Rose - Coming 8.22.19My name is Scarlett Mavis. I have a sweet tooth, no filters, and video games are my life. Let me clarify that last part: They’re not a hobby; they’re not a way to kill the time; They. Are. My. LIFE. Where family, men, and humans, in general, have failed me, video games are always there waiting for me to return to their warm and accepting embrace.In real life I may be a heartbroken geek, but put a controller in my hands and I become an indestructible warrior. What else does a girl really need?Enter player two, Kane Decker.Handsome, nerdy, incredible kisser, and just my type. Our first date was perfect in every way. Then, like always, reality came crashing down with one simple truth. He wasn’t my teammate; he was the enemy. And there’s nothing I’m better at than taking out a rival player. But this isn’t a game, and the stakes are all too real. For the first time in my life, I may have met my match. Game on.18+

    A serious saga in the 8000+ page range, space opera in the HFY tradition.

     SCHOOLED: Twenty-one-year-old Alexis Caine is so close to her dream she can taste it. And it tastes like validation and Häagen-Dazs. In a few months the quick-talking redhead will graduate with a shiny new business degree and launch a fashion label with her best friend Ava. All the planning, dedication, and saying ‘no’ to everything - and everyone - distracting will pay off. Then Dylan Cameron, Ava’s tall, dark and broody younger brother, returns from the East Coast to start sophomore year at Lex's San Diego college. Lex has hardly seen him in years and given his reputation for partying and girls, that’s just fine with her. But Dylan’s all grown up. And a night of unplanned confessions for both of them threatens to tear Lex’s carefully constructed world off its axis… Because one sassy control freak + one prodigal son = chemistry that refuses to be ignored. STRIPPED: "I've been in New York four weeks. I'm behind on the spring line, days from homeless, and getting sued by the only person in the whole damn city who's seen me naked." Ava Cameron has stars in her eyes. When the feisty designer moves to NYC after graduation with her best friend, things are finally clicking into place. But now their brand new label, Travesty, is under attack. The man leading the charge is the hottest hookup Ava ever had. One she never wanted to see again... Nate Townsend might be from the right schools, the right neighborhood and the right family. But under the surface, his scars run deep. When the society prince and the loud designer come face to face on a case that could decide Ava's future, sparks fly. Nate's not about to let Ava forget she's the only person who knows his secrets. And Ava's walking the line between getting Travesty back on track and being dragged into the gutter by one stubborn young lawyer planning to take her down. If only Nate Townsend didn't make the gutter look so damn good...

    You can find the strangest things in our attic. The Wish Machine wouldn't have caught my attention if not for the bright white spots on its oval body - letters "W" and "M". I know all letters. Aunt Elly taught me all the letters a long time ago, when our king Howard was still young and would go hunting every day.Then in the attic I didn't know that it was a Wish Machine and took it for an abandoned barrel which used to contain cedar infusion. One side of the wish barrel had a worn handle like barrel organs have. Sometimes in our courtyard we see an old organ-grinder with a lilliputian dragon on his shoulder.Bright emerald numbers were glowing between two letters on the barrel: nine naughts in a row and a five at the end. I know all numbers up to ten. I learnt them before I even learnt letters.I noticed a sign on the handle, but I couldn't read it, because I can't make out words by joining letters yet. I thought then that it probably was an organ barrel. Only not the same as the old organ-grinder had, but maybe one which played different music. I turned the handle, and…