Annalise Merryweather's life was no fairytale. In fact, it had dealt her several crushing blows in quick succession: a cheating fiancé who left her with mountains of debt, a former best friend who had stabbed her in the back, an apartment her landlord was going to kick her out of, and a job that was about to make a round of layoffs. With her life falling apart, she decides that a hike may do her some good. She spends hours in nature, hoping it will center her. And when she turns to return to the familiar path back to her camping grounds, she finds that she is completely and utterly lost. And the sole witness to a murder. Prince Marcellus Gaius Hanover and his two siblings had planned their father's assassination to a frighteningly detailed degree; the remote location of his mother's burial ground, the stronger wine to lower his guard, the poison in the wine to weaken him, the cursed blade that was impervious to his magic, and the dead Vampire they planned to blame it on. What they didn't expect was a female who would witness their high treason. And not just any female: a human. The kind that hasn't been seen in all of Soltarius in millennia. The solution was easy: kill her before she could alert anyone. But when his brother raised his blade to dispatch her, his body moved to deflect it, his magic binding her under his protection before he could stop it. They do not talk about what this means; they only know that they must conceal this female before she rains down hell upon them all. With a war raging, stability among their ranks crumbling, and his coronation as the new King incumbent, the last thing they need is for their myriad enemies to find out that the goddesses had mated the King of the Wysterian Fae to a lowly mortal.

Forced into marriage by duty and obligation, The Duke and Duchess of Rothbury parted ways a week after saying their vows under the explicit understanding that theirs was a marriage in name only. There would be no expectations of love, fidelity, or romance. The Duke hates the American Heiress who married him only for his title, completely unaffected by the senseless tragedy that had made their marriage necessary in the first place. When an illness forces him to retire to the country, he makes sure to choose the property where his wife wouldn't be. Except that she is, and she is still as insufferable as ever. The Duchess resents the man who killed her youthful dreams of love and abandoned her to live his bachelor life unencumbered. When she is jilted by her lover, and faced with inevitable ridicule, she decides to retire to her beloved estate in Cornwall, where she runs an orphanage. Never once does she expect to run into her cold, selfish, insufferable arse of a husband! Forced into each other's company by circumstance, the couple begin to unravel their individual prejudices. Resentment turns into respect and friendship. Respect and friendship soon turn into attraction and affection. Was love closer than either one of them could ever have imagined? And that begged the question; can the Duke win his wife's favor, or is it far too late to make their marriage a love match? Cover by MuniWilliams.

18+ *can be read standalone* (Not finished editing) THESE ARE NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE ON PURPOSE A steamy and hot historical romance. Miss Faye Brookes was destined for the perfect life. Young, beautiful and desired by many and friendly to all, which made her the diamond of the ton in her first season. However, when chronic illness strikes and she loses her engagent, she becomes a burden on her family and forgotten to the ton. Stuck at home, facing spinsterhood, the last thing she was expecting is to be offered marriage by the handsome and proper Duke Of Rodbury. Felix Emerson, Duke of Rodbury, wasn't supposed to be a Duke. As the bastard son of the late Duke of Rodbury, he was handed the title when his father passed with no other heirs. Despising his father and the title for how his father ruined his mothers life, Felix has sworn off ever falling in love and letting someone have control over him. The last thing he needed was to be caught in scandal with the unknown daughter of a lord, Miss Brookes. A marriage of convenience, the Duke gets a wife to keep the ton at bay, and Miss Brookes gets freedom from her family all too ready to be rid of her. Except the Duke wasn't prepared for the innate attraction towards his new wife, nor the strange secrets she hides from him. He refuses to fall in love and she doesn't feel worthy of it. But the powerful attraction between them won't be ignored and their marriage of convenience starts to become too real.

Book Six of Temporal Exploring 101. Catherine (Cathy) Hart, a girl of the 23rd century, has become enrolled as a student at an English boarding school for girls in the 1960s on her First Temporal Assignment. With her original one-year mission successfully completed, Cathy was unexpectedly offered an extension of her assignment by her supervisors in the 23rd century - an offer that Cathy readily accepted, seizing the opportunity to spend another year with her friends at St. Albert's. The objective of her new mission will be to investigate the discovery of a strange new spacetime portal into what appears to be either England in the Middle Ages or else a completely different, mysterious medieval world. Now that she has graduated from the Upper Fifth to the Lower Sixth, Cathy's life has not improved as much as she might have hoped. She still gets into trouble with teachers, prefects and the headmistress way too often and her budding relationship with playful, mischievous Mallory Carmichael becomes even more intense but at the same time not any easier to manage. As ancient artifacts are discovered and old legends come to life, what Cathy finds out about the world beyond the portal will challenge the young Temporal Explorer and her friends and make them question their most cherished beliefs. - The world of the early 1960s. A traditional English boarding school for girls, complete with tutors, prefects and disciplinary spankings. A bright genius girl, trapped in a world that has no use for her gifts. A playful, irreverent free spirit, struggling with the aftershocks of her beloved brother's death. A young visitor from the future, torn between the demands of her assigned task and what her heart tells her to do. The girls of the Lower Sixth. Romance, adventure and an improbable friendship.

For Jem Denham, life became serious the moment he laid eyes on Miss Cressie Martin. As the youngest of five children, he was used to being considered the cheeky brother who never had to take anything seriously. But love can change everything. After a terrible faux pas during the first meeting, Jem becomes determined to better himself so that he can be considered a genuine suitor for Cressie's hand. As the summer sun rises and the 1812 London Season returns in full swing, there will be more than one man seeking Cressie's favour, and more than one snake in the grass to be wary of. Danger lurks, intentions are hidden, and affairs begin as only one question can be asked. Can love really conquer all?

Abandoned by the man she thought loved her, Claire Denham is left with very few options as she faces the prospect of being disgraced for falling pregnant out of wedlock. In fact, she is left with one. Lord Jack Beresford, the younger son of the late Duke of Ashwood, and often considered "the spare" in comparison to his older brother, has long held a torch for the pretty Claire Denham. When fate throws them together, Jack extends a favour to Claire, and she takes it, turning the lives of their families upside down. As they navigate a marriage of convenience, jealousy, betrayal, old lovers, and the fear of being second best all pose dangerous threats to an already shaky relationship ...

Former nurse Beatrice is struggling with her mental health after a tragic accident, but a torrid relationship with empathetic Australian bartender Matt could be her path to healing... or her ultimate destruction. --- They were only meant to be a one night stand, but fate had other plans. Since the car accident that claimed her best friend's life, former nurse Beatrice Leighton has been spiralling into a black hole of reckless behaviour, sex, and alcohol. She is barely holding her life together; the stitches surrounding her broken heart fit to burst. With his own past traumas to deal with, Aussie barman, Matt Quinn, might be the only person who understands what she has been through-her beacon in the darkness. When their paths cross, Beatrice drops her defences and discovers a new love for life. But Matt is less than perfect, and his own dark secret has the potential to destroy her or finally set her free. *** Warning: rated MATURE for sexual content and strong language. + Descriptions of panic attacks, PTSD, grieving and death. ***

Entry in the 2026 Flabbergasting Flash-Fic Smackdown based another picture prompt from the wild minds of the challenge promotors.

For Chrissie Hill, turning thirty is enough of a nightmare. But to hit the big 30...and wake up married? To a man she'd never met or seen before that morning when she finds him on her couch. Race insists they have been married for two years...and he has the proof, but can she make herself believe him? Suffering from an unusual bout of amnesia, Chrissie slowly comes to accept this man in her life -- and the life she didn't know she lived. Love, marriage and happiness had never been sweeter for two people. However, true love doesn't just drop out of her dreams onto her couch...she must go a little crazy first.

After losing his twin brother in a vicious bear attack, Joe Chapman wants nothing to do with the world or with God. Joe is thrust through time where he rescues Grace and her family from freezing to death on a mountainside. As he concentrates on saving Grace, she may just become HIS saving grace.