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The safety of his kingdom has been the highest priority for Cethin since the moment he was born, but he’s been on the throne less than a year when new threats find their way to his lands. Past sacrifices mean nothing if he can’t figure out what is hunting his people. Desperate to protect his kingdom but also free Avonleya from the curse that keeps them locked away from the rest of realm, he’ll do anything to ensure his people know peace. Even if that means being a villain in one story to be a savior in another.

Solitary confinement, mental and physical torture, extreme hunger and bitter cold-these were the daily realities for Pastor Richard Wurmbrand during his combined 14 years of imprisonment in Communist Romania. Richard's crime, like that of thousands of others, was his fervent faith in Jesus...

Her toxic past. His dangerous future. A love worth dying for. Broken Like You is a gritty, suspenseful stand-alone romance set in the Sinners and Angels Universe.

I was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now I'm trapped in an impossible choice between the alien warrior I'm falling for and the son I'd die to protect. When orcs raid the human settlement on Kovos, I'm kidnapped by mistake. I was only trying to save another woman, but now I'm separated from my six-year-old son with no way home. The orcs can't return me—I know too much about their defenses. And I refuse to let them bring my boy here, where humans are seen as inferior. Verig, the orc second-in-command, rescued me from a brutal captor and gave me a choice: his protection or take my ...

Recently freed from her obligations to hell, Lola is now a lone 1500-year-old Succubus wandering a dangerous world. Finding refuge among other immortals in what appears to be a human-deserted place, she's quick to realize that nothing is as it seems. Divines and Hellrisers might be getting along, but one Angel is out for her throat, seemingly not affected by her charms, while another immortal is hellbent on keeping her at his side. But everyone holds secrets. And Lola won't let them get close enough to unravel hers. Good thing she has a powerful Nephilim on her side...

It’s finally happened. I’ve surrendered myself to my father and the beasts who would pay to own me. I did it to protect my friends and my mates, but I’d NEVER guessed that the one mate who resented me the most would betray me so brutally.

Revenge or redemption. Which would you choose? Twenty-five years ago, Kristi King was one of the hottest porn stars in America, a sexy young vixen lusted after by millions. But one Halloween night, her world was shattered. A sadistic, baby-faced psychopath and predator brutalized, violated, and humiliated her, before kidnapping her to satisfy his own dark and twisted desires. Now, having rebuilt her life as a psychologist and victim's right advocate, she finds herself sitting across a table from the man who tortured her, as part of a "restorative justice" confrontation, reliving every ...

Christian Book Award Finalist - Audio - 2020! On February 29, 1948, Richard Wurmbrand was arrested by the secret police. His crimes? Leading Christian worship and witnessing—both of which were illegal under the atheistic Communist regime of Romania. Richard spent fourteen years in prison. He...

Kiv Graves is gone—vanished without warning or explanation—and Candy is suddenly expected to run Gold Coast Financial. The money, the pressure… it all lands squarely on her shoulders. Kiv always believed she could handle it, but stepping into his world alone forces Candy to confront the fears, trauma, and old addictions she’s never fully outrun. She convinces herself that Kiv has given her an opportunity to prove herself - to be the thing she desires most - good. As loyalties shift and enemies close in, Candy’s nights grow darker and her choices sharper. Power feels good—...

Deranged and violent. Gorgeous but frightening. I’m a businessman, so when one of my debtors offers me his fiancé in exchange for a debt settled, I figure why not? The woman will be a quick sell. Repayment comes in the form of a beautiful but haunted young woman. The light in her tempts the darkness inside of me. Teases it, tortures it. I want to hurt her. I want to break her. I want to keep her. Luckily for Celia, she fails to see that there is no goodness in me. 

They say the devil appears in many different forms. To the town of Sandland, his face was one of them. He was a rebel; a brawler, a bare-knuckle boxer that you’d cross the road to avoid if you saw him coming the other way. When he left our town, no one shed a tear, because Brandon Mathers was trouble and trouble followed him wherever he went. The night he disappeared, he left behind a lifetime of devastation for the rest of us to bear. He didn’t care. He enjoyed creating chaos and leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. But he was never going to stay hidden for long.

Long ago, Souleater, Matt Horan, wiped the memory of his bondmate, Ceara Pruitt, to protect her. Since then, he’s grown numb and can only feel other’s emotions. In a moment of weakness, his intentions to send himself to hell are destroyed when Ceara re-crosses his path. Torn and tormented, he longs for her touch and to restore her memories. Despite rogue Souleaters setting their sights on everything he holds dear, he is determined to never lose her. Drawn to the mysterious stranger, Ceara experiences a passion she has never known. After a night of uninhibited desire and flashes of new ...

This easy-to-understand book explains the standard process from start to finish - through being completely bowled over and convinced that one has found their true soul mate to the games and tests narcissists play once the partner has been successfully seduced. This is a form of narcissistic handbook, essential to keep close at hand when our head is saying one thing but our heart is saying another.

Dark. Damaged. Dangerous. He will ruin me. I should run. Blake Harrison is everything I've been taught is wrong. The handsome billionaire is hiding a dark secret and the longer I stay, the more I fall under his spell. We are both running from something, but our secrets threaten to tear us apart. The darkness is starting to feel more comfortable than the light. Can we find salvation in our ruin? Note: This is a standalone romance with a HEA and no cliffhanger. It was previously published under a different name.

She wanted a little chaos in her life. She didn’t expect it to come with so many limbs. 🌊🦑 Willa just wanted to survive LA’s art scene, and keep her heart safe from complicated men, and monsters. So when her best friend finds love through the Monster Dating Agency and loneliness starts whispering in her ear, Willa lets her psychic instincts take the lead. At worst, it’s a weird date. At best, a great story to tell her friends. On her ABSOLUTELY NOT list? No deep-sea types. No drama. And absolutely no tentacles. So obviously... She’s matched with Orrik Blackwater. Owner of The ...

She can open any lock. He is the one prisoner she refuses to leave behind. Human locksmith Liora awakens beneath a mountain stronghold with a magical mark carved into her skin—and a dangerously powerful orc imprisoned in the neighboring cell. Dargan has survived seven years of chains, bloodshed, and an iron collar that turns every command into agony. He trusts no one, least of all the clever human woman their captors intend to bind to him. The cult wants to combine Liora’s gift with Dargan’s strength and transform them into the perfect weapon. Instead, Liora speaks his name—and ...

Candy Wilson has finally snapped. Haunted by betrayal and driven by a darkness she can no longer control, Candy is done being the woman who gets hurt. When Kiv Graves — the man who vanished without a word — returns with apologies, promises, and a proposal, it feels like the universe is giving her a second chance. A clean slate. A future she’s always wanted. A love worth believing in. But fairytales don’t survive secrets. As old wounds reopen and new threats circle closer, Candy’s obsession with protecting her happiness turns dangerous. In a world of wealth, power, and broken ...

He’s an arrogant liar. A winged prince responsible for my family’s suffering. And now my mate. I’ve spent my entire life training to kill Darius the Silent. He’s everything I hate, powerful and cruel and son to a ruling family that crushed my people. When he finds his way into the Arden Kingdom, my only goal is revenge. To fulfill my life’s purpose and end him. But meeting him changes everything. He’s not what I expect. Devious, charming, and with a wit as sharp as a blade, he’s a man who’s spent his life preparing for a rebellion like this. After seeing how impossible our ...

When everything you hold dear is suddenly stripped away, where do you turn? IN 1965, USAF COL Thomas “Jerry” Curtis’s rescue helicopter was shot down over North Vietnam. He was immediately captured and spent the better part of 71/2 years confined in filthy cells throughout the notorious Hanoi prison camps. Thousands of miles from home and unable to communicate with his wife and children, Jerry endured months of solitary confinement, suffocating heat, freezing cold, grueling physical and psychological torture, constant hunger, and unimaginable mental distress. Yet, time and again, the ...

Here within is a collection of 57 accounts of firsthand narratives of people captured by Indians in colonial times who lived to tell their story of the lives, customs, kindness, and cruelties of Native Americans. Indian raids on small farming communities were bloody and gruesome events, with young and old stripped, clubbed, and scalped. While many were treated harshly by the Indians, some were treated with much kindness by their captors. They were only able to endure these torments through their unwavering belief that God would see them through their terrible ordeal.