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Winner Takes All
Laura Baumbach

Two vampires face off in a deadly bet that has the winner claiming everything the loser owns--including the loser's innocent, unaware human offspring.

This short story is part of the Blood Claim print anthology.

Because of the Brave
Laura Baumbach
Josh Lanyon
ZA Maxfield

This collection honors the men who've served in the military and labored with the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

In Laura Baumbach's Designated Target a soldier returns to his commander's hometown to tell his brother the truth. about what happened in the field.

Josh Lanyon's Until We Meet Once More pits a Naval Academy graduate against the Taliban and his own repressed past.

Finally in Z.A. Maxfield's Jumping Off Places a soldier returns home to be with his dying mother and finds more than he bargained for in the place he'd hoped to never see again.

Wet Skin
Anthology
William Maltese
Laura Baumbach

William Maltese again joins Laura Baumbach for several erotic tales that explore the first-time wonders of the flesh and water. From Maltese's intriguing The Cataracts, to Baumbach's playful Slippery When Wet, the amount of heat generated here will bring back the delicious pleasures of first-time experiences.

Mexican Heat
#1 Crimes & Cocktails Mystery Series
Laura Baumbach
Josh Lanyon

A new romantic crime series from the combined, finely blended talents of popular award winning authors Laura Baumbach and Josh Lanyon.

Tough, street-smart SFPD Detective Gabriel Sandalini is willing to do whatever it takes to bring down West Coast crime boss Ricco Botelli -- including a dangerous, deep undercover gig as one of Botelli's hired guns. But Gabriel's best laid plans may come crashing down around him when he falls hard for the sexy, suave lieutenant of a rival Mexican drug lord. Turns out his new love interest may have a few secrets of his own: secrets that could destroy both men and the fragile bond between them.

Mexican Heat has won a coveted CataNetwork Reviewers' Choice Award for 2009. CataNetwork reviewers consider this book one of the best that they have read and reviewed for Sensual this year.

Mexican Heat has been nominated for the CAPA Award for 2009 in the Romantic Suspense catagory.

The Lost Temple of Karttikeya
Laura Baumbach

Brandon King is a LA police detective intimately involved with his older male partner. Brandon longs for a stable relationship with his abusive lover, but when a mysterious stranger offers him a chance to have his heart's true desire, he rebuffs the unbelievable offer. Then circumstances change and he fears loosing what he thinks he wants the most, he accepts the offer and takes on a deadly assignment that has him traveling to the isolated jungles of India in the company of hunky archeologist Christan Carter, who is intent on achieving his own heart's desire, as well. Combining Brandon's police skills with Christan's knowledge about ancient cultures, the two make an unstoppable pair, but will that winning chemistry carry over into their budding personal relationship and interfere with their quest?

Hostage
Anthology
Josh Lanyon
Sarah Black
Laura Baumbach

Three suspense-filled stories from a trio of the best authors in the M/M genre bring you tales of danger coupled with high intensity romance. What would you do if your lover had been kidnapped and you had to fight to get him back? Dangerous Ground By Josh Lanyon, Burn Card by Laura Baumbach and A Classic Story of Good and Evil by Sarah Black all visit the danger and passion of love and life torn apart by unforeseen circumstances This book also includes a bonus short from Black, The Second Indian Wars.

Blood Claim
Anthology
Laura Baumbach
Angela Fiddler
Jet Mykles

This volume features a trio of M/M tales from three of the genre's hottest authors.
Winner Takes All by Laura Baumbach
Gift of the Raven by Angela Fiddler
Wolfe's Recluse by Jet Mykles

The Ties That Bind
Anthology
Jet Mykles
Kimberly Gardner
Laura Baumbach
J.L.Langley & Dick D.

What ties you to your lover? Love, need, desire, scarves, rope or ribbons. Stories of love and the ties that bind lovers together both figuratively and literally. Enjoy Key To Me by multi-talented author and artist Jet Mykles, Gift of Eros by newcomer Kimberly Gardner, One Good Favor from the combined talents of best-selling author J.L.Langley and new voice Dick D. Than add lusty moments of bondage and blindfolds in Rough Ride with Laura Baumbach's award winning characters from A Bit of Rough, Bram & James.

Scared Stiff
Ghost Anthology
Laura Baumbach
Josh Lanyon
William Maltese
Sarah Black

A quartet of inspired stories from best-selling authors William Maltese, Josh Lanyon, Sarah Black and Laura Baumbach. SCARED STIFF offers four very different tales of m/m ghostly doings that'll have readers panting (in more ways than one) under the covers. Maltese offers excitement and steamy pleasure in his Rendering Souls while Lanyon adds adventurous ghost hunters in his A Ghost of a Chance. Black gives you horrors from the past in Wild Onions, and Baumbach rounds out the volume with a hot tale of second chances in Soul Desire.

Blood Desires
Laura Baumbach

This single author collection of sultry and romantic M/M short stories from the pen of acclaimed author Laura Baumbach offers four gay erotic tales filled with undying loyalty, reclaimed love, unexpected passion and voracious sexuality as only the most sensual creatures of the night, vampires, can live it. The heat level of all four stories is Ms. Baumbach's trademark scorching hot. Watch the pages curl.

A Bit of Rough
Laura Baumbach

Architect James Justin impulsively lets himself be picked up in a biker bar by seductive hunk Bram Lord for a one nightstand that turns into something bigger. The physically impressive, forceful stranger mets, matches and exceeds James' sexual fantasies, but can shy, uncertain James be everything the strongly committed Bram wants?

Out There In The Night
Laura Baumbach

What's the most pleasurable way to be made into a werewolf? By having sex with one ... and surviving.

Something Dr. Connor Jacy is about to find out after spending a long, lust-filled night of wild, animalistic and sensual lovemaking with the mysterious Native American trapper who rescued him from a snowmobile accident site in the Alaskan wilderness. It's only a few days until the full moon and once back at home, Dr. Jacy is sure it was all a dream compounded by his head injury. Unfortunately for Connor, the powerful spiritwalkers of an ancient Indian tribe have already decided to mate a modern man of medical science with a mythical creature and guardian of the night.