Shelly Laurenston turns up the heat with two sizzling novellas.<br><br><br><br>In 'Christmas Pride':<br><br><br><br><i>How come all the good-looking ones are insane?</i><br>That's what runs through NYPD cop Desiree 'Dez' MacDermot's mind the minute she hooks up again with her childhood buddy Mace Llewellyn. It isn't just the way he stares at her with those too-sexy gold eyes as if he could devour her on the spot. Or the six-four built-like-a-Navy-SEAL bod-o-death. It isn't even that he sniffs her neck and purrs making her entire body tingle. It's more about that disconcerting shifting-from-man-to-lion thing that unhinges her...and makes her want more.<br><br><br><br>Mace likes making Dez crazy. In fact he likes her any way he can get her?in bed on the desk here now again. Together they'd always been trouble but Dez has no idea just how good trouble can feel.<br><br><br><br>In 'Shaw's Tail':<br><br><br><br>Brendon Shaw hotel owner and lion shifter has seen better days. He's been beaten had a gun to the back of his head and had to be rescued by a Pack of shape-shifting wolves. He didn't think he'd survive the night much less find the woman of his dreams. And he never thought the woman of his dreams would have a Tennessee accent and wear cowboy boots. Once he sets his sights on her the predator in him is ready to pounce and never let go.<br><br><br><br>Ronnie Lee Reed is ready to change her life and New York City is the place where any girl even one who runs with a Pack can redefine herself. First order of business: find a mate settle down and stop using men for sex. Even big gorgeous lion-shifting oh-my-what-big-um-paws-you-have men. Then again...