I just got a job in Montana and now the freaking building is burning down......and I'm stuck inside.I'm about to die a broke, boyfriend-less virgin until a fireman bursts into the room.He's come to save me from the flames, but when I see the territorial way he's looking at me, I start to wonder who's going to save me from him?Because this mean-looking grizzly bear shifter named Ethan Sullivan thinks I'm his now."I saved you. You're mine," he keeps growling at me.He keeps calling me his mate and I'm not about to correct him when he's got that feral look in his eyes.He wants to leave his mark on me.He keeps saying he's going to claim me, whatever that means.I've always had a thing for firemen, but this rough wild-looking man is more than just a pretty image in a calendar.He's real. He won't take his possessive hands off me and he's full on obsessed with my curves.This protective alpha wants me all for himself and he's letting everyone know it.Especially me...Ready for an alpha who can handle the heat and likes his girl with some meat? Ethan is a dominant Over-The-Top grizzly bear shifter who will have you howling for more. This is the first book in the Alphas In Heat series featuring the bear shifters from the Blackcloud Point fire station. Fire-fighting bear shifters? Yes, please!The books can be read in any order. This fireman romance shifter book is SAFE, with no cheating, and a furry HEA guaranteed. Enjoy!

Cayden is cursed. Us being together might kill him. But staying apart may destroy the Noble Wolves once and for all.The Savage King, his evil Wolves, and his cult of warlocks are closing in. As one of the last Noble Royals, I must protect the other Noble Wolves. And without my essence holding our kind together, the Savages will decimate humanity.The King wants to accomplish this by turning me to the dark. But Cayden, though cursed with death if he protects me, is still my mate. So long as he lives, I can't be turned, right?But Cayden does the unthinkable. He leaves me to lead the pack on my own. But the more I lead, the more Noble I become, and the Savage King knows that's my weakness. One wrong move from me will make Cayden come back, fight for me, and die.Embracing cruelty can open the door to savagery, my biggest fear. But to save Cayden and my kind, I may have to give myself to evil again.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computers and Games, CG 2008, held in Beijing, China, in September/October 2008 co-located with the 13th Computer Olympiad and the 16th World Computer-Chess Championship. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of artificial intelligence in computer-game playing dealing with many different research topics, such as cognition, combinatorial game theory, search, knowledge representation, and optimization.

Unapologetically raw and deliciously filthy, Shepherd & Claire's dark, gritty story is an emotional punch to the gut!" - Anna Zaires, New York Times bestselling author I'm far more than possessive when it comes to my female. I am obsessed with her scent, her form, her determination to resist me. She longs to be free, yet sings when I stroke her. She swears she will never forgive me for forcing a pair-bond between us, yet melts at the sound of my purr. I have the unwilling Omega right where I want her. And I will lie, manipulate, and even kill to keep her under my control. The first book in Addison Cain's exciting, raw, and suspense-filled Paranormal series is an addictive Dark Romance that will keep you up long past your bedtime.

Can the prey really catch the predator? Or will the predator devour the prey? When Maya, a dark sorceress, discovered an ancient scroll in her search for ultimate power, she kidnapped a lethal Alpha known for his ruthless and brutal ways, an Alpha known to be more beast than man. Alpha Xavier Thaeos, the Southern Cardinal Lord. He ruled over others weaker than him and was considered a living nightmare. He was the Alpha of Alphas. The head honcho. And Maya had succeeded in chaining him to the walls of her keep and bleeding him to activate the scroll's ritual, never realizing that she was walking face first into a trap big enough to bind herself to the cunning Alpha. Permanently. ***This steamy werewolf romance contains explicit love scenes.*** Excerpt: “What is the purpose? Why risk your life and do something so very foolish as to cross me?” the daunting Alpha asked. With a slight lift of her upper lip, the sorceress pulled the silver dagger out of her bag and approached the daunting Alpha. “Someone like you wouldn’t understand.” “If you don’t tell me, how do you know I won’t?” he asked swiftly, watching the dark sorceress step into the barrier between safety and chaos. A feral smile emerged on Xavier’s lips. His primal urges awakened as the wondrous scent of spring blossoms curled around his senses and teased him with its delicious elements. Maya watched him with sharp eyes, suspicion collecting in the light depths. “First of all, why do you even care?” There was a little pause after her words, as if he were contemplating her question with the utmost consideration. All the while, his citrine-colored eyes stared directly into her own, molten and heated, in such an unbearable way that she had to remove her gaze. Maya hated the way he stared at her. It gave her this insecure feeling of being the lesser of the two, as if he were superior to her and would one day make her pay for her insolence. She loathed the feeling of being the prey when he was the mighty predator. It irked her to no end. “Because you interest me,” he said. “You make me want to know more about you.” His powerful statement caused goosebumps to litter Maya’s skin in sickening amounts. She had to stop herself from heaving in disgust. Her back straightened and her shoulders squared when she stopped but a foot from him, smiling sweetly, angelically up at him with those full pouty lips he wanted to map with his own. Then, she replied to him with a harsh stab of the silver dagger straight through his muscled forearm. “Your interest is rather strange and unnecessary,” she replied offhandedly. “And I would prefer you keep it to yourself, or I will do it for you.” Maya heatedly watched as crimson blossomed on his skin and collected in the copper chalice she had conjured. The first few drops pitter-pattered in her cup, dancing a light rhythm, until she twisted the dagger sharply and caused blood to gush down and fill the cup. “Don’t forget, Alpha, you are my prisoner. Cooperate and I will let you go. Retaliate and I will let you rot within the very depths of hell,” she threatened, crudely removing the dagger before digging it back into his arm to state how serious she was. “Mark. My. Words.” In response to her violent caution, mirth filled his eyes instead of fear, anger, or pain. Let him go? He smirked at the quixotic thought. She would not be able to. Reviews What the readers are saying about this book: "The story line is truly captivating and absolutely thrilling. I love the fact that the main [character] is not some naive girl who knows nothing. She has character." "This story is soo good! I enjoy how Maya isn't the usual goody two shoes. 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Explores the meaning of sisterhood for those who belonged to women's fraternities between 1870 and 1920.