Emma Holly

Has city slicker Julia met her match in a rugged Montana cowboy?t's not only Julia's professional acumen that has men quaking in their shoes - she also has a taste for keeping men in line after office hours. With an impressive collection of whips and high heels to her name, she sure has some kinky ways of showing affection. But Julia's been searching all her life for a man who won't be tamed too quickly - and when she meets rugged dude rancher Zach on a business get-together in Montana, she thinks she might have found him.He may be a simple countryman, but he's not about to take any nonsense from an uppity city woman like Julia. Zach's full of surprises: where she thinks he's tough, he turns out to be gentle; when she's confident she's got this particular cowboy broken in, he turns the tables on her. Underneath the big sky of Montana, has the steely Julia finally met her match?

A two-in-one full-length novel and novella-length sequel includes Hunting Midnight, in which a vengeful leader of a pack of shape-shifting immortals ventures beyond the Scottish forest into the arms of a merchant's desperate daughter, and The Night Owl, in which a fellow shape-shifter practices his powers in Vermont, where he falls in love with a baker. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Bestselling author Holly offers this two-in-one volume of her hottest historical romances. Together for the first time in a special trade volume - two complete historical romance novels from Emma Holly, the "USA Today" bestselling author hailed by Susan Johnson as "one of the best writers of erotic fiction around". In "Beyond Innocence", a naive young woman in Victorian London goes from nubile bride to gorgeous pawn in a devious scheme - one with a passionately unexpected twist - between two brothers. And in "Beyond Seduction" a scandalously clever Victorian beauty agrees to pose nude for a notorious artist in order to discourage her overly-respectable suitor from a proposal of marriage.

Venture into a world beyond the ordinary, where the dark passions and voracious appetites of vampires, werewolves, demons, and a few undaunted mortals combine to unleash a potent spell...Here are lovers to tempt the imagination: Eyes that glitter with keenness born of ancient knowledge. Hands that move with a tenderness belying superhuman strength. Inviting smiles that reveal exquisitely lethal fangs. Rippling, leonine muscles. There's danger in the air...and heat.In Emma Holly's The Countess's Dancing Boy, a lower-class demon and a lonely widowed countess share a week of unbridled passion that evolves into more than they anticipated.

From "one of the best writers of erotic fiction around" (Susan Johnson) comes the hot novel of a young woman's sensual education at the hands of a reclusive professor who's adept at erotic mind games.