Responsible. Sensible. Words that describe October Grace Dixon according to the residents of Red Mire, Texas. Until little October tips the boat over and finds herself sent to live in Pecan Valley with her cousin Arizona for reasons that leave the rest of the town in confusion. Desperate for a way to support herself once she arrives to the eerily familiar town, October meets with the owner of the town's most popular eatery and feels her world shift once again. Sterling Young used to be the bad boy of Pecan Valley, until the death of his parents at age eighteen leaves him the sole guardian of a rambunctious five year old and a third generation family restaurant. Now, nearly eleven years later he's running two thriving business, maneuvering around a moody teenager and dodging the women his best friend's mother sends his way -- after all he's got too much on his plate to be trying to date. One meeting with the town's newest resident has him changing his mind, even if she does come with a surprise or two up her sleeve. XXXXX Once again this AMAZING cover was made by @southernTxkindagirl

2016 Watty Award Winner for Most VORACIOUS Read Sample only. This book is PUBLISHED! How do you tell yourself not to breathe? He is my mate, and she is his everything. But he chose her, against every single instinct that we both know. For that, I have been whipped, shunned, shamed, disgraced, and broken. All for one moment of madness, I could not control. After two years, I left, unable to bear the pain and loneliness anymore. That was then. This is now. I am back, and I am not the juvenile I was. I am now a fully grown female. I feel his eyes on me, but I can't. I won't. I shouldn't. Time has healed my wounds, but not the deep scars the whip seared into my flesh or his indifference to my heart. Each breath is a pain, and his scent overwhelms me. But I can smell her in it. He still will not give her up, despite his own body crawling with a deep, physical desire that only a mate can satisfy. I breathe: I exist, barely. I am a midwife. I bring life into a cruel world that haunts me every day, and the Doctor I work with is the only one in this pack who holds faith in me. He is the one person who stands up for me - and I feel light again when I am with him. What kind of life is this when two mates cannot be together, yet every part of their primal soul yearns for it infinitely? What kind of cruel moon would torture a she-wolf like this? I can't go on, but I must. Whatever happens, I must attend to my purpose and give my miserable life some meaning; perhaps I can snatch some joy in pieces, but now I see that he needs me - but he also wants her too. How do you tell yourself not to breathe?

Alpha Quinn Danvers never felt what it was like to be with his mate, his one true love, and he never will. He has spent years lonely and dreaming of a woman to fall in love with him. Ruth 'Eden' Glass is the newest member of the Red Knox Pack, keeping to herself and trying to live with the grief of giving up her mate. She swore to herself that she'd never let herself be hurt by anyone. But, after one moment of weakness, she finds herself pregnant with Quinn's baby. And as much as he wants her, she vowed to herself never to love another...and that applies even to Alpha's. WARNING; for mature audiences only

Life or Death. It's the choice to be made within the Alba Rosa Pack when the Beta and his mate discover that they have been blessed with twins. Desperate to save the members of his pack, Alpha Jay calls in a strange healer to help. Wanderer. Seeker. Daisy. Her strange names carry with her as she arrives at Jay's pack. But the moon's fate has many other plans in store for Jay as the healer comes in and shakes the very foundation of his world. Meeting his moon blessed mate through such unusual circumstances, Alpha Jay fights his way through his own consuming past as the future collides with him. As he struggles with the darkness that has been growing inside within his wolf. highest rank #1 in werewolf highest rank #1 romance Cover art by @Orfeo_Kearn Copyright: ©Joy (world_joy_) All rights reserved

[COMPLETED]✔ The Blood Magic Series |Book 3| 2017 Fiction Award Winner for Best Series. ⁃⁃⁃❖⁃⁃⁃ Orion has silently sat in the shadows, watching the centuries go by as he built an underground society that has kept hunters safe. The hunters had to relinquish their freedom above ground in order to keep them safe, that is why many did not follow him. Their deaths were imminent. Left to die in 1865 at the hands of Enos and Locaine, Orion was the first hybrid born of two hunters, solidifying the fact that their race could go on without the purebloods. After discovering that his ranger, Enock, had his plans foiled in killing a pureblood with blood magic, Orion learns that her name is Evicka and she is the daughter of Locaine. He wonders how she possesses the trait of hunters. He believes hunters and vampires can coexist, only once every last pureblood has been eliminated. Orion's goal; to speak with Evicka and learn everything he can about her. If they cannot come to terms, he has no problem killing the daughter of his enemy. Can the hunters and vampires coexist? Or will Orion raise the hunters from underground, taking back the Earth for the humans and killing Locaine for leaving him to die? ⁃⁃⁃❖⁃⁃⁃ Highest Rankings: #18 in Vampire Published on Amazon under K. A. Young. Ebook: $2.99 Paperback: $7.00 Patreon Downloadable PDF - Pack Tracker Tier: $5.00

"Light up my darkness," he murmured against her bare flesh. His fingers trailed up her arm, leaving a blazing fire beneath them. His lips pressed softly against her shoulder and her eyes fluttered closed, accepting his touch. "Let go and I'll take away all of the pain." She desperately wanted to free herself from the torture of the heat, of the shift, of the sadness, but she pushed his firm chest away from her. She yearned to finally fulfill her place among the divine. She desired to guide and protect the species. She wished to eliminate the Challengers. The longer she endured the pain, the more power she would attain to help her fulfill her responsibilities. To the men who watched her ascend, it looked as if she was interacting with thin air, but she knew he was there with her. She smiled softly at him, caressing his cheek. "My Darkness, let the pain fester within me. I crave it." * The Betrayal is a part of The Marking Trilogy and cannot be read as a stand-alone book. The Marking must be read first.* Cover by @Finding_Bria

[Book 4 of the Carter Brother series *can be read separately* ]. Rated-R Novel (only Rated R on some chapters). Adrian Carter is desperate and that doesn't happen very often but he can't help it. Seeing his brothers so happy with their soul-mates is making him envious and even more determined to find his own one-true-love. His biological clock is ticking and he needs to find her before he perceives time to run out. In fact, he's already planned everything and all that's left is her. But when she abruptly whirlwinds into his life one-day, Ade finds he's got more than he's bargained for and in the face of this spit-fire, all his plans are going down the drain. As fire fights fire, who will get burned and who will rise above the flames?

Lexie is not a warrior. In fact, Lexie is a painter. Her hands are always covered in paint. Never coming off. Always there. For Lexie, painting is an escape. An escape from her pain. She paints to avoid the darkness that is in her soul. She paints to avoid looking at the bleeding wound inside her chest. She paints. To forget. But then Lexie meets someone. Her mate. He also hides a dark anger inside him. An anger at everything and the world around him. When two souls collide, how do you fix each other? Atlas isn't looking for a mate. He's seen the effect of women within his life, and how cruel they can be. But then he meets someone. Someone he doesn't want to meet. A painter soul. And a warrior's heart. How will the two collide? ***Note this can be read as a stand-alone story. Moon Child can be found on world_joy_ bio page - feel free to read it to get other characters background story. Highest rank #1 in werewolf Thank you for reading Copyright: ©Joy (world_joy_) All rights reserved

[Billionaire / Fake Relationship] The last thing Livy expects is to fall for Logan, the hot but damaged billionaire who wants to help her pay for her dad's medical bills. The catch: they have to pretend to be married for one year! ***** How far would you go to save the only family you've ever known? Olivia, a lifelong optimist, has just graduated from college and is about to start a new job when she gets the earth-shattering news that her dad is ill. Scared, she drops everything and moves home to be with him. While walking on the beach one day, she runs into the most attractive man she has ever laid eyes on. The chemistry between them is sizzling from the first moment. Turns out, he is rich, successful, and battling the demons of a past relationship that has left him broken. But when he finds out that Livy needs help paying for her dad's medical bills, he jumps to her rescue. The catch: they have to pretend to be happily married for at least one year. Enough time for her to get the trust fund money her grandma left her so that she can pay him back, and enough time for him to change his bad boy reputation. But things get complicated when feelings and a burning desire enter the picture. [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by Holly Thurston

**Only the bonus chapter is paid, the rest of the story is (and will stay) free!!** Libby Marks-Whelan is decidedly not a lady. Kicked out of nearly every finishing school in the country, she's shocked when her demure, straight-laced cousin Ella invites her to the royal court as attendant during her debutante season. What Ella fails to realize, however, is that Libby's brand of mischief is exactly the kind of distraction Prince Andrew is looking for during his inaugural season as an eligible bachelor. Cover designed by Adam Budny