An arranged marriage, a bargain gone wrong, and Appalachian mountain magic combine to answer one question: Is it so terrible to want to be loved? In 1929 Boone, North Carolina, marriage feels like Alice's only true ticket to a better life, and she is determined to make it happen for herself. When Xavier, a deer shifter and the King of the Shadow Fae, appears with a marriage contract arranged at birth and an apparent ardent infatuation with Alice, she believes her dreams have finally come true. However, the longer she stays in the Shadow Court, the more things seem out of place. No one can remember exactly how or when Xavier became the king, and Alice is the only person who seems to remember the existence of Xavier's mysterious twin brother, Florian. As she searches for answers to the mystery of Florian's disappearance and Xavier's rise to power, Alice must decide for herself what it means to love and be loved, and what it means to love someone enough to fight for them. Follow Alice, Xavier, and Florian in an alternate history where Others-- demons, vampires, angels, shifters, and many more beings-- roam the earth, magic is alive and burning bright, and blood runs deeper than just our ancestry. BLOOD MARRIAGE is Book #2 in the Appalachian Magic book series.

| 2x Featured | When Iolla Kecky makes water levitate during a Chemistry lesson, her innocent life as a student is smashed into smithereens. Unbeknownst to her, she was experimented on as a child, and it's related to her unusual eye colours. To make matters worse, not only was the successful result of the experiment leaked, there is a bounty of 5 million dollars for the capture of all seemingly random five teenagers who took the dose, in order to remove the cell from their bodies and sell it at a black market auction. The only way to save themselves is if they all work together. Except not everyone is on board, and a dangerous enemy is picking them off. The only person who can help them is the person that did this to them to begin with. If they don't, they risk assassins around the world acquiring their powers and using it to cause chaos. Turns out, ending up in the black market is only the tip of the iceberg. ~ FEATURED on newlywrittenbooks 's Action reading list FEATURED on The_Reading_Room's Tales of Adventure reading list 🥇 GOLD STAR 1st Place Winner in Science Fiction - Featuring STARS Awards 2023 🥇 1st Place Winner in Sci-Fi - The Blossom Awards 🥈 1st Runner-up in Sci-Fi - Inferno Awards 2024 🥈 2nd Place in Sci-Fi - The GemStone Book Awards 2024 🥉 3rd Place in Sci-Fi - The Book Awards 🥉3rd Place in Sci-Fi - The Writer's Book Awards 🥉 3rd Place in Sci-Fi - The Aster Awards 2023 🥇 Best Story Plot Winner - The Lavendar Awards 2023 🥇 Best Characters Winner - The Lavendar Awards 2023 🥇 Best First Chapter Winner - The Phoenix Awards 2023 🥇 Best Prologue Winner - The Phoenix Mini Awards 🥇 Best Prologue Winner - Orphic Awards 2023 🥇 Best Prologue Winner - Elysian Mini Awards 🥇 Best 1st Line Winner - Fluorescence Awards 2023 🥇 Best 1st Line Winner - The Magic Book Awards

When Charlie Miller loses her job the week before both her roommates move to California, she decides it's time to get out of Texas. But with her bank account embarrassingly empty and her newly divorced parents living thousands of miles apart, she doesn't know where to go. And then she remembers Fisher. The small lakeside town in Idaho where she spent every summer until she was eighteen at her uncle's cabin. It's the last place she was truly happy, so the day Gaby and Tay move out, Charlie packs up her car and embarks on the 1,800-mile drive. She has no idea what to expect when she gets there: her uncle sold the cabin six years ago, after all, and the last time she was there she was surrounded by her cousins. This time around she is alone, and she is lonely. When she revisits the old cabin, it's pure nostalgia. Until she is caught by the neighbor. Who just happens to be the most beautiful woman Charlie has ever seen. She is smitten, instantly, and all of a sudden her trip to Fisher has a purpose. The only problem: Lou is almost twenty years older, she has a teenage daughter, and Charlie's pretty sure she's straight. But the more time they spend together, the less sure Charlie is, and when a freak event throws them together, there's only one way to find out. After all, she's only here for two weeks and then she has to figure her life out. She has nothing left to lose. © Elle Carrigan 2023

What could be worse than having your enemy shoved forcefully back into your life? Unfortunately for Phoebe Brooks that's exactly what happens when her brother chooses to get together with the worst choice imaginable - her enemies sister. Sebastian Diaz, her childhood friend turned enemy was the last person in the world, Phoebe wanted wrapped up in her life. Terrified of a future stuck together, the mutual enemies agree on a pact. A pact to work together to destroy the blossoming relationship between their siblings before it's too late.

How to have your life flip-turned upside down in five easy steps. ⇨1) Find out your long-term boyfriend has been cheating on you. ⇨2) Get completely wasted at a charity auction of a wealthy client. ⇨3) Have unprotected sex with a good-looking stranger whose full name you cannot properly pronounce. ⇨4) Find out six weeks later that too much champagne and lack of birth control was not a good combination. ⇨5) Discover the mysterious father of your unborn child just happens to be an immortal son of the legendary sea god, Poseidon. For twenty-six-year-old Mia Greene, her entire life revolved around the idea that her world was simply ordinary. Life throws Mia an unexpected curveball when the man she loves utterly betrays her. Throwing herself deeply into her work provides a unique opportunity to score a very big activist as a client who has grand plans for her son's upcoming nuptials. More unfortunate events send Mia into a tailspin of a comforting sexual encounter with a mysterious stranger. As it becomes clear this alluring new man in her life is much more than meets the eye, Mia discovers that their one-night dalliance left her with a very unexpected consequence; the first half-mortal grandchild for the sea god, Poseidon. Somehow Mia's biggest problem? The father of her unborn child happens to be forcefully betrothed to malevolent sea-nymph who does not want any competition for the immortal prince's heart...

Nearly fifty light years away from earth, a lone space ship lands at a space port, and the lone human steps out into the first contact being made in the first time in nearly a thousand years.

This is the sequel to The Song Of The Wolf. (The Song Of The Wolf is currently being rewritten, the book is on my profile)

As an angel trained to fight the forces of demons, Chiara knew to not let them take her alive, but she never expected to survive her first battle. Trapped in the depths of hell and tortured, only one thing is keeping her alive - the demon kept prisoner with her in the cold, dark cell. As the deadliest demon alive, Logan knew better than to piss off his commander by stealing whiskey and bedding his concubines. But the ladies were lonely and the whiskey was too tempting. He's paid dearly for his transgressions, though, spending months in a cell being tortured, only to regenerate at night for fresh torture the next day. Time blurs and he grows restless to be freed so he can rejoin the battles against angels, until a new captive is brought to his cell. The second he sees Chiara - her beauty and fierce strength, the blinding white of her wings - he is lost and she is the path forward. He would destroy every demon in hell to free her, but to possess her, he will have to destroy himself.