Do you harbor passionate otherworldly desires where the normal and paranormal collide? Let HarlequinNocturne bring you into dark and dangerous territory where your senses will be awakened. This box set includes: THE WITCH AND THE WEREWOLF by USA Today Bestselling Author Michele Hauf Mireio Malory is a quirky witch whose on a quest to complete a dark spell that will grant her immortality--at the expense of using a live vampire’s heart in the spell.She’s ready to conjure that dangerous and life-changing spell, until she meets a lone werewolf and beekeeper. Lars Gunderson has secrets of his own. His alpha allure is obvious, but Mireio senses that there’s something more to him than his raw sexiness. When Lars entrusts her with a devastating revelation, Mireio has to make a choice. Will she now sacrifice the most potent magic she’s ever worked on to be with the man she loves? VAMPIRE UNDONE by Shannon Curtis A werewolf’s bite has just one cure, and vampire Lucien Marchetta intends to find it. But first he must convince Professor Natalie Segova to help him. Natalie once considered Lucien a friend and protector…until he abandoned her to a terrible tragedy. And yet, she still struggles to resist his tantalizing allure and the intimate memories of their past. Racing to locate the cure, Lucien and Natalie tangle in a seductive power play where every move ratchets up the intensity of their blistering attraction. But time is running out and the veil between death and life is shifting. If Lucien doesn’t reclaim Natalie’s heart soon, he could lose her--and everything he values--forever.

Do you harbor passionate otherworldly desires where the normal and paranormal collide? Let Harlequin® Nocturne bring you into dark and dangerous territory where your senses will be awakened. This box set includes: THE WITCH’S THIRST by Deborah LeBlanc For Evette Francois, falling in love is the end of the world—literally. A witch from a long and distinguished line, Evee wields power that comes at a devastating price. If she ever loves a human, all of humanity will suffer. Resisting temptations of men has never been terribly difficult—until she meets Lucien Hyland. One member of a cabal devoted to preventing a race of interdimensional monsters from ruling the universe. Lucien is the most exquisite creature Evee has ever seen. If she succumbs to passion, death and chaos will follow. But she may not be strong enough to fight her desire. THE DRAGON’S HUNT by Jane Kindred By day, Leo Str works as an assistant in a tattoo parlor. By night… Well, he isn’t quite sure what happens at night. He just knows that it’s best if he restrains himself. Ink is more than just superficial decoration to Rhea Carlisle. Her ability to read her clients’ souls in their tattoos gives her work its special magic—and it allows her to see that there’s more to Leo than his brilliant blue eyes. The passion that kindles between them might be Leo’s salvation. Or it might be the end of the world…

It’s been two thousand years since a lover’s betrayal stole her life and her hope... Vampire elder Stacia has been alone for millennia, chased by the memories of the night she had been turned into a creature of the night. Stacia yearns for love, but her nights are filled with only loneliness and quick bites to sustain her. To escape the boredom and her aloneness, Stacia escapes to South Beach. But there she comes face-to-face with the handsome DEA agent whose life she had once saved with her vampire’s kiss. DEA Agent Alex Garcia battles real-life demons every day, like the kind that are kidnapping women and selling them into slavery. Determined to put an end to those crimes, Alex has to avoid the beautiful woman who can’t possibly be what she says she is: a vampire. But when Stacia reveals what she really is to drive him away, Alex instead finds himself drawn ever closer to the complex woman who is courageous, passionate, and yearning for the love she lost so long ago….

This box set includes DARKNESS CALLS, DANGER CALLS, TEMPTATION CALLS and a bonus free novella, DESIRE CALLS. DARKNESS CALLS After the death of her father during a drive-by shooting, FBI Agent Diana Reyes's world had spiraled into the darkness. Since then she's battled to stay out of that underworld as she works as an FBI Agent. But when an investigation to catch a psychotic killer throws her together with sexy nightclub owner Ryder Latimer, she feels herself losing that tenuous grip. Can she resist the sensual promises of the man whose secrets threaten all that she's accomplished? Ryder Latimer has been living in the darkness since being turned during the Civil War.For centuries Ryder has lived without the hope of regaining the life he lost and the love of a woman. A woman who has been haunting him in his dreams. When he meets strong and sexy FBI Agent Diana Reyes, he realizes she can be the one who finally restore the humanity he'd thought he'd lost. But will she stay once she discovers his secret: that he's more than a lover of the night; he's a vampire. DANGER CALLS Dr. Melissa Danvers knows a normal life is impossible for her.Since her parents’ death Melissa has been bound to be a keeper to the man who has always been there for her, only he’s not a man. He’s a 150-year-old vampire and it’s Melissa’s destiny to be his keeper. But after experiencing a night of passion with Sebastian Reyes, a young, sexy computer hacker, she yearns for the life she thought impossible. Sebastian Reyes finds himself drawn into a wild world of vampires and death.But after a night of wild lovemaking with beautiful physician Melissa Danvers, Sebastian wonders if it can be more. When Melissa needs his expertise to discover the truth behind her parents’ deaths and stay one step ahead of their killer, Sebastian answers the call of danger and desire. TEMPTATION CALLS As lives went, both of hers had sucked. Samantha Turner's long existence has been filled with nothing but brutality and pain. But despite that, she still has the strength to help others escape the violence she could not and deep inside her undead heart, she still hopes that one day she will find love. When NYPD Detective Peter Daly enters her life, Samantha dares to want the kind of life she thought she had forever lost. It's his job and his calling to keep his city safe. NYPD Homicide Detective Peter Daly has but one goal in his life: to protect and serve the people of the City of New York. Ever since his ex-wife's betrayal, Peter has stopped hoping for the kind of life he'd thought he'd once have. One with a loving woman and kids waiting for him after a day of fighting for justice. The last thing he expected or wanted was to fall in love with a woman whose immortal existence threatens to pull him into an underworld unlike any he could have imagined. But can Peter ignore the temptation that calls him to be her lover? DESIRE CALLS Welsh vampire Blake has given up on any chance of love. From the moment Blake Richards runs into sexy college coed Meghan Thomas, he imagines that it’s possible for him to actually fall in love once again. But when he loses control during their lovemaking, he has to decide between letting Meghan die or turning her. Blake turns her earning her eternal hatred and losing his chance for love. Until he runs into vampire elder Stacia and her power and humanity call to him in unexpected ways and make him believe that love just might be possible with the beautiful immortal. Vampire elder Stacia hasn’t felt the pull of love in centuries. Hidden from humans and feared by her own kind due to her immense age and powers, Stacia has few friends and even fewer lovers. The other elders urge her to give up on eternal love, but something inside Stacia says that if she does she will lose the very last bit of the humanity in her heart. But after a chance encounter with Blake, his spirit and strength intrigue her and she imagines that finally she may have found the man worthy enough to be her eternal companion.

A beautifully illustrated look at the vogue for night landscapes amid the social, political, and technological changes of modern America The turn of the 20th century witnessed a surge in the creation and popularity of nocturnes and night landscapes in American art. In this original and thought-provoking book, Hélène Valance investigates why artists and viewers of the era were so captivated by the night. Nocturne examines works by artists such as James McNeill Whistler, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, Frederic Remington, Edward Steichen, and Henry Ossawa Tanner through the lens of the scientific developments and social issues that dominated the period. Valance argues that the success of the genre is connected to the resonance between the night and the many forces that affected the era, including technological advances that expanded the realm of the visible, such as electric lighting and photography; Jim Crow-era race relations; America's closing frontier and imperialism abroad; and growing anxiety about identity and social values amid rapid urbanization. This absorbing study features 150 illustrations encompassing paintings, photographs, prints, scientific illustration, advertising, and popular media to explore the predilection for night imagery as a sign of the times.

Do you harbor passionate otherworldly desires where the normal and paranormal collide? Let HarlequinNocturne bring you into dark and dangerous territory where your senses will be awakened. This box set includes: THE WITCH AND THE WEREWOLF by USA Today Bestselling Author Michele Hauf Mireio Malory is a quirky witch whose on a quest to complete a dark spell that will grant her immortality--at the expense of using a live vampire’s heart in the spell.She’s ready to conjure that dangerous and life-changing spell, until she meets a lone werewolf and beekeeper. Lars Gunderson has secrets of his own. His alpha allure is obvious, but Mireio senses that there’s something more to him than his raw sexiness. When Lars entrusts her with a devastating revelation, Mireio has to make a choice. Will she now sacrifice the most potent magic she’s ever worked on to be with the man she loves? VAMPIRE UNDONE by Shannon Curtis A werewolf’s bite has just one cure, and vampire Lucien Marchetta intends to find it. But first he must convince Professor Natalie Segova to help him. Natalie once considered Lucien a friend and protector…until he abandoned her to a terrible tragedy. And yet, she still struggles to resist his tantalizing allure and the intimate memories of their past. Racing to locate the cure, Lucien and Natalie tangle in a seductive power play where every move ratchets up the intensity of their blistering attraction. But time is running out and the veil between death and life is shifting. If Lucien doesn’t reclaim Natalie’s heart soon, he could lose her--and everything he values--forever.

Grasping Shadows offers the most thorough examination of the cultural uses of shadows. Exploring a myriad of major literary and artistic evocations of shadows, Grasping Shadows puts forth a unifying theory for how shadows function and how they transformed our relationship to darkness and light.