The Private Secretary

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Down on his luck and desperate for employment, Ezra Seton is offered only one job: to work in the house of a heartless bully, the very man who drove Ezra’s lover away. Gritting his teeth, Ezra takes the position. But neither the new job nor the master of house are close to what he expected. Still, he vows to keep his distance, no matter how difficult maintaining his composure in the face of relentless drollery becomes. 

Robert Demme’s pleasure-seeking days are over. Having rescued his cousin Ambrose from a lunatic asylum, he expends much of his energy pacifying the fragile eccentric. Hiring an assistant offers some relief—and also intriguing temptation. Unfortunately, the fascinating Seton apparently loathes him. Determined to discover the reason, Robert uses his considerable wit to get under the man’s skin, stunned when his plan backfires. Instead of unraveling the stalwart secretary, Robert has undone himself. All he’s accomplished is a deepening his own interest. Perhaps he senses Robert’s not-so-innocent attraction. 

When the two spend the night together in an inn, their mutual desire proves too strong. The secretary and the gentleman succumb to lust. But when Ezra’s old flame reappears and the cousin’s experiments go awry, it’s a battle to discover which will win the day: love or lunacy. 

This edition includes a selection from Simon and the Christmas Spirit, a title by Summer Devon and Bonnie Dee.

Releasing the Shifter

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To save his love he must face his monster and-worse-be nice to people.

Montag is a monster. He doesn't know what sort of creature he would turn into if he ever let himself shift, but he knows it's something lethal. The one time he shifted, the sight broke up his parents’ marriage and Montag ended up banished to a small town in Wisconsin. Now a mechanic in that small town, he fights back the urge to shift every day of his life, and has never dared get close to anyone--not that they want him to. He can literally smell their fear. Of course that might be because of his side-job, occasionally acting as an enforcer for a small-time hood.

Kevin's not scared of monsters. He works for the SSU, the agency in charge of tracking shifters--particularly the dangerous ones. When he and his young niece are kidnapped by her scum-bucket dad, he's grateful to be rescued by Montag, whose curmudgeonly defenses can't hide the kind man beneath. As they work together to protect Kevin's niece, attraction sizzles between them. But their relationship may not survive if Montag learns who writes Kevin's paycheck--or if Montag dares to confront the inner monster he hates and fears.

 

Warning: Contains a grouchy virgin shifter (and we mean virginal in all possible ways), a hero with a back pocket full of secrets, and a couple of jerks.