Bøger af Jillian Stone

One veil . . . Five worlds. One veil keeps the human world separate from the Fae born. Some believe it's safer this way. That magic and mundane simply shouldn't mix. But what happens when worlds collide, and the veil is crossed? Or worse, broken? Fae Worlds is a limited edition fantasy romance anthology featuring five unique and NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED novellas ranging from sweet and playful, to downright dark and dangerous. Travel into new worlds of magic and possibility, danger and desire, brought to you by five best-selling and imaginative authors. Come along. Indulge in the magic.

Hotshot copywriter, Gracie Taylor-Scott, has a reputation-for her artfully edgy ads. A rising star at Darcy Wexler Dean, New York, the long hours are the perfect cover for Gracie's fear of intimacy issues. Great job. Great pay. No life-including her on again off again sex life. Then one night, she is plunged into darkness with a handsome stranger. Bradley Craig, the new head of DWD's research division, has secrets of his own. Much lauded in his field of consumer behavior, there's a darker side to the attractive, enigmatic ad man-his erotic, list-maker side. Gracie and Bradley are assigned to work on the biggest new business pitch Darcy Wexler Dean will be in all year, and the two tangle immediately, battling copy concepts and focus group findings along with their explosive attraction to each other. Bradley has a proposition: they make a list-ten erotic sexual encounters, no strings attached. What's at stake? Two Super Bowl spots and two fragile hearts.

She was everything he remembered, only more so. Cunning, reclusive Yard man Phineas Gunn is as skilled at capturing surly criminals as he is at charming beautiful women. But the dashing agent’s latest assignment is really testing his mettle. Officially, he’s investigating beguiling prima ballerina Catriona de Dovia Willoughby, a suspected anarchist. Unofficially, his attraction to his devilish former flame is hotter than ever. Unsure whether to trust the enigmatic lover who betrayed her once, Cate nevertheless enlists Finn’s help to recover some priceless family jewels. Their pursuit erupts into a cross-continental adventure that begins with a double cross and crackles with secrets, lies, and sexual tension. The crime is clear—breaking and entering each other’s hearts—but as the clock ticks down, who will be the first to surrender?

A scorching Victorian-era romance featuring a stoic Scotland Yard investigator and a beautiful painter—the debut novel from 2010 Golden Heart Award winner Jillian Stone. Detective Zeno “Zak” Kennedy is considered a hero in London after breaking up a plot against the Crown. But villainy never sleeps, and he’s now after a ring of Irish anarchists plotting a bombing campaign. When he discovers that one of these treacherous lords is acquainted with his new tenant, widowed Cassie St. Cloud, he sets out to get closer to the lady. Cassie is no Victorian prude; the daughter of two prominent doctors, she is a freethinking artist and a volunteer at a girls’ school. She’s set her sights on her handsome new landlord, and soon they’re enmeshed in the most passionate affair of her life. But when she discovers that their meeting was not purely accidental, will she be able to forgive him?

When her former fiance, detective Raphael "Rafe" Lewis, is assigned to investigate her father's gruesome death, beautiful heiress Fanny Greyville-Nugent must elude an anarchist group hell-bent on destroying her father's mysterious entry into the London Industrial Exposition with Rafe's help.