Librarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here This book is now available only under Gayle's pen name: Marie Booth. A slave to the archdemon known as the Director, Ingrid has spent her life forced to project fantasies for alpha werewolves and master vampires, sometimes becoming a victim of those fantasies herself. But not for long! She's determined to break free. All that she needs is a little cooperation and magical help from her powerful and very sexy production manager, Mack. Mack protects his troupe and powers the theta performances with his axis energy, that's his job. He makes sure every show goes smoothly for the actors and the audience, he keeps the quality up so that ticket sales are good and The Director's happy, and most important, he makes sure none of his actors does anything that might get them retired—another word for executed. But this sexy new leading lady is causing trouble, using too much power, running experiments with her magic, endangering them all. When Mack attempts to put a stop to Ingrid's reckless behavior, Ingrid and Mack find they're connected in a way neither one of them could have imagined, forcing Mack to finally listen to Ingrid's plans for a life free from the Director's tyranny.

When his father's murdered by demons and his sister's kidnapped, Matteo, a street theta, swears to find her. Every night he searches, trusting no one and taking down the supernatural scum who feed on the innocent. After managing to escape her theta troupe, Anne is attacked by wolves, then rescued by a male who can never know the truth of where she comes from. But truth can form a bridge to trust.