Christmas is a time of love and joy, and the New Year is a time of renewal. But they are also times of stress and strife, family drama, pressure and heartache-a potent mix of high expectations and conflicted emotions. Add in power exchange relationships, kinky gift swaps, and unconventional love in a sometimes unforgiving world, and you have a formula for a sizzling anthology of stories that tug at your heart.

From Ava March's forbidden Regency love between men, to Katie Porter's scorching hot contemporary tale of two women discovering holiday happiness, everyone will find a...

"The point wasn't to win a war that had been lost, or to stop a death that had long turned bones to dust. It was to heal a broken heart." John Pierce has been in covert operations all his adult life. He doesn't know anything else but that and being a Dom, because that's how he blows off steam and balances the nagging emptiness inside of him. Since he was a kid, he's carried around an infatuation that's grown into an embarrassing obsession. He's in love with a myth-Medusa. "Mad Merlin" Maddock doesn't think that's crazy. He believes in powers deeper and stronger than men or gods, a connecting...

After...Happily Ever After... Nature of Desire - Vampire Queen - Knights of the Board Room - Daughters of Arianne To fans of Joey W. Hill's work, these series have special significance, because they contain many of their favorite characters. Because they are her favorites too, Joey doesn't like saying good-bye at "The End" any more than her readers do. So here for your reading pleasure, available at last in compilation form, are novellas and shorts revisiting these characters. Poignant romantic moments, erotic encounters, holiday celebrations...wherever daily life might take...

After...Happily Ever After... Nature of Desire - Vampire Queen - Knights of the Board Room - Daughters of Arianne To fans of Joey W. Hill's work, these series have special significance, because they contain many of their favorite characters. Because they are her favorites too, Joey doesn't like saying good-bye at "The End" any more than her readers do. So here for your reading pleasure, available at last in compilation form, are novellas and shorts revisiting these characters. Poignant romantic moments, erotic encounters, holiday celebrations...wherever daily life might take...

Some destinies are made to be denied... As the Prime Legion Commander for the Goddess, Jonah has been battling the Dark Ones for centuries. He has led countless angels into battle, and has seen too many of them slaughtered. Now, his noble spirit has begun to tire with the weight of endless war-which allows a Dark One to strike a blow that severs his wing and knocks him into the sea. Anna is a Daughter of Arianne - a direct descendant of the mermaid whose poignant legend and lore is much darker and more complex than the human-made fairytale. For tragedy and isolation are the fate of all the...

Mina is Dark Spawn, half-mermaid, half Dark One. A sea witch who lives in the shadows, she is shunned by the merpeople. She seeks no friendships, however, no lasting relationships. Every day is about surviving, fighting the call of the dark blood within her, which demands she submit her ever-increasing powers to their cause. But Mina submits to no one. Until she meets David. At thirty, David is one of the youngest angels in the Dark Legion, the angelic host dedicated to eliminating Dark Ones. Unlike many of his fellow angels who feel Mina's death is inevitable, he believes her power can be...

Growing up the daughter of a famous mermaid and the second in command of the angelic legions can put a lot of pressure on a girl. Though she loves her parents, Alexis has chosen to live among humans as an ordinary college girl, but she can't hide the tranquil aura of angelic light and empathic ability that draws people to her. Unfortunately, while it draws men to her, none of them are willing to cross the line to find her true heart and soul - or even give her a decently passionate kiss. That is, until she begins to dream of a male trapped in fire and rage, who wants her so badly he'll tear...