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I used to eat rocks as a child. The family doctor diagnosed me with pica, dooming me to years of intensive therapy and extensive dentistry work. It wouldn’t be until much later that I would understand the all-consuming, insatiable craving that spurred me to eat a variety of rocks and minerals wasn’t a mental disorder, but an innate gift that allows me to extract the magic contained inside them: tourmaline for speed, celestite for strength, augite for a powerful laxative effect (that I had to discover the hard way).

When Amethyst O'Shaunasy reluctantly travels west to find her nephew, her faith is restored by a group of pioneers and their reliance on God's guidance. Now, with prayers in her heart and a growing interest in a handsome rancher, Amethyst has no wish to leave.

Zach Reed swept me off my feet... For the first time in my life, I let go of all my inhibitions. We shared one magical kiss... and then one hot night... I almost gave him my body... and I gave him all my heart. We made a promise to meet again and build a future together. *** I wasn't looking for love... I have always guarded my heart. But when I met Blaire Stewart, my world turned upside down. My body craved for her. My heart ached for her. I wanted to protect her, I wanted to possess her. I wanted the world to know that she was mine. *** Zach was the guy I wanted like no other. *** Blaire ...

Stacy Justice is a young reporter who lives in Chicago, far away from the kooky small town of Amethyst, Illinois, where she was raised by a family of witches. She’s perfectly content with her career, her cat, and her lack of a love life until her cousin informs her that their grandfather is deathly ill. Stacy road-trips home only to discover that her grandfather was poisoned, her grandmother has confessed to the crime, and there’s a new chief in town who is easy on the eyes, but tough on witches.

From New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley, Detective Easy Rawlins’ latest client sends him down a warren of memory and nostalgia—blinding him to reason and risk. January 1970 finds Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, LA’s premier Black detective, at 50 years of age despite all...

Maybe she hadn’t failed at love. Maybe he just hadn’t been the right man… Life had never been melancholier for Eliza Loring since the man she loved had up and married someone else. But when she meets a handsome stranger whose genuine compliments and soul-searing gazes seem to reach way deep inside her, she wonders if maybe there’s another man out there for her after all. Miner Gill Mabry has seen and done many things in his nearly 40 years, much of which he’s not proud of. He’d put his days at war far behind him, though the memories seem determined to haunt him while he sleeps. ...

For several years, time and circumstance have managed to separate Hallie Knight and her old friend Susan Trench. But when Susan disappears from her grandfather's seaside home on historic Topsail Island, it is Hallie whom Nicholas Trench calls for help. Wealthy, ill, and irascible, he refuses to believe that his beloved granddaughter and the heir to his fortune has been lost to him.

Hallie Knight is summoned to a historic seaport town by Nicholas Trench, the critically ill grandfather of her former college roommate. Months earlier, Trench's granddaughter Susan mysteriously disappeared from his home and all attempts to learn her fate have failed. He feels that if anyone can find Susan, it will be this woman who was his granddaughter's closest friend.

My name is Delaney Stone: small-town pharmacist, certified pilot, and first-known genetic inheritor of supernatural pica. Hand-in-hoof with my emotional support pig, I travel the world tasting every mineral I can get my hands on, alchemizing their special essences into “parascientific” potions. Until recently, life was lonely but simple… And then along came Heath Spencer, Disrupter of Solitude and Disseminator of Chaos.

The violet-eyed male catches my attention. Not with words, but with his energy. His gaze follows my every move. And not because I'm a dancer. When the mysterious stranger realizes I've stolen from him, I'm in trouble.

Things sprawl out of control when these lovers become Low Down and Dirty all in the name of love, lust and betrayal. In this dirty love triangle, deep secrets are exposed and hearts are broken. None of these lovers thought the day would come where their infidelity and backstabbing would become dangerous and possible deadly.

In the fifth and final novel in the Five Crowns of Okrith romantasy series from bestselling author A.K. Mulford, a young fae warrior is hellbent on winning the Eastern Court crown. But when her fated lover—and hated nemesis—Ersan enters the trials, she struggles to balance the competition...

The Court of Nightmares has been taken by the enemy and Sarielle and Zyren are on the run, in search of an army that can help them win the war ahead. They're the only ones who can save Valaron, but Sarielle's magic is out of control, Zyren is fighting inner demons, and neither of them can trust...

Amy jumps at the chance to leave her gloomy aunt and uncle and go to the mountains. But once there, she finds that she must to go to stay with the alien clan, the Wood People, and betray them. Worse still, when she meets the Woods she likes them, and her traitorous position there makes her more and more uncomfortable. Then a mysterious stranger turns up at the house, and kidnaps their beloved wolf cub. Amy is soon engaged in a chase through the winter landscape to a final showdown...

When God calls an Amish man to run a marathon, hearts and lives are forever changed. Reuben Oyer never wanted to prove himself to the English world, especially not to the arrogant Randy Stargell. But when a divine whisper urges him to accept an impossible challenge, Reuben finds himself torn between his peaceful Amish ways and an undeniable heavenly calling. As he laces up his running shoes, he discovers the race before him is about much more than crossing a finish line—it's about crossing the boundaries of faith, love, and community. Beautiful Amethyst Schlappach has always followed the ...

A Collection of the Amethyst Series.

Could there be a more dangerous mission than protecting the woman you love? Marine Captain Elijah Corrington's mission: to keep the American prima ballerina, Elyse Booker, safe from the North Vietnamese Army and the auction block. He quickly learns she will not make this the most straightforward mission he’s ever faced. Elyse Booker is a talented ballerina and prima donna with the soul of a mischief maker. Oblivious to the danger she faces in a game of hide and seek, she’s determined to use her feminine wiles to escape. But only one man can save her—and he’s hot as hell and ...

Harriet Gordon, newly settled in her new role as a teacher at a girls' school in Singapore, faces uncertainty in her budding relationship with Robert Curran, who has just returned from months in Kuala Lumpur. Curran's expected promotion turns sour when the position is given to an old adversary from his Scotland Yard days.

Dree never thought she’d return to her life as a royal, but after working on a farm with Sen for the past two years, she receives some shocking news—her father and brother have both been killed. Now, Dree is next in line to take the throne, but when she hears that the council is plotting to have her marry the repulsive captain of the king’s guard, she takes matters into her own hands and obtains a marriage contract with the grouchy farmhand Mace… after Sen turns her proposal down.

Amethyst de Burgh has been sent by the archbishop as assistant to her uncle, the master mason in building a castle for the border lord, Marcus Montclair. She has always dreamed of this opportunity, but knows a woman in this position would not be accepted if it wasn't for the sealed and stamped missive giving the order, sent by the Archbishop himself.