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The Assassin: A Love Story
If I stand on tiptoe and press my face between the bars of my cell, I can peer out over the dead lovers of the king.
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In a kingdom ruled by an undying king, a young girl who wears dead girls’ clothes and sleeps in houses not hers finds a boy assassin dying in a ditch.
Hazy with sunbeams, she kneels beside him and sings to him.
He does not die.
So what does one do with deadly little boys?
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I should have left you in that ditch.
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Content warnings: Death of family, violence, prevented SA
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Never bargain with a man clad in unknown intentions. (Unless one is quite desperate.)
Poppet is desperate. Her mother eternally sleeps. Her father eternally weeps. And Poppet herself must perch on a strict little chair every day and feed them both to keep them alive.
She’s at the point where she would even welcome a villain to alleviate the dire tedium of her life.
And then.
A tormented stranger breaches her castle walls and offers her one of her dreams.
For one day, he will lift her out of her pit of loneliness.
If only he hadn’t turned her father’s endless tears to endless blood, Poppet might even trust him…
Read the first chapter here, or check it out on Amazon or other retailers.
The Wicked Orc (or The Wicked Orc, the Beguiling Elf, and the Caged Princess)
Orc boys sometimes grow up to be wicked…
On a dreamlike day, an impulsive princess kissed a dying orc boy in a sunlit garden.
Years later, failing to save her kingdom which balances on the brink of revolt, she flees a nightmarish reality to track down her exiled elven love.
He’s been ruthlessly slain.
And the remorseless orc who killed him cages her in his fortress. He locks her behind bars by day and demands too much of her by night.
Gradually, though, he unveils to her his world, his people, his tormented past, his embittered soul, and she stumbles into moments of unanticipated resplendence and overpowering bliss.
The lines between good and bad blur.
But she has to stand her ground.
She has to shield her heart.
Because how can a captive confined to a gilded cage freely give a heart whose love has blossomed in a poisoned prison?
It’s on Amazon.
Slightly Sweetly, Slightly Creepy
Do you like creepy things, dear mortal? Where love is but a hint? A whisper?
A taunt?
Then do come in. Don’t fear. I promise it’ll all end happily. Venture fearlessly to all corners of the world where authors have strewn their lovers in eerie, eldritch places…
Slip through the night to South Africa, where a young woman finds herself shut in a psychiatric hospital and haunted by a cursed creature… but curses only terrify those who fear death.
Journey to Texas, where a restless spirit and a reluctant ghost hunter form an unexpected if slightly mercurial connection.
Sail to the middle of the Atlantic, where something in the water is watching a novice sailor on her honeymoon–something that knows all her desperate secrets.
Venture to New York, where an orphan prey to strange dreams and hallucinations encounters a creature of storybook nightmares who accuses her of descending from a dark and dangerous lineage–a lineage he’s vowed to destroy.
Follow Death and Fate through the streets of medieval Tallinn while they save a starving artist.
Travel to North Carolina, where an aspiring singer buried deep in a forest plots with the spirit of a tree to take vengeance on the man who put her there.
Sneak into labyrinthine Prague, where a reckless woman makes a lover from a scrap of soul and ends up captive in a starlit tower, facing consequences of forbidden magic..
And finally, in Australia… find out within the anthology pages…
Join authors from around the world in exploring gothically romantic corners of the globe in complete stories with HEAs or HFNs.
*PARTICIPATING AUTHORS* Lynn Rush, Sky Sommers, Taryn Moreau, Beth Green, Katherine Traylor, MS Weaver, Sonya Lano, Renee Edwards, Nicole Herron, E.H. D’Urbin, René Adams
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The Splintered Princess
BEWARE THIS BOOK! NO LOVE INTEREST IS SAFE…
A magic dagger. A beautiful man. And me.
We were a match made to be destroyed.
The dagger lured me in with whispers: I was meant to be an empress, not a farm girl, simple, sequestered and common.
Daring to dream of power and love, I picked the dagger up.
And I reached for him.
Avid and ardent, we were both vicious in strength and feral at heart. But he protected those he loved while I—heedless, rash, slapdash with my emotions—played carelessly with the lives and hearts around me.
But others played better.
My country’s overlord kidnapped my family and forced me into a charade: be a decoy princess to protect his queen.
My weapons trainer hid his true agenda as he taught me to fight with sword and dagger, to identify poisons, to ingest them, and to sever my soul.
Even the spirit of the man I loved suppressed a secret savagery behind his charm.
But his spirit, split from his body, was no equal for his physical form. Captured by the enemy and warped into an atrocity, his true self made our love a battlefield… strewn with a thousand downfalls… one for every time I defied him.
Read the first chapter here or find the book on Amazon or other retailers.
The Ever Spirits
Alynah Commonborn no longer exists.
Forged into a pawn taught to fight, detect poisons, and disconnect my soul, I am a concocted lie: decoy, princess, murderess, spy, with one truth left: greater loyalty to my family than my country. I play the overlord’s heartless daughter to save their lives, but in so doing, I condemn my nation to an alliance that will destroy it.
Then a ruthless foe kidnaps me for his own agenda.
I try to escape and stop the coming disaster, but every attempt fails, and the stakes keep rising. I’m falling in love with my silver-haired captor, making it harder to fight him. Too many die for my deception, making it harder to believe in. And the ever spirits in the spirit realm keep reviving me from the dead, meaning more than my family’s lives hang in the balance, and not only my people will break if I fail.
But I am Alynah Commonborn – what’s left of her – and I will not fail.
Be prepared for the dark. While the main character is not abused herself, some of the others characters have been held as sex slaves and a few graphic memories are shown.
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Heiress of the Seven Cities
Heiress to a Court of Nothing
The wicked queen was once a goodly girl, but goodly girls don’t last in poison courts.
In a court of gilded mirrors, gilded smiles, and gilded lies, she is an insignificant nothing. White-haired, gangly, and gawky, she stuffs her soft dreams behind an iron façade.
But when her father arranges a foul betrothal for her in another city, she craves at least one tiny taste of freedom before her fate boxes her into nothingness.
She takes her soft daring into the honeyed radiance of the carnival, where she seeks to unravel some secret.
She sneaks behind one of the rides and finds…
An open door.
Inside a small room, on time-eroded planks, kneels a beautiful boy scarcely older than she, and as the wind brushes sand across her slippers, the boy glances up.
Here, she takes her first step into freedom.
But the unreadable, cryptic heir to the kingdom is always one step behind her.
Check out the first three chapters here. Or check it out on Amazon or other retailers!
Heiress of Magic
Any woman may be held captive.
But her heart?
Never.
LYSIUM
Enslaved by the guild, Lysium aches for freedom while her magically imprisoned soul forces her to be obedient. She must dance with her beautiful husband who never smiles despite coming to her every night to love her, his every look marred by a breathless and unfathomable melancholy.
And every night, once he leaves, a shadow comes to steal away Lysium’s memories of her most beloved companion, a laughing fire mage, although she desperately and defiantly chronicles their every moment in a secret journal…
ESSENCE
Shunned as a beautiful monster with scarlet eyes and bone-white hair, Essence nevertheless casts enchantments to protect her city from an ancient foe.
However, haunted by solitude, she seeks solace in letters from an enigmatic young mage in a distant demesne, who wields a mysterious power–and an unhealthy love for her.
MELYNDA
A mediocre sorceress at best, Melynda hopelessly tries to protect both Lysium and Essence.
But she must contend first with the guildmaster who possesses the souls of her children.
THE ENEMY
And outside the Seventh Demesne, a spirit—once the queen consort of mankind’s greatest foe—strives to save humankind. But her lover, the enemy king, has bound her existence to his.
Content Warnings: Some of the male characters are morally questionable. One female character is tricked into sleeping with someone else without knowing who that person really is. An unborn baby is stolen from one character’s womb.
If you’re ready to step into a world of captivity, passion, torment, beauty, and magic, nab this book now on your favorite retailer here. Or for excerpts, click here!
Heiress of Healing
“Her magic reached… like glowing hands… into his ruined heart.”
Gifted with boundless compassion, Iminique loves even when she shouldn’t. She heals those who possibly don’t deserve it. But her generous heart demands she dispel all the ills that she can.
And thus, in secret, she defies her father’s edict that she never use her magic.
At her first royal ball, however, when she’s only thirteen summers old, a single mistake sends repercussions across her entire life: she pits her pitiful, untrained, untried, and loving magic against a nameless, faceless mage who is trying to steal the life of a royal infant.
Without mercy, the wizard unravels her magic and seizes her soul. As she blunders inside his magical prison, though, she experiences an agony that is not hers.
It’s his.
In her final moments, her healing reaches into him, into the soul of this wrecked man, and she patches up what damage she can.
Abruptly, the mage lets her go, leaving both her and the royal babe alive.
Nothing is the same again.
The mage now has access to Iminique’s thoughts. He spies on her life. He can keep her from speaking any accusations that would condemn him.
Though she’s still only thirteen, Iminique becomes the royal nanny, caring for the princess she saved—a princess no one wants. The king is indifferent, the queen is hateful, the servants spiteful. Their apathy dooms Iminique to days of thankless drudgery with no one to help.
Except for him. The selfsame mage who nearly slew the infant and her.
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Heiress of Secrets
I wasn’t always wicked. Once, I loved.
I will not make that mistake again.
Wed to the highest ruler of the known world, I am a spurned queen, aging, barren, and unable to bear the septuplets that will save our world.
My king, the faithless cur, takes lover after lover while my own chambers echo with emptiness and madness. And yet he will not let me escape, commanding that a spell be cast to chain me to this life.
A neverending heartache at last drives me from the castle, and I flee to the scrapheap of the city.
In that place of unloved things, a cracked window seems to break the spell on my life. I press a shard to my wrist, and my skin yields, but inside the glass, a gray, fanged monster appears.
The shadow-hungry king. Our ancient enemy.
He offers me a bargain: if I vow to him some unspecified future favor, he swears that I will bear the septuplets.
In return for my willingness, he fills my palms with magic: a vial that swarms within with enchantment that enables me to spy upon anyone I wish.
Let those around me lie to my face now. Let them scorn me behind my back.
With the monster’s magic, I will look straight into their hearts.
In progress! For a sneak peek of the first few chapters, click here!
Dystopian
Dance in These Hollow Walls
A dystopian romance collaboration with the lovely author Lily I. Aspara!
In a city where life is limited, love is precious.
Serycia Fade once longed to find a cure for a deadly virus that ravages her city, but ever since she was sold to a high-level man for pleasure, her dream has lain forcibly fallow.
When an act of mercy leaves her stranded and pregnant in the most lethal level of the city, she offers a fatally wounded man a month of health if he helps her escape to her research lab two levels up.
A near-impossible task when every level is strictly guarded.
Soren Lost was born a Level 1 nonentity. With only a few years left to live, he’s determined to carve out a safe haven for his young sister.
But then the square where he’s waiting with others explodes.
As he slumps dying in the gutter, a woman staggers out of the rubble, breaking into his life like a shard of sunlight shining in a squalid world. She makes him an impossible offer.
But if dealing in impossibilities buys him time to save his sister, he’s taking it.
Unfortunately, a powerful man has Serycia marked for death. She’s got city protectors on her tail. And time is a brutally ticking clock.
But in a city hollowed of hope, Soren and Serycia’s only chance is to teach hope to dance.
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Fairy Tales!
Never Trust a Prince
Cousin Ebermeisters can’t be trusted. Neither can five-headed trolls (sly things; always keeping secrets). Neither can princes.
Especially not princes.
In fact, for ex-princess Nikaela, all men are undeniably, unquestionably, indisputably, absolutely, without a doubt and with no exceptions bad news.
That’s why she and her ex-princess friend Saige have a nice little swindle going where they fleece unsuspecting noblemen of their pocket change at royal balls. It’s not exactly a lucrative line of business, but it pays the bills.
At least it pays the bills until Saige (not the sharpest eel in the barrel) chooses the wrong man to cross, and she and Nikaela wind up cursed…
As if that wasn’t bad enough, an unwanted suitor with a head full of chivalrous nonsense and a mind to win Nikaela’s heart chooses that inopportune moment to step back into her life.
And as if THAT wasn’t bad enough, a dragon and a would-be hero sweep into Saige’s life.
And as if that STILL wasn’t bad enough, the untrustworthy men in their lives are about to turn each girl’s well-ordered opinion of the world on its head.
Sonya Lano 