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Kingdom of Celosia: Hearts On Fire Amongst Cold Shadows by Crystal St. Clair
Genre: Adult Contemporary Romance
Princess Faith faces a life of duty to the Kingdom of
Celosia, but she dreams of freedom.
She is daily reminded of the burden she will one day carry
as she is educated to become a Queen...
The greatest of these reminders is a pendant given to her by
her mother which is imbued with magical properties. Matters of the heart also
hinder Faith from accepting her role. She is engaged to Prince Merek, but has
no feelings for him. She secretly longs for true love, despite the fact that
her rank keeps her from loving the man she desires most, the stable-hand
Justus. Feeling trapped by the arrangement, there is little she wouldn't
consider doing to stop the wedding, but it seems her fate is sealed.
On the borders of their land is the Dark Forest, a home for
many creatures with elemental powers of untold might. In that realm, the Troll
King plots to kill her father and the wolves in his court are on the hunt for
her, believing she is easy prey. But Faith is much stronger than they suspect,
and against all odds, she sets out to protect those she loves.
Armed with her bow, riding on the back of her trusted mount,
Ruby, she must confront the forces of evil that threaten to take everything
from her and conquer them in the name of Celosia.
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Not Just a Friend by Laura Jardine
Genre: Contemporary Romance
“If he asked for my number, there must be something wrong
with him.” Maya stuffed a bite of waffle into her mouth and waited for her
friends to contradict her.
“Don’t say that!” Kristy’s fork clattered to her plate.
“There is nothing wrong with you.”
“It’s not that I think I’m a bad person,” Maya said.
“But past experience has taught me that any guy who’s
interested in me is somehow defective.” Take her ex-fiancé, for example. Justin
was a police officer, but it later turned out he was also a drug dealer. And he
cheated on her. Yeah, Maya sure knew how to pick them. Her previous boyfriend
was fired for stealing from his employer.
Allison asked for a coffee refill then said, “You’ve just
had some bad luck. Don’t let it stop you.”
Maya sighed. “I don’t know.”
“Come on.” Kristy reached across the table and placed her
hand on top of Maya’s. “You’ve hardly dated in the past four years.”
And everyone she’d met for a first date was someone Kristy
had set her up with. Les and John and Anton. Although they were all nice
enough, Maya hadn’t been on a second date because none of them had interested
her. Not only was she unable to attract men who weren’t losers, but she'd never
liked the nice guys anyway. She sure was great at this dating business. At
least today she had lots of strong coffee and a big plate of banana waffles
with whipped cream to comfort her. Plus a couple of friends she’d known since
university. Brunch at the cheap diner near campus was something they still did
occasionally. Life wasn’t all bad.
“I’m telling you,” she said, “there’s got to be something
wrong with Tyler or he wouldn’t have asked for my number.”
“But you’re going out with him,” Kristy insisted. “When he
calls—”
"Hell, maybe he won’t even call. That wouldn’t surprise me.”
“I bet he’ll call,” Allison said.
Maya snorted. “What makes you so sure? You don’t need to say
stuff like that to make me feel better.” She drowned her last waffle in maple
syrup. “Either Tyler won’t call, or he’ll call and prove himself an asshole.
Hopefully sooner rather than later. But fine. If he calls, I’ll go out with him
just so I can say I did.”
“It’ll go well,” Kristy said. “You’ll see.”
“I need some of your happy pills.”
Maya wasn’t quite as hopeless as she acted. The Justin
debacle was a long time ago now, and she had a kernel of hope that maybe, just
maybe, it would all work out for her. Kristy and Allison were in happy
relationships, as were three of her younger siblings. And a guy had asked for
her number the other day. There was hope. Maybe just a little, but there was
some, wasn’t there? But she didn’t say that out loud, even to her closest
friends. That wasn’t who Maya Gregory was to the world. Not anymore.
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Fall Into Darkness by Valerie Twombly
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Ashley wandered through Eli’s bedroom, noting how bare it
was. Except for a queen four-poster bed, a dresser, and a fireplace, there was
nothing else here. She wondered how lonely he must have been to never make a
real home in one place. Eva had told her this small cabin in the north woods
was always his favorite and that was why she’d asked to be brought here.
After stoking a fire, she donned the short red nightie that
hardly covered her breasts and left her long legs exposed. There was no way he
could resist, not if he were half as needful as she, and something told her he
would be more so. She hoped he’d be so lust ridden he’d complete the bond.
Guilt filled her for what she was about to do, but she’d do anything to save
him. She’d worry about the aftermath later. The double-winged tattoo on the
back of her hip burned, and she’d learned it meant Eli was close by. Was he
watching from a distance? She stepped into the soft light of the fire, knowing
it cast a sensual glow across her skin. Yeah, she was pulling out all the
stops. A cool breeze whispered across her skin causing her nipples to tighten.
He was here.
She turned, and when her gaze fell upon him standing in the
shadows she gasped. His naked chest glistened in the firelight that reflected
across the room. A thick rope of muscles coiled just under his skin, and her
fingertips itched to touch him. Dark jeans, settled so low on his hips, she
could see the dusting of hair that led to his sweet spot. However, it was the
massive black wings that stretched out and brushed the ground that really drew
her attention. Her fallen angel was dark and sinister, yet every fiber of her
being said he’d never harm her. He’d come to her and she was determined to
finish what they’d started.
She was determined to save his soul. “Eli.” She took a step
closer.
He flashed a set of fangs. “I’ve never been weak in my
entire life, but with you… You are my weakness. Look at me Ashley, I’m one step
away from claiming you. Being mated to me will be a fate worse than death.”
Another step. Careful not to scare him off, she stopped
short of being able to reach out and touch him. Opening her mind, he could feel
everything she did should he choose to.
“You’re wrong. Walking away from you would be a worse fate.
You’ve touched something deep inside me. Fate brought us together because we
need each other.” She took the last step and placed her hands on his chest.
He stiffened beneath her touch. “I need you and I don’t mean
just the physical. I mean emotionally as well. You have my heart as well as my
body. All of me, it belongs to you.”
Jack the Stripper by Jennifer Macaire
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Taking a deep breath, she turned the page to the last
photograph. In that last picture she posed proudly on the front steps. She was
wearing her police uniform. It was her first morning on the job, and the last
photo her grandmother ever took. A small sigh escaped her and she touched the
picture lightly, remembering the crisp feel of the uniform and the almost
bursting-with-happiness feeling she’d had. A week later someone had pushed her
grandmother down and stolen her purse. When she fell, she’d broken her hip and
died not long after from what the doctors called “complications.”
Brianna knew all about complications. Her whole life was one
complication after another and it didn’t seem like things were going to change.
When Jack got back it was late. Brianna had sandwiches on
the coffee table. She’d left the albums out, and Jack took a sandwich and
poured over the photos, making her tell everyone’s stories.
But there was one more album. A folder, more like it, with
just some newspaper clippings in it. Brianna had hesitated for a long time
before getting this one out. Finally, when Jack had exhausted all the stories
about her grandmother and her camera, she slid the folder from beneath the
bottom album and pushed it across the coffee table toward him.
He took it and opened it on his lap. Then he looked up at
her, his expression unreadable.
Brianna crumpled her
napkin in her hands. “I know you say you have some holes in your memory. I
thought perhaps this would help.”
He fingered the clippings, then nodded, and held them up to
study. “My parents didn’t come to my funeral because they’re dead. But I
recognize my aunts and uncles, my grandparents even. That’s my cousin Joey and
his twin, Melanie.” He closed his eyes. “It’s like standing in the surf. The
waves come at me, and I can’t stop them.”
“I’m sorry.”
“No, it’s all right.” He ran his finger over the newspaper.
“Do you want to call anyone? Your cousins?”
He gave a laugh, but it sounded more like a sob. “No. They
were at my funeral. They won’t believe me, or they’ll be horrified … like you
were.”
Brianna was going to tell him she hadn’t been horror-struck,
but she couldn’t. She’d been so frightened she’d peed her pants. She’d never
been as shocked as that moment, when Jack had said his name and turned around.
If she’d had a weak heart, she’d be dead right now. As it was, she had somehow
accepted that Jack was back, but he wasn’t the same Jack she’d known.
She didn’t feel the same way about him. There was a
difference. She’d only known him for about a month. What would it be like for
his family, who had known and loved him all his life?
“They deserve to know though,” she said.
“I’ll be a monster to them,” said Jack. He smoothed the
newspaper clipping over his knee and a faint smile tugged his lips. “There was
a nice crowd there that day. And there you are, right next to Joey.”
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