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Laura MacKenna loves antiques and receives a very old book as a gift. As she begins to read it, she feels sick and a strange man, Rayther Dunston, appears in her bedroom. He tells her she summoned him. When he says he was born in 1732, she feels pretty certain he’s delusional. When he says she has seven days to decide to keep him as a mate she knows he’s either scamming her or completely crazy. When he keeps showing up in her apartment in an odd way she thinks stalker. A witch name Maud set up the book to give deserving women a gift. If women decide not to keep a man, Maud becomes very ...

Kris Bennett-Lake’s world, after a year, isn’t what she’d have thought it would be. She’s married, with a three month old baby and magical powers wanted by evil demons, a ghost and an Oracle. Garda, the puppet master, has watched Kris for the right time to take her abilities and turn her to the dark side. He has a plan for her and brings his son, Guillermo, into the mix. Kris is thrown into a maelstrom, from being chained in a dungeon for eight years to making an illegal poison, White Dagger and after a vision that matches her with Guillermo is desperate to keep her husband, Roman, ...

Kate Beck once was a nationally recognized figure skater. Eight years ago, on the brink of being one of the top three skaters in the United States, her dreams came crashing down at the hands of her coach and her mother. She walked away and has hidden from her mother ever since. Moving from place to place, she gets off a bus in Canon City, finds a job and settles in for the winter. She's been lonely and dreams that one day she'll meet a man, have a family and be able to stay in one place. It's been eight years of running. She hopes her mother has given up the search for her. Jay Hager grew ...

Read the exciting first series in the Canon City series by best-selling author, Lauren Marie. As kids, Lark Metcalfe and Charlie Stone saved each other and Canon City, Colorado from bullies, dark knights and alien invaders. Then one terrible night, Charlie accidentally killed his abusive father and Lark watched the police take her best friend away knowing she couldn’t save him. Now, thirteen years later, Charlie has come home. He’s driven a big rig around the country for all these years and is tired of being alone. Lark owns an on-line business and is engaged to be married on New ...

Maggie, Kit and Fran all discover the news and wonder if it’s moon cycles. Maggie doesn’t know how to tell Jax. Kit is worried that Marcus will be upset about putting off their plans. Fran is just plain scared. Jax freaks out and goes for a motorcycle ride. Marcus almost accuses Kit of forgetting her pills on time. Mac falls off the bed, but accepts the news. They all have to adjust to the fact they’re going to become fathers. After some thought the three men decide to support their women, but still have balls to juggle and things to get used to. All this with an arsonist burning down...

Michael Grifka, just discharged from his military service after two tours, wants to go to his parents house in Montana, but he’s taking the long way home. He needs to learn how to deal with civilian life again and figure out how he’s going to deal with his dad who never wanted him to join the service. He hasn’t seen his folks for twelve years. On his way through Kansas, he’s ambushed by four men, who beat him up and dump him in a corn field. He’s found by a young boy and his friends who think he’s going to turn into a zombie. When Michael wakes up, he finds himself in the home ...

Ren and Jack have known each other for over 2000 years. Every forty to fifty years or so, they are reborn, but if they become involved together they die. In present day Everett Washington they meet again and, for the first time, they both remember the past lives. Ren is a bartender at a pool hall and lounge. Jack is from England and after searching for sixteen years, through a genealogy website finds a relation to Ren's family and is told they moved to America. It is the first time in all their lives that they are both aware of the past. They begin to warm up, but know if they touch they'll...

Kate Sullivan and Bill Leary have experienced progressive dreams all their lives. The dreams are about a man and woman who look just like them, but lived in a different time. Lizzie and Connor are married in 1912, and on their first honeymoon night, die in a hotel fire. Kate and Bill dreamt about these other people since they were kids, but when they die in the final dream both of them are very sad. It isn’t until after the final dream that they meet for the first time and recognize each other from the dreams. They have to join forces solve the puzzle of the dreams and figure out if ...

Kit Volkov went on a singles website to try it out and find a date. After going on one date, Thomas Hasson becomes an annoyance. He’s been following her for a couple of weeks, showing up when she’s getting her hair done and at the grocery store. Kit’s brother, Jax, sees him watching Shimmy Trick Tattoo Parlor, her place of employment and asks her if she noticed. She’s noticed and it’s getting annoying. Marcus Diaz is a detective for the Reno police department. He has been friends with Jax for over ten years and met Kit at Shimmy when she came to work for her brother. He’s been ...

Fran Meadows ran from a troubled life in Michigan and on her way west found a job ad for a tattoo artist in Reno, Nevada. She needed the job. With only a few dollars in her pocket she's been sleeping in her car. She also wanted to start over and forget her old life. Her ex-husband tried to kill her and would soon be released from prison. She worries he'll come after her and finish what he'd started. Mackey 'Mac' Fitzgibbons is a Reno detective. When he first sees Fran he's attracted and wants to help her get on her feet, but finds her walls hard to break down. Mac isn't about to give up. ...

"I will call you Rochelle and you will love me..." Kris Bennett hears those words and discovers she's entered a world she never believed existed. After drinking a half glass of wine tainted with cyanide and spells her life is opened to the magick’s and evil that she denied. Hiding her magical abilities from herself for many years, she finds she has much to learn. Roman, one of the lake guards, has served longer than required. More than one hundred years ago he lost the woman he loved and stays with the Lake Guards longer than necessary. He’s told by the Oracle that Kris is an innocent ...

Cara Hodges receives a letter from a woman claiming to be her husband’s lover. She could have ignored the note, but since it was the third time that he’d cheated, she couldn’t let it go. For her it was his third strike. After thinking about this development overnight, Cara decides to walk away from her life in Spokane, Washington and ends up in Laramie, Wyoming. Needing to clear her head and start a new life, she finds an apartment and a job. Her husband reports her missing. Detective William Benz works at the Laramie Police Department. He’s developed some feelings for Cara, when he...

Welcome to The Oath Breakers Podcast, hosted by Lauren Marie. Oaths are a solemn commitment that people make to uphold specific standards of conduct, whether in government, healthcare, finance, or other fields. However, there are instances where individuals break these oaths, such as politicians engaging in treason, doctors neglecting their duties, or financiers resorting to fraud. Join us as we explore the complex motivations behind oath-breaking. Why do individuals take oaths they may not honor? What drives them to betray their commitments, and what are the consequences? Delve into these ...

Brain Baddie is the podcast for girls who want the soft life and the rewired brain to sustain it.Hosted by Lauren Marie, neuroscientist, mindset coach, and certified in subconscious reprogramming, this show blends neuroscience, spirituality, motivation, lifestyle, and girlhood to help you break patterns, rewire your subconscious, and step into your most confident, abundant self.Inside, we talk about:rewiring your brain for money, confidence & easesubconscious habits that keep you stuck (and how to break them)soft life routines that actually change your nervous systemhot girl mindset backed by ...

Ian Deatherage's past is a shadow. He's doesn't make friends easy, traveling from place to place on his motorcycle. But when it breaks down in Berne, Washington, he has twenty dollars in his pocket and needs to find a job to pay for the repairs. Kris Marcus is the owner of The Scamp bar. She offers Ian a bouncer job. He works for a week and the relationship between he and Kris builds and boils over into nights of hot passion. Ian and Kris dance around each other and she figures once his motorcycle is fixed that he'll leave the area, and she wants to protect herself. Ian doesn't know ...

Riley Frost is an attorney who was once a Dom and liked control. He left the life style and tried to figure out what he wanted in his life. He’d never found a woman with a sense of adventure and passion, until one night when he walked into a bar and... Sophie Pantagen is the vice-president of her father’s company. She’s spent the past ten years having one-off’s with men who are strangers. She never found out their names and didn’t care to see them ever again. That was until one night in a bar when she met... Riley and Sophie find each other at a time when both are looking for more...

It's an exciting new suspense trilogy about a cult! Three women fight against the Sanctuary of the Prophet in three separate stories. She Lied - Kara King was asked by the Sanctuary eight years earlier to set up a journalist, Jim Hollis, due to his negative articles about the prophet. Because of what she did, he served seven years in prison and now wants justice. He wants her to tell the truth. A Suitable Pawn - Rachel King is asked to help the Sanctuary bring a wayward parishioner, Donovan Boomer back into the fold. He's a millionaire and they want his money. With his help she finds out a ...

Née et élevée dans la secte Les Enfants de Dieu, Lauren Hough est trimballée avec sa famille d'un continent à l'autre, vit dans des foyers surpeuplés et connaît la pauvreté. Les enfants subissent notamment de nombreux abus sexuels lors de « nuits de partage » avec des adultes. À l'âge de 15 ans, Lauren quitte la secte avec sa mère et son frère pour aller vivre chez sa grand-mère au Texas.

Turner Black works for a group, Lost Souls, in Seattle that helps find people who were separated from loved ones for one reason or another. He’s hired to find the half-sister of Stewart Tarver. Their shared father has passed away and left her part of a large inheritance. Turner finds Rae Smith working as a stripper at a dance club in Tracy, California. She always wanted to be a ballet dancer, but the death of her mother took that dream away. She moves from one club to another, and is happy to just survive. Turner and Rae are drawn to each other, but she isn’t big on commitments and ...

The Bread Also Rises is an anthology like no other. It combines the best of both worlds: captivating stories and delicious recipes. Each tale references a food or drink, and at the end of the story is the recipe for you to try. So grab your apron, dust off your cooking skills, and prepare for a gastronomic-literary adventure. With The Bread Also Rises, you'll not only discover new stories but the recipes that will make them unforgettable. Reviews for other WCPNW Anthologies: ★★★★★ "What I really enjoyed about this book is how all the stories felt as if they were another ...