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  CARESS OF DARKNESS by Julie Kenner

  A Dark Pleasures Novella

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  TAME ME by J. Kenner

  A Stark International Novella

  THE SURRENDER GATE By Christopher Rice

  A Desire Exchange Novel

  SERVICING THE TARGET By Cherise Sinclair

  A Masters of the Shadowlands Novel

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  BUNDLE ONE

  Includes Forever Wicked by Shayla Black

  Crimson Twilight by Heather Graham

  Captured in Surrender by Liliana Hart

  Silent Bite by Tina Folsom

  BUNDLE TWO

  Includes Dungeon Games by Lexi Blake

  Azagoth by Larissa Ione

  Need You Now by Lisa Renee Jones

  Show My, Baby by Cherise Sinclair

  BUNDLE THREE

  Includes Roped In by Lorelei James

  Tempted By Midnight by Lara Adrian

  The Flame by Christopher Rice

  Caress of Darkness by Julie Kenner

  Rising Storm

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  Hard to Let Go

  A Hard Ink Novel

  By Laura Kaye

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  Beckett Murda hates to dwell on the past. But his investigation into the ambush that killed half his Special Forces team and ended his Army career gives him little choice. Just when his team learns how powerful their enemies are, hard-ass Beckett encounters his biggest complication yet--a seductive, feisty Katherine Rixey.

  A tough, stubborn prosecutor, Kat visits her brothers' Hard Ink Tattoo shop following a bad break-up--and finds herself staring down the barrel of a stranger's gun. Beckett is hard-bodied and sexy as hell, but he's also the most infuriating man ever. Worse, Kat's brothers are at war with the criminals her office is investigating. When Kat joins the fight, she lands straight in Beckett's sights . . . and in his arms. Not to mention their enemies' crosshairs.

  Now Beckett and Kat must set aside their differences to work together, because the only thing sweeter than justice is finding love and never letting go.

  * * * *

  Time slowed and Kat’s heart raced as Beckett slowly leaned in.

  By the time her mind shoved through the haze of surprise and lust to react, his lips were brushing hers.

  Just a brush of skin on skin, amazingly soft and tentative. So surprising given his size.

  The world froze for a long moment, but then that little bit of contact set off a flash fire in Kat’s blood. And apparently Beckett’s, too.

  Because the kiss turned instantly and blisteringly devouring. On a groan, his tongue invaded her mouth, and she sucked him in deep. Their hands pulled one another closer and their bodies collided. Their height differentiation was so great that Kat had to push onto her tiptoes and Beckett had to lean way down. Kat wasn’t sure if she pulled herself up or Beckett lifted her, but the next thing she knew her legs were wrapped around his hips and his hands gripped her ass.

  They stumbled into her room and Beckett kicked the door shut behind them. Kat moaned as her back came up against the wall and his erection ground against her core.

  With his tongue in her mouth and his hands roaming her body and his hips pressing maddeningly against the center of her need, Kat was possibly more overwhelmed than she’d ever been in her life. Beckett Murda was all she felt, saw, smelled, tasted. Her mind was on a repeating track of Wait … wait … omigod … what’s happening? But her body had totally left the station.

  Whatever small part of her wanted to pull back or slow down gave way to the more urgent need to let go. Let go of worrying about Cole. Let go of the fear she felt for her brothers. Let go of the horrible images she carried in her mind of the Hard Ink roof collapsing and Jeremy going down with it, which was the scariest thing she’d ever seen.

  Not to mention the conversation she needed to have, the one that would force her to break confidentialities and put her job at risk.

  So she did. Kat let it all go in favor of letting Beckett pull her under the waves with him.

  She plowed her fingers into his hair, which was just long enough to grip and tug, and squeezed her legs around his hips, bringing them closer. Creating more of that delicious friction. He groaned low in his throat, and the sound reverberated into her belly, causing her to grind her hips forward against him.

  Wait … wait … wait … turned into want … want … want …

  “Jesus, want you, too,” he growled. He kissed and licked at her jaw, her ear, her neck.

  “Beckett,” she rasped as he trailed little bites down the side of her throat. She bowed off the wall, thrusting against him. And, God, he was deliciously hard and thick between her legs.

  Suddenly, she wanted to know: Just. How. Thick.

  On behalf of 1001 Dark Nights,

  Liz Berry and M.J. Rose would like to thank ~

  Steve Berry

  Doug Scofield

  Kim Guidroz

  Jillian Stein

  InkSlinger PR

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  Asha Hossain

  Chris Graham

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  Table of Contents

  Book Description

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13