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Loosely based on the It's Just Lunch® dating service, Confess is the first in a series of tales revolving around the It's Just Sex no-strings fantasy fulfillment service. WARNING: Catholics may find the story premise offensive. Well, "good" Catholics, anyway.

When former Royal Marine Michael Sinclair finally - literally - found the girl of his dreams, he could never have imagined the web of deception in which he would find himself entangled. Strong-willed with a dark past of her own, a gift of precognition made life difficult (to say the least) for beautiful Paige O'Neal - but then so did living in a haunted house along with the handsome ghost of film actor Erik Fletcher.

Oh, that stranger's hands!

This title first appeared in an anthology from Ravenous Romance, editor Rachel Kramer Bussel, entitled The Lust Chronicles.

Charity Grath's sister, seamstress Martha Grath, knows she wants handsome Nehemiah Jemison as her husband, but a recurring dream of his death makes her fear she will never have him. When a shocking murder takes place in the snowy woods of the neighboring Hutterite colony just before Christmas, Martha is in for the shock of her life. Can she solve the mystery that entangles Nehemiah and his family, or will the couple's future together be jeopardized?

Sam Dalton is at the end of his rope. His daughter, Jessica, lies dying in a hospital bed from a mysterious disease that has her doctors completely baffled. Without being able to identify the disease or its cause, they are unable to devise a cure and can offer Sam little hope. All he is left to do is sit there and watch his little girl wither away, day after day. Despair has him wrapped tightly in its bony grip when an encounter with an empty-eyed vagrant he dubs the Preacher gives Sam the opportunity he has been searching for....

Ginnie Dare is the communications officer for her family's spacefaring shipping company. They arrive at Eshu for a routine supply drop and discover the entire settlement's population has vanished. Their search of the site reveals nothing out of place, except the people, but ends in a tense confrontation with the natives. During the conflict, Ginnie discovers an alien artifact that may be the key to diffusing the conflict. Can she decode the artifact before it's taken by the Sector Defense Force?

Two time periods. Two coasts. Lives intertwined and impacted forever. Greed, societal forces, religion, eugenics, and racial prejudice came together in a shameful and shocking way on a small, wooded island off the coast of Maine in the early 1900s. The atrocious events that occurred on Malaga Island continue to echo through the years. Their impact is felt in many ways and by many lives.

Join Detective Nick Spinelli and Caseworker Shannon O’Hara as they embark on chaotic holiday, crime-solving, adventures including blackmail, kidnapping, and murder. You’ll never view Santa or Cupid the same, once Spinelli goes undercover as them. Never.

One minute, Texas. Next minute, fairyland. To get back home, he has to complete three quests for the queen of the elves. Each quest is a near-impossible task to defeat fearsome beasts or overcome impossible odds. The chance of Evan succeeding is just like a fairytale, Grimm.

An agent of Arkane, the British agency tasked with protecting the world from supernatural crises, Morgan knows that giving up the staff could spell the end of all things. Now, the Crone has taken dozens of staff members, visitors—even children—hostage at the British Museum, demanding that Morgan turn over the staff.

A street cleaner walks into the middle of Trafalgar Square and blows himself up. No mere act of terrorism. The explosion rips open a crater to reveal the underground headquarters of ARKANE — the ultra-secret British agency tasked with investigating the supernatural. Within moments, armed commandos rappel into the breach, blow open ARKANE’s vault, and steal a single box containing an ancient relic linked to the Indian god Shiva.

Kadmon wants to open the portal between our world and Hell, to create a twisted, demonic version of our world over which he will reign supreme. Now, Morgan and her partner — Jake Timber, the enigmatic agent who recruited her for ARKANE — are on the run. From the holiest cities in Israel to underwater cities lost to history, they must follow this trail to the end. To find a way to stop Kadmon before he offers the final sacrifice.

In this dual-timeline story, two women come to terms with seeing the future. Living in one of the whitest counties in Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Jess Atwood is plagued by visions she doesn’t want and can’t control. At the same time, she struggles to keep her family’s organic farm out of foreclosure.