I loved the 2 stories by these 2 authors! Both have some sizzling, steamy scenes that would fog up your glasses (if you wear glasses while you read)! ;-) Kresley Cole's "Untouchable" is an Immortals After Dark story featuring the fourth Wroth brother Forebearer vampire Murdoch Wroth. We get a little overlaps with his brothers (Nikolai, Sebastian and Conrad) and what was going on in their lives while Wroth was dealing with a doozy of a conumdrum. He had met his Bride, the one female who got his undead heart to beat again, and his body felt desire again for the first time in centuries. His problem: his Bride is Daniela the Ice Maiden. She is half Valkerie and 1/2 Icere. If her skin is touched by someone of normal temperature, she burns and blisters and is in excrutiating pain. Her room at the Valkerie Coven is an icebox... the colder it is, the stronger she feels. Murdoch's other problem, he was never one to commit himself to one woman when he was human (he was dismayed to discover that the history books portray him as a "manwhore"), and doesn't know how he feels about discovering his Bride, and then finds out that he can't touch her. Poor Daniela would love to be able to be touched by this sexy vampire... and eventually they figure out who to make it work, but still can't touch. Her heritage comes seeking her in more ways than one ... her step-father had stolen her mother's Throne, and is constantly sending assassins after her (which is how Murdoch meets Daniela). I loved how these two keep trying to make things work, even with the problems facing them. I also loved the overlapping stories with his brothers and the other Valkeries that have come before in other books by the author. Gena Showalter's "Tempt Me Eternally" is a story set in her Alien Huntress series, and features Aleaha, a woman who can take on someone else's shape just by touch. She had assumed the identity of an agent who helps to capure alien invaders, and finds she's in way over her head! Expecting plague ridden aliens with their Queen coming in on the next wormhole, they get warriors from a different planet who've come to earth to find a new home after that other plague ridden race had decimated their planet. Exuding pheromones to make the agents desire them, they quickly subdue and capture the earth agents. The leader Breen, though, is amazed by how this one human female can resist him, and how she was able to take on his shape and powers. He also can see another form underneath her assumed identity, and she intigues him! ALeaha has been feeling guilt over assuming other people's identities, but she's afraid to find out what would happen if the agency she works for thinks that she might be an alien, too! She finds the opportunity to just be herself after her captivity turns out to be Bree finding a way to seduce her and get her to want to be with him, and of course, she also wants to find a way to free her friends from the agency. This too was a fun story, and there's a cute little nod to one of Kresly Cole's characters as well.