic training, he leads her through the darkness of her past, trying desperately to bring back the woman he loved before Shadow broke her mind. With months gone and Christmas here, he decides to go for broke, hoping desperately it might be the thing to finally break through.
Tasha Black - The Clockwork Dragon (Tales From Tarker’s Hollow #3)
A dragon’s fire can melt the coldest heart.
Most of the magic has gone from the world.
So when a vision of a golden-eyed prince appears to Marie, she knows it must be significant.
On the eve of the most important night of her life, a gorgeous older man arrives in Tarker’s Hollow and presents Marie with an unusual gift: a magnificent clockwork dragon.
The race is on.
Can Marie resist her newfound passions long enough to solve the mystery of the golden-eyed prince and the clockwork dragon before it’s too late? Will she unlock the magic inside herself in time to save her family? And will the stunning stranger unleash the desires she is trying so hard to keep at bay?
Cristina Rayne - An Impossible Gift (Tales From The Vampire Underground Story #2)
When car trouble coupled with a snowstorm strands med student Ellie Bradford in a Texas city on her way to visit her sister in New York for the holidays, a chance encounter with the handsome and intimidating owner of her hotel and a brush with danger reawakens old ghosts about a childhood incident that has haunted her for years. Ellie is sure she’s never met him, so why does he insist that she seems so familiar?
Jaide Fox - Star’s Fall (Mating Heat #3)
A lone wolf finds his beast roused by a wildcat.
Considering he’s not a pretty boy like the other randy wolves in town, big, burly Adolpho expected to maintain his lone wolf status ‘til death - until an injured she-cat rouses his beast and makes him question why he thought he could spend his days unmated and alone.
Mating heat made her a target for any male catshifter in sniffing distance, and for the first time in her life, Star realizes she needs help from the last person she expected - a werewolf.
Michele Bardsley - In Good Spirits (Violetta Graves Mystery #1)
She only has a ghost of a chance to prove she didn’t kill her ex-boyfriend.
When Las Vegas cocktail waitress Violetta Graves is wrongly accused of killing her ex-boyfriend, she knows the odds are stacked against her. Still, she’ll do almost anything to avoid using her gift (hah!): the bad-luck-inducing ability to talk to ghosts.
Being considered a murder suspect by hunky homicide detective Matthew Stone motivates Vie to straighten out her priorities. She’s being framed by an unknown killer, her uptight sister has lost her ever-lovin’ mind, and the hot guy she can’t resist might have to arrest her. Vie has no choice but to turn to the supernatural for help, and try to remain in good spirits.
Renee George - Midnight Before Christmas (Midnight Shifters #5)
When a dragon shifter rescues an ice princess, their passion is hot enough to melt glaciers!
When Max Gray is sent on a secret mission to Minnesota, the dragon shifter blows his supernatural cover to rescue champion figure skater Rachel Campbell. Even though Max must investigate other worlder vigilantes to insure his queen’s safety, Max can’t resist Rachel.
Their passion is hot enough to melt glaciers.
But when Rachel’s parents are put into deadly jeopardy, they must work together to save both human and other worlders in time for Christmas.
T.J. Michaels - Winter Blues: Kotara Pryde (Pryde Ranch Shifters #5)
When a lioness shifter comes calling in the dead of winter… you’d better have ice cream.
Kotara Pryde is an accomplished scientist and doctor in the field of feline biogenetics. But she’s also a kick-ass bounty hunter, along with her sisters and brothers-in-law, for the Shifter and Were Armed Tactics agency, S.W.A.T. She loves her life and her freedom, but being the last Pryde to take a mate has its downsides… like utter loneliness during the most charitable time of the year.
So, what better way to battle the holiday blues than to go on a little hunting mission in the mountains, right?
Task - Find the man who claims he witnessed a shifter murder
Mark - Mr. Harrison Blue
Deadline - Two weeks
With no time to waste, Kotara hits the Sawtooth Mountains in record time. But when she’s pulled from a deadly avalanche by the man she’s supposed to be investigating, this particular Pryde finds herself at the mercy of her mark. Now she must decide if he’s as innocent as he claims, or if he’s playing her like her brother-in-law’s finely tuned banjo.
Elsa Jade - Wish Upon A Werewolf (Wolves Of Angels Rest #8)
Annie is asking for one Christmas gift: a werewolf’s bite. But Blaze wants to give her so much more…
Annie Belle hitchhiked to Angels Rest with one dangerous Christmas wish: to be bitten by a werewolf. Blaze Domingo swore he’d never take a mate, and the dead of winter is the wrong season for mating. But Annie is making all of his silent wishes come true.
Allison Gatta - A Christmas Caroline (Honeybrook Love, Inc. #3.5)
He needs to change his ways to win her heart…
Corporate Scrooge Eric Spade isn’t coming home for Christmas. Which, to be honest, he doesn’t think is that big of a deal. That is, until the so-called ghosts of past, present, and future come knocking to show him the error of his ways. And though Eric expected the traditional Christmas Carol treatment, he’s surprised to learn that his journey through time is less about himself than about his best friend’s long unrequited and suddenly sexy sister…
Arial Burnz - Frostbitten Hearts (Bonded By Blood Vampire Chronicles #4.5)
Only one woman could melt the heart of Jack Frost… but will she burn him in the process?
Her ability to wield fire didn’t give Aideen the power to make Jack stay…
Jack was Aideen’s very breath. As a cusper Elemental, he was the air that fed her fire and the waters that cooled her soul. Born and bred in captivity by vampires for their magic, they sought shelter and love in each other’s arms. But when Jack’s family escapes the “nursery”, Aideen is ripped from her young lover’s arms. Her family refuses to risk the wrath of their captors, and she is forced to stay behind. Though Jack vows to return and free her, his promise is not easily kept. He and his grove liberate several nurseries in retaliation and, still, she cannot be found.
Ten years later, Aideen unexpectedly stumbles into the grove’s compound and back into Jack’s arms with news they have a child… and she is the bait for a trap. Time is of the essence. If they don’t return by sunset, their son will fall victim to the vampires.
Jack must return to the prison he risked his life to escape, but he will do anything to save his son and he is not about to lose the only woman who has possessed his soul and can melt his frozen heart.
Mandy Rosko - The Lady And The Dragon’s Holiday
This dragon prince will melt your heart!
Diana Winters loves the holiday season. Her name is ‘Winters’ after all, and being the first New Year’s Eve she will spend with her ultra buff and super sexy dragon shifting husband, she is looking forward to it.
Teaching Azoth about the modern world has posed some challenges, and there is still so much for him to learn, about the world, and about her, but spending their time in a lonesome cabin in the woods seemed like a good place to start their lessons.
Diana doesn’t think he’s quite ready to see skyscrapers made of glass, and explaining the Internet has been a challenge. But learning more about the man she married in a previous life, who spent thousands of years locked away for a crime he didn’t commit, has been it’s own special challenge.
Diana is willing to face it, however. ‘Tis the season for miracles, and after surviving a jealous fairy creature wanting her dead, what’s a few more hurdles for a long lost fairy princess and her dragon lord?
Candice Gilmer - Not A Gentleman’s Christmas (Mythical Knights #2.5)
Saving her from her curse is a gentleman’s job. He, however, is no gentleman.
Ruthie, cursed by a djinn, has been trapped in a recipe box for seventy-five years, and this Christmas is her last chance to break the curse. She assumes when Lee Reynolds opens the box, he will help her escape the djinn’s magic.
Because that’s what a gentleman does.
She learns very quickly, though, that Lee is no gentleman.
Unlike the Drigan werewolves, Lee is tormented by his wolf-side. Nightmares plague him, leaving him barely civilized most days. It takes all his control to work as a sous chef, but cooking is really the only thing that has ever soothed him.
Then Ruthie pops out of his grandmother’s recipe box.
And his wolf side becomes positively beastly.
Dawn Michelle - Claimed By The Dragon King (The Continuum #1)
Born to be a queen, raised to be a peasant.
Orphaned at birth and raised by a string of foster parents, Selena grew up knowing that nobody cared. The only light in her life was the flame she carried inside that made her believe everyone was wrong about her. Her life, however, seemed destined towards poverty until a brush with a strange man sparked that flame into something amazing. She began to see things she couldn’t explain - men with scales and wings flying outside her window and gargoyles on buildings taking flight. Most amazing of all was the man’s insistence that he needed her more than anything else in the world, and he’d pay any price to get her.
Sylvia Frost - The BBW And The Beast (Shifter Fairy Tales #1)
When Bel’s father ruins a million dollar rose, she makes a bargain with a werewolf who wants her for his own.
Twelve years ago curvy Bel Booksmore snuck into a mysterious mansion in the woods where she had her first kiss and glasses stolen by its owner. Now a successful writer, Bel thought she would never return. But when her father unwittingly steals a million dollar rose, she’s dragged back into alpha werewolf Samson West’s world. And this time, whether by claw or by contract, he’s not going to let her go.
Lissa Matthews - Christmas Wishes (Santa’s Shifters #1)
Reindeers, Elves, And Cookies… Oh My!
Rand is a reindeer shifter, and heir to the Christmas kingdom. It’s his turn at the front of the sleigh, and while the holiday season is brightly lit and full of cheer for those at the North Pole and around the world, Rand isn’t sure he’s buying into the hype anymore.
And his doubts may cost him everything… Including the beautiful, curvaceous elf, Blix.
Head baker for Wishes Bakery, Blix mixes her own unique blend of elf magic and spices into her Christmas cookies. She also has a secret crush on Santa’s son, Rand. When she learns he’s being banished from the North Pole and that his memories will one day fade to nothingness, she sends a special batch of her magical cookies with his transport team in the hopes that with bite after bite, the taste of home will help him to believe again.
Lexy Cole - Santa Shifter In Manhattan (The Wolves Of Central Park #2)
Alexis has relocated back to Manhattan from the west coast and is living in a gorgeous apartment, which is now belongs to her and her brother, Declan, since their parents died. The holidays are right around the corner, but Alexis isn’t feeling especially festive. She has always hated the holidays.
Cole and his billionaire brothers love them. He first meets Alexis at a food pantry while dressed as a Santa, listening to children’s Christmas requests (which he and his brothers will fill). Alexis is volunteering there, handing out food and trying to keep her mind off the merriment around her. Sparks fly when these two discover they are neighbors and have a strong physical attraction.
But, Alexis is a new member of the rival Bronx pack, and works for the software company they run, that directly competes with Cole’s company. They shouldn’t even be friends, let alone anything more. But the attraction is so strong…..maybe they can just have a fling, and no one needs to know?
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