Vixen's Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book Four)


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Mire, the Vixen position on the sleigh team, has watched three of his friends and fellow shifters find their fated mates. He holds out hope that he’ll find his fated mate soon, but since he’s able to leave North Pole City for only twenty-four hours every year, he’s not sure when he’ll meet his one and only. When a non-quad shifter survives a near-fatal accident two days before Christmas Eve, they discover he had an affair with a human woman and had a child with her. Mire is tasked with bringing the daughter to NPC to meet with Santa Claus. What Mire doesn’t count on is that she’s his fated mate. Noelle Jackson has known her whole life that she wasn’t entirely normal. Born with pointed ears, that her mother had altered with plastic surgery, she’s always felt out of place. When a dark-haired, gorgeous man shows up at her apartment and tells her that he can take her to visit her injured father, she jumps at the chance. She feels connected to the mysterious Mire, whose eyes flash from brown to gold whenever he looks at her. When Noelle is magically whisked away to the North Pole, she feels right at home for the first time in her life. In a place where the magic is real, can Santa Claus grant Noelle and Mire their Christmas wish to spend the rest of their lives together, or will her father’s deceit mean NPC is closed to her forever?




Prancer's Fated Mate (Arctic Shifters Book Three)


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Kerri’s excited to be able to help plan the wedding of her sister’s friend. Decorating her sister’s middle-of-nowhere cabin and taking some R&R after finally finishing cooking school is exactly what she needs before she starts her job hunt. Unable to sleep, Kerri heads out into the woods before dawn on Christmas Eve to cut pine boughs to decorate the fireplace mantel. It’s cold and dark, but Kerri finds herself enjoying the early morning walk in the woods. Until an unwanted guest in the form of an enormous polar bear intrudes on her quiet morning. At dawn on Christmas Eve, Sullivan, an arctic shifter, goes with two members of the NPC security team to scout out the location for a close friend’s wedding. Deciding he’s a better hunter in his shifted form, he chooses the polar bear, his favorite of his four shifts. Heading into the woods that surround the cabin, he follows the scent of something amazing and comes face-to-face with a beautiful woman who watches him shift back into his human form and promptly passes out. When Kerri awakens, she feels immediately connected to a man she’s pretty sure she saw change forms from bear to human. She can’t explain why she feels drawn to him, but he can. He’s a quad shifter, part of Santa’s sleigh team, and she’s his fated mate. For a human who never realized that shifters, or Santa, were real, Kerri has to make a choice…fast. Either she’s waiting when Sullivan gets back from the Christmas Eve run, or he’ll leave her behind. Will Sullivan get his Christmas wish for Kerri to accept being his mate and join him in the North Pole, or will this be a blue Christmas for everyone?




Dancer's Heart (Wilde Creek Book Six)


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Adam Cruz has spent the last twelve years of his life wondering if he'd ever find his truemate. As a low-ranked omega wolf, with a body full of scars from a firebomb, he's had more than his fair share of trauma and shame. All he wants is to find his truemate and settle down, even though he wonders if his mate will care about his scars, or that he can't hunt as well as other wolves because of them. As the only reindeer shifter in a bear den, Dancer Grayson knows what it's like not to fit in. When she runs into her truemate in the woods of Wilde Creek, she discovers that she fits right in with him. Adam's not ashamed to have prey as a mate, and she's not ashamed of his scars. Together, she's certain they can survive anything. When Adam's gambling-addict dad hits him up for money and Adam refuses, his dad does the unthinkable, and Dani ends up kidnapped. What the kidnappers don't count on is that there isn't just a wolf pack looking for Dani, but her own kind. Can Adam get to her before she's harmed, or will she be lost to him forever?




Fated Mate


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I've been abandoned. Left on the side of a mountain road with a Rocky Mountain storm on the way and the only person I can turn to is a stranger—but Aaron has his own secrets... Gwynn swallowed hard. “Hey.” She hovered on the side of the road, unsure of what to do, now that she’d gotten his attention. Gray eyes started at her feet, taking their time as they traced up her body, tracing danger up her spine. He was bigger than she’d thought. Close up, he looked hard and hungry. Well over six-foot, with slightly curling black hair, a scruffy three-day-old beard, and a silver stud in one ear. But this was no Pirate Jack. This man was all hard, bulging muscle under his tight, white tee-shirt and jeans—definitely more lumberjack than pirate. He finished his examination and finally met her eyes. Her panting breaths were suddenly shorter. Her gut said back away- danger! Danger!’ But this danger wasn’t the kind she was familiar with, growing up on the edge of the seedier side of town. He wasn’t a street thug or a pimp. She knew what those people looked like, smelled like. She’d seen enough of them, when her dad drove them into the neighborhoods her mom struggled to keep them out of. This man felt like a different kind of threat. He had a stillness about him. The kind that said he would move in an instant. The kind that would come in handy if Herb’s buddies showed up. The lethal kind. Buy FATED MATE today. Fated Mountain Wolf Pack...Come to Colorado where the rivers run cold and the alphas run hot! ***** Here’s what readers love about Jessica Aspen’s books: *****Holly Cow on Rollerblades! Fan-Blessed -Tastic there is everything in this mind blowing book - Adventure, Survival, Fear, Betrayal, Suspense, Action Packed, Loyalty, Hate, Love, Wickedly Hot Scenes - so much Drama, Revenge, Sacrifice! Definitely a Must Read! *****This book was so good I couldn't put it down ***** The story and characters just swept me along, till I just couldn't put the book down. Jessica Aspen has the gift of superbly evocative words, as she conjures up settings and descriptions, so that fantasy seems real. Immerse yourself in Jessica Aspen’s fast-paced romance…clever, sexy, and just a little on the dark side. Click and read FATED MATE…today. Check out the rest of the FATED MOUNTAIN WOLF PACK: Fated Mate Claimed Mate Stalked Mate Hunted Mate Wolf Mate




Nightshade Academy: The Complete Series


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Some people carry the blood of demons. They often appear normal. They may even be unaware of it themselves. Until the curse activates. When a monster awakens, someone usually ends up dead. But not all hope is lost. All monsters are welcome at Nightshade Academy. Eighteen-year-old Nova Ray didn't have big plans for the future. She was comfortable living life quietly and unseen with her mother, but all of that changed the night a mysterious man triggered her curse and revealed her vampire nature. Nova would have killed someone that night, maybe even her human mother, if she hadn't been found and taken to Nightshade Academy first. But her troubles are far from over. Nova's in lockdown. Nightshade Academy is supposed to rehabilitate monsters. The goal is to teach them how to control their monster natures so they can rejoin human civilization. But Nova's bloodlust is insatiable and picky. She's fixated on a star student: Kian Salazar. He wants to help her, but she can't stop thinking about drinking his blood. It's all too much. What if she kills him? If the curse consumes Nova, she'll truly be a monster. And there's no going back from that. This book contains Nightshade Academy Episodes 1-5.




Mate of Her Heart (Wilde Creek One)


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Werewolf Eveny Moore is coming into her first heat at the age of twenty-five. Bucking tradition, she chooses to go through her first heat alone instead of choosing an unmated male from her pack. There is only one male that she wants in her bed and her life: her best friend, Luke Elrich. But Luke is human and doesn't understand the consequences of her heat-cycle, so she hides out in a safehouse, planning to ride out the cycle alone and then ask Luke to be her mate.Luke has loved Eveny forever, but something is going on between them. He's afraid he's losing her forever, until she promises to talk to him after her heat-cycle is over. He overhears her brother, the pack alpha, ask another wolf to go to Eveny and take her through the heat-cycle. What her brother doesn't know is that the male plans to invite some of his friends along. And Eveny is alone in a remote cabin, unprotected. Luke will do anything to keep her safe, even if it means going up against four wolves.This story contains a meddling brother, a human fighting a pack of male wolves for the only woman he's ever loved, a female who thought she had a good plan, and bone-melting, skin-tingling hot sex between a male and a female who have loved each other forever.




Special Forces Bear Shifter Mate


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Special Ops bear shifter Jace doesn't date human women. But when Julie's plane is shot down, Jace rushes to her rescue and discovers a burning desire he never expected. White-hot passion ignites amid a raging Alaskan Blizzard! His life was simple. Nothing stood in the way of his duty to his country. Jace was alone, but he accepted it; there was no place for him among humans. His mission: find the Russians and stop them from harming our country. He found them alright but no one warned him Julie would be involved. Jace had always looked from far but now that he's felt her searing touch, she's all that he wants. Their worlds were separate. That's the way it's always been. To build a life together, they have to break all the rules. If they get out alive, will Julie accept his bear as her mate? Special Forces: Bear Shifter Mate is a fast-paced, sweet and steamy bear shifter romance with a strong female heroine looking for an equally strong but loving alpha male partner to share her life with. The Special Bear Protectors Collection includes stand-alone stories with HEAs that are part of the same supernatural universe. Content Warning: Love scenes, naughty language, and piles of sexy shifter secrets. Intended for mature audiences. No cheating and no cliffhangers.




Shifting Shape, Shaping Text


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Annotation Shifting Shape, Shaping Text examines the fox koan in relation to philosophical and institutional issues facing the Ch'an/Zen tradition in both Sung China and medieval and contemporary Japan.




The Street Was Mine


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This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The Street Was Mine looks to the tough guy in the works of hardboiled novelists Raymond Chandler ( The Big Sleep ) and James M. Cain ( Double Indemnity ) and their popular film noir adaptations. Focusing on the way he negotiates racial and gender 'otherness', this study argues that the tough guy embodies the promise of an impervious white masculinity amidst the turmoil of the Depression through the beginnings of the Cold War, closing with an analysis of Chester Himes, whose Harlem crime novels ( For Love of Imabelle ) unleash a ferocious revisionary critique of the tough guy tradition.




The Leaving


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Six were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. A riveting mystery for fans of We Were Liars. Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to. Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes, and doesn't really recognize the person she's supposed to be, either. But she thinks she remembers Lucas. Lucas remembers Scarlett, too, except they're entirely unable to recall where they've been or what happened to them. Neither of them remember the sixth victim, Max--the only one who hasn't come back. Which leaves Max's sister, Avery, wanting answers. She wants to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story. But as details of the disappearance begin to unfold, no one is prepared for the truth. This unforgettable novel--with its rich characters, high stakes, and plot twists--will leave readers breathless.