Thursday Romance Reads To Devour 1/18
Big Game: A Friends to Lovers
Rom-Com Hero Adventure
C.K. Wiles
$1.99
Denise Baldwin doesn’t do relationships.
She barely has time for a one-night stand.
But missing after-work cocktails with Rob, her best friend and favorite law enforcement park ranger … she wouldn’t dream of it.
The little dive bar is the perfect place for Denise to vent about her new protégé, who is as annoyingly perky as she is ambitious. Rob has work issues too. A high-tech poaching ring has set up business in his part of the woods. Pursuing them into the back country with nothing but his pistol and a can of bear spray has him taking risks Denise doesn’t even want to know about.
Unexpected feelings bloom in a moment of vulnerability, causing their relationship to take a turn for the worse. Denise can’t seem to do anything right at work and Rob’s mind is anywhere but on the job. When the stakes rise and their worlds crash together, everything falls apart leaving Denise and Rob to reconcile their differences before it's open season on their lives.
No Redemption
Alexis Winter
$0.99
“It’s not the big bad wolf you need to be afraid of kitten; it’s the devil in disguise that you sleep next to.”
She thinks she’s found the perfect husband—the one in a million who isn’t like the rest…my best friend Dane Ashford.
He would never betray her.
He would never lie or cheat on her.
He loves her.
It would hurt to hear the truth, to know it's all a lie, but then she could move on and so could I.
Maybe then she would understand why I was miserable around her all these years.
I’ve even convinced myself a time or two that she deserves to know the truth—but this isn’t my story and that’s not how it’s going to play out.
This isn’t some redemption plan where my hands will now be washed clean.
I’m just as culpable in this story, in fact, I’m worse.
I’m the man who led her right into the lion’s den.
I played along for years.
I allowed her to fall in love with him when I knew it wasn’t real.
Instead, I took the coward’s way out, staying involved in her life just enough to satisfy my f–ed up need for her.
But it wasn’t enough, it will never be enough.
There’s only one way this story ends…her husband has to die and I’m the man that has to do it.
Losing the only woman I’ve ever loved is a small price to pay for her safety, even if it means I destroy myself and my family in the process.
There is no redemption arc for men like me.
I’m not the one you run to when you’re scared.
I’m the one you’re running from.
Black Emerald
Reut Barak
FREE
dark magic ♥ epic love ♥ college romance ♥ time travel
Black Emerald and other stories:
Black Emerald
When a magically-cursed amulet overpowers her, how will a fairy queen choose: slavery or death?
Vivienne would do anything for a place among other fairies, even agree to an arranged marriage. But when a wedding gift―a magical amulet―starts to control her actions, the fairy is desperate to stop the mage who is behind it. Can she save herself and the man she’s come to love, before she faces a fate worse than death?
Forgotten Magic
How many fairies need to die before Excalibur can be destroyed?
Kim is desperate for some time off after getting stuck for two and a half years in medieval times. Seth can’t wait for some quality time together, after nearly losing her when they were there; and the scars from the past are still raw. But when Excalibur is discovered by their enemies, and the two college students take on one more fight, will Kim’s magic and Seth’s skill with the blade be enough to stop the sword from falling into the wrong hands?
Poems
2 Excerpts from Forbidden Road