[PREVIOUSLY TITLED ESCAPING BACK ALLEYS] ❝A King is never on his knees, Soren.❞ ❝He is for his Queen.❞

A story of the rise of a Queen - from the eyes of a King. ♛ ♛ ❝Strong. Like a Queen.❞ Must finish Chasing Back Alleys before reading this story.

[PREVIOUSLY TITLED CHASING BACK ALLEYS] ❝Once a King, always a King.❞

The story continues. . . FBI Agent Jack Rhodes managed to escape death for the second time. Barely. One year later, as Commander of his own Major Crimes unit, he finally is doing what he loves: stopping crimes and dealing out justice to those who break the law. For the most part. His new partner-in-justice tends to balance the moral razor's edge of black and white. And she does it with a brilliant smile. Doctor V.C. Coldwater is back and as sassy as ever. Happy as ever to meddle in Jack's affairs (albeit legally this time), she always seems to find trouble at the precisely wrong moment. When a decapitated head rolls into their laps (quite literally), Jack and V.C. find they must once again put their own heads together and find the murderer. As one body turns into three, the partners come to the conclusion a spree-killer is terrorizing the streets of Bleeding Heart. And has been for quite some time. However, their newly minted partnership starts to strain when the secrets of the past are all too deep and consuming. With the threat of QueenKiller looming in the background, its a race against time to find the murderer. Or die trying.

FBI agent Jack Rhodes and Doctor V.C. Coldwater team up to solve a murder involving treason, secret government research, and the Uzbekistani black market. ***** Commander Jack Rhodes was kicked out of the Navy SEALs after a mission went wrong, but he continues to serve the public as an agent of the FBI. After a woman is murdered, he's forced to team up with the unconventional and flagrantly disrespectful Doctor V.C. Coldwater. What looks like a simple case turns out to extend deep into government research, nuclear fission, and the global criminal underworld. Jack's forced to rely on a woman he thought he'd despise, because in a case this complicated, she's the only person he can trust. [[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]

[Explicit Content] Jo Bennett is an apathetic college student by day and a highly skilled spy by night. She uses sex to get what she wants and alcohol to numb her feelings. She's perfectly content with the status quo and has no intention of looking backwards... until painful ghosts from her past come looking for her. When Jo's long lost brother and childhood love break into her apartment, her carefully constructed double life begins to fall apart, piece by piece. Kidnapped by her brother's enemies whose end game is to kill them both, Jo has to employ every trick in the book to make it out alive. The question is, will it be enough? WARNING: This book contains sex (and lots of it), violence, strong language, and drug and alcohol use.

Sahara Martinez is a somewhat unlucky wedding planner. A hopeless romantic, who in fact hasn't had any romance. Actually, the last person who she could remember showing an inkle of interest in her was the old cleaner in the Starbucks bathroom. ...And even that was three years ago. You see why I call her unlucky? However, things start to seem a little positive once she meets Isiah, the brother of her newest client who has a certain charm that catches her attention. But... will things actually get better for her in terms of her love life or will it all crumble down like the horrible cake from the Devalencio's wedding?

*Wattpad Featured Novel* Haley Monroe has moved to the Big Apple and is ready to start her internship at Forward Magazine, the hottest best selling lifestyle magazine in the country. Everything is set into place: Overpriced tiny apartment? Check. Sadly single? Check. Friendless in new city? Check. Determined to set off with a fresh start and (clearly) positive attitude, she spends her first night in New York doing something that someone as organized as Haley is, would never dream of - a one night stand. Well, almost. If you consider leaving Nate - the hottest guy she's ever set her eyes on - naked in his apartment, a one night stand. And to make Haley's life complete, the new owner of Forward magazine just started his first day at the office. Haley instantly recognizes her new boss. She almost had a one night stand with him. #DAMNITNATECHESTER Copyright © 2014 BellaLunaa All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without written permission from the author.

❝We were both just two messed up kids with pasts and the power to move forward.❞ Eric Wilson. He was gorgeous. He was the quarterback. He was smart. He was perfect. He was an addict. He didn’t want to be that person anymore, though, so when he moved across the country for college, he stopped...well, tried to. All Eric wanted to do was go to school and recover from heartbreaks that happened in high school. And then, like in most stories, he met a girl…

When it comes to the musical Guys and Dolls, Lottie Ingham would not call herself obsessed--just knowledgeable. After all, she can dedicate entire essays to the smooth gambler character of Nathan Detroit, which any average teenage girl can do, of course. Now that it's summer, she can rewatch the movie as many times as she wants. However, what she doesn't expect is to rope her longtime crush, a hot-as-hell soccer star, into her dedication to Guys and Dolls and more than a couple other mishaps. [Camp NaNoWriMo project for July 2015] {stunning cover by @anticlimactic}