Barbara Elsborg

Mollie James has the perfect job teaching little children. She thought she had the perfect boyfriend, but attentive, kind and thoughtful has turned to something dark and dangerous. If she's to survive, she needs to leave her old life behind and run as fast and as far as she can. Flint Klavan appears to have it all. The sought-after British actor is famed for his portrayal of bad boys but his confidence is a sham and his personal life a mess. When disaster strikes, leaving Flint unable to speak, the dream of sorting out his life becomes even more remote. As he wallows in despair, he meets Mollie who offers him hope of a brighter future. Lysander Weldon is a wealthy, talented artist who's hidden himself away in an attempt to escape his past. He shares his house and his body but never his heart. Lysander can neither forgive nor forget Flint Klavan who betrayed his confidence and ruined his life. When Mollie breezes into his world, Lysander thinks she might be the one who can help him live again. Two men separated by more than the dam between their houses. Can Mollie be the path that unites them?

Two boys. One love. Ten summers. Are you okay? The first words Zed says to Caspian, and the first time someone has cared about the answer. On a hot summer's day, the lives of two boys are changed forever. A rebel and a risk taker, Caspian doesn't give a damn for the consequences. Studious and obedient, Zed is the good boy who is never good enough.The two couldn't be more different, but there's one thing they share, a need to belong to someone who understands them, someone who cares. Their friendship goes deeper than either can possibly imagine. They're young, in love, and planning their future when an act of betrayal tears them apart.Fate deals its hand. Seasons pass. Zed's words follow Caspian through pain, fear and into the darkest of places. Friendships can last a lifetime, even when the world conspires to crush them. But this is more than friendship. This is love and they're not going to let it slip through their fingers. The Story of Us is a tale of love and survival, and the triumph of good over evil against the odds. This is a new adult contemporary romance. It deals with family and social issues, violence and cruelty to children but not sexual assault. There are sexual situations, dark elements and suspense. The events and locations are a mixture of real and fictional. The characters are fictional.

When you stand on the edge, you might just find yourself falling.Teaching Russians how to be cowboys? Levi thinks his father is joking when he tells him that's what he wants him to do for the next six months. Working in the frozen desolation of southwest Russia he'll earn enough to buy a new barn for their Montana ranch. But there's a deeper agenda for sending him to the edge of nowhere. It will stop him sloping off on Saturday nights to gay bars and clubs for threesomes with strangers.Pasha finally pushes his father too far and is banished to a remote ranch in the middle of a snowy Russian winter. Stripped of all the trappings of his privileged Moscow lifestyle, he has nothing at his disposal but a suitcase of designer clothes and a whole lot of sass. Pasha hates the countryside, hates physical work, hates the cold and hates cows. But deprived of money, phone, and access to anyone who might help him, he's screwed and not in a good way.Levi's counting down the days till he can return to the States and his Saturday night hook-ups. Then Pasha arrives at the ranch wearing eyeliner, retching every time he walks into a barn, and Levi is amused, irritated-and attracted. After a vicious attack on Pasha throws them into close quarters, both men are forced to re-evaluate not just who the other is, but whether they truly want to return to the lives they left behind.When you stand on the edge, you just might find yourself falling in love.

She lives for the moon.Every month, for five days around the full moon, Jo has the overwhelming urge to jump almost every male she sees. Convinced she's gone crazy, she seeks medical help but finds none. The only way to stop the hunger is to run. One wrong step and Jo's life plummets in a direction she didn't expect. She falls into the lair of a badly injured vam-pire.He lives for the night.Alek can't believe the angel who's dropped from the sky. With a knife wedged in his chest and too weak to move, he's given up and is waiting for sunrise. But when the beau-tiful jogger crashes into his lair, Alek finds more than a way to survive-he finds a rea-son for doing so.Every dog has his day. Lyall, alpha werewolf, wants Alek dead so he can take his land. He wants Jo alive to breed more wolves. But Lyall hasn't reckoned on the power of love. Annoying Alek is a big mistake. Annoying Jo could be fatal.

'You are invited to spend four days at Sunset Spa, Washburn Hall. Accommodation and nourishment provided. All spa treatments included.'The prize should have been a big thrill-an all-expenses paid trip to a spa, but it was actually the topping on Chloe's really bad night. Washburn Hall is where her family died, and is the last place she wants to go, yet she finds herself pulled towards the spa by forces beyond her control. Chloe wonders if the gorgeous naked man in chains is part of the spa's all-inclusive package. Somehow she doesn't think so, but you know what? She's taking the consolation prize: free him and run. It should be simple enough. After all, the only thing between Chloe and the man of her dreams is a few horny vamps, a decent set of bolt cutters, and a step-grandmother from hell. Who said the trip to the spa wouldn't be fun?

What's my name?With a twist of his body, Rhyl avoids being staked in the heart but not being shoved to-wards hell. Trapped between slabs of rock, he has to drink the blood of rats to survive. It's a desperate fight to stay sane.What did I do last night?For eleven long years, Piper has awakened every morning with no idea of who or where she is. How can she find someone to love when she can't remember their face or name after she falls asleep? Life is a long, lonely battle.When will this end?Werepuma, Keir Sparks, is bound to a demon who forces him to fight in her club. If Keir refuses, the demon will go after his brother. There can only be one outcome in the ring. Someone has to die. After seven wins, Keir hopes eight is his lucky number.Three worlds collide and the trio discover happiness in each other's arms and beds. Life suddenly becomes worth living until they learn the price of their love: the only way to keep two safe is for one to die.

No one can tattoo better than Inigo, a two-hundred-year-old vampire, who works on human and supernatural skins. But he's never tattooed a faerie, and when a bunch of them insist he comes with them to tattoo one of their kind, saying no proves not to be an option. His skin is Oberon, the faerie king, and Inigo fears this will be the last tattoo he'll ever do.The moment the faerie Micah lands in the faerie king's bed chamber, he knows the guy is trouble. But if he's to save his sister and his family, let alone do the job he's paid to do, he has to stay in Faerieland and endure Oberon's sadism.When Micah is thrown into a starving vampire's cell, covered in blood, he fears this day will be his last. But Inigo finds Micah's blood too delicious to give it up by killing him. Pretty soon, he's feeling that way about Micah himself.

It's not easy being a faerie.Holly would know. She's the laughing stock of Fae, useless at magic and has wings that never cooperate. She can't understand why a high-born faerie she hardly knows would want to marry her because she certainly doesn't want to marry him. The mortal world looks far more enticing.Being a vampire bites.Crippled with guilt over his part in the death of his twin, Dominic is estranged from his family. When he rescues an injured werewolf on the run from his pack, he sees a kindred spirit in the damaged outcast.What use is a werewolf who can't scent or track?Victim of his conniving brother, Jay is viciously attacked by his pack. The wolves might not want him but once he's living with Dominic, they won't leave him alone.After a night of passion with Dominic and Jay, Holly's ready to move in with them. But their enemies are intent on keeping them apart and the trio of misfits find them-selves in a fight for survival. If they can't figure a way through the web of lies and deceit that bind them, they'll lose more than their families. They'll lose each other.

Lightning isn't supposed to strike twice, but when the electrifying Erin Markov whirls into Felix's life she gives him far more than his destroyed family home to think about. Erin's exciting and unpredictable, in and out of bed, but there are things about her that make him uneasy. Does she really need to dance in thunderstorms, rollerblade in the middle of the night and leap around on unsafe roofs? Then there's that annoying habit she has of biting his neck. What's that about?Erin wishes she could remember who she is. The couple who claim to be her parents leave her in a dilapidated stately home with supplies of a revolting energy drink and in-structions not to go out in the sun. The future looks decidedly gloomy until she discovers sculptor Felix living next door and life perks right up.

Jago doesn't just inherit a title after the death of his parents, he's saddled with the crum-bling money pit of a mansion that's been in his family for centuries. With his medical ca-reer on hold, he struggles to secure the future of Sharwood Hall and he's trudging uphill with no finish line in sight.The sins of a past generation fall on faerie Ellie and her family, and each year they must trek to the exact centre of the UK to recharge their energy. Until they find the Kewen, treasure guarded and lost by their ancestors hundreds of years ago, they're banished from Faerieland. Ellie's father has spent fifty years searching for the missing treasure, now it's his eldest child's burden.When a stunning woman sweeps into Jago's world in a thunderstorm, he can't stop thinking she's too good to be true. For little reason other than her sweet and generous heart, Ellie is helping to put Sharwood to rights and leaving Jago more and more suspi-cious she wants something other than him. When family and duty clash with trust and love, it's debatable whether a perilous leap of faith, directly off a bridge into treacherous waters, will keep the two lovers from being swept apart.Book One in the Norwood Family series.The other two are Bloodline and The Demon You Know. All the books are stand alone. Bloodline and The Demon You Know are MM stories.

He wants to forgetWest is an archangel's assassin delivering justice to supernatural creatures who break the law. Not a straightforward job because he also has to absorb the memories of those he kills. Even worse, West is breaking the law himself in an attempt to free his brother from hell. If he doesn't succeed before his archangel boss finds out, West will be joining his sibling.He wants to rememberA young guy wakes in a London park with his memories gone. He has no idea who he is, or where he comes from. A bracelet engraved with the single word Tao is the only clue to his identity. With no sign of his memory returning, he drifts into a life on the streets. Begging is his only way to survive.Two worlds collideWhen Tao returns West's stolen wallet, West offers to buy him a coffee. Tao delights in the chance to sit down with a good-looking guy until his instincts tell him to run away. Fast. West is surprised when Tao flees, considering how much he'd been mentally urging him to stay. Is he losing his touch or is Tao more than a scruffy young man down on his luck? Only one way to find out.

Anna is in the middle of a mess.She's being stalked by a manipulative guy who's about to marry her sister and has everyone convinced Anna is jealous. Her luck changes when she meets tall, blond and gorgeous Jax. But after a scorching night of sex, Anna discovers something that makes her think he's married.Jax is in the middle of a dilemma.He's torn between the man he loves and a woman he's just met. Tracking her down means risking what he already has-but he wants them both. Jax is desperate to find her, but will she understand what he has to tell her?Will is in the middle of heartache.He knows Jax loves him, though he's never said it. He also knows Jax has found a woman. Torn between being a good friend and Jax's lover, Will's not sure their relation-ship will survive. The only way to find out is to locate Anna for Jax. But when Will finds her, he discovers the reason Jax has fallen so hard.

Keeping secrets is easy. Until love tempts him to break his cover.Archer Hart, former SIS assassin, has just completed a freelance hit job when he finds himself in a sniper's scope. The bullet whizzing past his ear is a clear message: someone wants him dead. Re-tirement will have to wait, as his only choice is to assume a new identity-and keep running.Conrad Black is a broken man. The injured barrister has come to the beach to recover from a hit-and-run "accident", with plenty of time to wonder who might be wishing he'd been left dead in-stead of partially paralyzed. When he spots a surfer in trouble, he throws his crutches aside to pull the man to safety.One glance at Archer takes Conrad's breath away. And Archer finds himself envying the hands Conrad is using to pet his dog. But as the net tightens, both men can feel the targets on their backs heating up. The only thing that will save them is the truth...before death snatches away their one chance at love.

Keeping an eye on his charge isn't easy. Keeping his hands off? Impossible...It took attending his own funeral to force Logan to accept a new life as an undercover MI6 agent. That doesn't make his latest assignment any less aggravating. Babysitting a Russian pop star with delusions that someone's trying to kill him. Other than an inexplicable attraction Logan ruthlessly suppresses, he couldn't have less in common with the irritating, arrogant rich kid. He's even prepared to walk away-until very real bullets start flying.After his mother's death, Zak Kochenkov's life unravels in an impenetrable haze of grief, drugs and alcohol-until one bodyguard candidate stands out. Except his hopes of having some fun with that guard's body evaporate when he realizes Logan is buttoned up tighter than a clam. The first thing Logan learns is that his charge won't do as he's told. And there's some secret behind his haunted eyes that shakes Logan's resolve to keep him at arm's length. Because he knows if he lets passion close his eyes, that's when danger will find them both...Warning: Contains a sexy bodyguard with a tortured past, and a spoiled rock star with a tor-tured conscience. Stir (don't shake), and prepare for spontaneous combustion.

I'm in trouble.Matty suddenly finds herself back in her childhood home, naked and alone, with no clue how she came to be there. When her greedy uncle sells Milford Hall from under her, she hides in the attic.The woman is trouble.Vampire historian Turner has long had his eye on Milford Hall, and there is no price he won't pay to own it. He doesn't expect to find an aggravating female living in his at-tic, insisting she has a right to be there. The small print in the contract backs her up, but Turner is determined to maintain his privacy. Doesn't matter that she's the hottest thing he's seen for years-in order to protect her from his mistakes, Matty has to go.I eat trouble for dinner.After a self-imposed twenty-year absence from Turner, were-vampire Catch arrives to put the past right and save his former lover from circling enemies. But one kiss from Matty, and Catch has more than Turner to worry about. Neither boy wants to share their new toy.

Kate Evans doesn't take risks. She chose her apartment with care-a safe district with a good neighbor-a place where she can live a quiet, unassuming, under-the-radar existence. Then she makes one mistake and opens her door to accept a delivery of flow-ers from a secret admirer and her life will never be the same again. A guy she's never seen before bursts into her apartment and asks her to marry him. Jack Thompson won't take no for an answer and drags Kate on a cross country journey to hell. Invalided out of the police, Nathan Beranson works as a private investigator in San An-tonio, Texas where he spends too much of his time following unfaithful spouses and de-livering the bad news to their partners. When his fianc e cheats on him with Jack Thompson, the half-brother Nathan's only just met, he becomes obsessed with Jack in the same unhealthy way as his revenge-seeking clients.By the time Nathan finally realizes putting the ghosts of the past to rest is a wiser option than settling an old score, it's too late. He's already been drawn into his sibling's latest deadly game and Nathan and Kate find their nightmare is only just beginning.

Falling is easy. Landing without breaking your heart? Impossible.Harper is no longer behind bars, but it doesn't feel like it. Ten years serving time for a crime he didn't commit have left him shut down, numb, and a frozen wreck over the simplest of choices. He's acutely aware of the dark-haired young man checking him out in the supermarket, but he's too deep in panic mode to even meet the guy's gaze. Afraid the slightest move will trigger a fall that will never stop.Fresh off a long-term relationship with a controlling man, Malachi is stuck living with relatives who think he's a waste of oxygen. The tall guy in the long, grey coat is the first bright spot he's glimpsed in a long time...though the man's unblinking stare at a bottle of shower gel is a touch alarming.Hard experience tells both of them to turn away before lust turns to hopeless attraction, and inevitably to disaster. But once their sparks connect, the arc of electricity is too strong to deny. Even if the cost is too much to bear.

Let the games begin.When you play dirty, mud gets in your eyes. And when your vision clears, it might be too late to say sorry.Linton Williams is moving up in life, he's secured a great job, he's living his dream - until it all comes crashing down, courtesy of a brother who's hooked on cocaine and owes money to dangerous people. When Linton's offered enough cash to pay off his brother's debts and send him to rehab, he can't say no.But there's a catch. To save his brother from the hell of addiction, Linton makes a deal with the devil. His job? To teach film star Thorne Morrisey a public lesson in humility that might just destroy Thorne's acting career for good. When Thorne and Linton meet, sparks fly, and one kiss sets into motion a chain of events that could destroy them both. By the time Linton decides the price is too high, it's too late. He's fallen hard. And now he's trapped between destroying his lover or his brother.Game over