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An innocent raised in a house of sin … Lily is the product of a doomed romance between Neal Kale, a dashing aristocrat, and Zara, a beautiful high-class prostitute. Against all odds, Zara manages to shelter her daughter from the depravity of her life, accepting brutalization and humiliation to do so. But when she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, Zara entreats Lily to flee the violent world of her birth and seek shelter with her father’s family. She gives Lily the jeweled Kale family locket that Neal had given her many years ago as proof of her identity. Lily does not receive a warm...

A queen without a throne is still a queen ... In the treacherous world of the One Land, Esme Shelsor's journey from pampered queen to ruthless power-seeker is a tale of survival, ambition, and the brutal cost of seeking power. Widowed young and defeated in battle, Esme is torn from her throne and enslaved by the Chekaliga tribesmen—a twist of fate that would break most women. But Esme is no ordinary queen. Through cunning and charisma, she transforms her captivity, charming her way to becoming the Grand Sabiza and challenging the very men who sought to subjugate her. Then her own father, ...

Roxy is the unwanted child of Isadora Reid, a beautiful, intelligent woman beset with manic depression. Isadora’s neuroses lead to ever more risky behavior, exacerbated by drug addiction. Roxy clings to her mother’s rare displays of affection to tide her over long periods of gruesome abuse and neglect. Still a child, she falls into the orbit of Nick Dredd, a rising gang leader and drug dealer. He becomes her mentor, lovingly shaping her in his own image. However, Roxy has ideas of her own, a deep-seated desire to escape from the wretched world of her birth to one of peace and safety “...

This is the story of Johanna von Eschenbach, who comes into the world just as her parents’ marriage is ending. Overshadowed by her glamorous French mother and her gorgeous, over-achieving older sister, Johanna grows up in a hothouse Europeanized household, incongruously located in a small university town in the American Midwest. Her mother works as a professor of Art History while devoting every free moment to pursuing her passion as a gifted pianist. Her father is from Montana and serves in the Marines. Johanna’s cowgirl self-image is formed spending every vacation, summer and winter, ...