"When I tell you that he hates me, you'll probably assume it's because he's a jerk...but you'd be wrong. He's not a jerk. I am." --- Several years ago tragedy struck Emma's home, leaving her broken... like a cup with cracks spiraling and slithering around the edges. Slowly, bitterness crept in like tar, hardening between each fracture to resemble a deceitful wholeness. She became a monster, and targeted her venom on the sweetest person she could find: Trinity Nixon. Too bad the boy Emma longed for was Trinity's brother. Now, as Emma fights to win the heart of the boy who despises her, she's forced to hide her demons. She paints her fragile cup in pinks, yellows, and oranges - all the colors of the sun. She paints on a smile, and an unusual sense of humor, so that the world will view her as bright and cheerful, when in reality she's breaking. But she's completely unprepared for the acidic truth that melts away the tar, demolishing her shell, and awakening the Emma White buried deep inside. --- Book 1 in The Dismantled Pride series *Story was previously titled "Faking It"

There exists another world, a world offering much more than what Earth has. A world brimming with the stories parents often tell their children, whimsical tales of witches, wizards, and spirits. Those stories tell of the land of Esrar. However, the fantasy that is often passed to the ears of young children is rapidly losing peace. The bond between cities Lostrona, the shining capital, and Felport, a run-down city standing in the shadows, is beginning to shatter. War erupts between the two cities, the fighting refusing to cease until the other surrenders, or is left in ruins. As the war rages, Serena is away from the fighting, living on Earth where she plans to tend to her garden peacefully. It is when she meets Jasper, who witnesses her use magic, that she is once again dragged into the realm she has spent so long shielding herself from. There is no escape from the war once she sets foot on the soil of Esrar, for she learns that she and Jasper are much more meaningful to the fate of Lostrona than she ever could have imagined.

Life's hard being a male tooth fairy. And for Harold, it gets a lot harder when Death herself comes to tell him time's up. The silver-tongued sylph manages to cut a deal for more years, at the cost of playing a dangerous game. But with the help of a famous witch, a mythical Highlands monster, and a few others, Harold may just get his extension. And if he happens to succeed, he'll add a pair of infamous fangs to his collection. The ones belonging to Vlad Dracul.