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We know what lurks in the bleak midwinter nights. Fear. In these eight tales, collected to give you shivers in the coldest season, we bring the fear right inside, to lie beside your bed or stand at the door. Or even to rest in the warmth of your kitchen. Come to abandoned mines, the bedrooms of children, the most silent of nights, and even a place where the Earth itself awakens with a fearsome hunger. Turn up the lamplight. Draw closer to the fire. And tell yourself it's just a branch scraping the window.

Sun Valley is being threatened by an evil werewolf corporation that has its eye set on destroying the place. Jeanie Buchanan is a pawn in this game of greed and revenge. Sent to Sun Valley to do a survey of the land, she is ill prepared for what she finds there. Mixing personal and business has never been Jeanie's style but when Ryan Hunt comes to her aid, she can hardly believe her luck. Things heat up as the evil masterminds of the plot to destroy Ryan's home come to Sun Valley to seal the deal.

Twins Dirk and Debbie Gudgeon find the mysterious Janus Key, which awakens and transports them to an alternate dimension! The savage raptors of the world capture them, and one won't let Dirk go until he ravages him thoroughly!

Rebecca is the last hope her mother and sisters have at keeping their home and getting enough to eat. All she has to do is marry the rich man who sent for her to be his bride. While traveling to meet him, her train is robbed, and she finds her heart fluttering for the dangerous bandit with stunning eyes. Now Rebecca is left wondering if the man she was sent to marry will make her heart dance like the dangerous rogue had.

I have loved her for a long time. I want her desperately. Even if it means hurting my best friend.

Brady Garriston isn't ready to call it quits. Just because his girl ditched him and he hasn't had a hit record in some time doesn't mean he's a has-been, right? He just needs to regroup, and what better way to do so than hide out in small town under a different name. Ellie Shaw envies her cousin's glamorous NYC life but can't understand why she'd dump her rock star boyfriend. When Ellie meets new Dareville resident "Gary Stone" she's struck by his likeness to Brady.

Sun Valley is in jeopardy. An age-old debt has come due and the residents are in danger of losing their homes. This weighs heavily on Valerie Rousseau's mind. She was sent to Sun Valley by a company, interested in buying up the land. At first it's just another job, just another corner of the land that this machine she represents wants to eat up. But then she meets the people and falls in love with a Bear Shifter named Kyle. This changes everything for her.

Kitty Konstantine is used to being called names. Cutthroat. Demon. Bitch. But the title that always trips her up is "daughter." No matter what she achieved, her father was always ready to cut her down. Even now that she's signed The Four Saints, it's still not good enough. Now, if she can't get them signed under a tighter contract, she'll lose everything. Bart Saint was pure swagger. He had that level of arrogance that couldn't be earned, so only the very few could pull it off. Tall? Sure. Handsome? Oh yeah.

Luke Saint knows how to move among people. As drummer in The Four Saints, he isn't quite in the spotlight that his brother Matthew is. Sometimes that can be annoying, but sometimes being unseen has its advantages. Coming up on these thugs beating this poor helpless woman was one of those times. He tasted sour copper in his mouth and let out a roar as he charged the men. Then their world got turned upside down.

John might have the last name of Saint, but his family swears he made a deal with the Devil. Not one person from Ozarks to the Appalachias could strum a mandolin like him. And while he loved the harmonies he helped his family achieve on stage, he always felt something was missing inside. Until that night she came into The Fiddler's Cave, and for the first time in his life he thought there might be someone who felt like he did.

When Rachel breaks the news to her boyfriend that she's pregnant with his child, the last thing she expects is for him to break up with her. He doesn't get the opportunity to leave her, though, before the invasion of earth by Vendi - large, muscular aliens bent on rounding up women and taking them to their spaceships.

Vinzel's home planet of Rhouge has been stricken with a virus, killing off all the women of his species. Now he's tasked with the impossible: find a human woman to mate with, conceive a child, and bring them both back to Rhouge to see if they'll survive in his planet's conditions. It sounds difficult enough, but he's surprised to discover that he's actually falling in love with the beautiful woman he's selected.

Willow Davenport and her family have always loved the Wild West. They love it so much, they sing and dance in their own Western-themed show. Always on the hunt to expand their holdings, they are elated when the ranch next door goes on sale. They jump on the chance to buy it. Only they aren't the only ones. Tyler Crowe, a Bear Shifter cowhand, is also interested, as are a couple of werewolves. On a tour of the place Tyler and Willow find themselves hopelessly attracted to each other.

At its best, science fiction presents us not just with a vision of the future, but with more understanding of ourselves and how to get to that future. It presents us with ways to think about relationships and people. And this time, it's about the shapes of relationships. In these eight stories, we run the gamut. Whether a shipboard fantasy about a captain that turns into more or the new fiancé meeting the former spouse, people remain people, with loves and confusion.

Mistress Harley will choose the next American president and she would like to make a modest proposal: let's eat the poor. After finding no reasonable way to make these people wealthy, I guess it's time we eat them. Some sort of cattle feed or industrial fish food, I suppose. After some research I learned that someone else already had this idea back in the United Kingdom. I've included that text as well, but mine is better.

Jenny is a shy, pale scientist from Seattle. When she decides to take a trip to Miami to visit her brother, everything goes wrong when she gets trapped on a boat in the middle of the ocean with one of her brother's hot friends. Maybe it's the sun, maybe it's the sea air, or maybe it's just the excitement that turns her from a reserved bookworm to a woman who wants it hard.

Cheryl Langford has had a lifetime of "always the bridesmaid, never the bride." Growing up with her best friend Beth, she always felt she lived in her best friend's shadow. Beth was an amazing friend, but Cheryl wanted to stop feeling like a supporting character in her own life. So when she heard that Beth was going to get married to a bear shifter bodyguard, it was a bittersweet event. Then she met Derrick, the groom's bear shifter brother, and her life would never be the same.

Addy Croft has always been the loyal, dutiful daughter to the Shifter Clan Leader who was her adoptive father. So when he trusted her with a task of utmost importance, she took it as a sing of his faith in her. She would go meet with a ferocious crew, the Clan that makes up Big Paw Security. This would just be another mission and she would handle herself like a professional. But as soon as she saw Marcus, the feelings she normally tried to keep pushed down made her tingle.

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Maddie Thompson, a senior at MIT studying biochemical engineering, is used to being the youngest person in the classroom, and one of the loneliest. When she meets Professor Shannon Forsythe, her world is turned upside down. The professor's eyes remind her of a cat that once stole her mother's necklace. But that's not possible, right? Maddie is determined to find out the truth. She sets out to get closer to her teacher, but never imagines how close they'll get.