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War is coming and I’m about to risk everything.Since returning from the Umbra Estate, I’ve traded one prison cell for another. Dax keeps me under guard, tracking my every movement. He says he wants to be with me, but I know he wants to use me for whatever dark power he thinks I possess.The mating bond gets stronger by the day, pulling me to Madoc. I can’t be with my mate, but I can’t be with Dax, either. Both options will bring me nothing but heartache and ruin.My only chance is to get away from the pack I worked so hard to join. But before I go, I must find out about my past. Which means another round of breaking into a building to steal documents.Just as everything is starting to come together, it all falls apart.It’s not just my life on the line anymore. It might just cost me everyone and everything I love. Forbidden Sin is the second book in the Rejected Fate series. It is a full-length paranormal romance. 17+ for dark content, steamy scenes, and language. This is book two in a trilogy and is not a standalone. Mind the cliff.Upcoming Release Dates:Darkest Mate: December 21, 2021Forbidden Sin: February 24, 2022Feral Queen: April 14, 2022

Buried under the weight of his role as Alpha, Nate will do anything to find his missing shifters, even if it means babysitting a sassy eyewitness who has an unhealthy obsession with pink—and sugar.Everything in Rainy’s life is finally going according to plan. Her bakery is flourishing, and there’s nothing but blue skies and cupcakes ahead—until she witnesses a feathered half-man, half-monster being kidnapped from the alley behind her shop.Thrust into a shadowy world of supernatural creatures and curses, all Rainy wants to do is hide in her bakery with a bowl of cake batter. She definitely does NOT want to spend her days drooling over the sexy shifter tasked with her protection… right?Nate has a lot resting on his shoulders: the safety of his clan, a tiny daughter still learning to use her claws, and a mountain of paperwork threatening to bury him alive—not to mention the council of bloodthirsty Alphas at his throat. The last thing he needs is a feisty blonde forcing him to wear a pink apron and bake tarts. But as clan Alpha, her safety is his responsibility… at least that’s what his bear tells him every time she looks in his direction.The sugar-hating grouch is everything Rainy doesn’t want. But there’s something about Nate that drives her crazy in all the best ways. Can her heart resist the bear—or will the two of them embrace the temptation?Raven Falls Cursed Romances:1. Furbidden Attraction2. Unbearable Temptation3. Howling Devotion4. Deathly Desire5. Bewitching AllureStandalone Novellas:Frosted Kiss (Christmas Novella)

*Book one of a duet*When Ophelia Winters accepts a scholarship at a prestigious Scottish university to prove that her parents' death was the fault of Cain Green, an American aviation tycoon, her plan is simple. Keep her grades up and her head down; the last thing she wants is to wind up in a mafia war or step on the toes of royalty.Her plan gets off to a rocky start when the mysterious man that almost kills her on her first day turns out to be Cain's eldest son. As far as she's concerned, Alex Corbeau-Green is a younger version of his billionaire father. A monster hiding beneath a beautiful facade.Loneliness has been Ophelia's only dependable companion for years, but when anonymous threats and mysterious occurrences start to haunt her time at Sorrowsong, she wonders if she really can survive there on her own.Between being paired together for a project and ending up as each other's alibi for a murder, avoiding Alex becomes increasingly impossible. She begins to fall for the soft heart that hides beneath his hard exterior.Tormented by a malicious stalker and growing closer to Alex, Ophelia's desperation for revenge wavers for the first time. Can she really bring herself to pull the trigger on Cain now that she knows the family it'll split into two?__________Dark Academic Romance - Hate to Love - Slow Burn - University Setting - Murder and MysteryThis work is dark in places and contains several triggers throughout. Please heed the warnings before reading.

CharlotteI met the man of my dreams in a jail cell at midnight. Perfect blue eyes, rock-hard chest, and tattoos covering his bulging arms. When I woke, he was gone. I thought I’d never see him again.But thanks to a power-hungry sheriff, now I’m stuck in this town.Stuck with him for three weeks of community service. Three weeks of teasing, flirting, and increasingly scandalous text messages. But there’s a darkness in his eyes holding him back. Something keeping him from taking me the way he wants.And before I leave this town? I’m going to find out what it is. HawkCharlotte rolled into my life like a thunderstormSmoldering eyes and a body I wanted to crush against mine.I had the irrepressible need to possess her. To drink from those pouty lips.But the last time I cared about a woman, my life was destroyed.The Copperhead biker gang took everything from me. I vowed I would never let it happen again. But she makes me want to risk it all.She makes me want to start over.Because for the first time since I can remember?I have something to live for.FORBIDDEN CRUSH is a standalone MC romance novel filled with humor, action, and suspense. It's also filled with romance so sizzling it'll melt your Kindle. HEA guaranteed!

How can you fall in love with a killer?This dark romance boxed set brings together three novels about love in the shadows: HIS, MINE, and YOURS.HISWhen I followed him home, I was just playing Nancy Drew. Trying to find out his secret. His kiss was intoxicating, and I thought he was harmless. I was wrong. Nancy Drew never ended up in a basement, handcuffed to a radiator, teased to the edge of insanity, begging to be let go. Soon, I stopped begging to be let go. Soon, I started begging to be HIS.MINEPeople wear masks. I cut them off. She doesn't know it, but she's already mine. They all are. They cry. They scream. They beg for their lives. Truth of it is, they're all wearing masks. Even me. I'm just the only one who's not afraid to look at what lies underneath.YOURSIt was supposed to be fun. A spring break trip to Tijuana with my friends. A margarita in each hand while we danced the night away. Then I saw him in the club. He was too perfect to be true—an impeccably tailored suit, a sculpted body. Ice-blue eyes that seared with desire. I thought everything about him was right. But I was dead wrong. A gun to my head. A collar around my neck. A whisper in my ear telling me to follow orders… OR ELSE. And the strange look in his eyes that tells me there’s a secret he’s still hiding… *** Three novels to tempt, tease, and torture you. Three men who are more dangerous than you can imagine. Three stories about the darker kind of love.

The past will always have its claws in the present.When Charlotte Walsh leaves Rosebrook Valley to attend college four hours away, she finds herself trapped in a cycle of regret and depression, amplified when she falls victim to a stalker. After the unwelcome roses and peeping tom behavior escalates to threatening notes and ominous phone calls, she wants to return home. But if she runs away, her shadows could follow her. She won't put her loved ones in danger. With no one else to turn to, she clings to the one friend who makes her feel safe: Aiden Easton.Plagued by nightmares that replay his death, Aiden struggles through each day. When his adorable friend Charlotte hints that college life isn't all it's cracked up to be, he visits her at UGA to take his mind off his own stress. But her situation is worse than he anticipated-Rogue Vasirian surround her, putting her in more danger than a human stalker ever could. Despite the ever-present reminder that they cannot be anything more than friends because she's human, and he's not, he protects what's his-even in the face of temptation.No one could have foreseen the full repercussions of Aiden's magical resurrection. No one expected his fated mate-his Korrena-to awaken.He bathed in her blood, a baptism that exorcised his former life without her.----------------------------------Book five of the Blackthorn Saga is a medium burn/high heat, full length (160k+ words) new adult friends to lovers romance featuring two side characters as the main characters. While it's best to read the previous books (at least book 4 if you wish to have a deeper understanding of the MMC's struggle), there's enough information it can be read as a standalone for newcomers to the series.The dark and mysterious world of the Blackthorn Saga is a new take on vampire romance in an academy setting complete with a king and his court, fated mates, magic, and more! Blackthorn Saga takes a new approach to the fated mates trope and the toxicity around the jealousy and possessive behaviors that can come from it, allowing the characters to evolve and grow across multiple books to find themselves and find a true, organic love without just bending to "destiny."----------------------------------Author's Note: 18+ This series contains content that may be unsuitable for certain readers. To learn more about content warnings in the author's work, please visit her website. Please note this book deals with themes of depression and PTSD.

He was my nameless monster, lurking in the shadows of my dreams. A constant presence in the depths of the night. A kiss, a caress, and a night so passionate I questioned my sanity. My first day of class at Kinsmen University changes everything. A leaked photo, a dead body, and a man who rises from the grave. I never thought in my wildest dreams the one who haunts me is a three-hundred-year-old legend. For years, the name Shadowface invoked terror and fear to those that heard it. He's an entity, an ancient evil that's taken the lives of more people than I can count. It turns out the monster in my dreams is real, the demon causing my dark desires. And I need to find out exactly who he is before he destroys me. Shadowface is a dark serial killer romance featuring scenes that some readers may find disturbing.

From the author of the Madison Kate series comes the next in the dark and delicious interconnected Hades series, another biting "why choose" romance in Shadow Grove. "I wasn't fighting this war with Chase alone. I never had been, with Zed at my back. But this time I also had Cass and Lucas, and goddamn if we weren't a force to be f***ing reckoned with." They say to keep your enemies close, and mine are all around me. At the heart of it are four dangerously gorgeous men- The man who wants to light my darkness and has already paid the price for loving me. The man who can handle my power and loves every dark inch of me. The man who has been my closest companion, and now threatens to upend our carefully balanced world in pursuit of me. But the fourth man is probably the most terrifying, because he wants to take the others away from me. He wants to tear the spinal column out of the empire I've built. Destroy my businesses. Destroy me. Why? Because this man should have stayed dead, but he didn't, and now he wants revenge. He will stop at nothing until he's carved out my bloody, beating heart and left me broken. But he should remember who he's dealing with. I'm not the girl he knew anymore, and I will never let him have what's mine.

"Once you spin the wheel of fate, you cannot undo what you set in motion."I thought nightmares ended when you woke up.Turns out, mine were just waiting for me to open my eyes.Thirteen years ago, I saw something the night my parents died no one would believe. Grandma said the monsters were real, but everyone called her crazy like Mom. And after a lifetime of seeing things I’d never admit to, I feared I was losing my mind too… until four men appeared in my house after I opened a book I never should’ve touched.They’re beautiful. Dangerous. And definitely not human.Ash, Cyn, Zeke, and Ezra—demon princes trapped on Earth by my mistake.Helping them find a way home means facing both the darkness that destroyed my family and the mysterious pull between us.Each of them tempts me in different ways:Ash, the wounded protector who makes me feel seen.Zeke, the broken soul who awakens my own need to protect.Ezra, the ice prince who watches me like I’m both threat and prey.And Cyn, the magnetic asshole that I shouldn’t want, but I do.The closer we get to the truth about my bloodline, the clearer it becomes that our connection runs deeper than desire.Some fates aren’t chosen. Some fates are written in blood. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••Author's Note: Infernal Secrets is the first book in the Elyrdin Fate trilogy and is in first person, multiple POV. This story will not be completed in book one and contains some scenes that readers may find challenging such as dark and sensitive themes. Intended for readers 18+. To learn more about content in the author's work, please visit her website.Elyrdin Fate is a polyamorous romance between one woman and four men (MMFMM), including MF, MM, and group scenes where no one has to choose.

Two brothers hell-bent on vengeance.A troubled girl trying to outrun the traumas of her past.A serial killer determined to punish them for what they did.Ladies, gentlemen, heathens – welcome one and all to Hells Haven University.Ebony Winters was many things, a keeper of secrets being the most notable.Trying to fit into campus life she hadn’t realised just how close the darkness was to consuming her.The discovery of a headless corpse, that later bears an uncanny resemblance to Ebony, has the Knox brothers on high alert. Being incarcerated at Blackthorne Asylum for the past seven years has given them time to contemplate the part Ebony played in their downfall. Stalking her every move wasn’t meant to become so addictive. In a world where loyalty is tested, depravity lurks around every corner and love knows no bounds, their dedication to saving her could be the one thing that ultimately seals her fate.The ghosts of their pasts resurface and threaten to unravel everything they thought they knew in this gripping tale of twisted love and deadly devotion. Can they protect Ebony from the true monster hiding in the shadows, or will their demons tear them apart for good?If you treat your trigger warnings like a shopping list, then watch this space – VEILED OBSESSIONS is a MFM steamy dark romance that will have you questioning everyone. Caleb and Cooper take their stalker tendencies seriously so if slightly unhinged psychos only soft for their girl is a vibe you like, then this is your next read.This is a standalone read with cross over characters from the Grimmville world.Intended for mature audiences – for a list of content warnings, refer to the author’s website.