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My best friend takes me to a beauty salon for a facial. A young and handsome employee there latches onto me. He's tall, good-looking, and is great with women. He knows just the right things to say and is flirtatious without being lecherous. He shows me the pleasures of being a woman… I forget all about my boyfriend and allow him to make me descend into the throes of passion. What I don't know is that there's a price I can't pay behind the gentleness…

BLURB Even while bullied in high school, Jasmine found time to fall in love with her best friend’s boyfriend: Caine, the school’s bad boy and the Alpha’s son. One rainy day after school, Caine fights off her bullies. What was supposed to be the best day of her life turned sour when he in turn bullies and insults her. She leaves the park with her Mum entirely. What was she expecting? Years later, after a bad breakup, Jasmine decides to visit her father who was attacked by rouges. Caine is about to be made Alpha soon and he was even more handsome than she left him, now she was fighting an attraction to him that she could not explain, when she was supposed to loathe him. Trying to settle in the pack, Caine tries to make amends and be on her good side again, even offering to help her change since she was a half werewolf. But one night of drinking leads them to have sex and he changes her. Hurt that she betrayed her best friend and wanting to tell her the truth, she walks in on Caine proposing to her best friend. Jasmine is in for more heartbreak when she finds out she’s pregnant for the man who had hidden their mate bond and tried to reject her. What happens when that man gets into an accident and forget all about her, their memories together and the child she was carrying for him and now he only looks at her in pure hate and disgust?

Helaine Fairgrieve wasn't sure what to do when her rent was raised suddenly, until her long time acquaintance, Evan DuRosier, offered her a solution that would benefit the both of them. Helaine travels to his apartment in the less than reputable art district of the city to indulge his less than conventional desires, only to learn that he's keeping a dark secret. She's has never been in handcuffs before, much less bound and suspended from a man's ceiling while he pours hot wax on her sensitive skin. She isn't sure what's more frightening, the knife gliding across her skin, or the fact that she loves every pulse-pounding second of it. BDSM is normally based on a foundation of trust; lacking that, Evan and Helaine's relationship begins as something of a transactional nature, until she discovers that his lust for blood is more than just a fetish. What will she do when she discovers the truth about his Vampirism?