More by Kate Prior
Love Laugh Lich (Claws & Cubicles 1)
Lily has been the Lich’s secretary ever since his evilness took over the company. She loves her job, but she’s got some questions about her boss. Like what’s under that cloak of ever-billowing.
Her wondering intensifies when one day the Lich needs something from her that isn’t just scheduling appointments-- but a shiver. He needs it for a spell, but it feels like it crosses a line from their usual banter.
After her contributions to his dark rituals become more than OSHA compliant, sex-magic-and-triple-cocks-oh-my, she starts to contemplate whether the Lich Lord returns her feelings, or still only sees her as his secretary.
Lily may have given him her body, but he never asked for her heart.
The Orc from the Office (Claws & Cubicles 2)
Mate-bonding with a co-worker is against company policy... accidentally or not. Janice knows better than anyone that entanglements with co-workers are risky business.
But when Janice accidentally breaks a co-workers nose, she finds herself unexpectedly mated to an orc, and under Monster Resources’ scrutiny. Khent from the IT Department is quiet and nerdy, despite the tusks. His emails are overly wordy. He won’t stop apologizing even though she’s the one who broke his glasses. Clearly, fate got this one wrong.
All Janice has to do is stay away from Khent until the bond dissipates. Easy enough, right? Except…
…Her company laptop chooses this week to need the orc from the IT Department, repeatedly.
…She accidentally clicks on orc porn at work and has to take remedial phishing training with Khent.
…Their bond will keep pulling them back together until it is completed.
The Gargoyle from General Management
(Claws & Cubicles 3)
A siren in heat, a gargoyle who keeps getting under her skin, and an inescapable work trip…
Gwen doesn’t want anyone to know she’s a siren. She doesn’t want anyone to know she’s terrible at her job either.
Perhaps least on her list of priorities, Gwen would also like to avoid the gargoyle who saw her vibrator in the TSA check. Except, the very same gargoyle is the new manager she has to work with, and he’s going to the same corporate retreat she is. He reminds her too much of her past and exactly the career-driven sort of guy she can’t stand from Fortune 666 companies.
When things start to heat up between them, Gwen’s afraid he’s going to learn all her secrets, but when he offers to help feed her siren appetite, she can’t resist mixing business with pleasure.
And They Were Broommates
(A short story included in Hexes and Ohs: A Witch Paranormal Romance Collection for Charity)
Astrid is breaking her lease. The tower isn’t big enough for her and Jason, and the town only needs one resident witch. She’s tired of competing with him over every little thing.
Except, the lease-breaking ritual goes wrong, and they end up with a strange bond letting them hear everything the other is thinking. They didn’t need a psychic link to know they hated each other, but now they can’t hide everything else they think about each other.
Only One Bedroll
(A short story included in Snow, Lights, and Monster Nights,
a Romance Collection for Charity)
Mushrooms, halfling-eating monsters, and orcs, oh my. When Bianca Chanterelle gets lost in the woods, she doesn’t expect the orc hunter that finds her to be any help getting back to her traveling party, but with him finds adventure, a secret microbiome, a terrifying monster, and a budding attraction between them.
Tanis, son of Dhane the Bloodthirsty, shouldn’t be so curious about the halfling woman who is utterly unsuited to living in the woods, but he can’t resist the way his blood calls to her, especially when they find themselves hiding in a tent, sharing his bedroll.
When the rest of the orcish hunting party decides to raid the traveling halfling troupe of actors, however, a staged kidnapping and a monster intervention may not be enough to make sure everyone gets out of the woods.
Meet Me at the Anvil
When Diane faints during her wedding vows, it’s expected. Her family thinks almost everything is too stimulating for her because of her fainting condition. Of course they matched her with a man who couldn’t make anyone’s heart flutter.
When her fiancé tries to make light of the situation by giving her a fainting goat, the ridicule is too much to bear.
Diane wants more than the life before her— she wants to live the passion and adventure she’s only ever found in the erotic sketches she creates, and the kind of heart-racing feelings her fiancé’s cousin and best man Liam gives her.
The last thing Diane expects as she flees from the church, however, is for the best man to run away with her.