Though Lisa’s workaholism is undermining her relationship with Jack Ryan, she can’t let up. Not now when she’s this close to clinching the deal to sell Déjà Brew, a risky potion that transports customers to key moments of their past, through Jack’s family company.

Jack’s skeptical but willing to try—even going so far as to sample the potion. He has a great visit to the past, reliving the first time he and Lisa made love. He comes back happy and ready to commit. However, Lisa’s trip ends up traumatic—and Jack immediately rethinks the deal.

But Lisa isn’t giving up and persuades him to try the brew again. Together, they return to a romantic time in their past, which quickly goes south—the night they agreed to let a friend film them making love, the night their relationship problems began. They got through the pain once—but it’s not at all clear they can do so again.

Publisher’s Note: This story was previously published elsewhere.

Actress Valerie Vincent is less than thrilled when her newest onscreen guy turns out to be A-list actor Hugh Faraday. Until they meet, and her body demands what her mind rejects. She wants him now—the worst of all her bad moves.

Paying off his brother’s debt, Hugh grits his teeth and agrees to appear opposite trashy starlet Val one time only. Then, despite his rational self, he becomes intrigued. What lies beneath her plastic, perfect beauty?

Wrong as they are for each other, Val and Hugh’s chemistry sizzles both onscreen and off. 

Her find of a buried scroll will boost Marisol Murray’s career and impress her arrogant project head, Grant Drury. Then the earth moves—and she’s face-to-face with two eunuchs and a prince. April Fool’s? Not.

Suddenly, feminist Marisol is headed to a harem in sixteenth-century Indurlia! She’s slated to become the king’s latest concubine, a sexual toy for male pleasure, only Marisol meets his hot son, Prince Grentoori, first. Instantly attracted, they break with tradition and have lots of heated sex—the forbiddenness of their actions driving them on. But when a traitorous general discovers the prince’s sexy transgression, the battle is on. Grentoori can’t leave Marisol, so the prince escapes with her in a carriage that becomes caught in an earthquake…

Marisol comes to in a transformed Grant Drury’s arms. Could it be? Is he the insolent boss she left behind or her sixteenth-century lover?

Publisher’s Note: This story was previously published elsewhere under the title Heather and the Harem Scroll and has been revised for Ellora’s Cave. 

Francisco Reyes can deal with dying. He can't deal with leaving Elena Sandoval, his forever love, or ruining their last Christmas together with the truth of his illness. Instead, he hires Rafe McMaster to film a wine commercial for their Sherry Amor and, unbeknownst to either Elena or Rafe, to become her new lover.

To the beat of flamenco music, Elena and Rafe fall into each other's arms-while Francisco films them. Aghast at what they've done, Elena and Rafe can't believe Francisco not only accepts their lovemaking but also joins them.

Francisco aches seeing his beloved Elena with Rafe, but he believes his plan to provide Elena with a new lover once he is gone is working-until Rafe and Elena take charge and show him neither one is ready to let him go so easily. After all, Christmas is a season of miracles.

Duty forces Empress Designate Karloutria from Planet Nowemapo to find an Earthling mate in forty-eight hours. Prepared to sacrifice her chance for love to save her father and her planet from a monster, Karloutria never expected to fall for Luca.

Luca d'Alessandro needs a second chance. All he has to do to rule Nowemapo as the empress's consort is beat out the hefty competition and make it through the ritual sex trials. Piece of cake, as long as he keeps his head on straight and his soul buttoned-up. But then he never expected to feel what Karloutria arouses in him.

The wedding reception is boring and depressing for Lori Nelson — until she gets asked to dance by the chauffeur. The twenty-something, very hot chauffeur. Lori figures Jeff's just being polite. But that's before he takes her in his arms and sets her libido on overdrive…

The moment Jeff meets gorgeous, classy Lori, he falls hard. But much as Lori seems to dig him, she's hung up on their eleven-year age difference and her own personal baggage.

While Lori convinces herself that she can handle a one-night stand, Jeff is firing up his limo, prepared to take Lori for the ride of her life.

Diana Lambert seems to have it all — a loving husband, a successful business and her dream house. That is, until she returns home from a business trip and finds her husband and trusted assistant playing house. Moreover, the two of them have planned a coup to effectively remove her from Diana's Delights, which was built on her own dream — and family recipes.

Stunned and devastated, Diana is almost ready to drown in hot fudge and sorrow when a nudge from her inner goddess spurs her not to let her talents go to waste. With renewed determination, Diana rolls up her sleeves, unleashes the goddess within and starts cooking up a recipe for getting even. And the sweet treats aren't confined to the kitchen, as she discovers when handsome Ben Riker steps up to offer his support.