"I want to defile you, destroy you, corrupt you in the most sinfully beautiful way. Break you until you're completely mine." "And then?" "Then I'll piece you back together, of course." He took another step in her direction, closing the distance between them. "Love can be holy." He said but the look in his eyes promised anything but. "It can be kind and gentle. It can be the flutter inside your chest when you feel someone touch you, the blush staining your cheeks when someone brushes his knuckles over them." To prove his point further, he took his knuckles and brushed them over her sharp jawline, all the way to her lightly dusted cheeks and sharp cheekbones. "However, love can also be vile. Dark and all-consuming. The kind of love that makes you want to fall to your knees and let it destroy you." He let his palm rest on her soft skin and felt the warmth she provided so carelessly travel to him. "That's all I can offer you." Nathaniel Russ is a man devoid of passion. Cold, stern, a tragedy with skin. A wreckage just seconds before the crash. A writer. He spends countless hours teaching philosophy at the local university, waiting for something to make the words crawl out of him with the same vigorous appetite they once did. And he finds it, at the most unexpected moment. Guinevere Westbrook is a woman haunted by the sins of her past. And she just happens to be the muse he had been waiting for, even though she refuses to accept it. So, he orchestrates a game meant for two. A game. That's all it was. Until it wasn't. Adult themes, proceed with caution. All images belong to their respective owners. Source: Pinterest.

************************************************************************************** An outcast rogue must break a curse put on his fate, or die on his nineteenth birthday. To survive, he'll need the sword of a maiden, the aid of an immortal, and the power of forbidden magic that could cost him the only girl he ever loved. ************************************************************************************ *** THE JACK OF SOULS won a Silver IPPY this year! *** THE JACK OF SOULS won 1st place in the PNWA Competition in Fantasy! * *** THE JACK OF SOULS won 1st place in the Southwest Writers competition! * *** A "Featured Book" on Wattpad! * *** Now a "Staff Pick" on Kickstarter! * *** Available on Amazon in paper, hardback, and ebook ! * *** My contract with Kindle Select won't allow me to post more than 3 chapters here, but... *** Sign up for my newsletter on stephenmerlino.com for alerts when it's free on Amazon! * MY INSPIRATION I wrote this out of pure love of trickster rogues; I love the wit over brawn motif -- Odysseus over Achilles, Raven over Eagle -- so I like to play with it in my stories. In JOS I set the rogue and con-artist Harric against a foil of warriors in a land threatened by magic and civil war. Whenever possible I turn familiar tropes on their heads: instead of a handsome young Lancelot, I cast a broken-down ex-champion addicted to pain-killing herbs; instead of a dashing Squire Brian, the old knight reluctantly takes an ambitious young woman as squire. Similarly, I re-imagine the standard medieval milieu by infusing aspects of two of my favorite historical periods, Elizabethan England, and The American Frontier. Both eras boast a kind of nationalistic arrogance that borders on hubris, and a magnificent spirit of resourcefulness and re-invention that is fun to play with. SERIES The Jack of Souls is first in a series. I am posting parts of the sequel here now (The Knave of Souls), to help me refine the story.

What happens after the end of an isekai novel, when the heroine's finished the job she'd been summoned for? Sera, was just an timid, ordinary uni student. After losing her life to a runaway truck, she'd found herself summoned to a savage world, where traces of magic have left its mark, and military power is king. There, she was a Queen, bound by contract to save the war-ravaged nation of Thornmere. This is the story after the victory, after she was returned to her original world. What happened to the young Prince she'd fallen in love with and their child she'd left behind? 5 years after her departure, she'll find out how greatly the Prince- now a brutal warrior feared as the Red King, and his fiercely burning, obsessive love for her, still burned. Obsessed Yandere King x Sweet Uni Student ----- "You can't leave me again!" He roars, eyes flashing. For a moment, Sera feels like she sees the old Lucien. Only for one moment, he looks like he's crying. But she doubts herself. Strong, kingly Lucien would never cry. That's the last thought in her mind, and even that slips away. His lips clash against hers furiously. Over and over, he presses his dry lips against hers, against her softness. Sera barely has any moment to gasp for air as he continues to ravage her mouth. She moans as his hot tongue forces itself past her lips. His emotions flood over her, his body showing her how desperately it was raging to possess her. ----- Be forewarned. There is smut. This is an original wattpad story written by a lover of chinese, japanese, and korean LN and manga/manhwa. Highest Rank: #1 in Obsessive, #4 femalemaincharacter, #1 medieval, #1 yandereml, #31 original, #1 timeskip, #1 secondchance, #2 isekai, #1 josei

Amazing cover made by: Geksxx Talia grew up without trusting anyone but herself to live. With no father figure to look up to and a clinically depressed mother who keeps on betraying her, Talia crawls her way to the top of the social chain to survive. But one drunken night, she meets her terrible end. Just like that, Talia loses all she worked hard for, or so she thought. When she wakes up, she becomes a duke's eldest daughter in a medieval era where alliances and conspiracies dictate a noble's future and where love is a luxury that will lead anyone to ruin. No matter how twisted the world she is pushed into, Talia is determined to live long. She realizes that she is given a second chance to live - or not. Reality slaps her hard when she learns that she is now inside the body of a sixteen-year-old villain character of the Netflix series that she binge-watched, "Thorny Crown"! Talia, who is now the infamous Lady Victoria, entered a popular yet twisted Netflix series two years before the plot started. And in that plot, the character of Lady Victoria is meant to die like cannon fodder for the female lead! Talia refuses to die again. And this time, she is going to extend her helping hand to another side character, the second prince of the story, Prince Cory. She decides to be the queen and defy the plot called destiny with the king of her choosing. In an era of deceit and conspiracies, will she be able to keep her head as she walks the thorny path of a villain? With her head on the line, will she be able to control her blooming feelings for the pawn that she has chosen?

Adailia de Perinius, the prettiest and bitchiest person of the novel, 'A Lovely Girl' and the main villainess. Being madly in love with the male protagonist, the Crown Prince, she becomes super possessive and did not let any woman come near him. But as in any novel, the male protagonist, Raashid, falls in love with Seanna, the female protagonist and Adailia's 'minion' who was bullied everyday. But Adailia being Adailia, tries to kill her and take Prince all for herself. Finally being tired of this daily torture, the Crown prince, when was announced the Emperor on his 19 th birthday, altered some laws that enabled him to executed Adailia. A befitting end for the villainess. But there's a slight ... wait.... a whole lotta big problem. Cause somehow, I, Choi Haeun, has become Adailia de Perinius. But well, I know how it ends so there's no way I'm gonna die. I just need to get in the Prince's good books and move out of their way. That's gonna be easy. But the luck wasn't with me and the story took some awkward turns. But well, if luck was with me I wouldn't have become Adailia in the first place, would I? *Cover photo not mine* A/N: This is my original work and not a translation of any novel

Hyejin gets sucked into her own book she has written. There she became the villainess of her book who is destined to die in the hands of her own exclusive butler. Unable to escape her new life, she embraces it and decided to change her fate that she wrote, in hopes she won't get killed by her butler. It doesn't matter if her life becomes tough or messy as long as she's alive, she doesn't mind! . . . . . "Milady do you favour me or his highness more?" "Of course you." "Then me or your brother?" "...You?" "Am I your favourite, milady?" "...." Why is her butler suddenly acting this way? All she did was stop abusing him. PSA: there are some swear words in this book This is my own story! I did not copy from anyone. The characters are my own that I made as well. On Webnovel, Inkitt and Tapas as well. [To be edited!] Highest ranking: #1 Butler #1 Original characters #1 Isekai #1 Anotherworld #1 Comedy #2 Female Protagonist #1 Reincarnation #1 Medieval #3 Author #2 Shoujo #7 Romance #23 Original #54 Slowburn #704 Love

19 year old Ray gets abused by her foster parents that don't want anything to do with her. She's in her fourth year of university planning to become a doctor. Ray is extremely smart, known for her kindness and most of all, she's very shy. 21 year old Ace is a quiet and dangerous gangleader. He's never been seen with friends, smiling, or even talking. He's majoring in business, but everyone knows about his most known gang in the country, therefor he is feared by everyone. What happens when Ray bumps into a walking wall named Ace King in her vulnerable state? What causes Ace to start questioning this 19 year old?

[COMPLETED] (BOOK I IN THE DREAM SERIES) Dani Deleon has a problem. With a single touch, she can see people's nightmares. When she starts to see the nightmares of a sadistic serial killer known as The Maestro...everyone around her becomes a possible suspect. With the help of Detective Jax Michaels, will Dani be able to stop this symphony of murder? Or will this unlikely duo fall victim to the very madman they're chasing? ----- THE DREAM SERIES: Book One: Dream Catcher Book Two: Dreamscape Book Three: Dream Hunter Book Four: Dream Phantom