Monsters do it better—especially when they fall in love.

Dive into this stunning anthology filled with wicked tales and monstrous ever afters. These sweet and steamy short stories feature drool-worthy monsters as they woo and claim their human mates.

Scroll up and one-click this limited edition fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction romance collection today. Proceeds will benefit Best Friends Animal Society, a no-kill animal shelter organization.

Including stories by:

USA Today Bestselling Author Eva Priest writing as Evangeline Priest

USA Today Bestselling Author Vivienne Hart

USA Today Bestselling Author Dee J. Holmes

USA Today Bestselling Author Elle Cross

Nova Blake

Clio Evans

Atlas Rose

S.J. Sanders

C.M. Nascosta

Opal Fairchild

YD La Mar

Vera Valentine

Ashley Bennett

Cassie Alexander

Ursa Dax

Karen Kincy

L.V. Lane

Cara Wylde

Sonia Nova

Alexa Michaels

Salem Cross

Holly Hanzo

Eden Ember

Cady Austin

Krista Luna

Elsie Winters

Salem Sinclair

Daisy Shell

Elizabeth Austin

Woodrow was looking to claim his mate at any price... A dark and sensual paranormal twist on a Cinderella retelling that kicks off a series!

All things must end.

I learned that lesson the day my mother died.

My step-mother was wicked.

My step-sister, cruel.

It was a relief when I revealed as an empath because it was a chance to join the program and escape the drudgery of my life.

But it wasn't the end of my troubles.

What happens in the program is a secret.

And my troubles had just begun.

"I can save you from one monster, Verity," Lilly said when she accepted me into the program. "But I cannot save you from them all."

True to her word, she saved me from my step-mother.

Then Woodrow entered my life.

And I realized he was the other monster Lilly had warned me about.

The Awakening is a dark and steamy non-shifter paranormal empath romance. It contains detailed explicit scenes and triggers.

When darkness falls, monsters come to play.

Heat. Claws. Teeth.
They rake over your body and draw you in.
There is no one here but you and them; only their breath on your neck and your pulse throbbing in your veins.
They creep from the shadows, from the darkest of dreams. They are here to take. Conquer. Claim.
You know what they are, and terror seizes your breath.
But you open yourself to the monsters.
And you let them in.

Ten exceedingly sexy short romances that will give you goosebumps in all the right places.

Reticent Desire Publications and the monster-loving readers’ group, Monsters, Demons & Knotting, oh My! is thrilled to present this limited-edition anthology featuring steamy encounters with creatures both paranormal and alien.
Our guys may be monsters—but your heart won’t be all they’ll eat….

*PARTICIPATING AUTHORS*
Isoellen
Ophelia Bell
Nora Ash
L.V. Lane
Leann Ryans
Godiva Glenn
Leslie Chase
V.T. Bonds
Merel Pierce
Cass Alex

An orphan, I live by the charity of my lord. Through me, the Goddess heals, yet I am treated like the lowest servant.

In the wake of an attack, a young beta hunter is mortally wounded. I lay with Emric to heal him upon the forest floor. Everyone saw. Now an alpha, a beta, and a shifter pack all have me in their sights.

And all the while, Petra, my lord’s spiteful daughter, despises me for taking a man she saw as her own.

Trapped in a life of drudgery and cruelty, my only hope is to take a mate to escape Petra’s tyrannical rule before her jealousy takes a deadly turn. But why would her lord father let such a valuable asset leave?

I may be at the mercy of their whims now, but I have allies waiting in the dark, waiting to make their move and claim me as theirs.

The only question is who?

And will they be too late?

My mother always said I shouldn’t have married him and when I discover my lazy scoundrel of a husband plotting with his lover to rob me blind, then kill me, I find out why.

So I run.

And that’s when they find me.

Leering raiders, my ‘husband’ abandons me to their tender mercies when the true master of the forest comes upon us.

Tall, muscular beyond belief, and possessing a deadly grace, he scatters the criminals who threaten to do everything my husband had planned.

I fall to my knees, babbling my gratitude... only to discover the cost of his aid.

I must become his for a moon month. My body shivers, but is that in fear or anticipation? Because I’ve heard stories about the women who succumb to the beasts of the forest, and I’m determined that I won’t be the one to join them.

The Centaur in My Valley is a sweet and spicy story set in the Coveted prey universe.

I am far from home.

I am injured.

And I will not reach safety unless I seek the regal centaur’s aid.

He is a monster in some ways. But he is also a man.

There are rumors about centaurs, though, rumors that they expect payment in kind in exchange for a debt…

The one moon month of my life he demands does not seem so high a price.

But then I ask him what he would expect of me during that time.

“Anything,” he says. “Anything I desire.”

The Centaur in My Forest is a sweet and spicy short story set in the Coveted prey universe.

Winter

He’s supposed to be my protector, the towering male with the delicious scent that drives my body wild.

He’s supposed to obey me, although he rides the line of disrespect with infuriating ease.

And when he’s injured, I’m supposed to gift him my powerful blood.

Only I don’t, and I can’t, and now my actions have broken the rules

And the man who once obeyed is going to own me.

Jacob

Beautiful, cold, and untouchable, Winter is all that and more.

The tiny little fairy with the frosty disposition and heart made of ice.

She’s supposed to heal me, but my miserly mistress gives me only scraps.

My mind despises her, even as my body craves her blood.

Trapped by circumstance, my broken fairy will break both the rules and me.

But revenge, sweeter than the blood flowing through her veins, will ultimately be mine.

Rapture is a dark and steamy enemies to lovers paranormal, fairy-vampiric mashup. It contains detailed explicit scenes and triggers.

★ Fairy - vampire mash-up

★ Enemies to lovers

★ Action, humor, and heat!

★ Portal fantasy worlds with fairies, humans, orcs, and shifters!

★ Standalone story with HEA

I have a reputation for being a brat... I prefer to think of it as strong-willed.
My brother is trying to marry me off. I'm nothing but a nuisance to him now that he has taken a mate.
I don't mean to get into trouble, but sometimes trouble comes for me.
Now I have pushed my lord and brother too far. He's handed me off to his commander, Hawthorn, to see to my discipline and training that I might be better behaved. Not only Hawthorn, for his second and third men are also enlisted to aid in this arduous task.
But their stern ways don't only bring out my rebellion, and fate has other plans.

Publisher's Note: Prize is the first part of a duet for Priya's story. A fantasy fated mates romance with three stern warriors and a stubborn bratty mate.