A View to a Kill: (A Bird Shifter Novella) (King of Prey Book 2)
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“Date?” Sachin swayed, suddenly feeling sick to his stomach. “No. It will not happen. Absolutely, positively not.”
Rayna laughed at Paige. “You win.”
A sly smile spread over Paige’s face. “Do I know my man or what?” She glanced at Sachin. “Honey, if you feel faint you should—”
The room seemed to spin and the next thing Sachin knew, Kabril was by his side, laughing from the gut.
THE END
About the Author, Mandy M. Roth
Mandy M. Roth grew up fascinated by creatures that go bump in the night. From the very beginning, she showed signs of creativity—writing, painting, telling scary stories that left her little brother afraid to come out from under his bed. Combining her creativity with her passion for the paranormal has left her banging on the keyboard into the wee hours of the night.
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Sacred Places (Druid Series) by Mandy M. Roth
Sometimes fated love requires some good old-fashioned magikal meddling.
Coyle O'Caha, a seven-hundred-year-old immortal, druid sorcerer, is a famed warrior among his kind and a legendary ladies’ man—but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t spent his life looking for his soulmate. That one woman who will make him feel whole. When Deri walks into his seaside pub, clearly running from something or someone, it’s all he can do to not sweep her off her feet and claim her right then and there. It’s as if the goddess is mocking him. Not only is his mate immune to his charms and his magik, she’s human.
Deri Sullivan’s new boss has a Scottish lilt that makes her knees weak. The problem is he’s a certified ladies’ man. And she’s sworn off those types—for good. If only she could stop dreaming about him in ways that would make any girl blush. See, she has a secret, and even if she wanted to let Coyle into her bed, she couldn’t actually let him into her life. Witches and humans simply don’t mix.
Expert from Sacred Places by Mandy M. Roth
Coyle O’Caha bent over his woodworking bench and continued to carve into a piece of oak he’d been toying with for several weeks now. He disliked when he came across oak trees being cut down, and often bought them in bulk to avoid them going to waste.
Oak was special to his people—the druids. Humans held little regard for oak in the way they should. Truth be told, humans did not care for much, other than themselves. He was not a fan of them but understood they were a necessary evil. An evil he was charged with protecting.
Stupid rules.
He sighed. There were days he often wondered if the goddess selected right when sending him to be birthed to a family of druid sorcerers and then tasking them with overseeing humans’ safety as well as the training of other magiks.
He didn’t mind magiks so much.
Though, more and more the new batches of witches coming through his doors for guidance held less and less respect for the craft and for its roots. They merely sought power for the sake of power. Those types almost always ended up going bad—souring and becoming something Coyle, his brothers and cousins hunted.
It had been a month or more since the last dark sorcerer had surfaced. The O’Caha boys dispatched him quickly, ending his life and harnessing his dark magik to keep it from reentering the ether and causing issues later. The dark sorcerer had more bluster than actual power. Guess he should have waited to go to the dark side before he started issuing threats and trying to be a badass, because he’d not had the juice to back his threats. Most threats were easy to deal with considering the ages of the O’Caha boys. Though, every once in a while one would crop up who took some real effort.
Korey, his first cousin and best friend, had just returned from a hunt for a dark sorcerer like that—one who took a toll on the person or people hunting him. Korey had gotten a little banged up but was fine. The same couldn’t be said for their cousin Gordon. He’d already suffered at the hands of demons and was paying the price. All the O’Caha men held guilt over Gordon. They each felt as though they’d failed him in some fashion.
And they had.
He’d been brutally attacked and held captive for months by a dark sorcerer who had turned to the ways of the vampires—the blood drinkers. Gordon had not come out the other side of the ordeal the same as he’d gone in.
Who would?
Gordon now was also considered a vampire, though none of the O’Caha boys would ever dream of hunting him. The damn eejit thought himself a danger to mankind and was doing a damn fine job of trying to end himself. The fool had no idea that the good-hearted man he’d once been still remained. That the blood drinker side of him did not rule him.
Couldn’t get it through Gordon’s thick skull, though.
Another O’Caha faulty trait.
Stubbornness.
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The Impatient Lord by Michelle M. Pillow
Bestselling Dragon Shifter Romance
An unlucky bride…
Riona Grey lives life on her own terms, traveling wherever the next spaceship is flying and doing what she must in order to get by. When her luck turns sour, she finds herself on a bridal ship heading to a marriage ceremony. A planet full of dragon shifters seeking mates wasn't exactly what she had in mind as a final destination. Just when she thinks things couldn't possibly get worse, she wakes up months later in an isolation chamber with a sexy, hovering dragon shifter by her side telling her they're meant to be together...forever.
The impatient groom...
After years of failed marriage attempts at the Breeding Festivals, the gods finally revealed Lord Mirek's bride...a day too late. Eager to have her, he defied tradition and laid claim. But it is a mistake to go against the gods and his new wife was the one to pay the price of his impatience.
Now almost a year later, his bride is finally waking from her deep sleep. With one look from her, he feels the eagerness to claim her overtaking him once more. Fearful she'll slip through his grasp once again, he's hesitant to anger the gods by taking her to his bed too soon. But, how can he resist the one thing that would make his life complete, especially when she looks at him with eyes of a seductress? This is one test he can't fail, and yet with one of her sweet kisses he knows he may already have lost.
A King’s Ransom by Reagan Hawk
(pen name of Mandy M. Roth)
Book One in the Masters of Pleasure Series
On a quest to find his brother, King Kritan of Katarius on the planet of Panucia finds himself ambushed, beaten, tortured and then sold to fight in the arena games. The people of Tamonius—his rival kingdom—condone slavery, take public sex to new lows and try to turn a profit off anything they can. Nothing can change his hatred for everything Tamonius… That is, until he meets the most breathtakingly beautiful woman he’s ever laid eyes upon. Surina of the House of Argyros, daughter to a powerful senator, stirs the beast within him, making it want to lay claim to her as badly as the man does.
Free or not, Kritan is a master of seduction, and has selected Su
rina as his newest prey. But this virginal beauty has secrets of her own—ones that change everything. And destiny just might have the last laugh.
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