In a frozen gold-mining settlement where fear keeps doors shut, Erica Dutrieu is left for dead after a brutal beating by her husband. Rescued at terrible cost and forced to confront both frontier justice and her own will to survive, she fights back in the only way left to her. Harsh Times is a tale of violence, endurance, and hard-won hope on the edge of civilization.
INCLUDES ILLUSTRATION- Jill’s eighteenth should have been a carefree transition into maturity. Not one marred by the pain and humiliation of being robbed of her virginity when her sorority birthday party is invaded by armed men in search of ransom money and party-favors. Detective Tomasina Vencenzi has lived through that same humiliation and vows to get the girls back, even if it means placing what’s left of her own torn virtue on the line in a desperate rescue attempt.
A story in the Black List Universe
Beneath the world as we know it lies another. This one is fraught with dangers and unimaginable horrors. But there is a force that fights it, one that is so secret they are able to keep this other world a secret, but all that is about to change. But will the threat of what the world might think greater than the evil they already face?
In a small Rocky Mountain town, Allen wakes to flames in his bedroom window. Cedar Grove has a brand new 1954-model Fire Truck, but fire destroys his neighbor Kitty's home and business. She's fled to his back door in a flimsy nightgown soaked with icy slush. Within an hour, she's dry, naked, and sharing his bed for, ah, warmth. A romantic story with frequent sex, danger, some military history, and even a surprise pregnancy.
What would you do to protect yourself and the ones you love? Me? I'll shoot you and your wife to stay alive...wait, I've already done that, the Marines gave me a medal. This is another couple of stories about surviving.
He isn't meant to be touched. She isn't meant to want him. A quiet night, A touch breaks the rules no one dares to name. A girl, drawn by a pull she doesn't understand and doesn't resist, unleashes something the world wanted buried. As paths revealed, collide, desire blurs into danger. Blood flows, romance turns sharp. Loyalty fractures. Secrets surface. Some connections aren't forbidden because they're wrong, but because they change everything.
A former world champion body builder is being blackmailed and seeks help from a private detective agency. As the detective solves her problem they fall in love. But will her 'on-stage' personality, The Lioness, permit this relationship. The detective has to decide whether to walk away or join the party. i tried to check all the appropriate codes but I probably missed some.
Kevin Jones, a new detective, has been assigned to watch over a potential witness to a big case. But when he meets the witness he's to look after, his job takes on a whole new meaning!