Trixie Lyal stumbles upon the scoop of a lifetime when her move to a new town takes a detour into the paranormal world of Apple Hollow. She winds up at the local diner where she meets a handsome local by the name of Orion. Cupid stings her heart but not the headlines as strange happenings stir her curiosity.Trixie Lyal stumbles upon the scoop of a lifetime when her move to a new town takes a detour into the paranormal world of Apple Hollow. She winds up at the local diner where she meets a handsome local by the name of Orion. Cupid stings her heart but not the headlines as strange happenings stir her curiosity.A quick investigation leads to a long road where she becomes her own headline, and a werewolf. Mob-rule forces her to join the ranks of the town’s residents and her babysitter turns out to be her own handsome Orion. Unfortunately for him, she has plans to escape her scoop and fly the coop. To do that, though, she’ll have to survive the coming wild days of were-people, and her own insatiable lust for a certain devilishly handsome wolf.

Everyone wants to be someone in college. From the hoop dreamers, to those calling themselves musicians, even down to the double majors, they all try to impress someone. Everyone wants to be someone, but everyone's not like them. Them? They were different. The moonlight turned them into something else. They thought they were the only ones.That was until they met them...Everyone wants to be someone in college. From the hoop dreamers, to those calling themselves musicians, even down to the double majors, they all try to impress someone. Everyone wants to be someone, but everyone's not like them. Them? They were different. The moonlight turned them into something else. They thought they were the only ones.That was until they met them. Omega Omega Psi Fraternity Incorporated. The most pompous, arrogant, chauvinist, most hated group of Alphas on campus. Either you tried to become one, or you accepted you would never measure up. And them? They wanted to be them. They wanted to be Alphas. The only problem? There can only be one in every pack...

Botany professor CB Oldenberger is approaching age 50 and he’s not happy about it. He even considers getting a facelift. Join CB in a slightly madcap escapade that includes organized crime, a beautiful spy, the Chinese triad, and a series of events that remind him that what is important is not so much how you look, but how you live.This book could be subtitled a “A Male Midlife Crisis Transformational Journey Romantic Action Adventure.” It features a college professor who isn’t keen on getting older. The young, energetic people that populate the university remind him daily of how quickly life is passing, and how rapidly he seems to be approaching old age. He even considers getting a facelift. As he puts it, “Why not look as young as you feel!” Fortunately, he realizes that cosmetic surgery is not the answer, and looks to other alternatives. His search leads him to believe that what is missing in his life is adventure, novelty, and excitement--something he intends to remedy by taking a trip to Europe. As soon as he steps foot on the plane, the action picks up and continues to increase until he finds that adventure often comes with price. It can cost you your life. Join Professor CB Oldenberger as he learns one of life’s most important lessons: it isn’t how you look, it is how you live

There are three things the shy, awkward Oddily knows for sure.She would rather be anyone other than herself…She wants to fit in at school…And strange things are happening to her.For Oddily, she tries to keep an open mind…But what she discovers is too unbelievable to think about…Too magical to consider, and too dangerous to ignore.Oddily becomes trapped in an adventure like no other.Lily isn't exactly whiter than white, even if that's what she wants the world to think of her. Under her pretty shop girl exterior, there's a darkness. A side that comes alive when she does her 'real' job – working as a trapper for a group of professional thieves. Her job is to hunt millionaires and billionaires. To lure them back to their mansions and scout the place once they're knocked out. It's something she's good at, something she enjoys. All until her latest job goes wrong, a man gets killed, and her life begins to turn on its head. Duke wears a mask during the day, one he takes off at night. His world isn't the spreadsheets and suits and meetings that he's forced to endure. It's the world after dark he truly inhabits. A world of alcohol and women and fighting. A world he enters in order to rebel. When he meets Lily after his latest scrap outside a nightclub, he thinks nothing of it. When he sees her the next day working in a local shop, he begins to get interested. And when she comes to him for help, he feels obliged to say yes. Soon, however, their lives will intertwine even more than either of them know. DECEIT is a new adult romance series by L.A Shorter, told from the double perspective of Lily and Duke. It will be told through several parts, each the length of a novella. Part 1 is roughly 22,000 words.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: MUST READ BLACK PYRAMID BEFORE READING THE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL. Kiros wasn't sure why he accepted the invitation to Myaten's Halloween party. No, that part's a lie. Deep down he knew why. It was the one night out of the year when he could be somebody different. Some one that people wouldn't sneer, point and laugh at. He could pretend to be human... A tale within the Ancient BreedsAUTHOR'S NOTE: MUST READ BLACK PYRAMID BEFORE READING THE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL.Kiros wasn't sure why he accepted the invitation to Myaten's Halloween party. No, that part's a lie. Deep down he knew why. It was the one night out of the year when he could be somebody different. Some one that people wouldn't sneer, point and laugh at. He could pretend to be human... A special story that lives within the realms of Ancient Breeds. Follows Black Pyramid, Sands of Time (WIP) and continues in, Serpent's Revenge. Enjoy!

Liliana Dapprima is living in a world where everything and everyone is not what it seems. What will happen when tragedy strikes and secrets are revealed?Liliana Dapprima was living her life exactly how she planned. She had an amazing job as an interior designer and lived with her best friend, Violet, in Toronto. But, everything changes when her father forces her to move to New Jersey to re-design his businesses in New York City. Upon her arrival in New Jersey she finds out she must live with her old flame, Emilio Amante. This was the man that completely smashed her heart from which she never recovered. Now she must get along with Emilio while trying to date a new guy in her life, Lucas. And to make things more complicated Emilio is Lucas’s boss. Dealing with a love triangle is hard enough on Lily, but now she also must deal with secrets from her family. She is constantly lied to about certain events and when she gets attacked multiple times by a rival family, she wants answers and will go to any extent to get them.

Only when the darkness falls can you see the light of the stars. For thousands of years, the scribes and singers of the Irin race have existed to protect humanity and guard the gifts of the Forgiven. They have lived in the shadows. They have kept their secrets. But the Irin aren’t the only race with secrets. Ava and Malachi have found each other, but wounds as deep as theirs don’t heal overnight. While the Irin world struggles to correct the power imbalance left by the Rending of the Irina, Malachi and Ava struggle to connect their past with their present. The Fallen may scheme, but Ava has found her power and refuses to be an angel’s pawn. And while Malachi may have forgotten his history, the scribe’s relentless search for answers leads both him and his mate to the heart of the Irin power structure in Vienna, where knowledge is guarded more closely than gold and those with power will do anything to keep it. Malachi and Ava have survived the darkness, but will they ever discover its secrets? A powerful cabal of the Fallen may hold the answers, but to surrender them, it wants the Irin race to finally face their enemies. Both those coming from the outside, and those raging within. THE SECRET is the third book in the contemporary fantasy series, the Irin Chronicles, and the conclusion of Ava and Malachi’s journey.

Ryan Kendall is broken. He understands pain. He knows the hand of violence and the ache of loss. He knows what it means to fail those who need you. Being broken doesn't stop him wanting the one thing he can't have; Finlay Tanner. Her smile is sweet and her future bright. She's the girl he grew up with, the girl he loves, the girl he protects from the world, and from himself. At nineteen, Ryan leaves to join the Australian Army. After years of training he becomes an elite SAS soldier and deploys to the Afghanistan war. His patrol undertakes the most dangerous missions a soldier can face. But no matter how far he runs, or how hard he fights, his need for Finlay won't let go. Returning home after six years, one look is all it takes to know he can't live without her. But sometimes love isn't enough to heal what hurts. Sometimes people like him can't be fixed, and sometimes people like Finlay deserve more than what's left. This is a story about war and the cost of sacrifice. Where bonds are formed, and friendships found. Where those who are strong, fall hard. Where love is let go, heartache is born, and heroes are made. Where one man learns that the hardest fight of all, is the fight to save himself. This book is recommended for 18+ due to adult language and themes. Please note: K McCarthy is an Australian author and Australian spelling, language and slang has been used in this book.

There's something hidden in the Maze. Seventeen-year-old Imogen has never forgotten the last words her father said to her seven years ago, before the blazing fire that consumed him, her mother, and the gardens of her family's English country manor. Haunted by her parents' deaths, Imogen moves to New York City with her new guardians. But when a letter arrives with the news of her cousin's untimely death, revealing that Imogen is now the only heir left to run the estate, she returns to England and warily accepts her role as duchess. All is not as it seems at Rockford, and Imogen quickly learns that dark secrets lurk behind the mansion's aristocratic exterior, hinting that the spate of deaths in her family were no accident. And at the center of the mystery is Imogen herself--and Sebastian, the childhood friend she has secretly loved for years. Just what has Imogen walked into?

A blockbuster tale from the 1960s--available again after an absence of 15 years--"The Love Machine" tells the story of TV-network titan Robin Stone, "around whom women flutter like so many moths . . . and his rise and fall as he makes the international sex scene, drinks unlimited quantities, and checks out the latest Nielsens" (Newsweek).

Life can be cruel, but help can come from unexpected places, at the most surprising times. We learn the most from the things that go wrong in life.Bacoria is a land where the gift of magick still lives, where savage monsters stalk the night and hunger for human flesh, and where in death, all men vanish into oblivion.Luca knows the darkness of Bacoria well. For as long as he can remember, he has traveled the untamed corners of the land with his father, Lodin. Endlessly fleeing from vague shadows of the past, Luca is eager for answers his father will not give.His questions are answered in the form of faceless men who do not speak, who come with fire and steel upon the small village Luca and his father are staying in. They are led by a powerful man with a single red eye, with some connection to Lodin's past, and the implication that this is who Lodin has been running from.Helpless, Luca is able only to watch as his father is slain before him.The sole survivor of the massacre, Luca manages to escape the mysterious man and his silent army. He finds himself in an abandoned town very far away, where a strange girl is able to save him from a mortal injury with a spell that links his soul to hers.Now bound to this girl, Luca sets out on a journey, following the few instructions his father left for him. With the ultimate goal of revenge in his heart, and his father's blade in his hand, Luca will uncover the mysteries of his father's legacy, while building his own.

This is a romance short story. When Pete loses his job as a loan manager at the bank, he starts spending all of his time at wife Shannon's grocery store. He spends his time looking over her shoulder and redoing all of her work as soon as she finishes it. Can their marriage survive under new management?This is a romance short story. When Pete is laid off from his job as a loan manager at the bank, he starts spending all of his time at wife Shannon's grocery store. Initially, he spends his time looking over her shoulder and redoing all of her work as soon as she finishes it. Eventually, he takes over the management of Shannon's store. He does all the ordering and interaction with the customers. Soon, there's nothing left for Shannon to do at her own store.Can their marriage survive under new management?

If 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' met 'Inception' in the shadow of Norwich Cathedral the result would be 'In Dreams' by James Eddy...If 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' met 'Inception' in the shadow of Norwich Cathedral the result would be 'In Dreams' by James Eddy...When Oliver Bell meets a beautiful young woman one night in his dreams, he literally can’t get her out of his mind. Unfortunately, he also can’t tell if she’s anything more than just a wonderful figment of his imagination. It’s only when she starts leaving him clues for how to find her in the real world that Oliver’s sense of fantasy and reality begin to blur into something strange and new. The journey that follows takes Oliver everywhere he can imagine and beyond; across the country to a city he doesn’t know, to things from his terrible past he would rather forget; over concrete and bluebells and snow and ice; all leading him to the truth that love can exist in dreams.