Cirrus@Austlit

My name is Nova Stone and I was a ghost in my own life until a knock at the door changed my whole world.

Applying for guardianship of my infant half-brother was a no brainer, even if I hadn't known he existed. But that was before I met his uncles; two pro ice hockey players, and a CEO. They wanted to take Huey home with them and they were willing to pay me millions of dollars for the privilege.

'When that didn't work, they managed to convince me that it would be better for my brother–and for me–if I moved into their Ann Arbor mansion. At first, I said hell no. I'd listened to true crime podcasts. I'd read the newspaper articles. But a week of sleepless nights and emotional breakdowns later, I relented.

'They were helpful, I'd give them that. But they were also hot, and that was a problem. River with his brooding intensity, he was as huge as you'd picture an NHL enforcer to be. His foster brother Devan, who was mysterious and standoffish, and their best friend Rigby, the literal embodiment of a golden retriever in the body of a 6'2 pro athlete.

'But I had to do what was right for Huey, and anyway, how could I ever choose? And I had to choose...right?

'STICKS AND STONE is a reverse harem sports romance. There are definitely swear words and steamy bits. This book is a standalone.' (Publication summary)

'Celeste was a shifter.

'What's the worst part of being a snow leopard shifter? It wasn't the epic-sized hairballs or the constant nudity.

'No, it was the fear. The fear of being captured and becoming another statistic, another underground prize. When an unintentional rescue results in some accidental consequences, Celeste knows that the sunny-natured Reese will have her back.

'However, she didn't plan on his best friends being quite so hostile, or the fact that Reese was one of the youngest billionaires in the US. His friends look at her and see just another gold digger; one they want gone by any means necessary.

'Fine, she hadn't planned on staying anyway, but while she was here, she was happy to play cat and mouse with Lincoln, the jacked-up bodyguard and Vincent, the way too pretty rockstar. Because her snow leopard? She wanted to roll around on them like they were catnip and she'd never been great at self-denial.

'But death still waits in the shadows for its prize, and this time, there will be no accidental savior coming to her rescue.'

Source : publisher's blurb

'Enit had always known who she was. Wolf Omega. Sibling to an Alpha. Daughter to some of the most feared vampires in the world. An excellent student. The nice one.

'Meeting and falling a little bit in lust with a sexy lion Alpha didn't change that.
But then there was an accident.

'When Enit woke up from her coma, she was different. She still looked the same, talked the same. She was still an Omega. Daughter. Sister.

'But now she didn't always want to be the nice one. She wanted to live. But not living within her old rules had consequences, and sometimes those consequences came at the barrel end of a gun.

'Sweethearts and Savages is the second book in the Eden Academy series. It is reverse harem which means she won't have to chose between the love interests. Contains sex scenes and swearing.'

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'Tessa May Everett had grown up loving four things in life; bull riding, her father and her best frenemies, Branch and Beau. 

'But in less than eight seconds, she'd lost all four things and the single most important person in her life. 

'Four years later, Tessa May is back and ready to reclaim her dreams. She was going to be the first woman to compete on the professional bull riding circuit, and nothing was going to stop her. Not the Boys Club that already held her to a different standard. Not the other riders who looked at her with barely veiled contempt. And certainly not the reappearance of her former crushes and now rivals. 

'With her best friend Frankie at her side, Tessa May was going to do what she'd dreamed of since she was a little girl; ride rank bulls in front of cheering crowds. 

'And if she happened to ride a few cowboys on the way? Even better. 

'*Warning* This book may contain strong themes that some readers find disturbing or confronting and reader discretion is advised.'

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'Hey, are you okay? 

'Are you a supernatural too, being hunted as a trophy? Do you have nowhere to go and no one to turn to? 

'Eden is here. We can provide protection. Safety. Understanding. 

'You just have to find us first. 

'When Layla stumbled across the Big, Bad Wolf in the woods as a teenager, her life changed forever. Shunned by her town, she learned to be happy with her own company. 

'But when a naked, bleeding man turns up on her doorstep in the middle of a blizzard, she never in her right mind thought the two incidents could be connected, or that they'd both impact her life in profound yet different ways. 

'Spirited to a secret organization called Eden for her own safety, Layla's eyes are opened to an entire supernatural world that has been hiding right in front of her, and now there's no going back to her boring, introverted life.'

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'Welcome to Eden Academy. Safe haven. Melting pot of preternatural beings from shifters to extraordinary humans. 

'Carmen had been attending Eden Prep since before she knew her multiplication tables, and she was ready to graduate, do her time at the Academy and then get the hell out of dodge. She was sick of having a best friend who still saw her as a little kid despite the fact she was seventeen. She was sick of her Alpha older brother telling her what to do. She was sick of always being compared to Enit, her omega and incomparable littermate. 

'The only place she felt free was fighting, and if her parents knew that? They'd kick her ass and keep her locked up in the tiny town of Dark River forever. Well, except her dad X. Carmen was pretty sure he was proud that she could kick ass.

'Carmen needed to get out into the world and live life on her own terms. But her first semester at the Academy brings more surprises than she expected. A fiery runaway with a quick smile and even quicker hands. Not to mention the arrival of a boy, no a man, with dark eyes and an even darker past. 

'Hell, maybe Eden was living up to its name after all.

'This story is an Academy, reverse harem romance.'

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'Happiness was a funny thing. It could grip you in its arms in even the darkest of times, and you just had to hold on tight enough to keep it forever. 

'If Serendipity ever got the chance, she might actually thank Uriel for locking her away in Purgatory. Sure, she'd probably rip off his balls and force feed them to him first, but still, she was woman enough to admit that if it wasn't for him, she might have never known this kind of happiness. She had four (and a half) men who adored her, a child who should never have been but was perfect anyway, and something she'd never thought she would ever possess. 

'A family. 

'But still, danger lurks in the shadows, biding its time, waiting to strike. Human trafficking Cartels trying to push into Damnation territory and threatening everything the Horsemen love. The shady, malevolent organization Tenebrae haunting their every step, waiting to take back what they think is theirs. 

'And then there was the small problem of Cain's favor to the Devil himself. 

'But until those problems came knocking at her door, she'd enjoy her time seducing the Four Horsemen and a sultry killer. 

'If only Serendipity knew that those problems were already on her doorstep, ready and waiting.'

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'Some one-night stands are bad, and some are just epic moments of fail. Two pump chumps, three-inch champions, guys who still live in the basement of their Mom's house; these are bad. Having sex with a slumming Archangel and ending up in Purgatory? Way, way worse. 

'After being rescued from Purgatory by an unlikely ally, Serendipity thought she could go back to living out her immortal years in relative obscurity. But then her stomach begins to swell, and she has to face the fact that she'd become impossibly pregnant. For the first time in her long life, she felt real fear. 

'When her allies smuggle her into the protection of Damnation MC, an Outlaw Motorcycle Club with more than a few secrets of their own, she can add unwanted attraction to her list of problems. 

'Judas, dark and mysterious, the President of the MC has no time for Sera or her problems.

'Cain, his tattooed exterior hiding a damaged heart.

'Solomon, a ladies man with a beautiful face and a blood-soaked past.

'Goliath, crazed and brutal, who hates women and seemed to hate Serendipity in particular. Now Sera has to decide if she can trust them, or if the only person she can trust to save her child is herself.'

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'Raine is back! Now it's time to settle down and get into the swing of her undead life. No more life or death-death situations. No more almost kidnappings. No more drama. 

'She's going to reopen the Immortal Cupcake and become a boring member of Dark River for real. 

'Except she can't bake. And there's an ancient vampire leaving her heads and other undesirable body parts on her front step. Don't forget the ancient dragon shifter king who seems convinced that the great love of her life is one of his progeny. 

'Whatever. It's just another day in paradise. 

'But a middle of the night bombshell threatens to shift her whole world yet again. Suddenly, she's getting visits from strange vampires who all want something from her, something she isn't willing to give. 

'Worst of all, she's not so sure she can keep the men that she loves, or if they will even want her now that they know the truth. Because how can they love her when their feelings might not even be real?'

Source : publisher's blurb

'There was no wake-up call quite like almost exsanguinating your main love interest while being compelled by your unhinged Maker.

'No longer hanging onto her past as Mika McKellen, human, Raine was determined to take her new life and live it at one hundred percent. She was no longer an unwilling victim. She was a badass vampire and the (slightly exhausted) lover of several supernatural hotties. She'd been through enough now, so she was ready for a happily-ever-after that was filled with love and rainbows and lots and lots of mind-blowing sex. Sure, there was still the looming threat of an investigation by the ruthless Vampire Nation, but she'd done nothing wrong.

'But when her long overdue, first real date with the sexy Sheriff is interrupted by someone bleeding on the floor of the diner, Raine began to wonder if there was even such a thing as happily-ever-after? It sure seemed like the Universe was mad she hadn't died in that ditch all those months ago.

'But no one was unlucky enough to die twice in one year, right?

'Happily Undead in Dark River is the second book in the Dark River Days series. This is a cliffhanger-free book with a HEA. May contain romantic elements suitable for more mature audiences.'

Source : publisher's blurb

'Harper’s relationship with her mother, Evie, had always been strained and filled with secrets. But when Evie dies of breast cancer, Harper feels lost. There was no more time to make peace and get answers to questions that had plagued her for her whole life. 

'That is, until Knoxfeld Long, her mother’s stupidly attractive lawyer, turns up on her doorstep with the chance to find out exactly what she’s always wanted to know: Who is her father?

'Evie had left her only daughter an expensive Memory Reconstruction, allowing her the chance to live her mother’s memories for a few days, and get swept up in her parents’ whirlwind romance. 

'But as they delve further into the past, Harper has to ask herself if she really wants to know, or if some questions are better left unanswered.'

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'Olivia Jefferson has always been a good little automaton. At least, that’s what her best friend Angela had always told her. She was a dutiful daughter, straight A student, and a devoted friend.

'But when Angela dies at seventeen of terminal brain cancer, Olivia’s automaton life gets turned upside down.

'She made a promise that she would finish Angela’s bucket list for her. But number one is to go on the scariest ride at the County Fair, Hell’s Hurricane, and number two is to go on a Grand Adventure. Both seem impossible. So when a pretty, blue eyed carnie boy offers her a place on the carnival for the summer, she couldn’t possibly go, right?

'Deciding to abandon her well planned future, Olivia follows the carnival along the bottom States, from Florida to LA. What she learns as she works her way through Angela’s bucket list will make her re-examine her dreams, her beliefs and make her really question: Who is Olivia Jefferson?'

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'The supernatural world is in chaos. The Djinn Council are dead, the body count is rising daily, and the Adel forces are scattered and leaderless.

'But this is only the beginning. The Fae are amassing an army that threatens to decimate the already weakened Djinn people.  

'Their mission? To subjugate or destroy the other supernatural inhabitants of the planet, until they can rise up as the New Gods.

'Azar Nazemi was comfortable in her role of black sheep of Djinn society. She’d even grown used to her servitude. Now her world was in tatters, and her instincts told her to run and hide. But the pressure of a divine prophecy, a lover who no longer had a corporeal form, and the guardianship of the next King of the Seelie Fae meant running was no longer an option.  

'The world might be in tatters, but she’d finally found something she was willing to stand and fight for, people she had grown to love, and the promise of a life she had only dreamed could be real.

'Could she stand up and become the unlikely hero that the Djinn needed, and maybe make a brave new world in the process?

'Rage and Ruin is the third and final book in The Azar Trilogy.'

'The Djinn have revelled in their position as the apex predator of the supernatural world for longer than Azar could remember. They held all the power and they wielded it with brutal finality. Being forced into fifty years of servitude only confirmed what she already knew; the Djinn Council put their pride above doing what was right or fair. 

'Admittedly, it could have been worse. She has a reasonably cushy job, a budding romance with the hunky Bast, a few unexpected friends, and a little bit of freedom so she didn't beat against the gilded cage of her servitude too much.

'But all that changes when Djinn kids begin showing up torn to pieces and set on fire. Tasked with tracking down a hate group that has it out for her kind, she travels to Canada on her first mission with The Adel, the Djinn military. 

'However, what she finds in the Canadian wilderness will threaten everything she takes for granted; her relationships, her sense of self, and even the very foundations of the Djinn regime. 

'The Djinn are about to find out that even the predators can quickly become the prey.'

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'Azar Nazemi is a firefighter with an ancient secret; she is Ifrit. A race of Djinn, or Genies as they are known to Westerners, the Ifrit have the ability to read a fire and mold it to their will. That makes her job a whole lot easier.

'When her crew attends a series of deadly arsons that appear to have been lit by one of her own kind, Azar knows it is up to her to track down the rogue Ifrit and stop him before he kills more people. There's only one problem; she’s spent a lifetime avoiding other Djinn and ensuring that the Djinn Ruling Council have no knowledge of her existence. A cold and brutal regime, the Djinn Council want to conscript her into slavery for one hundred years.

'As she pursues the Rogue, Azar will break the rules of secrecy that surround her world and enlist the help of human Arson Detective, Keenan Reilly. A chauvinist to the core, Detective Reilly has always rubbed Azar up the wrong way, mostly because she'd like him to rub her up the right way, despite her better judgement. But if she is to save her friends and the millions of people who call New York City home, then she is going to have to make a few sacrifices and bend a few rules.'

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'Hope had always been different. The child that should never have been. A fragile creature who’s empathy made her universally loved by those who knew her. An anomalous mixture of both humanity and the Divine, she walked the line between human and something more. 

'After she was abducted while on a business trip in Europe, Hope is forced to try and find herself beneath the emotions and expectations of others. However, that’s a hard thing to do when she is surrounded by Fallen Angels that all seem to want something from her. Mephistopheles looked at her like she was the key to something he had lost, and Gusion was haunted by a million possible futures that only he could see. 

'Then there was The Angel of Death who kept appearing to stare at the “aberration” like she was as an animal at the zoo, and a hitman who’d been coerced into being her unwilling bodyguard. Her life was a complicated mess. 

'If only she knew what was to come…'

Source : publisher's blurb