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Daryk Craving
Her fever for him has always burned high… Daryk One Aknada Tyrus helped destroy Admiral Aramus’ slave trading ship, but now she must resurrect her shattered life and discover if love can repair three years of deceit.
Aknada is a warrior, her unique ability to fight men on equal footing a talent few women can boost. Three years ago she lost faith in herself after surviving a horrible attack. Now she cannot abide a man’s touch, even the tenderness of Marc Gampia, the man she’s craved forever. She returns to Marc’s compound to restore her inner peace and hopefully turn her fears away.
His craving for her has never died… Marc hides his own mangled heart. When he learns Aknada is alive, the fire in him burns hotter and more fiercely than it did before. He will do anything to have her as his wife.
Desire forces her to reach for him, to discover his body one touch at a time. One stroke and there is no going back.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Mar 20, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Science Fiction
Aknada has let society affect her too much. She’s become an island in a sea of humanity because she buys into their ridicule and envy. Aknada is a female Daryk One, an anomaly. But that doesn’t make her less of a woman or have no feelings. On the contrary. Her feelings for Marc are what sent her off with another man and started the whole process of her being enslaved and raped. Now back with her
Daryk Rogue
Ruled by treacherous desires to mate…
He would kill and die for her.
When Xandra Shorenus’ husband murders her family in retaliation for her defiance she escapes, but a huge wave wrecks her ship. Rogue Daryk One Rayder Tyrus saves her but commands her allegiance with one kiss. She is his now, in and out of bed.
Rayder has infiltrated a dangerous faction, his need for redemption and retribution absolute. Desire to protect Xandra mixes with powerful carnal needs that demand he show her pleasures she never could have imagined in her sheltered life. They discover a fiery connection forged between hot kisses, adventurous touches and mind-melting unions. They must learn to survive the wrath of the breeder-slaver who hates Rayder, the elements of jungle and desert that rule the land, and a war about to erupt that could separate them forever.
Reviewer: Valerie
Review: Jan 24, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Science Fiction
Denise Agnew brings readers a new tale of revenge and redemption set against an intergalactic backdrop. Rayder Tyrus has infiltrated a treacherous faction, bent on revenge and retribution for his sister’s murder. In the midst of his plan, he rescues Xandra Shorenus’ and finds himself immediately drawn to her. Passion and angst bind them together completely and soon Rayder finds himself consumed
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Feb 1, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Science Fiction
Ryder has a mission and nothing will keep him from it. He’s betrayed (sort of) his heritage to fullfil his revenge against the man who killed his sister. He’s spent years getting close to him and is close to his goal. And then she arrives. Xandra sparks something in him and even against his own judgement he finds himself protecting her and claiming her. To what end?
Xandra is almost relieved th
Daryk Hunter
When Magonian archaeologist Ketera Aldrancos’ father is imprisoned, she’s determined to save him. Before she can do so, her ship is wrecked. Water laps at her, a man’s strong arms surround her. His husky voice soothes her. Then she realizes she’s on a foreign beach in the arms of a dreaded Dragonian. A man who looks nothing like the men she’s known. His closeness, his touch sends waves of need through Ketera’s core and shame runs through her. After all, passions are sinful.
Dane Charger, a Dragonian Daryk One, cradles the woman in his arms. He aches to introduce her to the headiest lovemaking imaginable. But his eyes flame red and a growl vibrates his throat when he realizes he’ll need to protect her from marauding slave traders led by a vicious rogue—who just happens to also be his half brother.
Two people whose supercontinents are separated by ocean and two thousand years of prejudice and fear. Two people who may be the secret to saving a race from extinction.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Aug 11, 2010
Driven to rescue her father from prison and certain death, Ketera finds herself on a beach. Her ship the victim of a rogue wave, she’s in a strange land and can’t find the evidence she had on her body to release her father. When she wakes it’s in the arms of a large, gorgeous man who has no qualms killing another man who challenges him for her. Her rescuer is Dragonian, her people’s en
Major Pleasure
He’s got the military command…
Army Special Forces Major Blayne Forbes has always desired Jemma Teagan, but knows she’s off limits for a casual relationship. The last thing he wants is involvement with a forever kind of woman.
Jemma’s desire for the diamond-in-the-rough soldier has never faded, and when he tumbles into her arms, the tough guy sends her heart rate into orbit. She doesn’t want to love a man destined for danger, until he challenges her with a display of hardware she can’t resist.
Publisher’s Note: Originally published in the By Honor Bound anthology.
Reviewer: Annfes
Review: Sep 6, 2010
Major Pleasure is a very sexy novella with a lot of heart. I has three definite parts: The mating dance, the consummation and the resolution.
Army Special Forces Major Blayne Forbes has been wounded and sent stateside even though he's still devoted to the mission. He immediately bumps into Jemma Teagan, sister of his best buddy Graham Teagan, who he has been secretly attracted to since the time t
Maneater
For Special Investigations Agency Operatives Destiny Tremayne, Jenna MacDonald and Nur Aydan, Christmas isn’t all about celebrating.
When Destiny Tremayne and fellow agent Mac Tudor are assigned to investigate mysterious disappearances at a strange lab high in the Colorado Mountains, they clash at every turn.
Destiny thinks Mac is a throwback. Mac thinks Destiny hates any man who has balls.
When they realize something monstrous stalks the secluded high-mountain lab, they’ll face a terrifying enemy—and a blazing sexual inferno they may not survive.
Publisher’s Note: Novella originally appeared in the Ellora’s Cave anthology Winter Warriors.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Jan 17, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance
Destiny and Mac are the best operatives for the job. They don’t have family and it’s Christmas. No one will be upset when they go to investigate mysterious disappearances happening at a lab located high in the Colorado Mountains. And whose bright idea was it that their cover was to be married?!
Destiny can’t stand Mac. His hot body, his sultry eyes….. Really, she can’t stand th
Within His Embrace
Romantic Suspense/Contemporary
With her job gone and her carefully crafted life plan wrecked, Leigh Strong decides to take a short vacation from reality before she has to face putting it all back together again. A wild shootout puts her in the sight of SWAT cop Craig MacGilvary, the man she is fiercely drawn to, but that drives her crazy at the same time. She finds his stern, strong and silent personality a tad too uptight and decides he needs to live a little. She’s determined to discover if he’s really stoic, or if under all that starch burns a man of fire.
Craig’s ordered world is interrupted by the extroverted, live-it-up Leigh. Her in-your-face style disturbs his desire to keep things in line, and the feral attraction he feels for her arouses a fierce need to protect. They discover an unexpected and sizzling passion that makes him question his sanity. When her past and his catch up with them, and danger follows hot on their heels, the perils they’ll face apart and together will test all their resolve in both career and love.
Reviewer: ELF
Review: Dec 24, 2009
Genre(s): Contemporary, Romantic Suspense
Within His Embrace by Denise Agnew is the fourth book in her Heart of Justice series about the powerful and sensual members of the SWAT team of El Torro County in Colorado. Each of the virile men in this series had ties to Justice MacGilvary who led by example and was ultimately killed in the line of duty. Craig McGilvary had an extremely troubled childhood until he met Justice and his greatest tr
Meltdown
This title is a re-release.
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Evan Murdoch’s firefighting career is on the line, his confidence shattered by a tragic accident that claimed the life of his girlfriend.
Neighbor Lillian O’Hara understands disaster all too well and refuses to jump into any fire.
But the passionate heat that unexpectedly flares between them forces them to confront the issues holding them back from what they most want.
When a quake traps them in a basement, the threat of a collapsing building will force them to decide if their red-hot attraction and their lives are worth the ultimate risk.
Combustion
A little heat... Former smoke jumper Autumn MacAllister returns to Montana after tragedy almost takes her life. She doesn’t expect the chubby insecure boy she once knew to have turned into a virile man with a mind-blowing smile.
A little flame... Firefighter Jack Dillon never forgot his childhood crush on Autumn, or the devastating blaze that melded their lives together. Now she’s back and creating havoc in his heart, and he can’t ignore the banked tension between them that threatens to ignite.
Combustion! Now they must combine forces when an arsonist threatens to burn their city, and an old enemy threatens to create a flashover that may consume all they hold dear.
Reviewer: Susan
Review: Oct 1, 2009
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Romantic Suspense
When Autumn MacAllister returns to Clifton Montana, she soon realizes that the old hurts, memories and destructive games will once again set this town ablaze with troubles. Seeing Jack Dillon again also surprises her when she sees her chubby little friend has turned into a hard-bodied fire fighter that sets her passions on fire for him. The crush Jack had on Autumn many years ago now sizzles into a tantalizin
Under His Protection
Trey’s adventurous streak once served him wrong, now it makes him dangerous to criminals and devastating to female hearts.
Englishwoman Olivia Scott lives a quiet life as a librarian with nothing more exciting to cogitate on than which video to rent on a Friday night and which pie to create for the local bake off. When Trey rescues her from a disturbed man’s brutal attack, and she’s left injured and vulnerable, he vows she’ll be under his protection from that point forward. The enthusiasm and unpredictability of his life stirs erotic passions within her that threaten to reinvent the woman she always thought she was.
Trey finds the plucky, bookish woman intriguing, but believes he isn’t interested in long-term commitment. His attraction to her boils sky high and he battles with emerging feelings he never thought he’d have again for a woman. After all, she’s returning to England in six months. There’s no way they can forge a lasting relationship, even if they wanted to.
As a vengeful criminal resurfaces with revenge in mind and promises to harm everyone he loves, Trey’s skills as a sniper, a brother and a lover are tested. As danger closes around her, Olivia must find a core of strength she never knew she had, and capture a red hot passion she never hoped to find.
Reviewer: Rita
Review: Jul 23, 2009
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Romantic Suspense
Olivia Scott is visiting the United States as part of a librarian exchange program. She’d doesn’t like her boss very much or the hours she’s required to work and she has made only a few friends, still she isn't looking forward to going home. She’s working alone one night when a deranged customer takes her hostage. Lucky for her sexy Sergeant Trey MacGilvary happens to be a patron at th
In Her Defense
Celeste Rice’s life has been shattered by terrible violence more than once. Violence threatens to creep back into Celeste’s world when her ex-boyfriend stalks her. When Celeste inherits her aunt’s home, she decides to move back into her childhood neighborhood after long years away. Upon her prodigal return, she encounters old friend and long-time object of her desire, Mick MacGilvary at a charity event and knows that she is finally ready to pursue that heart-stopping attraction. She believes she’ll stop craving him if she has sex with him once and gets it out of her system. She decides to test the wildfire attraction, even though Mick’s violent past and his SWAT position frighten her.
Mick will do anything in her defense…
SWAT cop Mick MacGilvary’s instincts tell him Celeste’s ex-boyfriend has something evil up his sleeve. Mick’s uneasy past with Celeste makes him gun-shy around her. His protective feelings for Celeste have never abandoned him. Ten years ago, Celeste rejected his advances, and he hasn’t forgotten. The heavy-duty attraction he’s always had for her ramps up now that she’s near. Better yet, she’s obviously interested in bedding him.
Danger lurks around the corner…
Caught up in a passion neither of them can deny, Mick and Celeste’s strengths and weaknesses are tested when her ex-boyfriend decides if he can’t have her, no one will.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Mar 24, 2009
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Romantic Suspense
Celeste left the small town her aunt raised her in after a man attempted to rape her as a teen. Mick MacGilvary beat the crap out of her assailant, and paid a price for his actions. Years later Celeste has inherited her aunt’s house, and takes that as a sign to move back to the town she always considered home, and to escape the man who has unnaturally latched onto her after three dates. A
Within His Sight
Women respond to a man's testosterone without any thought...
Tainted by bad memories of past betrayal, Mary Wickes knows getting involved with SWAT team member Dace “Hard Man” Banovic would be a big mistake. Yet working with him for six months at the sheriff's department has proven that her hormones don’t care what she thinks--only what she wants.
Men respond to a woman's softness without any thought...
Dace is puzzled by Mary's avoidance tactics, and although he's tried to ignore the powerful attraction he feels for her, he can't help wanting to learn everything about the woman he's desired for months.
When danger comes, sometimes it takes a special man and woman to see it through to the end...
When a hostage situation forces them to confront their fears, Mary and Dace must find the courage to face the feelings they’ve tried so hard to deny.
Reviewer: Rita
Review: Nov 25, 2008
Mary Wickes has good reasons for not wanting to get involved with a cop, no matter how sexy he is. And Dace Banovic is the sexiest thing she’s ever seen. So due to her inability to not react to him she decides to move someplace else and get a job outside of law enforcement. When they’re thrown together by friends Dace suggest they at least try to get along. She agrees they may be able to be friend
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