Lake doesn't like parties, he especially doesn't like getting drunk by drinking the alcoholic punch on accident, and he really doesn't enjoy following his friends to go trick or treating and somehow finding himself lost and alone in a graveyard. There is a tall figure sitting calmly on a large gravestone, so dark he appears as a silhouette, his tapered cloak moving in the wind as though suspended in water. Lake walks up to him, made of curiosity, bravery and booze. The tall man stands to tower over him, in his left hand a scythe is raised and the blade glints in the moonlight, darkness reaching out from him like a thick fog. Cold red eyes pin Lake down. "Who disturbs this halfway realm of death? Who dares to approach the harbinger..." But the little human in front of him seems unafraid. His large blue eyes squint as he reaches through the black fog and presses his hand on his chest. "Wow, that's really cool, how do you do that?"

Tora never asked to be a Lunos and he certainly didn't ask for three mates. *** As the weakest member of his house, Tora has always been a lone wolf. He's never been the smartest, the bravest, or funniest and is bullied until the last day of summer before the new school year starts when he's thrown off a cliff into the ocean surrounding the island of Kailea. Unable to find the urge to swim, he lets himself drift until he's suddenly thrusted to shore and brought back to life surrounded by the most dangerous boys on the island, the Crimson Triplets. Making a run for it, Tora hopes they never notice him and blends into the crowd at school. But blending in is difficult when at least one of the deadly highly trained assassins is in his class. A triplet threat of Tiger shifters bred and raised to take over the island's warrior pack known as The House of Crimson. The triplets stick together, rarely seen with anyone except each other and it's even been rumored the silent yet extremely intimidating Alpha Galen has never spoken a single word. Beta Casper's aggressive nature has him constantly getting into fights with the wrong crowds. Beta Micah is the defender of the trio, unafraid of speaking his mind when it comes to his brother's defense. But what happens when the island's powerful brothers are mated to an omega and one of them becomes pregnant?

Scottie is still trying to get out of his depression after his brother went missing. Three years of waiting and hoping hasn't done him any good but when one night of endless routine changed his life drastically, he finds himself in a new and unknown world, somehow knowing that Devon is there. There's one small problem though... How can you ask around for your brother when you've been changed? How can Scottie explain what happened to him when he doesn't understand how he changed from a teenage boy...into a cat?

Escaping your abusive boyfriend isn't easy, especially in Zachary's case. Zachary is an only child, born and raised in Nebraska, his life was perfect. Loving parents who were rich beyond belief, he never had worked a day in his life. He was handsome, popular, and was good at everything, but nothing could have prepared him for what happened next. Having confessed to his parents that he was gay, and them accepting him with open arms, Zachary was content. One day he met a boy named Tristan who went to the same high school as him; they fell in love and started dating. You would say by now that Zachary's life was perfect, that is until the day he was kidnapped. That once loving and caring boy was now an abusive, possessive one. Scared, and helpless Zachary is forced to stay locked up in a two bedroom house surrounded by abandoned houses and in a place that is unfamiliar to him. He could be anywhere in the world, too bad he doesn't know where. Now forced into a relationship that he is desperate to escape, Zachary must find a way to run away, but how? It's been months without any hope of that dream, constant sexual abuse, lack of food and sleep, has turned him weak. There is little hope for him. But what happens when he finally escapes his boyfriends clutches and runs away? And what happens when he ends up running into a love life that, this time, he won't be able to run away from. But then again, who said he wanted to escape... Highest: Romance #457 Copyright © 2013 Jena Becerra All rights reserved

(Book 2 of HomeLess) Domino has always lived his life exactly the way he's wanted to. No one ever stood in his way or bothered to intervene. Unfortunately, his possessive, aggressive, and down-right nasty way of treating people has finally landed him in the big house... And people aren't nearly as easy to berate behind bars.

PUBLISHED WORK!!! 30% OF THE STORY HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN. Available on Amazon in paperwork and PDF (KINDLE) format. You know those kind of stories where you go to the holiday, meet some guy and have a one night stand? Well, I am not that kind of girl. I did have a night stand, but not on holiday, nor for fun. But to save my baby brother's life. Kaley was like any other 18 years' girl, well almost like that. She has no parents and only six years old brother to look after. But when her brother get very sick and they pay a visit to hospital, they found out he has leukemia. She's alone and has no money, so in order to save her brother, she took a step that changed her life forever. Yes, she had a one night stand.

A blacksmith's apprentice who would be a knight. The heir to the throne, at death's door. One woman who would save them both, if she could... Charlotte was number sixty-four in the second group of young, hopeful maidens intended to meet the Prince at a grand ball in his honor. That introduction was not to be. She returned home to her tiny village- and her visions of a future limited by it- without any warning of the drastic turn her life was about to take. Soon she would be fighting against the odds to help keep a gravely wounded stranger alive; and waging war with her own heart, as he stirred feelings in her she'd never known. When the stranger's royal identity is revealed, Charlotte is faced with an entirely different battle: one to keep her family, village, and the injured Prince in her care all safe from a madman set on taking the throne by any means necessary.

Lieutenant Ray Hodges was a beast of a man. In fact, he was known as 'Beast' around the Air Force base and over the last ten years of hard work he had earned the name. He lived and breathed the Air Force... but that life came to a screeching halt when he found himself close to dead and shipped back to his hometown by the beach with nothing to do but recover and work his way back to the air force. What happens when his life collides with Seychelles Roberts, a woman who lived to help anyone and everyone into a better lifestyle? And what will Seychelles do when she sees that this beast of a man needs her help? Or maybe she's the one who needs him?

Watty Award winner for HQ Love. Curvy Evianna has it all - as the host of a number one talk show, she's adored by millions of Australian TV viewers, has a gorgeous co-star and cash to burn. But the plus-sized role model is desperately lonely, battling the body issues that keep her isolated while lusting hopelessly over the delectable man beside her on screen. Realising she can't experience love until she learns to make peace with herself, Evi decides she needs to make some big changes to her life, leaving her safe chair behind the desk and embracing a new adventure. She'll discover self-love, passion and a whole lot about herself as she explores what it really means to be beautiful on the inside.

Ever since photographer Lacy Maguire caught her ex playing Pin the Secretary to the Elevator Wall, she's been content with her dog Fabio, her three cats, and a vow of chastity. But all of that changes when the reindeer-antlered Fabio drags in a very desperate, on-the-run detective who decides to take refuge in her house -- a house filled with twinkling lights and a decorated tree. (Okay, so it's February, but she has a broken heart to mend, a Christmas-card shoot to do, and a six-times divorced, match-making mother to appease.) For the first time in a looooong while, Lacy reconsiders her vow. Because sexy Chase Kelly, wounded soul that he may be, would be an oh-so-delicious way of breaking her fast. Now, if she can just keep them both alive and him out of jail....