Ryder had no choice but to approach her. Their eyes locked. Words were exchanged. Feeling arose that he didn’t know he was capable of. They left together in what was expected to be a night of passion, but the secret she was keeping would change his life forever.Since he was a kid, Ryder’s only known the world of motorcycle clubs. After losing his father to a tragic accident, he vowed to fulfill his father’s dreams of having his own MC—the baddest that Texas has ever known. But fate might have other plans.When Ryder’s mystery woman vanishes without a trace, he’ll encounter some of the most dangerous men he’s ever crossed paths with to get her back. But he has some dangerous men of his own to meet the challenge. No matter what, Ryder knows one thing for sure—he’s never seen a woman as beautiful as the woman with the green eyes, and no matter the cost to himself, he’ll move heave and earth to be with her again.

    It’s an equinox place, my mother once said, where dark and light things are equally in power.I want to tell you, dear strangers, why I was there and what I found.The three-winged pigeon. My cynical doppelgänger. The loneliness and marvels and confusions of the house. And most of all the ghost living in my bedroom.We learned how to talk without using sound. She was secretive and scared and difficult to know. But she was also warm and playful, as willing to share the room in silence as to trace vulgar symbols on my hand to get a rise.She helped me with the hundred-pound centipede, the hostile little man living in my basement, and the emptiness I’d felt since my mother lost her mind.I tried to help her out of limbo with experiments and spells until I realized if they worked—if we succeeded—I would lose her."

    A test subject to be poked and prodded, broken and put back together again until my body finally fails me.The only way out is to die.So what will happen when the girl who has always been sick, inexplicably begins to heal?With the odds stacked against me, I’ll have to place my life and my heart in the hands of a group of criminals,Because the girl who was once ready to die will burn the world to ashes for a chance to live.From the Fire Book Two:An asset. An experimentA liability. A freak.I’m all those thingsAnd so much more.The Phoenix Group might have all the powerBut underestimating someone with nothing left to lose will be their downfallThey took the only thing in my life that was pure and untaintedAnd destroyed it, leaving behind nothing but rubble and ash.Now there’s nothing but revenge on my mind and rage in my heart.They left me to burn, trapped behind a wall of fire and flames.But the girl I once was is now a monster of their own makingThey should have remembered that a Phoenix cannot be beaten with fire.From the ashes, I will riseAnd vengeance will be mine.Trigger warning: This collection contains themes that some readers might find uncomfortable.Authors note: The Phoenix Project is an unconventional story about love and loss and the hard part in between. It is a Reverse Harem romance with multiple love interests and not a triangle in sight.Due to its mature content, readers should be 18 and over.

    A young priest on the other side of the screen is shaken by what he learns. A former college athlete with an MBA from a prestigious university, Father Joe Russo is not your typical man of God. Nine years earlier, his own life took a tragic turn and he gave everything up, committing his life to the church. Now his peaceful existence is being tested, and he finds himself questioning the God he serves, the vows he made, and someone he left behind.In this gripping thriller, a priest and an FBI agent work to uncover secrets and expose hidden crimes, but when it seems they have it all figured out, everything they think they know will be questioned.

    Doing anything first time always remains special in your memories and secret in your hearts. We all must have gone through in our teenage life, for some it must have been an infatuation phase and for some seriously falling in love. Sometimes it is better to let the infatuation die a natural death and give birth to true love when it’s time. We all have love stories in our lives to tell but due to the absence of perfect listeners, many stories remain untold...