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Strong sexual content Dracula is far older than his legend. For centuries, he has awaited the reincarnation of his one true love, Elisabeta, foretold by the vampire Rhiannon centuries ago. And now he has found her. But she has not returned to him in the way he expected. Instead, her restless and frustrated spirit is possessing a modern-day woman named Tempest, who is called “Storm.” The nickname, he finds, is fitting. Stormy has been sensing a presence inside her fighting to take control. That feeling becomes even more overwhelming when the dark prince is near. She is torn between her own passion for Vlad Dracul, and the passion of the entity lurking within. The parasitic and jealous Elisabeta wants to kill her hostess when she realizes they both love the same man. It’s a fight to the death within a single body. But only Vlad can choose which of his loves will live and which will die.

The vampire Armageddon begins Utana, the common ancestor of all vampires, has been imprisoned in a living death for centuries, driven to near madness. But now he is free and determined to destroy the race he created. With a single white-hot glance, he incinerates his descendants. Brigit Poe is beautiful and deadly. Her gift of destruction has caused her trouble her entire life. She’s been scolded for using it, warned to contain it, condemned for possessing it. And yet now her gift is the only thing that can save her people. She must destroy the first and most powerful of all immortals. Locked in a battle neither can win, the two discover a passion so shocking it threatens everything either of them has ever believed. Their desire might end them both, and with them, an entire species. Never have the stakes been higher. Bonus: Includes a brand new story of Young Rhiannon in the Temple of Isis.

Wings in the Night Your next vampire romance obsession Vengeance, thy name is Topaz… Before she joined up with a ragtag band trying to hunt down a killer, Topaz had been on a different mission. To find Jack Heart and make him pay. The sexy-as-sin vampire had conned his way into her bed and bank accounts and all she wanted was to get her money back, and maybe an ounce of flesh besides. He’d hurt her. But now she and Jack are on the same side. The hunt for the big bad has gone cold, so the gang has taken a break, and Topaz will spend the time solving a mystery that’s plagued her all her life—what really happened to her Hollywood starlet mother when Topaz was just a baby? With four men claiming to have fathered her, why had she been so alone? And what the hell does Jack care about any of it? He’s there, trying to help, and digging up his own family skeletons while he’s at it. And how is she supposed to keep her damn hands off him when he’s so close and so willing?

Strong sexual content Women are vanishing and the quiet town of Endover seems to be under a thrall... because it is. A powerful and ancient vampire, possibly the very first of his kind, has taken the town over, and his victims have no one to turn to for help. No one, that is, except for Maxine Stuart. Mad Max has been digging into conspiracy theories about the undead since her teens, and now she has two secret weapons--the cop she adores and is determined to bed despite his resistance, Lou Malone, and her best friend Tempest “Stormy” Jones. Once in Endover, however, Stormy falls victim to inexplicable visions and odd fugue states, and it soon becomes apparent that this entire vampiric attack has been little more than performance art designed to get the three of them right where the vampire wants them. And they have no idea why. Lou’s an ordinary mortal man. His ability to resist Maxie’s allure is as doomed to fail as his efforts to protect her and Stormy from the most dangerous vampire of them all. And yet, he will try… even if it kills him.

Strong sexual content Sexy rebel Edge (aka Edgar Poe) is on a mission to find and kill Frank Stiles, the obsessed vampire-hunter who murdered his entire undead family. And the path to Stiles leads straight through the legendary half-vampire, half-mortal “child of promise” Amber Lily. Amber Lily Bryant is a legend among the undead, yet even she doesn’t know the full extent of her nature or her powers. She’s one of a kind. But now, she’s on a mission of her own to protect Frank Stiles from Edge’s vengeance, even though he once abducted and tortured her. She must keep the vampire killer alive because he might possess the secret that could save the life of her dear friend. They are opposite sides in a deadly race against time, yet the passion between Edge and Amber is too potent to be denied. And soon, both their lives hang in the balance.

A prophecy pressed into ancient stone tablets predicts the end of vampirekind. This can only be avoided, the cuneiform symbols say, by the intervention of “the two who are opposite and yet the same.” Part-human, part-vampire twins James, who can heal, and Brigit, who can destroy, believe they are those two. James’ first step in saving his friends, his family, and his people, is to get his hands on the rest of that tablet and the woman who can translate it—Professor Lucy Lanfair. To save his species, he’ll abandon the very values and principles he’s lived by. He’ll pluck an innocent woman from her life and drop her into the middle of his kindred’s fight for survival. And he will extract her aid whether she wants to give it or not. Archaeologist and translator Lucy Lanfair has no idea that she holds the key to preventing the annihilation of an entire species. But she soon realizes she holds far more than just that—for the vampire’s soul is also in her hands. To love him is to rise to the call of destiny, despite the danger. To save her love, she must save his entire race. Includes a brand new story of Young Rhiannon in the Temple of Isis

Explicit Sexual Content The beautiful screenwriter who lost it all finds the diaries of a long-dead madman in her tumbledown mansion’s attic. The stories are too good to resist, and she turns them into screenplays that launch her to stardom. Dante, the subject of the film, is neither a madman nor long dead. He’s undead. And the ingenue scribbler who’s gained fame and fortune by exposing his secrets to the world must be found and stopped. Permanently. But Dante isn’t the only one seeking Morgan. Vampire killer Frank Stiles is after her, too, in hopes he can find Dante through her. Her films aren’t made up. They are taken straight from the files of the dark ops agency he used to work for—before the vampires destroyed it. When Dante and Morgan come together, the passion between them will not be denied, for it is born of a preternatural bond they can neither understand nor fight. They cannot bear to be apart — but being together might cost them both their lives. Maggie Shayne is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling, RITA® Award-winning author.

From "New York Times"-bestselling author Shayne comes the first novel in her thrilling new trilogy, The Portal. She was born to save what he is sworn to destroy. Original.

The vampire-romance series Christine Feehan says is “My inspiration!” Tamara’s dreams are tormented. She is lost, alone, and calling out for someone, but when she wakes she can never remember his name. Then she meets an enigmatic stranger during a midnight skate on a frozen pond, and is overcome with a sense of familiarity and powerful longing. Eric Marquand is a vampire, drawn to the beautiful Tamara because of the rare Belladonna antigen in her blood. It connects them. From the shadows, he has watched over her since childhood, a dark guardian. But when he returns after years away, he finds her living in the home of a man who’s devoted his life to the annihilation of vampire-kind. Tamara’s parents had died during Eric’s absence. Daniel St. Clair, a high-ranking agent of the secretive Division of Paranormal Investigations, had become her legal guardian, had raised her. Worse, she now works for the DPI too. Tamara soon finds herself torn between her love and devotion for the dear, aging man who raised her, and her passionate desire for Eric, the man whose touch she craves. Daniel insists that Eric is a vampire who will drain Tamara’s blood and leave her a lifeless husk, given the chance. Eric says Daniel is a vampire hunter who performs sick experiments on his kind to find their weaknesses. He says Daniel will kill him, given the chance. But she hasn’t much time to choose, because St. Clair’s protégé, DPI vampire-researcher Curtis Rogers, has his own nightmarish plans for them both. Strong sexual contentufeff BONUS! A never-before published short story: Rhiannon in the Temple of Isis, 1: Jewels of the Goddess Look for Book 2, Twilight Memories

Fearless father SECRET AGENT, SECRET SONS Secret agent Torch Palamaro had finally found her—the mysterious Alexandra Holt who''d disappeared six months ago with something he desperately wanted. The woman was his only chance for revenge against the man who''d taken his family away from him. But Alexandra swore she didn''t know what Torch was talking about. For her sake, she''d better by lying. Alexandra knew she was only the key to what Torch wanted. So why did the darkly handsome loner have to open up to her, show her his only photograph of his young sons with tears in his stony blue eyes? Now he had something she wanted—his love. But Torch was still hell-bent on revenge, until the shocking truth about his sons came out….

Wings in the Night Vampire Romance that set the standard Killer in Life… In life, he was Raphael Rivera, a trained CIA assassin. But they messed with his mind, programming him with a trigger that can send him into a murderous rage beyond his control. Killer in Death… He goes by Reaper now. He’s a vampire—the one the elders call on when one of their own goes rogue and needs putting down. As he sets off on his latest mission, to stop a ruthless, reckless vampire called Gregor from littering the mortal world with the bloodless corpses of innocents, Reaper picks up strays along the way. The Hero… Seth is an avid gamer and part-time hero who nearly lost his life to protect his friend from a mugging. Seth’s been having visions of a red-haired beauty he believes is his destiny. It turns out she’s real, and being held captive by the very guy Reaper is after, so obviously, Seth has to tag along. The Shapeshifter… Vixen spent part of her time as a fox before she was made into a vampire. Now changing back is getting harder, and she fears she’s losing a part of herself. The Heiress… Topaz is a rich, beautiful vampire who’s just been burned by charming sexy con, Jack Heart. Jack is Gregor’s right-hand man, and Topaz might know where he is, but she won’t say unless she gets to ride along. The con-man… Jack’s a grifter with a heart of gold, who thinks the only reason he joins the gang is that it looks like they’re winning. The traitor… Blindly loyal to Gregor until he tortures and tries to kill her, Briar is an abusive street-tough survivor he plucked from a path of self-destruction. She owes Gregor everything, and yet she’s undeniably, irresistibly attracted to Reaper, his sworn enemy. This is book 1 of 3 involving this undead ensemble cast.

Wings in the Night Your next vampire romance obsession She awakens cold and naked in the pouring rain, with no idea who she is or how she got there. But she does know one thing–she has to run for her life. When Ethan finds the terrified woman hiding in his stable, he knows exactly who Lilith is. He''s never forgotten her, not in the three years since he escaped the facility where they were both captives, along with dozens of others, humans bred into vampires and brainwashed to be killing machines. They''d shared one, innocent kiss. And then he''d escaped and left her behind. How can he tell her that he''d have taken her if he could, or that he planned to go back for her one day, once he found his brother and enough resources and help? He can''t, especially not once her memory begins to return. But a new goal is even more vital then. How can he convince her that going back for the other captives would be suicide?

The man had come to Jane Fortune from out of nowhere. Hecouldn''t explain who he was, but Jane''s young son could. Thelittle boy insisted Zach was his imaginary daddy come to life,the father he''d always wanted. And even Jane couldn''t denythat he was oddly familiar—and the husband she''d alwaysdreamed of. Yet the clock was ticking on the family they''dformed, because Jane had discovered exactly who Zach was.And only a twist of time could keep him home.…

Through the eyes of a killer… Rachel de Luca has found incredible success writing self-help books. But her own blindness and the fact that her troubled brother has gone missing have convinced her that positive thinking is nothing but bull. Her cynicism wavers when a cornea transplant restores her sight. The new eyes seem to give her new life, until they prove too good to be true and she starts seeing terrifying visions of brutal murders—crimes she soon learns are all too real. Detective Mason Brown''s own brother recently died, leaving behind a horrific secret. In atonement, Mason donated his brother''s organs, though he''s kept the fact quiet. Now he wants to help Rachel find her brother, but when he discovers the shocking connection between her visions and his own brother, he suddenly has to do everything in his power to save her from a predator who is somehow still hunting from beyond the grave.

Happy-ever-after is just the beginning in this sizzling classic tale of passion and secrets from New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shayne When undercover cop Jack McCain says “I do” to beautiful heiress Grace Phelps, he knows he can trust her with anything—except the truth of who he really he is. Now, his most dangerous enemies are threatening the love he cherishes above all else. Jack will do whatever it takes to keep Grace safe from harm, even if it means losing her forever. But he hadn’t counted on the fact that Grace might be keeping secrets of her own… Originally published in 2000

Her beauty is spellbinding. Her hunger is insatiable. Her power is immortal.

In 1987 young ATF agent Joshua Kendall was part of a raid on the Young Believers cultish compound. His bullet killed an innocent girl, and his guilt has destroyed everything good in his life ever since. But he’s about to learn that the most shattering incident of his life was a lie. Lizzie survived that raid, barely. Now (2004) she lives in rural Vermont, still hiding from the cult leader who has eluded capture all these years. She goes by Beth Slocum and she’s tired of looking over her shoulder, and wishes if he were coming for her, Mordecai would get it over with. Josh is sent to protect Beth and recognizes her as soon as he looks into her eyes. He’d been told she was dead—and it has colored every second of his life since. But she’s alive. Now his job is to keep her that way, and that means lying to her about who he is. If she knew, she’d send him packing. When attraction builds into desire between then, he knows he has to tell her the truth, but before he has the chance, Mordecai’s obsessive madness rains destruction on everyone Beth loves. He is determined to bring her to her knees. He wants her gutted before he she dies. Like a silver screen cliché, Beth is falling in love with her bodyguard, but she knows he’s keeping secrets. What’s between them, however, will have to wait until they’ve dealt with a madman who believes he’s on a mission from God to destroy her utterly.

Book 1 in Maggie Shayne’s Bestselling Wings in the Night Series The Thin Line between Love and Death… In two centuries of living death, vampire Eric Marquand had learned to live with the cruel fate that had condemned him to walk forever in shadow, forever alone. Then he found the woman he knew was meant for him—and understood that to possess her was to destroy her. Against all reason, Tamara Dey saw clearly that her destiny was eternally entwined with Eric’s and that she must not only accept but welcome the terror and splendor of the vampire’s kiss. She trembled at the thought of spending eternity in his arms, but was her trembling born of desire…or fear? Don’t miss a single title in Maggie Shayne’s Wings in the Night series: Twilight Phantasies Twilight Memories Twilight Illusions, with bonus novella “Beyond Twilight” Born in Twilight, with bonus novella “Twilight Vows” Twilight Hunger Embrace the Twilight, with bonus novella “Run from Twilight” Edge of Twilight Blue Twilight, with bonus novella “Before Blue Twilight” Prince of Twilight Demon’s Kiss Lover’s Bite Angel’s Pain Bloodline, with bonus novella “Vampires in Paradise” Twilight Prophecy Twilight Fulfilled

Wings in the Night Your next vampire romance obsession Blood and Vengeance The first sustains Briar''s life, the second gives it meaning. But in her pursuit of Gregor, the vampire she''s determined to kill, Briar falls in with a gang of do-gooders who are after him, too. Their reluctant leader, Reaper, the vampire hitman with the heart of gold, keeps trying to see good in her. She keeps telling him he''s mistaken. There isn''t any. Briar tells herself that Reaper and his gang of misfit vamps mean nothing to her, that she''ll be gone as soon as she''s achieved her goal and watched Gregor die slowly for all he did to her. Even after repeated, mind-blowing sex with Reaper, she insists there are no feelings involved. And when she has to share blood with the odd little vampire Crisa to save her life-- an act that always creates a powerful bond between undead beings--she still denies caring. But when their lives are on the line, Briar finds herself risking her own ass to save them. Also, she learns to love stilettos.

Whether by birth, by chance, or even by default, the people in these two full-length novels find their path to parenthood in unexpected ways. Reissue.