Title: El Diablo Author: Marteeka Karland Series: Black Reign MC #5 Genre: Contemporary MC Romance
I wasn’t expecting a man like El Diablo. Good thing I’m able shake his legendary control.
Jezebel – Life in a gilded cage isn’t all it’s cracked up to be – especially if the whole purpose of the cage is to keep me a virgin till I’m ready to be sacrificed to the man of my father’s choosing. I want out, and don’t think I haven’t tried. It’s not that easy with daddy’s Brotherhood guards all over the place. But that doesn’t mean I want to trade one cage for another. And, let’s face it, I have no idea how to live on my own. I’ve never had the chance. Now I’m not sure I want to learn, because my new jailer – err, rescuer — is the sexiest man I’ve ever known. El Diablo’s not the monster everyone’s made him out to be. But can I tame the beast of a man without losing my heart? All I want for Christmas is a chance to find out…
El Diablo — I went hunting for a victim. Instead, I found a Christmas Angel. She’s the daughter of my enemy, used as a pawn in a deadly game of chess. All I really wanted was the Brotherhood out of Palm Beach. Instead I found an innocent who brings out a side of me I’d thought long buried and gone. But Jezebel’s younger than my own daughter, and just as much trouble. And I’m El Diablo — a title I earned heart and soul. I’m so not what she needs. And now she’s under my protection in the Black Reign compound. She should be completely off limits. I won’t let the Brotherhood take her back and force her to give up her dreams. But who’s going to protect her from me?
Esther glanced around her, then took my elbow and moved me toward one corner of the room where there weren’t many people. “What’s going on between you two?”
My guard went up instantly. I didn’t want the other women in the clubhouse thinking there was anything between Liam and me. “I have no idea what you mean,” I said evasively.
“Oh, come on, Jez. You’re living with him! The club girls say he’s not taken any of them to bed since you got here. Are the two of you a couple?”
“Not at all,” I said dismissively. “In fact, he made it perfectly clear to me he’s not interested in me, and that he’s not interested in a relationship with any woman.” I shrugged. “I guess he’s a free spirit.”
Esther’s laugh was merry and more than a little mischievous. “Then why does he come up behind you and wrap you up in his arms every time you’re in a room together?”
“Beats the fuck outta me.” I shrugged. “I’ve kissed him a couple of times, but he always stops, and he made it clear that sex with me is definitley not something he’s pursuing.” Kissed him a couple of times. Right. To say nothing of the mind-numbing orgasms he gave me two nights ago. No way I was spilling that, no matter how much I liked the other woman. As we talked, Celeste and Lyric approached with waves and friendly smiles.
Esther continued as the other two women joined us. “Did he say why?”
I waved her off. “It was all bullshit. I’m guessing it has something to do with our age and experience differences. I’ve lived in a gilded cage my whole life, and he’s been out living his. Any appeal I have to him would fade the second he takes my virginity, and I’m not too naive to admit it.”
“Who’re you guys talking about?” Lyric asked, her expression curious. “You got a man after you already, Jez?”
“El Diablo,” Esther said. “But I think Jez believes he’s just toying with her.”
Celeste frowned. “I’m sure it’s not like that. El Diablo is really a good man. I doubt he’d ever admit it, but he is.”
“Didn’t you tell me he offered to marry you when Wrath was being a douche?” I asked Celeste.
She grinned. “Yeah. I think that was more about Holly though. He wanted to make sure she was taken care of with her leukemia and all. He thought we needed a strong man to protect both of us and to make sure Holly got the care she needed.” She shook her head. “I believe he’d have gone through with it, but I also believe he did it more to make Wrath get his head out of his ass.”
“Maybe that’s what he’s doing with me. Though I have no idea who he’s trying to make jealous. The men in the compound barely talk to me. When they do, they make sure one of you girls or the children are with me.”
Lyric gave me a knowing smile. “That’s because El Diablo gives you ‘the look.’”
I frowned. “What look?”
“The one that lets every male with any modicum of sense know you’re his.” The girls burst into giggles, and I smiled.
“I doubt that’s the case,” I said. “Anyway, I’ve got guard duty tonight. I probably should get some sleep so I don’t fall asleep on the job.”
Liam chose that moment to appear in the doorway, scanning the room until his gaze landed on me. His grin was more than a little wicked. The woman giggled.
“Looks like you’re going to have to fight more than sleep,” Lyric said with a laugh. “In fact, I’d say you’d have better luck fighting sleep than keeping that man from seducing you tonight.”
“Trust me,” I said, “he’s not going to seduce me.”
“Uh huh.” Celeste grinned. “Keep telling yourself that.” They all three waved and sauntered off to help the kids decorate.
I frowned at Liam. “Are you trying to be cruel, or can you just not make up your mind?”
“It’s a process,” he answered with a smirk.
“Well you can just process the fact that I’m done with this. What the fuck?”
“That’s not what you were saying a couple of days ago.”
“Yeah? Well, that was before you left me high and dry for two days.” A stab of pain hit me, and I actually put my hand over my chest. “Have you been avoiding me? Because I already told you I wasn’t asking for permanent. I wasn’t even asking for anything after one that one time. I mean, surely you could have stood to be in my company one fucking night.”
“Trust me when I say I look forward to being in your company. I found it exceedingly enjoyable.” His smile was positively wicked. “But I hear you have a job?”
“I do,” I said, putting my shoulders back. “I’m making sure none of our decorations disappear.”
He gave me a knowing look. “I see. Well. If anyone can stop this Christmas Bandit that has the children so wound up, I’m certain it’s you.” He leaned down and brushed a kiss over my mouth. I shivered in reaction even as I pushed him away.
“Oh, no you don’t! Go away,” I said, making a shooing motion. “I’m done with all that!”
Romance author by night, emergency room tech/clerk by day, Marteeka Karland works really hard to drive everyone in her life completely and totally nuts. She has been creating stories from her warped imagination since she was in the third grade. Her love of writing blossomed throughout her teenage years until it developed into the totally unorthodox and irreverent style her English teachers tried so hard to rid her of. Now, she breathes life into faeries, space hunters, werewolves, vampires, shapeshifters, and a few just plane ole ordinary people. She loves to see the awkward, self-conscious band geek get the captain of the football team and make him beg for it.
Life lesson: Never get between a wolf and his mate. You won’t enjoy it.
Savannah’s clan wants her dead, and they’ve sent her fated mate to find her.
What began as a nightmare years ago has morphed into much more as her cursed powers have far surpassed what her sisters possess. She isn’t sure what that means for her future, but one thing is clear. She needs to RUN.
Until the scorching hot wolf hunter with major possessive vibes shows her the meaning of tempted…
King has a reputation as a cold, calculated hunter. He can always find those that can’t be found. When a lucrative job lands in his lap it may finally be his way out of the rogue Blackwood Pack.
Except…He doesn’t hunt women.
But he’s also still figuring out how to be a dad to his orphaned nephew and they need the money.
Because of that, he agrees to find her and turn her over to the clan, unharmed.
Only when he locates the missing woman, he discovers there’s a lot more to her than what they told him. Now, not even a city teeming with supernaturals can keep him from protecting what’s HIS.
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Before her writing career began, she served in the Marine Corps and lived a crazy life of adventure. Then she read her first erotic romance novel and everything changed. So after years of thinking about writing she finally grabbed her laptop and wrote.
Title: Yellowstone Wolf Author: Jaylee Austin Genre: Paranormal Romance
Her assignment leads her into the wilderness—right back to the man who stole her heart.
Leslie Starr thought she’d left her past behind when she’d joined the Shifter Federal Bureau of Investigation. Unfortunately, the series of violent crimes she’s investigating in Wyoming appear to target her best friend Grace, head of the SFBI… and the sister of her ex-fiancé, Roger.
Leslie’s never fit in with Roger’s wolf pack. She doesn’t do sweet, subservient, or small-town living. The fact that she still burns for Roger doesn’t help, especially now that he’s the alpha of his group and needs to claim a mate…
Roger Diego’s ranch near Jackson Hole is a safe haven for the Yellowstone Pack, and as their alpha, he’s expected to put their needs before his own—even when it means breaking his engagement to the woman he loves and embracing the life of a shifter over his human side.
When a dangerous criminal targets shifters in his area, Roger will do whatever he can to help catch them, including working with his captivating ex, Leslie. Roger knows Leslie is his mate and longs for her to submit to him, but he doubts she’d ever let any man claim her.
With his sister’s life on the line, they have to close this case—before their forbidden desires put the entire pack in danger.
“Grace.” My voice rang out across the living room. “Why in the hell are you putting a city girl in the hills of Wyoming right in the middle of a shifter town? She’ll stand out like the plague. No one will accept her. They associate her with the press.”
“That’s why we need her. She’s objective and not afraid to ruffle feathers.”
“I think you’re making a big mistake.” Sticking a human investigator in the midst of predator wolves without protection caused a tremor to race along my spine. I’d intentionally kept her safe from my world. No one knew of my dual blood line except my father’s family, my three best friends, and my assistant Sharon. All the others knew me as Roger Diego, alpha of the Yellowstone wolf pack.
A pang of remorse shot through me. The regret of leaving behind the only woman I’d truly loved. Breaking up with her was the hardest thing I’d ever done, but I’d been right. No one in the pack would accept a human as an alpha’s mate because of the chance of having human children. I was expected to choose a wife before the end of the next lunar cycle. I feared that being so close to Leslie I wouldn’t be able to turn from her again and fulfill my obligations as pack alpha.
“If you’re finished, I’ll explain my reason for bringing the two of you together.” She braced herself in front of me, placing both hands on her hips.
“This better be good.” I poured myself two fingers of whiskey.
“First, we need to identify the two shifters accused of harming Sheila. Second, someone is purposely focusing our attention on the warlock coven and I want to know why.”
“Earlier you swore David was behind the killings.”
“I believe he might be, but too many puzzle pieces aren’t fitting together. Why blatantly make it obvious and draw us to the coven?”
“Why send Leslie?”
“Because she knows how to uncover a story. And believe me after we start peeling away the layers none of us will be the same.”
“Is this connected to you?”
“I believe so.”
“How do you know?”
“A gut feeling.”
No way would we find the rogue shifters if Leslie went in with blazing fire. The packs protect their own. “Grace the rogues could be anywhere.”
“That’s why you’re taking Leslie to the council where she’ll conveniently mention an interest in finding these men. They didn’t vanish off the face of the earth.”
When Norman abducted Grace last year, I investigated and found nothing. My instincts told me Grace was right. The men were probably in plain sight. “Cornered wolves will put Leslie at risk. If the men believe she means them harm, they’ll kill her.”
“Leslie will stir up interest. I leave it to you, Trent, and Seth to send out your betas and bring them to DC. Find the shifters now.”
“After three years these men could be anywhere. The case has gone cold.”
Grace touched my arm. “David wants the shifters. I want to know why. If we follow the trail, I bet this goes deeper than a couple of rogue wolves accused of a crime. I’d bet David is knee deep in the stench of things.”
“What’s your other reason for Leslie’s involvement?” I broke from her gaze and sat in the Victorian chair closest to the window.
On any weekend you can find me surrounded by faeries, dragons, and angel figurines inspiring me with creative ideas. I live in Apple Valley, California and during the day I teach Language Arts. I inspire other young writers to reach for the stars and trust that they have a story to tell. Since childhood creating stories has always been a favorite hobby of mine. As an adult I’m grateful to write and share my thoughts with others. Happy reading and may the magic of life fill you with dreams of hope. Visit my website, instagram page, and pinterest to see update images of Tilly, my pug and I go on supernatural adventures.
