Gwen Alexandra does not need a man in her life. Especially not a man who looks like Chris Hemsworth and Joe Manganiello's love child. One wearing leather, riding a Harley, and covered in tattoos. Gwen can bet every pair of her Manolo's that Cade Flet...
Living a life in darkness causes the soul to char to ash. Battling demons by turning himself into a monster is the only way he can survive...the only way he can keep a grip on sanity. That grip is precarious at best, every day is a silent battle with...
People make love seem complicated. Intricate. Novels try to capture its intensity; music tries to rein in its soul. I’ve read every novel I could. I’ve lived and breathed every song that I could listen to. The sounds fill my unquiet mind. Then he...
Love can be a beautiful thing. It can fill up your life with the warmth of its embrace and spread to every corner of your mind. It can quiet your soul. But when that love turns wrong, it twists and warps into something bitter and unrecognizable. The ...
I may be the villain of the story, but at least I get a leading role. Evil is a term thrown around history and literature as if it's something so easily definable. A concept to fight against. Evil doesn’t exist. Neither does ‘good.’ Vampires do...
There’s a phrase: Still waters run deep. But there’s more to it than that. Because "still" doesn’t denote peace. Nor calm. Nor happiness. It’s an illusion. It's chaos. The only way to handle chaos is to become it. That’s what Lucy did. She ...
Gina: Freshly brewed tea. Earl Grey, loose leaf. Rain on the windowsills. The smell of library books. Escape into worlds greater than this. Solitude. Invisibility. A quiet life. Maybe boring, but boring was never dangerous. Until I saw what I was mis...
He collected beautiful things.Rare things.Ripped them out of their natural environment and preserved them in all of their dead splendor.The problem was I wasn't beautiful. I was all of the hideous and ugly realities of the world packaged into one bro...
Fate was a fickle mistress. She gave Sophie immortality, magic, and a great tolerance for whisky. She also made sure Sophie tasted death, made sure it clung to her bones, sank into her marrow. She gave Sophie power that came from death and brought de...
Heartbeats had a pesky way of complicating things.They almost always came with the nasty side effect of humanity and finally... death.Since Thorne came into my life, I'd been plagued with both.Heartbeats and humanity.Both of these things were going t...
Souls are interesting things. Not something you can prove you possess. Not something that can be measured, like a heartbeat. But something that can be destroyed by the absence of a heartbeat. No, you cannot prove you possess a soul. But once that sou...
Death.For everyone, even immortals, there is nothing after death. No takebacks, no comebacks. It's a full stop. The end of a story. The end of everything.For Sophie, it's little more than a comma. A prelude. A footnote in her true destiny.She was fat...
Words are my weapon.Stories wrap around my soul, choking me, capturing you.I don't work in dreams.I don't offer escapes.I cage you within my nightmares.Magnolia Grace is a horror writer, despite what the name might suggest.One of the best in the busi...
You will be loved many times by many men. But you will only ever love one man. And that man will be your destruction.Wren Whitney lives a remarkable life. She is a child of Beverly Hills, growing up in boarding schools, on private jets, a life of ext...
Don't ask me how I got here, I don't want to lie to you.I'm not a worldly woman.I'm not cultured, well-traveled or well educated.I'm just a housewife. A mother.I'm the woman with the handsome husband, beautiful daughter, the large house.If you saw it...
We will not be silent.We will not stand down.We are furious.We are the storm.More than forty of your favorite authors have gotten together to create an anthology where 100% of the proceeds go toward charities fighting for our reproductive rights.Part...
The good girl falls for the bad boy.Can we name a bigger, or better cliché?Despite my ideas about the deep misogyny associated with this particular one, I've somehow found myself in the middle of it.Except, I'm not the good girl. I'm exception...
Nora Henderson is of the opinion that chocolate cures almost everything.Which, among a few other reasons, is why she opened her bakery in the small town of Jupiter, Maine five years ago.People come from miles for her chocolate peanut butter cupcakes....
She survived the deadliest serial killer of her generation.Or so everyone thought.No one knew how many pieces of her he took to the grave with him. She hid her scars, her nightmares. She hid everything until she couldn't.Then she ran.But Colby follow...
Marrying Kip Goodman was a last resort. But she was desperate. Desperate enough to marry a man she despised.All she had to do was get through the year married to a cocky alpha male who only thought of women as notches on his bedpost. She had her reas...
Everyone's rock bottom is different.For Willow Watson, it's moving back to New Hope, Colorado.The town she promised herself she'd never set foot in again. The place she's forced to go back to when she has nothing left.Nothing but the family she aband...
Inferno. The hottest restaurant in Hell's Kitchen, run by the 'Ice Queen', Avery Hart. She is a revolutionary in the culinary world, earning Michelin Stars and feeding presidents while starving her demons at the same time. Her life is in ...