“We are all fools for the devil, Catalin. We play by her rules and no other’s.”

Obey The Involition.

The first and only rule that matters. Every witch, werewolf, or vampire knows this. Every creature of the night is aware of what befalls those who rebel against the ruling body of magic wielders.

Nobody rebels. Nobody can.

The All-Mother is too...

Ever wondered how the Norm War started? Now’s your chance to find out. This Christmas Special Novella (approx. 23,000 words) from Michel’s POV is set between DREAMING OF A BLOOD RED CHRISTMAS and DARKLIGHT. A sweet surprise full of a few Kindred secrets, wrapped up in a Michel package, just in time for Christmas.

“Lucinda smiles that soft smile...

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The stars have shifted and my mission along with them. I rescued the black-ops agents and sent a message to the Admiralty, but no plan survives contact with the enemy, right?

The more I try to complete the mission, the more it feels like I’m failing at the one thing the Originators asked me to do for them. And to make matters...

When the Wedding of the Century takes place at Cooper’s Beach, the guest list turns out to be deadly.

Life is going great for Doubtless Bay’s kooky private investigator, Summer O’Dare. She’s got a new boarder staying at her house by the beach. She just wrapped up a case for the local wildlife sanctuary. She has a hot date planned for this...

“You are my most magnificent obsession, Lucinda. My treasure. My saviour. My heart. I care not if the Bond chooses to remind me of this fact. I wish never to lose that knowledge again. It is a small sacrifice to have it work its wonder.”

After battling possessed shapeshifters and reanimated corpses, Lucinda Monk-Durand thought she could handle...

May the Goddess guide you. And may the Champion protect you.

Kara Middleton didn’t ask to become a fairy. She didn’t ask to be made the Dark Fey’s Champion, either. And she certainly didn’t ask to be a general in a fairy war.

But sometimes life throws curve balls at you.

The Light Fey are coming and their Queen has her mad gaze set on Kara. The...

“Time works within a precise set of rules. There are consequences to every single thing we do when surfing its waves. So, in order to protect Time, we must operate within those rules. And one of Time’s rules is that people should not be allowed to live out of their own time. Ever.”

Out of time Novitiate at the Royal Academy of Time Surgeons, Mimi...

Come for the boo, stay for the brew, that’s my motto. But although I’m getting a heck of a lot of boo, right now, I’m not getting my fair share of brew.

I draw the line at drinking alone, my friends. And I am currently a witch very much alone.

The Witches’ Council won’t answer my calls. That would be fine at any other time, but right now, I need...

“I wanted to hold him. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted to show him how much I loved him and had missed him. I wanted five minutes, ten, the rest of our eternal lives. I wanted long enough to make love to him, to taste him, to be tasted by him, to reaffirm our Bond. But I felt a Dark shadow above me, all around me, pressing in from every side and...

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I started out on this journey with a solid plan. All missions need a well-thought-out action plan, don’t they? Well, mine had been good, and I’d taken steps to make it succeed. And then the worst thing happened.

I failed part one of my mission plan and suddenly I was spinning in circles and lost amongst the stars, deep in the...

The smart thing to do would have been to send Samson to Jett, so the Master of the City had a heads-up on what we’d found out before we tipped our hand to the Iunctio. The smarter thing to do would have been to have avoided the Plaza Hotel altogether, and get Samson to ask Lucinda the questions I needed answers to. The smartest thing to do of...

To survive, she must become one of them. To thrive, she must become the best.

Games are afoot in the High Court Realm of Dokkalfa. The type of games a girl from Earth can get soundly beaten playing. Fairies, though, don’t play fair at all, it seems.

But Kara Middleton, former human, now something else entirely not even the Dark Fey are in...

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It’s not easy being me.

In a galaxy filled to the brim with narcissistic biologicals, being an artificial intelligence with a conscience isn’t a meteor shower or anything.

But I had a good teacher. And my experiences have taught me many things. So, when given the option to either sit on the sideline and watch as things unravelled...

When a Heat Wave hits town, a Crime Wave always follows.

Someone is stealing pets in Northland, New Zealand. And Doubtless Bay’s resident kooky, private investigator is put on the case. It’s not what she normally investigates, but in order to pay the bills - and buy more donuts! - Summer O’Dare is willing to take on any job that pays.

Just as...

To survive, she must become one of them. To thrive, she must become the best.

Something is rotten in the realm of Dökkálfa. And it has nothing to do with their newest fairy.

But try as she might, Kara Middleton - former human and current member of the Dark Fey - can’t find the root of the foul magic that is consuming her adopted homeland.

That’s...

It’s the last hoorah for the Harpy, but things are looking pretty grim.

With near to a thousand sleek-looking alien battleships massing beyond the Belt, Kael and the crew have a fight on their hands.

But when an opportunity presents itself for an infiltration of the alien space station producing the drones bombing Zenthian planets, Kael dons his...

“I wanted to tell him I loved him. I wanted to touch his cheek, tip his lips down to mine. I wanted to look in those beautiful blue eyes and see my love reflected back at me. But I knew it was all a lie.”

Time heals all things, they say, but it can also wear them down. Even if time, to an immortal, is but a fleeting thought. Faced with an...

How long would you keep fighting for something that keeps tearing you apart?

Emergency services worker Kylee Dunn has a life that looks perfect on the surface. A caring husband. A beautiful home. A large group of friends. And a job that feels more like a brotherhood than a workplace.

But scratch a little deeper and the truth starts to spill...

Join familiar, much-loved characters and gain an insight into the KINDRED WORLD with this enthralling anthology of short stories!

Included in this collection of exciting tales from the kindred are the following titles and points of view:

~ ON THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL (Amisi’s POV)

“Nosferatin,” he says, and imbues it with power, with his Sanguis...

The crew of the Harpy are back and this time they’re armed for a battle.

Half the known systems want to kill them. The other half wants to be them. It’s hard trying to save the universe when the universe can’t make up its mind.

But when a gap appears in the Belt enticing every known species to peek through to the other side, things go from bad to...

To survive, she must become one of them. To thrive, she must become the best.

The walls of Dökkálfa have ears.

They have ears and they whisper. And what they have to say can be chilling, but not all fairies hear them. Only those blessed by the Old Gods.

And the one they call Skilja. Separate.

Kara Middleton wasn’t always a fairy. Heck, even now, she...

Introducing the crew of the Harpy: a ragtag group of spacers hauling cargo in the outer rim. Until someone tries to blow them out of the Black.

Alcohol, women, and space, that’s what keeps Captain Kael Jameson going. Plus the crew he’s managed to gather in place of a family.

But when he’s forced to destroy something precious in order to save the...

“Six weeks of utter hell had led to this. Six weeks of chasing breadcrumbs across Ljósálfar and finding nothing. Six weeks of popping in and out of Fey portals, covered in the scent of new season peaches, hungry, exhausted, desperate. Six weeks of finding Isoleth’s spies for Sofiq and meeting the terms of my agreement with Aliath… and not...

“You’re close to breaking, Lara.”

Words Detective Lara Keen never thought she’d hear spoken aloud. Let alone have them spoken to her by the Department shrink in his official capacity as her psychologist.

Things start to unravel not long afterwards. 

The H.E.A.T. arsonist is still at large. Carole Michaels, Lara’s boyfriend’s sister, is still...

When Big Wig moves to the beach, Big Trouble comes with him.

Doubtless Bay’s resident private investigator has a dilemma on her hands. With the arrival of a new detective in her small, beachside town, Summer O’Dare has a decision to make: Let him think she’s merely a little kooky or open up the doors to her skeleton-harbouring closet and invite...

One bite. One drop. Two hearts. Two souls.

Éliane Durand is entwined with a Prince of Mhachkay; something she didn’t even know was possible until recently. But that’s not all that has the daughter of the Champion worried. Her brother is still missing. Her father’s spymaster along with him. And something has corrupted the Light Fey. A moment to...

Nicola Claire’s captivating new Gothic romance series concludes with a dark and sinister Auckland City at the end of the nineteenth century - brightened by a fearless and talented heroine and a loyal and secretive police inspector...

Qualified physician? A menace to society? The next Chief Surgeon?

Returning to life in the Antipodes has not gone...

Nicola Claire’s captivating new time travel romance series introduces an exciting and adventurous world, set in multiple times and multiple places, packed full of sizzling action and heart-racing escapades, where time once lost can never be found again.

“Time is fluid. It is malleable. That is why we can mend it. But if we’re not careful, we can...

“It’s in all of us. Humans too. But the supernaturals have more than the Norms do. Part of what makes a vampire a vampire is drawn from the Dark. All fairies, regardless of whether they are Dark Fey or Light Fey, have Dark in them. Shapeshifters too, although I’ve been told they fight it. But never underestimate the Dark. If you don’t want it to...

“You can be scared of something, even terrified, and still have the courage to do what’s required. I would not let my fear rule me. I would do what I had to do to put this right.”

As the leaseholder’s daughter, Adriana Price holds a position of importance onboard the AUS Aquila. But not everything is as it seems.

Death and danger have followed her...

“This is Captain Anderson. Brace. Brace. Brace.”

Sophia Anderson has a heritage she should be proud of, but to those onboard the AUS Corvus, she’s not earned her position like the rest of them.

Every day she has to prove herself to the Anderson Universal crew onboard her ship. And then the worst thing happens.

The captain is killed in battle and...

“Please do not be alarmed. This is for your own protection.”

Working as the Chief Engineer onboard the ESAS Chariot out of Europe, Commander Camille Rey expected her position to be somewhat challenging on occasion.

She did not expect to be fighting for her and her fellow crewmen’s lives immediately after take-off.

Teaming up with the very proper,...

“This is how we’d traverse the stars; limping and crippled, the last survivors of a dying solar system.”

Fleeing from a past that almost killed her and a present that promises she’ll only burn, pay-for-passage passenger Ana Kereama boards the Sector Two lead vessel Pavo with only survival in mind.

What she finds is a reason to live, and it has...

For those fans of the Elemental Awakening series who wondered just what Theo got up to in Pyrkagia when Casey was busy growing trees. This one is for you.

“I am Aether’s sword; my blade is sharp and it is precise. I am the eternal edge of Aether and no one and no thing shall be free of my justice.”

The Right of Rule is a fight to the death and...

The much anticipated heartbreaking conclusion to the Elemental Awakening series...

“Oh, sweet agony. How does it strike with such ease? So ruthlessly. Pain destroys. Just like me. It was what I was good at; hurting things. I hurt Theo with my rejection. I hurt the Nero with my rage. I hurt the world with my inaction. But most of all I hurt me.”

...

Nicola Claire’s captivating new time travel romance series introduces an exciting and adventurous world, set in multiple times and multiple places, packed full of sizzling action and heart-racing escapades, where time once lost can never be found again.

“That is what we do, Miss Wylde. We mend Time. Catch it. Stitch it. Make it. We’re Surgeons of...

Nicola Claire’s captivating new Gothic romance series continues with a dark and sinister London City at the end of the nineteenth century - brightened by a fearless and talented heroine and a loyal and secretive police inspector...

Determined doctor? Interfering busybody? Fearless fighter?

The London of Anna Cassidy’s memories is not the London...

Two hearts. Two souls. And they have chosen.

Ellie Durand had no idea what she was getting herself into when she agreed to leave her home in Auckland with Hakan Bahar, a Vampire Prince of Mhachkay. Telling herself that she’d do anything to help her twin brother, Luc, she blindly stepped through a portal to wherever the hell he was taking her. But...

“Sometimes life makes decisions for you. They’re just not the decisions you would have made for yourself.”

Stalker.

Killer.

Mohawk-wearing boy racers?

Trouble seems to be following Olivia Logan. When she’s forced to leave Auckland and move to Twizel, Olivia thinks her stalker problems have been left behind. But the small southern town of Twizel...

“I stared out at the majestic vista before me and thought, if God lived anywhere, it’d be here. And then I looked down at the dead body at my feet.”

Murder.
Mystery.
Quirky townspeople?

There’s something strange about Twizel. Maggie Blackmore didn’t come to this sleepy hollow for a mystery, but she sure as heck found one. Being an Aucklander in the...

This one is straight from the heart and because you asked so nicely. A final look at the guys and gals from Sweet Seduction. A dangerous and delicious short novel all about love at first sight and how it can lead to such beautiful, wonderful, unexpected things. This is Finn’s story, but it’s not just Finn’s story to tell. Because every guy has a...

Freedom has a price tag…
 
Trent Masters had always known he’d do anything to keep his Elite safe. He’d promised he would, and if there is anything the former rebel leader is good at, it’s following through with a promise.
 
He’d just never realised his promise could bring so much pain…
 
Wánměi is now free, but it is no longer...

Freedom has a price tag…
 
It was never going to be easy, but Trent Masters had thought, when Wánměi gained its freedom, that at the very least the heavy weight of oppression would be lifted. Tyranny can take on many forms, though. Even the unassuming shape of a new President who was once a revolutionary.
 
But although Lee Tan is in...

“Life is not meant to be easy. It’s a challenge you have to rise to every single day. We’ve all got demons inside us. We’ve all got secrets that could drag us down into an abyss.”
 
Infiltrating the enemy has never been a problem for Charlie Downes. She’s spent the past ten years pretending to be someone she’s not, all in the name of crown...

For fans of the Kindred series comes a delicious new Urban Fantasy by Nicola Claire, introducing a darker and grittier world, laced with magic, power, and preternatural beings all determined to possess the one woman whose blood calls to them all.
 
One bite. One drop. That’s all it would take for Éliane Durand’s blood to change it all.
...

Nicola Claire’s captivating new Gothic romance series introduces a dark and sinister early settler New Zealand at the end of the nineteenth century - brightened by a fearless and talented heroine and a loyal and secretive police inspector...
 
Free spirit. Brilliant. A Liability?
 
Doctor Anna Cassidy has been trained by the best; the...

This one is from the heart; a thank you to all my readers; a sexy, seriously naughty, delightfully twisted novella about redemption, forgiveness and love. Oh, and it involves a very long chain and a man who knows how to use it. Enjoy! - Nicola Claire
 
“I sometimes wonder if life had gone differently would I be a different man? It’s hard to...

No one owns life. But they can certainly own death.
 
A woman is murdered outside an exclusive gaming club and all the clues point across the street to Sweet Hell. Lara Keen, Detective at Auckland Criminal Investigations Bureau, is called in to consult, adding her own unique take on the crime scene.
 
But the murder is only the tip of...

Have you been a model Citizen today?
 
The destruction of the Chief Overseers’ Palace was meant to bring about a change. But the streets of Wánměi are just as dangerous and just as falsely perfect as they ever were. Lena Carr, now a confirmed member of the revolution, hides in the shadows of the city-state she adores and works hard to...

Have you been a model Citizen today?
 
Lena Carr is a Citizen who does not exist. Being invisible can have its advantages, but not when the Chief Overseer knows what your alias is. She can no longer use the gift her father left her.
 
But she also can’t walk the streets as the Elite she was born to be...
 
The Cardinals are closing...

Have you been a model Citizen today?
 
Selena Carstairs has been raised an Elite. She lives a life of privileged luxury, never wanting for anything. Respected. Admired. Honoured.
 
But life is not what it seems...
 
The island of Wánměi has a strict set of rules. Be a model Citizen and all will be rewarded. Disobey the law and the...

‘This couldn’t be happening. This was a trick. A cruel ploy to finally break me. They knew I’d weakened. Today the first day I’d let the tears fall and screamed my frustration and despair. They knew they almost had me, so they were pushing the knife in further and twisting the blade. Just to be sure.’ 
 
Casey Eden knew her life had...

“There are those who become obsessed with what they cannot obtain. Then there are those who already own it, given freely and completely. Guess which one you are.”

Bad guys come in all sorts of guises, sometimes they can be loving and devoted, and take on the appearance of a businessman. Just ask Amber Lane, she should know. She’s been sleeping...

”There are times when I truly believe humanity will not survive.”

Some of the last words spoken to Detective Lara Keen by her Criminal Investigations Bureau partner Carl Forrester before he died. They have haunted her ever since.

With a spate of murders to solve, a tip off about suspicious activities in a popular sex club, and the return into her...

“I crave to be near you, Kelly. And I have since I first laid eyes on you in Sweet Seduction’s store. I can’t explain it any other way. I was drawn to you, like the gravity of the sun. I didn’t want to fight it, I wanted to, even if only briefly, say it was mine.”
 
Kelly Quayle has always been a good time girl, finding her thrills wherever...

“Marie, I want to be a part of your lives. Not just a satellite. Not just a fading star. I want to be your sun. And I want you to be mine.”
 
Five years is a long time to hide from your greatest fear and biggest regret. Ask Marie Cox, she should know. She’s developed an icy shield of confidence to ensure no ones sees her hidden angst. But...

“Don’t for a minute believe I want you any other way, Jason Cain. The second you stop being you, is the moment you should fear most.”
 
For several months now Katie Anscombe has tried to hide her attraction to Jason Cain. That’s what everyone expects of Katie. And of course, it helps that he basically ignores her too. But something about the...

“The moment you entered my world, you set it alight. Until there were no more shadows left to hide in.”
 
Abi Merchant has been on the run for five long years. Panic and paranoia have been her constant companion. In an effort to survive the tortured memories of her past, she’s had to live within her mind. But five weeks into a new identity...

“One night eight years ago and you ran, angel. One night now and you’re gone again. I won’t let you run this time without giving chase.”
 
Eight years ago Evangeline Rowe met her ice-blue-eyed, perfect cowboy, but she was running from a past he would have kept her trapped within. One night of unbelievable passion, a lost and consequently...

“I’m going to give you memories to last a lifetime, Genevieve Cain. I promise you that.”

With a loser ex-boyfriend threatening her dream business, Sweet Seduction, Genevieve Cain is forced to go to a lawyer to finalise things once and for all. Gen knows she’s only good for one dream in her lifetime, so when she meets senior partner, Dominic...

‘Birdsong was the first thing I registered. The sharp caw of a parrot, but there was more than one. And somehow they overlapped to make a beautiful symphony out of what should have been an unmusical sound. I grinned; the feeling of my lips tipping up was foreign. How long had it been since I last smiled?’
 
Casey Eden has had her life turned...

You wanted more? Well, here it is! A Christmas Special Novella (just over 16,000 words) from Michel’s point of view, set after the end of book eight in the Kindred Series: Kiss Of The Dragon. A sweet surprise full of a few Kindred secrets, wrapped up in a Michel package, just in time for Christmas.
 
“When I look at her, I see the strong,...

“You do realise,” he whispered, his hand reaching up to brush my hair from my face. He began twining a strand around one of his fingers. “That you are my most magnificent obsession.” Magnificent obsession. I think I liked that. I certainly understood it. He was mine too.
 
Confronted with yet another curve ball, Lucinda finds herself in...

‘Oh, this was sweet torture. To be this close to nirvana and walk away because I am coy. I closed my eyes tightly and swallowed down my fears. Theo wanted me. Like this. He craved me, in any way he could get me. Even if I wasn’t his, even if this all was torn asunder tomorrow, how could I not take the chance to feel this, to share this, with...

“What was wrong with me to antagonise a vampire of his standing to such a degree? I knew I had become too rebellious, too sure of my own place in this world. I was aware that Dark had been encroaching, that I played so often in its shadow I was losing sight of the sun, of my Light. There were times when I truly felt consumed in anger, for all...

‘His whole body jerked against mine, his arms tightened and a low growl mixed with a decidedly sexy moan came from the back of his throat. I could tell he was having an instant response to my biting him, I could feel exactly where his mind had taken the moment to. I gasped at his reaction, thinking this was having way more of an effect on him...

“I felt hot tears streaming down my cheeks at his words. Spoken so carelessly, but with such shameless intent. He knew how I felt. How I had been feeling. How lost and alone and full of grief my days had been. Avery was not a friend. Not even a trusted acquaintance. But, he understood what I was going through. Even if he didn’t have a...

“I’m supposed to be the one that calls him back toward the Light.’ I am the Light to your Dark. You call to me as I call to you. I will always hold you dear.’ But, it was getting harder. I loved him and it’s not as if I never knew it would be difficult loving a vampire. I just never knew the degree of difficulty it would entail.”
 
Michel...

‘His lips met mine again, this time in a slow, soft caress, conveying everything he had just said in those beautiful words that had reached my very soul. I could have drowned in that kiss. I could have lived there for eternity. It filled me up with everything I needed to survive. He gave me life through his lips and I treasured it.’
 
...

‘I watched as he comprehended what it was that he saw on my face, in my eyes. And I watched as a part of him shut down, locked away from me forever. And I hid the fact that my heart was breaking even as I lied to him, even as I broke his. And I swore I would never let him know otherwise, or I would truly be lost and the war would be over.’ ...

“I would die for you Lucinda, I would cast away everything I possess to be near you, I would take anything you willingly give and no more, this is what you mean to me.” 
 
Lucinda’s relationship with the Master of the City is progressing at an alarming rate, but she is unsure if what she feels is the truth. Or just a by-product of the...

“You may not be aware, ma douce, but not all vampyre have a kindred, some will live out their existence without such beauty in their lives. I have waited five hundred years for you.”
 
Vampires, shapeshifters, ghouls, and magic users abound in a world where the Norms, (those humans without paranormal abilities) are ignorant of the creatures...