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Northern Realm Royal Dragons: Shifter Box Set
Lisa Daniels - 2019
Now he says I have to marry his friend. Hurt and angry, I left the palace to elope with my lover. Then I stumbled upon an unbelievably handsome stranger. He not only saved me from danger, He saved me from myself. I had never heard of shifters before him, But now I am completely in love with one. This Box Set Includes: Bridgette's Royal Rescue Nissa's Royal Rescue Alannah's Royal Rescue Rhionnan's Royal Rescue Author's Note: These are steamy stand alone romances with HEAs intended for 18+
A Waitress for Wade (Mail-Order Mama, #7)
Susan Horsnell - 2021
He’s struggling to raise three children alone after losing his wife in an influenza epidemic two years earlier.Annalise Hudson is a woman happy in life. She works long hours in the family diner which she inherited when her mama and daddy were killed in a freak accident.Wade’s eldest daughter thinks it’s about time he remarried, but he’s having none of her suggestion to advertise for a mail-order bride.Annalise is forced to make a decision she wasn’t ready for when her world is tipped upside down.Can these two make a life together when their meeting is based on deceit?
The Sunshine And Biscotti Club: Free Sample
Jenny Oliver - 2016
But the guests have other things on their minds…
Libby: The BloggerLife is Instagram-perfect for food blogger Libby…until she catches her husband cheating just weeks before her Italian cooking club’s grand opening.Evie: The MumEve’s marriage isn’t working, but she’s not dared admit it until now. A trip to Italy to help Libby open The Sunshine and Biscotti Club might be the perfect escape…Jessica: In Love with her Best FriendJessica has thrown herself into her work to shut out the memory of the man who never loved her back. The same man who’s just turned up in Tuscany…
Welcome to Tuscany’s newest baking school – where your biscotti is served with a side of love, laughter and ice-cold limoncello!
Out of Eggnog Aphrodite - A Between the Chronicles Novella
S.E. Babin - 2016
Abby has a house far away from Olympus. Cue a mass exodus from Zeus' legendary temper and into the small town of Asheville, North Carolina. Guess who's coming to Christmas dinner? Everyone. Imagine a house crammed full of mythical legends and two of Abby's ex-lovers. You've never experienced a more awkward holiday than the one about to happen at Abby's house.
4 Cool Books for Kids 9-12: Witch School, Body Swap, Where's Scotty, Diary of a 6th Grade Spy
Katrina Kahler - 2017
You can choose which ones you want to read! Witch School Book 1: Imagine being 11 years old and discovering you are a witch! For Charlotte, this was a huge surprise! She had no idea her mother was a witch and she was about to be enrolled in the most prestigious Witch School in the world. At first she was fearful, but as she met new friends, amazing teachers and had magical experiences...she grew to love the school. Body Swap Book 1 - Catastrophe!:Swapping bodies might be fun for some but when 12 year old Jack Stevenson wakes up from a freak accident one day and finds himself in his dad's body, his life abruptly becomes one huge disaster after another. When he realizes that his dad will have to go to school in his place, things instantly get much, much worse. Will he be able to remain captain of the school football team and what will happen to Holly, the prettiest girl at school who he has a huge crush on and is hoping to be his girlfriend? What will all his friends think of his strange behavior and how will he ever cope with the sudden catastrophe he's been faced with? Where's Scotty? Book 1: Scotty is destined to save the world... but he’s gone missing! Now it’s up to Alex to find him. Teaming up with a wacky old wizard called Abraham and a crew of the laziest sailors around, Alex must brave storms, creepers, zombies and much worse to find out what has happened to her best friend. But will she be able to survive this crazy adventure? When will Abraham stop talking to random objects? What is going on with the mysterious island? And why does Captain Cat Danger like cats so much? Find out the answer to these questions and more as Alex's journey leads her into the adventure of a lifetime! Danger! Excitement! But will she find Scotty? Diary of a 6th Grade Spy Book 1: Samuel Greene and his friend Abigail discover that something is not quite right in their school library...there is something really strange about their new librarian! Sam discovers a book that leads to the adventure of a lifetime...traveling to another land called Gardinia where they find a kingdom surrounded with sadness. The Princess has been kidnapped! Sam and Abs decide to help and start an investigation to discover what has happened to the Princess and her gnome helper. Are they in danger? Will they rescue the Princess and restore happiness to the Kingdom? And why is the new librarian so strange? You'll find the answer to all these questions in this exciting fantasy story.
THE GIRL TAKERS Part 1 Bombshell: A Kat & Robin human trafficking thriller (Kat & Robin Thrillers)
Edwin Tipple - 2016
A chance meeting, one wet afternoon in Manchester, brings Robin and Kat together. When he falls in love with this rich lady his life slowly takes several turns for the worse and he becomes uncertain about Kat. But after some passionate lovemaking one night, he knew all his fears were unfounded - until she dropped her bombshell. She needs him to do something very unusual, something very important for her, something no other woman would dare ask of her man - unless? But after Kat mysteriously disappears, and despair set in, he was ready to let her go. Yet, as the weeks passed by, he knew he was still madly in love with her, knew he had to find her. His travels take him to the other side of the world where, months later, a second chance meeting brings them together once more.
But others are looking for Kat and whoever they are, they’re deadly.
Set in Manchester and Hua Hin, this free 33,000 word trafficking, dark romance is part 1 of 3. All three parts are available in one complete volume. Scroll up to start reading straight away.
Towering
Alex Flinn - 2013
I watch the birds fly below, the clouds float above, and the tall green forest stretch to places I might never see. Mama, who isn't my mother, has kept me hidden away for many years. My only companions, besides Mama, are my books—great adventures, mysteries, and romances that I long to make my reality. But I know that no one will come to save me—my life is not a fairy tale after all.Well, at least no one has come so far. Recently, my hair has started to grow rapidly and it's now long enough to reach the bottom of the tower from my window. I've also had the strangest dreams of a beautiful green-eyed man. When Mama isn't around, I plan my escape, even if it's just for a little while. There's something—maybe someone—waiting for me out there and it won't find me if I'm trapped here Towering above it all.
Never Say Never
Taylor Holloway - 2018
Never hesitate. Never get emotionally involved.Words I've lived by. Until her.I'm a fixer.I fix bad, embarrassing, illegal problems, for the right price.My clients are rich, famous, powerful, and very dangerous.Now I’ve got a problem of my very own: Eva Martin. She just happens to be both my best friend’s little sister, and at the center of the most explosive problem I’ve ever faced. As the body count rises around us, I’m falling for the one woman that’s totally out of bounds. Her wide innocent eyes, perfect curves, and sexy, smoky voice—she’s a liability and a weakness, but I'm unable to resist.Eva’s a risky distraction for a man like me. I'm going to make her mine, and I'll use everything in my arsenal to keep her safe.Even if it means everyone else—including me—becomes collateral damage.
Midnight Wings: A Science Fiction Retelling of Cinderella.
Ariele Sieling - 2019
In reality, she's a mechanic whose social grid ranking guarantees she'll never advance beyond the lowest grunt work, and a slave in all but name to her cruel and self-centered stepmother and stepsisters. The most she can hope for is a few stolen moments of happiness practicing on her sisters' flight simulators, or talking to the mysterious stranger she met on an illicit night of stargazing. When the queen announces a competition to find new pilots for the fleet, El knows this is her chance to escape. But her stepmother will never let her compete—and then she learns that her new friend, the one person she thought she could trust, was hiding a secret that changes everything between them. It's a good thing she has a lot more friends than she thinks she does. Exciting, fast-paced, and hopeful, this science fiction retelling of Cinderella is the first in the Rove City series.
Alias Hook
Lisa Jensen - 2013
The wicked pirate captain is flung overboard, caught in the jaws of the monster crocodile who drags him down to a watery grave. But it was not yet my time to die. It's my fate to be trapped here forever, in a nightmare of childhood fancy, with that infernal, eternal boy."Meet Captain James Benjamin Hook, a witty, educated Restoration-era privateer cursed to play villain to a pack of malicious little boys in a pointless war that never ends. But everything changes when Stella Parrish, a forbidden grown woman, dreams her way to the Neverland in defiance of Pan's rules. From the glamour of the Fairy Revels, to the secret ceremonies of the First Tribes, to the mysterious underwater temple beneath the Mermaid Lagoon, the magical forces of the Neverland open up for Stella as they never have for Hook. And in the pirate captain himself, she begins to see someone far more complex than the storybook villain.With Stella's knowledge of folk and fairy tales, she might be Hook's last chance for redemption and release if they can break his curse before Pan and his warrior boys hunt her down and drag Hook back to their neverending game. Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen is a beautifully and romantically written adult fairy tale.
The Guardian
Nikki Landis - 2016
Each book builds upon the previous and increases the romantic involvement between the characters.
Her Mad Hatter
Marie Hall - 2012
Running the Mad Hatter's Cupcakery and Tea Shoppe is a delicious job, until fate--and a fairy godmother with a weakness for bad boys--throws her a curveball. Now, Alice is the newest resident of Wonderland, where the Mad Hatter fuels her fantasies and thrills her body with his dark touch.The Mad Hatter may have a voice and a body made for sex, but he takes no lovers. Ever. But a determined fairy godmother has forced Alice into Wonderland--and his arms. Now, as desire and madness converge, the Hatter must decide if he will fight the fairy godmother's mating--or fight for Alice.39,500 words
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
Genevieve Valentine - 2014
She is the one who taught them how to dance, the one who gives the signal each night, as they slip out of the confines of their father's townhouse to await the cabs that will take them to the speakeasy. Together they elude their distant and controlling father, until the day he decides to marry them all off. The girls, meanwhile, continue to dance, from Salon Renaud to the Swan and, finally, the Kingfisher, the club they come to call home. They dance until one night when they are caught in a raid, separated, and Jo is thrust face-to-face with someone from her past: a bootlegger named Tom whom she hasn't seen in almost ten years. Suddenly Jo must weigh in the balance not only the demands of her father and eleven sisters, but those she must make of herself.
Bossman's List
Ashlee Price - 2017
Not Your Typical S#xy Billionaire Christmas Office Romance
She was there to pick me up,Show me around,And make sure I had a good time.After all, that's what assistants are for, right?But Sheryl was different,Beautiful, smart and hot as...f#ck. All I want is to touch her,Hear her scream my nameAnd make her mine.No guy has ever satisfied her.Now, I'm here from down underTo make sure she gets her first "O" with my big "D".And maybe a happy ending of my own.***Bossman's List is a steamy, suspense-filled, stand-alone billionaire office Christmas romance with a HEA.***