• INTRODUCTION
  
  
• MEET THE CONTESTANTS
  
  
• MEET THE JUDGES
  
  

Julie Dancer, single mom of a college student, is looking forward to a quiet midlife after the nonstop juggling act of working while raising her daughter. When Harrison Chevalier claims they must have sex to break a curse, Julie figures he's forgotten to take his meds. However, a single kiss from Harry triggers powers dormant within her. At least that's Harry's explanation for why she heats up and starts glowing like a supernova. Julie suspects menopause.

It turns out that Harry is not just a nutcase with a really bad pickup line. He's leader of a community of powerful energy wielders. Sex with Julie will meld their powers. Together they can dissolve the curse that will eventually destroy Harry's free will and bring chaos to both their worlds. Problem is, Julie thinks he's delusional.

Julie soon finds her empty nest crowded with a leather-clad guardian, a man who turns into an owl and a vengeful shadow walker intent on keeping her from breaking the curse. OK, so maybe there is more to the world than she realized.

Despite the chemistry between them, Julie knows nothing about the community or her power to wield energy. Harry knows nothing about family or his power to love. But when Julie's daughter is kidnapped, they embark on a journey that takes them to hell and back (literally) -- a journey that that leads Julie to a discovery that could save the world but destroy the man she's grown to love.

Anna Martin is comfortable with change until her boss tells her he's transferring her from her transient position as a temp with the Bard Corps to a permanent assignment in the Midwest. Anna never wanted her own district, but barding, keeping mythics secret and humans safe, is the only thing she's ever wanted to do, the only thing she knows, so she takes the position.

Anna grew up in her district before she knew of mythics and bards. She blew town as a teen and dreads going back. But when she arrives, small-town life isn't what she remembers or expects. The Native American creature that murdered Red, her predecessor, has been slaughtering mythics for centuries. Between the fly-fairy prisoner left over from her last temp assignment and the houseful of people she inherited, she can never get a moment to herself.

And then there's Dave, the cute mechanic next door. He's haunted by the ghost of his dead wife and smells like magic, yet he seems unaware of the existence of mythics. It's obvious he's interested in Anna, and Anna is drawn to him, but her job makes a relationship with anyone, mythic or human, impossible.

Anna will have to straddle two cultures and face the family she left behind to protect her people. And perhaps, along the way, she will forge a path around impossible to find happiness.

Jace Lawless lets out a long-suffering sigh when the mysterious beauty demands his surrender. Nothing comes easy but why does everything have to be so damn difficult? Jace wants to salvage the derelict ship but apparently, she has the same idea. He's astounded when Kraft agrees to split the haul, saying there is honor among thieves.

Haunted by her hungry eyes, Jace is stunned when a month later, a drugged Kraft is for sale as a cook-whore. Jace can't afford her outrageous price but honor compels him to rescue her. However, Kraft is no damsel in distress. Even without her blades and guns strapped to her sexy hips, Kraft radiates power and authority. Only her honor and the debt she must repay restrains her.

When Kraft isn't cooking, she's flirting shamelessly, but Jace isn't ready to love again. The InnerWorld Government (IWOG) unleashed a virus that killed his family and he's afraid anything he builds they will destroy.

Resisting the provocative Kraft proves impossible but once Jace surrenders his heart, he's devastated when he discovers Kraft is a fugitive IWOG assassin. How could he love a woman who worked for the vicious scum responsible for destroying his family? And harboring an IWOG fugitive might destroy what little he managed to gain.

Trapped between honor, love and vengeance, Jace must decide if he'll live ensnared in his past or embrace an uncertain future with a woman who embodies all he longs for yet everything he loathes.

Patrol officer Jenna McCay is off duty and unarmed in a bank when a robber picks that moment to help himself to some quick cash. She's forced to use her ability to make herself invisible to disarm him. Though her transition isn't seen by anyone inside the bank, the security camera records it. The next thing she knows an agent from an unnamed government agency arrives at her door with a proposition she can't refuse. That is if she wants to uncover the truth about her father, a covert ops soldier who went missing 15 years ago.

Agent Daniel Webster - yes, that's his real name - and his bosses get their way when they offer information about her father in exchange for Jenna's services. Jenna goes "undercover" at the White House to identify the insider who is sending death threats to the president. Frustration ensues -- with her inability to finger the perpetrator, the agency's stinginess with information and her dangerous attraction to Daniel. Following false leads, Jenna is kidnapped, shot at and, no kidding, threatened with dissection. But what scares her most is her growing attraction to Daniel even though she's not sure she can trust him.

A London accountant is searching for her past and a bad-boy Irish fairy is running away from his. When their paths meet in the mystical depths of rural Cornwall the ancient power of the Magic Knot binds their destinies.

To discover why she has always felt like an outsider, Rosenwyn Tremain returns to her birthplace seeking answers. Instead of the "normal" father she's dreamed of finding, she discovers he's an evil druid who has magically imprisoned a whole race of fairies on tarot cards. When Rose learns she is their fairy queen, she realizes she can never return to her ordinary life, and asks exiled Irish fairy Niall O'Connor for help to free her people. Betrayed by those who should have cared for him as a child, Niall is emotionally distant until Rose accidentally forges a mystical lovers' bond with him. Niall's dark, dangerous appearance flutters thrills of longing through her, but she doesn't know if she can trust him. Especially when her tarot cards warn he will stab her in the back.

Pushed to the limit of endurance in their search for the secret fairy lore to release the prisoners, Rose and Niall must leave behind the scars of the past and learn to trust each other or lose everything they've come to hold dear.

Stripped of her sight, Anoria Leikin vows never to use the magick gifted her by the fates, blaming it for the loss of her beloved Kym'rin. Once, she gave up all for love. Now she craves more than anything to forget her past and be left alone. But a stranger has intruded in the safe haven of her forest and threatens the hard-earned peace she's finally found. He stirs buried memories and elicits emotions she's hidden from herself. Even blind, she believes the stranger to be Kym'rin. But this new Kym'rin is distant and secretive. Dangerous.

Cursed for a crime he did not commit, Prince Kym'rin Rainyll has no desire to rectify the belief that he is dead. When an ancient draconic being is released into their land and sets his eyes on the magick that thrives inside Anoria, Kym'rin is forced to reveal his identity to protect the woman he's always loved. But he guards a deadly secret. As an altercation of his curse, an ancient evil grows inside him. Should he give in to the darkness, it could destroy everyone, including Anoria. When he discovers the only way to defeat the dragon is to accept his darkness, will he trade his soul or risk losing the one woman worth dying for?