Howard and his wife were struggling to conceive their first child, while on an excavation near Luxor. They found an abandoned baby girl at the base of a temple, wrapped in royal linen. They adopted her as their own, naming her Kamilah. As she grew, it became clear she had an uncanny, almost instinctual connection to the ancient sites. She is the protective "lioness" who feels a spiritual duty to keep her younger siblings safe from the curses they don't believe in. OC Carnahan x Rick O'Connell.

Jordyn wanted a better life. Desirée wanted a different one. Neither expected to wake up in each other's. Across a century, two women must navigate worlds that were never meant for them, one of glitter and survival, the other of silence and duty. But as they begin to change the lives they've stepped into, one question remains: When the chance comes...will they go back?

Sparks fly and horns lock on the Dottie Belle Ranch in Plateau, Arizona! Clint Slade is a well-known hired killer. What he does for a living has never been questioned nor given an explanation. The dime novelists love his work to pen to paper, and young boys see him as the epitome of a heroic lifestyle. He lives a lonely life of solitude as he travels all over the country, and that’s the way he likes it. He doesn’t see the need for other people and his latest job makes him wonder why he even bothers to try to understand them. Bliss Cooper loves her life without the ties of a man or an interest in one. She’s the daughter of a rich ranch owner in Arizona with more than what she needs. Yet when her father becomes overprotective about notes threatening her life, the life she loves so much comes crashing in on her. What seems to her like overkill on her father’s part just might change her life forever. Colt Kidd can't hide it for much longer. Being the foreman of a ranch is a challenge of it's own, but when he starts having complicated feelings about his boss' daughter and long-time best friend, his life gets a whole lot more confusing. He knows that he can't hold a candle to what Bliss really needs, but he would give his whole life to try.

What happens when a bucket list sight-seeing trip turns into a living nightmare? You've seen movies about clumsy tour guides leaving behind people in perilous situations. Can't happen in reality, right? Wrong. It happens more than you think. But what could be worse than that? Come aboard my Safari, dear reader, we've got a lot of ground to cover. JUMBLE IN THE RUNGLE is ready to take the next group on safari expedition. Please sit down to make room for others to load up. Got your sight-seeing brochures, binoculars and cameras ready? Good, then let's go!

When Ollie and Scarlett McKenzie are offered the chance to travel to the mighty Amazon jungle to investigate the mystery of disappearing Indian natives they jump at the chance...but can the fabled man-eating monster, the Mapinguari really be at the heart of the disappearances and does Montezuma's legendary lost city of Para Kiti really exist? With their father Gordon, they enlist the help of an eccentric Chinese cryptozoologist and an Amazon Indian native and embark on what appears to be a routine mission - but it's a mission that rapidly spirals into danger as the team face the ruthless drug baron Don Ortega, who will go to any lengths to protect his illegal gold mine. Lost and wounded in the jungle, Ollie and Scarlett must learn to work together and trust the skills of a Native called Nyeti if they have any chance of getting out of the Amazon alive.

Not your average family vacation. Following an obscure clue to a century-old mystery, former adventurer-turned family man Skip Hutchins heads into the wilds of the Amazon Basin with wife Nusiri and son Zane. They are on the trail of Percy Fawcett, a hundred years after that famed explorer's disappearance. Seeking to show that in even today's world, there is still grand adventure to be found, the answers they find only lead to more intrigue, and they soon find themselves caught up in more than one legend. -------- Publication Announcement! Lost City of the Sun has now been released on Amazon! The full book is available there, in both ebook and paperback, including the "origins" short story Latitude Adjustment. I will be leaving the first three chapters up here on WP as a sample.

Being marooned on a tropical island might seem like a romantic adventure, but survival is rarely as easy as it might seem in movies. For Enya, the romantic part does not turn out the way she'd imagined it when she ends up on the wrong island, with the wrong guy... Open Novella Contest 2026. Prompt 21. "You wake from a dream about a perfect faceless soulmate, only to meet someone in real life who feels exactly like them and somehow knows things you've never told anyone."

After a reality show was cancelled a couple of years ago due to a scandal, an Austrian celebrity and multimillionaire's daughter, Evelyn Baumgartner, who fell in love with the show, convinced her father to allow her to recreate an international version of the game. 20 castaways from all around the world embark on a 39 long day adventure for a million dollars. Along the way, they'll have to form alliances, play in challenges and make difficult decisions. One by one, they'll be voted out until three remain. Those three will then present their case to the jury, a group of previously eliminated castaways, who will then decide who wins the grand prize of a million dollars. (DISCLAIMER: This book is not involved with CBS or the reality show "Survivor" in any way whatsoever.)

The last thing US Marshal Jasper expects to find after a gunfight with a band of outlaws is a woman. She's dressed like a man, she swears like a man, she's and deadly with a gun, and she's gorgeous. But Clara has a past she's been running from, a name on her kill list, and she won't let anybody, handsome lawman or not, get in the way of her revenge.

Charlotte "Charlie" Carver knows she's in trouble when Jackson North shows up at her door in the middle of the night, nearly a year after he unceremoniously broke her heart. She's always suspected her ex had secrets, but she never thought those secrets would put her in danger-until violent men show up right on Jackson's tail, and suddenly she's caught up in an adventure unlike any she ever imagined. Jackson has never been able to forget Charlie, the only woman he's ever loved. He'd do anything to protect her--but he'd also do anything to help his team find the fortune hidden by eccentric billionaire Vincent Rinaldi. Unfortunately, the key to finding Rinaldi's fortune rests in a gift Jackson gave Charlie back when they were together, and now she's tangled up in his dangerous life whether he likes it or not. Soon, they're on a wild chase through Croatia's islands with Jackson's teammates, the notorious Devil's Set. Career treasure hunters, the Set has seen their share of danger and adventure, but they've never encountered a hunt like this. As they pursue the ultimate treasure, Jackson and Charlie face one danger after another-but the biggest threat might be the one targeting their hearts. Neither wants to admit that there's still a sizzling connection between them, but sometimes, the hunt is too intoxicating to resist... MEET THE DEVIL'S SET: Treasure hunters. Adventurers. Bad boys. A second chance at love has never been this dangerous...