Secrets, Volume 27: Untamed Pleasures
by Hannah Murray, Leigh Court, Liane Gentry Skye, Nicole North

The Bet by Leigh Court
I can make a woman come using just my words...
That outrageous claim by a very drunk Damian Hunt, Viscount Atherton, somehow escalates into a high stakes wager between two best friends: Damian bets his prized racehorse that he can do it... George Beringer gambles his London townhouse that Damian can't. And the surprising woman George chooses for the bet is not only a virgin, she's also George's very respectable sister, Claire — and to complicate matters even more, once Damian lays eyes on her, the stakes escalate in the most unpredictable way...

The Boy Next Door by Hannah Murray
Isabella Carelli isn't just looking for Mr. Right, she's looking for Mr. Tie Me Up And Do Me Right. In all the wrong places. Fortunately, the right place is right next door. And the boy next door is just about ready to make his move...

Devil in a Kilt by Nicole North
A trip to the Highland Games turns into a trip to the past when modern day Shauna MacRae touches Gavin MacTavish's four-hundred-year-old claymore. What she finds is a Devil In a Kilt she's had erotic fantasies about for months. Can Shauna break the curse imprisoning this shape shifting laird and his clan before an evil witch sends Shauna back to her time and takes Gavin as her sex slave?

Heart's Storm by Liane Gentry Skye
Sirenia's final breeding moon is upon her. She is the last fertile mermaid of her brood. Racing against a hurricane, she must search out and mate with the only merman who can save her kind—the prophesied Lost Son of Triton. When Sirenia rescues injured Navy SEAL, Byron Burke from drowning, she seals herself into his life debt. When the time comes to ask Byron for her freedom, her heart threatens to stand in the way of the last, best hope for her kind.

Hannah Murray's Bio

I'm going to keep this short and sweet, because if I don't, there'll be eight pages here on things like why I hated kindergarten and the time my eighth grade science teacher caught me passing out porn at school. And really, who needs to know about that?

I've always loved to read, and started reading romance novels in junior high. I would save up my allowance to buy them (and on one memorable, never to be repeated occasion, got caught stealing one). My mother was displeased with this; aside from the petty theft, she felt they were a bit beyond my maturity level, and she was probably right. She asked me (and I give her credit for asking instead of demanding) to stop reading them so much. When I asked her what she'd like me to read instead, she said, "Oh, something like those Judy Blume books would be fine". So I brought home Forever and Wifey, at which point she threw up her hands and said "Read whatever you want."

I'd always been interested in creative writing, and once I'd had the romance bug I decided that's what I really wanted to write. I remember spending hours on complicated plot lines and character sketches, writing them out in my school notebooks. I went into great detail about the color of my heroine's hair and exactly how muscled the hero's chest was, but I didn't do much actual story writing in those days. I ended up toying with it for several more years before getting serious, and my first book was published in 2003.

I live in the Pacific Northwest with a roommate, my best friend and fellow romance author Christine Warren. Since Christine writes paranormal romances and I pretty much stick with contemporaries, we have virtually no conflicts about writing material. We do occasionally have conflicts about housekeeping issues, but that's neither here nor there.

Let's see, what else? Oh, I also have a boyfriend (hi sweetie!), a former Special Forces guy who didn't know dating me meant he'd be answering research questions all the time, but he's pretty good natured about it. This is, of course, not the only reason I keep him around, but I have to admit having a guy who knows the kinds of things he knows is a damn handy thing for a writer. Unfortunately he lives about two hours away, so our time together is limited, but we do our best to make up for that whenever we get a chance.

And that, in short, is my life. There's a lot more I could've told you, but that'd take up a lot more room on this page. And besides, a girl should maintain some mystery, don't you think?