“I wanted you to have one for the wedding, but—”
“It’s enough I have it now.” She didn’t ask him how he’d afforded it. She didn’t tell him a diamond chip on a band of gold wouldn’t replace him beside her. She just kissed him again and again until the train pulled into the station and it was time for them to go.
VAMPIRES GONE WILD
SUPERNATURAL UNDERGROUND
by Kerrelyn Sparks, Pamela Palmer, Amanda Arista, and Kim Falconer
The vampires have gone wild in this collection of never-before-published stories by bestselling authors Kerrelyn Sparks and Pamela Palmer, and two rising stars of paranormal romance!
V is for VampWoman by Kerrelyn Sparks
Pamela decides to shed her prim and proper ways for spandex and a mask in order to help fight the Malcontents. Now if only she weren’t so distracted by the sexy vampire fighting at her side…
A Forever Love by Pamela Palmer
Trapped in Vamp City, Lukas has been unable to return to the beauty who stole his heart. But now that she’s stumbled into his world, it will take every ounce of cunning he possesses to keep her alive.
First Dates Are Hell by Amanda Arista
Valiance’s first date in a hundred years is going great… until they’re attacked in the parking lot and quiet, unassuming Esme turns out to be way more than she appears.
Blood and Water by Kim Falconer
Beneath the waves of San Francisco Bay lives a vampire race that wants nothing to do with the “landers” except to feed on them. But when Stellan sets eyes on Angelina, everything changes.
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SAVED BY THE RANCHER
BOOK ONE: THE HUNTED SERIES
by Jennifer Ryan
Jenna Caldwell Merrick never expected to find love while running from her abusive ex, until she met rancher Jack Turner…
Is he still here? Lurking, waiting?
Jenna opened her heavy eyelids a mere slit. She lay sprawled on the cold wood floor, shivering, snow falling everywhere. Inside? She squeezed her eyes closed and opened them again, trying to focus on the things around her. Her sight adjusted, the double images coalescing into a morbid scene she didn’t want to see. Feathers from the pillows on the bed floated in the air and rained down, creating a white blanket over the devastation in the room.
The ringing in her ears quieted, allowing her to better focus on the bedroom of her rented cottage. Shards of glass from the smashed antique dressing mirror lay scattered around her. Some of the pulled-out dresser drawers had landed on the floor, others hung open crookedly. Her clothes, though few, lay slashed and strewn everywhere. The overwhelmingly sweet scent of jasmine perfume mixed with the metallic scent of her blood and made her stomach clench and pitch until bile rose and stung the back of her throat, leaving a sour taste on her tongue.
She took a few shallow breaths to put off the inevitable, at least until she got to the bathroom.
His worst rage yet. Memories of the last hour flipped through her sharpening mind like a morbid slideshow.
Him, grabbing her from behind on the front porch when she returned from running. He clamped his gloved hand over her mouth, grabbed her around the waist, and hauled her through the door. Him, spinning her around and, with a backhanded slap, sending her reeling backward and crashing into the dining room table. Pain radiated from her hip and down her leg. He grabbed her wrist, pulled her forward, and squeezed her so tight to his chest that she couldn’t breathe. Pain along her jaw, she opened her mouth to scream in terror, but he clamped his hand down again, cutting off her air, and the scream rising out of her was lost in the back of her throat. Him, shoving her away. She hit her head against the wall and stars exploded on the inside of her eyelids. Pain in the back of her head. A large throbbing bump swelled under her skin.
Nothing but him and pain. And, oh God, more to come.
Forced into the bedroom. He held her in his tight grip, grinding his hips and hard arousal against her bottom, inciting even more fear.
He liked her scared.
She stood helplessly frozen. Tried to get her mind to work, think, tell her body to flee, but her limbs didn’t heed the wild thoughts in her head.
Him, snatching her belt off the dresser, pushing her onto the bed. She landed on her stomach, and his fingers dug into her skin, bruising. She curled up, tried to make herself as small a target as possible. The belt lashed across her back and buttocks, her screams disregarded, her thin tank top and nylon shorts no protection against the bite of the leather whip and metal buckle.
The dressing mirror smashed to the floor with a loud crack. He wielded a shard of broken glass, his lips pulled back in a feral smile. He slashed her thigh, tearing the flesh in a jagged line of searing pain. She screamed in agony. Him, sitting on her bloodied, welted back, pulling her hair. Hacking at it. She tried desperately to scratch and claw at the hands over her head. Him, shoving her off the bed and onto the floor with a resounding thud. Him, in a mindless fury, demanding over and over again, yelling at the top of his lungs, “Say you’ll come back. I’ll stop. Say it. Say you’ll come back.”
Him, whispering in her ear, his knee grinding into her spine, “You’re mine. Wherever you go, I’ll find you. You promised before God you’d be my obedient wife. ’Til death do us part. Death, Jenna. Say it.” The last he said with such menace that his voice became calm as a flat sea.
Her whisper, softer than his gasping breath, broke into his raging mind when all her screams went unheard.
“Never.”
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Excerpt from The Earl in My Bed copyright © 2013 by Sharie Kohler.
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Excerpt from Get There copyright © 2009 by Megan Hart.
Excerpt from Saved by the Rancher copyright © 2013 by Jennifer Ryan.
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Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
About the Author
An Excerpt from The Earl in My Bed by Sophie Jordan
An Excerpt from Kiss Me by Codi Gary, Cheryl Harper, and Jaclyn Hatcher
An Excerpt from Adventures with Max and Louise by Ellyn Oaksmith
An Excerpt from Get There by Megan Hart
An Excerpt from Vampires Gone Wild by Kerrelyn Sparks, Pamela Palmer, Amanda Arista, and Kim Falconer
An Excerpt from Saved by the Rancher by Jennifer Ryan
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