She's a wanted criminal; he's the bounty hunter sent to capture her.Piper's job is simple.Take the children.Don't get caught.The rules she binds on herself; however… Well, they're a tad more complicated.Kidnapped as a child for her connection with the Old Magic—the one that grants her the ability to enchant others with her music—Piper knows good and well the rules of the Coup, the underground organization intent on bringing down the f...

One stunning bride.One wedding.One night with the king.One execution come morning.Rinse and repeat.When the fae king of Naenden returns home to his palace only to find that his human queen has committed treason by conspiring to assassinate him, he has the queen executed and decrees that once every mooncycle, he'll marry a human woman from the kingdom, only to execute her the following morning.Unless one woman offers herself as a ...

Shackled by a fae bargain. A prisoner in her own body.Wendy Darling has been forced to choose Peter for so long, it's starting to feel like her decision. Between her Mating Mark, now exclusively tied to Peter, and their bargain, she's no longer sure where the real Wendy ends and the magic begins.But Peter isn't the only fae she's ever made a bargain with. Time is ticking on her agreement with the Nomad—deliver Tink into his possession. But the shadows of Ne...

The shoe fits, but she's no Cinderella.Ellie knows what she wants in life:Open a glassblowing shop in the art district.See her father retire.Marry for love. (If she can find someone who can keep up, that is).Winning the fae prince's heart doesn't make the list.So when Prince Evander throws a ball to find a human bride, Ellie respectfully declines. And when she reads the morning paper and discovers the prince ...

Peter Pan has a wicked shadow, Hook still has his hand, and Wendy is caught in between them in this dark fantasy romance.Sometimes the shadows whisper.Sometimes I whisper back.When Wendy's parents made a bargain with a Fate to save her from a deathly illness as a child, they thought the terms were simple: Marry her off before her twentieth birthday or else deliver her over to the Shadow Keeper.But when a Mating Mark appears ...

Silly servant girl, only princesses get happy endings.While the first three books in The Severed Realms are interconnected standalone novels, this book is not a standalone. It should be enjoyed only after reading A Word so Fitly Spoken and A Bond of Broken Glass.Blaise wasn't supposed to be the villain.She was supposed to charm the prince, the male she's loved for years. That was all the potion was supposed to do—give her another f...

He can't feel pain. She intends to change that.Captured by the villainous Captain Astor and betrayed by her mate, Wendy finds herself aboard a ship swathed in shadows, among a crew of pirates who don't know what to think of her. But when Wendy discovers what Captain Astor so desperately needs from her, she discovers an opportunity to use the captain to pursue her own agenda: free Peter from the curse that leaves him incapable of feeling pain and unable to love Wend...

Silly servant girl, no one cares about saving the villain.A Realm of Shattered Lies is the second in a two-part finale to The Severed Realms series.Blaise wasn't supposed to be the villain, but now Nox is gone, and Blaise will stop at nothing to get him back. Even if that means betraying everyone she holds dear.Meanwhile, Asha can't shake the feeling that Az is closing in on her. After all, he's been two steps ahead of her and Kiran from th...

Włoski arystokrata Theo Ranieri dowiaduje się, że jego ojciec połowę majątku zapisał w testamencie swojej pielęgniarce Grace Stewart. Theo ma nadzieję, że odkupienie od niej jej części będzie formalnością. Potem i tak wszystko sprzeda. Tymczasem Grace, domyślając się zamiarów Thea i szanując wolę swojego darczyńcy, wprowadza się do pałacu. Prawnicy są bezsilni, więc Theo wyrusza do rodzinnej Toskanii. Ku jego zaskoczeniu Grace jest nie tylko sprytna i uparta, ale też bardzo piękna, a negoc...

This collection of stories offers a unique glimpse into what the summer season can bring. From horror to love, history to the future, and the reversal of reality—open the door to explore these ten authors' visions.When an unexpected summer opens up the door to a strange new world, the characters within each story must make a choice. Whether it's a deceased mother watching over her only child, or a look at boot legging history—these characters must come to terms with the consequence...

Deceit... Our lives are full of deceit, from the little white lie or a lie of omission to the world spouting untruths.Deceit can come packaged as protection to deception to harm another. Countries involved in covert to overt manipulation attempts to change their status or political influence revealed every day by the press, bloggers, social influencers. The thing is, can you trust them? But the little things each of us do sometimes are intentional, sometimes not, how can tell?

May 1939. When Amy Rowlings and Inspector Bodkin are invited to a black-tie civic awards ceremony at the Town Hall, they expect to be met with the usual boring speeches and toe-curling sycophancy, but when the recipient of the night's 'Businessman Of The Year Award', Nelson Kelly, is found stabbed to death after being called from the stage to answer the telephone, the evening begins to liven up. Nelson's company has just won a lucrative contract to build a new armaments factory and many of...