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I thought knights in shining armour were for fairytales... until one hockey player made me believe otherwise.• • • She was promised to someone else.He promised himself he'd never cross the line.Madden knows better than to want the coach's daughter - especially when she's engaged to another man, polished and charming, the kind everyone admires. But he also knows when something isn't right. And he sees what she can't: the subtle control, the quiet manipulations, the too tight smile. So he becomes her safe place. Her anchor. No demands. No expectations. Just quiet, steady devotion.Selena never expected freedom to feel this gentle... or love to feel this patient. She thought she had to survive alone. She thought desire always came with risk. But with Madden, safety and passion aren't opposites - they're inseparable.But devotion has a way of becoming something sacred - especially when it's built on trust, not temptation.…

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First draft • completed • Cliche She was supposed to leave him behind. Instead, he followed her home-with a grin and a proposition she can't refuse.• • • Leon and Charlottes story (can be read as a standalone but is part of a series - read sinful liabilities first if you want to)• • • Leon Collins has an uncanny resemblance to temptation - and Charlotte Hudson knows better than to touch it twice.As maid of honour to her best friend and sister-in-law-to-be, Charlotte's only job is to keep the wedding week flawless. But that's easier said than done when the best man is Leon: her brother's best friend, her best friend's brother, and the one mistake she swore she'd never make again.They danced too close once - too drunk, too messy, too young, and far too unforgettable. Now they're walking down the aisle together, tension simmering under every glance, every brush of skin, every drunken confession that never should've left her lips.When the week ends, Charlotte thinks she's leaving the past - and him behind for good.She's wrong.Because Leon Collins just got traded to her new team.Now he's in her office, in her space, and in her head - all charm, smirks, and a proposition that shouldn't sound as tempting as it does. One rule. No feelings. Just a physical arrangement to burn off the heat neither of them can seem to ignore.But desire this dangerous doesn't play by the rules. And the closer Charlotte gets to Leon, the more her carefully built walls begin to crack.She promised herself she'd never fall for him again.But Leon Collins has always been the one risk she can't resist.…

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Completed | My brother's best friend, a forbidden fling, a tropical disaster - I never imagined a perfect getaway would take such a Wilde turn.I'd planned this holiday down to the last detail: sunshine, laughter, and absolutely no encounters with the one man I can't seem to forget. Jason Wilde. My older brother's best friend, the guy I couldn't resist as a teenager-and the mistake I made again at my brother's wedding. Jason might be hockey's most notorious playboy, but I swear I won't make the same mistake a third time.Arden doesn't settle - which might explain why she's still single but she's not willing to lower her standards and those standard do not include a flirty hockey player. But when a wild boat party turns into a disaster, stranding them alone on a deserted island, her carefully drawn line in the sand begin to blur.With no way out and nowhere to run, Arden begins to wonder if finding solace in Jason's arms might not be so bad after all. But giving in means risking everything she's fought to protect-including her heart.• • •She's always been off-limits. My best friend's little sister. The one person I promised myself I'd never touch. But damn, Arden has always had a way of getting under my skin, of making me forget every rule I've ever made.It started as a one-night stand-something I never intended to repeat - not the one-night part anyway. And now, here we are, stuck in a tropical paradise together. The tension between us is undeniable, and yet she's still denying the obvious. She's worth the risk. The problem? I can't let her know just how much it hurts when she shuts me down. I'm ready to give her everything - if only she'd let me. Because when it comes to Arden, I can't stay away and I'll take anything she's willing to give me, even if it's not forever. Some lines shouldn't be crossed - and some lines are just too blurred to find the boundary.…

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Book 3 - can be read as a standalone. • • • Roses are red,Violets are blue,I left him at the altar,Wouldn't you?River's wedding day should have been perfect, but catching her fiancé with her sister was a twist she didn't see coming. In her wedding dress, she fled to the airport and set off for her honeymoon-solo.Roses are red,The violets turned blue,Who needs a cheating groom,When you can start anew?On a sunny beach, she meets a hot hockey player who's more than willing to show her a good time. What started as a distraction quickly turns into something more. Can River keep her heart intact or will this fling be her new beginning?Guess all is not lost, after all if she's not getting married she might as well be getting f*cked like a newlywed.…

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a small town slow burn why choose cowboy romance **slow updates* Four brothers. One small town. And a past that just won't let her go. • • • Benny Lane didn't come to Cedar Creek to make friends. She came to disappear. After years trapped in the shadow of an abusive marriage, all she wants is quiet, safety, and a chance to remember who she is without someone telling her who to be.But small towns don't let strangers slip by unnoticed. Especially not when four protective brothers seem to be everywhere she turns. Beckett, with his quiet watchfulness. Sawyer and Dawson, with their easy banter that chips away at her walls. And Wells, the sheriff, whose steady stare makes her pulse race for all the wrong reasons.They see more than she wants them to. They see her fear. Her secrets. And maybe-just maybe-the woman she's fighting to be again.Benny came to Cedar Creek to hide.But what if she's found something worth healing for?…

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Book 2 They capture my attention like a moth to a flame. Because falling into their world may lead to my death. For real this time.…

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Peace can be sweet but vengeance can be sweeter.• • • Dani had only existed for ten years. Of course prior to that she went by a different name. A different girl with a much different life. But that girl was dead, slaughtered . . . or so they thought. Buried beneath a town full of lies and deceit, that girl never got justice, killed for a mistake that cost her life. Cost more than just her life. They covered it up, protected the man in power that should've been jailed for what he did to her, for what he allowed his men to do to her. That is what they were, men - monsters. She was just a girl. A girl wearing the wrong name. Yet she never screamed as they cut her open, never told them they had the wrong girl. Never told them she wasn't me, so I owe her my life. And theirs. Justice does not come in the form of our system, it comes in the form of a knife slashed across their neck, ear to ear until their blood spills the secrets they've kept buried all these years.…

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Ilaria's centuries-old exile is bad enough - eternally banished from the underworld and stuck selling potions and poisons to humans. Her punishment? Guard the portal to her lost home, allowing anyone to enter while she remains forever shut out. But when a murder takes place in her shop, the tables turn. Now, the enforcers - the very creatures who redeem souls for their own deadly pasts - want to bring her to trial.Her only chance at freedom is to solve the murder herself, but there's a catch: she has to work with Hawke, an enforcer who has hated her since day one. Stubborn, powerful, and impossible to ignore, Hawke is more of a roadblock than a partner, and their fiery clashes are only heating up.With the threat of execution looming and tensions running high, Ilaria and Hawke must navigate a world of secrets, soul debts, and a past neither of them can outrun. Can they solve the mystery before her fate is sealed, or will their animosity be her downfall?…

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"The mutilated corpse of University student, Synthia Holloway was found earlier this morning buried beneath a pile of rubble at the Old Deboise Mansion, the investigation is pending." • • •My memory was fractured glass, shattered shards a glimpse into my past, a sharp sting of feeling longing to fade away. • • • Synthia Holloway was murdered at the age of nineteen, destined to haunt the halls of the house her mutilated body was found in. Years have passed and Synthia still lingers inside those debilitated walls, counting the cracks in the floor and the species that pass through the perpetually swinging door. All her life, Synthia knew only of humans existence - until the day she died. When her heart stopped beating, her eyes finally opened to the species that walked the earth, the door to another world ripped open and sewn shut in milliseconds, of the plague that slowly crept up to the humans doorsteps. The creatures were taking over and Synthia didn't give one flying fuck. After all, why should a dead girl care what happens to the world?Until four handsome monsters move into her resting place and suddenly they can see her, feel her and also . . . Try to kill her. Until they figure out she isn't just any ghost, but a supernatural just like them. Now she has to attend Hellbound Academy and try to figure out what powers now run through her veins before all hell breaks loose. Literally. Yet the sexy Lycan, the two damaged incubus and a Professor that can't stand to be near her are somehow tied to her powers. And if she doesn't figure out how to unblock them, she's dead. For real, this time.…

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Proper cover coming February…

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Unedited. First draft. Fast paced. When edited it will be better, longer and make a hell of a lot more sense. 𝑅𝓊𝓁𝑒 𝓃𝓊𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝓃𝑒: 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝒾𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝒷𝒶𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓃 𝓁𝑜𝑔𝒾𝒸. 𝑅𝓊𝓁𝑒 𝓃𝓊𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝓌𝑜: 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓉𝑜𝑜 𝒸𝓁𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓉𝒶𝓇𝑔𝑒𝓉𝓈. 𝑅𝓊𝓁𝑒 𝓃𝓊𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑒𝑒: 𝒹𝑜𝓃'𝓉 𝒷𝑒 𝒶𝒻𝓇𝒶𝒾𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝓈𝓀 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅. Paisley Cross has been training her whole life for a mission to cross her path, for her parents to finally deem her and her team worthy enough. With her cousin Artemis Smith and best friend Windsor Carter, and let's not forget the twins, Ryland and Reid Beckett. Will they finally get their mission and more importantly, will they complete it with no disturbances? • • •There's no rule stating that parasites can't be pretty. infiltrateverb• enter or gain access to (an organization, place, etc.) surreptitiously and gradually, especially in order to acquire secret information. If our favourite characters can steal our hearts, what about their children? I cried while writing the prologue.…

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Watty Winners Reading Event: Read like a winner 🔥The year's Watty Award-winning stories just got even better.From December 4-14, the more you read, the bigger the rewards:📖 30 mins = 1 entry to win 150 Coins💫 60 mins = 1 entry to win 1 month of Premium15,000 readers will score epic prizes. Start reading and see how high you can climb.WATTY AWARD WINNERCompleted • First Draft - not edited. A Good Girl's Guide To Being Naughty • • • Ivy Collins is a normal 21 y/o woman.Except for the fact she's a virgin ... or at least she was until she had sex with her university rivals hockey captain.After a quick (devastatingly quick) night with the man and being called a lousy lay, Ivy made a promise to herself that she wouldn't do it again ... sex that is.Who needs sex when all it brought was insecurities and more, and it wasn't even that good to begin with.Enter Asher Hudson, Ice Hockey captain, her brothers best friend and her best friends brother - triple trifecta of why she shouldn't get involved with him.But when he overhears a conversation Ivy has with her best friend, he gives her an offer she can't refuse.Well, she can, and she should, but why would she want to?Three months, she helps him with his grades, and he'll help her with her sex life.Only one rule, don't fall in love.Easy, right?He'll teach her everything she wants to know, and show her that sex can be fun, you just have to know how to do it right.And Ivy should refuse, after all he's the Ice Hockey captain, her brother's best friend and her best friend's brother - but what's the fun in that.Ivy knows she should say no, but she won't. And she won't fall in love, she can't.…

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Completed | No one comes looking for a dead girl, as long as she stays dead. • • • Having finally escaped the vicious hands of the life she runs from, Noah hides out in a new city, with a new identity to match. But when life becomes too hard to live without falling into her old ways, she comes up with a plan. She can earn her living doing what she knows best, fighting; she just can't let anyone find out, not if she wants to survive. Except lying isn't as easy as she thought it would be, not when she finds herself drawn to three incredibly attractive and incredibly secretive guys who seem to watch her every move like predators on the prowl. She can't afford to let them in, not when the secret she's been hiding for too many years starts to seep from her skin in front of them. How is she meant to live if they find out she's not exactly human?…

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Completed book on Kindle Unlimited or buy on Amazon for $2.99 USD• • • K-I-S-S-I-N-G First comes love, Then comes marriage, Then comes a baby sitting in a carriage! You know the rhyme, right? That's how it goes, but we all know life is a difficult motherfucker. Rose Sterling, despite her delicate name, is anything but delicate. She either never learned that rhyme, or fate decided to throw her a curveball. After all, it was only supposed to be a one-night stand. . • * • . After a night of dancing and drinking, Rose wakes up sprawled on the bed of a Greek god with abs to die for. She's scantily clad in only a thin white sheet. Deciding to skip the awkward morning-after, she flees, using the sheet as a makeshift shield to hold onto what's left of her dignity. She never planned to see the Greek god who took her to new heights again. Unless fate decides to play a role, and trust me, fate knows how to play. *cliche stuff ahead, proceed with caution**trigger warnings. Book contains talk of sexual encounters, swear words and miscarriage. Please read at own risk.*…

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Draft • unedited. • • • "And I do love it when a man is at the pointy end of my dagger." I push the blade in more, a sliver of skin parting as red flows between the crevices and blesses the weapon. He only grins wider, "Show no mercy, Angel." He rears up, lips capturing mine and pulling my face closer to his, his hand winding itself around my neck to hold me in place as he draws my whole being into his with only his poisoned tongue and daring words. . . "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." "The enemy of my enemy, is my enemy tomorrow." I counter. • • • They took everything from me. Hunt me. Underestimate me. I have nothing to lose . . . Until he shows up. He is my undoing. The unknown. I can't let him in. • • •He thought I had been broken, consumed in his games. Loyal. At least I was . . . Until I saw her. She is my redemption. She is the job. I have to kill her. • • • Trigger warnings - this book is a lot darker than Alliance and as such deals with descriptions of torture, assault, murder and mention of SA. If this is not for you, feel free to not read. There is some sex scenes throughout this book so please read at your own risk. The main character/s are also very morally grey so if you don't like characters torturing others, this isn't the book for you. • • • Cover by Quirky Circe on EtsyStarted writing 09/19 - published 02/20 - finished 03/20. Edited 01/21Highest ranking #1 in spy 06/04/2020…

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Her most lethal weapon is herself . . . • • •Agent Eleven was always a loyal Agent for the Division.Until she wasn't. Running and going rogue a year ago had definitely put her on their hit list, but what happens when they find her again and force her back to the very world she ran from? Forced to join the elite team of Operatives and their domineering leader with a knack for watching her too closely, she has to tread lightly to finish what she started. Because little do the team know, they weren't the masterminds behind her return. And she isn't leaving again until she finds out the truth about what happened a year ago, and keep her identity a secret while she's at it. With a too hot for his own good leader, his best friend who seems to see too much and two seemingly innocent operatives by her side, will Agent Eleven uncover the truth? And what will she do once she realises she's captured the attention of the very serial killer her team is assigned to hunt? This plan might just be her stupidest yet, and it might just be the one that's gets her killed. • • •I watch from the corner of my eyes as he brings the dagger up to the straps of my top, slipping it under the thin fabric. "There's just a few things in my way." He hushes, dark eyes hooded. He slices through the fabric in one quick swipe, the strap hanging limply as he moves to the next one and repeats the process. • • • Cover by Quirky Circe on EtsyHighest ranking #1 in spy 1/1/2020 (almost 4 years of this - holy hell) #1 in action- adventure 3/1/2020#1 in romance 18/1/2022#1 in adventure 18/1/2022# in secretagent 21/2/2022#1 in badassreads 21/4/2023#1 in action-romance 19/8/23Hit 1M reads on 9/3/2021Completed final edit on 13/09/2022…