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Novellas

Take What You Want by Jeanette GreyTake What You Want (3/12/13, Samhain Press, 35,000 words): She needs an escape…and he’s exactly what she had in mind.

College senior Ellen Price spends every spare minute studying to get into medical school. Until spring break yawns before her, as empty as her wallet.

With no money to hit the beach, she fills her empty to-do list with a plan: for just one week, she will become the kind of take-no-prisoners woman she secretly wishes to be, starting with the hot guy at the bar. It’s a no-risk situation: at the end of break, he’ll head back to his campus, and she’ll go back to hers. No muss, no fuss.

At first, Josh Markley isn’t sure what to think when the quiet, intense beauty from his pre-med classes approaches him for a night of casual sex. Even more mystifying, she doesn’t seem to return his recognition. But if she wants to play “strangers in a bar”, he’s game.

Their passionate night is a welcome respite from life’s stress, but afterward, Josh realizes he wants more—from himself, from life, from Ellen. Except she still thinks he’s a one-off she’ll never see again. Confessing the truth now—before she figures it out on her own—could shatter the fragile beginnings of just what the doctor ordered. A forever love.

Warning: Contains mistaken identities, a sometimes-glasses-wearing hottie, deep questions about figuring out what you want from life, and a red-hot college romance.

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Unacceptable Risk Unacceptable Risk by Jeanette Grey(12/13/11, Samhain Press, 28,000 words): She may learn to live for love…if vengeance doesn’t kill her first.

Plix spends her lonely, gritty life trying to solve the mysteries her father left behind. Armed with a variety of cybernetic enhancements and a talent for getting into places she shouldn’t be, she searches for clues to his murder-and who’s responsible for poisoning her city.

Waking up on a street corner with her brain wiring fried to a crisp, she figures she must have gotten close this time. There’s only one man she trusts to pull her back from the brink: a tuner who can retrieve the evidence hidden deep in the recesses of her mind. A man she dares not let too close to her heart.

When Edison downloads a secret SynDate schematic from Plix’s burnt-out circuitry, he knows with dreadful finality that nothing-not even the fiery kiss he’s been holding back for years-will stop her from pursuing her quest past the point of insanity.

All he can do, as he helps her plan her final mission, is ease her pain, watch her back.and hope one of them doesn’t pay with their lives.

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Letting Go by Jeanette Grey Letting Go (6/1/11, Dreamspinner Press, 18,000 words): Between taking care of his dying father and putting himself through college, David Mackenzie is approaching his breaking point. A twenty-year-old virgin, he doesn’t have the time or energy to date or socialize. When his father agrees to try medicinal marijuana as a treatment option, David meets an attractive, outgoing young man named Zev, who becomes the friend David never realized he needed. David’s father is nearing the end of his life, and Zev is becoming far more than a shoulder to lean on—he might be David’s first opportunity to embrace life and let go.

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Anthologies

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Teach Me by Jeanette Grey

Lissa never expected to find either love or lust at a yoga class, but when the hot guy on the mat beside hers needs help getting into a pose, she can’t resist giving him a hand. After class, he asks her to teach him more about yoga, but the two of them end up teaching each other a whole lot more.

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Corporate Affairs(9/16/12 from Xcite Press)

The Game by Jeanette Grey

Everybody needs a diversion to help pass the time at work. Together with her fellow administrative assistant (and secret boyfriend) Andy, Mel enjoys playing a game they call ‘fucking or not fucking’. In it, they try to guess which of their supervisors are sleeping together to advance their careers. All that speculation leads to other games, though. Games wherein the two of them pretend that Andy is the supervisor – and Mel is the underling who is desperate to get ahead.

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Going Down: Oral Sex Stories - (5/15/12 from Cleis Press)

Seriously by Jeanette Grey: 

Shy, nervous Ricki is terrified of oral sex. No one has ever offered it to her, and the one time she tried to provide it, things went terribly wrong. When she finally admits to her new boyfriend, Glen, that she doesn’t do blow jobs, he’s understanding and sweet, but he’s also determined to show her exactly what she’s been missing.

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Lustfully Ever After: Fairy Tale Erotic Romance - (5/15/12 from Cleis Press)

Gretel’s Lament by Jeanette Grey: The forest of love is frightening and dark, and it’s an easy place for a girl to get lost. In this modern play on Hansel and Gretel, the girl in question is a twenty-something-year-old woman who is tempted to give her heart to a man who lures her in with promises of sweetness. Even as she falls in love, she remains wary, leaving breadcrumbs on her heart to remind herself that she can always find her way home.

Gretel’s Lament is the story of how she learns to trust, and how it takes more than just a house to make a place feel like home.

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Men of Steel - (4/9/12 from Dreamspinner Press)

Behind the Mask by Jeanette Grey: For Mack, invisibility has been more of a curse than a blessing. While he’s used his power to fight for the side of good, he can’t help hoping that someone will someday be able to see him. Someone like The Neutralizer – Metropolis’s only openly gay superhero, and the only man in the world who can counteract others’ powers.

Jeff, too, wishes to be seen. Life as The Neutralizer has brought him plenty of visibility but very little in the way of real connections. Everyone is too dazzled by his mask and cape to get to know the real him. Everyone, that is, except the mysterious man he notices lurking in the shadows at a crime scene one day. Little does he know that the man he is about to meet is not only invisible, but also extraordinary.

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My First Spanking: An Anthology(3/13/12 from Ravenous Press)

Naughty Boy by Jeanette Grey: For months now, Marcy has suspected that her boyfriend, Jason, has a fantasy about being spanked. Too embarrassed to bring the idea up herself, she’s been looking for signs she might be right. Then one day, while fooling around, she unthinkingly calls him her naughty boy. His reaction is so enthusiastic, she decides it’s finally time to give spanking him a try.

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Don’t Read in the Closet: Volume 1 - (11/2/11)

Heart and Soul by Jeanette Grey: The tattoos on Duke’s body tell the stories of all the times he’s loved and lost. His best friend, Ben, knows all the stories. But Ben doesn’t want to be written on Duke’s skin. He wants to be in Duke’s heart.

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Higher Learning - (10/18/11 from Dreamspinner Press)

Bug Boy by Jeanette Grey: Dan Holbrook remembers Jesse Milner as the social misfit from his third grade class-the quiet boy in the glasses who liked to play with bugs. When he encounters Jesse again as a junior in college, the glasses and the bugs are still there, but in every other way he’s changed. Handsome and self-assured, Jesse is exactly Dan’s type, but a decade of resentment over past rejections has made Jesse wary. Dan resolves to do whatever he has to in order to crack that prickly exoskeleton and get close to Jesse, no matter how hard Jesse tries to push him away.

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Power Play - (7/5/11 from Xcite Press)

The Next Step by Jeanette Grey: Quiet, bookish Cynthia is not the type of woman who would wear a short skirt out in public, much less her metal-studded leather play collar. Only, when her lover and sometimes-Master orders her to wear both – and then to join him on a crowded subway car – she’s surprised to discover she’s not exactly the type of woman she thought she was after all.

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Take What You Want

What people are saying about Take What You Want by Jeanette Grey: 4 1/2 Stars – “Ms. Grey really knows how to write some smoking hot sex that definitely set the sheets on fire.” – Guilty Pleasures “4 Stars” – Romance Times “TAKE WHAT YOU WANT is a wonderful story of two quiet souls desiring …

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Unacceptable Risk

What people are saying about Unacceptable Risk by Jeanette Grey: 5 Howls – “I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants a good, romantic, futuristic story.” – Bitten By Paranormal Romance 5 Stars – “This book absolutely tore my heart out. None of the technology is overdone if that’s something you struggle with in …

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Letting Go

What people are saying about Letting Go by Jeanette Grey: 5 Stars - Night Owl Erotica 4 1/2 Stars – Hearts on Fire “Jeanette Grey is a truly gifted writer that tells a heartfelt story of love and loss and does it in a way that we can all relate to. There’s no quick roll in …

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Short Stories

Best Erotic Romance 2013 - (12/11/12 from Cleis Press) Teach Me by Jeanette Grey Lissa never expected to find either love or lust at a yoga class, but when the hot guy on the mat beside hers needs help getting into a pose, she can’t resist giving him a hand. After class, he asks her to teach …

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