𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 | 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐝 | 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧 | 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 The bond was never meant to be a choice. Reena Sterling knew exactly who Cassian Thorne was long before anyone called him alpha. She grew up in his territory as much as her own, running the same borders, learning the same rules, trusting the same people. Trusting him. Until life pulled them apart, and whatever they were to each other stopped having a name. The alliance between their packs makes the bond inevitable. Clean. Efficient. A decision made above them, enforced through them. Neither of them argues. Cassian accepts it the way he accepts everything, without hesitation, without explanation. He doesn't offer reassurance. Doesn't pretend this is anything other than what it is. A claim. A consolidation of power. But he does not move closer than he can afford to regret. He keeps distance the way he once used proximity, with control. With intent. Like space is the only thing that prevents consequence from becoming permanent. Every interaction is measured. Brief. Exact. Until it isn't. A grip that tightens before he registers it. Words that cut deeper than he planned. A coldness that lands harder than it should and lingers. It never looks like much from the outside. But he notices. Always a second too late. He doesn't apologize. Doesn't explain. Just correcting the distance between cause and outcome. As if nothing irreversible has already happened. Reena gives him nothing. No reaction. No correction. That is not absence. It is control. Because being seen too clearly has never made people stay. What remains between them is not ease, not distance. It is containment. Everything that was never finished. Never named. Never safe enough to hold without breaking something in the process. Only awareness. And restraint held so tightly

An exiled princess, a poisoned husband, and a battle for power-Eirian Soliel refuses to be forgotten, but can she turn a cold marriage into a fiery alliance before it's too late? First cousin to the King and the darling of the Court of Sorrow, Eirian has spent most of her life indulging all her whims and fantasies under the protection of her royal blood, but when her father's sudden re-marriage results in a son, she finds herself suddenly shuffled aside. On top of that, her longtime on-and-off romantic partner suddenly betrays her. Instead of proposing to her, he shows up to her birthday ball, married to a low-ranked Lady without a word of warning. Eirian's life is upended, and her stepmother succeeds in exiling her into an arranged marriage with a general who never leaves the distant borderland. Regimented, completely disinterested in the capitol and the Court, and dying from a poison no one can identify, her new husband would rather continue his simple life with his mistress than welcome his new wife, but Eirian refuses to go down without fight. Determined to make a place for herself if she cannot find one, Eirian finds herself facing an enemy she never expected, and she underestimates her shy, gentle husband. Will the General fall for his vivacious Princess, or will Eirian be set aside again?

|Book 1| Andorra keeps her head down, but that doesn't stop the new guy at school from noticing her. There is something dark and sinister about him, but that only draws her closer. The only thing keeping them apart is their hatred for each other and the chill that he seems to bring with him wherever he goes. Too bad he isn't human, and too bad he has no intentions of leaving her behind. |REWRITE|

He had always wondered what it would be like to meet someone who didn't flinch from the dark, who wouldn't run screaming her head off once he suggested something new. In college, he had tried to connect with some girls he met, but he quickly got a reputation for being a deranged sex-maniac. One look of disgust was enough to swear him off intimacy during college, and graduating hadn't really changed his prospects. Looking like a homicidal maniac with a brain that persisted in seeing stuff it liked, didn't help either. Yes, women were more in touch with their needs and wants nowadays, but it seemed his specific brand of craziness was elusive. It took a trip to another continent to find her. Now he had all he ever wanted, but he was going to lose her because of a hidden truth and a blast from the past. From experience, he knew that good things never lasted. Not in his world at least. However, he would fight tooth and nail; burn the world down to keep his beautiful vixen. No matter the cost, he was going to save her, and damn anything that stood in his way. If you love stories where obsession and redemption collide, you'll be hooked from the first page!

All Ash wanted to do was to die - peacefully. When a powerful being interrupts her trip to the afterlife, he offers immense power if she forms a contract. Ash refuses. However, the funny thing about dying is that a person's last thought tend to be; "I want to live". Thus, begins Ash's journey as she unintentionally makes a contract with a being beyond her imagination.

An arranged marriage, a bargain gone wrong, and Appalachian mountain magic combine to answer one question: Is it so terrible to want to be loved? In 1929 Boone, North Carolina, marriage feels like Alice's only true ticket to a better life, and she is determined to make it happen for herself. When Xavier, a deer shifter and the King of the Shadow Fae, appears with a marriage contract arranged at birth and an apparent ardent infatuation with Alice, she believes her dreams have finally come true. However, the longer she stays in the Shadow Court, the more things seem out of place. No one can remember exactly how or when Xavier became the king, and Alice is the only person who seems to remember the existence of Xavier's mysterious twin brother, Florian. As she searches for answers to the mystery of Florian's disappearance and Xavier's rise to power, Alice must decide for herself what it means to love and be loved, and what it means to love someone enough to fight for them. Follow Alice, Xavier, and Florian in an alternate history where Others-- demons, vampires, angels, shifters, and many more beings-- roam the earth, magic is alive and burning bright, and blood runs deeper than just our ancestry. BLOOD MARRIAGE is Book #2 in the Appalachian Magic book series.

They say if you have a little faerie blood, you've been Touched. Some might have a Touch of water, a Touch of healing, or a Touch of animal speaking. Aoife, whose grandmother was a full-blooded fae and whose sisters were blessed with perfectly useful and harmless Touches, involuntarily drains the life from anything and anyone that veers too close to her. After a chance meeting gone incredibly wrong, Aoife accepts a bargain that may be her last hope: If she helps the Grand Enchanter with his experiments, he will teach her to control her magic. She isn't quite willing to bet everything on the mysterious man who never shows his face, but it's the only option she has left. In this Beauty and the Beast inspired tale, follow Aoife's journey as she learns that even the worst of curses are sometimes unknown blessings in disguise.

Conjure a demon to catch a killer? That's Appalachian witch Ellie's last remaining hope to solve a two year old cold case that haunts her nightmares. She's still grieving her late fiancé, but the few Boone residents that don't think she killed him herself have given up on finding the murderer. Kazerin, on the other hand, is not prepared for what awaits him when he answers Ellie's request. He's used to bargaining for lust or power, not closure, and he's a little nervous about what feelings stir up the longer he's around Ellie. Their feelings only entangle further the longer that Kaz stays in town, pretending to be Ellie's new fiancé as a cover for investigating the murder. Follow Ellie and Kaz in an alternate history where Others-- demons, vampires, angels, shifters, and many more beings-- roam the earth, magic is alive and burning bright, and blood runs deeper than just our ancestry. BLOOD BARGAIN is Book #1 in the Appalachian Magic book series. WATTYS 2024 WINNER AMBYS 2024 GRAND FAVORITE 🎖️Featured | @Ambassadors | Para-Romantasy 🎖️Featured | @Paranormal | The Para-Romantasy Experience 🥇The Hot and Bothered Awards, Mythical Creatures Romance, 2024 🥇Our Wishing Sock Awards, Romance, 2024 🥇The Phoenix Awards, Mystery/Thriller, 2024 🥇 The Virtues Awards, Paranormal, 2024 🥇 Esthetique Community Fiction Awards, Paranormal/Action, 2024

| 𝟏𝟐𝐱 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 | An ex-gamer enters a virtual reality ruled by a rebel AI in order to rescue her younger sister and shut down the death game. * * * Eight years ago, Mori Fukutomi held the rank of number two player in the tactical hero shooter game SniperX. But fate and her parents had other plans and Mori now works as an accountant with her dreams of being a pro gamer long since buried. Games like SniperX are old relics in the face of virtual reality tech and their latest gem, Facing Fear--a simulation designed to analyze the psyche of its players and adapt itself accordingly, creating a safe terrain for players to take risks and discover themselves. Until FEAR, the AI governing the virtual world of Valor, decides the thing humanity fears most is death. Despite the rising death toll and Facing Fear closing its doors, when Mori discovers her sister Shiori is trapped in the game, she does the unthinkable. She goes in after her. But she'll soon discover they're not the only ones desperate to make it out alive and there are worse things in Valor than the monsters. There's more to FEAR than fear itself. ✧ 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 ✧ 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 ✧ 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 ✧ ─────────────────────────────────── Completed: 4-23-2023 Word Count: 35,000 - 40,000

Humans and elves are at war and for half-elf, Lotte, this means on thing: RUN. The only place for Lotte now is the court of the Dragon King where what she is isn't as important as what she can do. But Lotte's unique ability to mix iron with magic is a recipe for disaster. The dragon king is dying, his only heir is cursed and a coup is underway. The new powers that be are bent to join, and win, this war using Lotte as their weapon. With her past chasing her into the future, Lotte can only save herself if she can break the curse on the dragon's heir...and do so before her own heart breaks.