Would YOU love a monster girl? Andrew hunts monsters as a member of the Non-Human Investigative Corps, and he's very good at his job. Unfortunately, the skills he honed to keep the peace aren't much use in the cutthroat world of city politics, and a recent civil ruling is forcing the integration of the once exclusively human NHIC! Velise is a beautiful arachne noble sent to the human-ruled city of Daytau as part of a diplomatic boondoggle to prove her political skills to her matriarch. A chance encounter with Andrew leaves her wanting to know more, and the integration gives her an opportunity both to sate her curiosity and advance her ambitions. Yet the barroom brawl Andrew diffused for her sake was no accident, and city hall would love nothing more than to end his career. Forced by circumstance both to protect and rely on a monster, Andrew comes to an uncomfortable realization. Velise might just be everything he ever wanted in a woman ... Warning: This book does not pan to waving curtains and fade to black. Those uninterested or under the age of eighteen are strongly warned of explicit consensual content.

Would YOU love a monster girl? Tony Platz had the respect of his peers, a career on the fast track, and the body of an Olympian. There was only one problem: it was an open secret he carried a torch for his already married partner. When a raid put her in the hospital and finally exposed her husband's ongoing infidelity, Tony got shipped out to Oolytau to keep him from doing something that wouldn't just end his career. As weeks turned into months it became apparent the last person his crush wanted to see was the one man who could say 'I told you so,' and his future prospects with the NHIC looked grim. Tayra Manes had a dream. She worked hard, graduated the academy, and became the first of her kind to join the Non-Human Investigative Corps. There was only one problem: she was a griffin, and not everyone approved of her being allowed to serve in the previously all-human NHIC. Within twenty-four hours of her assignment to Oolytau she had a bounty on her head, no place to call home, and a new partner. As a simple apartment hunt turned into a deadly game of cat and mouse, their problems multiplied as Tayra realized Tony might just be the dream she'd come to the city to find, and Tony found himself making the same mistake twice.

Would YOU love a monster girl? Grace Daytau is a gargoyle with a fresh lease on life. After turning state's evidence gets her witness protection at a university campus, she's determined to play it straight. There's just one problem: she hasn't been to school in almost twenty years! If she can't make the grade Daytau will revoke her witpro scholarship, leaving her at the mercy of the syndicates. She has a lot of catching up to do. Daniel Koffman does his best to avoid entanglements as he uses college coursework to further forbidden genetic research. But when a mysterious woman offers him an obscene payday to tutor a gargoyle, the offer is simply too good to refuse. It's an arrangement that will change his life. Daniel was in it for the money. Grace was in it to make good on a fresh start. Both had secrets to keep and neither wanted anything more. But love has a funny way of creeping in, and in their case, it all started with a little white lie ...

All they needed was a second chance ... As former police officer, his back broken in the line of duty, James' life hung by a thread. Securing treatment landed him deep in debt and working for a soldier of fortune company to pay for his recovery. When he learned just how dirty that company was, he had to decide if his conscience was worth becoming a lifelong paraplegic. Selena bore a terrible burden, living a futile life bound to an insane dragon lord. A nagini of rare ability, she surrendered willingly when the human soldiers destroyed the village she'd been sent to recruit. Yet, when she learned what the humans had in store for her, she knew her only hope lay in the one man who just didn't fit with the others. If he could spare her the fate she had in store, give her a second chance, she would defy every law to see him safe and rewarded. She couldn't know that reaching the safety of the city-state would be only the beginning of their troubles ...

Let not your heart be troubled ... Cyril woke up in a hospital bed with a ruined body and no memory of how it happened. His only chance at a normal life was agreeing to a splicer's experiment with a twisted he was forbidden to learn the circumstances surrounding his injuries. Rose saved a life and wound up exiled from her gang, friendless and broke in Oolytau. Given an out by a notorious mob boss, she found herself in the Tracts working with a man who might be everything she never knew she needed. Yet, the past has a way of shaping the future, and both would have to confront it in the wilderness with few friends and little hope of rescue. Rose would face the fight of her life, while Cyril must come to terms with the fact that non-humans are - first and last - monsters. Would YOU love a monster girl?

All he wanted was to get away ... The Morgan brothers led a vicious syndicate in the streets of Oolytau for over twenty years. It all came crashing down when a legendary cleaner put one of those brothers in the ground and gave the other a grim ultimatum. With the empire he and his brother built in shambles, weary of the outlaw life and faced with the prospect of revenge against a nightmare no one could kill, Will Morgan chose exile. Carina said goodbye to her husband, knowing she might never see him again. Yet, without the help he hoped to bring, their village was doomed to destruction at the hands of orcish raiders in the service of a seemingly invincible dragon. When a man leading a motley crew of killers arrived with her husband's last words and their best hope of survival, she and her only son were forced to abandon everything on a journey that would take them through the Tracts to a new home. Yet, escape is not so easy, and a new life must come at the cost of the old. To justify the faith of a dead minotaur, the surviving Morgan will go through hell. Even if he succeeds, the new settlement must live under the looming shadow of a dragon's vengeance ...