"What the hell are you?" a tall powerfully built man said standing above her. Thando was still coughing trying to get some air into her longs. She had been submerged for quite some time and her lungs were burning. "I said who are you!" The mans booming voice echoed in the night sky as he yelled. "My name is Thando." Thando finally said with a shaky voice. "Are you human?" The man said hunching on his legs to get closer to Thando's face. "Yes." She said softly. Her throat hurt and fear was making her shake uncontrollably. "You are lying! You came out of the water! You must be a mermaid spirit." The man said reaching for something next to him. "No! I am human please believe me." Thando yelled out putting her hands in the air to block whatever was about to hit her.

To save her family from scandal, Emily Collicott must marry. Ruined in her first season in London, she is given no choice but to wed her father's pick for a husband, or be cast out from her home. Emily agrees to marry William Hazlitt, a man she hardly knows. But William remembers her. Growing up as a tenant on her father's estate, he admired her from afar, their lives kept separate first by class, and then by loss. Emily seeks to begin a new life with this quiet man to whom she finds herself wedded. But the scandal she escaped in London soon finds her again, the very man who destroyed her reputation threatening to tear down the happiness she's found with her new husband. To keep from losing everything, she must either make a deal with a devil... or learn how to destroy one.

How can you lose something you never have? When your own mother poisons you to gain pity from others, how should you feel? Why was I, the youngest, being married off? How could I care about something that was never mine? WARNING! Viewer discretion advised: Story contains adult content that is unsuitable for children. NOTE from the writer: I'm an amateur writer so please overlook plot holes, grammar issues, or anything else a story is supposed to have. This is my original story so... as the saying goes "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all".

Outlaw and all around bad guy Marston finds a dying man along the railroad tracks. His only plan is to take the mans nearby horse, his gun and whatever money he might have in his pockets but the dying mans words gnaw at him 'Give my love to Rose' the man had said and 'Tell my boy I'm proud of him'. Without knowing why Marston feels the need to honor the dying mans wishes. The mans quest leads him to Harper Louisianna and when he finds Rose she is not what he expected and neither is the boy.... Marston has spent his whole life hurting people and not caring. Willl these people make him want to change and what will Rose say when she learns what kind of man he really is?

Circa 1200 AD Scotland After the death of her mother, Lily's clan quickly fell into poverty. Five years later, her people are suffering more than ever. Lily is offered a way of escape, a way to help her people... she must marry Laird Mackenzie. This Highlander and his men are highly skilled, well-trained, and savage. They showed no mercy to their enemies and answer any inter-clan dispute with the utmost brutality. This may save her people, but it may be the death of her.

The Druids were a hunted people long ago...they made a pact to scatter their children throughout time to keep them safe from the massacre to come. These children became lost, both in time and in the memories of people. At first they were looked for but now they have become legend... Aislinn has never felt a part of anything...all those she thought had loved her through her life turned against her, if they even loved her at all. Now alone in the Highlands of Scotland can she find a way to survive and become who she was always meant to be? © 2013

The Druids were a hunted people long ago...they made a pact to scatter their children throughout time to keep them safe from the massacre to come. These children became lost, both in time and in the memories of people. At first they were looked for but now they have become legend... Rohesia has been stuck between a father who loved her and a mother who hated her. But upon the death of her father, she must make a choice which could lead to her death. Stay and be married off to whoever her mother deemed fit, or pluck up the courage to take a step on her own, which could end in dire consequences. Artair has been seen a part of a pair his entire life. A twin that has spent his life in the shadow of his elder brother. Making his own way in life is all he could ask for. But this journey was about a search for something that was calling to his very soul. What he really needed was to capture the treasure which call to him from afar. This is Book 4, you may want to read book 1 Highland Dream, book 2 Highland Supplanter and book 3 Highland Strength first. © 2014

Since being liberated from the Romans, the hatred has shifted towards the Highlanders of the North. Her father swore that not one of his children would marry a highlander nor bore his children. For fifteen years, Joanna had heard this. Being the oldest of four daughters, she was constantly reminded. But it comes as a shock when her father announces her betrothed. It is not Prince Andrew of the East, a proper Englishman, but Sir Kincaid a savage chieftain of the Highlands. Joanna is taken away from her comfortable life inside stone walls to a small tribe nestled in the rolling hills. Not only does Joanna have to adjust to a new lifestyle, but a savage husband ten years older than herself. Joanna wants only to go home while Kincaid wants something more. The two think they will hate each other forever. That is until an unfortunate injury. Joanna can finally see through his arrogance and Kincaid can see through her anger. Can they understand one another and become something more? ~Everything in this book may not be historically accurate~

Callie MacLeod escapes a clan gathering in an attempt to run away from an arranged marriage by her Uncle Hamish to Angus Cameron only to run right into the arms of Alex Campbell, a rival clan chief, who vows to protect her. For Mature Audiences Only...

Note: This is an English written story. Held captive in a foreign land, will Arabela learn to love her new home or will her heart still yearn to escape and find her way home? #amaturewriter #rawandunedited #expecterrors😂 #justforfun #mature Date Published and Completed: February 2022