A woman returns to her family’s salt pans and discovers the old rules were never only superstition.

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.

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.

For three years, wolfless Annis has been the Alpha's secret mate. Then he marries someone else.

At his wedding feast, Annis exposes the promise he made to her. But when her proof reveals that she possesses forbidden blood magic, the man who swore to protect her lets his council condemn her instead.

Her sentence is exile to the Deadlands—a cursed wasteland where no one is expected to survive.

But Annis has spent her life making something out of nothing. And deep in the Deadlands, she discovers the ruins of an ancient fortress, magic that answers to her blood, and the possibility of a life that belongs to her alone.

She's only beginning to rebuild when something enormous and dangerous finds its way to her wards. A monstrous black wolf. A forgotten curse. And a secret powerful enough to threaten the Alphas who cast her out.

They sent her away to die.

They never imagined what she might become.

✨ 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.

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.

She’s spent her whole life choosing animals. He’s spent his whole life choosing football. Neither of them ever planned on having to choose between each other.

Maddie Lauder has the acceptance letter she’s wanted since she was eleven years old: veterinary school at UC Davis, her first choice. Jax Reyes, her boyfriend since freshman year, is a do-everything running back with a draft-day projection and a family that’s sacrificed everything to get him there.

They’ve always been sure about each other. What they’re not sure about is the map.

When draft night sends Jax three thousand miles away to the snow and silence of Burlington, Vermont, two people who never once doubted their love have to ask a harder question. Is loving someone enough of a reason to ask them to give up the life they’ve worked for?

They make the reasonable choice. The mature one. The one everybody agrees is right.

But Sunday phone calls have a way of turning into Thursday ones. Old habits don’t care about time zones. And the hardest part of letting someone go might be discovering you never really did.

Running Back to You is a warm, heartfelt contemporary romance about first love, hard choices, and the people who keep showing up for each other, even from opposite ends of the country.

The terms of service stated that municipal firmware updates were mandatory. They conveniently forgot to mention the orbital death lasers.

Katie Albright was in the middle of explaining biomechanical levers to a failing student when the campus library sealed its doors. The fluorescent lights died, blue energy barriers locked down the perimeter, and a cheerful cerulean interface branded her retinas with a new title: Unregistered Civilian, Level 1.

Apex Dynamics has turned Sector 1 into a live-fire corporate beta trial. The rules are simple: reach the Central Transit Terminal in forty-eight hours, or get atomized when orbital satellites sanitize the grid.

Katie has zero combat training. Her Strength is a miserable 4, running gives her side stitches, and carrying twenty pounds makes her back scream. But she has an analytical hyperfocus for system mechanics, an Army drill sergeant who knows how to hold a frontline, and Apollo—an eight-pound terrier mix whose neural collar translates canine logic into crisp, synthesized English.

The corporate death machines don't care about fair fights. But every software update comes with bugs, and Katie is about to read the fine print.

[APEX MUNICIPAL TELEMETRY | SECTOR 1]
CONTESTANT: Katie Albright
CLASS: Unregistered Civilian [Tier 0]
SECTOR PURGE: 47:59:59 REMAINING
NOTICE: Failure to reach transit gates forfeits life insurance eligibility.

Kate has been unlucky in love for a while now. When she meets Alex, a cultured, kind, interesting man, she begins to fall...fast!

But there's something about Alex that doesn't sit right.

Soon, Kate finds herself in a position she can't escape. It's life or death now, and with Alex missing, Kate is trapped.

Will she be rescued in time or will her fate be chosen for her?

Photographer Tilly Hale is spending Christmas on the tiny island of Dunbrae, where twinkling lights, snowy cliffs, and a centuries-old royal tradition have turned the season into something straight out of a fairy tale.

Her assignment is simple: photograph the Christmas Court and capture the story everyone is waiting for.

But between village celebrations, castle traditions, and one unexpectedly charming prince, Tilly begins to wonder if the most important moments are the ones that were never meant for the camera.

With twelve magical days counting down to midnight, Christmas on Dunbrae may just change everything.

Aiwei Chen built her whole life out of neat edges and well-crafted lies.

At Riverside Prep, she's Ivy — the scholarship girl with perfect grades and an untouchable future, one carefully color-coded spreadsheet away from lifting her family out of the apartment above the deli. No one there knows the name her mother calls her. No one there knows how hard she works to belong.

Then she goes home to the Hollows—the neighborhood south of the river, where most people are already forgotten.

Two cops knock on her door asking about her brother. Danny is missing, and the people looking for him aren't the kind you walk away from. To find him, Ivy has to cross back into the world she's spent her whole life clawing out of—with the help of Teo, a boy the streets fear, whose rules she has no intention of following.

The deeper she digs, the worse it gets. Danny didn't just get in over his head. He played two of the most dangerous people in the city against each other — and now the clock is running out on all of them.

Every Reason to Fight is an emotional thriller about the masks we wear to belong, the families we bleed for, and the dangerous discovery that loving people doesn't make you weak. Pretending you don't is what gets you trapped.

Kira Oakley was never meant for Greyward Institute.

An unexpected scholarship placed her among the most powerful heirs with two warnings: never tell anyone how she got in and stay away from the Fates.

But Greyward has its own order, and outsiders were never meant to disturb it.

Snack-Sized Horror, and other flavorful stuff.

Extraneous apparitions plooping from the shadows of the ether, plumes of ectoplasmic glitter twinkling in their wake...

In a city humming with secret magic, "fitting in" is a blood sport. For the high-and-mighty Vampire Courts and the shimmering Fae elite, life is a game of power, politics, and performative perfection.

But for Nori, Maeve, Sayo, and Imani, life is just… a mess.

Nori’s a vampire blogger whose ambition is sharper than her fangs, trying to build an empire while dodging her mother’s increasingly frantic texts about finding a “nice, human boy.” Maeve’s a Fae student whose magic is as chaotic as her love life, convinced she’s a cosmic disappointment to everyone, including herself. Sayo is a shapeshifter whose flawless composure is a meticulously crafted fortress around a thousand secret vulnerabilities. And Imani is a half-djinn empath who feels everyone’s pain but has nowhere to put her own.

They are the Unaffiliated, the magically inconvenient, the ones who were never invited to the big, fancy galas anyway. Bound by a shared exhaustion with the world's bullshit and a deep-seated need for a decent cocktail, they are each other's only real allies. Forget Courtly allegiances and ancient bloodlines; their "collective" was forged in dive bars, messy apartments, and the quiet, desperate understanding that sometimes, the only thing more powerful than a magical contract is a friend who knows you’re a disaster and loves you anyway.

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.

Crysta Rosemeyer has spent her life seeing the things other people can’t—the faeries in the rain, the monsters lurking after dusk, and the ghosts that refuse to stay dead. She’s learned to survive by keeping her head down, trusting her charms, and never letting the Others know she can see them.

Then a blood-enchanted letter from a dead great-aunt names Crysta heir to Hawthorn Manor, an isolated estate where the veil between worlds runs thin. The inheritance promises everything she wants: freedom, answers about her mysterious bloodline, and a chance to begin again.

There’s only one problem.

Her great-aunt’s ghost left her a warning: Beware what lies buried beneath the hawthorn trees.

As Crysta settles into the manor, family secrets begin to surface, old magic stirs, and the truth of what she is may prove far more dangerous than the creatures she’s spent her life avoiding.

The pack never forgets you

Eleven years after they were promised to each other, Bastian Weir – now known as Seb - walks into Kathryn Moncur's bookshop and announces it is time for them to wed. Initially resisting, Kat is loathe to give up her shop to become the wife of the new head of the Weir werewolf pack. While Kat is a witch, she conceals her practice and prides herself on the very normal, human, life she has established.

Learning that the previous head, Seb's father, has been murdered, and that she is now a likely target for the killer, she agrees to fulfil their promise until the crime is solved. This leads to Kat relocating to live with the pack as she did as a child, when her father worked for them as a dedicated magic user before his death.

It also means their inevitable wedding.

While Kat is still wary Seb is kind, and some of the gentle care they knew as youngsters begins to resurface.

Reconnecting with the pack, Kat gets drawn into the dangerous dynamics of Seb's attempt to modernise the work the werewolves undertake, and the investigation into his father's cruel death. As threats against them escalate, Kat must decide if she can face joining Seb fully, and if they can heal the gap left by their time apart to become stronger together.

This is a single point of view, sweet romance

Mara keeps people safe by making sure nobody can prove she was ever there — an off-grid courier trade, a found family who never ask what she's carrying, a lover on the system's own payroll who doesn't ask either. Then a routine job turns out to be a whistleblower with a piece of the machine strapped to his chest, and everyone who has ever trusted her not to be found starts needing her to be exactly that.

Watch the Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O46ESuOVxsM

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.

I love the taste of peppermint. Not spearmint, not wintergreen, good old-fashioned peppermint. The king of mints.

As a creamy center, it is divine. As a hardened crystal, malleable to any desired shape, it is supreme. This is my weapon of choice. Candy canes. I am known as Candy Cain, and I like to kill.

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.

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 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.

Aiden is an independent omega. He left home, landed a job, and got his own apartment. The last thing he needs is an alpha intruding into his life... right?

Cece is an enslaved woman. Forced to serve a cruel family, she wants nothing more than her freedom and the freedom of the others. Turning to ancient ways of magic, she meets Demos, an unlikely ally. He can help Cece escape this nightmare and everyone else...but for a price.

Anna runs through Duskport with monsters at her heels and one prayer left: let the coal mine whistle sound. The whistle is supposed to weaken the Rust, strip the blood from the walls, and make the town survivable again.

It does.

Then the man in the iron cage breaks through her barricade.

He is eight feet of scarred muscle, rusted metal, and appetite. He cannot speak, but Anna knows the cruelty of his hands. Each time the whistle calls him back, her body recognizes what her mind has spent years burying: the lover who died on her kitchen floor, and the choice she made not to save him.

The Rust has returned him without a face and without restraint. Anna should want the whistle to take him away.

Instead, she wraps her legs around him and begs him to stay.

What would you tell the version of yourself who is still waiting for life to become magical?

Aly has a few spoilers for her younger self: we still love dragons. We get weirder. We eventually stop apologizing for it.

But somewhere between imaginary worlds, uncertain health, stories waiting to be written, and ordinary days worth noticing, she discovers something neither version of her expected.

Maybe magic was never somewhere else.

Maybe we just had to learn how to see it.

A letter from Past Aly, Present Aly, and the Future Aly still waiting somewhere among the stardust.

Bonnie Marr has cooked Dunmere's harvest suppers for years. She knows who needs an extra portion, whose joints are too stiff to manage a casserole lid, and who will claim to have eaten rather than ask for help. This October, somebody else appears to be looking after them. Gutters are cleared overnight. Laundry folds itself. Stoneware bowls arrive on the doorstep with a little sheaf of wheat tied to each handle.

Then a neighbor's door is sewn shut. The village's scarecrows are facing the houses instead of the fields. And the woman who fed them the first supper has made a promise she no longer knows how to withdraw.

Every Halloween, the Frost Line Tavern holds the same contest.

The dead get remembered. The locals get drunk. And sooner or later, someone walks in wearing the face of somebody Hessick has already buried.

Bartender Eli Dorn has spent fourteen years laughing along.

Then this year’s Tribute shows up wearing his face.

It knows the drink he only pours for himself after closing. It knows the scar under his chin. It knows the childhood name nobody calls him anymore.

And it says it’s next year’s costume.

As the night wears on, Eli’s friends begin forgetting which one is really him. His sister stops recognizing his voice. His own memories start contradicting the evidence in front of him.

By midnight, Eli finally understands what the Tribute really does.

It doesn’t predict who dies.

It chooses.

And if Eli wants to keep his name, his life, and everyone who still knows his face, someone else will have to wear it instead.

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?

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.

I was the gentle twin. The dreamy "spare" who hid in the archives. When they forced me into my dead sister's wedding dress, they thought I would just submit to the monster she died trying to escape.

Set in the Half-Claimed universe, Twice-Claimed is a dark prequel revealing the origin story of the Moon Twin archive and Katina, the woman who built it.

Katina is the indulged but overlooked youngest daughter of a northern noble house in the Lycan lands. Her identical twin, Zara, was the Golden Child, groomed to bring honor to their house by wedding the Lycan Crown Prince.

But Zara knew exactly what kind of beast the Prince truly was. When she dies trying to flee rather than face him, she never imagined her twin would be forced to take her place. Terrified of the Crown's wrath, their family erases Katina’s identity and force her to assume her sister's place days before the wedding.

Trapped in a lethal masquerade and tethered to a sadistic Alpha whose rotting soul she can feel through her magic, Katina must find her courage to choose: freedom, or a cage.

What to expect:
🎭 False Identity & A Deadly Masquerade
🐺 Dark Arranged Marriage
🏰 Brutal Court Politics
⚔️ Rejection & Second Chance Mates

Please be warned this story is significantly darker than Half-Claimed - please heed the content warnings! (I promise, it does all come right in the end.)

Some family secrets should stay buried.

When Tabitha and her family hear her grandmother isn't doing well, they pack up the family to say their final goodbyes...but something is lurking.

Soon, Tabitha notices the changes in her own children and is forced to confront a past that shouldn't have been awakened in the first place. With death looming over them, the secrets of Tabitha's past, and the things she really wished she could hide, are brought to light.

Will she be ready to face them before it's too late?

Magic was supposed to be humanity's answer to the zombie plague. At Outbreak Academy, Morgan O'Neill is starting to suspect it may be part of the problem.

They promised Morgan O'Neill everything: housing vouchers, ration cards, safe-zone status for her family. All she had to do was learn to control the infected.

Nobody mentioned the students who disappear.

Camp Sharon looks like the summer camp it used to be — cabins, a lake, a volleyball net going slack in the weeds. But the fence points inward as much as out, the instructors flinch at the wrong questions, and the scientist whose research may have started the plague has a sister still teaching here.

Morgan came to Outbreak Academy to save her family. But the deeper she digs into its secrets, the harder it becomes to tell whether she's being trained to fight the outbreak—or become part of it.

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.

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.

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.

Briar Blackwood wasn't supposed to survive.

After the slaughter of her pack, she's sent to a war academy built to train the next generation of fighters against the Hollowed—the creatures that have kept their world locked in a brutal war for generations.

Briar has spent her life surviving on instinct, violence, and a healthy disregard for authority. The academy expects discipline. Briar has other ideas.

Then there's Riven Ashcroft.

Known as Machine One, Riven is one of the genetically engineered weapons created to fight the Hollowed: powerful, dangerous, and far too interested in the new girl who doesn't behave the way anyone expects her to.

But something about Briar doesn't add up.

As training turns deadly and buried secrets begin clawing their way to the surface, Briar discovers the war she's been taught to fight may have been built on lies—and the truth about what happened to her pack is tangled with the very experiments that created Riven.

Everyone at the academy is being trained to become a weapon.

Briar is beginning to wonder if she already is one.

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.

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.

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.

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.**

I loved two boys before I was old enough to understand what loving them would cost me.

Prescott Alexander Whitmore belonged to one of the most powerful political families in America.

Banks Miles Devereaux was born into a royal family that had already planned his future before he could spell his own name.

And me?

I was the nanny's daughter.

The girl who grew up beside them. Fought with them. Got in trouble with them. Fell in love with both of them before any of us knew what to call what we were becoming.

By our twenties, the three of us had built a life no one else was supposed to know existed.

Then came the accident.

I woke up remembering everything.

Prescott didn't.

Banks didn't.

And suddenly the people who had spent years trying to separate us had the perfect chance to pretend there had never been an us at all. The accident wasn't the end of our story.

It was the beginning of the lie.

But some love doesn't disappear.

It remains.

Tropes: 👑 MMF / Why Choose 👑 Childhood Friends to Lovers 👑 Secret Marriage 👑 Second Chance Romance 👑 Amnesia 👑 Forced Separation 👑 Royal Romance 👑 Political Dynasty 👑 Plus-Size Black Heroine 👑 Old Money Family Drama 👑 Romantic Suspense 👑 Hidden Conspiracy 👑 The Body Remembers 👑 He Falls for Her Twice 👑 He Falls for Him Twice 👑 Found Family vs. Blood Family 👑 Love They Tried to Erase

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.

Sylvia has spent nine years hiding in the Blackroot Forest, masking her Omega scent and concealing the strange magical marks spreading across her skin.

The forest is the only place she has ever felt safe — until four wounded Alphas cross into her territory.

Darius, Ansel, Cassius, and Gideon are wanted for the king's murder. But the moment they scent Sylvia, they recognize the truth.

She is their mate.

All four of them.

Possessive, dangerous, and unwilling to leave her unprotected, the Alphas awaken instincts Sylvia has spent her life suppressing. But Sylvia refuses to be owned by anyone — not the crown, not her magic, and certainly not four strangers who make her body ache with every breath.

Then the royal court discovers she is alive.

As soldiers close in and the forest begins answering Sylvia's call, she learns the markings covering her body are not a curse. They are the sign of an ancient power the kingdom has hunted for generations.

Now Sylvia must decide whether to trust the four Alphas claiming her heart before the crown burns the forest to take her — and unleashes the magic buried beneath its roots.

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 disastrous magical test exposes her forbidden power, orphaned student Mordecai learns she is a Seeker destined to mend the fractured veil. Bound to dangerous Demon Princes, she must master her magic before the realms collapse.

July Hunter is a 55-year-old erotic romance author, photographer & new body builder who lives in Hawaii & needs a vacation. A much needed vacation from her daily life of writing, promoting & marketing, & editing as well as all the online media time suckers, so she booked herself on a wilderness getaway at a remote lodge in SE Alaska where she meets not only the owner who is her age, but his three buddies of approx same age who built the lodge & they all want to share July in this reverse harem.

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.

Sabrina DeLuca has always been a little too much.

Too curious. Too emotional. Too obsessive about the things she loves. At twenty-two, she’s gotten pretty good at figuring out which pieces of herself fit into which rooms—and which ones are better left outside.

Moving to Los Angeles was supposed to change that.

Getting her first tattoo wasn’t part of the plan.

Neither was Kang Jiwoo.

At twenty-four, Jiwoo is everything Sabrina isn’t: quiet where Sabrina rambles, guarded where Sabrina feels everything, and seemingly incapable of being embarrassed. With tattooed hands, a black motorcycle, and a smile Sabrina quickly discovers is extremely dangerous, Jiwoo should be exactly the kind of woman she knows better than to get attached to.

There’s just one problem.

Jiwoo wants her too.

What begins as undeniable attraction quickly becomes late-night rides through Los Angeles, clothes left at each other’s apartments, doodles on Sabrina’s skin, and the terrifying realization that somewhere between wanting Jiwoo and having her, Sabrina stopped pretending this was casual.

But being desired is easy.

Being known is something else entirely.

Because Sabrina has spent years learning how to make herself easier to love, and Jiwoo has spent just as long making sure she never needs anyone enough to get hurt.

Falling for each other happens fast.

Learning how to stay might be the part that changes everything.

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.

Every drop of power in the Hundred Mouths was distilled from a girl who died believing.

The Wasl takes one woman a year. They feed her, bathe her, sing to her, and teach her to want God more than she wants to live. Then they render her bones into attar — an oil that compels devotion in anyone who breathes it, and has held one family on the delta for four hundred years.

Shefali volunteered.

She is the finest candidate the order has selected in four centuries, and she has never once reached union. Eight years of counterfeiting rapture for examiners who wrote it down and believed her. She came to Meherghat because dying is the one moment she cannot possibly stay conscious through.

Ilyas has done this nine times. He is unhurried, exact, and tender with what he takes apart, and he has not permitted himself to be touched in ten years.

Then the house cuts her calendar by a season. Seven months to reach, for real, the thing she has been faking since she was fourteen.

The first time it happens, it happens in his hands.

She will find a way to live through this. It will cost her the only thing she has ever loved.

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.

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?

Though a steady voice in a world edging toward chaos, Martin escapes into a memory simulation program to revisit the life he lost. The boundaries between memory and invention are thinner than he believes. As glitches creep into his simulations and fragments of impossible recollections surface, Martin unravels a truth engineered to stay buried. The virtual world is rewriting itself. His past is no longer his own, and the person he’s fighting to become may be nothing more than a manufactured illusion. Martin confronts the most dangerous question of all: what does it mean to be human?

Marlon Carver expected little on his birthday.
After his parents dropped him and his sister off at Grandpa's, he noticed something different this time.
Their goodbyes felt final.
Then Grandpa tells them the story of his first date with their grandma at a traveling carnival, and things begin to change in the Carver home.
They start small, until they become too hard to ignore.
Grandpa's memories seem distant. News articles are found in an old box where Grandma kept her yarn. And the more Marlon digs for answers, the more questions arise about the people who disappeared that night over fifty years ago.
And yet, Grandpa remembers the carnival even as people begin to fade from the story.
Only the carnival remains.
Marlon wants to know why.

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.

Radek Kral knows how to skate.

As a left wing for the Milton Keynes Tempest, ice is the one place he has never had to think twice. Then a knee injury gets him benched and packed off to Calderton-by-the-Sea for six weeks of rehabilitation, healing baths and strict instructions to avoid heroics.

He lasts less than a day before finding the Silver Pavilion.

Beatrice “Trix” Gale has spent most of her life inside Calderton’s century-old ice theatre. She grew up as one of its rink rats, became one of its principal skaters, and has no patience for the injured hockey player who assumes show skating will be easy because he already knows how to move on ice.

Radek only intends to fill a temporary place in the chorus. Trix has no intention of becoming responsible for him. Neither expects an old theatre, a summer production of Return to Wonderland, and a little impossible magic to rearrange their plans.

Because at the Silver Pavilion, the stories performed on the ice have a habit of becoming just a little too real.

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.

Orion had spent years alone on the road, trying to forget his painful past. That changes one night when he meets a man and his daughter on the road. Mac doesn’t trust easily, but Maybe brings out the warmer side of him, one that Orion just might like to know for himself.

As their winter world begins to thaw, can frozen hearts melt as well?

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?

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.

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?

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.

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.

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!

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.

Two Bound in Blood, One Generational Curse

For Mira Lee and Janey, their family’s generational curse lives with them everyday. Haunted by the memories of their parents and burdened with obligation, the two sisters do their best to take care of each other. But when their family’s secret refuses to stay buried, they’ll have to face some painful truths before their lives, and the world as they know it, are ripped apart.

13-87-22 is a mute City Elf, with hair the color of moonlight, and possessed by the spirit of a Snow Cat.

After attacking a Wood Elf, she proves her worth in the Clan. Even though she has a found-family and Clan that she loves, she wonders if she could save the rest of her people from slavery.

Trying to keep her Clan safe is hard enough without starting a war against the human slavers.

By taking over the mantle of the City Elf savior myth of “The Reckoning,” she becomes the central image of the revolution.

May the humans pray for mercy, because when the Reckoning comes for them, she has none for those who enslaved her people.

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.

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.

Yuriena is the Princess, Captain, and Engineer of the Xailogarian empire.

After the General of the Xailogary army commits treason by killing the royal family, she runs to the magical Kingdom of Vidia.

Renamed and among the lowest caste, she finds Intelligence work in Vidia.

When Xailogary attacks Vidia, she must find where her loyalties lie: with the clockwork machines of Xailogary or the magic of Vidia.

Valda Odile is trapped under the thumb of her enemy, Brayden. From school years to adulthood, they hated one another.

After he trapped her with a debt, she fights for the biggest payout.

When an artist commissions her as a model, her world crashes down around her.

Now, it's a fight to survive long enough to be free.

My twin is wearing my wedding dress. And my fated mate is looking at her with a hunger he has never, not once in three years, aimed at me.

Most she-wolves would scream. They'd demand a fight. They'd let a betrayal this deep break them.

Not me.

I am the Moon Twin. The diplomat. The one who reads the silences and manages the treaties. So when my mate and my sister start quietly erasing me from my own life—hijacking my work, taking my meetings, and feeding the pack a sympathetic story about how I'm "cracking under the pressure"—I don't throw a tantrum.

I quietly walk into the Council office and file a formal petition for Rejection before they even realize I know.

Ronan thinks he can replace me seamlessly. He thinks his Alpha Ascension is secure. But he is about to learn that the woman who built his foundation knows exactly which load-bearing pillars to kick out to find her own life and happiness.

Complete. New chapter every day.

Read this if you love:
🖤 Fated Mate Betrayal / Cheating
🖤 Second Chance Mates
🖤 Twin Betrayal & Pack Politics
🖤 A Competent FMC who refuses to be a victim
🖤 Karma Comes For Everyone

After waking up from a one-night stand, Geneva wants to disappear back into anonymity. Yet, when she logs into her favorite game, he's there, questioning how they became friends. As she learns more about GlassOfOJ, she feels a strong connection with him. But when she works a jewelry event for her boss, she finds out there is more to him than his online persona. Who is the man she fell in love with?

A Cinderella-esque millionaire romance with spicy scenes.

Eryn Vespera, the fallen lady of Vespera County, silently works for the Cheshire March as its Marchioness while her philandering husband enjoys his mistress. Three years is all she needs to survive to get divorced from the man who used to be her first love.

Welcome to the Full Moon Breeding Club.
Facing extinction through population decline, shifters have revealed themselves to the human world, seeking mates to enact their Shifter Survival Plan. But the only way to pass on the wolf is through a a virus that requires a perfect, primal storm to take hold: the adrenaline of the chase, and a primal claim — and the wealthiest packs are willing to pay whatever it takes to make it happen.

The solution? Highly secure, elite, three-day retreats where pragmatic human volunteers are paid exorbitant sums to step into the ancestral woods as "prey" for feral Alphas.

Hadleigh Stafford is completely out of options. Drowning in family debt, she signs a contract that promises one million dollars just for surviving the weekend. A second million if she leaves carrying a shifter's pup. It’s a calculated risk. She just has to survive three nights in the woods.

Grant Austen is the reluctant poster boy for the Shifter Survival Project. He expects another agonizing weekend of playing the predator, forcing himself to maintain human restraint while hunting a stranger. But the second Hadleigh walks into the lodge, Grant's dormant wolf wakes up with a single, absolute demand: Mine.

When the sun sets and the full moon rises over the Cairnwood estate, the hunt begins. But Grant isn't just looking for a carrier for his pups. He's hunting for his mate.

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.