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From Amazon Romantic Suspense, Mystery Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, and Historical Romance Bestselling Author Nicola Claire comes a seductive and thrilling tale of vampires and vampire hunters, in a world where love and trust are as dangerous and addictive as a Nosferatu's bite. “You may not be aware, ma douce, but not all vampyre have a kindred, some will live out their existence without such beauty in their lives. I have waited five hundred years for you." Vampires, shapeshifters, ghouls and magic-users abound in a world where the Norms, (those humans without paranormal abilities), are ...

“Please do not be alarmed. This is for your own protection.” Working as the Chief Engineer onboard the ESAS Chariot out of Europe, Commander Camille Rey expected her position to be somewhat challenging on occasion. She did not expect to be fighting for her and her fellow crewmen’s lives immediately after take-off. Teaming up with the very proper, and very English Captain Noah Vaughan to combat a desperate saboteur onboard their vessel, Camille discovers that not all the malfunctions the Chariot is experiencing are human-related. Secrets and desires are exposed amongst the stars and ...

“This is Captain Anderson. Brace. Brace. Brace." Sophia Anderson has a heritage she should be proud of, but to those onboard the AUS Corvus, she’s not earned her position like the rest of them. Every day she has to prove herself to the Anderson Universal crew onboard her ship. And then the worst thing happens. The captain is killed in battle and Sophia, as First Officer, must take his place. Teaming up with the unflappable Lieutenant Commander Leo Saitō, Sophia finds her footing onboard the beleaguered vessel as well as something much more precious. Intimacy and destiny align amongst ...

It’s the last hoorah for the Harpy, but things are looking pretty grim. With near to a thousand sleek-looking alien battleships massing beyond the Belt, Kael and the crew have a fight on their hands. But when an opportunity presents itself for an infiltration of the alien space station producing the drones bombing Zenthian planets, Kael dons his Deep Space Operative hat again and does what he does best. Blowing things up with a little help from his friends. Outgunned and outnumbered, facing two wars on two different fronts, and a courting process that includes a fight to the death; ...

"There are times when I truly believe humanity will not survive." Some of the last words spoken to Detective Lara Keen by her Criminal Investigations Bureau partner Carl Forrester before he died. They have haunted her ever since. With a spate of murders to solve, a tip-off about suspicious activities in a popular sex club, and the return into her life of the one man she never wanted to trust again, Lara's world becomes darker and much more sinister indeed. Having to rely on HEAT, Hauraki Emergency Assistance Team, Chief Investigator Damon Michaels in order to discover the reason behind a ...

Introducing the crew of the Harpy: a ragtag group of spacers hauling cargo in the outer rim. Until someone tries to blow them out of the Black. Alcohol, women, and space, that’s what keeps Captain Kael Jameson going. Plus the crew he’s managed to gather in place of a family. But when he’s forced to destroy something precious in order to save the ones he loves most, his world is turned upside down in a heartbeat. Things get bad after that, and he already had a hangover. Alien hitmen, political intrigue leading to civil war, and a cunning pirate overlord; you’d think it couldn’t ...

"This is how we’d traverse the stars; limping and crippled, the last survivors of a dying solar system." Fleeing from a past that almost killed her and a present that promises she’ll only burn, pay-for-passage passenger Ana Kereama boards the Sector Two lead vessel Pavo with only survival in mind. What she finds is a reason to live, and it has nothing to do with New Earth. Teaming up with the sexy and commanding Captain John Jameson to protect those on board their ship, Ana fights not only for her vessel’s survival but the intelligent being emerging within its gel coated walls. Love ...

"You can be scared of something, even terrified, and still have the courage to do what’s required. I would not let my fear rule me. I would do what I had to do to put this right." As the leaseholder’s daughter, Adriana Price holds a position of importance onboard the AUS Aquila. But not everything is as it seems. Death and danger have followed her from Old Earth, and Adi soon finds herself facing threats from every which way onboard the spaceship. Teaming up with the dashing and heroic Captain Hugo Tremblay, Adi finds a strength inside that defies the devastation and horror closing in ...

The crew of the Harpy are back and this time they’re armed for a battle. Half the known systems want to kill them. The other half wants to be them. It’s hard trying to save the universe when the universe can’t make up its mind. But when a gap appears in the Belt enticing every known species to peek through to the other side, things go from bad to worse. And that’s not even taking into account the rogue Originator Class vessel out of New Earth. Secret science stations, nimble gunboats, and a missing High Councillor; you’d think the crew have enough on their hands. But there’s ...

"Oh, this was sweet torture. To be this close to nirvana and walk away because I am coy. I closed my eyes tightly and swallowed down my fears. Theo wanted me. Like this. He craved me, in any way he could get me. Even if I wasn’t his, even if this all was torn asunder tomorrow, how could I not take the chance to feel this, to share this, with him? Even if just for a moment." For the past year Casey Eden has nurtured a crush on handsome, confident and slightly arrogant Theo Peters. For the first time in her life she's actually been able to flirt with a man. She even believed he was about to...

"What was wrong with me to antagonise a vampire of his standing to such a degree? I knew I had become too rebellious, too sure of my own place in this world. I was aware that Dark had been encroaching, that I played so often in its shadow I was losing sight of the sun, of my Light. There were times when I truly felt consumed in anger, for all that had happened, for all that I had suffered and lost." Leaving Auckland and moving to London, Lucinda has to learn new rules and assimilate into a new life she has no love for. Rebelling against everything that just doesn't seem fair, Lucinda upsets...

To survive, she must become one of them. To thrive, she must become the best. The walls of Dökkálfa have ears. They have ears and they whisper. And what they have to say can be chilling, but not all fairies hear them. Only those blessed by the Old Gods. And the one they call Skilja. Separate. Kara Middleton wasn’t always a fairy. Heck, even now, she couldn’t be called completely Fey. Because the Queen of Ljósálfar made her what she is and what she is…is frightening. A monster. But there is one fairy who is not afraid of Kara and the devastating power she wields as if her very own....

Join familiar, much-loved characters and gain an insight into the KINDRED WORLD with this enthralling anthology of short stories! Included in this collection of exciting tales from the kindred are the following titles and points of view: ~ ON THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL (Amisi’s POV) “Nosferatin,” he says, and imbues it with power, with his Sanguis Vitam. It calls to me. I dance and spin, and he laughs, and something in his aura sings; a song it has sung before but not for centuries. It is sad and joyous, lonely and complete. It changes everything. . . ~ THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY (Michel’s...

"This couldn't be happening. This was a trick. A cruel ploy to finally break me. They knew I'd weakened. Today the first day I'd let the tears fall and screamed my frustration and despair. They knew they almost had me, so they were pushing the knife in further and twisting the blade. Just to be sure." Casey Eden knew her life had changed beyond recognition when she woke up one morning covered in dirt. Since then she's crawled her way through treacherous environments, been pitted against dangerous predatory beings, and survived formidable destructive forces. Only to find herself in the one ...

To survive, she must become one of them. To thrive, she must become the best. Games are afoot in the High Court Realm of Dökkálfa. The type of games a girl from Earth can get soundly beaten playing. Fairies, though, don't play fair at all, it seems. But Kara Middleton, former human, now something else entirely not even the Dark Fey are in agreement about, has learned a thing or two since she was stolen from her world and brought to Faerie. Ask no questions. Tell no lies. Give no thanks. Never trust a fairy. Rules to live by. Rules Dökkálfa's Champion has taken to heart. Rules that ...

The much anticipated heartbreaking conclusion to the Elemental Awakening series... “Oh, sweet agony. How does it strike with such ease? So ruthlessly. Pain destroys. Just like me. It was what I was good at; hurting things. I hurt Theo with my rejection. I hurt the Nero with my rage. I hurt the world with my inaction. But most of all I hurt me.” The past few months have been hell of earth for Casey Eden. If it weren't for her Thisavros, Theo Peters, she’d have given up a long time ago. But when you’ve been chosen by an Elemental god to put things back together, you don’t have the ...

"Birdsong was the first thing I registered. The sharp caw of a parrot, but there was more than one. And somehow they overlapped to make a beautiful symphony out of what should have been an unmusical sound. I grinned; the feeling of my lips tipping up was foreign. How long had it been since I last smiled?" Casey Eden has had her life turned upside down and inside out, just when she thought it was going somewhere. Thrust into a new and dangerous world, and not knowing who to trust, Casey has to push herself to be stronger, harder, and better than she has ever been before. To top things off, ...

Nicola Claire's captivating new time travel romance series introduces an exciting and adventurous world, set in multiple times and multiple places, packed full of sizzling action and heart-racing escapades, where time once lost can never be found again. “Time is fluid. It is malleable. That is why we can mend it. But if we’re not careful, we can also influence it. If we’re in the incorrect location and time, stepping out of this Orion module could have drastic consequences on Time itself. We don’t break Time, Miss Wylde; we fix it.” Recovering from shocking revelations regarding ...

[Start Recording] The stars have shifted and my mission along with them. I rescued the black-ops agents and sent a message to the Admiralty, but no plan survives contact with the enemy, right? The more I try to complete the mission, the more it feels like I'm failing at the one thing the Originators asked me to do for them. And to make matters worse, things back on New Earth are getting grim. My prime directive puts humans first. But the humans controlling my home planet are deadly and corrupt and it's messing with my processors. I'm not sure I can do what's right anymore. I'm not sure what...

"Time works within a precise set of rules. There are consequences to every single thing we do when surfing its waves. So, in order to protect Time, we must operate within those rules. And one of Time's rules is that people should not be allowed to live out of their own time. Ever." Out of time Novitiate at the Royal Academy of Time Surgeons, Mimi Wylde has just one thing on her mind. To save her family from the machinations of Sergei Ivanov. But Time is never that linear. Her family is not really her family. And the Russian is not all that threatens RATS. Parliament is meddling in the ...