Savage appetites and opulent vices are a way of life in Crescent City, a metropolis split among werewolves and humans. As one of its most beautiful socialites, Cora Marshall thrives on scandals and the attention they bring. Yet even she is stunned by her father's murder... and by becoming the prime suspect for it. Determined to prove her innocence, Cora hires Detective Sam Hayes, an irresistibly handsome werewolf with as many secrets to his name as she has to hers. To uncover the truth, they must trust each other with everything--especially now that the real killer hunts them throughout the city. *A WINNER OF THE 2023 ALPHA AWARDS*

Ava has had a crush on Kane, her best friend's brother, since the second year of high school. Now that she is officially an adult can she act on it? Or will she chicken out? An erotic short story

The steamy chapters from all of my books. Cover by: icedcoffe

❀ FEATURED ON WATTPAD'S EDITORS' PICKS LIST ❀ [The Closer is intended for readers with an appetite for the dark and sexy. Read at your own discretion.] "What about that no fucking colleagues policy, huh? The one you so haughtily rubbed in my face?" The way to wound my heart is through my pride. The bastard knew that. But the look in Hans' eyes told me this wasn't a game to get me all riled up. "If your office ethics involve you getting into Tim's pants, then why don't I get to play too?" His hands flew down to my legs, tickling the bare skin on my legs and shocking me into stillness when I felt him pull up the corners of my dress till they were bunched up at my waist. "You can't," I breathlessly whispered as he forced my legs apart. One hand sauntered up to my neck, resting at my collarbone while the other snaked between my legs, parting my thighs until he had all of me resting at the tip of his fingers. "Is this cause of him," he growled, his finger dipping into my heat just slightly, circling the entrance, "or me?" He sounded so needing, so deprived. It turned me on knowing that I was the one making him feel this way, that despite being the one thrown up against a wall, I had the ultimate power over this man. "It's...It's you." I gulped and met his eyes. "It's all you." ● What happens when an unstoppable, hard-hitting business woman meets an unmovable, chauvinist, and utterly exhausting heir to a multi-million empire? Disaster, of course. For Tris, Hans Castellan proves to be more than a challenge of the heart and of the body. For Hans, Tris Henderson turns out to be a woman worth fighting for, despite a rocky start and more than a few broken hearts. Then again, no one said closing this deal would be easy. ● © Beatrice Manuel, All Rights Reserved

**COMPLETED** **POSTED EXCLUSIVELY ON DREAME & FICFUN** **If you want to read the book for free, download the app called DREAME as the chapters are slowly getting unlocked! Instructions in the chapter 'BPL Chapters FREE Unlock'** When a love story starts, does it ever end? Anna Right, a simple town girl with a chaotic past and a small heart. Becoming a caretaker of a 29 year old Billionaire, with the same troubled past and personality problems, along with anger management issues, Anna has to face the reality which is harshly ever kind to her. Their pasts collide, interests are born and a love affair between the two begins, only to be torn apart by the cruelness that doomed them with their parents. For Elijah, who had always gotten his way, would it be easy when the love of his life is taken away from him and he must reach the goal before the criminal does? Follow their story of lies, betrayal and undying love that still blooms when blood is spilled and the never-ending darkness looms over their future. ALL COPYRIGHTS RESERVED! -This book is owned by ME (Ellie) -I hold all the copyright documentation. -DO NOT PLAGIARIZE and no reproduction of this book or the title is allowed.

"You're the only thing that I have ever truly loved," he states, leaning in closer. I try to scoot away, but he corners me on the bed, placing his body over mine. "Get off me!" I exclaim, angrily. "I'm not who you think I am. That can't be possible." His face comes closer to mine as he pins my wrists to the bed. "It is possible. I loved you for three, short, human years, and then you left me. Now that I have you back, though, I will never let that happen again." ***** Salem's earliest memories were of her parents preforming odd rituals. She never really understood anything they said in them, but she would always sit in the middle of the big, circled, star and giggle. At age 10, both of her parents died. She was thrown into foster care. Without them around to explain to her exactly what the rituals meant, Salem was never told that she was a sacrifice to a demon king in exchange for all the money they could ever ask for. On her 20th birthday, at the stroke of midnight, the demon king finally comes for her. She is completely unaware of the situation, and she begins to try her best at resisting his advances, but he is very possessive, very persuasive, and very determined to claim what is rightfully his.

[A Wattpad Featured Story - April/May 2018] ❝ Paper heart, steel heart - it doesn't matter. They're both still hearts at the end of the day, and they're both still capable of love. ❞ [The Fragility of the Heart: Book 1] [extended summary inside] Copyright © 2016. All Rights Reserved.

When Mollie starts to prefer the dreams she's having to the painful reality of life, she's forced to choose between embracing a fantasy or the man she loves. ***** Since she was seven, Mollie Cutright has known two truths: she loves Howard Flynn and her dreams are the most magical part of her life. Each day she suffers at the hands of her abusive parents, but each night she is surrounded by a loving family who call her by a different name. Growing up in 1930's Virginia, no one has patience for a girl who might be mad, so Mollie strives to keep her dreams (and how often they intrude on her reality) a secret. But when her secret comes out, Mollie is sent to an asylum, though not before she and Howard are secretly engaged. It is at the asylum she discovers the dreams are echoes of her past lives. She's an immortal, if she makes a journey to claim her heritage. The problem is, if she continues down this path, she can never see Howard, the love of her life, again. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

*R-RATED *This will be a mature romance with adult themes including language, sex and general themes* When Steph goes on her best friend's hen night she meet's the groom's best man, Jon and while she finds him attractive she also finds him offensive, rude and judgemental. When he offers to escort her home at the end of the night she is only expecting a lift home or a shared cab, no more. The following morning she wakes in a strange bed unable to remember how she got there or what she might of done. She is further startled to find it's Jon's bed and unfortunately he is just as judgemental as she remembered. After exchanging angry words Steph refocuses on work and her friend's wedding assuming after their marriage she won't ever have to see Jon again. With revelations about his marital status revealed Steph becomes even more determined to avoid him, but Jon has different plans for them both after they each begin to see each other in a different light at the wedding and serendipity, well that has its own plan. With the offer of a relationship, an affair on the table what will Steph do? Her head is telling her to run and never look back, but her heart, well that might want something quite different.

Every half century in a small little town hidden in the woods, a beast comes out from the forest to claim his bride on the night of an eclipse. The people of call this phenomenon "the taking". This beast is said to be very dangerous. It roams door to door searching for the woman whose being calls to his animal instincts. He will kill, mutilate and destroy everything in his path until he finds his bride. In the past, the townsmen have tried to hunt the creature and kill him before they can steal one of their marriageable daughters, but the beast does not hunt alone. He has followers among the shadows to make sure his goal is accomplished. Once he finds his bride, he carries her back to the forest where she is never seen or heard from again. Celeste believes this so-called "legend" is just some scary fairytale her grandmother made up to scare her. But was she ever wrong when a pair of moonlit eyes stared straight at her through her bedroom window and entered her room. Next thing she knew, she was being carried out the house and into the woods by a half-naked man who called her his. Who would have thought? Grandma wasn't crazy after all. Young Adult novel. Paranormal/Comedy-Romance @2014