Author's Note: This work is clean. Gerard had a shifter mate who died years ago. Lachelle can deal with that. She’s confident about the love she and Gerard share. Their relationship has never been better—until said mate shows up very much alive! Kelly wants Gerard back, and she wants to take her rightful place as leader of the dragon shifters. What is Lachelle supposed to do when no one believes a dragon shifter can have a second mate? Gerard has gone silent. Lachelle doesn’t know if his love for Kelly has revived with her reappearance or if he still loves her. She doesn’t know where she belongs or what she should do. Social unrest between dragons and humans is coming to a head. Does a dragon go with their DNA, their gut, or their heart in the search for the truth? * interracial romance, multicultural romance, clean romance, bwwm, shifter romance, dragon
Author's Note: This work is clean. Gerard has lived alone for many years, and that’s the way he likes it. When he hears that Declan Hughes has taken over leadership of his people, he goes to see for himself. That’s when his life gets too complicated. She’s human, and apparently she’s his mate. He wants nothing to do with humans—or her. But she’s headstrong and determined to put her life in danger. He has to protect her. He has to…make her his. Lachelle has one thing on her mind—well two. She wants be a cop, and she wants a baby. She thought she was on the road to having both. Until she learns secrets about her boyfriend she can’t ignore. And a man drops from the sky who makes her want to rethink everything. **interracial romance, clean romance, wholesome romance, shifter romance, paranormal romance, bwwm
Author's Note: This work is clean. Declan will do whatever he needs to do to protect his best friend. He runs off Janessa’s dates who are actually predators or ex-cons. He watches over her from afar because that’s all he’ll ever be able to do for her. No matter how much Declan loves Janessa, it doesn’t change the fact that he has a secret he’s ashamed of. Janessa is in love with her best friend and business partner Declan. She’ll never be in a serious relationship with him because both of them lie for a living. How can she trust him if Declan turns to her for more than friendship? Choices for both are ripped away when Declan’s past comes knocking and they’re taken hostage. This time, Declan’s not sure if he’s strong enough to protect Janessa, and Janessa doesn’t know if she can accept that Declan isn’t even human. ** interracial romance, multicultural romance, shifter romance, clean romance, paranormal romance
Author's Note: This work is clean. “I’m marrying Garner, and I want you to be my maid of honor!” Chanda can’t believe her cousin would get involved with the man she left behind, not to mention marry him. How can Chanda return home with the secrets she’s kept from Garner all this time? How can she wish her self-centered and manipulative cousin happiness? Trying her best to be a good person, Chanda goes along with the plan. She’ll zip into town, do the deed, and get out fast. Too bad everyone is against the marriage, including Garner’s family. Everyone’s pushing for Chanda to rekindle things with her old love. And Garner? He’s as sweet as he used to be, as gentle, as pushy about looking after her. From the first night, she’s tempted to walk into his arms and stay there. Surely, Garner is over her by now. And yet, that look in his eyes says she was wrong for leaving, and maybe she should stay.
Author’s Note: This light-hearted, slightly whimsical romance is clean. Audre Thompson loves her life. She’s living the dream being a self-employed woman and working with her best friend, Alessandro Sordi. Unfortunately, their mountain resort in the small town of Heweville isn’t seeing the success the two envisioned. If Audre and Alex don’t figure out a plan to get more customers this Christmas, it’s over. Life gets complex in a hurry. Audre and Alex have a lot more enthusiasm than skill. The very eligible, very handsome sheriff is interested in Audre. Alex calls in his snow bunny ex to help with ideas. Someone is trying to ruin Christmas and the town’s traditions by stealing gnomes. And Audre has just discovered her own heart, which beats for no one but Alex. **interracial romance, holiday romance, Christmas, contemporary romance, humorous romance, multicultural romance African American romance
Irresistibly seductive and beautifully complicated, Hunter Golden finds himself constantly at war with his inner beast when it comes to women. His human side is attracted to sinfully wild bad girls while his wolf wants a quality woman who knows what she wants in life and isn’t afraid to take it. His world is about to be turned upside down when his beast finally agrees with his human, and the target is in his sights. When the billionaire playboy finds himself tangled up in a property scandal and comes face-to-face with the wickedly curvy Kia Nash, he knows his hedonistic bachelor lifestyle is over once and for all. She is everything both he and his beast have always wanted, and what the shifter wants, the shifter gets. What he doesn’t know is that, unlike the other women he so easily attracts with his skillful hands and fiery passions, the buxom beauty isn’t going to go down without a fight. It’ll take more than sweet whispers and soft touches to win her over. It’s time to let his beast take control. Hunter is a standalone novel in the Wolf Elite Shifters series by Sedona Venez. If you love riveting storytelling, sensual shifters, and paranormal romance that never quits, then you’ll love the Wolf Elite Shifters series. Buy Hunter to dive into a world of sexy shifter secrets today! Keywords: cowboys, paranormal romance, fantasy romance, urban fantasy, shifter romance, bear shifters, steamy romance, shifters, alpha heroes, alpha shifters, myth, mythology, love story, werewolf, werewolf romance, action adventure, vampire, witch, demon, devil, psychic, shapeshifter, alpha, vampires, vampire series, shapeshifter werewolf romance, fantasy, lycan, mate bond, vampire, vampire romance, immortal, vampire slayer, fae, T.S. Joyce, Terry Bolryder, Harmony Raines, Zoe Chant, Regine Abel, Roxie Ray, Lee Savino, Renee Rose, Milly Taiden, Laurel K. Hamilton, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Christine Feehan, Gena Showalter, K.F. Breene, Shannon Mayer, Ruby Dixon, JR Ward, J.R. Ward, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Vampire Diaries, Twilight, Crave, Tracy Wolff, The Vampire Diaries, Bella Forrest, A Shade of Vampire, Harry Potter, witch, wizard, fated mates
Accepting His Name Ezio married Shakarri for an heir. Shakarri agreed to get out of debt. The contract states her obligation to please Ezio. He’s got a lot of demands, chief being Shakarri’s obedience. She’s beginning to think she made a big mistake. Ezio has taken over the payments for her debt, and he can just as easily give them back. Intimacy with Ezio is beyond Shakarri’s wildest imagination. Should she stay or should she run while she still has control of her own heart? Raising His Baby Sonya is keeping a secret from Romy. She’s raising his son. After an accident took Sonya’s half-sister’s life, Sonya is raising her nephew as her own. She takes a job working as Romy's assistant, but she's better at playing sports than wearing heels and running behind spoiled rich men. Romy discovers the truth. It's too bad no one told Sonya Romy hates scheming women, and worse that she finds him irresistible. Reaching His Heart Cason’s wild lifestyle caught up with him with a near fatal accident. No woman will ever look at him again. Solette has dealt with angry patients. She can get Cason up and walking again, even change his attitude. What she didn't count on was falling for him. Solette's faced abuse and cruelty. It looks like Cason is just another man who spouts hurtful words, but she sees his pain and wants to take it away. Cason has never been a hero, but when Solette needs his protection most, he'll be there. Involuntary Daddy Gabriel steers clear of kids after his heart was destroyed five years ago. His brother asks him to help out at his Daddy Day Care. Gabriel meets Neeka and her daughter. Neeka only wants to help her daughter overcome social anxiety. She refuses to get involved with a man who's arrogant and thinks only of himself and what he wants. Then she meets Gabriel. He's angry, outspoken, opinionated, mean, and smoking hot. Worse, he makes friends with Monnie then has the nerve to ask Neeka out. There can't be anything between them, but trouble comes knocking, and Neeka needs a stand-in daddy. Matching Tony Tony dreams of working in protective services. Chanise is an overweight image consultant with little confidence in choosing a man. As a favor for her friend, Chanise agrees to take Tony on as her bodyguard-in-training. Tony’s perfect—from his healthy eating and his skills in boxing to his hero complex. He’s everything Chanise should avoid if she wants to hold onto her heart. Tony lives in her house and drives her car. They eat together and sleep… Ten days—that's all she will allow him to train using her as the test client. Then he's out. **interracial romance, multicultural romance, clean romance, contemporary romance, baby romance, pregnancy romance, bwwm
Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do us part." It is an impression that imbues beliefs about black families to this day. But it's a perception primarily based on documents produced by abolitionists, the state, or other partisans. It doesn't tell the whole story. Drawing on a trove of less well-known sources including family histories, folk stories, memoirs, sermons, and especially the fascinating writings from the Afro-Protestant Press,'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part offers a radically different perspective on antebellum love and family life. Frances Smith Foster applies the knowledge she's developed over a lifetime of reading and thinking. Advocating both the potency of skepticism and the importance of story-telling, her book shows the way toward a more genuine, more affirmative understanding of African American romance, both then and now.
Weisser (English, Adelphi U.) writes that her anthology is "for anyone who is interested in understanding the conflicted but powerful female urge to experience the pleasure and endure the pain of romantic love." In particular, she explores the collision of pervasive media images of romance with feminist values of independence and self-assertion. Several dozen historic and contemporary works of criticism, personal essays, and letters, by feminist and anti-feminist thinkers, consider changing images of romantic love and whether romance, fundamentally, weakens or empowers women. Contributors include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Charlotte Bronte, Karen Horney, Simone de Beauvoir, Rita Mae Brown, bell hooks, Vivian Gornick, and Carolyn Heilbrun. c. Book News Inc.
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