It’s time for her to return home… Eight years ago, Kennedy Frazer was too afraid to hand her heart to another. Terrified she’d repeat the mistakes of her mother, she fled. Now she’s back and determined to fight for who she knows is rightfully hers. He thought he’d never see her again… When it comes to love, Gunn Arnot has been there and done that. It’s not something he’s interested in repeating. But when the love of his life walks back though his door, and he’s forced to pretend to be her fiancé as they complete a mission for the IDA, what he thinks he wants and what he actually needs are two very different things. *Previously published under the pen name Kenzie Cox alien romance, science fiction romance, bride romance, paranormal romance
She’s looking to escape… Opal Zimmerman is the new girl in town. All she wants is a safe haven from an oppressive alien race. What she gets is an out of this world man who pushes all the right buttons. He’s already loved and lost… Zeke Arnot isn’t looking for love. That bell doesn’t ring twice. But when he opens his home to a human on the run, he quickly learns she might not be the only one who needs saving. *Previously published under the pen name Kenzie Cox*
Meet the Arnot Brothers of the Bayou Springs Aliens… Zeke… Opal Zimmerman is the new girl in town. All she wants is a safe haven from an oppressive alien race. What she gets is an out of this world man who pushes all the right buttons. Zeke Arnot isn’t looking for love. That bell doesn’t ring twice. But when he opens his home to a human on the run, he quickly learns she might not be the only one who needs saving. Gunn… Eight years ago, Kennedy Frazer was too afraid to hand her heart to another. Terrified she’d repeat the mistakes of her mother, she fled. Now she’s back and determined to fight for who she knows is rightfully hers. When it comes to love, Gunn Arnot has been there and done that. It’s not something he’s interested in repeating. But when the love of his life walks back through his door, and he’s forced to pretend to be her fiancé as they complete a mission for the IDA, what he thinks he wants and what he actually needs are two very different things. Echo… Naomi Amsden has a past—one that will follow her forever. Now she’s in Bayou Springs with a choice to make: live with the guilt of her secrets or join the resistance and betray the only family she has left. The moment Echo Arnot lays eyes on the fiery redhead, he knows she’s the one. But no matter what he does, she seems determined to push him away. Fortunately for both of them, he’s a man who never gives up. *Previously published under the pen name Kenzie Cox*
It's time for her to return home…Eight years ago, Kennedy Frazer was too afraid to hand her heart to another. Terrified she'd repeat the mistakes of her mother, she fled. Now she's back and determined to fight for who she knows is rightfully hers.He thought he'd never see her again…When it comes to love, Gunn Arnot has been there and done that. It's not something he's interested in repeating. But when the love of his life walks back though his door, and he's forced to pretend to be her fiancé as they complete a mission for the IDA, what he thinks he wants and what he actually needs are two very different things.
These aliens are looking for love in all the wrong solar systems... Cutlass never thought he’d be stuck on some backward planet in a solar system with only one sun. Earth wasn’t his home, but he’d find a way to survive there if it meant finding a mate. He could put up with their ancient mechanical devices and a name that wasn’t his own for the right woman. Chloe never imagined she’d sign up to be some sort of modern-day mail order bride. But too much wine and an internet connection were a bad combination, especially when the life she imagined seemed so much greater than the life she was living. Everyone stretches the truth on those dating websites, right? One ad in a space station, one night of too much drinking, and one hotel room that will never be the same. What would you do if you found out the man from your fantasies was actually the man from your science fiction?
Charlaine Harris’ #1 New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels are a cultural phenomenon, spawning a blockbuster TV show and enthralling millions of devoted fans around the world. Here, Harris and co-editor Toni L.P. Kelner invite a cadre of authors to delve deeper into the shadows of Bon Temps with fifteen short stories set in the world of Sookie Stackhouse ranging from the dramatic to the delightful. Just some of the stories you’ll experience within include... Purely platonic police officers Kevin Pryor and Kenya Jones find themselves out of their jurisdiction and out of luck when their pursuit of a blood-poisoned killer vampire leads them into the realm of the undead criminal underworld in Rachel Caine’s “Nobody’s Business.” In Leigh Evans’ hilarious “Extreme Makeover Vamp Edition,” uber-fashionable reality TV hosts Todd Seabrook and Bev Leveto are recruited by Eric Northman to do the impossible: bestow a whole new look upon a his very old, very unwilling, and very cranky vampiric bride-to-be... Vampire Bubba may not be King of Rock ’n Roll anymore, but he knows enough to know he isn’t exactly the brightest bulb on the bayou. Unfortunately, he proves himself all too right when, in the middle of an important rescue mission, he gets sidetracked in Bill Crider’s “Don’t Be Cruel.” At Christmastime, fast-talking half-demon Diantha is tasked by her Uncle Desmond to look into why his favored mortal, Sookie, isn’t decking the halls—and soon discovers that someone is trying to make the holidays a big humbug in “The Real Santa Claus” by Leigh Perry. Full of magic, fierce creatures, and insatiable desires, this collection of short stories set in the world of Sookie Stackhouse will have fans clamoring for more.
The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.
