http://www.lybrary.com/index.php?cPath=116 Copyright © 2010 Lybrary.comSaving her people could mean losing her man. In the months since an unexplained sickness wiped out most of their women, Sif and Ragnor have managed to hold their people together. Yet nothing can overcome the tribe's overwhelming grief, and their future as leaders-and as a couple-is at a dangerous crossroads. A series of sensual omens convinces Sif that a fertility ritual to honor the goddess, Freya, is the only path to healing, but it requires a sacrifice. One Sif is more than willing to make-but puts Ragnor's heart in the middle of an emotional tug of war. He would give his life for his people, but share Sif's body with his greatest rival? The goddess asks too much. Refuse, and Ragnor will fail his duty and doom the tribe to violent destruction from within. Accept, and their trust could be rewarded with renewal for their people and themselves. Or shatter a love already stretched to the breaking point. Warning: This title contains m/m/f sex, gay sex, anal sex, double penetration and good, clean fun with two hot Vikings and an ancient spring.http://www.lybrary.com/freyas-gift-p-64873.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/freyas-gift-p-64873.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Zach Mitchell is stuck in a rut. His college boyfriend left him ten years ago, but Zach still lives in the same apartment, drives the same car, and feeds his ex-boyfriend's ungrateful cat. His Denver business, A to Z Video Rental, is struggling. He has annoying customers, eccentric neighbors, and an unfulfilling romance with his landlord, Tom. A combat boot-wearing punk with an attitude, Angelo Green was raised in foster homes and has been on his own since he was sixteen; he has never learned to trust or to love. He doesn't do relationships, so when Angelo takes a job at A to Z Video, he decides Zach is strictly off-limits. Despite their differences, Zach and Angelo quickly become friends, and when Zach's break-up with Tom puts his business on the line, it's Angelo who comes up with a solution. Together with Jared and Matt, their friends from Coda, Colorado, Zach and Angelo will find a way to save A to Z, but will they be able to save each other too? Read Jared and Matt's story in Promises.http://www.lybrary.com/a-to-z-p-64872.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/a-to-z-p-64872.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Shy and self-conscious Derek has spent two years of his life losing a hefty amount of weight and is about to enter graduate school to become a certified architect. Now he's determined to find love, so he places an Internet ad in search of a boyfriend. Gerry, a confident, self-made man with his own landscaping business, falls head over heels for Derek as soon as they meet. While Derek's waiting for Gerry to find something wrong with him and call the whole thing off, Gerry is hiding something from Derek, afraid of what the consequences may be when and if it's discovered. Only when they find the courage to confide in one another can they commit to love.http://www.lybrary.com/sweet-surrender-p-64871.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/sweet-surrender-p-64871.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST His business failing and his marriage floundering, Harrison Holden is falling apart. To make things worse, he wakes one morning to see Piers Claybrook, a man he rescued after a car crash, standing in front of him-the same Piers who'd died in the hospital the night before. Now a ghost, Piers believes he's with Harrison to make a difference in the other man's life. It's up to the two of them to find the key to living-and dying-and how to walk the line in between without being separated by it. Reprint: This novella was originally published in the Dreamspinner Press anthology Desire Beyond Death.http://www.lybrary.com/bittersweet-p-64870.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/bittersweet-p-64870.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Shaku Suihana doesn't remember more than the last twelve years of his life. All he knows is that he is a Company Man, a cold and efficient assassin called in to do jobs without question. His newest assignment is more inexplicable than most, starting with meeting Úlfur, who thinks Shaku is a man named Shiro-a man who disappeared twelve years ago. When the Company tries to kill Úlfur, it sends Shaku into a tailspin... especially when Úlfur is magically transformed into Leif, a beautiful, younger man who Shaku feels drawn to protect. Shaku is tired of being in the dark about who he is, but he can't bear the thought of putting Leif in danger to find out. He decides they should run as far and as fast as from the Company as they can. It's when he meets a mysterious sensei who ignites both his and Leif's passions that Shaku realizes his miscalculation: the Company Man might not be the greatest danger arouhttp://www.lybrary.com/company-man-p-64869.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/company-man-p-64869.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST The year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth's orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke's head, rescued from the fiery crash that killed her mother, struggles to regrow a new body in time to restore her dead mother's financial empire. And Pre-Singularity AIs conspire to join the human race just as human clones, such as Mary Skarland and her sisters, want nothing more than to leave it.
<p>Welcome to Mind Over Ship, the sequel to Marusek's stunning debut novel, Counting Heads, which Publishers Weekly called "ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny."http://www.lybrary.com/mind-over-ship-p-64868.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/mind-over-ship-p-64868.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST The Gadfly is a novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich, set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.http://www.lybrary.com/the-gadfly-p-64866.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/the-gadfly-p-64866.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Kamna, the empathic ruler of Zhandari, seems to have the world in his hands, but he is stalked by a gruesome fear that he will lose control to Toan, the creature that inhabits his body, and murder Daneela, the woman he loves. To spare Daneela from Toan's growing power, Kamna seeks to drive her away, but when Daneela's brother, Josef, and Troc, an arrogant soldier bent on stealing Daneela's affections, are abducted by Iana, the insane ruler of what is supposed to be an extinct race; Kamna and Daneela set out to rescue them. Iana has been trapped in Ak'ras for a thousand years. Now she has a way out. Destroy Josef's memory and transfer her essence into his body. Josef, suffering from amnesia, believes Troc to be his enemy and forces him into slave labor in the mines of Ak'ras where, along with an orphan slave girl and telekinetic healer, he is marked for death. Kamna must find them before Iana slays Troc and destroys Josef's mind. In the process, he must control the "demon" within or lose Daneela forever. However, Toan has never possessed an empath before and Kamna is about to learn that sometimes-even demons fall in love.http://www.lybrary.com/journey-akras-p-64865.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/journey-akras-p-64865.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST The wildest ride at Dreamland isn't the roller coaster. Lots of women think they've fallen in love with a demon. Mab Brannigan really has . . . Mary Alice Brannigan doesn't believe in the supernatural. Nor does she expect to find that she's the newest recruit in the Guardia, an elite team of demon fighters formed centuries before to guard the five Untouchables, the most powerful demons in the history of the world, now imprisoned right there in the Dreamland amusement park. That would be bad enough, but there's a guy she's falling hard for, and there's something about him that's not quite right . . . Then there's Ethan Wayne, a former Green Beret who's come home to Dreamland to die. Ethan has his own problems including a bullet in his chest inching closer to his heart, a true love who shoots him on sight, and a mother who drags him into the Guardia after he's possessed by a crazed killer mermaid demon. Between ducking his mother's attempts to reform him and dodging the bullets of a secret government agent he's pretty sure is his soulmate, Ethan really doesn't have time for demons, touchable or not. But rocky romances and demented demons aren't Mab and Ethan's only problems: they're also coping with a crooked politician, a supernatural raven, a secret government agency, an inexperienced sorceress, a betrayer within the Guardia, and some mind-boggling revelations from their own pasts. As their personal demons wreck their newfound relationships and real demons wreck the park, Mab and Ethan find out that the Untouchables have escaped and opened the gate to hell on earth. Now they're facing down the Devil himself and finding out what everybody who's ever been to an amusement park knows: the end of the ride is the wildest.http://www.lybrary.com/wild-ride-p-64863.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/wild-ride-p-64863.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST He can save her planet, but only if she saves him first. Cabrielle is glad her father never lived to see his defraction technology in the hands of the rebels. Now the only hope for her planet's survival is Torr, the Zentarin who's training Cortierra's pilots. Except Torr is suffering from an untimely case of lust fever-two years ahead of schedule. He must return home to mate with a Zentarin female, or die... Unless by some miracle a Cortierran female exists who might satisfy him. Sleeping with the hunky offworlder isn't exactly the way Cabbie planned to redeem the family name, but she'll do anything to defend her home. Even use her body rather than her crack sharp-shooting skills. One feverish night later, Torr has his cure, and Cabbie finds herself lust-bonded for life. She willingly gives him her heart-until the truth behind his motives flings it back at her in pieces. As Torr's lust-mate, Cabbie makes an irresistible target for the rebels. When they kidnap her, intent on using her as a pawn, one thing is certain. Her frayed bond with Torr is Cortierra's only hope. Warning: This story contains non-FDA-approved home remedies for lust fever.http://www.lybrary.com/space-fever-p-64859.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/space-fever-p-64859.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST True love's path never did run smooth. Granite Lake Wolves, Book 3 After seven years of total denial, Maggie Raynor's body-and her inner wolf-are in full revolt. Weak and shaky, she literally falls into the very large and capable arms of the Granite Lake Beta, Erik Costanov. The last thing she wants is a mate, particularly when just looking at another wolf scares her to death. And one as big and sexy as Erik? Really bad idea, no matter what her libido says. Erik expected to meet Maggie in Whitehorse to escort her to the home of her sister, his pack's Omega. Sheer chance puts him in the right place at the right time to catch her, but the realization that hits him with the force of a full body shot is no accident. She's his mate. An even bigger shock? She wants no part of him-not until she resolves her issues. She'll have to work fast, because they're both selected to represent the pack during the premier sporting event for wolves in the north. Not only will she have to work as a team with Erik, she'll have to face down her fear of wolves. Let the Games begin. Warning: Contains uber-sexy werewolves of Russian descent, reluctant mates and exotic travels through the Yukon wilderness. Includes sarcasm and hot nookie under the Midnight Sun.http://www.lybrary.com/wolf-games-p-64858.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/wolf-games-p-64858.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Rebuilding the fire-one kiss at a time. Pleasure Inn, Book 3 When interior designer Anna Deveau is hired to create a room made for romance at a Victorian inn, she is thrilled-and a little wistful. A fairy-tale ending will never be hers, but perhaps tapping into abandoned dreams will fan the flames for someone else. Then she learns the only bricklayer available to build the room's fireplace is Daniel Long. The sexy boy-next-door who filled her teen years with angst, broke her heart-and still colors her nights with red-hot fantasies. Daniel never understood why Anna stopped talking to him a week before her sweet-sixteen party. Or why the wall between them remains a mile high. But now that he's back in town, he intends to figure it out once and for all. Pushing the limits of her seductive design, he sets out to prove he didn't burn her in the past. Anna finds herself doing the one thing she swore she'd never do again: laying herself bare. Until the ghost of rumors past threatens to snuff out the fiery fantasy that, this time, Anna thought was real... Warning: Years of sinful fantasies about the sexy boy-next-door lead to a night of wild indulgence. Be sure to keep a bevy of toys on hand when reading this tale, or better yet, get a boy-next-door of your own.http://www.lybrary.com/all-lit-up-p-64857.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/all-lit-up-p-64857.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST The mind may forget, but the heart remembers... A Forces of Nature novel. It doesn't take Hayden Garrett's college degree to figure out why Officer Josh Peterson is the last man alive he wants to face. Not because of the council's harebrained idea to broker peace between their clans. It's the sweaty palms that prove Hayden never got over his embarrassing attraction to his alpha rival. Mate with him? Nothing fills Hayden with more desire-or dread. Josh doesn't have a gay hair in his fur. At least not one he owns up to. Despite Josh's reputation for being a connoisseur of female flesh, he's always cared about Hayden. In a different world, they might have been friends. Now, face to face after five years, the bitterness in Hayden's eyes fills Josh with regret for what could have been-should have been. As Hayden and Josh journey through rituals-and intimacies-that will knit their souls for life, passion and anger flares, revealing a powerful secret. The truth about a long-ago sharing of hearts, bodies and souls that ended in tragedy... Warning: Steamy love between two rival alpha werewolves, a pregnant moon that inspires mating urges, and one shy guy who knows exactly what he wants.http://www.lybrary.com/bound-nature-p-64856.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/bound-nature-p-64856.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST There's a fine line between man and beast...one only the heart can cross. A year ago, Jacob Madison got more than he bargained for during a rock-climbing trip to Yosemite. A freak accident left him badly injured, at the mercy of the elements-and the wolves who rescued him. If it hadn't been for them, he'd be dead. He'd also still be human. Now he's back, hoping to find out who he is and what he's become. Instead, he finds smart, sexy Allison Connelly. A forensic psychologist, Allison is newly divorced and proudly standing on her own two feet...until an unexpected storm shears off the snow bank she's standing on. She plunges down an icy ravine, thinking she's heading for oblivion. Then she lands in the arms of a tall, dark Texan. Jake. Brought together by circumstance and bound by passion, secrets from their past threaten their future before it can begin. And somewhere in the mountains lurks a rogue Were turned serial killer. Whatever the danger Jake's inner beast poses to Allison, there's only one way to protect her-unleash it. Even if it costs him her love. This book has been previously published and has been revised and expanded from its original release. Warning: This book contains raging winter storms, truly inspiring sex, a kick-butt heroine, and one very hot, dirty-talking cowboy...who's sometimes furry.http://www.lybrary.com/forbidden-temptation-p-64855.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/forbidden-temptation-p-64855.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Death is temporary, we'll be back. In a comformist society aware of reincarnation, insurgents are eliminated by erasing their memory of repeating life and replacing it with eternity in either Heaven or Hell. The hero escapes the dead forever process but remains stricken with amnesia, and his quest to awaken unveils hatred for an enemy he vows to destroy. But first, he must overcome his lust. Awakening begins the Dead Forever series, followed by Apotheosis and Resonance.http://www.lybrary.com/dead-forever-awakening-p-64854.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/dead-forever-awakening-p-64854.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Aaron has no idea what he's walking into when he shows up to pose for a famous-and famously bad-tempered-photographer. He certainly doesn't expect to end up working as Jake's assistant for five frustrating, thrilling, and crazy years instead of in front of the camera. It all works until Jake realizes Aaron has become the focus of his life, a life that's threatened when Aaron actually leaves him to start a relationship with someone else. Though it breaks his heart, Jake realizes he has to set his beloved muse free to have any chance of winning Aaron back. Reprint: This novella was originally published in the Dreamspinner Press anthology Size Still Matters.http://www.lybrary.com/take-picture-p-64852.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/take-picture-p-64852.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST The critically acclaimed A Corpse in the Koryo brought readers into the enigmatic workings of North Korean intelligence with the introduction of a new kind of detective---the mysterious Inspector O. In the follow-up, Hidden Moon, O threaded his way through the minefield of North Korean ministries into a larger conspiracy he was never supposed to touch.
<p>Now the inspector returns . . .In the winter of 1997, trying to stay alive during a famine that has devastated much of North Korea, Inspector O is ordered to play host to an Israeli agent who appears in Pyongyang. When the wife of a North Korean diplomat in Pakistan dies under suspicious circumstances, O is told to investigate, with a curious proviso: Don't look too closely at the details, and stay away from the question of missiles. O knows he can't avoid finding out what he is supposed to ignore on a trail that leads him from the dark, chilly rooms of Pyongyang to an abandoned secret facility deep in the countryside, guarded by a lonely general; and from the streets of New York to a bench beneath a horse chestnut tree on the shores of Lake Geneva, where the Inspector discovers he is up to his ears in missiles---and worse. Stalked by the past and wary of the future, O is convinced there is no one he can trust, and no one he can't suspect. Swiss intelligence wants him out of the country; someone else wants him dead.
<p>Once again, James Church's spare, lyrical prose guides readers through an unfamiliar landscape of whispered words and shadows, a world wrapped in a level of mystery and complexity that few outsiders have experienced. With Inspector O, noir has a new home in North Korea, and James Church holds the keys.http://www.lybrary.com/bamboo-blood-inspector-novel-p-64844.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/bamboo-blood-inspector-novel-p-64844.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Long past the Age of Wonder, several thirty-somethings form an unlikely band of adventurers in this fair land of Jaenrye. Can they keep at bay the seemingly inevitable rule of a man determined to destroy the magic they can't bring themselves to believe in? Tom Strausser is a lonely failed musician with a day job he hates. Rose Smith thinks she could be a best-selling novelist, but can't be bothered to spend time writing. Father Rey Lopez was a rising star in the Catholic Church until depravity got the best of him. All three of these everyday nobodies are pulled from the world they know and are forced to find out what they're really made of, confronting their own cowardice, malice, and complacency. Will they rise to the challenge, despite themselves? The Chronicles of Jaenrye is a fantasy series set in a fictional world where common adults encounter an uncommon civilization and bizarre dangers. Each discovers extraordinary attributes that contribute to the existence of that civilization: one determined to crush it, the others destined to save it as they overcome what they think are insurmountable odds. Corona is the first volume in this series.http://www.lybrary.com/corona-p-64785.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/corona-p-64785.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST In this charming novel, Darrin Doyle paints a captivating portrait of the all-American family-if the all-American family's youngest child ate an entire city in Michigan with a smile, that is. Doyle has a flare for writing about family dysfunction with a twist. With a unique blend of realism and fantasy, The Girl Who Ate Kalamazoo is the moving story of the hauntingly beautiful Audrey Mapes, who began her illustrious "career" by downing crayons by the carton only to graduate to eating an entire city one bite at a time. With vivid, acerbic wit, Doyle details the life of the world's most gifted "eatist" through the eyes of Audrey's sister, McKenna. Through her eyes, we see the real tragedy of the Mapes story is not the destruction of a city, but rather, the quiet disintegration of a family who just didn't quite know how to love.http://www.lybrary.com/girl-kalamazoo-p-64784.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/girl-kalamazoo-p-64784.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST As the stock market crashes, Attorney Leland Denton is hired to advise James McKenzie, an insurance examiner probing the possibly cooked books of a Los Angeles insurance company with suspicious assets backed by derivative investments. McKenzie is brutally murdered. The cops say a hooker is responsible, but Denton discovers the dead man may have been involved in a conspiracy between the insurance company and a large Wall Street bank to embezzle three hundred million dollars of policyholder funds used to pay corporate bonuses and shore up the Bank's own credit default sway and derivative-laden balance sheet. Aided by his ex-Marine paralegal, Charlote Logan, and one-armed Tavita, a Samoan ex-wrestler, Denton must untangle the web of ffinancial fraud and discover who was behind the murder and embezzlement. His efforts are resisted by hard-nosed business men and beautiful women who, in the face of Denton's unrelentng investigation, decide Denton must die.http://www.lybrary.com/hard-numbers-p-64782.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/hard-numbers-p-64782.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST