Dark Sins and Desert Sands – Stephanie DravenMythica 05Harlequin Nocturne #124ASIN: B005JSK19S (mobi)ISBN: 9781459215856 (epub)ISBN: 9780373618712 (paperback)October 18, 2011 (November 2011)288 pagesSeries Paranormal RomanceSetting: Syria; NevadaBack cover:When a mythical creature arouses the minion of a dark god, no passion can be denied, no secrets left hidden....Escaping a hellish Syrian prison, U.S. serviceman Ray Stavrakis emerged with uncanny mind-control powers and an eerie ability to morph into a mythical Minotaur. As a half man, half bull, Ray had legendary power, but only one woman could prove his innocence. The woman who'd driven him to the brink of insanity with her cool-eyed interrogation and her hot-blooded sensuality.But Vegas psychologist Layla Bahset had no memory of Ray or her past. Only a feeling of being stalked by a nonhuman predator. Was it Ray...whose eyes condemned her soul even as his hands ignited her body? Or was another evil force at work? But nothing could stop Layla from remembering what she was...and what her evil creator had planned for her and her soldier lover....Inside excerpt:“Whatever it is, Layla, it’s going to be all right.” It wasn’t going to be all right. She was the twisted minion of an evil god. What comfort could a mortal man like Ray really offer her? And yet his arms were the only safe place she’d ever known. “You have no idea who I am or what I’ve done.”“I know what you’ve done. I was there, remember?”“I’m nothing, nothing but what he made me!”“Don’t say that,” Ray murmured against her lips. “It’s not true.”But it was true. And yet, as Ray rocked her, it wasn’t fear that surged through her.She kissed him. Because it might be the last time she could. She’d never thought that Ray was hers to keep, but she hadn’t realized before now that she wasn’t even her own to give.

In these stories of matrimonial madness from four sensational authors, unexpected couples find their happily ever after at a wedding that's counting down to disaster... When a perfectionist and a troublemaker have to stick together in Amanda Berry's The Wedding Planner: Flirting with Disaster, more than sparks fly... In Shawntelle Madison's The Maid of Honor: Lovers in Lockdown, two best friends trapped in a wine cellar decide to sample the wine—and each other... Covering up the groom's many misdeeds forces the best man to choose between loyalty and the love of a wedding singer in Stephanie Draven's The Best Man: Sex, Lies and Karmic Catastrophe. And finally, a runaway bride, a hunky caterer and a stolen cake hit the road in a hijacked van in Jeannie Lin's The Bride: Love on the Run. Stephanie Draven is a national bestselling, award-winning, two-time RITA-nominated author of historical,...

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Daughter of the war god Ares, Kyra had been born into darkness—a darkness she'd vowed to annihilate. Just as she'd destroy the notorious Greek arms dealer Marco Kaisiris for feeding the bloodlust she despised. She'd use her nymph's carnal powers to seduce him, then slay him. But Kyra wasn't prepared for Marco's secret weapon. For millennia Kyra had avoided mortal men, but she couldn't resist Marco's magnetism, his raw sexuality. Time and again his sculpted body took her to heights to which only the gods soared. That he was a shape-shifting hydra she could forgive, but not his one fatal flaw—his poisoned blood could kill her. Kyra had fallen for the only being who could destroy her…. Yet how could she spend eternity without him?