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Series · 20
books · 2016

Books in series

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#1

The Vampire's Christmas Surprise

2016

A vampire who still celebrates Christmas, and a werewolf looking for a place to sleep for the night. For two enemies, the holiday spirit may be just what they need to heal old wounds. The last thing Armand expected to find out by his woodpile was a werewolf. The man is freezing, injured, and in desperate need of some help. But for vampires and werewolves, centuries of old conflicts make being friends now nearly impossible. One night of comfort by the fire might be enough to sway a chilly heart, if both Armand and Puck are willing to take that chance.
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#2

A Puppy for Christmas

2016

Sometimes adding to the family can make the perfect Christmas. Zach is a nurse struggling to pay the bills as his partner Andy continues to finish his college degree. Even though they have everything they need, Zach wants Andy to have the best Christmas he has ever had. After getting locked out of their car, and having to ask a pet store owner for a hanger, Zach finds the one thing that would do it, in the bundle of fear of a husky puppy. Knowing he can’t afford, he regretfully says no. Zach heads to work for a shift he regretted taking, and Andy is left home alone pondering his gift for Zach. Zach opens up to a co-worker about wanting to ask Andy to marry him on Christmas day and how he has saved up for months to afford an engagement ring. On his way home, he stops and makes a purchase that will make this Christmas the best for both of them.
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#3

The Gift Exchange

2016

What is Carol up to now? Mack has always known his free-spirited wife is bisexual, but it seems she has new adventures on her mind this Christmas season. Carol has long entertained fantasies of a threesome with herself, her husband, and their attractive nearby neighbor, Tara. Now that Tara’s troublesome ex is out of the picture, is this the season to make her fantasies come true? Tara’s felt a little deprived since breaking things off with her ex, and she’ll admit she envies what Mack and her best friend Carol seem to share. If they invite her to join them, will she dare?
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#4

Stuck

2016

Getting stuck in a crappy situation was not Jake's idea of a fun Christmas Eve!
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#5

A Taboo Christmas

2016

Forbidden food. Family drama. A lot can happen in the three days before Christmas. When Zachary Parker’s grandparents come to town unannounced, his anxiety goes through the roof. His grandmother had always treated him like a child, but she’d also always known Zach was gay. Would she readily accept his relationship with a much older man? Tristan knew from the start his relationship with Zach would be met with a lot of doubt and scrutiny from others. With the arrival of the grandparents, he would have to put his best foot forward. His best friend, Jon, Zach’s father, feared his in-laws and avoided them at all cost. That should have clued him in, right? With Christmas Eve just around the corner, Zach’s grandmother insists on a traditional Noche Buena feast, putting Zach and Tristan directly in her path. Then there’s Zach’s secret present. Will Tristan and Zach’s forbidden love find a happily ever after this Christmas Eve?
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#7

A Whitedell Christmas

2016

The pride's Christmas is in danger, and only one man can save it. Nysys wants a happy Christmas, and the only obstacles to that are Bradley and his hunters. Nysys could let Dominic take care of them, of course, but he's not a council member for nothing. It's time Bradley gets what he deserves, and Nysys is just the man to do that. With his faithful sidekick Keenan, Nysys will save Christmas, buy embarrassing presents, and make everyone in the pride happy—or he'll die trying.
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#8

Merry Christmas from Purgatory

2016

My name is Sterling, I am a Hellhound a member of the Royal Guard in Purgatory and a vicious killer. I and my Friends have been sent to earth because Demons are possessing Mortals and torturing them and the people and animals around them. We heard of a Healer a Jin believed to be a member of an extinct race; with the ability to heal anything except decapitation. We seek her out. I want this beautiful woman but since we do not court in Purgatory and I am new speaking England I am having trouble talking to and romancing her. Still who would want a man that is constantly damaged in battle for protecting members of another race?
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#11

Under the Werewolf's Tree

2016

Christmas Eve might just be the best time for this werewolf to find forgiveness. Gideon has a long seated hatred and mistrust of vampires, with good reason. Vampires murdered his parents when he was a child and he’s had no reason to forgive them for what they did. But Darryl isn’t like the vampires he’s encountered in the past. He wants a place in the pack that has welcomed a vampire before, but to have a new home, he’ll have to win Gideon’s trust first. On a cold Christmas Eve night, it’ll take a miracle for this werewolf to open up to the likes of a vampire, but it might be just what they both need.
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#12

The Longest Night

2016

Holidays can be lonely, when a shifter is immortal, it can be even lonelier. Two shifters come together on the longest night and find a way to be together. Bran Coffee finds himself stranded in a blizzard on the way to his clan’s Yule gathering. As a bear he likes to sleep the longest night away, so he finds himself a spot out of the wind where he’ll be safe. When he wakes, he finds a stranger waiting for him, but before he’ll find his clan, he’ll discover new love and break the lonely chains binding a dragon from the world he’s forsaken.
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#14

Noël's First Christmas

2016

The best Christmas presents are those that touch the heart. Noël White has it all. A successful advertising agency, a huge designer apartment, and enough money to live comfortably. But he’s a lonely man, and the coming holidays only show him what he’ll never have. Oliver, the man he secretly loves. Oliver Toffey leads a simple life. Living with his little brother and working as a cleaner, he’s searching for the one guy who’d make the perfect husband. Although Oliver is mildly retarded, he doesn’t see it as a handicap on his way to happiness. When he meets a new client, Noël White, he falls head over heels for the lonely man who lives on takeout and always seems so sad. Unceremoniously, Oliver takes charge of Noël’s apartment and his life, to show him the magic of Christmas and how much he loves Noël.
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#15

The Goblins of Christmas

2016

It’s Christmas time in Athens, and when George discovers that his Rovani partner, Yeraki, has never celebrated the holiday, he and the rest of their taverna band gleefully fill Yeri in on the mythology surrounding the Christmas goblins who wreak havoc in any house that isn’t blessed. Yeri announces that he’s going to catch these goblins, and the hilarity ensues as the goblins unleash twelve nights of pranks and practical jokes on them. Life may never be the same for the pair, assuming their sanity survives what’s coming.
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#16

Elfing Around

2016

It’s all fun and games until someone finds their mate. Kailu learns two things in less than a second. One is that there were more than elves in the northern forest and that bear shifters exist. He and his two brothers are hunting for a Yule tree when he literally plows right into someone. Turns out that man…erg…bear shifter is Kailu’s mate. Kailu finds out that his elf culture is very different than his mates, loner bear-shifter culture, especially when it comes to the mating process.
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#17

Holiday Blues

2016

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.—Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s that special time of the year, but Trey Canton is not in the Holiday Spirit. It’s the tenth year since his mother passed and he misses her more than ever. Worse, his lover, Wade is out of town, so all Trey has to lean on for support is his ugly, naked cat, Puck. Little does Trey know that Wade has a surprise for him. Will it brighten Trey up? Or will he forever suffer from the Holiday Blues?
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#18

The Alien's Holiday Gift

2016

The perfect gift. Petra is determined to leave Morgath as soon as the next ship of human females arrives. She isn’t what the Morgath are looking for in a mate, but she wasn’t given a choice. Male after male rejects her because of something she has no control over, and with the holidays looming closer she does everything she can to avoid being rejected again. Avoiding the hated holiday celebrations is easy. Hiding from a determined male who doesn’t care about her little secret isn’t easy. Kartoc is just as determined to claim Petra as his mate, and he will not allow anything to stand in his way, including Petra. But Kartoc is keeping secrets of his own, and he has the perfect holiday gift.
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#19

Melissa’s Christmas Wish

2016

Club blood is home to Serghei, a vampire who is visited nightly by an apparition of a mysterious beautiful black woman. Someone must have the answer to the identity of the woman and he is on a quest to discover why she keeps haunting him. One sexy apparition, one lonely vampire and one week to live. Serghei has a dilemma on his hands. He is a vampire who is being haunted every night by a beautiful voluptuous black woman. Who is she? The answer is out there. Mel has one week to live. Will the man that appears in her dreams find her before her time runs out? She has one week to find out.
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#20

A Christmas Haunting

2016

Shayne had a good life. It was not perfect but it was good. The best part of it was his best friend and lover. That was until Gabe said ‘I love you’. A bad reaction to the situation has left Shayne alone for Christmas with no idea where Gabe might be. With his friends having yelled some sense into him, Shayne is off to bring Gabe home for Christmas. But it might take a real Christmas miracle for Shayne to get back the man he truly loves.
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#21

'Twas the Spank Before Christmas

2016

The night before Christmas Davis Cathal decides to recreate a scene for his sub, Samantha Merry, based on a deliciously sexy poem she wrote for him as a gift. Inspired by the season of giving, he sets up the perfect scene to reward the love of his life and give her the gift that keeps on coming.
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#22

Fairy on the Christmas Tree

2016

Frances never uses her left hand for anything but brushing her hair. That changes when she breaks up with her lover on Christmas Eve and drops the phone in boiling custard. An equal opportunity elf restores her faith in life when he sells her a fairy doll for her Christmas tree.
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#24

Snowballs & Candy Canes

2016

The holidays can be a special time, filled with unexpected magic. Coal Roper is a queen and wears it boldly. Unfortunately, openly expressing himself does not come without some dangers. As not only the economics professor, but the drama production manager, he interacts with plenty of people, not all of them friendly. When a group of students begins to harass him, most of the staff turns a blind eye...all except one. Hank Parsons is a huge hulk of a man who teaches health classes, sports medicine, and acts as the wrestling coach. He's just the kind of man Coal normally stays well clear of. When the man keeps popping up at odd times to help him, Coal isn't certain what to make of the man...until the incident with the mistletoe. Can a little holiday magic help Coal look past the fears from his upbringing?
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#25

A Haunted Christmas

2016

Gifted or cursed? However people in her life chose to see her twisted ability its left Kiera Reeve broken. Her heart completely split in two. Can the magic of Christmas fuse it back together? Daryl Wolfe watches the love of his life suffer through the Holiday season from up in the clouds until an angel offers him an opportunity he possibly can't refuse even though he might spend the rest of eternity in torment. Jolon Woods struggles with an ethical decision to help the woman he loves move forward from the lost of her beloved's death. This Christmas he leaves his ethics aside and hopes the magic of the season will be on his side. Raziel can only hope his plan to save the conduit works otherwise the paras and angel alike are all doomed.

Authors

Lee-Ann Wallace
Lee-Ann Wallace
Author · 13 books

Lee-Ann Wallace wants to live in a world where washing folds itself, coffee’s good for you and dreams come true (at least the good ones). With one series published by eXtasy books, she’s just getting started with this thing called writing. If only her hands could type as fast as her imagination flows. When she’s not tapping away at her computer working on her next story, you can find her daydreaming about her next tattoo, watching action movies with her family, and practicing self-control, so she doesn’t one click every book on Amazon. Find out more about Lee-Ann’s current releases and what she’s working on now at www.leeannwallace.com Sign up for my email at http://eepurl.com/b6p6YH

Jo Tannah
Author · 17 books

I am a wife, mother and blogger by day, a writer by night. It can be difficult to say the least but it is a challenge that keeps me on my toes. I grew up listening to folk tales my father and nannies told either to entertain us children or to send home a message. These narratives I kept with me and finally I wrote them down in a journal way back when I kept one. Going through junk led to a long forgotten box and in it was the journal. Reading over the stories of romance, science fiction and horror I had taken time to put to paper, brought to light that these were tales I never met in my readings. The tales I write are fictional but all of them are based on what I grew up with and still dream about. That they have an M/M twist is simply for my pleasure. And I hope, yours as well.

A.J. Marcus
A.J. Marcus
Author · 40 books

A.J. Marcus grew up in Texas. He’s always had a fascination with cowboys, comic books and the great outdoors. He started writing in high school and at times spent more time writing than he did reading, and he’s a voracious reader. Maybe it was growing up in Texas, but his love of rugged men showed up even before he realized what was going on. He likes his men manly, hard, tough and caring, men with hearts, and other parts, as big as Texas. A.J. currently lives near Colorado Springs, Colorado with his loving partner and several horses. The men here are still men. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AJ-Marc...

Catherine Lievens
Catherine Lievens
Author · 204 books

Catherine is the creator of several series, most of them paranormal, including the Whitedell Pride Series and the Gillham Pack Series. While she graduated in translation, she decided to go the writer’s way because it was more fun to create her own stories and characters. She’s been living in Italy for more than twenty years, but she’s a daughter of the North—Belgium to be precise—and she misses it so much that she’s already planning to move back. She loves pizza—probably too much—her pets, and of course, books. She sneaks some reading time in her schedule every time she has five minutes free from writing, demands from her various pets and son, and lastly, housework.

Roxanna Cross
Roxanna Cross
Author · 1 books

Being a writer, a dreamer, a drifter and avid reader I live in crazy fantasy worlds and have unrealistic expectations. Sometimes I forget myself in a book and when I come out it takes me a minute or two to remember where, or who I am. I am a mother, a lover, a sister, a daughter, a friend, a confident, a bit crazy and neurotic and totally okay with who I am.

April Kelley
April Kelley
Author · 67 books

Living in Southwest Michigan, April resides with her husband and two kids. She has been an avid reader for several years. Writing her first story at the age of ten, the characters in her head still won't stop telling their stories. If April isn't reading or writing she can be found outside playing with the animals or taking a long walk in the woods. If you wish to contact her email authoraprilkelley@gmail.com. Please visit her website at authoraprilkelley.com

Belita Renn
Author · 2 books
Belita studies Psychology, reads, does crafts, and collects gargoyles. She has written a book of amusing short stories (It’s a Dog’s Life by Belita Keaton), historical romances (Lord Tricking and Lord Sirius by Kim Parson, published by Publish America), and a general, all ages book (Terrible Two by Belita Renn, from Tree Press). A mother of four, Belita lives in Georgia, is married to a deputy sheriff, and has six dogs, two daughters, and two sons.
Kellie Kamryn
Kellie Kamryn
Author · 5 books

By day, Kellie Kamryn is captain of her crew wearing many a hat: chauffeur, cook, maid, and arm chair psychologist. In her spare time, she lets her sassy side out to play, writing stories and poetry that sweeps readers into other worlds of contemporary erotic romance. Sweet and romantic, or sassy and hot, Kellie's writing will melt your heart - and maybe your undies! Her vivid style of storytelling has gained her erotic romances numerous 5-star reviews. Mulit-talented, she does voice work recording audiobooks, available on Amazon, iTunes, Audible and other retailers. Kellie loves to hear from readers. You can visit her at: www.kelliekamryn.com or you can find her on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter as Kellie Kamryn.

Caitlin Ricci
Caitlin Ricci
Author · 140 books
Caitlin was fortunate growing up to be surrounded by family and teachers that encouraged her love of reading. She has always been a voracious reader and that love of the written word easily morphed into a passion for writing. If she isn't writing, she can usually be found studying as she works toward her counseling degree. She comes from a military family and the men and women of the armed forces are close to her heart. She also enjoys gardening and horseback riding in the Colorado Rockies where she calls home with her wonderful fiancé and their dog. Her belief that there is no one true path to happily ever after runs deeply through all of her stories.
Lark Westerly
Lark Westerly
Author · 1 books
Lark Westerly lives in the island state of Tasmania, a place of wind and rivers, wild places and hidden delights. She enjoys walking over the hills, gardening, collecting china dogs, listening to music and wallowing decadently in a hot bath. Lark has been married for some years, and has two grown children. She writes under a variety of names, and lives in many worlds- most of which don’t bear much resemblance to the 21st Century.
Stephani Hecht
Stephani Hecht
Author · 191 books

Stephani Hecht is a happily married mother of two. Born and raised in Michigan, she loves all things about the state, from the frigid winters to the Detroit Red Wings hockey team. Go Wings! You can usually find her snuggled up to her laptop, creating her next book or gorging on caffeine at her favorite coffee shop. When she’s not running around like crazy, trying to get her kids to their various activities, she’s currently working on numerous projects. In the coming months, she has several books coming out with eXtasy Books in both The Lost Shifter Series and Drone Vampire Chronicles, plus a few additional projects that are still in the development stages. Visit Stephani on the web at: Email her at: archangelwriter@yahoo.com

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