Sixteen was the year that everything started to change. I got a boyfriend, friends that used to be my friends no longer were, everything around me was changing. With change always comes emotional roller coasters. Here lies my love for a boy i always knew, the craziness of how fast time flew, and the reason why you should always be you. I didn't mean to rhyme but its true.Read to see how i grew.

Deep in the suffocating twilight of the Atchafalaya Basin, a horror slumbers—borne on the back of forced exile, rooted in Catholic penitence, and sharpened by the dark waters of the Louisiana swamp.When the British crown brutally expelled the French-speaking Acadians from Canada during Le Grand Dérangement of 1755, these displaced refugees carried very little into the subtropical wilderness. What they did carry was an invisible cargo: their faith, their la...

I live on pain . . . but for her, I only want to cause pleasure.Penelope: One minute I'm conducting important research on a distant planet, and the next, I've fallen through a crack in the surface and am transported to an underground world with terrifying fanged creatures who want to eat me, an army of feathered warriors who rescue me, and a massive horned demon leader who gains power through pain . . . except he's only giving me pleasure.He wants to keep m...

I'll earn her trust and then I'll make her mine . . .Mouse: I have no memory or what or who I am, all I know is that everyone and everything is out to hurt me. Hands slap, teeth bite, and boots kick. So when I meet a big, bronzed warrior with blue eyes whose hands are gentle and voice is kind, I don't trust him. And when he starts showing up in my dreams, a part of me I long thought was dead awakens with a passion.Cravus: W...

I've never met him before . . . so why do I feel as if I've known him all my life?Scoring a job at the exclusive and secretive Hotel Castle Verna is exactly what I need to pay off my debt and avoid a punishment I might not survive. The guests are a little eccentric, but they are great tippers. All I have to do is ignore the strange sights, smells, and sounds coming from the guest rooms, and I can remain gainfully employed. Simple, right?Except ther...

If I save him . . . maybe he'll save me.After finding my apartment ransacked for the third time, I'm done being stalked. I'm just some nameless orphan who's only trying to survive in this broken city. I shouldn't matter. I shouldn't be a target. I shouldn't have to live on the run. But here I am, trying to find a hideout when living beyond the city without a permit is punishable by death. I'm desperate. But I'm scrappy too, and soon I'm surviving off the l...

Instead of a white knight, I got a bronze alien . . .Rain: My life has never been my own, and that's never been more true than in the Rinian Galaxy. I've always had dreams that led me to believe my life is bigger than being the servant to some snake alien queen, but as each year goes by, I'm beginning to think my subconscious is lying to me. Until he shows up . . . the Kaluma with one blue eye who I've never forgotten. But he's not who I remember, ...

"She's my match . . . in more ways than one."Sherif: Although my brother disappeared many cycles ago, I've never given up hope that he's alive. I get word about a human who has seen him, but she's evading me. When I finally come face to face with her, the situation becomes a whole lot more complicated, because I can't deny the pull toward the female with the smart mouth. She doesn't know it yet, but she'll be by my side as I rule over my people.

"My true crime podcasts didn't prepare me for this planet."RebaI consider myself a true crime expert. Never let yourself be transported to a second location. Kidnapping 101, right? Well, not on an alien planet apparently. I escaped the pack of blue aliens on hover bikes only to fall victim to even worse aliens. I must have missed the danger hierarchy memo during Outer Space Abduction Orientation. My only hope is the blue alien who tracked m...

"Nothing in my life had prepared me for extraterrestrial motorcycle clubs."FrankieI thought alien abductions only happened in movies. But here I am on a strange planet with green soil and a gang of muscled, wicked-horned aliens on hover bikes. All I want to do is go back to Earth, but the alpha male in charge has decided I belong to him. Now I'm on the back of his bike speeding to an unknown destination and super freaked out about liking hi...

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She's something I didn't want, but everything I crave.Lu: This planet is the pits. I'm being handed off to different aliens one after another like I'm a dog-eared novel. My latest captors are about to take me off planet when a big blue alien botches the rescue mission. Now we're both prisoners of a fierce lizard species who will let us free on one condition, and I think our life span is looking bleak.Axton: I know my way around swords, enemies, and blood, b...