Three women taken from their home world. Three men destined to be their mates. All victims of the Black Rose. Taliff's Cure: Eve Roberts is in trouble. She's heading into this year's heat cycle without a good prospect for mating in sight. What she needs is a male who will respect who she is and let her have her independence. What she gets is more than she bargained for. Taliff Shi'Lan is on a mission. Find a mate and take her to his home--twenty light years away. There are few Chantrean women, so it's up to the males to search the galaxy for their mates. He expects to find a submissive woman-someone to cater to his every need. What he gets is more than he bargained for. Hunter's Revenge: Amy Morgan, an Earth born Lionese woman has spent the last few years as first a prisoner then breeding slave for the Black Rose. Rescued from the ice planet where imprisoned, she must locate and rescue her family and her pride, and learn to accept the man the Goddess Alana has chosen as her mate. Hunter Shi'Lan has searched the kwn universe for the women the Black Rose has kidnapped throughout the years. After five years of futile hunting, he connects with a woman--a woman suffering at the hands of her captors, his mate. Now Hunter must track down the Black Rose's home base, rescue an entire Pride of Lionese, and convince a traumatized woman to become his mate. Mikel's Wrath: Life has been anything but easy for Maryann Wilson. Kidnapped by the Black Rose, she's w light years from home, mated to a Manruvian Merman, and on the verge of war with her enemy. Mikel Logann waited years to find a mate. He didn't kw she'd be one of the women rescued from the Black Rose, but w that he has her, he won't let anyone take her from him and live--t even when war erupts and the Black Rose reappears, determined to take Maryann back.