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(Minnesota Raptors #2)Jonathan Hutchinson or Hutch as everyone calls him only has one thing on his mind--getting on a pro NHL team. It's his last year of college and this is his year to score. He's kept his eye on the prize despite the parties, the women, and the stress of actually graduating.Then he runs head first into a ball of red headed fluff who doesn't care that he's the #1 forward in college hockey. She doesn't care that he's more popular on campus than the football team's quarterback. She doesn't care that he's charming. She has no interest in his star status.Which is bizarre and oddly refreshing.And intriguing.Daisy Matthews only wants to graduate and start over. She came to Minnesota to get away from her old life and start a new one. Hutch taking an interest in her is not a good thing to her. She doesn't want his lime light affecting her, but he's determined to get to know her. He's also hard to ignore at six five and a hulking mass of muscle and good looks.He's not giving up and she's not giving in.But who is going to win the war of wills?Make sure you read book one, Shaw, if you enjoy this! It's complete and free to read on Wattpad for a limited time.…

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A past tragedy has left Lily Holmes burdened with a devastating secret...Since the death of her twin sister, Lily can't bear to be touched. Not accidentally, not casually...and certainly not intimately. This makes it impossible for her to confess to her best friend Adam Roberts that she's in love with him. She can't give him the sort of relationship he needs, so she watches in silence while he plans his wedding with someone else.Enter Nikoli Kinkaid, the campus manwhore...Nikoli is a self-proclaimed connoisseur of women, and he wants to add Lily to his list of conquests, but she wants nothing to do with him-until he makes her an offer she can't refuse. He'll teach her to enjoy human contact again, giving her a chance to win over Adam, while Nikoli uses all his considerable charm to seduce her.But Lily raises the stakes...Lily loves cars. Her late father was a racer, and she grew up under the hood of a car and on the racetrack. Nikoli has a limited edition car she covets, so she informs him the terms of their deal also require he not sleep with anyone for six months. If he does, she'll win the car. If she surrenders and ends up in his bed, his beloved 'Cuda is his to keep.In an intricate dance of control and surrender, a reluctant friendship becomes something more. Lily begins to crave things she never believed she could, and Nikoli realizes there is more at stake than his reputation. If Lily overcomes her phobia, will she crave Adam's touch as she's starting to crave Nikoli's? Or will she only find pleasure from the touch of a semi-reformed manwhore?…

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Sean Riggins made into college on a fluke. He promised his girlfriend he'd go and be the football god he was destined to be. Only he hates college. Hates it so much, he's decided to quit and go home to Alabama.Until he meets Hattie Rae Bentley.She's beautiful and has a mouth that would make a sailor wince. She's hiding behind that mouth though. It's there as a defense. She's been hurt in her past and Sean has decided to try to help her as much as she's decided to kick his ass and make him realize he's worth the effort. That he's not just some hick from Alabama who drinks too much and gets wasted more than he's sober. She sees something in him. They've decided their exes are their beautiful mistakes and set out on a friendship that runs deeper than any they've ever had.But just when that friendship starts to turn into something else, those beautiful mistakes come back to haunt them.The question is, will those mistakes destroy what they've built?…

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(Broken Souls #1)Special Agent Jeremy Bradford is being hunted by an escaped serial killer he helped to put away. He's been assigned a body guard to protect him from the man who has murdered all but one other on his team. A man he knows well and had hoped to never see again...Conner Kincaid.Conner Kincaid has been pulled off assignment to protect a man who he's tried to forget since he met him. A man who ran from him and the way Conner made him feel. A man who scares Conner because around Jeremy he actually feels something. Now he's charged to protect him and it puts him into close proximity. Those feelings bring back memories for Conner's, memories that have shaped him into the cold, heartless man the US government has nicknamed The Executioner. As much as Jeremy has his doubts about his own feelings, he sees through the cold demeanor Conner puts up for everyone to the man who's in so much pain, he's not sure even Conner recognizes the depths. As much as he wants to run, he wants to help him more.But with a serial killer determined to kill him and his protector, can he manage to help a man who's been brutalized and hurt beyond anyone's imagination to learn to open up and heal?** There will be dark themes in this book **…

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Can be read as a standalone.Abomination. The word follows Katyia Dragonovich, bastard daughter of the Regent of Sector Three.After being turned over to the vampire clan by the only mother she has ever known, Katyia swears vengeance. Although terrified, she boldly faces her new future, even if it's an uncertain one with a man who is as cold as the mountain's ice caps.When the vampire clan discovers one of their new turns has been infected with ravager blood, they rally for her extermination. There cannot allow anything carrying the mark of the monstrous creatures that have overrun their world to live among them.But Roman Stratcovich, rightful king of the vampire clans, has other plans. This hybrid woman-part witch, part vampire, part ravager-may be the secret to regaining what he's lost. More than that, however, she's also the key to unlocking his cold heart.The question is, does he want her to?About The World Of OthalaMany years ago, the Original Sixteen witches were able to contain an outbreak of demon-like creatures from overtaking the earth. But doing so came at a cost. For the human race to survive, the world had to be divided into sixteen sectors, trapping the ravagers to the outer lands beyond, and trapping the humans in.The Original Sixteen served as regents over each of these sectors, and when they died, the strongest of witches took their place, using their own personal enchantment abilities to protect their sector. In the process, communication was lost. The only solace that remains is the knowledge that if another sector fails, their own may still survive.But what happens when your sector is the one to fail? What happens when the world inside your walls is just as bad as the one outside them? In this collection of sixteen dystopian paranormal romance tales, each and every one of the sixteen sectors is about to find out.This is the tale of Sector 3…

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BBMC Fan Fiction StoryBased around The Bondi Boys & Babes Motor Club in the GTA 5 Nopixel world.…

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Cherry blossom lipstick: checkSmokey eyes: checkSkinny jeans: checkDead kid in the mirror: checkFor sixteen year old Mattie Hathaway, this is her normal everyday routine. She's been able to see ghosts since her mother tried to murder her when she was five years old. No way does she want anyone to know she can talk to spooks. Being a foster kid is hard enough without being labeled a freak too. Normally, she just ignores the ghosts and they go away. There's a little glitch this time. The ghost she sees is her foster sister, Sally. Everyone thinks she's just another runaway. Mattie knows the truth, though-she's dead, murdered. Foster kids look out for each other and Mattie feels like she has to help Sally, but she can't do it alone. Against her better judgment, she teams up with a young police officer and together they set out to discover the truth of Sally's disappearance. Now the killer has set his sights on her. It becomes a race to see if she can find the truth before the serial killer finds her.…

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I wanted to share with you all some of the things I learned from Margaret Atwood's class on writing. It hit home with me on a personal level and I wanted you all to understand how it resonated with me.…

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WOLPACK UNIVERSITY #2Cole and Clem have finally accepted the fact they're mates, but it comes at a price.Everyone knows and Cole's role in his pack is called into question. He may soon not have a pack.But the pack is in trouble and Cole may be the only who can save it.If they accept the fact his mast is a half-blood mutt (Shifter and Fae).It's against the rules for a pack member to mate outside their species.A war is started and if Cole can win, he'll not only keep his pack, but his mate as well.…

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Kathryn finds herself not only kidnapped, but at the mercy of monsters.She must use all her wits to survive the new world she's now a part of, but will it be enough?(This may end up a full length novel, but for now, it's just a short story. Enjoy!)…

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So who says Snow White has to end up with Prince Charming or that the Big Bad Wolf can't be BFF's with Little Red Riding Hood? Welcome to my twisted Dystopian reality of Fairytale!…

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Clementine Townes is running from a nightmare no one should ever have to endure, a horror of glowing eyes, unspeakable violation...and death.Her father only ever asked one thing of her-that she attend his alma mater, Appalachia University, fondly known as Wolfpack U. With nothing left to lose, she decides to honor her father the only way she knows how.The sleepy college town of Jacob's Fork, West Virginia is far from California. But is it far enough away to escape the terrifying darkness that plagues her dreams and memories?Then she meets Cole Walker.The quarterback of the football team and all-around campus alpha, he represents everything that terrifies her. But despite her fear and reluctance, she finds she's drawn to Cole in ways she can't explain.As if all that weren't enough, she discovers the people in this small town have a secret, and they seem to know more about her history than she does. What she finds is a past her father hid from her-a past she's not sure she wants to embrace. But before she can even begin to think about any of that, her nightmare comes rushing back to torment her, threatening the new life she's trying to build. Can she trust Cole to protect her, or is her only hope to keep running?…

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When CJ, a teen girl living in a town that practices witchcraft, starts uncovering the truth about her sister's death, she discovers the insidious danger that haunts her and the town. Can she save herself and the people she loves, or will she burn just as her ancestors did all those centuries ago? *****Cassie Jayne Bishop grew up the only non-believer in the Coven. But when a handsome stranger comes to the sleepy town of New Salem, everything she thought was true starts unraveling around her. Clues start to pile up and CJ is determined to find out the real reason her sister died. What she uncovers terrifies her to the very depths of her soul...[[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]Cover designed by April Alforque…

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Book 3 of The Coven Series…

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Caliope has everything she's ever dreamed of - wildly successful career, more money than she cans spend in ten lifetimes, and security. Yet, she's not happy.She longs for what she lost, for the family that could have been.What is the point of all the success if she doesn't have what truly makes her happy?Determined to try and regain what she lost, she goes home to River's End to try and find her happily ever after.But is it too late?…

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Meredith Mitchell agreed to help her mother with one last renovation project before starting her new job in California. What she didn't agree to was the paranormal investigators who are filming alongside her mother's fixer upper show. Now she's stuck with a very cute, but broody parapsychologist while trying to play match maker with her mother and the construction foreman.The house has a dark history that starts to come alive when the renovation begins. Things start to happen that are unexplainable, accidents befall the workers, and the ghostly evidence caught on film only confirms what Meredith suspected from the moment she laid eyes on the old house in Salem, Massachusetts. This house is a bad, bad place and how much longer will any of them survive?…

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She killed herself.Everyone asked why, but when I got my hands on my sister's diary, I understood exactly why.I stared at the girl in the mirror as I removed my nose ring. Gone was the black hair, replaced by golden blonde locks that made my sapphire blue eyes shine and my California sun-kissed skin glow. The Goth chic clothes had been put away and I wore a pink tank top and a pair of khaki colored Capri's. Stylish sandals completed the outfit. I wanted to barf.The snotty little would-be witches would pay for what they'd done. By the end of the week, they'd all be praying to whatever god they worshipped to hide them from the hell coming for them.May the Fates have mercy upon them, because they would pay the same price they'd demanded of her.Their lives.…

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Gaming has gone to the next level, especially survival horror with the invention of Virtual Reality. There is one group of gamers who want more and created The Game to give them the ultimate video game experience: real world live action gaming.Each year twelve individuals of various ages are taken and forced to compete against trained killers. The rules are simple as there is only one--survive until dawn and you get to live. Otherwise your death will be brutal, painful, and slow.Welcome to The Game.Cover art by @AngelaFristoe…