In ***The Dark Lord—a hilarious parody of epic fantasy—***Jack Heckel (author of The Charming Tales) tells the story of a young man traveling into a dark and magical world of dwarves, elves, and sorcerers to restore the balance between good and evil.After spending years as an undercover, evil wizard in the enchanted world of Trelari, Avery hangs up the cloak he wore as the Dark Lord and returns to his stud...

Join award winning, USA Today and bestselling authors for a journey into the enchanted realm of the Fae with this brand new collection of holiday stories spanning from humorous Regency and tender historical to quirky contemporary and gritty urban tales of faerie magic, human redemption, and the power of love.Meara Platt - A Mistletoe Kiss: When Lady Imogen Fairchild wishes for a faerie godmother, her Christmas wish goes awry and she finds herself with Beogrin, a ha...

The second novel of Jack Heckel’s Mysterium series, The Darker Lord follows beleaguered former Dark Lord Avery Stewart as he is forced to take up his cloak and his Imp once again and travel the doors between realms in order to keep the fabric of the universe intact. More or less intact, anyway.In The Dark Lord, Avery had an epiphany about the Mysterium. Only now he can’t remember what it was, no matter how much coffee he drinks or how many times h...

In the epic conclusion to Jack Heckel’s whimsical fantasy series, Dark Lord Avery Stewart must join the Company of the Fellowship in a frenzied war against Moregoth and the corrupt forces of Mysterium. . . and destroy the magical artifact fueling the interworld chaosIn The Darker Lord, Avery Stewart learned a terrible truth about Mysterium: the home of his beloved university and the reality-center of the multiverse is not the world he thought it w...

Disowned by her oil tycoon father, debutante Rosamund Burnell is in a fix.With limited funds, and a long way from Texas, the answer seems obvious.Pretend she's still a wealthy catch, to ensnare an eligible English bachelor.Meeting the Duke of Studborne, it seems her prayers have been answered.But the Duke's motives for courting her are not what they seem, and Rosamund is caught in a trap.Are the mysterious disappearances at Studborne...

Lord Hartstone had never intended to be The Matchmaking Earl. It began as a teasing remark from a friend who had given up on holiday joy, as well as love and romance. Yet he's helped four different couples find love, three at the Christmas season, and one at Valentine's Day. Who knows what The Matchmaking Earl has planned for future couples?Lord Misrule – Young widow Juliana chooses Nicholas, the infamous Lord Misrule, to be her first lover, but his regret...

Nothing ushers in the holidays like mistletoe… and murder.Widow Mary Tomlinson isn't looking for romance. At four and thirty, she's content enough to keep house for her brother in London, but when the opportunity to act as chaperone for her niece at a Christmastide house party comes her way, she jumps at it. Even more when she discovers the party is hosted by Viscount Stanwick, a man she used to fancy in her youth. The fly in the ointment is his brother and the troubling a...

At times a second chance at love and friendship is tangled in grief until one learns to forgive.Ex-spy and Home Office agent Elliott Thorne—Viscount Aldridge and newly minted Earl of Foxborough—is still a bachelor at the age of forty-one. Now that he's finally gotten his sister married off, he can turn his attention to perhaps entering the same state for himself, but oddly enough, he doesn't know how, so a harvest ball at his country estate seems like a good start....

Five charming stories for your holiday season:• Friends to Lovers—The farmer's daughter, the viscount's son, and the estate manager reunite as adults. Della is starry-eyed for the viscount's son, but is he really the one for her? (Regency, Christmas)• Fake Relationship—When the pressure to marry is overwhelming, can a plan put in place at a Christmas house party turn into a love that will last forever? (Regency, Christmas)• Second-Chance Love—An accident leaves the ...

Six charming holiday season romances from award-winning and best-selling authors.The Bluestocking Belles and Friends brighten your holidays with:A beleaguered uncle whose wards have run off every governess--what he needs is a wife, if only he can persuade the latest applicantA country solicitor who becomes an earl and then finds a secret that changes everythingA very proper clergyman battles very improper urges when he and a lady w...

As a gardener, Merrilyn Parkham-Smythe, was happy to be called a wallflower. Wallflowers were tenacious, long blooming, colourful and reliable plants, easy to care for as long as they had a fair share of sun. Like them, Merrilyn had no objection to providing providing background to the showier and more troublesome ladies of Society. She did object to being slighted and bullied by those highly praised blooms and their male counterparts.The gentleman next door, for example. He had kil...

How many wishes must one make for a dream to come true?A lady who dreamt of the impossible. A gentleman tempted by fate’s calling. Would destiny show this couple the love they hold for one another?Grace Penrose fled to Scotland to avoid the vicious rumors circulating about her in London. Though they were false, they forced her to accept a position with an insufferable Scottish lord. When he wasn’t questioning Grace abo...