Entry for the Open Novella Contest, 2024 Prompt #36: "Fairy tales are real," and there couldn't be anything worse. When Charlotte moves to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia, she reads about Appalachian fairy tales that are as ancient as the mountains themselves, then discovers that some of the legends still lurk in...
Milo Skart had a terrible decision to make. "Help me." The pregnant teen girl stumbled into the lobby of the Atraville Hospital. Barefoot and tattered, she appeared ready to give birth. "Help my baby." However, the girl and her unborn child carried a dangerous energy. If he helped her, he would defy Axion. That mean...
A bite of a birthday cake and the kiss of her cheek, and Haley was seeing things she had never seen before. Terrifyingly beautiful creatures walked the streets around her and she began to question if she was losing her mind. Until she was dragged to the court of the high king of the Fae. She no longer questioned if...
Love, Loss & Danger. Caught between the Monster and the Gentleman. Maria is stuck in a loveless marriage. For years she's remained unfulfilled, unwanted and utterly miserable. One night she wakes in the early hours, to find her husband watching her, with a very unfamiliar hunger. Caught in a whirlwind of midnight vis...
They all said Dragons are just myths and stories. Awe-inspiring, terror infusing, magic-filled but just stories until Rhianon Roberts learns about the Dragon's spell and her identity as a dragon keeper. ➸⇸➸ Idris Drakkon is the global heart-throb and an Oscar-winning actor. But he is also the last living dragon on ear...
A compassionate nurse and a hardheaded playboy are locked in a battle of wills. Will she get through to him on time? When Kit Hart takes a job as a caretaker for the wealthy Leonardo Donato on his deathbed, she forms an instant bond with him. The once hardheaded man has changed in the face of death and opens up about...
Set in the Romantic Era, Millicent Harrington has experienced anything but the romantic. She is an intelligent woman, who loves to read and write, and a member of high society. After being left a widow, she is faced with an unexpected task against a familiar adversary in a fight to protect her legacy. Joined by an odd...
What if Joanna Thompson, a 26 year old Texas School Book Depository employee, tried to push Lee Harvey Oswald out of the window of the sixth floor making him miss the target of his fatal shot and he ended up shooting Jackie Kennedy instead of JFK? ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴇᴀʀ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʜᴀᴛ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ ʏᴏᴜ ꜱɪᴘ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴛᴇᴀ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴇᴍᴏʀʏ ᴏꜰ ᴀʟ...
Zara wanted to get ahead in school. She wanted the cute guy. She wanted to win the game. Trouble was, everybody else had expensive brain implants, augmented muscles, and those pretty tailored bodies. She had none of those things. Of course, she worked hard, she was smart, and she had lots of grit, but it wasn't enough...
Elizbeth Anne Humphrey wants a husband. Her expectations are not outlandish; all she asks is that he be reasonably handsome, reasonably wealthy and completely kind. Her brothers have offered their assistance, and it's given her hope that perhaps there is a man out there who might want her for a wife. But alas, the fi...
The century's prodigy in music, Eliam Schneider was a successful college student. He was admired by a lot of people, has good grades, and was one of the candidates for the highest position of their batch. As he was about to retire in his home after a long day of study in the public library, he got caught in the middl...
They say her voice was once bewitching to all who heard it. She was like a siren luring sailors to their deaths on quiet nights... Those are just rumours that once were, truth be told the youngest daughter of the Count was a mute. Her voice had long been lost in her childhood years, disappearing like a whisper in the...
"What do you even need me for?" She asked , speaking into the darkness where she thought he was. "I do not need you." He answered her darkly. Even though she wasn't surprised by his answer, his words still hurt. "I want you." Blurb: One day a mysterious handsome, but rude, man comes by Jade's home. She learns that sh...
Cassandra didn't know what was wrong with her. Why didn't any of the Earls and Barons appeal to her? As a woman of four and twenty living in 1804 England, she was expected to be wed by now. After running away from an embarassing dance lesson, she ends up at The Vixen Inn, run by her friend, Sophia Brook. While there...
Highest Rating: #1 in Historical Fiction. Currently #1 under Historical Romance Lady Ginny Sherman is forced into an arranged marriage to Lord Stephen Knightly when her parents leave her and her sister alone and destitute after they die in a stagecoach accident. Ginny's life is completely flipped upside down. This...
Emily Lansing's disappearance left her family distraught and confused but her even stranger rescue left the local authorities with more questions than answers. Jake Merrill thought he had left Hart's Ridge behind him for good, but when his life in the city falls apart he returns to the only place he ever felt safe. I...
When a silent, girl in a black hoodie and a mask signs up for a maids program and meets her 'boss'. What would happen? Meet Sophie Williams, a teenager with scars on her body and heart. She's in a hoodie and mask that hides her from the world but how long will she hide from the world? Most importantly, from HIM Meet...
Madeline "Maddie" Rhinston isn't a typical teenage girl. A loner, she doesn't have friends and doesn't attempt to make any. Even adults don't pay her any attention. But on a dare, she's asked to join a group of teens to check out the legendary Thraber House. Interested, she jumps at the chance. However, things don't g...
[COMPLETED] High-flyer Ria Aslan thought she had her entire life planned out perfectly. Except her plans didn't quite foresee the still unsolved hit-and-run that prematurely claimed her father's life. The unfortunate tragedy only amplifies Ria's need for total control over her life. And her plans seem to be on track...
When a male stripper falls in love with a priest, he will do anything to get closer, even risk the wrath of God and the prejudiced congregation. * * * In Sina Noir's eyes, God isn't dead - but He should be. Working as a stripper, he's seen the godly turn into savages and knows that religion gets you nowhere. When a f...
(Inspired by the song Strawberry Wine) ON SALE NOW FOR 99¢! PUBLISHED VERSION AVAILABLE ON AMAZON THROUGH KENSINGTON PUBLISHING! "You're so beautiful," Jake murmured as his fingers worked their way down, much lower than they'd ever been before. Sharp tingles shot throughout my body and spread to my core in electrifyi...
Deacon and Samuel Whittier run away from home to witness the first flight at Kitty Hawk.
Maria, a married Frenchwoman living in Nazi-occupied Hautmont in the Second World War, is in need of a unique kind of love. Who would've thought that uniquely forbidden love comes in the form of a devilishly handsome Nazi Lieutenant? (Inspired by Suite Française)
|| SEQUEL INCLUDED || [Bang Chan ff] "You can draw me." he said with a mischievous smirk plastered on his lips. "You?" I asked mockingly. "Yeah, paint me like one of your French girls and all, you know?" he teased while winking. I can't believe that the captain of the soccer team just made a Titanic reference on me. A...
The last thing Valencia expected was to crash into Damien's life--- literally. Riddled with the guilt of almost costing Damien his life, Valencia agrees to nurse him back to health by living with him for 6 months. But living with an arrogant, handsome stranger might be harder than she expected. ____________________ ...
Eighteen-year-old Catherine's wedding was ruined. Her fiancee was dead. And the pocket watch she found at a party began to tic. Looking for a distraction, she wound the watch and ended up in the In-Between. Joining up with a group of time travelers who keep history safe, she didn't realize how hard that would be when...
After setting out to save her sister, Anne Crowley finds herself face-to-face with the notorious Flynn, the son of a ruthless pirate captain. Flynn thwarts Anne's every move yet she finds herself attracted to the infuriating pirate. Determined to find her sister, and resist the charming Flynn, Anne and her band of pir...
Chosen when a child, Lady Joselyn is trained to be a ruthless killer. She is destined to be the English king's assassin and protector. Only he and the guild master are supposed to know. It's a life and death secret that must be kept. For an assassin survival is precarious. Life is something you simply cannot take for...
[COMPLETE] Brenton Tucker swept like a cool breeze into the long, stifled summer of Amelia's life. He was everything a hero should be-- all easy smiles, broad shoulders, and rakish good looks. Years of common sense left her when he invited her into his company, and she found herself tangled with him beneath virgin she...
