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Eleven years before Hannibal marched his army and war elephants over the Alps to attack Rome, a dying girl was thrown into a river and left to drown.Liada was captured by slave traders and, along with a wagonload of other girls and women, was being hauled across North Africa toward the slave markets at Carthage.When she falls violently ill with fever and convulsions, the slave traders fear she will infect the other captives.Their solution is simple.They throw her into the Bagradas River and once rid of her, they continue on toward the slave markets.But Liada does not drown in the turbulent river.Below a series of rapids, an enormous war elephant wades into the water and lifts her to safety w...

December, 1925.

 Fourteen-year-old Vincent “Fuse” Fusilier opens the barn door on a freezing morning—and finds a girl sleeping in the hay.

 She is thin, exhausted, defiant.

 She doesn’t understand English.

 By the time Fuse returns from his chores, she has vanished—leaving only a trail of footprints in the snow leading to the nearby woods.

 But she hasn’t gone far.

 Driven by hunger and cold, the mysterious girl risks everything to return to the farmhouse and sets in motion a chain of events that will change both their lives forever.

A combat mission over Afghanistan becomes something no soldier has ever trained for.When their aircraft is struck and a platoon of the Seventh Cavalry bails out, they don’t land in a war zone they recognize. Instead, the 13 soldiers hit the ground two thousand years in the past—in a world of empires, iron weapons, and wars fought face to face.Cut off from their own time and surrounded by forces that will kill them without hesitation, the men and women of the Seventh must choose quickly: remain outsiders and perish, or intervene in a history that was never meant to be altered.As modern weapons collide with ancient armies, courage, discipline, and ingenuity are pushed to their limits—and...

Fires, Shifters, Fire Babies, Magic, kidnappings and a whole lotta love. Oops the ‘cat’s outta the bag’...... Or is it the Wolf’s outta the bag?As the new Mayor of Celosia begins introducing herself around the town she has a strange feeling about Saul, the Fire Chief. She is drawn to him inexplicably.He’s the hottest man she has laid eyes on in years. It can’t be… could it?Chaos begins erupting around town. Humans and wolves alike are at risk.Did the bad Fae follow Zephyr?Did the new Mayor bring it with her?Or is something else at play here?What could be creating these mysterious happenings?For centuries the Pack Alpha has been in Saul’s and Kourtney’s family, that will nev...

Land of Ireland: Fae, Shifters, and MagicSitting in an unfriendly bar upon arriving in Ireland to assist local firefighters, my life changed forever.I couldn’t take my eyes off the extremely odd, attractive man speaking to me. To me!The heat growing in my core was unbearable. Something I have never felt before.There was something about the graceful way he moved, the way he conversed with a stranger. The way he looked into, or rather through, my eyes, straight to my soul.Never could I have imagined, being a wolf shifter and firefighter, that he would become my entire future.Dealing with the very strange circumstances in the town of Aoibheann, which ranged from buildings flooding to fires oc...

The New York Alpha Firefighter and his pack commitment…is in this Fire Wolf’s way.Being shunned and misunderstood as a firemaker working as a firefighter is my normal.My loner world was just fine until he appeared with a seemingly angelic glow coming from behind him.Our eyes met, his amber orbs drew me in as my heart skipped several beats.I suddenly felt melted and twisted like a raging fire-nato.His body, his hair, his presence, his deep soothing voice had me tantalized.I can control and manipulate fire, just not when this man ignites a blaze within me.This overwhelming desire for him is staggering.The fire he has ignited within me is uncontrollable.If we can overcome his ancestral comm...

She tried to bite his face.He offered her a job.Now they’re stuck in a kitchen—and maybe something elseRaven Blackwood doesn't belong in the human world. She was raised in the untamed wilds, a black bear shifter surviving alone for nearly two decades. She doesn’t understand clocks, paychecks, or polite conversation. But when the pack demands she integrate or be exiled again, she agrees to one impossible thing: working for a human.Jamie Sterling has everything to lose. Once a tech billionaire, now a fallen-from-grace celebrity chef, he returns to his hometown to film a reality show and rebuild his reputation. Hiring a woman who growls at cameras and bites his lip during kitchen instruct...

Author's note: This book is a paranormal comedy romance with a sassy female social media influencer investigative reporter and a gruff grumpy guardian bear shifter having to deal with human interactions that he is totally not capable of handling. 18+Helping cousin Samantha document the Bear Sanctuary of Springs Brooke might be fun. A Grumpy, Oh so Hot, Guardian is not what I expected.After all, the book she just published is incredibly mysterious and a best seller!Me: LilyGood Lord, he scared the living crap out of me as he grabbed me from behind. But I got him with my bear spray!My god, what kind of grumpy, sensual, thought provoking hunk of a man, lunatic is this and how in hell did someth...

From Global Book Award Winner - KC WildeAuthor's note: This book is a paranormal comedy romance with a sassy female writer and a gruff unworldly grumpy bear shifter having to deal with unfamiliar human idiosyncrasies and, of course, she turns their grumpy solitudinous world upside down. 18+Grumpy men, Bears and shifters in my mountains, definitely not on my agenda.Moving to a mountain cabin was supposed to bring me inspiration, not a tall burly gorgeous brooding billionaire next door as my landlord.The minute I laid eyes on him across the field, it was game over. Nothing but passion on my mind.His muscles, his demeanor, his … melted me like chocolate fondue.I just wanted inspiration for my...

From Global Book Award Winning Author KC WildeHe gave up his freedom to save her.She came to Pinehaven to build a new home with him.For eight months, Norma Mercer lived without knowing why her husband had disappeared. Caleb believed surrendering to Bloodridge was the only way to keep his human wife alive. Even after Pinehaven freed him, he stayed away, certain the danger surrounding his bloodline would follow him home.Caleb underestimated the woman he had loved for twenty-seven years.Norma does not need another man deciding what risks she is allowed to take. When she discovers the truth, she comes to Pinehaven determined to reclaim her husband, rebuild their marriage, and create a future nei...

From Global Book Award Winner KC WildeShe asked Pinehaven for one safe night.The town gave her a reason to stay.Rhea Calder has spent years surviving a pack where loyalty means obedience and leaving is treated like betrayal.When her injured younger brother refuses an Alpha’s brutal order, Rhea does the only thing she can.She runs.Their escape ends at the boundary of Pinehaven, Montana, a shifter town with a dangerous reputation, an even more dangerous past, and one very serious wolf standing between her and the pack hunting them.Xander Crowe knows trouble when he sees it.He also knows the exhausted woman protecting her brother is his mate.But Rhea escaped one pack determined to control her...

Global Book Award Winning Author KC WildeWelcome Home to StoryvilleShe came home to sell a cottage.The cottage had other plans.Laurel Quinn has no intention of staying in Storyville.She only returned to the Texas Hill Country to settle her grandmother’s estate, sell the old family cottage, and get back to the life she built far away from the town she barely remembers.Then the house starts making decisions without her.Rooms appear where none existed before.Strangers in need somehow find their way to the porch.And Owen Mercer, the annoyingly calm wolf shifter hired to restore the place, seems far too interested in what the cottage is becoming.Owen knows the Quinn house sits on more than old ...