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One night with professional bull rider Trent Campbell had been everything that Kelly Sullivan had fantasized about. Unfortunately, it cost her everything. When she became pregnant, her father threw her out because she wouldn't tell him the baby's father was his rodeo hero - the hero who ghosted her when she tried to tell him about their daughter. Trent Campbell never forgot the best night of his life. It was what kept him going when a 2,000-pound bull ended his career and almost his life.

Activist Emily Sullivan left her fulfilling job in the Peace Corps to save her family's ranch from bankruptcy. Her dream is to use renewable energy because conservation and education are her passion. Unfortunately, her parents believe there's a greater profit allowing hunting tours to cull the local wild species. Emily vows to change their mind. Donovan Link doesn't stay in one place or with one job too long. This cowboy turned hunter is determined that the hunting lodge he built on the Three Sisters ranch will give him a nice nest egg so he could retire to Alaska.

Reeling from a disastrous love affair, plus-size model and budding fashion designer Anya Litton needs a temporary refuge, a place to lick her wounds and plan her next career move. At Club Inferno, where seductively chic men and women indulge in their most intimate fantasies, she can mix business with unimaginable pleasure.

Some battles are fought with fists. Others are won with the heart. Everyone in New Haven knows Jackson "Jax" Thompson's reputation. As the Charm City Chill's enforcer, he's paid to be the monster under other teams' beds. But after a brutal fight goes viral and puts him in the league's crosshairs, even his knuckles are telling him it's time for a change. Dr. Lauren Mackenzie wants nothing to do with violent men in any form. As the head of New Haven's busiest emergency vet clinic, she's got enough on her plate treating the arena's K-9 unit without worrying about the bruiser who bursts in at 2...

My sister lives to ruin my life. That isn’t fair. It’s not her fault our dance instructor called me fat and awkward, and our parents funded Lisa’s training because I had a better head for business. So when Lisa went off the rails after her injury, it naturally came to me to track her down. The trail starts at the Spearmint Rhino - an upscale gentlemen’s club five minutes off the Las Vegas strip, where a group of hot Aussie soccer players are having a bachelor party. Hello, Chance Bateman!

Veterinarian Janice Sullivan has been horse-crazy all her life and only wanted to work on her family's cattle farm, the Three Sisters Ranch, but her father's constant criticisms drove her away, forcing her to choose a new career in dressage and leaving her secret crush behind. With the ranch facing possible bankruptcy, Janice has an idea to save it - a woman's retreat. With Christmas around the corner, Janice is not only hoping for a chance under the mistletoe with the one man she's been unable to forget, but also to give a few cowgirl wannabes a chance in the saddle.   

Style and seduction collide as the world’s best-dressed men and women shed their clothing...and their inhibitions. On the run from her abusive fiancé, ER doctor Mallory Bryant arrives at her sister’s Connecticut resort desperate for a place to restore balance to her life. But Club Inferno is more than a haven for the rich and fashionable. Beneath its elegant facade, dominants and submissives play out their fantasies.

This book is part memoir and part guidebook that would be helpful to anyone considering bariatric weight loss surgery. Jamie gives a brutally honest account of the year after her weight loss surgery where she lost 143 lbs. Filled with tips, advice, and emotion, this book is a must for anyone considering a gastric bypass, gastric sleeve or a SADI-S (single anastomosis duodenal-ileal bypass with sleeve) procedure.

Melody is a security guard working the night shift on Christmas Eve. Her husband left her for a blackjack dealer after embezzling a quarter of a million dollars. Not only is she getting visits from the mob, but also from a sexy djinn, who happened to be married to the blackjack dealer. In exchange for wishing to find the errant couple who fled the country, taking his little girl on the lam, Karam agrees to grant Melody two more wishes. This year, Melody's getting just what she wants for Christmas.

Deep in the shadows of her exclusive fashion resort, Couture, Colleen Bryant presides over a much more intimate world: Club Inferno. The successful businesswoman and sex instructor has built an empire that caters to an elite crowd, but now she finds herself longing for something a bit more ordinary: a man to love. She’s not sure how to find someone who will accept what she does for a living - or the kinks that drive her wild - until her old flame, ex-pro football player Chase Fairwood, comes back into her life.

Hollywood has thrilled—and titillated—audiences with tales of women who love monsters since King Kong and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Our love affair with the ultimate “others” continued as we made the acquaintances of Barnabas Collins, Swamp Thing, the Vampire Lestat, Hellboy, and Shrek. It should come as no surprise that when ViceTV decided to do an episode on “Monsters Fantasies”, they came to Riverdale Avenue Books to interview some of those authors in an episode that aired in March 2018.

A Red Hood protector sworn to eliminate feral werewolves. An Alpha haunted by his past. A killer hiding behind a grandmother's smile. When missing hikers start turning up dead in werewolf territory, Rowan is sent to investigate. The last thing she needs is to discover the local Alpha is her fated mate—especially since she's sworn never to trust another Alpha after one deceived her to protect a killer in his pack. Alder has enough problems protecting his pack without a Red Hood witch stirring up trouble. After all, it was the Red Hoods who killed his mother and possibly his father. But ...

When the cult of humanity sacrificed a dragon queen, they crippled the breeding process. A female hasn’t been hatched or shape shifted in over 1,000 years. Carolyn believes with all her heart that she will shift into a dragon. Everyone else thinks she’s crazy. Especially Reed, a sexy dragon, whose disdain for humans almost hides the magnetic attraction they have for each other. However, when Carolyn manifests a breath weapon, she’s suddenly the new queen on the block.

When lake dragon Remy Champlain rescues Queen Margery from her kidnappers, he knew danger was right behind them. One of the few dragons who can’t fly, Remy feels powerless to protect her. She’s a sky dragon and needs to be in the air. However, he’ll be by her side as long as she’ll have him. When sparks flare up between them, he hopes there could be something there. But every time they kiss, she faints. It’s enough to give a guy a complex.

Drink from me and you’ll receive your heart’s desire. Selena is a disgraced fae warrior exiled from her unit and shunned by her family. She journeys to the town of Hope to drink from its magical well. If the legend is true, it will break the curse that has ruined her life. Vampire and mayor of Hope, Ben Whitlock remembers when the town was named Whitlock and not overwhelmed with humans looking for their fated soul mates. There’s nothing in that well for a vampire, except disappointment. Having resigned himself to a familiar loneliness magnified by the holiday season, Ben is surprised ...

When Joely Anderson's past catches up with her at the Palekaiko Beach Hotel, she's ready to turn in her housekeeping apron and go on the run again. Except she's rebuilt her life in paradise with good friends, a decent job, and most of all - she never got to act on the crush she's had on the hunky security chief. Saying goodbye to Maui and Holt just might break her heart. Security Chief Holt Kawena has always suspected the luscious redhead of keeping secrets and now that her abusive ex has hunted her down, he's willing to stand and fight.

Attorney Michaela Harris is on her honeymoon - alone. After being jilted at the altar, she takes off to Maui, only to lose her luggage and be stranded without a hotel room, thanks to her ex-fiancé canceling the reservation. The sympathetic staff at the Palekaiko Beach Resort looks the other way when Michaela makes a deal to stay in a room that’s being renovated until a better one is available. She hits the surf to forget about her problems, but when she encounters a shark, she wonders if things will ever get better.

Sometimes the street takes away the people we love. Dr. Pamela Krupin is back in the neighborhood that she left in poverty and shame when she was a teenager. Working at a progressive, private hospital as a psychologist and a reiki professional, one of her clients is a Russian mob boss, named Nikolai. Detective Drake Logan is working undercover to stop a gang related murder spree, when he saves the gorgeous, if a bit flaky, doctor from goons who are looking to question her on what his godfather, Nikolai, might have slipped up and told her during their sessions.

When Viola shifts into a dragon Queen after the centuries-old curse has been broken, she is taken prisoner by a greedy stud who wants her to have his babies. Rescued by the dragon embassy and put into protective custody, Viola tries to learn about her new place in dragon society, but her entire world has turned upside down with bizarre rules and rituals she can’t even fathom. Sergei hates Queens. But Viola is more human than dragon.

Former Coast Guard captain Meryl Sinclair is excited for the first voyage of Castellon Cruise's newest ship, Heart of the Sea. However, when her second-in-command gets thrown in jail the night before they set sail, the company sends a replacement. Rafael Castellon is the owner's son, and he's pissed that he wasn't promoted to captain of the new ship. She and Rafael have a past. A sun-drenched past of sex and debauchery. And he had no idea that she worked for his father. Surprise!