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Forbidden Passion

SHE SEES HIM IN HER DREAMS...

Fueled by her family's murder years ago, Dr. Marlena Bender has devoted her life to understanding violent criminals. But when a serial killer in this small Southern town starts taking the lives of women in diabolical ways--leaving trophies of his kills on Marlena's doorstep--it all hits too close to home. Terrified, Marlena turns to the only man she can trust...the man who saved her life.

BUT HIS SECRET IS HER WORST NIGHTMARE.

Sheriff Dante Valtrez would move heaven and earth to keep Marlena safe, but he's not the savior she thinks he is. A dark legacy runs through his blood and a dangerous secret lies within him. Now a fierce, hot, ruthless desire draws Dante and Marlena together--as a demonic force from his past threatens to rip them apart, destroying everything they hold dear.

Reviewer: Robin
Review: Mar 20, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Marlena Bender is on a camping trip with her mother and older sister when they are attacked by what looks like a gang of young boys.  The boys are really young demons.  To kill the woman and two young girl’s is the boy’s rite of passage.  Expect the one that is supposed to kill Marlena can't do it. Instead he takes Marlena and runs with her to safety instead.  No one belie

Dark Hunger

HE'S EVERYTHING SHE FEARS...

Reporter Annabelle Armstrong will go to any lengths to deliver a story, even track down Quinton Valtrez, a man she believes is a coldhearted assassin. Yet the truth about the darkly sensual Quinton is even more shocking...and the overwhelming desire he ignites is one she vows to resist.

SHE'S EVERYTHING HE CRAVES

Quinton has fought his demonic powers since he was a child. Now using his gifts for the good of national security, he can't let himself be distracted by the beautiful, determined Annabelle. But his need for her is sudden, fierce--and could soon cost Annabelle her life. For a wicked enemy is out for vengeance, a demon who wants to draw Quinton into a life of pure evil and is willing to use Annabelle as bait. To save her, Quinton must achieve the near impossible: tame the sinister force that is both his inheritance and his curse before it claims him forever.

DEMONBORN Seeris

Insatiable Desire - August 26, 2008

Dark Hunger - July 28, 2009

Reviewer: Robin
Review: Jul 2, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Annabelle Armstrong works as a reporter for CNN. She will do whatever she has to do to get her story. Someone is sending her pictures of dead men, men that were supposed to have been killed by Quinton Valtrez. Annabelle was told that Quinton belongs to a secret government Unit called Ghost and he is an assassin for this group. When Annabelle follows Quinton to Savannah, Georgia on Hallowee

Insatiable Desire

Plagued by graphic visions and the desperate cries of murder victims, psychic Clarissa King will do anything to stop the brutal killer targeting her hometown--even work alongside the dangerously sexy FBI agent who thinks she's a fraud. He's the one man who sparks a hunger she never imagined possible--and the one man she should fear...

Vincent Valtrez knows how to get inside a serial killer's mind. But with a dangerous past and a secret to keep, he wants nothing to do with this gorgeous psychic--especially since just the thought of her luscious body ignites a dark, irrepressible desire he's determined to keep at bay. When the killer they seek turns out to be demonic and otherworldly, Vincent learns his connection to the murderer is more than just hunter and prey. Will the darkness inside Vincent claim him...or will he save Clarissa--and himself--from the evil that threatens them both?

Reviewer: Robin
Review: Oct 17, 2008
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Clarissa King is a psychic. She can talk to and see the dead who don't cross over into the light. This is a gift that her Grandmother and Mother shared. Clarissa's Mother could not handle it and ended up hanging herself from the tree in front of their house. When the ghosts of murdered girls start showing themselves to Clarissa, she finds herself trying to convince the sheriff that the sam

Don't Say a Word

Groomed by a covert group of elite killers, Damon left the secret society to join the FBI after a mission went brutally wrong and an innocent woman died.

When his brother is arrested for murder, Damon investigates and finds a "Jane Doe" who holds the key to the case, along with a darker terror-one that threatens to expose Damon's deadly secrets and destroy them all.

Despite the danger, he's drawn to the nameless beauty, igniting a passion that burns hot between them. But with a madman out to silence her forever, Damon knows he must deny their love. And to stop the man responsible, he must return to the one place he has desperately tried to leave behind-the dark shadows of a killer's mind..

Reviewer: Tonni
Review: Dec 4, 2007
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense
The people in New Orleans consider the sons of the well-established Dubois family as local heroes. Antwaun Dubois is a local police officer and the youngest of the Dubois brothers. Damon Dubois the middle brother is a federal agent. But the Dubois family is hiding a big secret that could hurt the family bold that they share. That was until a woman's hand was found sticking out of the swamp of the bayou.

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