"𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞." ❤︎︎ Season 1－9 {complete} ❤︎︎ OC! Liliana Grace Rivera x Mark Sloan. 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐲.

𝚃𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍~'𝚁𝚎𝚊𝚕, 𝚑𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙰𝚝 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚎, 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚎 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎: 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚎𝚎𝚕 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚗, 𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚍, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚍. 𝙰𝚟𝚊𝚗𝚒 𝙻𝚊𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚎'𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚜𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚢, 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎 𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚏𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚊𝚝 𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎. 𝙵𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚛𝚞𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚐𝚑, 𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚏𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚎'𝚜 𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚂𝚊𝚖 𝚄𝚕𝚎𝚢- 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚋𝚘𝚢 𝚠𝚑𝚘'𝚍 𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍- 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚜 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎, 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚗. 𝚃𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚞𝚗𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚜𝚎𝚎𝚖𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚔𝚎𝚎𝚙 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚝𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛.

He was in pain. I helped him break the curse. A modern twist on Beauty and the Beast.

Winter, 1917. Dorothy never really thought that war would take her older brother, but like so many others before him, Ian enlisted and departed Canada in khaki, leaving Dorothy to care for the youngest Gaston, Charlie. The return of her employer's son eats away at Dorothy: why should he, the rich man's son, the spoiled brat, be back home sleeping in his bed while her brother sleeps in the muck somewhere in France or Belgium? Robbie Monroe isn't the brat who ran off for a great adventure. Nearly deaf in one ear and deeply lonely, he is a man struggling to put his life back together after his time "over there," and Dorothy seems to be the only one he can talk to. She doesn't want to trust him but she can't help it, and Dorothy soon finds herself with something she didn't realize she desperately needed: a friend. Before the war's end, fate has one final reminder for Dorothy that happy endings don't always happen in real life, no matter how much she tells herself they can. Set in in the weeks before the 1917 Halifax Explosion, Shadows May Fall is a non-traditional World War I romance.

***Unedited*** A companion story to my novel Shadows May Fall. *Folks who have been reading along - you may have noticed that some of the parts have been unpublished (the ones set in 1904 and 1908.) The reason for this is that while I really enjoyed delving into the past with these characters and fleshing out Daniel and Lillian, they weren't really adding anything and coming up with a third one to fill the gap was just that -- filling the gap. I'll post them over at my website once this story is complete.

As Lord Adam Beresford left Ashwood, Hertfordshire for the training and education of a gentleman, he promised to return and marry his childhood best friend, and the only girl he could see himself marrying, Grace Denham. Neither of them foresaw that it would be twelve years until they would meet again. A lot has changed in that time, and their lives are vastly different. Adam became a gentleman, and everything that the heir to a Dukedom ought to be. Grace remained in Ashwood and became a housemaid to support her family. But as their lives intertwine once more, their childhood promise bubbles to the surface, throwing their lives, the lives of their families, and the village of Ashwood into chaos.

During World War I, Captain Everett Monterose, a disillusioned schoolteacher with a haunted past from Malad, Idaho, wants a chance at happiness instead of continually being dished out of misery. But after he's severely wounded and temporarily blinded in battle, he's shipped back to America. He faces living the rest of his life crippled - until he meets Elyria Ormond, a blind woman volunteering at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington DC, offering compassion to soldiers on their deathbeds. Suddenly, their lives are forever changed, and dreams of true love they'd long since given up on are within reach. But Everett soon learns happiness is not a commodity to barter for with good deeds, and there is no escape from the many forms of misery.

France, 1937. It only takes a single snowstorm for Lina Fontaine's family to fall apart. When an accident in the snow kills her brother and renders her speechless, Lina and her family move to Marseilles, France in order to escape the painful memories. Disillusioned and disgusted with her new reality, Lina yearns to hide away from the world. Yet when her father abandons them and threatens to take her beloved sister with him, Lina realizes she can no longer ignore her own struggles. It is only when Lina meets Luka Fuhrmann, a German-Jewish pianist with a mysterious past, that she begins to have hope again. At the same bookstore she encounters him, she receives a book with a letter tucked between the pages, written by a father pleading for help to find his missing daughter. When she learns there is a monetary reward, Lina realizes this may be the key to saving her own family. Yet as Lina becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl and spends more and more time with Luka, she finds her frequent absences may only be destroying her crumbling family further. And when Lina's plan ends up endangering her sister as well as Luka, Lina is forced to decipher what is most important: her family, the boy she loves, or her own desires.

To the world he was a beast but for her he would do anything. He could have the world but all he wanted was her. They say the things we want most are the things we can't have. For she was so afraid of him that even the thought of him could have her running for the hills. Little did she know that she was the only one who didn't have to be afraid of him. Credits for the cover go to @Chatachino for the amazing cover.

//She was afraid of him, because he was strong and mysterious. He was afraid of her, because she was beautiful and quiet. All they needed was a push.//