Kirjahaku

When a newly turned vampire, a brooding chimera, and a love-sick sloth bear shifter crash together, blood will flow, and love will grow.ImaniImani Alexander is trying to survive. As a vampire turned less than two years ago, she's easy prey for a lot of preternatural creatures out there. Not to mention she has to earn enough to house herself and buy bagged blood. Although she recently made a new friend, hers is a lonely and fearful life. Cut off from her family and friends for their own safety, she has no one to lean on. She used to be the vivacious one ready to go out drinking and dancing, but she now has to keep to herself and stay hyper vigilant for anyone who might decide she looks like easy pickings.Some nights she even questions if this is a life worth living.LexChimera shifter Lexington "Lex" Granger built a career as a mercenary who can survive the toughest situations, but all of it has taken its toll. He finds it hard to interact with family and he has only one friend. Everyone else shies away from him, probably with good reason. A local wolf shifter pack even named him Tywyllwch, Welsh for darkness. It's an uncomfortable feeling when you realize that those closest to you are intimidated. Lex worries that even if he manages to find a mate, he might not be able to convince her that he isn't a scary monster, especially because he's not so sure he isn't.MacIgnatius "Mac" Mackenzie had resigned himself to loving Lex from afar. Trying to be content with only friendship between them, he was quick to make himself available to Lex anytime he asked. He expected to someday watch Lex find his fated mate and live happily ever after. What he didn't expect was for the two of them to meet their mate while horsing around at a dive bar. When the three touch, it's obvious they're all meant to be together.But when the mysterious woman runs away, Lex has a near meltdown. Mac is left to figure out how to find her while also keeping the chimera shifter from razing all of San Diego.And when they do find her, they're going to have to figure out how to explain that she belongs to them, and they belong to her.Simple, right?Although this novel begins where A Hacker, Vampire, and Chimera Walk into a Bar... left off with Lex, Mac, and Imani, it can be read as a stand-alone novel with an HEA. This work of fiction is meant for 18+ readers only

A chance encounter forges a symbiotic relationship between Talins and humans that will eternally entwine both groups' lives.When Ari Lee and her community signed a contract with Miox Minerals, an Orlok-owned company, they never expected to be abandoned on a remote mining outpost. After almost a year of no supply shipments or any messages from the company, the humans are getting desperate. They're all underweight and facing the last of the food stores. Even worse, some of the biosystems are failing. Even if they can make the food last, the oxygen won't.Bazium embodies everything the Tomak Clan is famous for: a powerful warrior, clever soldier, and loyal Squad Leader. But he has a secret that's killing him. He's suffering from a rare disease. Only a deep sense of obligation to his family, clan, and species keeps him diligently working. He leads an elite squad of soldiers who secure areas captured during war. Left badly disillusioned and mentally suffering from the last assignment, he decides he'll complete this last mission before quietly ending his own life. He would rather everyone think his suit failed on a derelict planet than be discovered dying of the shameful disease nicknamed the Fading.Bazium's squad runs across a site showing signs of life. Prepared for resistance, he and his warriors storm the facility only to find it inhabited by a small and helpless, unknown species. Bazium and his team decide to help the unfortunate creatures until they can figure out what to do with them. As the leader of the miners, Ari needs to keep these warriors from killing everyone. Assuming they survive first contact, she needs to convince this new species to let the humans stay and work the mine. But how in the name of diamond drill bits will she do that without proper translation software?What she doesn't expect is to find herself and all the humans treated like simple-minded beasts of labor. As if she was a small pet from Old Earth, the leader of these warriors keeps purring and cuddling her.Who knew purring could be so sexy? And it doesn't help that he carries her around and constantly urges her to eat. This treatment might be a little annoying, but it is also adorable.Then there's the way this warrior makes her feel when he holds her and changes the tone of his purr. She never thought she'd find a non-human so damn attractive, especially someone she couldn't even talk to But this guy with his hard-armored body and rumbling purr is doing all kinds of crazy things to her libido. She's not sure what her future holds, but she's going to be sad if he's not in it.

When a human woman rescues a Hissa Warrior, she gets more than she bargained for because this warrior has no intention of letting her go.Mian Sorrow, an independent bounty hunter, has dedicated her life to chasing down the same kind of raiders that killed her parents. When a defenseless transport gets attacked, there's no question she's going to intervene. But rescuing Halin, the handsome Hissa on board, is one thing. Being talked into a suicide mission to the Bicoma system is something else entirely. Against her common sense, she finds herself agreeing to help the attractive Hissa warrior and acting as his personal escort to Bicoma. As they travel together, Mian finds herself getting attached to the charming male. He's everything she likes: adventurous, skilled, fun, and fearless. Assuming they survive a visit to the Bicoma homeworld, what happens when the mission is over? What happens when she needs to go back to hunting down raiders and he returns to his people? What neither of them knows is that nothing will be the same after visiting Bicoma. This is a stand-alone novel with an HEA. There will be space battles, harrowing rescues, and lots of sexy time. This work of fiction is meant for 18+ readers only. Please use the Amazon "Look Inside" option to view Content Warnings.

When a human woman buys a Hissa warrior at a slave auction, it turns out to be much harder to set him free than she expects. Created, along with her sister, to be an ornamental slave, Mara's life starts as a piece of property. After years of captivity, she and her twin sister managed to gain their freedom but are quickly parted. Mara learns not only how to survive but also how to thrive in a universe that isn't kind to humans. Determined to find her sister, she carves out a life as a small cargo hauler and gives herself the last name Lost. Every chance she gets, she searches, combing through every port and station she visits. She attends distasteful slave auctions and investigates any rumor of a human that looks like her, ever hopeful that someday she'll be reunited with her twin.At one particular slave auction, she doesn't find her sister but instead finds herself purchasing an angry, roaring, giant of a man belonging to a species she's only heard about but never met before. Regretting her impulse purchase the moment the transaction is done, she decides to release him with a few credits on the next station she visits. She doesn't have time to fool around with anyone, let alone some furious, gorgeous, hulking male who's much too appealing for her peace of mind.Unsure about her intentions, Tiran attacks his new owner the moment he gets the chance. He plans to subdue her to gain his freedom, but he doesn't want to hurt this female who's done nothing to injure him yet. To his shock, not only does she evade his attacks, but she manages to knock him out. Him, a well-trained Hissa warrior that towers over this slight female Then after he attempts to overpower her, she is kind and gentle with him. This stranger who bought him at an auction only to promise to let him go requires more analysis. And considering how beautiful she is, perhaps the analysis should be done naked.To Mara's surprise, the fact that she manages to put him on the floor seems to make the male far more interested than she's ready for. The next thing she knows she's fending off attacks of affection and bouts of protectiveness instead of attempts to take over her ship.All too soon her own heart is in danger, and she's not sure that's a risk she's willing to take. Buying Tiran contains an HEA and can be read as a standalone novel. It takes place during the same timeline as Rescuing Halin, Hissa Warrior Series, Book 1. This novel is intended for 18+ audiences. Please use the "Look Inside" feature on Amazon to view the trigger warning.

Plagued with panic attacks and anxiety, Lara isn't sure she'll ever be comfortable living among the male dominated Hissa let alone finding one to mate with. Then she meets Selon and it seems her path to healing might include falling in love with the handsome and kind male. Created to be an ornamental slave, along with her twin sister, Lara Stray couldn't be more different than her dynamic sibling, Mara. While Mara managed to gain her freedom and eventually earn enough to own a ship of her own, Lara found herself being owned again. The twins couldn't have led more different lives.Lara's path led her to be deeply traumatized, resulting in a fear of men and crowds. Which is just perfect when her sister Mara and mate Tiran rescue her from a ship under attack. Of course, they're not alone. They've brought along a whole civilization of Hissa warriors desperate for females. What could possibly go wrong? Although Hissa wants her to heal and find a male among them to enter into a Family Pact, Lara's convinced her broken mind will never allow her to get close to any of these males, let alone engage in intimate relations. But then Selon enters her orbit, and everything seems to change.He's perfect. She feels calm around him. She can breathe and even talk about her past. Could this be the male for her? Would he even want someone as fundamentally broken as she is? Could she find peace and happiness after so many years of succumbing to anxiety and panic attacks?But most importantly, can she find it in herself to fight her fears to keep this male in her life? Tempting Selon can be read as a standalone with an HEA, although there are recurring characters from earlier novels in the series. This book is meant for an adult audience, 18+ readers only. Please use Amazon's "Look Inside" option to view the trigger warning.

Take one rude female and one acerbic male, trap them together in a jungle during her heat, add an unexpected pregnancy and you have a recipe for a stressful but satisfying happily ever after Deena Clanless, originally Deena Addington, is a human woman made to order by the Addington family. Because this human family lived far from Earth-controlled space, they decided to have a woman specifically designed and shipped out to be a wife and provide the next generation of Addingtons.During her time with the Addington family, she's treated with extravagant neglect. Given anything she asked for, she finds herself learning to pilot. When she gets the chance to escape an abusive husband and uncaring family, she walks away from the only home she's ever known. She learns to make her way in the universe with her skills as a pilot and her own will of iron.Many years later, she finds herself surrounded by a species called the Hissa. The strange mix of DNA used to create Decanted human females means she's biologically breeding compatible with the Hissa, who lost so many of their population to a horrible plague a decade earlier.But she has no intention of sticking around now that her good friend Lara is happily mated with one of their males and has a child of her own. She only came to Hissa to help Lara reconnect with her twin sister, Mara. That job done, she's ready to figure out how to get off-planet and back into the role that suits her best: independent pilot.She hits a snag when she finds herself trapped with Kilan, the only Hissa on the planet that doesn't seem to like her. To make matters worse, she goes into heat while they're both stranded in the middle of the dense Hissa jungle. Forced to sleep with him to relieve the worst of the symptoms, she doesn't expect him to become so loving, or for her heart to start thawing. But their few days together will cause a cascade of problems that have the potential of ripping apart Deena's vow to be independent again. And Kilan's strange actions toward her aren't helping. The only answer, as far as Deena is concerned, is to get as far away from Kilan and all the Hissa as soon as she can.Too bad fate has other ideas. Defying Kilan is part of a larger series but can be read as a standalone. This story includes a small, plucky heroine, HEA, a grumpy hero, and an entire civilization alternately getting in their way or helping them out. This book is intended for 18+ readers.

Ignatias thinks he's rescuing a human pet from abuse. It's up to Kasi to convince this Talin to keep Sorana colony's secrets and maybe get him to see her as more than a pet.IgnatiasUnable to find a human pet of his own, disheartened and lonely, Admiral Ignatias agrees to inspect a Talin colonial planet on the fringes of the Empire for the Committee of Pet Welfare. If he can't have a pet of his own, then he wants to make sure his fellow Talins are taking good care of theirs. Arriving early and sneaking down to the planet, he witnesses many shocking sights. Not only are there far more humans on the colony than are registered with the Committee, but the humans are running loose all over the place, without proper guidance or even collars. Then he sees something so much worse-humans laboring The Talins of Sorana colony are perpetrating acts of reprehensible abuse. Humans need to be sheltered and coddled. They're far too delicate to be doing many of the things he observes.When he finds a woman in ragged clothes, sweating and wrestling with an auto-planter by herself, he snaps. With no real plan, he grabs her, intending to make his way off the planet with this one poor soul and to come back with reinforcements to save the rest of the humans. But getting off the planet proves harder than he expected, especially when his instincts are to soothe and pamper the little female human instead of focusing on escaping.KasiKasi couldn't have known sneaking out to check on her experimental crops one last time would get her kidnapped. Human-napped? Whatever, she's now somewhere deep in the vast forests of Sorana with a Talin that doesn't realize humans can be so much more than pets. Admiral Ignatias might be trying to save her, but if he reports what's going on, the colony will be in big trouble. The kind of trouble that could get Talins executed and humans "reallocated" to different Talin owners.Can she convince him to listen to her? And more importantly, can she get him to trust her? The consequences are dire. If she fails, she'll have to choose between saving Sorana and saving him.

Sick and dying, Lasha is suddenly plucked from her horrific circumstances by Tamerin, a badly scarred Talin male. She recovers under his gentle care, but she knows he's keeping a secret from her. She wants to demand he tell her, but what if it's something she can't live with?LashaLasha Chandra has always struggled. Unlike most, learning to read and write proved impossible for her. Math wasn't any easier because the numbers liked to jumble around and refused to keep any type of order. More often than not, she'd been reduced to tears as first she tried to learn to read and then later looked for work.Being human was already a strike against her. Because they had no homeworld, humans had a reputation for being emotional, destructive, and stupid. That made it difficult for a human to find employment anywhere. With her added issues, she found it nearly insurmountable. That led her to sign a contract that put her in a position barely better than a slave. Working for nothing more than room and board, she had toiled for her merciless employer. She missed her family and small human community on Wimol, but at least she wasn't a burden to them any longer.Then she got sick.Employees who didn't work weren't fed. She couldn't keep up with the pace and eventually succumbed to her illness. Unwilling to waste any resources on her, they tossed her into an unused storage room so someone more productive could have her bunk. She lay there in the gloom, dazed from fever and expecting to die.TamerinBadly wounded while in the military, Tamerin was used to other Talins sounding rumbles of pity when they saw him. When he randomly ran into his cousin, Palforma, he's overjoyed tonot only reconnect, but to meet his cousin's human, Zia. When he helped them escape a nasty situation, he was rewarded when Zia asked him to rescue a friend she hadn't heard from in a long time. Determined, Tamerin set off to find Zia's friend, Lasha. It didn't take him long to track down the poor girl and buy her contract. She recovered slowly and he worked hard to gain her trust as she recovered. She might even develop feelings for him. He had a problem, though. Zia made him promise one thing. He would explain to Lasha that once they're in the Talin Empire, she would be classified as a pet. Property. Owned by him.He would never go back on his word, but did that mean he'd lose his songbird?Please note that when the silent tapping language of the Norka is being used you'll see 'single quotes' instead of "double quotes". This book contains subjects including sex, mentions of sexual violence, strong language, and violence. Mature audiences, 18+ readers only.

A dire situation forces Nalia to accept Captain Derani's offer. Alive and safe as Derani's pet human, Nalia plots her escape until she realizes Derani needs her in ways he doesn't even realize.Freeborn human Nalia Gaborn never expected that she'd have to choose between her liberty and her best friend's life. But when their ship comes under attack and they're rescued by a Talin named Derani, she isn't given much room to negotiate. Either she agrees to become Derani's pet or she and Hax will be turned over to the Hamlershin and face possible execution for smuggling. She agrees to Derani's demands, resigned to slavery for however long it takes before she can escape. She expects to be abused and worked half to death, but to her shock, that doesn't happen. She finds herself being spoiled by Derani and coddled by his crew. It's not long before she realizes that this life isn't about servitude and labor but about affection and adoration.As she learns more about the Talins, she starts to understand why they keep humans as pets. She also comes to care for this species in general and Derani specifically. It's not long before she contemplates settling into this life and not trying to escape.Soon she and Derani are embroiled in more than simply transporting goods along trade routes. Derani is contacted in secret to help transport a courier carrying sensitive information. It's supposed to be a simple task; give passage to this Talin courier from one place to another. But it's not long until things go wrong and everyone ends up in danger.This is a novel full of purring, cuddling with a possessive alien claiming an intrepid human of his own. This book is meant for mature audiences, 18+ readers only.

Although the universe sees her as a small and weak human, Lakin isn't one to backdown from a fight. But what if the fight is against her own feelings?Lakin left the small human colony on Develia station with big dreams of making a difference in the universe. The ships she works on often run on the edge of legality by smuggling supplies. Sometimes they even operate totally beyond the law by transporting refugees or runaway slaves.On one such illegal job, she gives herself up so everyone else can get away, which puts her in the hands of a powerful species called the Talin. She's tortured and abused by one group, but later she's coddled and cared for by others. She's not sure what to make of this species, yet all the humans she meets seem to adore their Talin owners. Distrustful and constantly looking for a route to escape, she becomes acquainted with a Talin named Dalt, an ex-soldier with demons of his own. Soon she finds herself embroiled in a civil conflict among the Talin. Picking sides is easy; proving she can be an asset is a little tougher. However, the hardest part of all is deciding whether she can live under Talin law as a pet... or should she escape and leave Dalt behind?This novel is part of a series but can be read as a standalone. This book is meant for mature audiences-readers eighteen and over only.

A human unaware of the dangers lurking around her and a shifter barely in control of his wolf, what could possibly go wrong?Steph's psychic gift has never led her astray. That means when her gift encourages her to reach out to a dangerous and angry-looking man sitting in the park near her house, she doesn't even hesitate. Without fear for her safety, she offers him food and shelter in her home, having no idea she's about to be exposed to a world she never even knew existed.Eli shouldn't follow this human home. As a shifter who has trouble getting along with the powerful animal inhabiting his body, he tends to be a loner. He even stays away from other shifters, so why is he agreeing to spend time with this fragile human female? But this cheerful, loyal, and fierce female surprises him at every corner, and before he knows it, she's not only important to his wolf but manages to insinuate herself with several clan members without even knowing what they are.To add yet another problem, one clan leader is hell bent on using her as a means to an end while a rival clan leader sees her as a threat to his dominance. With two clan leaders gunning for her, Steph is determined to help the many abused shifters under the dictatorial rule of these men instead of doing the safe thing, which would be to run.A battle is coming, but who will survive isn't clear. What is clear is that Eli will stand by her to his last breath because he and his wolf finally agree on one thing. Steph is the most important thing in their life.This is a contemporary urban fantasy novel with a HEA. This book is meant for mature audiences, eighteen and older readers only.

Covered in tattoos with a head of bright turquoise hair, Briar Thorn likes to pretend she's untouchable. She's got a small group of close friends she's absolutely loyal to and that's enough. Who cares that she doesn't date? It's not like she plans on having kids anyway. And her life is full of helping and protecting her "chosen" family. Except there's a guy. She's never met him, and she knows he isn't human, but the sound of his voice makes her feel things. And here she thought all those pesky emotions like romantic love were locked down tight. But this guy, Memphis Granger, makes her want to lower her shields and invite him in. All the strange feelings she's developing mean that when she stumbles across a vampire in desperate need of help, the only person she thinks to call is Memphis. For his part, chimera shifter Memphis has given up on the hacker he lovingly knows only as Baby Doll making the first move. They've flirted over the phone for almost a year, and he is losing patience. Memphis knew the moment he heard her voice that she was his mate. Her filthy mouth, penchant for physical violence, and less-than-legal occupation does nothing to deter him. Hell, if anything, it makes him want her even more. The problem is convincing her that they could have something real. When she calls him for help with a vampire, he jumps at the chance to meet her in person. Besides, his best friend is a bloodsucker, so he's got plenty of practice dealing with a fang-face. How much trouble could a starving and confused vampire be? When Tobias Becker was lured into a trap by his greedy business partner, he expected to die. But that didn't happen. Instead, he was left to languish alone in a hidden room bound by powerful magic. He has no idea how much time has passed, but when he's roused out of his unnatural sleep, it's to find the face of a colorful angel staring down at him. Instantly, he knows she is meant to be his flock; a lifelong companion that a vampire shares his soul with. He's weak and possibly insane from such a long hibernation, but he knows better than to let go of this woman. When a leather-wearing, rough-looking chimera shows up with ties to his angel, Tobias decides that there is always room for one more in his flock. All he needs to do is make these two understand that they belong to him now. How hard could it be?