Matt is missing. Bonnie's brother left his classroom to use thebathroom —and disappeared. A police dog traces his scent to the curb, where he apparently got into a vehicle. But why would Matt go anywhere with a stranger? Overwhelmed with fear, Bonnie discovers that her dog is gone, too. Was Pookie used as a lure for Matt? Bonnie makes one big mistake in her attempt to find her brother. In a chilling climax on a Washington State ferry, Bonnie and Matt must outsmart their abductor or pay with their lives.

After solving the mayor’s murder and exposing corruption among the top brass in Las Playas, Carly Edwards is happy to be back on patrol with her partner, Joe, putting bad guys behind bars. For once, everything in life seems to be going right. But then everything starts going wrong. Slow to recover from an injury, her ex-husband, Nick, begins pulling away just as they were starting to get close again. Meanwhile, when Joe’s wife lands in the hospital with a mysterious illness, their baby is kidnapped. As Carly chases down every lead in a desperate search to find the baby, her newfound faith is pushed to its limits.

Haydée is abducted from her bed without her glasses and dropped in the middle of an alien fighting arena. When she thinks her life is over, a gorgeous green, blue catlike alien claims her as his prize. He protects her, and when his crew rescues them, she wants to stay with him but also wants to go back home to her family in Paris. Ira immediately recognizes the human woman as his long-awaited Mate. He protects her and wants to keep her safe forever. When their ship flies to Earth to reunite her with her family, he doesn’t want to let her go. Will Haydée follow her heart, and stay with the alien or her head, and go back to the only city she has ever known? Excerpt: “Hi,” I said, suddenly breathless. “Hi,” Ira said. “It is good to finally see all of you,” I said. Ira nodded. “It is good to be able to speak to you. I feel like I have so much to say, but every time I look into your eyes, the words leave me.” “Oh, then maybe you should close your eyes to talk to me,” I said, feeling a blush rise up. I could clearly see the look in his eyes, as if he didn’t care for soup and only wanted me as his next meal. I remembered how his lips felt on mine, how he tasted, and I wanted to experience all of that again, and again until all I could feel was him. “But I want to see you,” Ira said, stretching out his hand and gently caressing my reddened cheek. “All of you.” “I want that too,” I said, but my growling stomach redirected the conversation. --------- Trigger warning: Abduction Reader advisory: This story contains explicit sex scenes between a human, and a green, blue catlike humanoid alien. This is book three of the Travelers series, following after the events of The Stowaway Mate and My Alien Pen Pal. It can be read as a standalone. The Abducted Mate is an 17k word, erotic, scifi, Human FMC, Alien MMC novella. Explicit sex scenes, standalone, no cheating or cliffhangers, child-free ending. --------

Monsters are real... and I'm in love with them. I've always been the quiet wallflower. Invisible. Unremarkable. No friends, and no memories worth having. Coasting through my last year of college, I take a chance on a frat party, and wake up later surrounded by monsters. What follows is an encounter I couldn't scrub from my brain if I tried. Worst of all, I don't want to. I'm tossed into their world, where any hope of escape is wrecked by the filthy-mouthed alpha and his pack's obsession with me. They show me pleasure--and pain--like I never thought possible. Even love. But our fledgling bonds are tested too soon, as we're pitted against rival packs, ancient foes, warring factions, crazy zealots, and an illusion of choice which could leave me irreversibly changed. Contains: ✓ Multi-pov ✓ Inter-pack relationships ✓ Unique world-building ✓ A veritable buffet of pairings ⚠This is a dark book, with content not suitable for persons who clutch their pearls. Head to nataliaprim.com for all the "heads-up" (CW) info you need! ⚠

They are tiny. They are tall. They are gray. They are green. They survey our world with enormous glowing eyes. To conduct their shocking experiments, they creep in at night to carry humans off to their spaceships. Yet there is no evidence that they exist at all. So how could anyone believe he or she was abducted by aliens? Or want to believe it? To answer these questions, psychologist Susan Clancy interviewed and evaluated "abductees"--old and young, male and female, religious and agnostic. She listened closely to their stories--how they struggled to explain something strange in their remembered experience, how abduction seemed plausible, and how, having suspected abduction, they began to recollect it, aided by suggestion and hypnosis. Clancy argues that abductees are sane and intelligent people who have unwittingly created vivid false memories from a toxic mix of nightmares, culturally available texts (abduction reports began only after stories of extraterrestrials appeared in films and on TV), and a powerful drive for meaning that science is unable to satisfy. For them, otherworldly terror can become a transforming, even inspiring experience. "Being abducted," writes Clancy, "may be a baptism in the new religion of this millennium." This book is not only a subtle exploration of the workings of memory, but a sensitive inquiry into the nature of belief.