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Dr. Kamilah Hutchinson is an archeologist who just made an important find, and she’d rather be digging in the dirt than visiting Seattle for a meeting with the mysterious foundation that is funding her operation. If she has to be in the city, she’s going to take advantage of the chance to have a nice meal. When she meets a handsome stranger who makes her drool more than her steak, she figures she might as well take a bite out of him too. She expects that she’ll never see him again...until she walks into her meeting and finds him waiting for her.

I’m coming back to town after a much needed vacation. Every other Little has been paired off since my absence. What am I going to do without a big Sheriff Daddy to call my own. In my darkest hour, he appears. But after rescuing me, Noah wants to claim me as his Little. Is he in it for the long run? Or just here for a good time?

Here are twenty-four original short pieces of fiction on the theme of sex, by twenty-four prominent authors living in Canada. Heather O'Neill, Lisa Moore, Michael Winter, Zoe Whittall, Pasha Malla, francesca ekwuyasi, Drew Hayden Taylor, Tamara Faith Berger, and Susan Swan are among these. But we won't tell you who wrote what.

ANNAMARIE: He must be the most incredible man on Earth. There’s something about Dennis I just can’t explain. He’s so much more than he appears. Something inside of him makes him tentative. I need to break through his walls. Because I need him. I need Dennis more than I can say. DENNIS: Anna is the most beautiful little girl. She may be perfect. Her voice, her hair, her personality…all of it drives me wild. She’s everything any man could want. But how can I do it? How can I go all in? I’m a failure. Anna deserves a man better than me.

I could have my own bakery if I wanted, and my older brother would have it set up for me in a heartbeat. The problem is that I have something to prove. I'm not a spoiled girl who gets everything her brother throws her way, but people have always assumed it, so I've worked tirelessly to get perfect grades in my pastry program. Now, to show off my skills in a bakery. The only problem is everyone believes I got the job by sleeping with my new boss. And I am.

Investigative reporter Skye Sylvester is chasing a hot tip about a shadowy multinational conglomerate buying up land outside of Chicago. When she’s mugged outside of her office and hit over the head, she assumes the thieves are after her purse, not her story. She’s much more interested in what she thought she saw before she passed out: a bear, emerging from the streets to rescue her.

Dad hires a doctor to take over his medical practice while he takes a vacation, and I'm immediately drawn to Wyatt. The older man's piercing blue eyes and mesmerizing good looks set my body on fire. Our relationship sparks, and business soon becomes pleasure. Submitting to our scorching chemistry is one thing, but can I trust Wyatt with my heart?

Seriously...Christmas used to be my favorite time of year. The presents, the spiked eggnog, kissing handsome men under mistletoe. And then he came into my life. Or rather, I came into his life, under a little bit of a pretense.

Trevor Booth's life was just thrown a curveball. When his ex dies, he suddenly goes from an every-other-weekend, fun-time dad to a full-time dad. The dad part he's cool with, but life with two teens is like a roller coaster in hell. Thank God his ex-wife's best friend, Callie, seems to have secret powers that allow her to deal with the chaos.

She’s lonely, ready to risk it all. He appears just in time...Ruby: I’ve been the loneliest Little in town for ages. Every other Little seems to have been paired off with their match. They’ve found true love, but what about me? Then one day, he appears. He rescues me from an uncertain fate, and claims me as his. But, will he be able to protect me from harm? Aidan: Ruby is the most gorgeous Little I’ve ever laid eyes on. Short, curvy, and sweet, she’s the perfect combination. When I walk in on her at work one day getting hit on, I intervene.

I don't know whose wise idea it was to send us on this retreat. I don't need rehabilitation. I don't need a bunch of hot cowboys telling me what to do. I don't need anyone trying to be my friend. I just want to go home and put this nightmare behind me. I just spent a year in prison for something I didn't do, now I have to endure this? I can't deny that the ranchers are gorgeous, and Lake is unlike any man I've ever met.

Drew Tucker is gone. The man Ayda Hanagan loves has disappeared into the darkness once again, his mind buried in the torture of grief, his body cold and hard, and his heart completely switched off. Nothing matters to him anymore. Not his brothers, his club, and definitely not the woman he vowed to spend the rest of his life worshipping. The only thing he craves now is blood.

Loyalty is dying. Trust has been extinguished. Too many enemies are waiting at every turn, wanting the blood of The Hounds of Babylon MC and everyone they've ever loved. With nowhere left to run, Drew Tucker finally understands that the only way out of the war is to go through it. Despite wanting to protect Ayda Hanagan with everything he has, Drew also knows that she, of all people, belongs by his side. He needs her with him in the midst of battle, holding on tight, right where he can protect her beautiful heart, her precious body, and their dreams of a peaceful future together.

Determined to be a better man, Drew Tucker is trying to turn over a new leaf as the president of his MC. With Ayda by his side, and the enemy he once feared now gone, he can finally see a glimmer of hope on the horizon for their future together. With Ayda more adamant than ever to save her man from any more pain, she's seeking guidance from unlikely allies, keeping a secret of her own to gain strength to protect the unexpected family she's come to love.

I have to choose between Hunter, my best friend turned lover, and Malcolm, the jeweler who wants to pleasure me senseless. There's too much at stake to screw up now. If I choose Hunter, the pack will lose the only home it's ever known. Selfishness isn't exactly the beaming trait of an Alpha, and I long to rule someday. But if I make the smarter choice, the one that will save us all, I'll be betraying my heart.

I am going to make her laugh today, Blayze thought, suddenly determined. Whether she wants to or not. Blayze Dragomir finally has the fame he’s desired his whole life. Now that he and his brothers have been exposed as lost dragon royalty, he can be the playboy prince he’s always wanted to be. But danger comes along with attention, and Blayze needs to find out who poisoned his new sister-in-law before they strike again. And he knows just who to ask for help: no-nonsense private eye Ramona Jones, the only person in the small town of Augustus, Pennsylvania who isn’t impressed by his star power.

Ayda Hanagan's life has taken a whole new road to Hell since she agreed to lie down beside Babylon's very own devil in disguise, Drew Tucker. Lost in the screwed-up perfection of their new fairy tale, Drew and Ayda think they can handle anything life throws at them. But not all their enemies wear patches on their chests, and before they can even see the eyes of the wolves in the shadows waiting to bring them to their knees, they're all out of places to run.

Get ready to fall in love with the charming small town of Stone Creek, Tennessee! These novellas are sweet enough to give you a cavity and steamy enough to keep you warm at night.

He couldn’t retreat. There was no escape. There was just Joy Valdez, sitting next to him, obliviously gorgeous. Vincent Dragomir has always felt more comfortable as a dragon than a man. He's witnessed first-hand what envy can do to men, and he wants nothing to do with that kind of greed and excess. When he meets notorious socialite Joy Valdez, he’s prepared to hate the girl who represents everything that was stolen from him when his parents were killed in a royal coup. He’s not at all prepared for the attraction that renders him mute whenever she’s around.

A clandestine society hides the truth about wealthy men around the world. If their secret got out, the whole world would know that these alpha billionaires…are hidden bear shifters. Liam Bowen left society behind long ago. He’d rather be in the woods, free to indulge in his bear shifter side, than working with his twin brother at their billion-dollar tech company. He’s protective of his solitude, but he can’t ignore the cries of a wounded woman deep in his woods.