War was cruelty, cruelty was war. Sacrifices must be made by both sides.Rydere Dardanos was king of the Dardaptos people. He’d do anything to protect his vampire race in the war between the Dardaptoans and all those named Taniss.Emily Taniss was th...
Kindara was a healer who could not heal the one thing that mattered most, her heart. Her mate was lost, murdered nearly thirty years ago, and she lived for only two things--finding medical care for her struggling Kind and protecting her grown daughte...
Barlaam had waited for centuries for his Rajni--or destined mate. He never expected it to be a girl barely twenty-one! He might be resistent, but Jade was unstoppable. He was hers, and she would have him!...
Cormac Jareth's family had suffered like no others at the hands of Leo Taniss. With nearly two thousand dead at the human’s hands, Cormac was the one who’d failed to stop him.Now it was time Cormac got the vengeance his people deserved.Josey Tani...
Mickey Taniss had a difficult time trusting men--of any species. And she knew she'd never be able to trust one who'd turned her from a human woman into a vampire! Or a Dardaptoan--whatever he'd called her. She knew the truth--he'd kidnapped her and t...
Vampires didn’t exist, but human monsters did -- and Mallory Taniss was going to protect her sisters from those monsters. They would not be victims like she had been.Aodhan Adrastos was the strongest warrior of his vampiric race, sent to stop a hum...
Jason Taniss was a family man, first and foremost. He loved his grown daughters and he was learning to tolerate his vampiric sons-in-law. But as a Lupoiux werewolf he longed for his own mate. She was out there waiting for him, somewhere. He just had ...
He had amends to make to the woman the gods had paired him with--but how was he to do that when those very gods made such demands on both of them?He'd had months to regret what he'd done to the mate the gods had given him, but Alpha of the Taniss Lup...
PAVAD DUET including REUNITING & RECKONING (books 3 & 4 of the PAVAD: FBI Romantic Suspense Series)Two men who'd given it all to the job...didn't they deserve a second chance with two women who loved them? Who could give them the families they both l...
She cried 200 tears, and where they landed, her people grew... A goddess was supposed to protect her people. Guide them. Answer their prayers. Kennera had failed them. For three thousand years, their mournful cries had twisted her heart, made her im...
She was going to die.Aureliana Adrastos knew it, and would meet that death face-to-face, sword in hand. That was one reason why she’d kept the knowledge that she’d found her mate to herself. The grief for the life they would never have together n...
Every Kind had its Evil...He was the monster in her nightmares, and he knew it.Her grandfather had tortured him and made him into a monster -- part vampire, part shifter, part goddess-only-knew what. He wasn’t what a naive young woman like Cassandr...
The war was getting closer.Havalana Amyenka’s small band of Dardaptoan refugees had no choice. No more hiding in the Russian wilderness. Lana knew a mass relocation of the Dardaptoan people to the demon world of Relaklonos would bring her far too c...
Destiny finds you, no matter where you go. Bronwen Sebastos had hidden from the world and the people who cared about her for the last fifteen months. But now those people are needing her to help them prepare for the war that was to come. But Bronwen ...
Human or vampire? She didn't have a clue what she was anymore...Humanities grad student Mara Garnier was human. Or so she had always thought. Her mother had denied her the knowledge that she was half Dardaptoan vampire and half Lupoiux werewolf. Unti...
Every unit of the FBI has those cases that just make an agent think, make them feel, and make them wonder why people treat others the way they do. PAVAD -- the Prevention & Analysis of Violent Acts Division of the FBI -- was no different. This was on...
Every unit of the FBI has those cases that just make an agent think, make them feel, and make them wonder why people treat others the way they do. PAVAD -- the Prevention & Analysis of Violent Acts Division of the FBI -- was no different. This was on...
Sometimes destiny was terrifying. You could not escape it, and it mattered little if you even tried. Nelciana Nellano had tried thousands of years before, but the Goddess of Family had lost every loved one before. Nothing would stop her from protecti...
FIVE-BOOK LIMITED TIME BUNDLE, plus BONUS BOOK! A vampire recognized his mate when he found her, and he’d have her -- even if he had to take her… Hot vampires heroes, human women they are determined to claim -- Captive by Night is a collection o...
Acylias was one of the most ancient and powerful gods. He searched the worlds for the lost shifters as a bird of prey, and knew he was a terrifying sight. All feared him. And he liked it that way. He was the God of Nightmares, after all.He would not ...
Every unit of the FBI has those cases that just make an agent think, make them feel, and make them wonder why people treat others the way they do. PAVAD--the Prevention & Analysis of Violent Acts Division of the FBI--was no different. This was one of...
Humans were food in the demon world.Miranda was the only human in the demon world.Things were not going in her favor.Miranda Taniss was just trying to survive after being yanked from Boston into the primitive demon city of Thrun. Now she was the only...
Ten years. Three months. Sixteen days. That was how long it had been since Gabby Kendall had felt safe. As a teenager, she'd witnessed the execution of four members of the Marshall family and been powerless to stop it. Those images had haunted her ev...
Brynna Beck has plans for her future, and those plans do not include working for the Finley Creek branch of the Texas State Police forever. Nothing is going to deter her from her goals -- and Brynna is stubborn enough to go after what she wants.Until...
She was the one who had always done the protecting…Melody Beck has spent her life taking care of others -- especially her younger sisters. She fails when her sister Brynna is attacked by a band of killers. All signs point to the richest man in Texa...
She could give the dark sorcerer the one thing he desperately wanted…Adelais Woald was the one female to have escaped the dark sorcerer in over thousands of years -- the sorcerer bent on destroying all of the worlds. Her escape came at a horrific p...
Iahanna Woald was never meant to be a leader. She was a healer, and the vampire goddess forbade them from leading. But when no one else of her bloodline was able to lead the ancient Dardaptoan family of Woald, only Iahanna could ...
Her family had a long history with the sheriff of Masterson County -- none of it good. So when the new sheriff shows up in the middle of the night with Phoebe’s teenage brother in tow, she knows her life is about to get a lot more complicated. Pho...
She didn't need a lover…He wanted to be more than a friend…Travis Worthington-Deane had worked his butt off to build his ranch into one of the finest in Texas, but that didn't mean he was all work and no play.He was more than willing to play with...
She was the quietest Tyler of Tyler Township -- and for good reason.They might not have much, but rabble-rousing Tylers loved -- and took care of -- each other.Pip was a Tyler, through and through. There wasn’t anything she wouldn’t do for her fa...
Everyone jumped when Chief of Medicine Rafael Holden-Deane ordered them to. Everyone. He was back in Finley Creek to make the hospital the best it possibly could be. No matter what the cost.ER Nurse Jillian Beck remembered Rafe from when they’d bee...
Pandora Tyler always had a plan. Number one had been to keep her family together in strained financial times. But now the family ranch was secure, and her plans had changed. Now she was focused on building her own business in little Masterson, Wyomin...
Change is coming to Finley Creek General Hospital, and nurse Cherise McAlister just wants to get through it. She wants the people she works with to be safe. Already FCGH has had attempted murders, dead pharmacy techs, hospital shootings, and stolen d...
Governor Marcus Deane had watched the beautiful Ariella from afar for nearly a year. Drawn to her shy, sweet ways, the intense man responsible for leading the state of Texas knew he wasn't the kind of man a woman like her needed. He had to content hi...
Persephone Tyler was the last holdout.Just because her sisters had gone nuts over the rugged, good-looking, perfect cowboy Masterson brothers didn’t mean Perci was going to meekly fall in line -- especially not with the last Masterson brother.Dr. N...
She'd been a victim of a horrible crime at her own father's hands.With her spirit broken and her body hurting, Texas State Police Officer Bailey Moore is determined to return to the job--and find a way to heal. No matter what she ha...
**An 80-page Finley Creek Novella**Someone had his eyes on Fin…and his attention was unwanted.Fin did her best to hide from the world behind a bubbly exterior, but it was hard to keep that up knowing someone was out there watching every move she ma...
She had survived. She could survive. She would survive again.After a brutal assault and cancer as a teenager, Dr. Nikkie Jean Netorre wouldn’t let herself be called a victim. Nikkie Jean wasn’t a victim. She was a survivor. Now a pediatric surgic...
INSTANT LOVE DOESN'T EXIST.—But instant lust does. In that moment, he was sure of it!Losing her home to the city's next mall project is just something ER nurse Annie Gaines has to face before the adoption of her three foster sons is f...
A dead grandmother is a good reason to run...Fourteen years ago, the Beise family just disappeared. Rumors filled the small town of Masterson-everything from mass slaughter to alien abductions.PAVAD: FBI Agent Miranda Talley had always wondered w...
FIGHT OR FLIGHT? SHE CHOOSES FLIGHT.But it doesn't matter. He isn't human. He catches her in an instant...The vampire who'd come to kill Mickey Taniss for her grandfather's crimes is tough, hard, beautiful and dangerous. She has no hope of escaping h...
HE INTENDS TO KILL HER.Sacrifice—he knows it well.Rydere Dardaptos has sacrificed many things in his six hundred years as king of the Dardaptoan vampires. He has ruled his people for centuries, while always searching for the female vampire chos...
A DOCTOR. A NURSE. —DANGER ON HER FOOTSTEPS. When an F4 tornado strikes Finley Creek General Hospital, nothing will ever be the same again.Despite Dr. Allen Jacobson rescuing her, ER nu...
HE'D DEFY THE VERY FATES FOR HER. Aodhan Adrastos is the greatest Dardaptoan vampire warrior to have ever lived. Legends have been written about his heroics in battle.So why is a warrior like him hunting a human female of less than thirty years?...
HE CAME FOR VENGEANCE. HE FINDS HER INSTEAD. Cormac Jareth, the greatest hunter the Dardaptoan vampires have ever seen, wants one thing: Vengeance. For his sister. For the unborn nephew murdered at an evil human's hands. Two thousand Dardap...
JUST THE DEMON'S MEANS TO AN END. Demons and Dardaptoan vampires have fought each other for centuries. Rathan, King of the Demons, leads the fight. He'll have vengeance for the four young women killed at the vampires' hands just days earlie...
★ FIVE MONTHS JUST WASN'T LONG ENOUGH. ★After practically kidnapping her boss's baby to protect Violet from a drunken gunman seeking revenge, Maggie is finally back in Masterson County.It's time to give Violet back to the sexy-as-sin...
SHE DOESN'T THINK SHE IS FULLY HUMAN. But what she is, college co-ed Jade Taniss, doesn't have a clue. Until the vampire she is destined to spend the rest of eternity with shows up in the middle of her family's vacation estate—after his fa...
SHE'S NEVER HAD A FAMILY OF HER OWN. After a disastrous marriage to an abusive man, social worker Jude Hopewell wants nothing more than to build herself a new life in the little town she's claimed as her own. Jude feels safe in Ma...
TAMING THE BEAST? NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Not when the beast is Major Crimes Detective Jake MacNamara. Sparks fly between them whenever they meet. Shelby Jacobson just doesn't have time&n...
AN ORDINARY GIRL… IN AN ORDINARY WORLD. Nikki Tyler knows exactly what she is—and where she belongs. She's a Tyler—and that means Masterson County. When the most sought-after producer in Hollywood wants to make a documenta...
★★★★★ What kind of man abducts brides for his sons? ★★★★★ —It's 1884 Texas, not medieval Europe, for heaven's sake!Jude Finley Handley doesn't understand how a...
THAT DAMNED MAN IS BACK. This is not good. She isn't ready for her late husband's best friend now. Widowed Rhea Masterson is finally finding her footing again after losing her husband so suddenly three years ago. Life is good...
SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO START OVER.When her late husband's family almost abducts her two-year-old daughter, trauma counselor Glenna Carnes knows she has only one real choice. It is time to leave Finley Creek behind—and start a new life elsewhere....
HE'D ALWAYS WANTED HER. Nick Tyler had done the noble thing twenty years ago by pushing Robin Patton away when she'd been a teenager with a crush on an older man. Then life had taken them in different directions. But Robin was back in Maste...
SOMETIMES A GIRL JUST DOES SOMETHING... TOTALLY STUPID. Then she has to deal with the consequences.That was exactly where Rory Price found herself after one night with her co-worker, Detective Charlie Fields. They hadn't exactly liked each ...
LIFE CAN CHANGE IN AN INSTANT. No one knows that better than Masterson County social worker, Linsey Hodson. She'd learned that lesson fast when a crazy stalker nearly killed her and her best friend Jude fourteen months ago. When a close chi...
HE SAVED HER THAT NIGHT...The old proverb says that if you save a life, it is yours. Well, Gil Tyler had never believed that before. Until he found the gorgeous sheriff's deputy lying alongside the highway, about to become a victim of the storm. ...
WHY DID THE MONSTERS ALWAYS COME FOR THE INNOCENT? Former Sheriff Zoey Daviess has moved on from her Texas State Police days. She had one mission now: Uncover her birth family's secrets and reveal the truth about the woman who sold Zoey's s...
They had argued for years, once. Before their work at the Finley Creek Texas State Police post had taken over everything else and threatened to consume them both. Now they are too damned busy trying to find the killers hiding within the TSP...
July 29th was a day that changed Finley Creek, Texas forever. No one could escape the storm unscathed. Day of the Storm is a collection of three novelettes by Calle J. Brookes, set during the events of the Finley Creek: Disaster mini-series. In ...
Powell Barratt was used to success in real estate, business, and law… not romance. Certainly not romance with a man who could give the god Thor a real run for his money. But Detective Gunnar Erickson is right there, in front of her, vowing...
HIS LITTLE SISTER'S BEST FRIEND? For Ben Tyler, his kid sister's closest friend Dusty—don't ever call her by her real name Destiny—Talley is always just around, giving him fits. That hasn't changed much over the years. Even though Du...
THE FUTURE IS A DARK, DARK PLACE NOW. Gavin Strong isn't sure of who he is anymore. Or what he wants from his future now. Medically discharged from the army after he was the sole survivor of a plane crash on the way to a training mission, h...
HE COULD JUST GO BACK TO WHERE HE CAME FROM!ER Nurse Genny Hiller has always kept Dr. Chad Fields at arm's length, avoiding the much-older boy-next-door who's forever given her that judging look, like she's a melodramatic screwup. She's used to steer...
The boy next door can just stay there!Six years—that's how long Chantal Fields has avoided the infuriating single father next door. She and Gene Hiller will never get along, so why bother trying?He's her best friend's older brother—annoyi...
HE IS A MAN WITH A PLAN. Millionaire Brandt Barratt moved to Wyoming to prove himself—away from the shadow of his successful and influential family. He's ready to build his own life and, more importantly, claim the woman he's loved for yea...
WANNA BET? Five months ago, Dylan Talley's world turned upside down when she discovered her family had been hidden in witness protection. Now, while her sisters find their place at the Talley Inn, Dylan feels lost, unsure of where she truly belo...