Book excerpt: Welcome to the McMasterverse. Escape the ordinary with these six steamy first-in-series fantasy and paranormal romances, all contained in one amazing box set! From wicked fae princes to powerful dreki shifters, dangerous vampires, cursed alpha shifters, demons and sorcerers, there’s a McMaster hero to whet every fantasy romance reader’s appetite. If tales of fated mates, epic quests, fairy tales, forbidden romance, and enemies-to-lovers make you weak at the knees, then this box set is for you! Find the following in Flames and Fated Mates: PROMISE OF DARKNESS (Dark Court Rising #1) A fairy tale twist inspired by the Hades and Persephone myth. He was supposed to be a wicked prince. The enemy. But from the moment my mother was forced to gift me to him as part of a peace treaty, I knew he was meant to be mine.... When the Queen of Thorns sends her daughter, Iskvien, as war prize to an enemy prince, she puts a knife in Vi’s hand and tells her she could end the war between their two countries with one strike. But one look into this wicked fae prince’s eyes and Vi knows she’s no assassin. THIEF OF DREAMS (Court of Dreams #1) Twenty brides. One prince. Who will survive when the competition turns deadly? When Prince Keir of the Court of Dreams sends out a summons in search of a bride, the Wraith King sees a chance to steal the powerful Dragon's Heart. He sends his best thief, Zemira Az Ghul, to penetrate the court as one of the potential brides. Get in. Steal the relic. Don’t get chosen as his bride. Should be easy, right? HEART OF FIRE (Legends of the Storm #1) The old eddas speak of dreki—fabled creatures who haunt the depths of Iceland's volcanoes and steal away fair maidens. Prince Rurik intends to claim Freyja, but to do so he must take mortal form. It's the only time dreki are vulnerable, and with a dragon-hunter arriving on the shores of Iceland, he can barely afford the risk—but lonely Freyja, with her elf-cursed eyes and pragmatic soul, tempts him in ways he's never felt before. MISSION: IMPROPER (London Steampunk: The Blue Blood Conspiracy #1) He promised her vengeance. She threatened to steal his heart instead…. Caleb Byrnes works best alone. The cold and brooding blue blood is the best tracker the Guild of Nighthawks has, and he rules the vampiric craving within him with an iron hand. Nobody escapes him. Nobody gets the better of him. And nobody has ever come close to unleashing the hunger within him. Until now…. Ingrid Miller is the one who got away. The passionate and fiery verwulfen bounty hunter once worked a case with him—and left him tied to his bed. Naked. When they’re partnered together on a new case, Byrnes finally sees his chance to have his revenge. He will have her in his bed and he will ruin her with his kisses, and vengeance will be so, so sweet. SHADOWBOUND (Dark Arts #1) When a powerful relic goes missing from a secret society, Ianthe Martin is charged with finding it at all costs. She needs help, but all clues point to someone on the inside being the thief. The only sorcerer she knows that can't possibly be involved is the very man she saw locked in Bedlam a year ago... When the seductive Miss Martin appears in his cell, Lord Rathbourne fears he's finally lost his mind. The devilish sorceress played a hand in his incarceration, and now she comes asking for help? Perhaps she should begin by begging for mercy... NOBODY’S HERO (Burned Lands #1) Cursed alpha shifter, Lucius Wade, lives only for revenge. But when he kidnaps Riley in order to lure an old friend into a trap, suddenly the tables are turned. Riley has no intentions of being bait, and she tempts him in ways he hasn't felt for a long time. He's never played the hero, but suddenly a part of him wants to…. One click now to dive into six seductive worlds and escape the ordinary!