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Run Devil Run
Run Devil Run, an L.A. based Rock band well known locally for their dynamic live performances, diverse musical talent, and humorous video antics has lent their faces, titles and lyrics as inspiration for a five-book series. The stories in this anthology are penned by popular and award-nominated authors Rachel Carrington, Mari Freeman, Susan DiPlacido, Valerie Mann and Becca Dale.
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SHARE YOUR SOUL
by Rachel Carrington
On the fifth anniversary of my murder, I set out to find what I wanted the most—revenge against my killer husband.
Taking a risk, I met the Angel of Death—Gabriel. He told me to trust him. The last man I trusted put a bullet through my heart. Of course Gabriel was nothing like my ex, and the more I was with him, the less important vengeance became.
HEY YOU
by Valerie Mann
Cara’s play-by-the-rules life plan definitely doesn’t include falling in love with a demon— especially when his sole mission is taking her to hell with him. With her mortality in jeopardy and his eternal soul on the line, will their love survive?
STRUT
by Susan DiPlacido
Swimming pools, rock stars, and allegedly “magic” Hollywood shoes. These are what it takes to make a California girl’s Cinderella dreams come true.
HIGH ABOVE
by Mari Freeman
An unlikely pair embark on a quest and along the way, the couple struggles to find the truth beneath the hatred and lies. The lifelong foes will have to fly high above their differences to save what’s left of both their tribes.
Smoldering passion can’t erase the pain of their past... but love will change their future.
CAN'T STOP ME
by Becca Dale
Can’t Stop Me simmers with passion and danger as prophecy, misguided souls, and the devil’s top gun threaten to unbalance good and evil.
Torn between personal peril and world-wide destruction, Luca and Kern must run from fate or take a stand for love and mankind’s right to exist.
To Feel Again
When Leah loses her fiancé, Mark, in Afghanistan, it takes nearly a year to get to the point where she’s ready to live again. Although she doesn’t want an emotional commitment, a night of consensual sex, even with a stranger, might help bring her some closure after Mark’s death. Enlisting the services of Madame Evangeline’s high-end, online dating service, One Night Stand, promises exactly what Leah is looking for—sex with a man she doesn’t have to see again, but one who will satisfy her physical needs now that she's ready to move on with her life.
Jackson Castillo has no desire to go on a date with one of Evangeline’s clients. One Night Stand uses his hotel for its client’s rendezvous, but otherwise, he never gets involved. When Eve threatens to take her business elsewhere unless he helps her with a particular case, he’s no fool. He’ll go on the date. But he won’t sleep with the woman.
When one thing leads to another, his good intentions to stay out of the bedroom with Leah are shattered. The sex is phenomenal, but there’s more to Leah he wants to explore. After she leaves the next morning without a goodbye, he’s both disappointed and royally pissed. Will he let her go or find a way to convince her she’s ready…to feel again?
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Jun 20, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Multicultural / Minority
It's been a year since Mark died in service in Afghanistan, leaving Leah alone with no future to plan. Finally pulling out of her grief she determines she needs to break free at last and having a one-night stand with a vetted stranger is the way to do it. Enlisting the online dating service of One Night Stand is just what she needs to move on with her life, without Mark.
Jackson runs the hotel that provide
Hey You
Playing by the rules…
Cara spent her entire life doing just that—dutiful daughter, stellar student, responsible adult…in a word…nerd. Not that she had much choice. The Society, a secret moral social order she’d been born into, had one motivating tool in its arsenal to ensure members didn’t succumb to temptation and break any of its laws—
The Watcher…
A demon whose sole mission consisted of waiting for his watch to break the rules—and bring them to—
The Dark...
Marek sucked at his job. Not only did he hate being a Watcher, but he’d fallen in love with his watch, Cara, placing his eternal soul in peril. Only able to protect her in her dreams, when she reaches a crossroad in her life that puts her mortality in jeopardy, they have to decide who will give the greater gift.
Will Cara sacrifice her mortality for Marek’s love…or will he sacrifice his soul to save her life?
Hide & Seek
Theme: Multicultural
Imprint: Scarlet
Length: Rosette
Rating: 1Rose
Page Count: 35
When ER nurse Kelly Donovan meets sexy firefighter Nick Barrantes at her sister’s annual summer party, the sparks fly. Famous for its games, this year’s party includes Hide & Seek and Kelly is determined to find a cozy place to hide with Nick. Trapped in a closet together during the game, neither Kelly nor Nick anticipates the sizzling passion that flares between them. However, Kelly can't help but wonder if this is one game she'll lose to her heart...
Reviewer: Diana Coyle
Review: Nov 12, 2009
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary
Kelly Donovan, an ER nurse, is extremely pretty and very much single. While attending a summer party her sister Jennifer and her husband are throwing, Kelly has no idea that things are possibly going to change for her this very night. As she starts mingling with the guests, she happens to lay eyes on her brother-in-law’s friend, fellow firefighter Nick Barrantes. He’s tall, dark and very handsome
Fanning Old Flames
After two decades, Lauren never expects to see her first love again, and in a foreign city, no less. Seth’s reappearance in her life stuns her even though a day hasn’t gone by without thinking about him. Though thrilled to find him again, she’s unprepared for how fast old flames of love can reignite.
Seth can’t believe his eyes when he finds Lauren standing in front of him, more gorgeous than ever. Determined not to lose her, he decides a visit down memory lane is in order, and making new memories along the way.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Oct 7, 2009
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary
Divorced for two years, Lauren finds herself in a bar in a foreign city on business. Not enjoying herself, she decides to leave and is grabbed from behind. Imagine her surprise when she is confronted with a man she was desperately in love with when she was a girl. It’s been twenty years, but her desire for him flames to life. He hurt her in the past, treated her like nobody. 
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