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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?
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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.
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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 of Magic
ESSENCE
They shun her as a beautiful monster, with her scarlet eyes and bone-white hair.
But Essence singlehandedly sustains the Seventh Demesne walls, protecting the walled city from a gray-skinned, sharp-toothed race that seeks to invade.
However, haunted by solitude, she seeks solace in letters from a young mage in a distant demesne.
Something isn’t right with him, though, or with his magic.
And then he appears in her city, offering her the one thing she cannot resist: love.
LYSIUM
Enslaved by the guild, I ache for freedom. But the guildmaster magically imprisoned my soul inside amber, and I must be obedient to him, always, ever.
He commands me to dance with my beautiful husband, a guild slave like I. He never smiles, and yet every night, he loves me inside moments marred by breathless and unfathomable melancholy.
But every day, in the softest way, I escape: into clandestine moments in the park with another man I’m sure is—
—something I must never speak.
Because this thing is so forbidden that, every night, a shadow enters my room and steals these moments with him from my life.
MELYNDA
A mediocre sorceress at best, Melynda nevertheless desperately tries to protect both Lysium and Essence.
But she must contend with the guildmaster who possesses the souls of her children. She must fend off the master of mages who craves more power. All while resolving the mystery of her assassin lover, a man with an unknown past who’s been concealing an unexplained power.
THE ENEMY
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 spread his plans throughout the kingdom like a spider web.
Now he watches. And waits. Then he acts. And the city…
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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.
Fate makes him Iminique’s ally, but he holds his truths close, and as the years pass and she grows into adulthood, she is polarized between his ugly truths… and his increasingly beautiful love.
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Heiress of Secrets
Wed to the highest ruler of the known world, I am nevertheless a ruined queen, withered by heartbreak and embittered by decades of failure in bearing the rulers that would prevent our world from falling to doom.
As I ready, however, to take my life, the fanged king of our ancient enemy appears in the glass shard I hold to my wrist.
He offers me a chance: if I promise him a future favor, he swears I will bear the heirs.
In return for my willingness, the shadow king fills my palms with magic: a vial swarming inside with golden strands that enable me to spy on anyone at all.
I spy on those I hate, and not only do I discover uncanny plots unfolding in every corner of castle and city, but I find myself contending with a trickster mage who appears in my private chambers as he likes, my faithless magnate finds his way back into my life, and my past love resurrects in a terrible, unexpected way.
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Dystopian
No One to Save Her
A dystopian romance collaboration with the lovely author Iris Ng-Bakalar!
Serycia Fade, a slave marked for death…
I run into the most impoverished level of our walled city, where poisons and toxins swirl in oily black puddles on the streets, and people are gathering in a square in line for food.
But they can’t be here. I scream at them to get out, get away.
And the world explodes.
Soren Lost, a Level 1 nonentity…
She breaks into my life like a shard of sunlight shining in a squalid world just before the square explodes. Staggering out of the rubble, she offers me a pill that will give me a month of health in exchange for me getting her back out of Level 1.
Only thing is, a powerful man has her marked for death; she’s got city protectors on her tail; her former master has been mind-wiped and doesn’t remember she exists; and I have a sister to protect.
I should refuse, should leave her mired in her own troubles.
But there’s no one else to save her. So I take the month of health and do my damnedest to save her myself.
Good thing, too, because if I get her to the lab on Level 3, her research might be the key to finding the cure for the virus that dooms us all to die at twenty-six.
If I can keep her alive that long.
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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 