In our story, the individual with Aspergers has been mismanaged from an early age by parents who rather than institutionalize him, or lock him up in the attic, kept him in the home, in the family. The results often devastating, his tantrums were unintentionally reinforced. When physical violence erupted, instead of taking strong measures to extinguish the behavior, they gave into his unreasonable, often impossible demands. Aspergers individuals will feel their own psychic pain and often self-medicate with various behaviors, drugs, and or alcohol. For our story's principal character, gambling became another addiction. On the plus side of the condition, Aspergers persons often have at least one remarkable ability, such as being able to perform at a high level on an instrument with little or no training. In our story the character has a genius level of ability with any-thing to do with numbers. As a successful car salesman he had all the relevant numbers connected to a sale, such as the original list price, the financing charges, margins, all at the tip of a remarkable mind and therefore able to recite them to customers without having to reference any printed or computerized information. In this story, our character is based on a real person with Aspergers. Over many years of man-aging his life, providing them with unconditional love, modeling the attitudes and behaviors they hoped to someday see in them, slowly but surely a radical transformation began taking place. Eventually displays of understanding and empathy began to emerge. In time joy began to replace the chronic negativity and depression, giving way to efforts to give back to those who had stood by them with acts of kindness and gifts. As you take on such a task, never underestimate the...Power of Love.

❝A boy and a girl, feathers and flames. A tragic love story, and a life that came to an end❞ ➳ The body dies but the soul survives; Punished by the gods, Icarus is cursed and doomed to centuries of pain. Reborn every eighteen years, He is bound to fall in pure love with an innocent soul and cause her death. Consumed by flames and born again from the ashes, the ruthless cycle will continue until the end of the days... But this time, a force has been set up by The Guardians to break the rusted chains which bind Icarus. With the sole mission of protecting humans, The Guardians have taken it upon themselves to protect Icarus's love from the peril that awaits her. Cassie, a strong guardian apprentice, is chosen by "The Twelve", the kings and queens Guardians, to take Icarus' mission and save the person who will fall in love with him. What happens when Cassie discovers her growing feelings for Icarus? Between the games of power, lust and magic, will Cassie be able to see the difference between reality and myths? There is no time to think, as there is something... someone with a pinch of darkness in his blood that has other plans for them. ➳ #226 in Romance cover by @_grimm

I REMEMBER WATERCOLOR nights with my dad. I can still conjure up his voice, creaky like an anise candy wrapper. Sometimes he'd shade my world with his knowledge of birds, bats, and insects, or recite the lyrics of ballads like, "To Know Know Know Him, is to Love Love Love Him." Now pushing seven years old, I would often pass the time sloshing around swamps in my yellow plastic boots searching for tadpoles and leopard frogs. When the wind howled he would say, "See little November, there is music everywhere." Come along on a magical and mystical coming-of-age story set in the post-punk era of 1984, with November reliving the fateful night of the Celtic Hazel Moon Festival.

While driving home, ecstatic about summer, best friends Laura and Iris are hit by a drunk driver, throwing Iris clear of the crash. Three weeks later, Iris awakens from a coma, only to find out the tragic news: Laura was killed! Questioning as to why Laura died but not her, in a deep state of depression, Iris cries out to God for His help. Soon, afterwards, the Lord starts revealing what really happened to Laura that fateful day and why!

For centuries, Svipul has flown over countless battlefields, choosing the slain and delivering them into the afterworlds. After living a life of only death, of watching the ends of lives unlived, all she wants is to become mortal and get away from the continuous violence. Then she meets Domstoll, a berserker possessed by a wolf spirit who, like her, wants nothing more than to be a normal human. Fighting for a common goal, the two of them team up and together go on a daring adventure through all the nine realms in an attempt to unravel that tricky thread of fate before their time runs out.

Border Patrol Agent Cal Tucker has lived off of instinct for as long as he could remember. But when he accurately predicts increasingly unlikely events by "following his gut", he can tell that something is about to change. He works all day catching illegal immigrants who work to ruin the lives of others, but he harbors a deeply buried secret: he may catch bad guys during the day, but at night he helps those who simply want a fresh start. Even those who are by the country's definition "illegal aliens". Now enemies on both sides of the law are hunting him, and they aren't giving up until they get what they want.

I always manage to pull through the day, if only for those six hours in the silent night, where my imagination shapes reality and even the darkness can hold the tiniest glimmer of hope.

2018 was the year of scientific breakthrough, the moment when man became capable of creating the first artificially intelligent, completely biological organism. They used this new discovery to create a theme park of creatures, a place where a teen could go and experience their own tailor-made romance with the constructed vampire, werewolf, or zombie of their choice. But then somebody sabotaged the park before it ever saw the light of day, and the monsters meant for love became the world's greatest weapon against humanity. Five years later, the creatures outnumber the humans 10 to 1. Mankind is on the brink of extinction with no hope left of salvation. But for some reason, the city of Cincinnati does have hope. They put their faith in a man known only as "The Dentist", but none of them truly know who he is or what he's capable of. They don't know about his secret experiments on their own kind or about his dark past. They don't know that he's long known how to cure the monster infection, but chooses not to save them. It may take the combined efforts of a murderous vampire prostitute and a failed genetic experiment to convince him that humanity is really worth saving after all. Or is it?

Ruth Anderson could be pictured as the "perfect" goody two shoes girl. She goes to church, gets good grades, stays committed to her sport and has an amazing relationship with her family. But when she meets a flirty bad boy who is interested in her, things change. Not only is he interested in her but she becomes obsessed with keeping him in her life. Will she change everything about herself just to keep him in her arms? Why is he seen as the bad boy? What is he hiding? Will the truth bring them closer or drive them a part? Find out in "I Want You Bad Boy". Cover by @DancerAnne

(BOOK ONE of The Hidden Blood Series) “The bloody, raw meat was tantalizing her; calling to her. She hated it and yearned for it all at once. 'Stop.' She ordered. 'What are you doing?!' 'So hungryyyyy,' snarled a primal voice deep within her. 'Don’t you dare!' She screamed back. But it did dare.” What would you do if you discovered you weren't human? That you turned into a bloodthirsty monster against your will? What if your instincts, emotions and desires were torn between your own and the dark, dangerous animal lurking inside of you? If it could make you yearn for someone you shouldn't, make you say and act in ways you wouldn't and overwhelm your whole existence? If everything you'd ever known about your life was a lie? In a world where a deeply hidden community is swathed in mystery, deadly secrets, betrayal and murder, Jaz Barker struggles to fight against the dangerous Beast within her and the emotions and desires it thrusts her way. When tensions ride high and people she cares about are put in danger, she will have to decide how much of her newly awakened animal side she's willing to let in. And if it is worth the risk. *******