An enduring urban legend is the story of the phantom hitchhiker. Young or old, male or female, in need of help or just needing a ride, the legends vary. A helpful driver offers a ride and the passenger gives directions. When they arrive at the destination the passenger vanishes, sometimes leaving behind a memento to mark their passing. A stormy night, a deserted country road, a blown tire, and a woman on the run from a killer. Is the handsome young Marine here to save her? Or is he just a figment of her imagination?

Casey is caught between a murderer, a ghost and the wounded soldier who could save her life or break her heart. Grant can deal with Thanksgiving snowstorms and determined killers but not his brother's ghost, and not a woman who makes him start thinking about the future. Can Grant let go of the past to embrace the explosive passion he finds with Casey? He's willing to risk his life for hers, but what about his heart?

Reggie finds her mother wrapped up in a cult and barely escapes with her chastity intact. Drugged and on the run, she is drawn by a wondrous song through a veil of fog and into a whole new world.

Jamison and Taggart are devoted to the task before them, finding and seducing the woman who is to be theirs. When they find Reggie already submerged in the bridal pool, they can’t believe their luck.

The pool serves one purpose, to prepare a bride for her mating by revving her sexual desire and need. Her body craves their touch, their possession, and that’s just what they desire as well. Let the mating begin! 

Stace needs help finding her missing sister. What she gets is Donavan Shepard. Shep is everything a woman could ever desire in a man and much, much more. Hell, he reminds her of a Viking; all she wants is to be ravished over and over again.

Shep wants to find a woman who he can bare all with, keeping nothing hidden. Stace seems to be the one. Can he help her find her sister and convince her to give them a chance? One taste of her lush flesh and he’ll do whatever he can to achieve both.

Emma has just been promoted, a huge deal for the only female Enforcer. She celebrates her last night before her six-week assignment by going out for some dancing and fun with her two best friends. When she meets two men, she decides to end her night with both.

Heath and Dracon are fantasy come to life. They have incredible bodies and know how to use them to bring her extreme pleasure…over and over again. None of them want the night to end. So imagine their surprise when they find out they’re to be partnered, a new triad squad that could be the future of the Enforcers.

Is it possible to mix business with pleasure? Emma can’t wait to find out.

Contemporary
Total-e-burning
Short Story

Prudence was going to run. Her older sisters had and they were now free to live life how they wanted. Prudence wanted the same. The only difference was that she wanted her best friend and lover to run with her.

Johnny never ran and he wasn't planning on doing it now. He wanted Prudence but on their terms not those of her father and the town they lived in. It was time to show Prudence that the boy she loved was a man she could spend the rest of her life with.

Novella

Phoebe has been in love with Dante Marquetti since before she lost her virginity to the man. She can’t recall a time when he wasn’t the star of all her sexual fantasies. Now Dante is heading back home and she’s determined to have him one more time. She wants to make Dante burn the way she has all these years.

Length: Quickie

Hope has spent the last three years searching for her older sister and now she's finally found her. And not a moment to soon. Her twenty-first birthday is just a week away and with it her marriage to a man old enough to be her father. She is desperate to escape and when fate presents her with the chance she grabs it. Guilt at leaving her younger sisters behind eats at her until the night she runs into the man of her dreams. He's tall, dark and handsome with the most sensual Irish brogue she's ever heard.

Shawn O'Grady had no idea what fate awaited him. First he'd discovered the bottle with the note and the necklace, followed almost instantly by the blonde beauty with fear in her eyes. She called to everything that was inside him until he was the one with fear. Fear of falling in love, fear of letting go. Fear of gaining hope.

Reader Advisory: This story was released as part of the Legend Anthology by Total-E-Bound.

Reader Advisory: This story was released as part of the Brit Party Anthology by Total-E-Bound

Book one in the Lottery Brides Series

And the lucky groom is...

Sarah just wants a little freedom. What she gets is arrested for the murder of her father. The only thing she can do is agree to put her name into the bride lottery and hope for the best. At most it will spare her sisters from a similar fate. At worst? She'll end up with a man as abusive as her father was.

If only town deputy Riles James would put his name into the drawing... But are her wishes made to come true?

'A Legend Arises' by Brynn Paulin

Legend has it that long, long ago, a great knight fell in love with a fair maiden...

Emma knew her entire life that she’d eventually marry Ailig and be the lady in his castle. But she had dreams of freedom which weren’t befitting to a lady of her standing. Still she yearned for Ailig and the unknown of his arms. As Ailig’s wife she learns her true freedom is in his arms and bondage is the emptiness she feels when they’re parted. Instead of wishing for freedom, she fears for her love’s safety while he does his king’s bidding.

Though she endeavours to hide her apprehension, Ailig knows of his bride’s anxieties yet duty to king and country compels him. Before answering each call to service, he promises to safely return.

But there are some perils that even a knight can't overcome...

'Gaining Hope' by Lacey Thorn

Hope has spent the last three years searching for her older sister and now she’s finally found her. And not a moment to soon. Her twenty-first birthday is just a week away and with it her marriage to a man old enough to be her father. She is desperate to escape and when fate presents her with the chance she grabs it. Guilt at leaving her younger sisters behind eats at her until the night she runs into the man of her dreams. He’s tall, dark and handsome with the most sensual Irish brogue she’s ever heard.

Shawn O’Grady had no idea what fate awaited him. First he’d discovered the bottle with the note and the necklace, followed almost instantly by the blonde beauty with fear in her eyes. She called to everything that was inside him until he was the one with fear. Fear of falling in love, fear of letting go. Fear of gaining hope.

'Moonlit Magic' by Bronwyn Green

Brought back to Ireland by her job, American Beckett Matthews jumps at the chance to study an artefact that recently washed ashore on an Irish beach. She's thrilled to have the opportunity to explore the history of the necklace. She's far less enthused to explore her personal history with the man who found the treasure-her first love.

Kieran Brennan has waited five years for Beckett to finally return to Ireland. When he found the necklace, he knew it was more than a historical find-it was the key to reclaiming the only woman he ever loved. Under a curse from the Faery King, he couldn't follow her when she'd fled to her home in the States years ago, but now in his arms he'll help her face her fears and return to him.

Unfortunately, he isn't the only one after Beckett. Denied his tribute when she fled, Aodhan the Faery King wants to claim her for his own.

'Healing Doctor Ryan' by Carol Lynne

Oncologist, Brannigan Ryan is used to people falling for him. With his black-Irish good-looks and easy bedside manner he’s a favourite among patients. Surrounded by death on a daily basis, however, Bran has learned to harden his heart quite effectively. That is until he starts treating Ian Fitzgerald.

Ian’s warm smile and determination easily punch holes in Bran’s barriers. Taking a step back to rebuild the walls around his heart, Bran takes off to his weekend house in Newport. He can't surrender to Ian and he can't ever get involved with a patient. When a treasure and a message in a bottle wash ashore on his beach, he's forced to re-examining his determination and wonder if he can't open himself to love after all.
 

'A Legend Accomplished' by Brynn Paulin

Writer, Emily Harteger has been at loose ends her entire life, never quite fitting in anywhere she’s gone. She finds her place in the past amongst the knights and maidens she creates on paper. When a story idea comes to her in a dream, she’s compelled to travel to England on a trip she can neither afford nor justify. She’s drawn to the shores of Northern England where vivid pictures fill her head and she pens a lurid tale of Sir Alexander and his love Emagarde.

When she meets Alec Woods, the very embodiment of the man she’s visualised in her dreams, she’s drawn under his spell. Her visions of the knight and his love grow stronger and she wonders if the attraction she feels for Alec is real or the product of her wishful dreaming. Then they find a bottle containing a necklace and note identical to one she’s written about in her book...

Is this fantasy or something else entirely?
 

Faith has spent her life since the age of nine playing the role of mother to her four younger sisters. Now as her twenty first birthday approaches she knows that all of that is about to change. Her father never wanted girls and when her mother died during the birth of yet another daughter, he’d made a vow. If he had to have daughters then he would use them to get what he wanted most…sons. So on their twenty-first birthday, they are to be married off to the man of his choice, whether they like it or not.

But Faith has bigger dreams than spending her life living in the small town community that sees nothing wrong with her father’s dictates. So leaving her sisters behind for the first time, she heads down the road, more afraid to stay than to face the unknown.

When a thunderstorm sends her looking for shelter in the woods outside town, she finds herself in the arms of Jake Daniels. She’s seen him in town a time or two but has never really spoken with him. But Jake has been waiting to get her out from under her father’s eyes for years and he is determined to use this chance to show her just how good things could be between them. With a little faith, they can both have everything they want.

Book three in the Debtor's Daughters Series

Sometimes it takes more than one man to lay claim to a woman's heart.

Charity finds her life turned upside down when she is moved to a cabin and placed under guard. Caught in the web her father created she has three days before she is forced into a marriage she doesn't want. When her guard turns out to be sexy twins she does the only thing she can think of...plans a seduction.

But as they all get to know one another the lines get blurred until it is unsure just who is the seducer and who the seduced. One thing is for sure though, sometimes it takes more than one man to lay claim to a woman's heart. And for Charity this was just the beginning.
 

Angelo Marquetti — Angel to his friends. He was just coming off a long undercover assignment and wanted nothing more than a hot shower, a cold beer and a comfortable bed. But one scream of terror changed all of that and Angel ended up with so much more.

Cara Michaels was on top of a table dressed in nothing but a damp towel when he kicked in the door and came to her rescue. He was every erotic fantasy that she could think of, all rolled into one. And Cara was more than ready to indulge her inner vixen. Cara was ready for anything and her merciful Angel was willing to give her a glimpse at just how erotic it could be.

Their world has been overtaken by a disease that killed women and female children and made their island home unlivable, forcing the warriors to look for a new home. Coming to the small Isle of Altair, inhabited mainly by women, that seems untouched by the disease, the warriors take over. They abolish Goddess Law and install Warrior Law, claiming both the isle and the women as theirs. The isle priestess places a curse on the isle that it will be plagued with constant battles from others who seek to take it as well.

Hope comes in the form of the Island Guardians who will possess the powers of earth, fire, water and air and a Mystic who will bring them all together to lift the curse and renew the goddess's protection.

This is the story of Erika, Guardian of Earth, and her warrior mates, Arik and Galen Savari. Join Erika as she learns what it means to be the warriors' mate as well as an Island Guardian.

Reader Advisory Note: Contains references to gang rape.