BAD
ALPHAS Anthologies
Two Multi-Author Anthologies
from Evernight Publishing
Bad Alpha features a select collection of stories with shifters so ruthless
they will stop at nothing to protect their pack. These aren't sugar-and-spice
heroes. Our alphas are feared, inked, and don’t ask questions first. They take
what they want, never give in to their enemies, and think love is for the
weak—until they meet their mate. Are you ready to learn how to tame a savage
heart?
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Bad Alpha: Manlove Edition features a select collection of stories with shifters so ruthless
they will stop at nothing to protect their pack. These aren't sugar-and-spice
heroes. Our alphas are feared, inked, and don’t ask questions first. They take
what they want, never give in to their enemies, and think love is for the
weak—until they meet their mate. Are you ready to learn how to tame a savage
heart?
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Bad Alpha Regular
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The only
way to end the war and stop the bloodshed is to marry the enemy. Every fiber of
Roman wants to hate Victoria, but the more he sees, the more he craves her. Can
he fight their past demons to be with her?
Leonardo
has been the clan's alpha for 300 years. Ruling his people has always been his
one and only priority. Until he, along with his brother and sister, stop at a
broken down car near their home in the Flinders Ranges on the edge of Outback
Australia. The woman they rescue turns both Leo and, his brother, Valentino's
lives upside down. A mate was the last thing Leo wanted, and everything Val had
ever hoped for.
Felicia is
on the run. Again. Her baby's daddy broke her daughter's arm the last time he
caught up with them so she's desperate to stay ahead of him. But her car breaks
down and trouble finds her. A killer takes advantage of her failing vehicle and
she fears all is lost for her and her little girl, until another car stops and
she finds herself in a whole new world where she may just have found the future
she's always wanted but never dreamed she'd have.
Rachel
Jacobs is a wolf on a mission. To save her pack from destruction, she's turning
to the werewolf who nearly destroyed it once before. Arkady Gusev is everything
her father ever warned her against - so why does she find him so irresistible?
Arkady
Gusev isn't looking for a pack or a woman. But when Rachel walks through his
door, she throws down a challenge he can't resist. Is this exiled alpha about
to come home?
Being the
Alpha of a misfit clan of Dragons comes with its share of troubles. When the
supernatural Council comes to Drakon Blackwood with yet another false claim
against his clan he knows it’s time to make someone pay. Preferably with their
life.
Allegra Hanson
doesn’t work for the Council, and yet she’s been roped into assisting them in
their investigation into the Blackwood clan’s supposed activities. Against her
better judgment she goes to the clan’s lands to do what she can. What she never
planned on was her visceral reaction to the Alpha.
The
Blackwood clan land is valuable. Not for its location, but for what lies
beneath the earth’s surface. Many will do anything to get it, one will stop at
nothing, and is willing to kill Drakon’s woman to get it. Allegra is his, and
there’s no way Drakon will lose the most precious prize of all.
Streak
politics, and differences in opinions forced Kurt Owens to choose his own path.
While it may be outside of the law in many regards he sees it as ensuring
justice for the true victims of crimes when the system fails them. It’s his way
of seeing the guilty pay, and keeping his own inner beast in check with the
violence, and blood it craves.
Everyone
thinks having a super power would be great. Alexa Harold would beg to differ.
She’s been cursed to see ghosts, the dead not yet having gone to their final
resting place, or judgment, or wherever they belong. They track her down, and
harass her until she’s ready to go mad. Learning early in life what she needs
to avoid has been the only saving grace in keeping her sanity intact.
Then she
sees a man who couldn’t possibly be real. It was just her luck that such a prime
specimen would in fact be deceased. Only he isn’t, and he’s taking notice of
her. With a little temptation, some mystery, and a taunt he leaves her wanting
more.
Kurt never
thought he’d find his mate outside of the streak, or streak functions. While those
of a supernatural inclination aren’t exactly rare, they have had to be careful
and keep their population down. Alexa is the woman for him the only one he
could ever want or need. And when her life is put in danger by his own past
Kurt won’t stop until everyone understands to get to this tiger’s mate, they’ll
have to get through him.
“Dark Heart” by Elyzabeth M. VaLey
The world
is changing. Vampires are coming out and they’re not remotely similar to the
sensual Hollywood portrait made of them. Little by little, Shifters are being
unmasked and integration is waning. Panic is spreading. The government is
losing control. Private agencies, such as SOA struggle to find a solution, but
as the darkness grows, can one even exist?
Ten years
ago, Daryl Jones lost his pack to a group of demon vampires. Since then, he not
only lost his will to battle for good, his life has become a spiral of
drinking, fighting and fucking anything in sight. In his opinion, a pretty
perfect existence. Until, he meets the new SOA representative sent to convince
him to go back to the lab. With mile long legs, a tight little ass and a smile
to kill for, when she offers him a bargain, how can he possibly refuse?
Silvia
Adams, has one mission: convince Daryl Jones to work for SOA again. The agency
needs him to get back into the lab and help develop a serum to neutralize the
growing number of vampires. She knew it wouldn’t be easy task, but with her job
on the line, she’ll do anything it takes, including, bargaining with the
shifter and surrendering to her deepest desires. Only problem is, she might
have bartered for more than she can handle.
Warrick
Keaton eludes a forced pairing with one of his kind. No one is going to choose
his mate for him, not when he wants nothing to do with being tied down to a
woman. He never expects fate to intervene in the form of a freezing, barely
alive female. With his independence in jeopardy, Warrick fights his inner
hawk's desire to stake a claim on her.
Clare Byron
longs to escape her domineering ex-husband, a jealous bear shifter determined to
keep her prisoner. She seizes the opportunity to run and lands in the arms of
another alpha—exactly what she doesn’t want or need.
For
Warrick, Clare is everything he's ever wanted in a mate and all that he's run
from.
For Clare,
Warrick is freedom in a way she never dreamed possible—the one man who will own
her heart yet give her wings to fly.
Dax is overwhelmed by desire when he catches the white fox trespassing
on his land, and that totally pisses him off. He refuses to mate, no matter how
much the fox inside him wants it, Dax definitely does not.
Opal is instantly enamored with the menacing black fox, but isn’t
surprised when he chases her away—no one ever wants her, the freak-of-nature
albino.
When theft and violence bring them together again, will they give in to
passion, or will their hang-ups force them apart?
Taryne
Michael is all her younger brother Travys has ever had for stability. When
fifteen-year-old Trav doesn’t come home after he fights with her she spends the
next week searching for him. He finally comes home he’s not the same boy who
slammed the door the night he left. Something is very wrong and when she
discovers he’s been transformed into a werewolf she’s at a loss as to what to
do. The violent, angry boy isn’t the little brother she knows how to deal with.
Teenage hormones are nothing compared to the animalistic young man emerging
from the boy she’d raised.
Ax Greyson
is a lone wolf, an alpha without a pack. He enforces laws non-shifters don’t
know about. Celo Valley, is a place where two species co-reside. The werewolves
keep the humans blind to their existence by being careful. Someone isn’t
following the rules. Someone is killing, with no regard for secrets. When
killing the woman seems like the only way to keep his people’s secret until
Ax’s instincts find another way.
Mate…the
word is the only thing that can scare a man like Ax.
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“Bully Boys” by Nicola
Cameron
When Victorian solicitor Arthur
Finter is forced to cut down dangerous
London alley after work, he stumbles upon pit bull shifter Alpha Gunner Jones
in the middle of a dogfight with a rival shifter pack. The hardnosed bully boy
scents Arthur and recognizes him as his mate, but will events orchestrated by
the other pack separate them before Gunner can lay final claim?
“The Alpha’s Assassin”
by Doris O’Connor
Bear shifter Zayden Reid makes his
living doing what he does best—killing people.
The sought after assassin doesn’t have to think twice when he’s offered
a lot of money to kill the Alpha of a wolf pack, until he scents his mate.
As the Alpha of his pack Quinton
Thorn is used to giving orders. He may be gay, but that doesn’t mean he’s weak,
and he’ll squash any challenge to his leadership with ruthless efficiency. When
the threat comes from a source he trusts, however, can he afford to give into
his feelings for his mate, knowing that he’ll endanger everyone under his
protection?
The mating bond cannot be denied, no
matter what the consequences, and they might well kill.
“Discarded Pup” by
Angelique Voisen
Betrayed by his beta and abandoned by
his pack, Cole Reyes wasted the last ten years of his life rotting behind bars.
A cage is no place for a wolf, and wounds left open, fester. Cole has zero
tolerance for mercy. The time Cole spent
in prison didn’t just bleed out all the decency he once possessed. It broke him. Made him hard and unforgiving.
Cole’s vengeance starts now, beginning with his beta’s new toy.
“Yellow Eyes” by Gale
Stanley
The brutal war between shifters and
humans is over, but each side still sees the other as a threat. The only thing
they can agree on, is that they can’t agree. Humans live east of the bridge,
shifters live west. Camden is a halfbreed, the product of a rape that happened
during the war. Neither side wants him, but he lives with his human mother.
The
night she dies, Camden goes west looking for revenge. He knows he won’t find
his father, and he’ll probably get himself killed, but he doesn’t care. As long
as he takes a shifter with him, he’ll die happy.
Wyat is alpha of the pack living in
the west. He’s a warrior who believes in separation of the races. Then on the
night of the full moon, he discovers a half-breed hiding in the alley. The
man’s scent makes him burn with lust, and against his better judgement, he
takes him home—and discovers that sleeping with the enemy might just lead to a
better future.
“Destined” by L.D.
Blakeley
Caleb Stokes has had a shit night.
Too bad catching his boyfriend in flagrante delicto with the club DJ isn't the
worst thing he’ll witness before the night is through. Marick Gevrees has no
time for romance. He has even less time for a tipsy twink looking for a man to
fill some Daddy fetish. But what the hell is he supposed to do when said twink
wanders headlong into the middle of a bloody vendetta that could result in the
exposure of his clan?
“Trouble” by James Cox
Tremarc is sleeping his way through
the entire Bear Shifter Clan. He’s sent to the moon, under the colonized dome
to stay out of trouble. When he meets sexy alpha Lyon and his mated human,
Quinn his life takes a sharp turn that may just find him his happy ending or
get him kicked out of yet another bear shifter clan.
“Outlaw Wolf” by
Elizabeth Monvey
Dekker ran away from his pack in an order to
protect his lover and Alpha, Grey, when he overheard two higher ranked wolves
talk about killing him.
When Grey finds him six months later,
Dekker tries to convince the man he loves to go away. But Grey won’t take no
and as the two talk it out, their mutual attraction overwhelms them.
In desperation, Dekker renounces Grey
as his Alpha. But when another force tries to punish Dekker by silencing him
forever, Grey must choose which stand he’ll take…being the alpha for all his
pack, or being the man Dekker needs, even if it means breaking the rules.
Top
Three Actors I’d Like to Shag on SHERLOCK
by Nicola Cameron
I suspect this is going to come as a surprise to a
lot of people because – ta da – it does not include Benedict Cumberbatch. While
Le Batch is certainly a most talented thespian and quite handsome, he simply doesn’t
trip my trigger the way these blokes do.
#3 – Mark Gatiss
Yes, I know he’s gay. Yes, I know he’s married to
Ian Hallard. He’s also smart and sarcastic and insanely hilarious and a natural
redhead. Add in gorgeous sea-blue eyes, an interesting nose, plus a chestful of
crisp amber fur that makes me want to run my fingers through it, and I start
drooling a bit. Actually got to meet him once – he’s even better looking in
person. Sorry, Ian.
#2 – Rupert Graves
Oh, come ON. Total and complete silver fox. Big
chocolate eyes. Wicked bad boy grin. Rides a motorcycle and knows how to play
guitar, plus he knows a metric buttload about monkeys. Did I mention he plays a
lot of football (what we call soccer), too? He just strikes me like he’d be an
utter ball in bed. And considering that he has five children, I’m guessing he
knows what to do when he gets there. Sorry, Susie.
#1 – Martin Freeman
Quite apart from storm blue eyes, sandy hair just
turning grey, and delightfully mobile lips, the man’s charisma extends about
three feet from his actual body. Apparently one critic once compared him to a
depressed potato. To that critic, I can only say, “Shut your whore mouth.”
Have you ever seen the movie Nightwatching?
It’s about the creation of the painting The Night Watch, and Martin
plays Rembrandt. In one scene, a servant is trying to seduce him and he’s
looking at the floor. Suddenly his eyes flick up and immediately lock on you as
if he knew where you were all the time. My uterus went TWINK the first time I
saw that.
In the second, he’s going down on another servant
girl. Yes, it’s tastefully shot, you don’t really see anything, and he’s an
actor, but any woman would look at that scene and immediately think, “Oh, he
knows what he’s doing. And he likes it.”
Sorry, Amanda.
Blurb for “Bully Boys”
When Victorian solicitor Arthur
Finter is forced to cut down a dangerous London alley after work, he stumbles
upon pit bull shifter Alpha Gunner Jones in the middle of a dogfight with a
rival shifter pack. The hardnosed bully boy scents Arthur and recognizes him as
his mate, but will events orchestrated by the other pack separate them before
Gunner can lay final claim?
Excerpt
from “Bully Boys”
When
Arthur awoke, he was in bed. The awful scene in the alley drifted through his
memory, dim now from sleep. It was just a nightmare. Oh, thank goodness.
He
tried to turn over, and couldn’t. Looking up, he saw that a length of hemp rope
had been tied around his right wrist and woven with very little slack through
an unfamiliar brass headboard. The other end of the rope had been attached to
his left wrist, effectively pinning his arms wide.
Lifting
his head as high as possible, he stared around his prison. It appeared to be a
small bedroom, lit only by a coal fire in a blackened grate. A row of hooks on
the far wall held various items of clothing, and an armoire hulked in the
corner. A plain wooden table stood next to the bed, bare of anything except a
candlestick with an unlit candle.
He
flexed his feet and found that his legs were bound as well, with the same
amount of slack given to his arms. To make matters worse, someone had removed
his clothes before tying him to the bed and covering him with a thin blanket.
Panic
set in, making his heart lurch. “Help!” he shouted. “Please, I need help!”
The
door opened and his hopes were dashed as the handsome werebeast sauntered in,
carrying a wash bowl and water jug. He’d taken the time to rinse the blood from
his face and slick his hair back, and an old, threadbare towel hung casually
over one shoulder.
“Someone’s
up, I see,” he said in an East-End accent.
Arthur
fought down his fear and gave the man his best glower. “Untie me immediately,
sir!”
“Can’t
do that. At least, not just yet.” The man approached the bed, giving him an
appreciative look. Arthur belatedly remembered his nude state, and cringed
under the cheap blanket that protected his modesty. “I suppose you want to know
why you’re here, then.”
“Indeed
I do,” Arthur said, hoping he sounded braver than he felt. “I am a solicitor,
sir, and if you do not untie me this moment, you will find yourself in grave
trouble with the law.”
The
man shrugged. “Won’t be the first time. Doubt it’ll be the last.” He moved to
the bedside table and deposited the jug and bowl on it, then sat down on the
mattress. That blue gaze trailed over him dispassionately, but there was a flicker
of something else as well, something that tugged at Arthur’s senses and caused
his breath to come faster.
The
man grabbed the edge of the blanket, dragging it down to just below Arthur’s
waist. The solicitor flinched as the cool air of the room hit his skin, causing
it to break out in embarrassing gooseflesh.
“You’re
trim. I like that in a bloke,” the man said conversationally. “Don’t spend all
of your time on your arse, do you?”
Arthur
gaped at him. “I—how—that’s none of your business!”
“Oh,
but it is my business.” His captor sounded amused about that. “Everything about
you, Mr. Arthur Finter, is my business. Now that we’re to be mates and all.”
The
bizarre comment would have made Arthur laugh in other circumstances. “If you
mean we’re to be friends, sir, I can assure you that I feel no such friendship
with anyone who ties me to a bed and terrorizes me in such a manner!”
The
man tilted his head to one side, and Arthur was forcibly reminded of his other
shape. “You’re tied to my bed to make sure you don’t run away,” he said. “I
know you saw what happened in the alley, and I’ll explain it in good time. As
for terrorizing you, it wasn’t what I had in mind for us tonight.”
He
reached out and touched one of the tiny nubs on Arthur’s chest, tracing a
circle on it. The caress caused Arthur to gasp, an indecent zing of pleasure
arrowing down to his groin.
“Thought
so,” his captor said in satisfaction. “You long for the touch of a man, Mr. Finter.
I’ll be that man for you tonight and ever after. We’re mates, you and me.”
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Bio
Nicola
Cameron is an expatriate Chicagoan who has lived in England, Canada, Holland,
and Sweden, and keeps a confusing amalgamation of languages in her head as a
result. Currently located in the clavicle of Texas, she has finally mastered
the proper use of "y'all," much to her Chicago family's dismay.
Despite
a healthy interest in sex since puberty, it wasn't until 2012 that Nicola
decided to try writing about it. As it turned out, the skills she picked up
during her SF writing career transferred rather nicely to erotic romance. When
not writing, she wrangles cats, smooches her husband, makes dolls of dubious
and questionable identity, and thanks almighty Cthulhu that she doesn’t have to
work for a major telecommunications company any more (because there’s BDSM, and
then there’s just plain torture...).
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Blog: http://www.nicolacameronwrites.com/blog
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