Launching a brand new Romantasy series, a gorgeous gift edition of modern fantasy romance short stories focusing on majestic dragons.Dragons may be fierce but they are symbols of great power, and the bond between human and dragon, once forged, can never be broken. Or can it? Can romance deal a deathly trail of vows abandoned, or forgotten, and can realms beyond our time conjure tales of Dragon Lords, warrior princesses and great rivalries? Modern writers have sough...

To save my brother, I made a promise to the strange and powerful lord of the woods. I didn't keep that promise, and now he's taken my little nephew. I swear I'll get him back, no matter how dangerous the forest between the worlds may be, or how angry its lord. I succeeded when I was only sixteen, after all, surely I can prevail again.But as I stumble from one peril to another, I begin to think he was taking it easy on me last time. Maybe he doesn't want me in his realm after all, e...

Harlan is only in Vegas for two nights for his brother's wedding. His parents want Harlan married, too, and not to a man. What would people say? Not that Harlan cares. He doesn't like most people, and he enjoys making sure they dislike him in return. He can play nice long enough to finalize a contract or get laid, what more does he need? He definitely doesn't need a date with his smart-mouthed waiter. But he wants one. Maybe more than one.Apolo doesn't get paid enough to take crap f...

Their favorite holiday is going away. Will it take their friendship with it?Since 1989, the birthday of the Emperor of Japan has been celebrated on December 23rd. But this is the last year; the Emperor is abdicating, and next year there will be no holiday.For twenty-year-old Akihito, the holiday has always been special. It's his birthday, too, and a perfect excuse for spending the entire day celebrating across Tokyo with his life-long best friend, Kenji. But now that they w...

Sequel to Office Hours Liam always did what he was supposed to do: stay out of trouble and get good grades. He thought college would be his chance to go wild, but instead of partying, he spent his first semester frustrated, flustered, and crushing hard on the one man he couldn't have -- his brilliant, sarcastic professor, Blaise Levin. Now the term's over, Blaise isn't his teacher anymore, and Liam has an unexpected chance to make his fantasies a reality. Blaise has built a life on rules a...

The detective's faithful assistant has been keeping a secret from him. No, not what you're thinking. All right, make that two secrets.Love between men is a serious crime in Victorian England, but that's not why Micah Sheer is concealing his feelings for private detective Leander Maine. Sheer has a supernatural secret, that would endanger not only the two of them but thousands of other lives. Maine has devoted his life to uncovering truths -- and Sheer has spent years leadin...

This was always meant to be a marriage of convenience. It just wasn't supposed to involve two grooms.Julius Rivier didn't object when his parents arranged his marriage along with his career. All right, he wasn't exactly happy about the prospect, but he accepted marriage with Genia Lang as part of the new partnership between their families, just one more step in the pursuit of money and power. He had never intended to come out, and love was a fairy tale for children, anyway. But his...

Ket and Cory have been roommates for four years, and best friends even longer. Why do things have to change?Cory just wants to enjoy his last months of college with his best friend Ket, but Ket suddenly begins dating Mitchell. Ket's never shown any interest in dating, why is he starting now, when they should be making plans for the future? Does Ket's future not include Cory?Ket would rather spend his free time with Cory, but he agreed to do this secret fake-dating favor for a...

All Jet wants is a fun night out at the club he's finally old enough to get into. Okay, not all -- he also wants mystery, adventure, love, college tuition, and a new best friend who isn't too busy to spend time with him. But he wasn't expecting any of those to find him at Club Nox. And he definitely wasn't expecting a gorgeous stranger to offer him his heart's desire in exchange for ... his actual heart? What kind of crazy deal is this? And what does the alluring Darken mean when he says i...

Aelred hasn't been outside the monastery since his parents donated him as a child. He knows he shouldn't want more than this life of prayer, but he dreams of the far-off lands spoken of in the Bible. When a wealthy patron leaves a chest of treasures to be catalogued, Aelred is fascinated by their beauty. Most beautiful of all is the strange man who appears from nowhere and claims to be a djinn ... with wishes for Aelred!Aelred is sure the djinn is a demon sent to lure him into damna...

RILEY -- Shane has been my favorite person for my entire life. I've always loved him, and now I'm in love with him. I know he cares about me, too, but I'm sure he just thinks of me as his best friend's kid. Now that he's finished with active duty, he'll probably start dating, and I'll have to pretend to be happy for him. At least I'll have this Christmas vacation with him and my family to look back on. I wasn't planning to ever tell him how I felt, but now we're snowed in together and I'm ...

A marriage alliance to end a war, that was the plan. Someone doesn't want that alliance to happen. Omega prince Lashar of Echera would do anything to protect his people, even marry enemy prince Ardan and live in a nation where omegas are regarded as inferior. But on the way to the wedding, his party is attacked and only Lashar escapes into the forest, desperate to warn his king. To end the war, alpha prince Ardan of Firol agreed to marry a foreigner and learn the ways of his country. But o...