Varhaiset kirja-arvostelijatHeather McCorkle

Turn up the heat this holiday season with this sexy collection of gifts from your favorite City and Mystic Owl authors. Each story has been hand-curated by award-winning, bestselling, and debut authors to please lovers of romance in the science fiction and fantasy subgenres. Place it under the tree, in someone's ereader stocking, or give yourself the gift of a few stolen hours of pleasure as you sink into each winter themed happily ever after. From vampires to fairy tale retellings and everything in between, these scorching hot short stories are sure to hit the spot, curl your toes, and fill you with holiday cheer. So stoke the fire, nestle under a blanket, and slip in between the pages with your next new favorite authors.

In this Montana town of Viking descended werewolves, there are secrets upon secrets. In the name of protecting his family and his kind, Raul Anderson has made some terrible decisions, and even worse mistakes. Mistakes that got him bumped from First Verndari, to the bottom of the pack. Being blackmailed is no excuse, especially when he can't prove it. Now he has to work his way back up to the top of the pack so he can challenge the werewolf he suspects is plotting to throw them into a war with humans.

"Ayra is the monster that slays monsters—a fate she never wanted. Forced on her by her brother Calder, a man who bit in countless new werewolves to awaken the power of the reaper, she now has no choice. The responsibility falls on hers. Not only does she have to put down rabid werewolves, but she must stop Calder from exposing them to the world, and thereby risking the annihilation of their kind. But she won't be alone. Vidar, the crush of her childhood, has returned from Iceland. Trained by monks to help guide and protect her, he insists on traveling with her. But is it her, he wants, or the reaper? It shouldn't matter, but it does, even as her family promises her to a man she does not love. As they are dragged deeper into a plot involving the fate of the Norse Gods, Vidar is all she can think about. He deserves a life, a mate, a pack. Ayra only brings death. If they can't get past their would-have-been romance and focus on the future of their kind, there may be no future…for any of them. "

As the chaos of Loki covers the earth again, will the Seeker awaken to save us all? When Sonja Michaelson’s hot date turns into something out of a horror movie, she wakes up with a chunk taken out of her neck, and her body going through strange changes. Her attacker has disappeared, leaving her a mysterious note to meet him in Montana. With her senses tipping over into the freaky, she is left with no choice but to go after him. Instead of her attacker, she finds Tyler Viðarrson, an alluring man who claims he’s been sent to teach her how to survive the transition into her new life. Ty informs her that she’s been bitten into a line of werewolves that trace their lineage back to an ancient pack of Icelandic Vikings. Now, several packs are fighting for her to join them. If she doesn’t learn to control her wolf by the full moon, she could lose what’s left of her sanity. But with such a tempting teacher, she fears her sanity may be the least of her worries. Sonja soon discovers there is a larger and more sinister plan at work. She is not the only one who has been changed against her will, and whoever is changing the others, wants her for what she can awaken – an ancient power that may endanger the entire world.

Would their love be doomed before it even had a chance? Sonja Michaelson has a monumental taste for bad men. So when Raul Anderson walked into her bar all clad in his motorcycle gear and plucked a dart out of the air that had been thrown at his head, she fell so fast and hard her impact could have leveled a small city. Whether it would turn into love, or remain just lust didn't matter. The damage was already done. Raul’s mission: Find the girl, convince her to turn, bring her back to Hemlock Hollow, and in doing so, save his sister's life. She had been primed by a father who loved the lore of their culture and their kind, so it should have been easy. He expected a half-Swedish, half-Cherokee princess used to having everything handed to her, one who would jump at the chance of quintupling her lifespan by becoming a werewolf. But when he saw the black-haired beauty holding her own behind the bar, working her butt off to pay her way through med school, it threw a wrench firmly into his plans hooks deep into his heart.