title: Hot Stories For Cold Nights: All-New Erotic Tales to Bring the Heat Between the Sheets
author:  Joan Elizabeth Lloyd 
description: <B>Joan Elizabeth Lloyd</B> is the author of almost twenty works of erotica and the art of sexual communication. She lives in Yorktown Heights, New York.
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  Copyright© 2016 Jenika Snow
   
   
  ISBN: 978-1-77233-951-2
   
  Cover Artist: Jay Aheer
   
  Editor: Karyn White
   
   
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  WARNING: The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal.  No part of this book may be
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  This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales,
  organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
   
  
  MATING HEAT
   
  Jenika Snow
   
  Copyright © 2016
   
   
   
  Chapter One
   
  It was the heat that woke me, the fire moving through my veins, licking at my flesh, and every single organ in my body. I
  awoke with a gasp. Sweat covered my flesh, and my heart thundered behind my ribs.
  Mating heat.
  The fierce need that my kind—animal shifters—got when they were fertile.
  Ma