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Author: Ann Lory | Website
Ann is a Missouri native. She's been married to the same wonderful man for sixteen years. They have a son who is the spitting image of his father, and a daughter who is Ann's little "mini-me". Besides her love for reading and writing, Ann is a big college football fan, and loves rooting for her Missouri Tigers. She also enjoys spending time with her family, watching movies, and cycling on one of the local trails, or out on the road with the big boys and girls doing charity rides.
Published Works & Book Reviews
Eternal Embrace
Dimitri Alexios lives alone in his San Francisco mansion, if one could call loathing what he is and hating his maker living. Until he beholds the mortal woman who appears on his doorstep. Her gentleness brings light to his darkness, and her innocence calls to him. Yet she knows nothing of his world, or the dangerous predator that constantly rages within him. Museum curator Cassie Stephens, sent to catalog antiques at the Alexios estate, is surprised to discover Dimitri is anything but the old man she expected. He’s handsome and darkly mysterious, not the sort who’s usually attracted to her girl-next-door looks. Yet she’s ensnared by his irresistible charm. Cassie’s passion has touched a heart he thought no longer capable of love. Now he must turn his strength to a deadly task: a battle to save the woman he loves from the maker who would love nothing more than to rip her away from him…
Eternal Obsession
Kelly Matthews has every intention of forgetting the ravishing vampire who’d stolen her heart a year ago, but their blood bond will not let her forget. Add the fact that her dance company would be performing in his home town of Paris, France. Kelly fears what will happen if she sees him again and worse…what if she doesn’t? A punch in the nose is the last thing Jacques expects when he comes face to face with Kelly for the first time since leaving her a year ago. Now convincing her that he made a mistake and getting her back into his life is the hard part. But another weaves his way into Kelly’s mind. She is the very image of a love lost to him one hundred fifty years ago and nothing will stop him from reclaiming her. Jacques is determined to protect her, but his new enemy—once a friend and a teacher—is older and stronger and Jacques will risk all to ensure Kelly remains forever his.
Bait and Switch
One workaholic. One gigolo. One week in Sin City. You do the math... Anna Jackson's ex-boyfriend may have stolen her promotion, but she's not mad. Not anymore. She's getting even—by beating him at his own game. So what if she has to give up all her free time and any semblance of a personal life? With a partnership in a law firm as prestigious as Beckam, Beckam and Leland on the line, she's willing to pay the price. Las Vegas escort Devon McGuire is charming, sexy, and damn good at pleasing women. He'd better be, it's what he gets paid for. Always up for a challenge, he's looking forward to his newest job. Who wouldn't enjoy a week as the companion of a smart, sultry, high-powered attorney—no strings attached? Devon's used to pushing boundaries, but there's something about Anna that makes him want to turn up the steam. And when she learns to let go and unexpectedly opens to him, he finds himself falling right in. Whoa, hold it. Love was never part of the plan... This book was has been previously published. Warning: This book contains a sizzling, drop-dead gorgeous, sex-on-a-stick gigolo who wants to make women's fantasies come true, and a woman who won't cooperate and let him do his job.
Possessing the Flame
She possesses the power of fire and earth... Terrorized by a man who comes to Jillian in the form of a shadow--he tries to steal her powers-- powers she doesn't know how to control. She's in a constant battle for her life, but one night she is saved by a gorgeous, Egyptian lord who is searching through time for her, his lost mate. He possesses the power of water and air... Jarha's mate was lost to him, sent to the future as a babe to be borne by another woman. When he finally finds Jillian in a dream he will never let her go and uses magic to bring her back through time, back by his side where she belongs. Jillian is a woman of the future does not easily bend to Jarha's will, but together is the only way they can defeat their enemy, a sorcerer that wants their powers for evil. In the Sahara Desert, swirling through the sands of time, they will come together in an explosion of elemental fire that rivals the Egyptian sun.
A Yankee's Embrace
Marrying the enemy can be the sweetest torture… Hannah Dawson never expected to be attacked by Yankee deserter’s where she lives in the Tennessee Smokey Mountains…but she never imagined she’d be forced to marry the Yankee officer that saves her either. When Lieutenant Lane Peterson, of the Union Army rescues a Tennessee belle and is injured in the process he is surprised when Hannah takes him in and nurses him back to health. Unable to keep his hands from exploring her tempting body, Lane finds himself in a compromising position and before he knows it he is standing as a reluctant groom for a shot-gun wedding. As soon as his wounds heal, Lane plans to head north, find the first Union Army camp he comes to and get his marriage to the Southerner annulled. But mother-nature and fate have plans of their own. Snowed in for the winter, Lane and Hannah find a passion that will not be denied North and South of the Mason Dixon Line. But when the weather clears Lane must return to the war. After several months of fighting, Lane keeps his promise and comes back for his Southern wife, but soon they find it isn’t the struggles on the battlefield that will test their love, but the acceptance of family and a nation’s wounded spirit and scorn. Will Lane and Hannah find the strength to fight for each other? Or will they be lost to the differences that lie between them and lose the battle they’ve fought so hard to win….
Brandon's Way
Marisa fled Oklahoma ten years ago, the day before she was to marry Brandon. Marisa has returned home and must face him and the raging desire that's still between them. Brandon wants Marisa to come home for good, but she has a fiance and successful career in New York. The time has come for Marisa to face who she's become and discover if she's truly strong enough to give Brandon what he wants...
Ayan
When Ayan touched Heather, there was no denying the desire she felt for him … for she glowed with pleasure … literally. Ayan had given up on finding his true mate until he entered the human world in search of the key and found Heather—the keeper of the key. To have her, though, he must first save her. For Garinick will stop at nothing to obtain the key—the key that will unlock the doors to the many realms, for he means to take them one by one until he rules all.
Reviewer: Heather
Review: Oct 24, 2008
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance
Ann Lory’s newest release, Ayan is an entertaining read. If you like a passionate fantasy romance then this is a book that you should read. Ayan, a Prince of the Faerie, travels to Earth and ends up being hit by a car rescuing Heather a human. As Heather an Ayan learn more about each other, Ayan realizes that she is Faerie and that she is his mate. Just as Heather is coming to terms with her unexpected
Eternal Surrender
When Alyssa meets Damian and realizes he's vampire, she wants to put a stake through his heart. But after coming up against his supernatural strength, she finds herself with a new dilemma: how to resist the sexual tension between them . But she must remain strong. Vampires killed her family and she will not forget her vow to destroy them. Damian was sent to kill Alyssa, but after a taste of the young woman he cannot bring himself to end her life. Instead he brings her under his protection, whether she's willing or not. Sparks fly with not only the wicked slash of flying stakes, but with the heated passion the two try to deny. It's only a matter of time before the walls tumble down and Alyssa's faces the truth: not all vampires are evil. But can she put aside her hate and surrender to Damian, for all eternity?
Reviewer: Janean
Review: Nov 4, 2007
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Vampires
Alyssa Quinlan is a stake through a vampire's heart; ask questions later kind of woman! Vampires murdered her family and she will not rest until she eradicates every last one of them, especially the vicious vampire leader named D'Angel. Alyssa knows that all vampires are blood-sucking fiends, right? But, then she has never met a vampire quite like Damian Cristo Salvatorio.
Damian is a very loyal vampire, t
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