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New Release! Pick up your copy of Runaway Moon by Dakota Rebel!

New Release! Pick up your copy of Runaway Moon by Dakota Rebel!

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— 7 years ago with 1 note
#Dakota Rebel  #Runaway Moon  #Touch of Gray  #romance  #lgbt  #glbt romance  #shifters 
For Jessica, offering her submission to Ryan means giving up the only thing that has kept her anchored in life: her control. But Ryan is about to teach Jessica three new words that will shatter everything she thinks she knows about control and show...

For Jessica, offering her submission to Ryan means giving up the only thing that has kept her anchored in life: her control. But Ryan is about to teach Jessica three new words that will shatter everything she thinks she knows about control and show her a world of sensual delights found only at his loving command…

“On. Your. Knees.”

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— 7 years ago with 1 note
#love story  #romance  #BDSM  #Brynn Paulin  #resplendencepublishing.com  #resplendence publishing 
When Rebecca Carlisle’s obsessive lust for a co-worker interferes with her work and drives her to distraction, her friend tells her there is only one cure—to screw the guy’s brains out. Becka, though, has never spoken to the man, doesn’t even know...

When Rebecca Carlisle’s obsessive lust for a co-worker interferes with her work and drives her to distraction, her friend tells her there is only one cure—to screw the guy’s brains out. Becka, though, has never spoken to the man, doesn’t even know his name. Besides, she is moving out of state in just over two weeks.

But Halloween is coming, and when Becka dons a mask and a belly dancing costume, she unleashes her alter ego Fantasy. Shy, retiring accountant Becka could never dance nearly naked through a bar to seduce the sexiest man on earth. But Fantasy can—and does.

But the supposed cure for lust only makes the obsession worse, and Becka soon finds herself sinking into a morass of passion, deceit…and ultimately love.

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— 7 years ago
#to cure an obsession  #love story  #romantic  #sexy  #resplendencepublishing.com  #resplendence publishing 
Jerking her pack, she took off at a sprint, slinking as low as she could to make use of the height of the grass. They’d still be able to make out where she was, but she wouldn’t be as easy a mark. The first shot whizzed by her shoulder, so close she...

Jerking her pack, she took off at a sprint, slinking as low as she could to make use of the height of the grass. They’d still be able to make out where she was, but she wouldn’t be as easy a mark. The first shot whizzed by her shoulder, so close she felt the ripple in the air near her skin. The second one slammed into the ground behind her right foot. She was halfway across now and gaining more speed as she went. The third hit her backpack with a pop sound, and it dawned on her they weren’t shooting bullets. She spared a brief glance back. Darts. The motherfuckers were shooting darts at her.

She hit the tree line and straightened as a roar rent the air. Her mate. He was close and, from the sound of it, mad as hell. Piercing fire hit her buttock, sending pain lancing down her leg and making it go immediately numb. She screamed and reached back to rip it from her skin. She managed to stay on her feet, dragging one leg behind her as she veered in a direct path for that roar. She heard scrambling behind her and knew the men were done playing. She had no idea if they meant to kill her or take her someplace else so they could play some more. She didn’t want to find out.

She slipped behind a tree and collapsed. The numbness was spreading into her other leg and up her right arm. She couldn’t seem to fight it anymore. It had to be some form of muscle relaxer. It wasn’t knocking her out yet, but it was making her incapable of moving. A man appeared in a gap between the trees. He was a giant, easily over six and a half feet tall with short hair somewhere between blond and brown. He was gorgeous, but one whiff said he wasn’t the man she was hoping for. He spotted her immediately and headed toward her at a fast run.

She tried to shake her head, to warn him of the danger, but nothing on her body was responding to her commands.

“Shh,” he crooned as he dropped to his knees beside her. “You’re safe now. Where are you hit?”

She couldn’t get her lips to move but managed to push out sound anyway.

“Bu…nu…mmm…”

“Fuck,” he muttered. “I have no idea what the hell you’re trying to say.”

A loud roar rent the air again, this time coming from behind her. A masculine scream filled the air then abruptly shut off.

“Normally, I’d check you over, but I’m not sure that would be a safe call at the moment. My brother seems to believe you might be his mate, and in the primal state he’s in right now, I’m not sure he’d understand I’m just trying to help you if he showed up and my hands were on you.”

“Ma…” she gurgled, trying to force the word out. His brother was her mate. She could feel it, even now her bear was reaching out.

“Let’s try this. Can you blink?”

She blinked her eyes several times.

“Good. So one blink for no, two blinks for yes. Okay?”

She blinked twice.

“Perfect. Were you shot?”

Stupid question. Of course, they’d shot her with something or she’d be able to fucking talk to him, wouldn’t she? But if she blinked yes he might think she’d been shot with a bullet and not a dart. Damn!

His hand suddenly reached out and plucked something off her backpack. She watched as he brought the dart around and carried it to his nose, sniffing at it.

“They darted you?”

She blinked twice.

“Fucking hunters and their tranquilizing darts,” he muttered.

He brought the dart to his tongue and tasted the tip of it. It had to be a minute amount, surely not enough to hurt him with his size, but still, she wanted to swat him upside the head. Didn’t he see what it was doing to her? He reached out and touched two fingers to the pulse point in her neck.

“Strong and steady. This tastes like…a muscle relaxer mixed with the drug they use to prevent us from shifting. Definitely potent in someone as small as you. I don’t sense anything else in it. We’ll need to get you back as soon as we can so I can take a closer look at it in the lab. Can you move anything at all?”

She rolled her eyes at him, which served to make him laugh.

“I bet you’re going to be a lot of fun when you can talk back.”

Another roar, this one sounding closer, had him leaning in to whisper.

“I’m Jensen, by the way. Jensen Holloway. That very angry bear you hear is my brother, Koby,” he said. “He can be a little intimidating, and right now, he’s not exactly at his best. So try not to let him scare you, okay?”

She blinked twice. Koby. Her mate was Koby Holloway. Nicholas would be happy to know her bear seemed set on a Holloway and one of the very ones he’d suggested to her, too. Just thinking of Nicholas had her eyes filling with tears. It appeared she had as much control over her emotions as she did over her muscles at present. She couldn’t stop them from spilling down her cheeks.

“Shit! Don’t cry. He won’t hurt you. Promise. But if he comes in here and sees you crying and me next to you… Well, hell. I’m not opposed to shedding some blood, but I’d prefer it wasn’t mine.”

She tried to laugh, but it surfaced as more of a wet gurgle instead. Jensen was muttering something when a grizzly came through the trees and reared up on his hind legs claiming her full attention. He was the largest bear she’d seen. There was blood on his muzzle and one of his paws, but she knew instinctively it wasn’t his. He’d killed to protect her. Her heart beat a fast staccato in her chest.

He dropped to all fours and stalked toward her. Jensen came to his feet and moved to stand slightly in front of her.

“She’s been darted. Found this on her backpack. She seems fine, but we’ll want to get her back to the house as soon as we can, so I can analyze this and see exactly what we’re dealing with. It seems like their normal cocktail, though. She should be able to sleep it off and be fine when she wakes up.”

The bear shifted and turned into a gorgeous male slightly larger than Jensen. Koby.

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— 8 years ago with 1 note
#resplendence publishing  #resplendencepublishing  #Lacey Thorn  #bears  #bear shifters  #grizzly  #love  #love story  #romance 
Five years ago the bear shifters were attacked. The alpha was the first to die, but his murder was followed by carefully planned attacks focused on one thing: find and kill the female shifters.
Sidia Blackstone is running for her life. Someone has...

Five years ago the bear shifters were attacked. The alpha was the first to die, but his murder was followed by carefully planned attacks focused on one thing: find and kill the female shifters.

Sidia Blackstone is running for her life. Someone has discovered the existence of the remaining female bear shifters and is determined to hunt them down. One of the elders is dead and her twin is missing. Her guardian, Nicholas, sends her to find safety among the Holloway brothers. Her best chance at survival is to find them and if her bear is willing, claim one of the last remaining grizzlies as her mate.

Koby Holloway is one furious grizzly. They’ve just discovered there are surviving female bears hidden among them. Though he swore the one who came to them belonged to him, she chose another as her mate. He doesn’t understand the pull he feels until he learns she has a twin who also survived. Now, nothing will stop him from finding her.

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— 8 years ago
#bears  #shifters  #lacey thorn  #resplendence publishing  #romance  #love  #love story  #shapeshifters 
COMING SOON from ResplendencePublishing.com! NEVER LET YOU GO by Patricia Pellicane.

COMING SOON from ResplendencePublishing.com! NEVER LET YOU GO by Patricia Pellicane.

— 8 years ago
#COMING SOON  #resplendencepublishing  #ebook  #book release  #love  #love story 
“You sound different than when we talked on the phone. Did you just get over a cold?” Claire opened the menu to avoid looking at him but she still felt his keen, unnerving gaze on her face. Heat flushed her skin as he seemed to admire her cleavage,...

“You sound different than when we talked on the phone. Did you just get over a cold?” Claire opened the menu to avoid looking at him but she still felt his keen, unnerving gaze on her face. Heat flushed her skin as he seemed to admire her cleavage, the low neckline of her dress exposed one of her best assets, and then he drew her full attention back to him as he sat back in the booth and coughed behind his balled up hand.

“No, I didn’t have a cold.” Parker tapped his fingers on the menu but didn’t bother to open it. “I have a confession. I don’t want you to be angry or hurt but I didn’t talk with you for the past two weeks. You see, my kids put the ‘Mom Wanted’ ad you found in the paper and my brother, Niles, changed the phone number. You spoke to him. Not me.”

Claire laid down the menu. “I don’t understand. You never placed the advertisement?”

“I’m sorry about this. My wife died three years ago and Niles thinks I should get back in the dating game. My kids want a mom. I’m not ready to give Richie and Tammy a mother-figure right now, but Niles told me you seemed like a good person. It’s Valentine’s Day, after all, and I didn’t want you to sit here all alone if I didn’t show up.”

She didn’t expect this night to go perfectly, but she never expected a stranger to make her feel foolish. Claire forced the practiced smile she usually reserved for her mom on her face and bit her nails into her palms to keep back the embarrassing wash of tears in her eyes.

“All right, I understand. I won’t keep you from your evening. You looked distressed before I even sat down here and I don’t want to bother you any longer.” She grabbed her purse and scooted to the edge of the booth.

“Wait, don’t go.” Parker held up his hands and she stilled. “I told you to the truth to clear the air between us. Not to make you feel uncomfortable. My brother told me what he did this morning, too late for me to call you and let you down easy, but I agreed to go on this blind date because he’s right. I will always love Cynthia, my late wife, but I have to move on.” He flattened his hands on the gleaming cherry wood table top and his chest shuddered as though he breathed deep. She met Parker’s gaze and felt burned by the sincerity in his eyes. “I’d like to have dinner with you. I don’t expect anything from you but interesting conversation.”

Her lips twitched. “I can’t guarantee the conversation will be interesting.”

“Fair enough. Will you stay?”

Claire glanced at the smiling couples around them and remembered the last time she and Lee indulged in a romantic evening just for the fun of it. He demanded a divorce after a candlelit dinner, a few turns on an ice skating rink and a long night of lovemaking. She thought he’d intended to mend their problems with the romantic gesture, though she knew one evening wouldn’t fix everything, but his shocking demand devastated her. Even worse, he married the woman he cheated on Claire with a few weeks after their divorce finalized.

She sat back in the booth as their waiter arrived for their drink orders. Claire wanted to talk about Parker’s brother, she felt as though she needed to explain why she answered the want ad, but her pride kept her tongue silent. Silence stretched between them as she grabbed the menu and flipped a few pages to find a condensed English section at the back of the thick binder. Parker mumbled under his breath as though he needed to hear the Italian words to translate them but then a loud sigh left his mouth once he too flipped to the back pages. A smile teased her lips and Claire ducked her face behind her fall of hair to hide her amusement.

The waiter returned and she ordered the eggplant parmesan, one of the few vegetarian items on the English menu. Parker ordered the spicy chicken Marsala and she inwardly cringed as he took the menu from her grasp and placed both menus in the waiter’s outstretched hand.

“Chicken?” Claire waited until the waiter left to voice her disappointment. “You’re not a vegetarian, are you?”

“No, I don’t know why Niles told you I was.”

She sipped her glass of red wine to not complain.

An hour passed as Parker told her about his wife’s battle with leukemia, his two children and the brother he exacted revenge on when he stuffed his kids full of chocolate and candy before Niles Townsend picked them up for the night. Claire laughed as Parker mimicked the look of utter regret and resignation on Niles’s face as he left Parker’s house with two hyper kids in tow.

Claire told him about her daughter, the nursery she worked at and her divorce. She didn’t intend to have the ‘divorce talk’ but she couldn’t keep it bottled up inside since he’d opened up about Cynthia. Parker seemed genuinely concerned as he listened to her and, though she knew the pain she felt over her failed marriage probably didn’t compare to Parker losing his beloved wife, she felt a strange connection with him as they shared their stories.

Her phone buzzed in her purse for about the tenth time but she couldn’t turn off the device in case her mom called her with an emergency. She glanced at the phone again and scowled at the caller ID on the screen.

“Who keeps calling you?” Parker asked after he swallowed a bite of chicken. “Do you need to leave?”

“No, I had plans to see a few friends tonight but you—I mean, Niles—wanted to meet. No offense, but I really want to give your brother a good kick in the pants. I can’t stand little diaper-wearing cherubs with a penchant for mischief and a bow and arrow in their hands.”

— 8 years ago
#my valentine adventure  #love  #love story  #holiday romance  #romance  #romantic  #resplendence publishing 
Parker Townsend raised his children alone after he lost his beloved wife to cancer. When his two little hellions placed a ‘Mom Wanted’ ad in the local paper, Parker found himself roped into an unwanted blind date.
Claire Lauer answered the want ad...

Parker Townsend raised his children alone after he lost his beloved wife to cancer. When his two little hellions placed a ‘Mom Wanted’ ad in the local paper, Parker found himself roped into an unwanted blind date.

Claire Lauer answered the want ad with few expectations and met Parker on Valentine’s Day, a day she hated with a passion. As an animal rights activist and a divorcée, she felt more comfortable with a placard in her hand than in the company of a handsome man with emotional baggage.

After a protest takes a turn for the worse, she seeks shelter in her date’s arms and loses time in his bed. Will Parker and Claire find the courage to lay their fragile hearts on the chopping block by morning, or will they forever live in a world of gray?

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— 8 years ago with 1 note
#love  #love story  #romance  #romantic  #resplendence publishing 
This lion is ready to claim what’s his on the day made for lovers.
Figuring out what Valentine’s Day is isn’t easy, especially for lion shifters. Until coming to Sanctuary, Leo had never heard of the holiday, but he’s not about to let the special day...

This lion is ready to claim what’s his on the day made for lovers.

Figuring out what Valentine’s Day is isn’t easy, especially for lion shifters. Until coming to Sanctuary, Leo had never heard of the holiday, but he’s not about to let the special day go by without taking notice. He knows his heart and it belongs to Axl. He’ll do what it takes to get Axl’s attention, but will Axl share his feelings?

Axl is the brute of the group and has no need for Valentine’s Day. He’s tough and takes what he wants—including Leo. He doesn’t need a holiday to dictate his actions. That is until Leo bares his soul and his needs. Will Leo’s honesty be enough for Axl to come to terms with his feelings? Anything can happen on Valentine’s Day.

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— 8 years ago
#loving leo  #love story  #resplendence publishing  #ebook  #megan slayer