When Emerson DuPont watches in horror as her commitment-phobic ex-boyfriend proposes to a gorgeous supermodel on Christmas Eve, she thinks her night can't spiral more out of control. Of course, that was before she kissed a random (and totally hot) stranger under the mistletoe, and before her broken down car left her stranded in the middle of a blizzard. When the gorgeous man she abandoned just so happens to be the man to save her from death by blizzard, it's not just one night that spirals out of control. Emerson's whole life is about to change direction, thanks to one, simple Christmas kiss.

Lana's just realized that her boyfriend is a total tool. Yep, you guessed it. She caught him with someone else's ankles around his waist, and he just happened to forget to wear pants that day. Furious that she let the jerk string her along for such a long time, she lets her best friend convince her that a night on the town is in order. She hasn't barhopped since college, but at their third pub, Lana's heart stops. The sexiest man she has ever seen is at the billiards table with a bunch of hunky firemen. Their eyes lock just like in romance novels, and Lana's thinking she just may believe in love at first sight. Scott has spent his adult life making up for lost time. The penultimate geek in high school, he'd been the always overlooked, quiet, acne-covered guy in the back of the class. If only his classmates could see him now. Scott had shed the geeky persona, put on some muscles, and become an everyday hero. He was the most requested firefighter in the district's annual "Hotties of Hanover" calendar, and he took a different girl home every weekend. He wasn't looking to settle down, but fate had a funny way of intervening. Out for the crew's weekly pool tournament, Scott is shocked when he spots Lana Parker across the bar. She's even more beautiful than he remembered, and Scott realizes he has a second chance to make her his. The only problem? She doesn't seem to know who he is.

Lori Mayer is failing out of law school (again), her boyfriend just ran off with her best study partner (she was really going to miss Karl - he took great notes), and she's all out of coffee. However bleak everything seems now, she'll soon discover life can get a whole lot crazier when she meets a drop-dead gorgeous love god named Des who's determined to change her life. Before she can blink, Lori is sent to a whole different world - a place where cell phones don't exist and her iPad is about as useful as a frisbee. A place where hot immortals, savage werewolves, and everything else under the sun runs wild. In this place of warrior kings and sword-wielding guards she will come face-to-face with her soul-mate, but can Lori resist her attraction to Eric McKenna, the ridiculously sexy king of the immortals, and return to her own world, where everything makes sense and places like Wolfgard only exist in books? Not if Des has anything to do with it. He may be cursed to help mortal women find their true loves but it's his game, and in this game of hearts only one thing matters: Sealing the deal. Lori Mayer doesn't stand a chance. **Copyrighted Material: Catch, Curse, Release (formerly entitled Love Bites) Copyright © Wendy Nelson 2012 All Rights Reserved. No part of this literary work may be reproduced or used without written consent from the author. ***All images, videos, photos, songs and lyrics belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement or violation is intended by their use.

Kylie Thompson has had enough with being responsible. Her marriage of 8 years has fallen to pieces, and her ex-husband has taken their two young children to visit his parents for the summer. Kylie needs a change, and fast! She cashes in her unused vacation time at work and sets across the country on a three week solo road trip. Everything goes according to plan until Kylie reaches Hollywood, CA, where her friend Mia's brother is working as an actor. Patrick would do anything for his sister, Mia, including letting her newly divorced friend crash at his apartment for a couple of days. It's not like she would get in his way, as he is on set working almost all day. He'll be a gentleman and take the couch. She can use his room. They'll hardly see each other, so what could go wrong? Nothing, right?

There's only one rule: Never lock the door Gianna believes manual labor to be penance for the mistake that changed her life. Nothing can be worse than serving probation under the supervision of a bitter, elderly woman, known as the Caretaker, running a bed and breakfast in the middle of the Arizona desert. Then the strangers begin arriving. They appear every night at sundown at the end of the driveway and vanish early in the morning, armed men and women who don't quite look or act normal and never travel in vehicles, despite the property being twenty miles from town. Where they come from baffles Gianna, as does the single rule the Caretaker gives her. The front door must remain unlocked and the house accessible to the dangerous visitors no matter how unusual or frightening they are. When one of them arrives wounded, Gianna helps save him and unknowingly makes a powerful friend, one from a very faraway place. In fact, from another world entirely, the world that starts at the end of the driveway. Before she can learn more, Gianna is left alone with the strangers and must choose whether she'll take over the Caretaker's role as hostess or return to New York and risk jail time for violating her probation. Gianna defies the Caretaker and locks the front door instead. Her world will never be the same.