SarahSchott

| 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓷𝓸 𝓰𝓸𝓸𝓭 𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮. 𝓙𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓭𝓮𝓰𝓻𝓮𝓮𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓼𝓮. |Val Mackenzie lives in two worlds that were never supposed to touch.By day, she's Dr. Mackenzie, PsyD - a psychologist at one of the most prestigious institutions in the country. She's disciplined, professional, and bound by rules she can't afford to break.By night, she's Cherry - a Top Tier hostess at Full Access, an elite gentleman's club where the clients are vetted, the rules are strict, and the staff serve with pride, skill, and pleasure.For three years, those two lives never touched.Then Lev Novak walked through the door - the last man alive who had any business knowing that the Cherry who serves him at Full Access is the psychologist who works down the hall from him. By the time they recognize each other, the damage is already done.The smart choice is to stop. The safe move is to disclose. They do neither.Not walking away was their first transgression. It won't be their last.…

SarahSchott

Nicole Brenner has been missing for three years. Sort of.Trapped between worlds and bound to a cabin deep in Pennsylvania's western mountains, Nic has spent every day since keeping an ancient evil locked behind the door at the end of the hall, and trying not to lose her mind. She's got a grimoire she's memorized cover to cover, a weepy cryptid named Pierogi, and exactly two weeks of corporeality per year to shore up defenses against the monsters called to kill her.Then Cal Muir walks through her front door - ex-Navy SEAL, ex-almost-something, and the last person she ever expected to see again. He's here to find out what happened to her; he doesn't know she's standing right behind him; and he's wasted no time dismantling her meager defenses (and she cannot stress enough how much of a problem that is).Now Nic has six days to figure out how to save a man who can't see her, from monsters he doesn't believe in, before Halloween night blows the door open for good - all while reckoning with the fact that the magic she once told him wasn't real might be the only thing that saves them.A second-chance paranormal romance steeped in Penn Dutch folklore, veteran mental health representation, and the kind of magic that challenges both fate and faith.…

SarahSchott

🔸️ ONC 2021 Shortlist & Honorable Mention 🔸️In 1884, an accusation of witchcraft sent Cade Pellar running to Wyoming. A decade later, he's accused again by his own mail-order bride. The problem for Cade is that the accusations are only false because of a technicality: His magic's not witchcraft. It's Cunning.But either way, semantics are the least of Cade's concerns.Problem #1 is Mrs. Nora Pellar and the magic in her touch. Problem #2 is the Pinkerton that's been resurrected from his past. Problem #3 is that to solve the first two, Cade needs to embrace his magic. Which leads to Problem #4:He'd sooner die than become a Cunning Man. || Primary Prompt: #22 || Secondary Prompt: #63 ||…