Curl up with this delightfully dangerous collection of short stories, aimed at making the heart grow colder... Tiffinie Helmer - Heartless (Topless Club #2) Love sometimes requires restraints… Roxie Scott is moonlighting as a dominatrix, trying to survive the financial cost of her divorce. Wearing leather and swinging a whip turned out to be more therapeutic than therapy, until her clients start turning up dead... He refuses to be restrained… Homicide Detective Cam Ferguson is stunned when he recognises his former high school crush dressed in a leather cat suit and wielding a riding crop. _His interrogation into her murdered clients switches from suspecting her to needing to protect her from a sadistic killer determined to make her his bloody valentine... _ Alex Bledsoe - Tantrabobus (Witch Tales #?.5) Professor Tanna Tully, of the "Firefly Witch" series, leads a paranormal team of graduate students as they investigate the ghost of a woman who burned to death on her wedding day. _However, the mystery turns personal for one of the team, and Tanna has to call on her experience as a Wiccan high priestess to save both her student, and the spirit of a woman wronged over a century ago... _ V.R. Barkowski - Just A Lie An unfaithful husband shot and mutilated by his long-suffering spouse, is just another day at the office for San Francisco Homicide Inspector Del Miller. “Infidelity is ugly”‚ his partner tells him, but Del needs no reminder. He's recently learned his best friend, Mike Gabretti, is cheating on his wife. When Mike breaks off the illicit affair, Del promises to say nothing - better to keep a secret than break a heart. But that's before the jilted mistress sets her sights on payback. Now Del must choose between ignoring a danger he understands only too well or revealing the truth that will betray a lifelong friendship and destroy the lives of those closest to him! Erica Hayes - Unforgiven; A Tale Of The Possessed In a decadent republic on the brink of revolution, immortal blood drinker Lisette has long ago learned the price of her selfish pursuit of pleasure. Now, trapped in marriage to the stoic nobleman who saved her from the mob, she's vowed to use her powers only for good. By night, she stalks plague-ridden streets, armed with rapier and pistol, hunting the Possessed: the pleasure-crazed victims of Lisette's own kind... But beneath her respectable façade, old hungers still burn, sated only by her husband's fading love… until the hunt pits her against their ancient enemy, a dark prince and lover who rekindles Lisette's forbidden thirst for power - and blood! Betrayed by the only man who can save her, with the city erupting in flames and ultimate power within her grasp, Lisette must choose between dark past and uncertain future, shadows and light - _and the two magnificent, tragically irreconcilable men who haunt her soul... _ Lizbeth Lipperman - Sweepers: A Kiss To Die For Dr. Mackenzie Conley, a CIA operative and expert on bio-terrorism, is in Morocco undercover as a visiting professor at the University. Her mission is to investigate rumours of a powerful new nerve gas delivery system being perfected somewhere in the area. The rest of her team, including her fiancé, has already gone home after spending two weeks without finding even a hint of such a weapon. Mac stayed behind to finish her six-week stint to ensure her cover stays intact should she need to use it again... With only one week left, Mac can’t wait to get back to the states and her fiancé. But someone in Morocco has other plans for her - plans that include kidnapping, drugging, and holding her hostage in a mountain laboratory, totally hidden from satellite coverage. Neither her team‚ nor her handler knows where she is... Escaping from the mountain prison becomes critical! _But‚ isn’t the only thing on Mac’s mind, though, as she comes face to face with the man, whose latest invention, has the potential to bring the world to its knees! _ Charlie Holmberg - Salt And Water A slave to a war-torn society for eighteen months, Chellis has been tortured for one purpose: to make her cry, for the healing properties of her tears can mend any soldier’s wound. But when her captors push her too far, she revolts, resulting in her re-assignment to a slave handler better suited to control her... Ahad-dian is different from Chellis’s previous handlers. He’s reasonable, seems incapable of brutality, and treats Chellis as a sentient being, not a tool. It’s almost enough for Chellis to trust him. Ahad-dian’s generosity may be a key ...

In these three short stories a small-town reporter meets a beautiful witch who shows him how mysterious, and dangerous, the world can truly be. When small-town reporter Ry Tully meets the woman of his dreams, he has no idea what he's getting into. Tanna is blind, but when fireflies are around, she can see. She's a graduate student in parapsychology, and psychic herself. She's also a second-degree Wiccan priestess—a witch. And her primary duty is to help those in need, whether living, dead, or otherwise. Will Ry be able to forge a relationship with a woman so different from anyone he's known? Will Tanna rise to the challenges of both her new love, and her chosen path? And will the dark corners of the world be ready for the Firefly Witch?

The heroine of The Firefly Witch, Dr. Tanna Tully, returns for more adventures into the dangerous, the absurd, and the deadly. • Tanna receives a mysterious box that contains something alive, and possibly diabolical. Does Ry have the nerve to open it? • When her research connects a long-vanished local lake with a global ecological crisis, Tanna and her husband Ry must find a way to cross dimensions into a strange other reality. • A young boy vanishes inside an amusement park’s latest attraction, and his ghost begs Tanna for help. She and Ry must figure out what has happened to him, and then take a trip into the darkest place imaginable, if they dare, to try and free him. • “Son” Emerson, obnoxious redneck country star, has a problem: the guitar once used by his late father, the legendary “Dad” Emerson, seems to be haunted. Can Tanna figure out who the ghost is, and what it wants?