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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 a kingdom ruled by an undying king, Rebecca and her family uproot themselves from place after place, taking refuge in manors left fallow after the king slew their inhabitants.
Rebecca grows up wearing dead girls’ clothes while keeping her existence a strict secret.
When she discovers a boy dying in a ditch, she hurts for him, kneels beside him, and sings.
He opens his eyes.
She takes him home and gives him cakes—and discovers he’s the selfsame assassin her father left to die.
Having tasted sweetness – and sweets – for the first time, the young assassin returns to Rebecca time and again for more. Initially, for cakes, and then, for kisses…
But assassins aren’t innocent, and Rebecca’s family hasn’t been hiding for nothing.
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What happens to girls who sing to assassins?
She’s written her tale.
Step into it.
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Content warnings: Death of family, violence, prevented SA
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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)
She armored her heart against brutality, not against kisses.
In a corner of the princess’s mind, a little memory will not die…
On a dreamlike day, she kissed a dying orc boy in a sunlit garden.
Years later, when that boy’s fate is only a terrible dream, a beautiful elf offers to help save the princess’s unstable kingdom from her tyrannical father’s hands.
But her father slays that hope, exiles her lover, and forces her into a nightmarish reality.
Refusing to yield, she flees to find her elven love—only to be imprisoned in the fortress of the orc who slew him… the same orc she once kissed in her castle garden.
Her captor cages her by day and ruthlessly barters for her surrender by night: first, he offers a trade for her kiss, and then, every night, he offers other trades for more.
She vows to defy him, survive him, escape him, yet he not only torments her, but challenges her, provokes her, and even as he steals her breath and her resistance, he gives her injured heart a desperately needed haven.
But she already escaped her father’s caged haven; she will not make her bed in an orc’s.
Find it on Amazon or other retailers. Or check out a graphic with a few excerpts here.
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.
