His life is ordered - until he is seduced by a beautiful 16-year-old runaway. Belinda: innocent yet passionate, she becomes his elegant muse and lover. His portraits of her, shocking and erotic, are his finest work - yet to reveal them could destroy his career for ever. As his passion for her deepens, so does his obsession with the past she will not talk about. Terrified of losing her, he is unable to live with her silence; and as he probes for the truth, he finds himself swept up in the world Belinda has fled from, a world of Hollywood money, lust and dark family secrets. EXIT TO EDEN: Welcome to the club: it's there to satisfy your deepest desires - if you can afford to indulge them. Mysterious, elegant, sparkling in the Caribbean sun, pulsating in the velvet nights: the lights never go out, the champagne never stops flowing and the rich and beautiful play tantalizing games of dominance and submission in a thousand satin-lined bedrooms. This is Eden, where the lash of desire meets the silken bonds of love.

    It is a story of of redemption, as she overcomes the challenges of living with her fragile mother in Rotney, a brutal, East End slum where she attends the notorious comprehensive school, Rotney High, with all its perils and ugliness. Antonia’s life changes when she meets an American war hero and performance magician, who restores her confidence and gives her a stone with magical properties to protect her at the cost of his own safety. The Sunshine Stone looks at how, despite the worst circumstances, there is always hope if you are prepared to fight for your future and to accept help from any quarter it might present itself, however unlikely.

    Sophie, with her glass slippers and pink dresses, thinks she'll earn top marks at the School for Good. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks and wicked black cat, seems a natural fit for the School for Evil.But when the two girls are swept into the Endless Woods, they find their fortunes are reversed…. The aftermath leads to unexpected paths, new alliances, and an exhilarating quest to find their true Ever After.Soman Chainani has created a spectacular world that Rick Riordan, author of the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, says "reimagines the world of fairy tales and will make you question who is good and who is evil," and that Newbery Medal-winning author Ann M. Martin calls "a fairy tale like no other, complete with romance, magic, humor, and a riddle that will keep you turning pages until the end."

    No one ever really dies and if we look hard enough we will find the unseen.The way through the veil has been closed for many centuries but great evil is being unleashed and the two worlds are merging. There are a chosen few who will walk the way of the dead and discover the secrets that are hidden deep within. Two young women discover their suprnatural gifts emerge. Jen & Ivy are drawn into the compelling world of the dark side and propelled on the most important journeys of their lives. It's a race against time for their very lives.

    Now, I am a prisoner of the fae, my kind’s sworn enemy since the beginning of time. They put chains around me, thinking they can keep me from breaking free and taking their lives. They can’t.The only reason I stay is because I no longer need a life. My home, my family, my dignity were all taken away from me.But I have the fae. My captor.He is every bit the man I was taught to hate, long before I knew how to love anything. To the world, he is the ruthless Winter prince who has never lost a battle against elves in his life. To me, his pain whispers other truths.He’s a prisoner in his castle just as much as I am.They sent him here to kill his soul.They sent me here to kill my body.What they didn’t see coming was that we’d find each other. And that we’d survive.***Pain Seeker is book 1 in The New Orleans Shade series, written in 2 POVs, packed with magic and fiery romance intended for mature audiences.

     The Slayer Academy will turn this nerdy bookworm into a badass Fae Slayer—if she can survive the spells, swords, and sadistic bullies. Megara’s journey into the exciting and perilous world of magic will test her skills and her loyalty. Danger, lies and love await at the Slayer Academy. Book 1 – The Legacy From nerdy bookworm to Fae Slayer in training. My life has always been meticulously planned, and blissfully free of surprises. I hate surprises. Discovering I come from a long line of Fae Slayers and must give up my position at a prestigious college to attend a Slayer Academy? Worst. Surprise. Ever. I’m a nerd. A bookworm. I slay with words, not swords. Fighting to stay at the top of the class is nothing compared to fighting to survive. If the deadly weapons and the mysteriously hot, but possibly evil guy don’t kill me, then six months without cell reception might. Book 2 – Fae Hunter From Fae Slayer to renegade rebel Slayer Academy 101—the Fae are evil. But I’ve glimpsed the true heart of a Fae prince. Fiore is kind, merciful and saved my life. Now he’s missing. Journeying to the Fae realm is treacherous, especially with Nyeer, the Fae prince who tried to kill me. But loathing soon turns to lust and Nyeer strips away my defenses—along with my clothes— until my heart’s in just as much danger as my life. Can I risk it all, betraying my own people to save three Fae princes? And will I lose them, too. Book 3 – Forbidden Love A rogue Slayer saved the Fae… but has she ignited a war? The Slayers have me trapped and tortured by a witch. But she can abracadabra me till my dying breath—I’ll never talk. Rescued by the Fae princes, my wounds heal, but my heart breaks. I can't choose between them. I won’t. When they agree to share me, my heart is full. My body sated. Until the Slayers attack. The Grizzled Forest blazes and amid the flames, Slayers and Fae battle to the death. The Slayers taught me everything I know about magic, and their power is immense… I just hope my love for the Fae is stronger than the Slayer’s hate. ***The Slayer Academy is the complete collection of College-age, Paranormal, Reverse Harem, Academy books. #whychoose romance at it's finest!

    Only nobles, people with power and prestige, are allowed within these hallowed grounds—which explains why Caspian Ignis del Sol is hated by everyone. He's not a noble, or of even slightly noble lineage. As payment for being enrolled in the academy, Caspian is sometimes given tasks to perform that take him outside of the academy walls. This time, his job is to deliver a letter to a Sorceress living in Ashtown, but when the train that he’s riding on is attacked by a mysterious band of thugs in cloaks, he’ll find that there is a whole lot more to this quest than he first imagined.

    But outcast from her kind, she's been selling herself to the higest bidder - money for her survival in exchange for a magic glimpse into the flames of the future.

    Afraid of being thrown into an isolation chamber, Michael goes home, but quickly falls violently ill. By the time he recovers and returns to work scary things are happening. Everyone who has come into contact with that patient is being systematically killed. On the run, he accidentally infects a woman living in the shadows of the underworld. She becomes ill as well, but survives. Then they begin feeling younger-and younger. Why would the government want to suppress something like this? After barely escaping federal gunmen, the two of them set out to discover what kind of infection they are harboring even though it might mean the end of their freedom.

    Beware of the Wolves. Born without the ability to hear, Savannah has always had heightened senses. When her family moves to the mysterious town of Grey Mountain she can tell something is “off”. She soon meets Xander Wilson, and is consumed by his magnetic pull. Handsome and wild, he intoxicates her with his presence and makes her feel alive and uninhibited. Xander wants to claim her and defy his ancestral SHIFTER fate. But when his pack turns on her, will he be able to save her before the Grey consumes them both?

    But the elderly resident doesn’t want her gentlemanly apparition to leave. She loves him and he loves her.Too bad her grandson and his fiancée insist either the ghost goes - or she goes.Too bad she’d signed the deed to the condo to her grandson to help him avoid inheritance taxes.Too bad the fiancée has plans of her own.Throw in a pretty neighbor, a dirty family scandal, and Cassie’s very new, very sexy and sometimes very grumpy husband, and anything can happen...even murder.This Haunted Hearts short story is a sequel to Dead People.12,348 words

    After participating in the promotion, Dante finds himself thrust into the hidden world of the Spiritual Warriors, a group of men and women, fighters with special abilities who are trained and dedicated to keeping this plane of existence safe from evil.He discovers that a war has been raging between the Warriors, those sworn to protect this plane of existence from destruction and the Shadows, those who would see it enslaved under the rule of evil. After being captured by Sylk, one of the last Karashihan, an ancient sect of Warriors, Dante, manifests an eternal weapon of immense power. This weapon, which has moved from host to host through time, uses the darker side of the psyche, driving its host to unspeakable evil.Dante must learn to harness this power without succumbing to the darkness, in order to confront the entity that wants to conquer this plane of existence.Together with a group of Warriors; Dante embarks on a mission to stay alive. Facing several enemies, even a secret faction within the Warriors- the Black Lotus; he fights those who would rather see him dead than unleash the power of his weapon. They will travel through several planes, called the Mirror, and avoid the dangers that reside within them in order to unlock the secret abilities that will allow him to use his weapon and ultimately defeat the entity that would destroy them all.The Black Lotus, the Warriors covert assassins have been tasked with finding Dante and preventing him from ever unleashing the power his weapon contains. Dante must use all of his skill and ability while relying on those sworn to keep him safe, to stay one step ahead of them in order to fulfill his mission.Through their travels, Dante discovers that his weapon contains a vastly powerful being that has been imprisoned within his weapon, and is willing to do anything to escape, even kill. In order to fully control his weapon Dante must unravel the mystery of this being, who it was and who was powerful enough to imprison it.Unknown to all, Sylk has been able to track the progress of the entity he calls the Dark One. The entity is preparing to take over their plane amassing a great force in various parts of the Mirror, and is closer to achieving his goal than the Warriors may believe. Despite the risk of Dante being turned by the darkness that resides in his weapon, Sylk believes that the unlocking and harnessing this weapon is the only chance they have to survive and is willing to stake his and everyones life on it.

    And when a filmmaker friend is brutally murdered in the manner of a death scene from one of his movies, she's convinced that a copycat killer is on the loose�and that she's the next target. The man who swoops in to save her is the mysterious new love interest Anatoly Darinsky. Of course, if this were fiction, Anatoly would be her prime suspect.… Passion, Betrayal and Killer Highlights When her brother-in-law turns up dead and her sister is accused of the crime, Sophie's priority is finding the real killer. With or without Anatoly's help. Her brother-in-law's secret life yields plenty of suspects, but the San Francisco police aren't taking any of them seriously. So Sophie does what comes naturally to her: she stirs up trouble (to lure the killer out, of course). Obsession, Deceit and Really Dark Chocolate Sophie's relationship with the irresistible and occasionally insufferable Anatoly is on the rocks when a friend recruits Sophie to decode her allegedly two-timing husband's strange behavior. Suddenly plunged into a crazy world of campaign mudslinging, dirt-digging and cover-ups, Sophie begins to uncover some pretty dirty secrets indeed. Way in over her head as usual, Sophie reluctantly�or not-so-reluctantly�enlists the help of her two-time sidekick and ex, Anatoly. Lust, Loathing and a Little Lip Gloss Sophie is head over heels in love�with a three-bedroom San Francisco Victorian. She's just got to have it, despite a few drawbacks. Her slimy ex is the realtor, and her first tour of the house reveals, well, a lifeless body clutching a cameo with a disturbing history of its own. There's no way Sophie is going to give up the ghost on her dreams of stained glass and original woodwork, though�especially since Sophie is 99 percent sure her problems are caused by someone six feet tall instead of six feet under….

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