Tryst Six Venom


Penelope Douglas - 2021
    ๐‘ฎ๐’†๐’• ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐’š!๐˜พ๐™‡๐˜ผ๐™”Marymount girls are good girls. Weโ€™re chaste, weโ€™re untouched, and even if we werenโ€™t, no one would know, because we keep our mouths shut.Not that I have anything to share anyway. I never let guys go too far. Iโ€™m behaved. Beautiful, smart, talented, popular, my skirtโ€™s always pressed, and I never have a hair out of place. I own the hallways, walking tall on Monday and dropping to my knees like the good Catholic girl I am on Sunday.Thatโ€™s me. Always in control. Or so they think. The truth is that itโ€™s easy for me to resist them, because what I truly want, they can never be. Something soft and smooth. Someone dangerous and wild. Unfortunately, what I want I have to hide. In the locker room after hours. In the bathroom stall between classes. In the showers after practice. ๐‘€๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ž๐‘‘ ๐‘ ๐‘ค๐‘–๐‘š๐‘š๐‘–๐‘›๐‘”. ๐‘€๐‘ฆ โ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘›๐‘‘ ๐‘ข๐‘ โ„Ž๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ ๐‘˜๐‘–๐‘Ÿ๐‘ก. For me, life is a web of secrets. No one can find out mine. ๐™Š๐™‡๐™„๐™‘๐™„๐˜ผI cross the tracks every day for one reasonโ€”to graduate from this school and get into the Ivy League. Iโ€™m not ashamed of where I come from, my family, or how everyone at Marymount thinks my skirts are too short and my lipstick is too red. Clay Collins and her friends have always turned up their noses at me. The witch with her beautiful skin, clean shoes, and rich parents who torments me daily and thinks I wonโ€™t fight back.At least not until I get her alone and find out sheโ€™s hiding so much more than just whatโ€™s underneath those pretty clothes. The princess thinks Iโ€™ll scratch her itch. She thinks sheโ€™s still pure as long as itโ€™s not a guy touching her. I told her to stay on her side of town. I told her not to cross the tracks. But one night, she did. And when Iโ€™m done with her, sheโ€™ll never be pure again. *TRYST SIX VENOM is a standalone, new adult, bully romance suitable for readers 18+. It will release directly into Kindle Unlimited!

Malice


Heather WalterHeather Walter - 2021
    But in this darkly magical retelling of โ€œSleeping Beauty,โ€ true love is more than a simple fairy tale. Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true loveโ€™s kiss. Youโ€™ve heard this before, havenโ€™t you? The handsome prince. The happily-ever-after. Utter nonsense. Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. I thought I didnโ€™t care, either. Until I met her. Princess Aurora. The last heir to Briarโ€™s throne. Kind. Gracious. The future queen her realm needs. One who isnโ€™t bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster. Aurora says I should be proud of my gifts. That she . . . cares for me. Even though it was a power like mine that was responsible for her curse. But with less than a year until that curse will kill her, any future I might see with Aurora is swiftly disintegratingโ€”and she canโ€™t stand to kiss yet another insipid prince. I want to help her. If my power began her curse, perhaps itโ€™s what can lift it. Perhaps, together, we could forge a new world. Nonsense again. Because we all know how this story ends, donโ€™t we? Aurora is the beautiful princess. And Iโ€” I am the villain.