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Heiress of the Seven Cities
The Ever Spirits
The Assassin: A Love Story
You are cruel, she wrote.
You are stronger than cruelty, he replied.
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In the present, a woman languishes in a dungeon cell whose windows look out upon a cursed king’s dead lovers.
In the past, a little girl kneels beside a dying boy assassin and sings to him.
And somewhere in between, a young woman moves into the cottage of the man who killed her family…
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Content warnings: Death of family, violence, prevented SA
Available on Amazon and other retailers.
Wishes and Whispers and Sibilant Hisses
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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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 