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Forgotten Gods Boxed Set: The Complete Series
S.T. Branton - 2019
They were defeated by a great warrior—and banished to spend eternity beyond the reach of the humans who once served them.
Their war is raging once again.
And once again, it will require a great hero to save humanity.
Unfortunately for humanity, I’m that hero.
My name is Vic Stratton. I’m no saint, but I’m the best chance we’ve got at surviving the chaos about to be unleashed. But hey, at least I have my good looks, a quick tongue, and the sword of the gods on my side.
And I’m going to need it. Because when the gods return, all hell will break loose.
Read now and discover The Forgotten GodsThe Forgotten Gods Boxed Set includes the entire eight book series: Forgotten Gods, Goddess Scorned, Hounded By The Gods, God In The Darkness, Gods Of New York, God Country, Haunted By The Gods, and Gods Remembered.
Frozen Paws
Chrissy Peebles - 2015
*This is a 3 book series* 2nd professional edit done 2/17/16There is a subplot with Taylor in this story for all you Crush lovers. Julie (Taylor’s best friend from The Crush Saga) leaves Big Bear Lake when she is chased by evil that wants to consume her powers. She dyes her hair, packs her stuff, and goes on the run… She hooks up with a werewolf pack that is branched off from The Ice Pack. They vow to help her. But can she really hide from her enemies? Julie is eighteen years old, discreetly going about her life as the daughter of a witch. Her biggest concern is trying to convince her mother to let her marry her boyfriend, a werewolf.Everything changes when, after a fight with her mother, Julie goes for a drive and ends up in a car accident. The other driver gets out of his car and attacks Julie with inhuman strength. She is forced to use magic to defend herself, and accidentally kills her attacker in the process. A few short hours later, the same man walks out of the hospital without a scratch on him.Julie goes on the run, hunted by a coven of vampires long thought to be extinct. Even in a town full of Immortals, Julie is not safe. The only way for her to stop running is to defeat the vampires that hunt her. With help from two new friends and fellow vampires, Julie goes on a journey to find three rare ingredients to use in a potion that will destroy the entire coven that hunts her.She constantly battles not only against vampires, shape-shifters and ghosts—but also with herself. Can she learn what it means to be part of a pack? The answer will determine her success or failure.
The Woman Who Saw the Future
Amit Sharma - 2017
Sapna can see the future and saves thousands of people around the world every year through her record-breaking, popular show ‘Lucky People’. The show had given Sapna’s life a meaning and gives her the courage to sleep every night, where death and blood await her in her dreams. Even though the world is at her feet, the power costs Sapna her personal life. Thousands of prayers that come her way every year are her only solace, her only reason to live. When a blinding hatred leads to a desperate act of revenge, a single misuse of her great power triggers a reversal of her fortunes. Now she must decide the path she has to take to preserve her unique gift and her fame, even if it turns her into a murderer on the brink of insanity.
Danger in the Clouds
Judith A. Barrett - 2019
When criminals target his family, Major goes on the attack. Major’s farm family grows when the sheriff’s family and others take refuge at the farm. After thugs are thwarted by his granddaughter’s uncanny gift to see danger, will Major succeed in exposing the conspiracy where others have so tragically failed?
The Deathless Quadrilogy (Deathless Saga #1-4)
Chris Fox - 2019
Its discovery throws into question everything we know about the origins of mankind. Inside lies incredible technology, proof of a culture far more advanced than our own. Something dark lurks within, eager to resume a war as old as mankind. When it is unleashed it heralds the end of our species’ reign. A plague of werewolves spreads across the world. A sunspot larger than anything in recorded history begins to grow. Yet both pale in comparison to the true threat, the evil the werewolves were created to fight. "It's like Indiana Jones went through the Stargate and ended up in Aliens versus Predator." - One of the author's totally biased friends. This collection gathers No Such Thing As Werewolves, No Mere Zombie, Vampires Don't Sparkle, and The Great Pack. It's over 1,500 pages!
Simply Dragons Anthology
Bonnie Burrows - 2016
However, when she stumbles into the middle of a shifter turf war she finds she is about to be caught in the cross-hairs...
That is until she meets the impossibly handsome dragon shifter, Nick. Handsome and with a body to die for, Daisy feels like she is in love at first sight. From the looks of it, it seems Nick might feel the same way!
Only thing is, Nick's stubborn brother Damien wants a piece of Daisy too...
Will Daisy be able to choose? Or will she have to be SHARED by the dragons?
Amira Rain - Sold To The Dragons (SOLD #1)
In a dystopian future, fertile women are so hard to come by that they are now bought and sold for huge sums of money across the world. You could say that women are the new currency...
Curvy Kira Southerly is one of the few remaining fertile women left on the planet and she has resigned herself to the fate of being SOLD!
However, she had no idea she would end up being sold to two young and handsome bachelors named Blake and Steven. They are both dragon shifters and they are intent on mating with her and producing a baby as soon as possible!
With not enough fertile women to go around the brothers have no choice but to share the curvy beauty among themselves. Something that allows Kira to fulfill her every sexual fantasy....
Being sold to dragons should not be this much fun, should it?
Ellie Valentina - Unleashing His Dragon
When Margo headed to Tennessee to research dragon lore she had no idea just how much she was going to discover. It was there that she met a mysterious, yet charming man, named Vincent, who seemingly knows all there is to know about dragons!
Unknown to Margo, Vincent is a dragon himself and he has taken a huge liking to her. Something Vincent previously thought was impossible!
As the two of them find themselves drawn closer to each other, the community of Tennessee find themselves, up in arms at the prospect of a dragon loving a human female! With the knives out, Vincent has to choose between protecting the woman he loves and remaining loyal to his dragon people. Something that is going to be much easier said than done...
Serena Rose - Dragon's Arranged Mate
Is it possible to love a stranger?
King Caside had lived the perfect life. As the latest in a long line of dragon shifters to rule County Cork, he had just been given the ultimate blessing, a MATE!
Anabelle was perfect in his eyes and the instant connection they felt for each other, showed that love at first sight, was definitely real. His new mate may have been the result of an arrangement, however, he would not have had it any other way!
However, when danger threatened the kingdom, they both found their loyalties to each other were tested to the maximum. And, Caside was faced with choosing between his new mate, and the safety of his people!
Something simply had to give...
Jasmine White - One Night With A Dragon
Lilly Garner was an ordinary girl living what seemed like an ordinary life but all that changed one fate filled night. Charming and impossible to resist, shape-shifting dragon Tony Lancaster was determined to seduce Lilly and get her into bed for one night of passionate fun. Something that she would find impossible to turn down!
However, Lilly had no idea that one night with a dragon was going to be a night that would change her life forever...
Amira Rain - Melted By The Dragon (MELTED #1)
In a future world that is ruled by dragon shifters, fertile women are scarce. They are so scarce, that women capable of having children, are now often cryogenically frozen for centuries, in order to help future generations reproduce. Curvy Vivian Mason, was one of those women, who was frozen hundreds of years ago, and now it is time for her to be MELTED!
Dragon Commander Jackson Wallace is in urgent need of an heir. And he demands that Vivian is melted, and awakened, in order to produce one for him...
Now, with no memory of how she even got there Vivian has no choice but to go along with whatever her new mate demands. No matter how bad, rough or naughty it might seem...
Can Vivian produce the baby dragon that Jackson so demands? And what might happen when she finally remembers who she was before she was MELTED?
Jade White - The Dragon's Mail Order Mate
Dragon shifters Mike Hawkins and Will Stewart are so focused on their missions in life that they have no time to search for a mate. To avoid all the trouble of searching for a mate they decide to order one online...
Enter, Oksana Stanislav. A blonde bombshell, who has always dreamed of being mated with a hunky shifter...
However, whilst both the dragons believe they can share her for the rest of eternity, Oksana has other ideas. Oksana turns the tables on the them. And now, it is going to be dragon vs dragon, in a quest to win her heart!
After all, a three-way relationship could never work in the long term, or could it?
Angela Foxxe - The Dragons Surrogate (Surrogates #3)
When Tasha applied to be surrogate mother for a wealthy client she was just seeking a huge payout for 9 months of work. However, she was set to get much more than she bargained for...
Tasha had no idea that her client was not even human. He was actually a dragon shifter who desired an heir to carry on his bloodline. This was an arrangement that was not without its complexities but the reward made it more than worth her while...
However, the situation became even more complex when Tasha finally came to face to face with her client and discovered that he was the most handsome man she had ever met in her life! And he was about to steal her heart....
Serena Rose - Dragon's Reluctant Bride
When Rachel opened her hook-up app she just wanted to get laid but she ended up getting much, much more...
Dragon Shifter Kintaro was a wealthy playboy who just wanted easy sex. When he was matched with a cute girl called Rachel it seemed like they would both get exactly what they wanted, and then they would never have to see each other again...
However, after the condom breaks and Rachel finds herself pregnant everything changes...
Drastically!
Where Kintaro comes from it is forbidden to impregnate a woman outside of marriage with DEATH being the punishment. For both of them!
Now, Rachel has no choice but to be a reluctant bride and marry a man she hardly knows, but this is soon going to be the least of her problems...Book #10: The PlayDragon Billionaire by Maria Amor
Debauchery
Patrick Stewart - 2018
Oliver accidentally kills a man, meets a red-eyed witch, and then is whisked off to a magical place where he is supposed to learn how to be a wizard. Naturally, everything goes wrong. He ends up killing a whole bunch of… things. Ends up actually owning a whole bunch of girls… and then, really discovers who he is, and why the dead are haunting his dreams, and why the living are trying to kill him.
New Kings of Tomorrow (The Order of Chaos Series Book 1)
J.M. Clark - 2018
Just as he was starting to figure out life as a college freshman, his world was suddenly shattered when a devastating illness destroyed the world he once knew and claimed the lives of everyone that mattered to him. Jacob and the other survivors of the pandemic were transported to the Palace Program. Housed in a quarantined modern facility, the Palace is a perfect community designed to protect them from the sickness that wiped out ninety-five percent of the world population. The Order, which has risen as the new ruling power, and believes the desires of the old world were responsible for its collapse. They appoint Sirus, the program director, to rehabilitate the survivors and continue with the reproduction of mankind. As the years go by and Jacob's relationships in the Palace become more complex, he slowly begins to see that the man-made utopian society is nothing close to a perfect tomorrow, but is instead an unfathomable deception.
Solar Weapon
D.F. Capps - 2015
IF every nation on Earth doesn't surrender total control to that elitist group, a Coronal Mass Ejection will be triggered on the sun, creating an Extinction Level Event that will incinerate the surface of the planet. FBI agent Jake Hunter and NSA agent Honika Badger scramble through a maze of clues and evidence, desperately trying to discover who is behind this threat, and figure out how they can be stopped, as the resolve of the elite group is terrifyingly demonstrated.
The Sorceress of Ashtown, Part I
Brandon Varnell - 2017
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.
Guess Who I Pulled Last Night?
Nikki Ashton - 2013
Charlotte is scatty and engaging and after having her heart broken 3 years earlier by cheating, Capri driving, Grant she's now looking for love again believing that finding Prince Charming will make her life complete; but is the arrogant but frustratingly sexy Irishman, Niall Devine, that man?Bets is the glamorous good-time girl and beauty salon owner who secretly yearns to settle down. She is the life and soul of the party with plenty of notches on her bedpost but since flirting with hunky Stuart all summer she wonders if he may be the one that she finally commits to.Kerry, of the impressive cleavage, is the only of the trio to be married and a mother. She should feel satisfied and content but feels like she's missing out and losing her identity. Suddenly she's turned in to the bitch from hell, alienating all those around her, including Charlotte, Bets and her devoted husband, Kelvin.This is a charming story focussing on friendship and love, but exploring some difficult and sensitive issues in its course. It has humour and wry observations and some surprises along the way. It will make you laugh out loud, smile, cry and desperate to turn every page.
The Phoenix Affair
Paul Clark - 2013
As al-Qaeda hunts the pair across Europe and the Middle East, Cameron must rely on his wits to survive relentless attacks designed to silence his Saudi friend and preserve a sweeping plan to attack the American homeland.From the subways of Paris to the parched dunes of the Arabian Desert, The Phoenix Affair is a fast-paced and intricately-wrought thriller that skips across three continents. Cameron is a natural survivor, and his is a sweeping tale of technology, tradecraft, quick-thinking and hard fighting from the first pages to the final climactic conflict.
Faerie Tale Collection Box Set #1: Cinderella / Hansel and Gretel / Jack and the Beanstalk
Jenni James - 2013
Pretending to be John, his cousin’s outrider, he decides to take matters into his own hands and figure out why Ella hasn’t been seen at court. And more importantly why the daughter of one of the wealthiest families in the kingdom dresses like a pauper. Ella has had her own bout of trials, including losing her beloved father and facing the wrath and jealousy of her stepmother and stepsisters. Becoming a servant doesn’t seem all that bad until the handsome John comes into her life, now he appears to be upsetting everything. Never before has she been so unsettled. Just his presence is making her dream of a life beyond this one. When John invites Ella to the ball and she grudgingly accepts, he wonders if he’s truly losing his mind. How would he ever pull off pretending to be John while obviously hosting the ball as Anthony? Especially when the stubborn girl has made it quite obvious she would never attend a ball with a snobbish prince. HANSEL AND GRETEL A hidden princess and the boy who saves her life— Hansel's father finds a child lost and alone during a violent thunderstorm. After bringing her in from the tempest, he and his son are startled to discover that she is Gretel, a princess of Larkein--the enemy kingdom their own king has just destroyed. Fearful for her life, Hansel pleads with his father to save her. He believes they can make Gretel good by teaching her their ways. His kindhearted father agrees, but with great trepidation. Ten years later, Gretel has grown into a lovely young woman who both infuriates and drives Hansel to distraction while he attempts to not lose his heart to her. When the Larkein witch comes back in the guise of a beautiful woman and marries their father, everything is set into a tailspin. Now they must figure out their new stepmother's plans and prevent her from destroying them all before it is too late. JACK AND THE BEANSTALK The quest to save a girl from a giant— Jack Waithwrite is livid when he learns that his fiancée, Rachel, has been stolen by a giant and taken up to a kingdom in the sky. Without the means to save her, he travels with his sister to Larkein, the place where dark magic abides, to discover a way to help Rachel. While there, a cunning witch knows who he is and offers to help him. However, when he finds out the kidnapping was orchestrated by the witch to use him as her pawn for her own schemes, his true quest begins. Now Jack must outwit a giant and stay one step ahead of the witch in time to save Rachel. Enjoy Jack and the Beanstalk, the continuing tale of Hansel and Gretel and what happened after they were married. Jack and Jill Waithwrite are the children of Hansel and Gretel, and as their parents before them had adventures, now it is their turn.
Fire Games
B.T. Narro - 2014
She says war is beginning, but this becomes the least of Neeko's concerns when an altercation erupts between his drunken father and the fire-mage, resulting in his home burned to the ground with his father buried beneath the rubble.His only justice? A redemption scroll—payment for damages if Neeko can bring it to the king's master of coin in the capital before it expires. With the war of two kingdoms clashing amid towns, the trek will be perilous, but having a hidden talent for magic, Neeko's not deterred. Especially so when he learns his recently acquired companion, possessing her own redemption scroll, knows the land better than anyone. She may have a few oddities, like singing her thoughts and stashing weapons in occupied graves, but Neeko would put up with worse to get to the capital in time.Now if only Neeko knew what really awaited at the capital.
The Leigh Koslow Mystery Series: Books One, Two, and Three: Boxed Set
Edie Claire - 2014
Set in the Pittsburgh borough of Avalon, these captivating, intelligent mysteries have sold nearly half a million copies worldwide.Set includes Never Buried, Never Sorry, and Never Preach Past Noon, originally published in paperback by Penguin, Putnam, Inc. (NAL/Signet).