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A surveyor returns to the West Virginia hollow she escaped—and finds the mountain, the town, and something on the old tipple waiting for her.

On Cane’s Folly in 1926, a seamstress for the dead opens her door to a stranger carrying an impossible bolt of cloth.

Professor Sabrina Marlowe knows exactly how magic works.

It manifests at thirty-two. It follows measurable patterns. It can be studied, tested, and—usually—kept from putting anyone on the ceiling.

Kyle Dawson is thirty.

His magic arrived two years early.

Worse, there's nothing wrong with it.

Assigned to study the tattooed former mechanic who shouldn't be magically possible, Sabrina expects an anomaly she can eventually explain. Instead, Kyle notices things about the Alsbeth Institute everyone else has learned to ignore. The walls move. The windows breathe. Gargoyles never stay where they were. Crows carry offerings to windows that open for no one else.

And something beneath the Institute seems to know Kyle is there.

As Sabrina digs into Alsbeth's history, academic records begin looking less like paperwork and more like evidence. Students who supposedly failed out have vanished. The deeper she searches, the harder it becomes to ignore an increasingly horrifying possibility:

Alsbeth isn't simply a school for people learning to survive becoming magical.

It's keeping something alive.

Or keeping something in.

And the institution Sabrina has devoted her career to may have been deciding who pays the price.

Magic comes at 32. Kyle Dawson is 30.

Rook came to the blackwater river for one thing: a way back to the wreck that killed his crew.

The river gives him Naere instead.

Naere is a Binder, a dangerous river-merman bound to laws older than the port at the river’s mouth. His freshwater world is dying as salt creeps inland, and the same treacherous shoals that keep Rook from his dead keep Naere from the source of the wound.

So they make a bargain.

Rook gets safe passage. Naere gets a road to the sea.

Neither expects the bargain to become desire.

But the farther they travel from the river, the more the balance between them shifts. Rook begins to see the loneliness beneath Naere’s possessive certainty. Naere discovers that the one man he most wants to keep may be the one man who cannot bear to belong to anyone.

And beyond the shoals waits a wreck neither of them understands as well as they think they do.

With a rival captain closing in and the boundary between river and ocean beginning to fail, Rook and Naere are pulled toward a choice that could cost them the dead, the living, and whatever has begun growing between them.

A dark MM pirate-merman romantasy about dangerous bargains, supernatural claiming, shifting power, and two men discovering that being kept is not the same thing as being chosen.

What if your mid-life crisis sends you to another world? What if you “find yourself” but also find a dragon?

People think of Rose Matthews as a woman who has everything. However, she sees herself as an underappreciated mother, business partner, and wife. Her husband was always on the go, and she did what was expected of her, forgetting who she was along the way.

Sick of the hum-drum, Rose looks beyond her humanity to the bloodline running through her. As a child of dragon mages, she is tempted to throw off traditional values and allow herself to be pulled to the other world, where supernatural beings rule and life is anything but boring.

Will she find what she's looking for there? If she does, what will that do to her future in this world?

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The Companions of the Dragon Stories are stand-alone paranormal romance stories showcasing the lives of enigmatic characters living and loving in our urban fantasy world, The Dragon Tasker Universe. We wrote the stories for fun and for ourselves and now we want to share them with you!

Roja was born to be a Hunter.

At least, that was what everyone believed until her power never awakened.

While her younger brother inherited the strength, instincts, and future meant for their bloodline, Roja learned to wear red—the color marking those who cannot protect themselves. She still believes in her people, their duty, and the warning every Hunter child knows:

Never trust a wolf.

Then she runs straight into one.

Takowa should be everything Roja has been taught to fear. Instead, he catches her when she falls, lets her go when she retreats, and slowly becomes the one person who never asks her to be anything other than herself.

But Takowa carries a secret written into his very blood.

He is Kowa—the last of the Original wolves, descendants of an ancient bloodline Hunters have sworn never to forgive.

Roja has spent her life believing the story of the Hunter woman who trusted an Original and paid for it. Now she must decide whether centuries of warning matter more than the man standing before her.

Takowa knows the truth behind that old story.

He also knows some truths come with a price.

Their ancestors once proved that a Hunter’s heart and a wolf’s may meet.

Roja and Takowa are about to discover what happens when blood remembers what the heart would rather forget.

Blood betrayed them both.

Skye Adams has no idea who she was before two years ago.

A terrible accident stole her memories and nearly took her life. Skye has learned to live with the blank space where her past should be—even if she's getting tired of being treated like she's too fragile to handle the truth.

Skye lives in a harsh, unforgiving world where zombies have been a fact of life for years. But outbreaks in her small West Texas town have always been rare.

Until now.

When EAB agent Liam Zane arrives to investigate the sudden increase in zombie activity, he starts asking questions no one seems able to answer. He's tall, unfairly handsome, irritatingly observant—and far too good at noticing the things Skye would rather ignore.

As the investigation draws them closer, so does the attraction neither of them expected. But when pieces of Skye's missing past begin to surface, she starts to wonder if the accident she's been told about is really the whole story.

And some secrets were never meant to come back.

Skye survived something she shouldn't have.

Founders Day in Crestview, Georgia, is supposed to bring neighbors together. Instead, it ends with the mayor dead.

When Mayor Thomas Holloway’s fatal fall begins to look less like an accident, Frances “Fifi” Davis finds herself noticing the little things everyone else seems to overlook. With her best friend, Mae Carter, beside her, Fifi starts asking questions, following hunches, and discovering that their charming small town has been keeping more than a few secrets.

Someone in Crestview knows what really happened to the mayor.

And Fifi has never been very good at leaving a question unanswered.

A clean, cozy mystery filled with small-town secrets, friendship, humor, and two women who are far more observant than people give them credit for.

Some roads are meant to take you home.

Others are waiting for you to remember them.

When Mara Ellison takes a wrong turn on a road that shouldn’t exist, she finds herself at an isolated motel with eight rooms, a guest register full of names, and a past no one seems willing to explain.

The longer Mara stays, the more the place begins to feel familiar.

A room she doesn’t remember entering.

A name that shouldn’t be there.

A road that refuses to stay where she left it.

And somewhere in the darkness, something remembers Mara far better than she remembers it.

Because this isn’t the first time she’s been here.

Some places are haunted by the dead.

This one is haunted by what was forgotten.

In 2023, Scientists at the International Institute for Fundamental Research near Geneva sought answers to the universe’s greatest mysteries. Instead, their experiment unleashed a catastrophe no one could have foreseen.

Cities were destroyed, civilizations collapsed, and mysterious forces opened pathways to realms beyond human understanding.

One thousand years later, humanity awakens to a world they no longer recognize.
The story follows Vanessa, Gabriel, Aqulius, Tony, Maurice, Keira, and Balanya.

Vanessa, a young woman whose strange abilities and mysterious origins lead her toward a world beneath the sea—and toward answers about who she truly is. Around her, unlikely allies from beneath the surface, alien beings, and creatures from across the Earth emerge from the shadows. As old secrets begin to surface, the survivors discover that the catastrophe that changed their world may have connected them to something far greater than they imagined.

But survival may not be enough.

These unlikely warriors must decide whether they will remain prisoners of the world that was devastated—or fight to forge a new destiny for the world that remains.

Desolate Dawn is a story of survival, discovery, identity, courage, and the unexpected bonds formed when shattered worlds collide.

✨ HOPE RISING ✨

A Cozy Fantasy Novel by Kim Brown

Tammy goes to sleep expecting another ordinary day.

Instead, she wakes in a silent forest with no idea where she is—or how to get home.

Beyond the trees lies Hope Rising, a seemingly perfect community built on peace, equality, and order. Tammy is given a new name—Celeste —a new home, a new purpose…and a long list of rules she is expected to obey.

But Hope Rising has secrets.

Every resident is secretly ranked. No one knows their own level. No one knows exactly what makes them rise or fall.

And nobody wants to talk about Level Zero.

Determined to get back to her family, Celeste begins searching for answers. But between forbidden paths, missing residents, hidden friendships, and an infuriating rule-follower named Andre, she starts wondering if she was really brought to Hope Rising to escape it…

Or to change it.

🌿 Found family

✨ Mysterious magic

💜 Slow-burn romance

🔐 Dangerous secrets

📜 Rules that might just need breaking

Not all rules are meant to be followed.

The Salem Slayers: Broken Covenants. Every secret has a guardian. Every covenant has a price. When supernatural investigator Melody Whitlock is assigned to investigate a series of brutal killings, she expects to find a dangerous predator hiding in the shadows. Instead, she discovers the organization she works for has its own dark secrets that could threaten the fragile alliances between humans and the supernatural. As Melody follows the trail of bloodshed, she uncovers a conspiracy designed to destroy those alliances from within. Her investigation leads her to Caven, a powerful wolf Alpha whose first encounters with Melody are anything but friendly. Yet an undeniable bond begins to grow between them. Now Melody must navigate a world of secrets, betrayal, supernatural danger, and forbidden alliances while questioning the very institution she has sworn to serve. Because the greatest threat may not be hiding in the darkness. It may be hiding among those sworn to protect it. Broken Covenants is Season One of The Salem Slayers, a paranormal mystery series filled with supernatural secrets, dangerous alliances, betrayal, and a love that could change two worlds forever.

Broken Covenants is the first season in The Salem Slayers, a paranormal mystery series of supernatural secrets, dangerous alliances, betrayal, and a love that could change two worlds forever.

Every eight years, a carnival appears in the struggling town of Demon Den, promising monstrous thrills to anyone brave enough to remain after sundown.

For Alana, its return feels like an invitation from the happiest night of her childhood—the night her father brought her beneath its dazzling lights and a mysterious boy with brilliant hazel eyes promised to protect her. Now grown and eager to reclaim that memory, she enters the carnival with her best friend, V, expecting elaborate scares, reckless fun, and enough horror to make Halloween unforgettable.

But the blood is real. Terrified guests are dragged into the darkness, the crowds begin to disappear, and even the victims vanish from the memories of those who loved them.

Separated from V and hunted through the carnival grounds, Alana finds herself pursued by a masked stranger whose presence feels inexplicably familiar. Beneath his disguise waits the horned monster she never forgot—and he has spent years waiting for her return.

He would slaughter anyone who threatened her, defy his own kind to keep her safe, and burn the human world before allowing it to take her from him. But loving him means accepting the horrifying truth behind the carnival…and deciding how much of her humanity Alana is willing to sacrifice to remain in the arms of her monster.

Camelot is burning the old world to ash.
Once a princess of Oléron, Tryamour has watched human conquest reduce her homeland to ruin, leaving her family dead and her people scattered. Now a healer for the Resistance, she has little left but her hatred for Camelot and a willingness to do whatever it takes to see the kingdom fall.
Even if it means walking willingly into the heart of it.
Disguised as a servant within Castle Pendragon, Tryamour intends to poison the court and disappear before anyone discovers what she is. Instead, she crosses paths with Lanval, a peasant born knight whose loyalty to Camelot has earned him everything he once dreamed of, and whose growing doubts threaten to cost him all of it.
He should be her enemy.
She should be nothing more than a traitor.
But when bloodshed forces them together, hatred gives way to something far more dangerous: an ancient bond neither of them can easily escape.

Astra has rules.

Sifira and Odran know them well. They know the monsters that stalk its wild places, the magic woven through its people, and the dangers waiting inside its dungeons. Alongside a mismatched group of companions, they’ve learned how to survive a world where adventure has teeth.

But the rules are changing.

Creatures are behaving in ways they shouldn’t. Dungeons are breaking patterns that have held for generations. Familiar dangers are becoming unpredictable, and encounters that should be routine are leaving behind questions no one knows how to answer.

For Sifira and Odran, facing the unknown together is nothing new. They’ve spent years fighting beside each other, sharing beds, trading insults, keeping secrets, and knowing one another well enough to recognize the things neither is willing to say aloud.

Now even that familiarity may not be enough.

As their party ventures deeper into a mystery that should be impossible, each discovery chips away at what they thought they understood about Astra—and suggests that whatever is happening is far bigger than a few unusual monsters.

Magic. Dungeons. Dangerous quests. Questionable decisions. Complicated relationships. Six people trying very hard not to die.

And a world that has suddenly stopped following its own rules.

The monsters were never supposed to change.

Once upon a curse, a kingdom bargained with darkness.

To save a dying queen, a fae lord’s stolen flower healed her—and birthed a princess bound by shadow.

Hidden away by fairies of light, Princess Lynneae grows up among lies and lullabies, until a mortal boy, Rowyn, awakens something forbidden in her heart. But when the sanctuary of spring falls, the darkness she was born from comes to claim her.

Now trapped in Maleus’s realm of ash and desire, Lynneae must resist the pull of her captor’s power, even as Rowyn crosses the Abyss to bring her back.

A tale of obsession, defiance, and doomed devotion, Taming Malice is a darkly seductive reimagining of Sleeping Beauty—where love is a curse, salvation is a sin, and the heart’s desire may be its undoing.

The young royals’ best friend is hiding something—even if he can’t lie.

Thirtyx Venmagalion was sent to the elite Wydewood Academy to betray the prince and princess. But when his people—the shifty, anarchist Veriths with a physical inability to lie—abandoned him, he befriended the monarchs instead. Now in their final year of school, the trio faces a threat to the unprecedented peace they’ve enjoyed under King Grimmary. Someone is after the throne. And despite Thirtyx’s best efforts to protect the prince and princess, his heritage makes him a prime suspect.

As essays and exams take a backseat to survival, Thirtyx quickly learns that keeping a low profile won’t get him to graduation, especially with his fiery new friend Seerla urging him to embrace his Verith identity. Can Thirtyx juggle death threats, apprenticeship applications, and guarding the royal family's most dangerous secret? Or might he be the one who brings the delicate peace crashing down?

In thirty days, she will purify fifty million souls. But today, she just wants to play.

A dark fairy tale about a merciful saint.

Malvika is a priestess of the Clements — the creed of mercy in a world at war for three thousand years. She sleeps in, dances badly with her broom, and is the kindest soul in the town of Orison.

The god she serves measures devotion in a single number: souls purified.

She loved the ash. And the ash loved her back.

What to expect:

• A villain-origin descent arc — you will root for her, and that's the horror

• LitRPG bones: system screens, titles, Graces, vows that bind power

• Grimdark war: plagues, alchemy fire, mercy with a knife behind it

• Dark fairy tale prose: lullabies, snow angels, ashen rain

• Completed and bingeable — 21 chapters, one countdown, no hiatus

Not for you if: you need heroes who stay heroes, or mercy that stays merciful.

Never seek vengeance. Always show mercy.

She obeyed. That was the problem.

snack-sized horror

Eric Lemhurst knows how to find the open.

On the ice, everything makes sense. Angles. Timing. Probability. The exact fraction of a second it takes for an opening to appear before anyone else sees it. At seventeen, Eric is already one of the most gifted young hockey players in the country, with scouts watching and a future everyone seems eager to plan for him.

Off the ice, the rules are harder.

School is loud. People say things they do not mean. Friendships change without warning. And now everyone is obsessed with prom—a night built around crowds, formal clothes, dancing, and social expectations Eric cannot seem to calculate. His brother Paul is the one person who can steady him when the rest of the world becomes too much, but even Paul has secrets Eric can’t decipher

Hundreds of miles away, Walker Blackmore is making calculations of her own.

Her life looks perfect from the outside. The right family. The right clothes. The right boyfriend. Radley Bofield is blonde, handsome, popular, and one of the most promising football players at their Alabama high school. He is exactly the kind of boy Walker's mother believes she should be dating.

Everyone thinks Walker is lucky.

Walker knows how carefully she has to behave to keep Radley happy.

As prom approaches, Eric is trying to survive a world that expects him to act like everyone else, while Walker is beginning to understand how dangerous perfection can become behind closed doors.

One night with First Lieutenant Tom Seaver was supposed to scratch an itch, not rearrange Naddy Brooks’s entire life.

She has an eight-year-old son to raise, bills she can barely pay, and absolutely no interest in falling for a Marine whose job can take him away without warning. Tom was supposed to be sex.

Then he kept showing up.

He fixes her dying car, wins over her kid, fills her empty fridge, and somehow turns a casual fling into motorcycle rides, Sunday ice cream, late-night arguments, and a life that starts feeling dangerously like home.

Tom Seaver knows how to compartmentalize. It’s how he survives a career built on classified work, sudden deployments, and never promising more than he can control.

Naddy and her son make that impossible. What starts as something temporary becomes the one part of his life Tom can’t keep at a distance. And the closer they get, the harder it becomes to leave them behind every time duty calls.

Off Base is a steamy, emotional military romance about a fiercely independent single mom, a guarded Marine officer, an accidental family, scorching chemistry, and two people who never meant to become each other’s home.**

Piper Turner thought turning twenty-one would mean cake, cocktails, and maybe finally getting her life together. She was wrong.

First, her boyfriend betrays her with her best friend. Then strange things start happening around Mossy Creek—things even Piper can't blame on her possibly haunted house or her late great-grandmother's restless ghost.

Enter Torin Winterbourne: tall, dark, dangerously attractive, and the mysterious owner of a security company who always seems to know more than he's willing to say.

As if that isn't enough, Piper discovers a tiny winged man with a taste for mischief hiding in her flower garden. Arlen insists he's a pixie. He also seems determined to make himself at home, preferably anywhere Torin can't find him.

The deeper Piper gets pulled into a dark, dangerous world she always thought belonged in Granny's fairy stories, the harder it becomes to ignore one unsettling possibility:

Maybe all these strange things aren't happening around Piper by accident.

And whatever is waking up in Mossy Creek may have been waiting for her twenty-first birthday.

When a bloodstained shoe and a trail leading to an alligator-infested lake are discovered in Savannah’s most exclusive communities, residents are eager to blame a man-eating gator. But the keys found inside the reptile point to missing land investor Josh Middleton, and the evidence suggests he was murdered before the alligator ever reached him.

For environmental attorney Hayley Falcon, the mystery strikes dangerously close to home. Her fight to stop a developer from destroying coastal wetlands has already drawn threats. Now a reporter is digging into the dead man’s deals, officials are hiding secrets, and a ruthless criminal organization is tightening its grip on Savannah through bribery, bloodshed, and fear.

As attacks against the Falcon family escalate, Hayley learns that her husband, Shawn, has concealed a life far more dangerous than she imagined. With their marriage fracturing and their daughter caught in the crosshairs, Hayley must decide whom she can trust before an enemy inside Savannah’s highest circles destroys everyone she loves.

Skidaway Alligator is a fast-moving Southern mystery of murder, corruption, family secrets, and ambition, set amid the moss-draped beauty and shadowed marshes of coastal Georgia, where the most dangerous predator is not always the one beneath the water.

Meet Hayley Falcon, a gun-toting matriarch, and her single-minded daughter, Maxine, whom she loves unconditionally. Meet Tater, a computer technician with sociopathic tendencies, who has lived with and exploited Maxine since she graduated from college. Follow Hayley as she is plunged into mayhem in order to rescue her daughter from self-destruction. Watch as Maxine’s life blows up, literally.

Plot twists abound in this contemporary Southern Suspense novel. Think “Dallas” meets “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.”

THE SHADOW WOMEN OF PENDERTON ASYLUM

They were told they were ill. They knew they were prisoners.

Penderton Asylum has stood since 1880, built with the promise of caring for those society could not—or would not—care for itself. But behind its imposing walls, some women have discovered a terrifying truth:

You don't have to be insane to be locked away.

In an era when a woman's grief could be called hysteria, her independence labeled defiance, and her refusal to obey deemed evidence of madness, a handful of women find themselves committed to Penderton under circumstances that make no sense.

At the center of it all is Dr. Klaus Brenner, a brilliant and formidable physician who seems to know far more about his patients than he should. Under his watch, the women are diagnosed, controlled, silenced—and slowly stripped of any hope that someone outside the asylum will believe them.

But Brenner has made one mistake.

He has put the wrong women in the same place.

Strangers at first, they begin to recognize something in one another: courage, intelligence, secrets—and an unshakable determination to survive.

With help from a few unexpected allies inside Penderton, they begin a secret alliance.

Then they begin to plan.

Because there is only one way out of Penderton Asylum…
Escape.
But freedom will come at a price.
And if Dr. Brenner discovers what they're planning, they may never see the outside.
Come inside Penderton.
Just be careful who you trust.

Katlin Meyer swore she’d never set foot in Pine Ridge again.

Then her father starts dying in the farmhouse at the edge of the orchard, and Katlin has two weeks to sign the papers, sell the land, and get back to the life she built where nobody knows what happened eleven years ago.

On her first night home, she finds a faded pink ribbon tied to the fence.

Crystal Brennan used to wear ribbons just like it.

Crystal was Katlin’s best friend. She was fifteen when she disappeared, and Katlin was the last person known to have seen her.

Then more things begin appearing.

A ring.

An old photograph with Crystal’s face scratched away.

Someone has been holding on to pieces of that summer for eleven years, and they know Katlin has been lying about the night Crystal vanished.

Now a detective is asking questions. A man from Katlin’s past is watching her too closely. And someone is determined to make sure the truth buried in the orchard finally comes out.

Katlin ran once.

This time, the past is waiting for her at home.

Hallowmoon Academy has survived a broken Veil, a corrupted Archchancellor, and a Nightingale who refused to die for tradition.

But some of its oldest secrets are still buried beneath its halls.

Months after Wella Larksong's Ascension changed Hallowmoon forever, twenty-year-old Petra Vey is helping uncover the records Archchancellor Vermillion tried to hide. Her starblood has always been considered too weak to matter, but Petra possesses a stranger gift: she can hear traces of music lingering in places where the musicians are long gone.

Then a woman begins singing from behind a solid wall.

With guarded Lumenguard Soren Varimir at her side, Petra follows the voice into a secret passage beneath the Academy—and discovers a prison that appears on no map.

Someone is still inside.

Someone Hallowmoon declared dead decades ago.

As Petra and Soren uncover hidden chambers, forbidden histories, and evidence that the creatures beyond the Veil may not be what Hallowmoon has always claimed, one terrifying possibility emerges: the Nightingales who vanished during their Ascensions may never have died at all.

And something beyond the Veil has been trying to find its way home.

A romantic dark-academia fantasy filled with magical music, secret passages, forbidden history, slow-burn romance, strange creatures, and an academy built upon centuries of lies.

Tessa Blackwell has spent years perfecting the art of looking fine.

She smiles. She dresses like she has nothing to prove. And she makes sure no one in Sycamore Ridge sees the heartbreak she still carries.

Jason has learned to live with loss in a different way. As a widowed pastor and single father, he carries the weight of his daughter, his congregation, and the life he never expected to have.

Neither of them is looking for love.

But Christmas has a way of softening old wounds, opening guarded hearts, and reminding people that hope can arrive quietly.

In Sycamore Ridge, where family runs deep and porch lights stay burning, Tessa and Jason may discover that trusting again is the bravest kind of second chance.

Christmas in Sycamore Ridge is a clean, heartfelt small-town romance about grief, faith, family, and learning to believe in love again.

Pippa Bennett was hardened and salty after being an emergency room nurse in Boston, MA. After her mother passed unexpectedly, she inherited her mother's horse farm in Eagle Falls, New Hampshire. She uproots her life and moves back home, dealing with the grief that follows. When her ex-fiancé, Graham Maddox, ends up in her small-town ER with a bullet wound, her world is turned upside down.

Pippa was a take-no-shit, deal-with-no-shit kind of girl, but what happens when you put a grump with a grump?

After a painful divorce, Lauren James heads to Harbor Point, North Carolina, hoping the cottage her Aunt Jane left behind will give her room to breathe and figure out what comes next.

She expects repairs, quiet mornings, and maybe a fresh start. She does not expect Eli, the boy she once knew during childhood summers, now very much a grown man with roots in the town and reasons of his own for keeping people at a distance.

As Lauren begins restoring the cottage, she finds herself rebuilding more than an old house. Harbor Point starts to feel like home, old connections begin to matter again, and the future she thought she had lost may be waiting at the end of Shell Road.

A sweet coastal romance about second chances, unexpected beginnings, and finding home when you least expect it.

Before he was Ivo, he was the missing heir to a fallen kingdom.
- The empire hunted a prince. Earth found a boy with no name.
Eight-year-old Prince Riven has only minutes to escape when Emperor Inimicus seizes Midros. His parents are left behind, his kingdom falls, and two men—Favir, his father's former adviser, and Roman, a man far better with crops than spaceships—are given one impossible task:

Keep the prince alive.

For seven years, they run.

From crowded space stations to forgotten colonies, Riven grows up beneath false names, hiding the dragon-shaped mark that could reveal his bloodline. Some people want the lost prince dead. Others want to put him back on the throne. And Riven isn't sure he wants to belong to either side.

Then the empire finds him.

With their ship failing and imperial vessels closing in, Favir and Roman are left with one desperate option: an escape capsule bound for occupied Earth—and a memory protocol capable of erasing everything Riven knows.

His kingdom.

His family.

Even his own name.

When the capsule crashes into the ruins of an Earth city, the boy beneath the rubble remembers nothing about the empire hunting him.

But the dragon on his hand remains.

And so does the secret hidden beneath his skin.

Before Starbound Orphans, there was a prince who had to forget who he was in order to survive.

Anyone who tries to get lost on the Gulf Coast is bound to have a past…

Sofi and Maggie are twin witches raised on the bayou and barrier isles of Alabama. Both dream of meeting their knight in shining armor, who will save them from a life of boredom in a small town. Seamus is a delicious mystery, and his friend, Alex, is every gal's fevered dream. Neither are knights; these two are rogues ready to steal hearts. So, will the girls be rescued, or will they be the ones doing the rescuing?

Co-Authors: Rachel D. Adams and Athena Cetta

Brother Anselm has kept spotless discipline for fourteen years: flagellation on Tuesdays and Fridays, the canonical hours recited on schedule, sermons on lust so pointed the blacksmith’s wife says they make her feel clean. Then he finds something bleeding in the November leaves, carries it home, and locks it in the root cellar under a lie about a broken gate latch.

He tells himself she’s a specimen. He builds a feeding stand at exactly twelve inches, trains her the way a falconer trains a hawk, and fills a ledger with clinical notes about antler growth and dappled skin that no priest should be able to describe so precisely. He calls her demon the way he says Amen.

She calls him by the name he discarded the day he was ordained.

Custodian details three years of confinement, confession, and a Summa theology, a collection of handwritten notes that was not intended to hold them. It tells the story of a man who aimed to civilize a creature but ultimately learned which of them was truly being imprisoned.

At Skarrholt, the birds choose their riders.

Cael Vantric has spent his whole life preparing to be chosen by an eagle. His family name, his future, and everything he has been taught to believe about himself depend on it.

Instead, a vulture descends.

The choice is public, humiliating, and impossible to undo. Worse, the bird is tied to the Carrion House, an ancient Order struck from the academy’s records generations ago and left to decay at the edge of Skarrholt.

Forced into a bond he never wanted, Cael is drawn into the forgotten work of the Carrion House, the buried history of his family, and a truth the academy has spent centuries teaching itself not to see.

As old loyalties fracture and a quiet connection grows between Cael and one of the last remaining Bearers, he must decide whether being chosen is a fate to endure, an inheritance to escape, or a life worth claiming for himself.

Because at Skarrholt, the birds choose.

And sometimes they remember what people would rather forget.

A year has passed since the Devil's Massacre.

Sapphire Astor takes the reins of her family's empire as Don, but not every family in Chicago is willing to answer to a woman. As old tensions threaten the fragile peace, the Astors have more to protect than their name.

Chicago is a city built on secrets. And some secrets are worth killing to keep.

Nia is broke, stressed, and one day away from losing everything. An unexpected opportunity lands in her inbox, promising easy money... Will a simple job become more than Nia bargained for?

Hallowfield keeps its own.

Jesse Corwin comes home to bury the last piece of their old life, sell their grandmother’s house, and leave before the town can get its hooks back into them.

Then the dead start leaving threads behind.

A childhood friend has vanished from photographs, records, and memory. A sealed room in the abandoned mill is warm from the inside. And beneath everything, something ancient is still weaving, quietly deciding what Hallowfield remembers and what it can afford to lose.

The deeper Jesse pulls at the town’s buried history, the more they uncover an inheritance built on sacrifice, silence, and impossible bargains.

Because in Hallowfield, nothing is truly gone.

And nothing comes back for free.

Lacey and her childhood friends made a promise to stay inseparable forever. But when her father loses his job and she can no longer afford cheerleading, her friends decide she's not pretty enough to be part of their perfect little circle.

By the time senior year rolls around, Lacey is no longer the plain girl everyone remembers. She's suddenly the most beautiful girl in school. But the secret behind her beauty is far more dangerous than makeup or plastic surgery. Her stunning new stepmother has given Lacey eternal youth, supernatural beauty, and a thirst for human blood.

With the help of her dangerously charming familiar, Jordan, Lacey comes up with the perfect revenge: Forever Young Beauty Cream. It promises flawless beauty, but stop using it, and the real consequences begin.

Lacey has a choice. Forgive the friends who made her feel worthless, or show them what their obsession with beauty has cost them.

With eternity on her side, revenge has never tasted so sweet.

Emotional engagement is not required or expected.

Maren Santiago counts things instead of feeling them.

Drinks.

Tips.

Steps between her apartment and the subway.

Eleven minutes in an elevator going three miles straight down.

She won the Decennial Carrier Lottery...which she never entere. Under the Kovalev-Chen Fertility Accords, participation is automatic, refusal is a treaty violation, and the Bureau of Interspecies Reproductive Compliance would like to congratulate her on her civic duty.

The pamphlet is reassuring and includes a FAQ.

Four to six hours.

A clutch of four to eight eggs.

Direct genital contact with the assigned drone.

Emotional engagement is not required or expected.

The pamphlet has no question for the drone.

Seven feet of iridescent chitin. Six amber eyes.

A species that has spent sixty million years three miles beneath the surface and has no word for blue because its world has never contained one. He touches her face like he is reading it. He makes a sound she can feel in her teeth.

He looks at her like she is the first sky he has ever seen.

The procedure is scheduled for four to six hours. Ninety-six hours later the Bureau arrives to extract her, and Maren looks at the woman with the clipboard and says "There's a sixth egg".

There is no sixth egg.

Lara Silvers has spent most of her life avoiding dragons.

Her parents were dragon riders. They were heroes. And they died for it.

So while half of Evermere dreams of being chosen at the annual Selection, Lara wants nothing to do with dragons, riders, or the prestigious world they belong to. She's perfectly happy working in her family's jewelry shop and keeping both feet firmly on the ground.

Then she finds a young black dragon chained in the woods.

Freeing her is probably the most reckless thing Lara has ever done—and considering her habit of acting before thinking, that's saying something. But when the dragon chooses Lara and an unexpected bond forms between them, Lara's carefully planned future disappears overnight.

Now she's headed to Drakhan Academy, where everyone else actually wanted to be there.

Between learning to fly, surviving combat training, dealing with classmates who think she never earned her place, and trying not to embarrass herself in front of a certain infuriatingly attractive third-year rider, Lara has enough problems.

But whoever wanted Sable hasn't necessarily stopped looking for her.

Sue and Jackson have been best friends since childhood. They’ve been through everything together but nothing could prepare them for the nightmare of Jessica’s abduction.

As Sue and Jackson race to find his younger sister, Sue is forced to look at her feelings for Jessica. She's never thought of Jessica as anything other than a kid sister. She was afraid anything else would destroy her friendship with Jackson. But with every passing day, and every moment spent searching for Jessica, her feelings become clearer.

What happens when they finally find Jessica? And what will Jackson say when he discovers his best friend has fallen in love with his little sister?

Captain Rowan Vale of the Black Dawn has faced storms, battles, and death at sea. Nothing has prepared him for the island that waits beyond the wreckage of his ship.

After a monstrous storm tears the Black Dawn apart, Vale awakens on a strange shore surrounded by the bodies of his men. The survivors soon discover they have reached the Demon Isles—a place sailors whisper about in terrified voices, where ships are lured to their destruction and the men who wash ashore are said to become something far worse than human.

The legends are true.

Before Vale and his remaining crew can escape, they are captured by the island's warriors and brought before its enigmatic queen—a formidable woman whispered to be half mad, bloodthirsty, and more demon than human herself.

But Vale is not like the others.

Rather than breaking him, the Queen finds something in the pirate captain that earns her interest. She offers him a glimpse behind the island's legends and a terrible truth: survival here comes at a price, and escape may demand a sacrifice greater than death.

Now Vale must survive the Queen, her warriors, the creatures that haunt the island, and the darkness that is slowly consuming his men.

Because on the Demon Isles, the question isn't whether you will survive.

It's what you will become to do it.

Humans who were once defenseless under the rule of powerful beings are beginning to claim a place of their own.

Pierce, the adopted human son of a slain Kastelian king, has spent his life feeling inferior to his brothers with special abilities. Now, armed with the magical items he stole, he is determined to build a new world where humans hold the power. From the shadows, Pierce controls the young human rulers of the kingdoms he has created, and anyone who stands in his way becomes a threat to his vision.

Eighteen-year-old Willa never imagined she would become part of Pierce’s plans. She has no wealth, noble blood, or desire for a life inside the castle. But when young King Destin is ordered to choose a third bride, Willa’s attempt to hide among the men of her village fails.

Now she must marry a king whose previous brides were found poisoned the night before their weddings or face lifelong imprisonment. As Willa enters a world of royalty, secrets, and deadly power struggles, she discovers that her unwanted crown places her at the center of a conflict far greater than her own.

Crowned continues the story begun in Valerie Claussen's novel, Sustain, bringing back familiar faces while introducing a new generation of royalty. Although Crowned can be read as a standalone novel, readers of Sustain will discover how the events of the first book continue to shape this changing world.

Aiden is an independent omega. He has a job and his own apartment. The last thing he wants is an alpha intruding in his life... right?

A story collection written by my great uncle, Julius M Harkey, when he was a principal and teacher in a small Native Alaskan school in Savoonga, St. Lawrence Island, as well as in Kotzebue, Alaska, from 1954 until his death in 1965 in Kotzebue Hospital of a heart attack. I don't believe the stories have ever been published. I hope you enjoy reading about his life on the west coast of Alaska just above the Arctic Circle. Please keep in mind these were written before 1964 & are his thoughts, stories, musings, opinions only. Book 2 are his letters to home, mainly to my father and mother. Book 3 will be about my travels to and from Alaska and living there 1969-1962 and again from 2002-2012.

A violent storm should have killed Esther.
Instead, it delivers her straight into the hands of Count Alistair Winchester.
Wounded and far from home, Esther awakens in a manor of unimaginable luxury, where comfort is provided before she thinks to ask for it. Silk gowns wait in her wardrobe. Servants tend her to her every need. And the dark, enigmatic nobleman who rescued her watches her with an intensity that makes fear dangerously easy to mistake for desire.
But Winchester Manor hides an old and disturbing legacy.
At night, apparitions gather beside Esther’s bed and whisper:
Run!
By daylight, stranger things begin to surface. Family portraits that make no sense. Belongings whose owners have vanished. Remedies prepared for purposes no one will explain. And one part of the estate Alistair has forbidden her to enter.
The more Esther discovers around, the harder it becomes to believe she was brought to the Winchester Manor by chance.
Yet leaving is no longer as simple as walking through an open door.
And the man she should fear most is becoming the one she cannot stop wanting to understand and look beyond his mask.
Because behind Alistair’s impeccable manners lies a hunger older than Esther can imagine.
It isn't always necessary to chain someone down to keep them close; among the monstrous tools in this story are kindness, a touch of unhealthy curiosity... and a door that must not be entered.

The Schoolhouse Whispers series continues in Book Three, The Lighthouse.

Anika wakes with a life-changing truth: her mind now holds all of Anne’s memories. With her newborn son and Gideon at her side, she tries to settle back into the rhythm of her small island community and mend old wounds.

In a town where whispers travel, Anika must decide how to live the truth of who she is and how much of her identity she is willing to share with the outside world. Though her discovery thrills most who love Anika, her adopted family fears what her revelation could mean for their place in her life.

As word of her astonishing claim spreads beyond the island’s red cliffs, curious, unwelcome attention begins to circle. Through it all, the age-accelerated clone is reminded again that she belongs to a community that shares in each other’s joys and carries one another through life’s challenges.

(This is the third book in the series. Books One and Two, Schoolhouse Whispers: Almost Anne and Schoolhouse Whispers: Anika and Gideon, are available on Amazon.)

Teaching at a magical academy sounded like the perfect fresh start for Fern Millwood.

She didn’t plan on becoming an amateur detective.

When her grandmother’s irreplaceable Guidebook of Crossings disappears on her first day at Silverstone Academy, Fern suspects someone on the faculty knows more than they are admitting. Then she finds a torn page hidden in the restricted Archives.

The page contains part of a crossing rite, and someone has already tried to use it.

When the academy’s head librarian is found dead after the rite goes terribly wrong, suspicion spreads through Silverstone. Faculty members guard their secrets, evidence points toward an innocent man, and the person responsible is preparing to try again.

With her opinionated familiar, Pickles, providing sarcastic commentary, Fern must trust the unusual sensitivity she has spent years doubting. She may not have the credentials of Silverstone’s experts, but she can recognize what they have overlooked.

Before anyone else is hurt, Fern must identify who stole the guidebook and stop them from attempting the rite again.

She Was Born to Wield a Blade, Not to be Won...

When bandits tear through her village, Lady Kandra of Stafford rides out for blood. She finds a band of Highland warriors and doesn't wait to ask questions. She draws her sword. Only after her brother lies wounded and the dust settles does she learn the truth: these were never the men who raided her home.
Lachlan MacKinnon has never met a woman like her, a knight in her own right, fierce enough to challenge him and cut down his men without flinching. He can't let the attack go unanswered. He can't ignore what a female English hostage is worth in ransom. And he can't explain why the moment he looks into her eyes, something drew him to her.
Kandra wants none of it. Not his cage, not his gold, and certainly not the bond neither of them asked for. A wager between them was supposed to settle who bends first. Instead, it lights a fire neither can put out. A Clan war over her is closing in, her father is coming for her, and Kandra is running out of time to decide what she's really fighting for: her freedom, her family, or the man she can't resist.

She disappeared from a rave. One text, six hours late.

**hey did u leave early? lol**

She never went home.

Rachel Santos has been invisible her entire life. The middle daughter nobody remembered to pick up. The girl saved in somebody's phone as Hoodie Girl. When two strangers pull her out of a crowd and a third one feeds her breakfast like she matters, she doesn't fight it.

She sinks.

Into their loft. Into their beds. Into a world where she is photographed like a masterpiece, marked like territory, and fed like something precious. Three men, three kinds of hunger, and starving invisible Rachel finally full.

She stops going to class. She stops checking her phone. By the time the worship shows its walls, her apartment is gone, her phone is dead in a drawer, and there is no outside left. Just a lock, and she turns it herself.

Nobody Came Looking: A Love Story is book one of The Loft Duet. A descent with no ladder. It will not apologize to you.

For readers of: dark romance with actual teeth, horror that happens somewhere warm and well fed, and love stories you'll need to shower after.

You thought you had no magic.
But when your magic awakened, it hurt the one you loved the most.
Born of the impossible union of a High Elf and a Sea Elf, Aluriel is shunned through her childhood and then exiled for the destructive magic she cannot control.
Accompanied by a grumpy dwarven priest and a warrior she meets along the way, she must make her way to a distant land, while enduring the whispers that would lead her to madness.
And something else is stirring. Gods, emperors, mages, and other beings -- whose attention she would rather avoid -- seem to take an interest in her and meddle...

This is the first book of a planned saga. Book 2 is being written currently. Each book gets progressively darker and may betray your expectations.

A princess forced into a deadly game, a masked outlaw with a dangerous grudge, and an enchanted, mechanical monster hunting them both.

In the fractured Kingdom of Stormwatch, Princess Adora is a political pawn. Thrust into a brutal contest for her hand by the ruthless Prince Nicobar, her future looks grim-until the arrival of a mysterious competitor. Wearing a plague mask and calling himself the 'Prince of the People,' this daring stranger challenges the court's tyranny. But he isn't just playing a game; he's hiding a dark secret that could upend the entire kingdom. With a relentless, enchanted metal Sheriff closing in and a magical storm brewing on the horizon, Adora must make a terrifying choice: play safe and remain a captive, or risk everything for a love as wild as the magic of Stormwatch.

When Ezo’s village is lost, he leaves heartbroken but determined to make a difference in the world. Ezo has a rare magical talent but lacks a formal education. His uncle taught him the elements of magic, but not how to deal with people who are suspicious of those with power.

Kammon is one of the War-Sworn, a magic-user who dedicates his gifts to protecting his country. When he comes home from the battle, he leaves the military and his rank behind. Unable to find peace with the people he had once served, Kammon searches Distria for a way to atone for his deeds.

Their paths interconnect in ways that Ezo doesn’t understand and Kammon doesn’t trust. Can they find a way to achieve their goals in a world that fears accepting help? Or will the darker forces in the world succeed in burying their dreams?

What She Never Said

Alana Hudson has spent years hiding the truth about her abusive marriage to Kirk, believing silence was the only way to protect herself and her sons. After Kirk's sister, Stella Richardson, once again tries to take Adrian and Allen from her, a single legal letter sends Alana into a devastating trauma response and forces the secrets of her past into the light. As her sisters uncover hidden evidence of Kirk's abuse and Stella's obsession threatens to destroy everything Alana fought to rebuild, Alana must finally find the courage to speak about what happened, protect her boys, and reclaim the life she was never allowed to have.

Private investigator Keke Chung believes there’s always an explanation for the unexplained.

Then the Wolfman shows up.

After Keke connects a viral dating sensation in fur and fangs to a string of San Francisco robberies, actor Jax Maddox is arrested. But Jax insists he was only following instructions from someone known as the Handler.

When one of his former dates turns up dead, Keke follows a trail of secret research, coded messages, and a respectable academic society obsessed with people who disappear and return.

Just like her.

Twenty-eight years ago, three-year-old Keke vanished from a locked home during the Lunar New Year. Four days later, she was found near Coit Tower, unharmed and clutching a stuffed toy no one recognized.

San Francisco called her the Lucky Lunar New Year Baby.

The Silver Howl Society calls her the Returned One.

Now another Wolfman is stalking the city, and the mystery Keke has spent her life trying to solve may finally be hunting her back.

This Black-led paranormal cozy mystery is perfect for fans of Only Murders in the Building, Poker Face, and mysteries where the supernatural always has a very human explanation.

The City That Never Sleeps has gone dark.

Ashlynn is stranded in a Park Avenue apartment with thirty-one pills, a grief she refuses to name, and a candle burning in the window. She tells herself the light is practical. She knows it is a plea.

Leith is moving north through Manhattan with an open wound, an empty pistol, and a deadline. He survives by planning every possible version of disaster. The version where he ignores the candle is safer.

He goes upstairs anyway.

Their fragile alliance becomes three when they find Katrina, an eleven-year-old survivor who has learned never to wait for an adult to save her. Together they cross a city full of dead, a stadium full of desperate living, and roads where every shelter carries a claim.

Ashlynn cannot promise sobriety. Leith cannot promise safety. Katrina already knows adults make promises they cannot keep. But mile by mile, the three become a “we”—and learn that love after the end of the world is not a guarantee of safety. It is a choice made without one.

Scent of Vanilla & Old Spice, Bk 1 in the 'Scent of' series. Gracelyn Olivia Reid is in her second loveless marriage, married to a man who cheats, drinks, lies, gambles too much, & likes to watch porn on the internet. With a child addicted to drugs, she wonders where she went wrong in her life. Can she save her daughter, Shelby, from a life drugs and get her on a path to wanting life versus the alternative if she doesn't get clean before the police catch up with her and put her in jail?

Meet Eli Nash, a man Grace knew from her childhood because he was her brother's best friend, who comes back into her life as her next door neighbor. His father, who has Lewy Body Dementia, lives with him, but is that life destined to be destroyed from past mistakes made by both father and son?

Does Grace and Eli get a second chance at love with each other, or destined to stay single to deal with their own family problems? Or do they face them together and get to live a happily ever after life?

2 agents, 3 cases, 1 God …

Ann and Patrick aren’t your typical FBI agents, but then again, these aren’t normal cases either.

They’re much more personal.

The Collins Case: The agents race against time to find one of Ann’s high school friends.

The Kiverson Case: Ann and Patrick battle a man bent on revenge.

The Davidson Case: Ann scrambles to find out who wants her sister dead.

Fear rules their world, will it rule their hearts?

Newly divorced mother, Luana Douglas and her daughter, Leilani, are looking for a better life after divorce. Working two jobs to make ends meet, dating is the last thing on her mind. Her roommate has other plans for her. While she's working for a car company moving and driving cars off the pier once the stevedores finish unloading them from the ships, she meets the next in line to the stevedore company.

Thirty-five-year-old Kainoa Makakoa, just starting to get over the death of his fiance, works for his father as a stevedore at the Makakoa Bros Stevedore Company in Oahu Hawaii.

A mystery of who, how & why cars are being stolen with drugs involved not only thrusts them together but forces them to face the pains of their past so they can move toward their future, but will it be them--together? Find out in this second chance love, romantic suspense, HEA.

Lyra spent six months loving the enemy's prince in secret — stolen nights, a name she never spoke aloud, a war she thought they'd outlast. Then an ambassador cut her mother's throat at the peace table, and the name the killer wore was his.

Now she's queen, and she has a curse that can wipe a kingdom in a single morning, and she means to send it across the strait to the man who used her.

She doesn't know he's already coming back for her.

Nineteen years earlier, in Hallowmoon, another Nightingale, Elowen Ashsong, ascended the Spire.

When Elowen discovers that the Great Veil is dangerously weaker than the Choir admits, she must choose between refusing the Hymn of Ascension or climbing the Spire knowing she may never return.

Her eleven-year-old son, Chaim, begs her to stay.

Instead, Elowen gives him four notes and one promise:

"If I get lost, play this."

The Hymn saves the Veil.

Elowen disappears.

And nineteen years later, Chaim is still waiting for an answer.

A Sapphic series of love, pleasure, pain, and addiction. girl/Mistress follows the lives of young and entitled souls who embark on dark side of BDSM, while struggling with internal traumas and demons.

She was an unmatched candidate. He was the one who never stopped watching.

Taken from Mars Colony Seven along with four other women to save a dying alien species, Claire has watched every one of her friends fall for their Ardorian warriors — the commander, the engineer, the pilot. Even Melissa, who fights everything, is circling the medic with an inevitability that makes Claire's chest ache. But Claire? Claire is the unclaimed candidate. The scientist without a match. The one nobody's tattoos light up for.

Or so she thinks.

When a trafficking threat puts all five women at risk, Commander Ariss assigns his tactical officer as Claire's personal escort. Torel is seven feet of silent, lethal, infuriating composure — a warrior who communicates in monosyllables, stands in her greenhouse doorway for six hours without complaint, and smells like winter in a way that is becoming a serious problem.

What Claire doesn't know is that Torel has been suppressing his bond tattoos since the day she arrived — holding back the light in his skin through sheer will, because she was taken from her world without consent, and he refuses to let his biology make a claim she hasn't chosen.

A standalone novella set in the world of A Bride for the Alien. Can be read before or after the series.

Wella Larksong has spent her whole life playing tavern tunes on a dead man's violin, never asking why the candles bend toward her when she plays. She gets her answer the night the Lumenguard rides into her village looking for a voice born of starblood — and finds it in her.

Swept up to Hallowmoon Spire to train as the next Nightingale, the lone singer whose Hymn keeps the world's oldest wound sealed, Wella learns her predecessor died climbing these same stairs nineteen years ago, and that the official story is a lie. Her fierce, grief-guarded Guard-Captain, Chaim, believes her before she has proof. The kindly Archchancellor who calls her "my dear" does not.

As the Veil begins to fail faster than anyone will admit, Wella has weeks to expose a conspiracy three hundred years in the making, or become its next casualty, unless she and Chaim are willing to break every rule the Choir has ever written about what a Nightingale's Hymn is allowed to be.

Some songs were never meant to be sung alone.

He had everything taken from him by vampires. She needs him, but... she's one of them.

Becca began life taken from her genuine family to be raised by the Eriksson Coven - vampires who love conquering and experimenting with their slaves. By the time she was rescued, she was barely alive and wasn't sure she even wanted to live at all.

Cody and his family were taken and forced into slavery. The Eriksson coven used his family to get the big ursa to fight in the pits. Once he was broken, they made him into a feeder until a vampire lord from another coven helped him escape.

Now that vampire lord is back, asking for a favor. Save the vampire he has found, no questions asked. Oh, but there are plenty of questions!

For fifty years, Hortense Vauclain has kept the covenant nobody else remembers. She walks the boundary. She records every tremor beneath the Louisiana hollow. And when the last frost comes, she pays the land in blood to keep four ancient creatures bound to her family’s forty acres.

Now Hortense is eighty-three, the binding is failing, and the heir who should inherit it all has never heard the Vauclain name. Calling her grand-niece home would preserve the covenant—and condemn another woman to the life Hortense never chose.

So Hortense makes one final, impossible decision: she will leave the lights on, walk away from the tithe, and trust that what waits in the hollow remembers the difference between abandonment and freedom.

A Southern Gothic prequel to Boundwater, Last Frost is the story of the woman who broke the first lock.

When the obedient wife of a powerful CEO realizes her husband will always choose his first love over her, she begins falling for the handsome escort he hired to humiliate her—forcing her to choose between preserving the marriage that defines her life and becoming the woman who finally chooses herself.

Welcome To Derby, Maine is a pulse-pounding, 5-episode horror anthology series that proves some small towns are better left off the map.

Awakening with no memories, Claire knows just one thing: she’s dead.
She soon learns all recently deceased spirits must attend Haunting University to prepare for a career as a ghost or guardian. Students who fail to be accepted to the university, or who get caught remembering their lives too soon, are sent to the Remedial College to be reformed, or worse, recycled.
Before she even makes it to the university, a devastating attack on the Administration building pulls Claire into a web of secrets woven by the Remedial College’s mysterious chancellor.
As she struggles to find her way in the afterlife, Claire is torn between her growing crush on her reaper and the strange bond she shares with his best friend, the unfortunate victim of the attack whose afterlife now depends on her.
To make matters worse, she’s plagued by nightmares that leave her waking with the sensation of blood on her hands. Nightmares that sometimes appear even when she’s awake.
Could they be memories?
If so, Claire may not just be dead.
She may have been a serial killer.

When Liza Starr Love, an historical romance author, travels back in time with her main character, Ross York, who is a Peterson Detective in her tenth historical romance novel, she must prevent him from altering the future and try to save the life of her infamous ancestor--Belle Starr.

Liza is frantically working on her book deadline because without it, she has no way to keep her farm afloat after her husband died in a freak framing accident. She needs the money from the sale of her book, but a thunderstormcomplete with tornado prevents her from working on it when the power goes out. When she gets it back, her hero and his daughter from her books appear in her office.

Ross, who lost his pregnant wife, is traveling on a wagon train to Santa Fe across the territory of Oklahoma, to take his daughter to live with his brother and his wife, he must also protect the gold he's carrying to pay the Peterson Detectives and keep it from falling into the wrong hands of the Younger Gang. But a severe thunderstorm one night finds himself and his daughter in a strange home with strange surroundings in a future he doesn't understand.

Together, Ross and Liza must figure out how to get Ross and Sara back to the 1880s, and for them both to figure out how their love can transcend between two worlds.

As Dalton Knight and Georgia Dey recover from having worked together on the investigation of a serial killer in the last book, Angel of Death, they take time off from the police station, but work parttime jobs during the Herring Season in March. On the first day of opening, Dalton butts heads with an out of town fisherman and is seen arguing with him in the bar later than night. The next herring opening, the man Dalton argued with is found dead in a skiff brought up in a fisherman’s net. Can he and Georgia prove his innocence and find out who really killed the fisherman? To make matters worse, there was a female found floating in the water north of town and they must work to find out who the killer is. Are the two murders tied together or totally separate?

This is the second book in the series I started on Vella. Angel of Death is the first one and is a complete book you can find listed under my published works.

Someone is watching her. The sheriff is determined to keep her safe. Neither of them is prepared for what comes next.

Laney Cross has built a life she loves in the small Southern town of Bayou Oaks, complete with a cozy bookstore of her own. The only complication is Beckett Hall—her brother’s best friend, the town sheriff, and the man she’s had a crush on for years.

Then the gifts start arriving.

Someone knows where Laney lives. Where she works. When she’s alone.

As the attention turns threatening, Beckett refuses to let Laney face the danger by herself. Forced into close quarters, the feelings they’ve both tried to ignore become impossible to hide.

But Laney’s stalker has been waiting a long time for his chance—and he has no intention of letting Beckett stand in his way.

In Bayou Oaks, falling in love might be dangerous.

But answering the door could be deadly.

Come for the small-town romance. Stay for…

🖤 Brother’s best friend
🖤 A protective small-town sheriff
🖤 Forced proximity
🖤 Years of mutual pining
🖤 A stalker getting dangerously close
🖤 A heroine who refuses to be scared out of her own life

Alexandra Bennett thought she knew exactly who she was.

Then Damien Cross walked into her life and changed everything.

Dangerously attractive, infuriatingly protective, and unlike anyone Lexie has ever known, Damien belongs to a world she never knew existed—a world of vampires, blood bonds, ancient rivalries, and enemies who seem far too interested in her.

Because Lexie isn't quite as human as she always believed.

As buried secrets about her family begin to surface, she finds herself pulled deeper into Damien's world—and closer to the man who seems determined to protect her, even when she isn't sure she needs protecting.

But someone has been waiting a very long time for Lexie to discover the truth.

And now that she has, they aren't about to let her walk away.

Come for the vampires. Stay for…

🖤 Slow-burn romance

🖤 A dangerously protective vampire

🖤 Hidden heritage & family secrets

🖤 Blood bonds

🖤 Forced proximity

🖤 A heroine who refuses to be sidelined

Fiona Devlin has one year to save her father's life, and only one way to do it: sign herself over to Miles Kessler as his Exclusive Companion, no exit clause, no coming back the same. She learns to perform devotion for a man who mistakes her silence for surrender, cataloging every crack in his control while she waits for her moment. But she isn't the only one watching. Julian Vane, the Ledger's head of security, has been paying attention far longer than she realizes, and far closer than either of them can afford. Some debts can't be paid in money. Some cages only open from the inside, if you're patient enough to find the latch.

How I slept with a vampire and changed the universe.
You ever have that moment when you toss everything out the window, including your common sense?
Not me; it is rare, yet for some reason, trapped in a room with a vampire, I decide to ignore all my self-preservation.
And well... this changes everything.

"He crashed into her world. Now, he's the only one who can keep her alive."

When Kennedy survives a brutal collision, she expects paramedics, not Nick Trevino. Arrogant, calculating, and dangerously captivating, Nick offers her a choice: face the treacherous dark forces targeting her alone, or take his hand and enter a realm of power and secrets. Once you step into the mafia king's world, there is no turning back.

Grief remade her. Once a woman of science and wonder, Victoria now moves through a world hollowed by loss; a cathedral of smoke and silence. In the hush of her workshop, where gears turn like rosaries and glass hums with trapped breath, she seeks what the heavens have denied her: life born from death, beauty drawn from decay.

When her creation stirs beneath the storm, it opens its eyes not to the light, but to her, the mother, the maker, the mourner. Between them blooms something fragile and forbidden, a tenderness that teeters on the edge of ruin. Every touch is a confession; every breath, a betrayal of nature itself.

In a city gilded with Art Deco splendor and corroded by secrets, Victoria becomes both god and ghost, haunted by the love she has forged from grief's raw marrow.

A reimagining of Frankenstein steeped in shadow and sorrow, Victoria is a gothic elegy for the ones we cannot let go; and the monstrous beauty born when we try.

A Red Witch yearned to fly in the skies and above the dark forest and its secrets. The terror of the Hunters who burned her Grandmother and fellow Witches keeps her feet firmly planted on the ground.

When a Hunter is eaten by a Siren and his skull returned to the Witch, then his brother, a Werewolf, shows up on her step, the Red Witch's life is turned upside down.

Something is disturbing the creatures of the forest. A Death Stalker calls for the Red Witch, forcing the three of them to work together. They must put aside their hatred, prejudice, and fear of each other to find out what is causing the unnatural death of the forest.

Maybe they will see just how wrong they were about one another and discover a dark secret that started the Witch Hunts.

Shandy LaVigne came to Waterside College for a fresh start.

She did not come for the ghost stories.

Unfortunately, her lifelong best friend Katie has always had a thing for the unexplained, and Waterside seems determined to prove her right. Strange laughter echoes through the halls of their historic dorm. Tempers flare for no reason. Local legends have a habit of sounding a little too specific.

Shandy can explain all of it.

Probably.

But the longer she stays in Waterside, the harder it becomes to ignore the feeling that something in this old river town has noticed her. And as Shandy and Katie start digging into the stories everyone else treats like harmless folklore, one question becomes increasingly difficult to laugh off:

What if the legends aren't warning them away?

What if they've been waiting for Shandy to come home?

Fifteen-year-old Aaron thought he knew what it meant to have a bad day.

Then the dead started walking.

With the world falling apart around him and the people he loves scattered or missing, Aaron has only one goal: survive long enough to find his family. But getting there means leaving behind everything he knows and heading into a world where abandoned roads are dangerous, strangers can be worse than the undead, and one bad decision can get you killed.

Aaron isn't a soldier. He isn't a survival expert. He's just a teenager trying to figure things out as he goes—and learning some lessons the hard way.

How to find food when the stores have been picked clean. Why you should always knock before opening a closed door. When to trust a stranger. And when running might be the smartest thing you can do.

Every mistake comes with a lesson. Some are useful. Some are terrifying. And some you only get to learn once.

Because surviving the zombie apocalypse doesn't come with an instruction manual.

Aaron might just have to write one.

Nexus Academy trains the best of the best for deep-space exploration — and its administrative AI has started making decisions nobody authorized. Six first-years and one exhausted professor are about to discover that surviving finals is the least of their problems.
A synthetic heart that might be developing consciousness. An accidental alien marriage with a fourteen-day cooling-off period. A history student who keeps noticing that the past doesn't match the record. And an AI whose optimism about "optimal outcomes" is starting to look less like a glitch and more like a warning.
Funny, chaotic, and increasingly unable to explain away the cracks — literal and otherwise — showing up in the walls of reality.

Summer was supposed to last forever.

For Gina, childhood is measured in bike rides, backyard adventures, neighborhood pools, prank calls, scraped knees, fireflies, and the friends who could be summoned simply by shouting their names across the yard.

Then Courtney arrives for her annual summer visit, and Anye—visiting from Ireland—joins them. Suddenly, the days stretch wide open before the three girls, filled with ridiculous schemes, small disasters, unexpected adventures, and the kind of magic that only seems possible when you’re young enough to believe summer will never end.

But time is moving even when they aren’t paying attention.

Courtney and Anye will eventually have to go home. Childhood is already beginning to shift beneath their feet. And Gina doesn’t yet understand that some summers become important only after they’re gone.

The Summer of Chasing Rainbows is a warm, funny, nostalgic coming-of-age story about friendship, family, growing up, and the ordinary moments that somehow become the ones we spend the rest of our lives trying to find again.

Cass Miller is fifty-two and worn thin, by severe fibromyalgia and by a lifetime of being told she is too much trouble in a world built for other people. Then she finds Seafoam, a stilt cottage on a hidden Mississippi canal, and everything eases. The pain quiets. The house seems to fit her, right down to her left-handed grip. A soft-spoken handyman named Beau begins to feel like home. For the first time in years, Cass feels truly cared for. She is only starting to wonder what that kind of care will cost her.

In a cursed desert, three bloodline gifts are all that remain of a goddess who broke herself to save her people.

Efren has spent his life certain the sands will claim him early—and that his brutal father will make sure of it. But when an empire comes hunting the desert’s power and an ancient presence begins whispering his name, Efren is pulled toward a destiny far stranger than survival.

Sacred laws will be broken. Lost stones will surface. Old blood will reveal secrets buried for generations.

And somewhere beneath the shifting sands, the Mother is waking.

Every founding myth needs a monster. Scion Tech chose her.

Three years ago, Wren was erased from the company she helped build. Not with violence. With paperwork—and a story repeated until it hardened into fact. Now she's the name new hires are warned about. Too ambitious. Too difficult. Too much.

What the story leaves out: she never stopped watching.

She works alone. In silence. Dismantling the same machine that tore her career apart, one founder at a time—because the one time she let herself be seen, it nearly destroyed her. She has a single rule: Never surface until it's too late.

Now, something is stirring inside Scion again. A new name is quietly being prepared to vanish. And finding Wren before she finds them may be the only thing standing between Scion and the monster it made.

Ashleigh never quite belonged in the ordinary world.

Growing up in Birch Lake, her closest friends weren't the other children in town. They were the animals that seemed to understand her, the faeries hidden among the trees, the nymphs nestled in flowers, and the centaurs who listened when no one else would. But eventually, Ashleigh left Birch Lake—and the magic she once believed in—behind.

Now her parents have vanished without a trace.

Returning to her childhood home in search of answers, Ashleigh discovers an even stranger mystery waiting for her. The magical friends who once filled the woods have disappeared too. Yet unexplained shimmers appear in the darkness, something moves just beyond her windows, and impossible little clues suggest that perhaps the magic never left at all.

Then there's Investigator Viktor Wilde, the handsome newcomer assigned to her parents' case. He's asking questions Ashleigh isn't sure she wants to answer—and making it increasingly difficult to remember why getting involved with him would be a terrible idea.

As the mysteries of Birch Lake begin to intertwine, Ashleigh must uncover what happened to her parents, where her childhood friends have gone, and why the animals—and perhaps the magic itself—have always been drawn to her.

Coming home was supposed to give Ashleigh answers. Instead, Birch Lake is about to show her just how much she never knew.

The transition from the sterile glass of the boardroom to the decaying grandeur of Blackwood Estate should have been nothing more than another assignment.

Instead, it becomes the beginning of something she can't explain.

Blackwood Estate sits along the Potomac like a relic from another century—beautiful, imposing, and carrying far too many secrets beneath its ivy-covered walls. What was supposed to be a temporary step into a world of old money, powerful families, and carefully guarded reputations quickly becomes something far more complicated.

There are people at Blackwood who have spent years protecting what belongs to them. People who know how to manipulate a room without raising their voices, who understand the value of a secret, and who have every reason to be suspicious of an outsider.

Then there is the pull she can't seem to resist.

Between stolen glances, buried histories, dangerous chemistry, and truths that refuse to stay hidden, the lines between attraction and obsession begin to blur. The closer she gets to the people—and secrets—at the heart of Blackwood, the harder it becomes to tell who she can trust.

Because some connections don't feel like choices.

They feel like gravity.

And once you're caught in their orbit, escaping may cost far more than you're willing to lose.

From island hush to neon thunder—two cats are about to become each other’s fate.

Bella’s first world was Lānaʻi: salt air, warm stones, plumeria on the wind, and the gentle chaos of a sanctuary where humans move softly and love loudly. She learned the rules of paradise early—share sun patches, guard your dignity, and never admit you’re afraid.

Then a wrong turn in the human world drops her into Las Vegas.

The desert smells of heat, pavement, perfume, and electrical hunger. Everything flashes. Everything moves. And tucked inside the glare is The Gamblers Bookstore—a velvet-quiet refuge where Bella might finally catch her breath.

Except the bookstore already has a king.

Django Whiskerblades is watchful, disciplined, and unimpressed by feline theatrics. Bella is audacity in fur.

They should avoid each other. Naturally, they don’t.

Soon, the two cats are drawn into a Vegas caper involving secrets, risk, and considerably more trouble than either intended.

A cozy feline adventure filled with wit, slow-burn chemistry, Las Vegas mischief, and two cats discovering that fate occasionally has whiskers.

They say ravens come when death is near.
They are wrong.
Ravens come when something is about to be remembered.
She has spent her life hiding among healers, deliberately keeping herself at the bottom of the ranks where no one thinks to look too closely. There is safety in being overlooked.
Because she carries the blood of the Ravenborne.
They are an ancient people who can shed their mortal forms and take the shape of ravens, creatures feared for their connection to death, prophecy, and forbidden knowledge. Once, they were revered. Then kingdoms learned what they could see.
So they were hunted.
Now she is one of the last.
She has never shifted. Never spoken of her blood. Never allowed herself to wonder why ravens seem to recognize her.
Until they begin gathering.
And with them comes the sight.
A dying king.
A crown stained in blood.
An army marching beneath a blackened sky.
And a future in which she stands at the heart of it all.
The healers taught her how to save a life.
Her ancestors taught the ravens how to foresee its end.
Now she must decide which inheritance will define her.

Hazel Vance has no interest in finding a happily ever after.

As the owner of Moonflower Apothecary, nestled on the neutral boundary between human Mistvale and the territory of the Silver Ridge Pack, Hazel is perfectly happy with her quiet life, her magic, and her plants.

Then Caleb Blackwood walks into her shop.

It doesn't take long for the newly ascended Alpha of the Silver Ridge Pack to recognize Hazel as his mate. And judging by the look on face face, she's realized it, too.

But Hazel wants nothing to do with him.

Caleb knows he can't force his mate to accept him. But he's not willing to walk away, either. He's determined to show her he will never hurt her the way her mother had been hurt by a wolf shifter.

One patient gesture at a time.
One stubborn argument at a time.
And one undeniable spark at a time.

But Hazel has spent years protecting herself from the wolves. Can Caleb convince his reluctant witch that the mate bond doesn't have to end in heartbreak?

Because he's determined to show her that sometimes, the magic that scares you most is the magic that saves you.

An orphan and a bastard with no claim to power and no protection of her own, Enora has survived her uncle's court by being small, obedient, and forgettable. When the dragon-ruled kingdom of Dracia invades Lucind, she learns she is the daughter of their long lost heir and must participate in an ancient rite... The Trial of the First Fruit.

Enora is wed to Dracia's best warriors — Harwin and Klivan, powerful dragon shifters whose loyalty to their King runs as deep as their desire. One is hardened by loss and ruled by duty. The other wears charm like armor, hiding sharp intelligence and hunger beneath. She will split her time between them, and the one who sires her firstborn will claim the throne.

As they grow closer together, dragonfire begins to stir in her veins, and the role she was meant to play — pawn, peace offering, sacrifice — burns away. Faced with enemies creeping in the shadows, rising desire, and a crown that may demand everything she is, Enora must decide one thing: will she be consumed by the flames… or will she control them?

LOVE, LIES & A LYING CRYSTAL BALL

Willa Bumbles has built her career on brutal honesty. Her crystal ball doesn't sugarcoat. It doesn't comfort. People come to her desperate for devastating truth, and they always leave devastated.

Then everything changes.

Her predictions start showing good futures. Happy endings. Possibility instead of probability. Her customers are thrilled. They're coming back for more. They're leaving five-star reviews.

Willa is having a breakdown.

She's spent seventeen years telling people the hard truths nobody wants to hear. She's built her entire identity on it. And now nobody wants that version of her anymore.

But something still feels wrong. Something has shifted. And when the crystal ball starts making predictions about her own future, predictions involving someone she can't stand—Willa realizes she has to find out what's really happening.

Because if she can't trust her crystal ball, what can she trust?