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Intermittent Fasting: Built To Fast. Your True Intermittent Fasting Guide

Are you tired of food addictions that sap your energy and make you overweight? Discover a simple science-based system to tone your body, curb your cravings, and lose those stubborn pounds. Is your love of carbs lowering your energy? Have you heard of the benefits of fasting but you want to make sure you do it safely? Author and nutritionist Emily Moore first discovered the time-honored practice of intermittent fasting when studying nutrition at college. She was so surprised by the benefits that she did a deep dive into the age-old science behind this incredibly effective practice. Now Moo ...

Catch A Falling Star (An Eden Mystery)

When mystery novelist Kate Rawlings accepts a summer teaching position at her alma mater in the peaceful college town of Eden, Kentucky, she expects to have time with her ailing mother and time to write. But when her college boyfriend, Michael Mabry, makes a surprise appearance, trouble follows. Michael is on the run from his partners in a Chicago museum heist in which a valuable ancient Indian artifact called the Shooting Star was stolen and two people killed. Michael escaped with the Star and his life, but he needs money to get out of the country. After so long, Eden should be the last place ...

Gemini Queen: A Dark Witch Academy Paranormal Romance

I summon the lightning. I claim my power. The warlocks of Icarus Academy claim me. I start my night as a cat burglar in Singapore and I end up queen of the witching world. Too bad this magical fairytale's a gig I never wanted and won't accept. My witchcraft is wild and lethal, so I've renounced my power. I'm like Cinderella scrubbing floors at the Icarus Academy. But these four sexy warlocks who rule the school just won't take no for an answer. They want me to claim my power. They want me to summon the lightning. And they want to claim me as their consort. Because the witching wo ...

Villainy in Vienna, A Fiona Figg Mystery

1917. Vienna. File clerk turned British agent, Fiona Figg, is more comfortable wearing a fake mustache than a ballgown. When a royal ball ends with a royal body in the middle of the dancefloor, Fiona trades her dancing slippers for practical oxfords and sets out to investigate. As she tracks her nemesis, the Black Panther, from Vienna to the Austrian countryside, a hunting accident makes her rethink her loyalties. Can Fiona prevent the Black Panther from striking again, save her own skin, and find a decent cup of tea, all before the enemy’s emperor realizes she’s a spy?

Category Mystery-Cozy
The Third Girl (Molly Sutton Mysteries 1)

A missing girl. An amateur sleuth. And a whole lot of croissants. Meet Molly Sutton, recently divorced and ready for a new life, who moves to the village of Castillac in France to open a B&B. She’s looking for peace, pastry, and beautiful gardens—an altogether slower life than the one she’d had in Boston. But you know what they say about the best intentions…. Molly has barely gotten over jet-lag when she hears about a local student’s disappearance. In between getting her ramshackle house in order and digging into French food, Molly ends up embroiled in the ca ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
Cassie's Secrets

Where secrets go, distrust follows. Can two lonely people let go of past hurt and learn to trust again? Single mom, Cassie Verano, and her two young daughters move to small town Worthy, Ohio to be near her brother and his family. She longs to raise her daughters without her ex-husband’s family’s controlling interference, and live in peace. When her daughters befriend two girls who are cared for by their matchmaking aunt, Cassie avoids it at all costs. It’s the last thing she needs or wants after escaping a dangerous marriage. Widowed business owner, Steve Nardelli, wants nothing more tha ...

Category Romance
The Bodyguard

In a violent twist of fate, psychiatrist Julia Cabot flees to protect herself and her children. She finds an unlikely haven with Mitch Garrison, a former bodyguard who blames himself for his wife being fatally shot while helping an abused woman. Mitch desperately wants to avoid Julia and his nightmarish memories. However, when her ex-husband kidnaps her children, Mitch joins forces with Julia in a journey that brings them face to face with their deepest fears and their most passionate desires.

In the shadow of an old Bacchus Hill, bricks and stone were the only things standing from a time long past and only a handful of men could recall its former glory. Among them were his bestfriend Alistair, ‘The Lion” Bacchus. Lennox Marshall was always his trusted confidant for all things related to ‘the hill.’ For them, past events carried both fond memories and haunting secrets, a time when men settled matters with their fists or raucous pub brawl. But in this new evolved world, life had turned into a mess of deceit, hidden behind computer screens, and cloaked in technology. Lennox, was a man ...

Category BIPOC
Wicked Intentions

I never thought I'd fall for a bad boy, never mind a cold blooded killer. On the surface, Virgil Ashby is sweet and charming, but I know better. He's a heartless criminal. So, why did he save my life? He's as dangerous as the men who captured me. I should be afraid of him, but I can't help myself. There's something about Virgil that sets my soul on fire. I should run as far and as fast as I can, but the coiled darkness inside him draws me in like a moth to a flame. I just hope I don't get burned. Buy this steamy Irish Mafia Romance today! Previously released as Velvet Fire! It's the s ...

Category Romance Suspense
Southern Hospitality: Horny Wives of Pinopolis

I saw her standing there, towards the end of the pier, alone. She wore a multi-coloured dress. Her hair was ruffled but she did not seem to care as the wind blew against her face. So begins the story of a young man's summertime journey to Charleston, South Carolina, where he gets to spend quality time with a horny mature wife and her husband. The couple take him to their home in a suburban enclave called Pinopolis where more lonesome wives are just waiting to make his acquaintance, and he's just the right type of man they have been searching for. The sort of man to sate their sexual thirst.

Category Romance Steamy
Bound In Strength

For god-like creatures named Mejuarian living on planet Ercutis, their world was near perfect. Mejuarian, a cross between an animal and godly beings, have a splendorous village where everyone gets along. They live in a hierarchical society, and everyone loves their king and queen. A near utopian life that allows all Mejuarian to rise to their most extraordinary levels of consciousness. That is until they discover using systems much like our own, an asteroid is on course to decimate their village and erase their long history. Short notice, they plan to move all inhabitants, along with those bo ...

Category Fantasy
An Air Of Deceit

A cozy mountain town with elemental magic that goes back generations. A hereditary witch strengthening the powers within her since childhood. A magical family and a newfound cat familiar to stand by her as she builds a close knit coven of her own, solves the suspicious nature of her grandmother’s death, and steps up to become the foremost elemental witch of the mountain region. ‌ Autumn assumed she would lead a normal life as an earth and air witch. Running a paper shop with her cousin, Simone, on Main Street, they handed out the perfect messages and comforting items that each of their cust ...

The Penitent Priest

My wife died in my arms, the victim of a nameless killer's bullet. I should have died with her. But God had other plans for me. Fifteen years later, I'm back where it all happened. I just want to forget, but the past won't leave me alone. Now, I'm asking a woman who I left broken-hearted twenty years before to catch my wife's killer. I'm Father Tom Greer, a Catholic priest, and I'm playing with fire.

Category Mystery-Crime
More Than This

A sexy bartender stirs up a daily lesson plan for an adventurous teacher... When she discovers her ex-husband is about to be a father, Quinn Adams is on a mission. Determined to get pregnant without the commitment of a man, Quinn sets out for her own adventure. But everyone seems to think she needs to focus on herself first. With a list of challenges compiled by her sister and their friend, Quinn embarks on some life-altering fun. Her first challenge is to go on five dates within two weeks. After a few disastrous attempts, Quinn’s ready to give up—until sexy bartender Ryan O’Leary offers his a ...

Under the Acacia Trees

Dr. Thaddeus Bennett and his friend Father Gregory Mayhew sail to New South Wales in 1806 to establish a church and a medical practice. The tiny area known as Wahroonga, some thirty miles north of Sydney, is where they settle. The work soon becomes overwhelming, when an orphanage for half-caste aboriginal children is added to the church, and Dr. Bennett's medical clinic grows crowded with patients. Bennett advertises in England and Canada in 1816 for a nurse. She arrives in 1818 in the person of Miss Ella Fielding. She is educated, refined, and beautiful, not at all what the vicar and doctor ...

Hazard

After apprehending the money man who caters to cartels, Hazard and the team discover a connection to the Alzate Cartel and their leader Angel. The lead takes them to Bogota, Colombia, one of the roughest cities in South America where he comes up against US Attorney Leigh Waterford, a difficult, beautiful, and determined lawyer. Hazard chaffs against her presence, believing that civilians didn't have any business being embedded with a SEAL Team. He'd previously acted as her bodyguard while NCIS handled a volatile, dangerous, and intense investigation. Now that his team were on the trail of A ...

Category Romance Suspense
Between False Shadows

A shrewd police detective investigates the kidnapping of a 9-year-old prophet and uncovers a supernatural conspiracy.

The Last Refuge (The Peter Brandt Thrillers Book 2)

Iraq, 1991: Operation Desert Storm. In a terrible friendly fire incident, a U.S. helicopter massacres a small convoy of American MPs. Among the dead: a mysterious American civilian engineer discovered by the soldiers behind enemy lines. San Diego, CA, 1993: A freelance journalist is hired to write a story about a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the dead engineer's widow against the government and the defense contractor he worked for. The problem: the government insists the lawsuit does not exist, and the contractor claims the engineer did not work for them. Worse, someone is willing to kill to ...

Category Mystery-Crime
A Medium's Birthday Surprise: A Cozy Ghost Mystery (Becky Tibbs: A North Carolina Medium's Mystery Series Book 1)

She sees ghosts! Join Becky as she solves many mysteries in this light, clean, airy, and informative series. Becky Tibbs didn’t ask for the job or the gift of being a medium, but after her parents died, the unusual ability became a bequest – a gift handed down from her mother’s side of the family. An optimistic and positive young woman, Becky determines to make the best of a difficult situation in the small town of Asheville, North Carolina where the smallest detail is noticed and everyone knows everything about everyone else. Becky deals with a lot of departed spirits in the Blue Ridge Mounta ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
The Music Inside

Heidi Murphy has been raised by a religious family and spent the last three years of high school at a private Christian boarding school. At 19 she is living in Pennsylvania, married, bored, directionless, and apathetic. After a devastating personal tragedy, her best friend's invitation to visit San Francisco in 1989 changes all of that. She begins a completely different new life in the eclectic and liberal city by the bay, reinvents herself in the debauchery of the rock and roll culture that she immerses herself immersed in, and struggles to define her identity. As the pop metal of the 1980s f ...

Category Womens Fiction
3 Women, 3 Events, 3 Results (Life is Not Always Kind to Us Series box set)

This is a box set and includes three women's studies books from Life is Not Always Kind to Us Series: The Retreat The Journey my name is Tookie It is dedicated to women everywhere who have had a rough, tough life in the hope that these particular stories will inspire and uplift. These three stories are about three unique women, the difficulties they each faced, and the changes that happened for them when they challenged their circumstances and eventually found solace in place of pain and joy in place of despair. Author's warning: Some content might not be suitable for squeamish readers. ...

Category Womens Fiction
Kept by the Viking

Loyalty to the Brotherhood comes before all. Including women. Formidable Viking leader Rurik knows the law. His loyalty to the Forgotten Sons is his bond, and no woman will threaten what he’s built from the ground up. But the Sons are a roving band of Vikings, and Rurik is growing restless—so when Normandy’s chieftain offers land, the proposal intrigues him. And the sultry Parisian thrall he finds in his tent intrigues him even more… Safira is cunning and clever and full of secrets. Rurik’s men have no interest in securing her safe passage home, but, piqued with lust, Rurik views Safira’s wile ...

Finding Peace

Tuck is determined to keep Laurie safe, even if it means risking his own heart in the process. Police Officer Tuck Chandler works hard to protect the citizens of Kitner, Texas. He’s also good at holding women at arm’s length. Jilted by his fiancée for his dedication to his job, he’s not about to open himself up to hurt like that again. Laurie Blake is a struggling photographer. After growing up in a wealthy family, she’s determined to make it on her own, even if it means doing it the hard way. When Tuck is assigned to a puzzling burglary involving Laurie’s fledgling photography business, ...

Category Christian
Lilith: Blood Ink

Having killed her last producer, stuntwoman Lee Striga's next film shoot takes her to the voodoo-soaked bayous and haunted back alleys of New Orleans, where sinister supernatural figures stalk the streets. In a dark corner of the French Quarter, an arcane tattoo artist is using his clients in rituals that will open an inter-dimensional gateway for a demon god from beyond the stars.

Category Fantasy-Urban
Ella Perri Mystery Series

Please note: the first link is to the first 2 books in my series and the second link is to the 3rd book!

 

Families have secrets.

Some secrets are locked, sealed, and taken to the grave. Others beg to be told. They ooze through cracks a little at a time. You tease them out until an ugly truth is fully exposed. Ella Perri knows there’s something hidden in the family cottage.

In his last breath, Ella’s grandfather reveals to her a startling secret that hints at something sinister. On behalf of her beloved grandfather, she ...

Cream Puff Murder: A Seagrass Sweets Cozy Mystery (Book 1)

Ashley Adams is settling back into her life in Seagrass, TX after leaving a broken heart and criminal ex-boyfriend in Paris, France. Her French sweets catering company has finally landed a major job, making Ashley grateful for all that is going right – her business, her work partnership, and reconnecting with an old friend Ryan. All that changes when Ashley overhears one of the guests arguing with a strange man in the bathroom. Things get worse when the woman is found dead the next day, poisoned by one of Ashley’s cream puffs. Ashley must solve the mystery to save the reputation of ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
Sideswiped

When Rex nearly bumps into someone from his former life, it's time for Rex and Digger to get out of India. Rex goes to Thailand, where he plans to undergo cosmetic surgery to change his looks and hide from people in his past. But then he meets Sunstra. Her name means 'girl with beautiful eyes'. Right from the beginning, they become fast friends, and before long there is a romance in the making. But then Sunstra disappears. Her family receives a ransom ultimatum: Sunstra is alive, but if her father doesn't sell his land she won't stay that way for long. It's a race against the clock for Rex and ...

The Haunting of Highcliff Hall

Catherine inherited a castle. She didn’t know who waited for her. She didn’t know why the village folk avoided her. She didn’t understand why the live in help moved out whenever the heir came home. She should have believed the Hag. When foreign correspondent Catherine Davis inherits her grand aunt’s castle, Highcliff Hall it is enough to convince her to leave her globe-trotting life behind and write her novel. But before she ever steps one foot out of London an old fortune teller, a Hag, warns her of the curse. Never one to accept such ludicrous beliefs Catherine arrives at Highcliff to find a ...

Category Horror
Abounding Hope

Poland’s looming defeat forces an American teacher to escape with children wanted by the Nazis. It’s late August, 1939, and the world is on the brink of war. The Nazis are threatening Poland, but American teacher Irena Simmons refuses to flee to safety. She’s dedicated her life to serving in her church and school, and she’s watching over the little German boys she whisked to safety the year before. When Jonathan, her former classmate, surprises her in Lvov and insists she leave with him before the war starts, Irena balks. Nothing will interfere with her work—especially a man making demands. ...

The Valentine Quest

Keep your competition close…and your heart even closer.

When Nevada Parker travels to Marietta, Montana, she anticipates enough peace and quiet to finish her PhD dissertation. Cupidville turns out to be anything but quiet. In fact, it looks like Valentine’s Day—her ...

Wicked Seduction

Venice, Italy - early 1800s

Vampire Marcello Sebastiani has enough on his plate with the city of Venice demanding his birth records to prove ownership of his centuries-old palazzo. The last thing he needs is a headstrong yet delicate Englishwoman bulldozing her way into his lif ...

Feral Touch: A Rock Star Romance

Is he still the boy I fell in love with, or are the rumors true? After all, everyone knows rock stars don't date nice girls. Rock stars *use* nice girls.

All That's Unspoken

Eight years after she left, the holidays have brought Hailey Lambert back to--Caseville Michigan--the small town she couldn't wait to flee. Just months after her mother's death, her siblings want to put their father in a nursing home and rent out the family farm. Nate Jenkins--the high school crush she left behind the day after they acted on their mutual attraction--is the prospective tenant is Nate. Nate tried to leave small town behind too. That was the plan they both had, but life dealt him a different hand of cards to play. He's now back in Caseville, raising his daughter, and running his ...

Category Romance Suspense
Apple Pie and Arsenic

Old enemies, Spring Festival, an angry ex, and a baker with skills outside the kitchen! Maddie returned home to help her ailing Gran, but instead she opened the bakery of her dreams. Dreams which become a nightmare when she stumbles upon a body at Spring Festival. The sheriff, who happens to be her ex, isn’t playing nice and Maddie must solve the crime before she ends up in jail. Fortunately she’s not having to fight alone. There’s Gran, her posse of galpals, and one large ginger Maine coon. Big Red and Maddie are a team and they aren’t going quietly!

Category Mystery-Cozy
Shadowed Storm: A Shadow Defense Security Thriller Book 4

She’s determined to unravel their plan to control the world’s water supply. They’re out to silence her—permanently. Oceanographer Alexis Hayes can’t resist an impromptu dive when she spots a school of basking sharks. But the moment of pleasure takes a dangerous turn. Alexis discovers a sunken motorboat’s lethal treasure—a bio-engineered algae specimen capable of contaminating freshwater sources. Now, she’s the target of a ruthless enemy who will stop at nothing to recover the specimen. But Alexis has a secret weapon, friend and former Navy SEAL Seb Tremblay. Together, they set out to find a ...

Three-Day Weekends Are Murder

If you love smart women sleuths, murder and deception, and more twists and turns than a rough ride on a turbulent ocean – this book is for you! Maddy was looking forward to spending the holiday weekend with her handsome detective boyfriend in their sleepy, beachside community….until she ran into the last person in the world she wanted to see – her ex-husband. But when a woman is found strangled in his hotel room, she answers his call for help leading the sister sleuths into a weekend filled with con games, a cursed diamond and ruby necklace, a secret that could destroy a high-flying phar ...

Category Mystery-Crime
The Mystery Of Ms. Teak: The Ainsworth Chronicles, Book Two:

Detective Carol Ainsworth really has her work cut out this time! Agnes at her craziest best. She discovers a secret that she can't reveal to anyone, including herself, and how does one psychic stop another from hunting her down? Meanwhile, Carol has her hands full with pissed-off Russians, the reborn builder of much of Victorian Victoria (yes, the Sir Francis Rattenbury), a young girl claiming to be our aforementioned psychic and there's something very wrong with Nathan, Carol's nephew that they saved from death. To top it all, why is Agnes' behaviour so weird? Even for Agnes! But in tradition ...

Every Yesterday

Megan Howard used to be a successful painter—but that was a long time ago. These days she’s struggling to move forward, convinced her heart is permanently broken after her last relationship and grief stricken over the loss of her father. Clinging to memories of happier times, she holds tight to her father’s most cherished possession: a 1958 DeSoto Adventurer. Though she needs the money, she’ll never sell it—even loaning the prized automobile to her best friend on the day of her wedding stirs up painful memories. Avowed bachelor and car collector Noah Black has nev ...

The Alpha's Proposal

He’s the poster child for selfishness, flaunting his scandalous reputation in the heart of New York City. Attracting paparazzi like bees to honey. Marcell Baptiste is an alpha male, grumpy, playboy, billionaire Who is used to getting what he wants? He’s a real estate entrepreneur with a list of the wealthiest clientele in the world. When he discovers marriage is the prerequisite to getting into the prestigious social club I was his executive assistant and he asked me to be his fake fiance. I find myself entangled in a web of secrets, passion, and magnetic pull Grows into a passionate and fiery ...

Category Romance Steamy
Champions of Light

Darkness strangles a kingdom. Can those destined to rule overcome it in time? Runaway Rhoanda, betrayed by her father for arranging her marriage without telling her, should have expected it. Winter hangs on in the mountains, closing the pass to the west. Caught stealing, the city watch takes her to the Cathedral of Light. She learns the truth about the Light while trying to hide her identity. Her parents would use her as an excuse to attack this kingdom. Sergeant Vern can’t shake his desire to drink nor his anger at the Lord of Light for letting his sister die young. He continues to work ...

Category Fantasy
Easy

The team is tasked with rescuing PAY-TV executive Jacqueline Devers in Caracas when she was sent to by her CEO to close a big deal for the company. She was being held falsely against her will. But when the team go in, Jack and Matthew “Easy” Hitchcock get separated from the team and they have to go on the run across a hostile country until they can be extracted. Jack has been through a terrible, terrifying ordeal, but Easy has to admire her resolve and cool-under-fire attitude. The more time he spends with her, the closer they draw together. Since Easy is the only thing that stands between her ...

Category Romance Steamy
Heart of Crystal (Book One: Trust Me)

Crystal was permanently scarred by her ex-boyfriend last semester. After a few months of attending a writers’ group she joined as a form of therapy, Mario, the group leader and a spoken word artist, asks her out. She is reluctant to start another intimate relationship, so things are further complicated when a second group member pursues her and causes her to question what she really knows about either man. Secrets are exposed, tension mounts, and tempers flare as Crystal struggles to discover who she can trust. As the end-of-the-year performance gets closer, pressure builds as students prepare ...

Category Romance Sweet
CHASING THE Billionaire’s ONLY SON

CEO Heath Cliff, son of a billionaire real estate mogul, needs a getaway from his father and the paparazzi. His father has given him an ultimatum. Marry or lose control of the family business. Heath escapes to a cottage in a small Illinois town. Zoe needs a vacation from her busy low-paying job and the memories of her ex-fiancé. She books a weekend at a cottage and prepares for a weekend of relaxation. Little do they know, they booked the same cottage for the same weekend. The two spend a night of passion together, and Zoe excites Heath more than any woman he’s ever been with. However, they ca ...

Category Romance Steamy
Baby with my One Night Stand

I got pregnant from my one night stand. I didn’t want him to ever find out… It’s been 5 years since I left home to avoid a pregnancy scandal. But, I’ve returned to start a new life with my son. My physical therapy clinic is now open and life is perfect. I score a big contract to treat a high profile NFL star. That’s when Nick shows up. He’s the arrogant playboy who broke my heart. The man who I never wanted to see again. Unfortunately, he’s my new patient. I want nothing more than to treat him for his injury. But as emotions stir up, it’s clear that he wants more. He’s scoring to ...

Category Romance Steamy
The Colors of Love

Read the award-winning sequel in The Colors Trilogy! If at first you don't succeed, then try, try again…right? Only two things matter to Lance, protecting his girls and football. After almost losing the girls, Lance is more determined than ever to safeguard them and fulfill his dream to become a professional athlete. With the NFL draft looming, will his promiscuity derail his dream and endanger the girls again? Imani, proud and Black, continues along the academic path to a chemical engineering degree and a promising career. Will her racist preconceptions thwart her progress? A shattered Melody ...

Category New Adult
Stolen From My Billionaire Boss

In the shadows of a small town, a sinister secret hides behind the face of love. All I want is to get my life started after college. But when a string of gruesome murders sends my hometown into lockdown it’s hard to find a place to live, never mind a job. So I can’t believe my luck when I land an interview at the flashy high-tech security firm. Then I meet my new boss ......... Damon Clark. My best friend’s older brother turned successful billionaire. He’s not the boy I remember. His years as a marine have served him well. His broad shoulders and chiseled arms have me clenching my thighs when ...

Category Romance Steamy
The Deception

A sleight of hand. A trick up the sleeve. A call for the dead. It’s all part of the game in this twisty tale by the bestselling author of After Alice Fell. Maud Price was once a celebrated child medium, a true believer in lifting the veil between the living and the dead. Now penniless, her guiding spirit gone, the so-called “Maid of Light” is desperate to regain her reputation—but doing so means putting her faith in deceiving others. Clementine Watkins, known in spiritualist circles for her bag of tricks and utmost discretion, creates the sort of theatrics that can fill Maud’s parlor again, an ...

Billionaire Protector

My billionaire boss can’t take his naughty eyes off me…and I like it. He’s sexy – like sensuous, steamy, titillating sexy. He’s Romeo, Adonis, and James Bond all rolled into one. I never knew rich, arrogant older men are so alluring…until him. Max is off-limits though…he is my boss after all. Turns out he’s more than just that – Max is my protector, my defender. He steps in to shield me when my psycho ex comes back and threatens me and my daughter. Sparks are starting to fly, and when he stands up for us, the fireworks of passion can’t be denied…or contained. I wonder if this mind-blow ...

Category Romance Steamy
Seduced by the Grumpy Mafia Boss: A Secret Baby Enemies to Lovers Romance

I'm the new Mafia Boss, thrust into power by my brother's untimely death. His last words haunt me: "Protect Gwen. She has the key." Little did I know, she'd become the key to my heart as well.

Gwen is my dead brother's Ex and therapist and the guardian of his secrets. I captured her, determined to uncover the truth that could secure my empire. But this curvy temptress with emerald eyes becomes my own forbidden obsession.

Our interrogations ignite a dangerous dance of desire. Each heated glance, each "accidental" touch sparks a f ...

Category Romance Steamy
A Kiss of Betrayal : Elisabet's Story (The Kiss Series Book 3)

What makes a villain?
Elisabet Babineaux never saw herself as a villain. She was the protagonist of her life, just as we all are. Born a Princess, her whole life was planned and laid out before her. She knew where her life was headed and what was expected. That all changed the night she met Juan sin Miedo.
Betrayed by her own family, Élisabet’s life course is sent spiraling as she tries to learn to control her new appetite, her grief, and new powers.
The betrayal dealt out by Élisabet’s family will have lasting and devastating effects as she spends her immortal life attempting t ...

At The Mirror's Edge (Salt Songs II)

Tausi, son of the legendary Captain Ngala, has risen to the edge of power as higher glories await him on bloody horizons. Now the lord of his own ship, The Ube, he reaves the Mirror Sea to spread the fame of Song City, once a den of monsters in Shallow Bay. Every doubt he meets with the end of a sword in a time where every step he takes carries risk, and no more so when his father Ngala brings together the great corsair-lords to scheme against the shining empires in the west. Whispers of treasure and vengeance abound as dire plans take shape for an invasion when a fleet suddenly appears. Masse ...

Christmas Wishes Anthology

Twas the night before Christmas and all across the world, thirteen authors gathered to share stories untold. From comedy to dark romance they cover it all. So sit by the fire with your pipping hot drink and read the stories brought to you by ST Nick. This is a multi-author anthology stories may end on a cliffhanger or come with a trigger warning. Please beware before reading.

Category Romance Comedy
The Tin Whistle

Inspired by a true story...


1854
Jacob Gusky wakes up hoping Santa has arrived. And he has... but not for Jacob, one of two Jewish boys living at the Boys’ Home of Manhattan. When a friend gifts him a tin whistle, Jacob learns the power of giving, the joy in receiving, and hears what he considers to be the sound of happiness.


1881
Recently widowed and completely out of options, Frannie takes her daughter Molly to the Home for the Friendless. “You’ll be back before Christmas?” Molly asks. Frannie gives Molly half a quilt square and keeps the other, choki ...

Category Womens Fiction
Wayward Girls

Camille Prescott and Jude Coleridge—estranged ex-best friends—confront each other and their past when they break into an abandoned boarding school where years before they were targeted by a sexual predator. As teens, they’d been gaslighted and labeled ''the crazy girls, the ones who lie." No one believed them. They even questioned themselves as they were pulled toward a fiery danger. Told in dual timelines with Jude and Camille as women and as teens, the women emerge as survivors with successful careers yet still remain maimed by their past. Can they find healing together? ''Grab a copy, a box ...

Category Womens Fiction
Full Circle

What if you had a second chance for a first romance?

After surviving a broken engagement, Cassie Ward decides going home to Dragonfly Lake for the summer is exactly the change of scenery that she needs. A relationship of any kind is the last thing on her mind. Yet, when she wakes up in bed with the guy who broke her heart in high school, and no memory of how she got there…her world turns upside down.

Especially when she discovers that Cole now works for her father...

Cole Hopper prefers a quiet life – one that doesn’t involve romantic rel ...

Category Romance Sweet
Other People’s Lives

THE SILENT PATIENT MEETS GONE GIRL “Let me ask you. Are you worried that someone is watching you, or are you worried that you think someone is watching you?” Sophie Portman has lost her husband, and she thinks she may be losing her mind. She seeks the help of psychiatrist Andrew Thacker, but as she starts to open up, the truth begins to unravel and nothing is quite as it seems. Other People's Lives is a gripping psychological thriller from bestselling author JE Rowney.

Exile's Quest

Buddy flick epic fantasy! The fourth in the Assassins of Landria series from the award-winning, bestselling author of Scourge: A Novel of Darkhurst and The Chronicles of The Necromancer. A vacant throne. A dark mystic intent on the crown. Two fugitive assassins risking everything to save the kingdom that exiled them. Rule-breaking, unconventional assassins Joel “Ridge” Breckenridge and Garrett “Rett” Kennar are caught between dangerous allies and deadly enemies as the future of Landria hangs in the balance. The council of regents controlled by the Witch Lord threatens the succession after King ...

Category Fantasy
Carol's Christmas

A modern retelling of A Christmas Carol.

Carol meets Patrick and falls in love.

But one terrible night, just before Christmas, she sees another side of Patrick. Can their love survive? 

With the help of three unexpected Christmas presents, she makes an informed decision…

Category Fantasy
Birth of the Black Orchids: A Light-Hearted Christmas Tale of Going Home, Starting Over, and Murder—With Cats

When the Christmas grand opening to his small-town enterprise is crashed by a killer, will this young lawyer’s fresh start get buried?

Beauchamp, Texas. JD Thompson has had his fill of stuffy legal offices. Escaping corporate law to go all-in with friends operating out of a Victorian mansion, the socially in-tune attorney prays he can pay off his student debt while serving the greater good. Working alongside his accountant-ex and his cat vet college pal, his biggest fear is paying the bills until one of the guests keels over from eating incorrectly labeled, peanut-laden party food. ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
Bratva Beast

I have a secret... I’m the daughter of one of the most deplorable Bratva Bosses in the underworld. Only I didn’t know that growing up. I was shielded and under his watchful eye until his past caught up with him and tragedy struck. I fled to Moscow to find answers, and the only thing I found was my father’s past chasing after me. I had nowhere to go until I came upon the perfect hideout. Only my perfect little hideout wasn’t so perfect. I ran right into my father’s enemy. Misha Kozlov, aka “the beast”. The most powerful Bratva Boss in Moscow. He terrifies me in ways I have never been terrified ...

Category Romance Suspense
The Woman He Used to Know

Elizabeth Harper has a history of passionate mistakes and broken trust with Denver homicide detective Nick Ryan. He hasn’t seen her in five years, but now, her husband—a man Nick despises— is dead and she may have killed him. The woman he used to know wouldn’t have killed anyone, but she’s the prime suspect and has many reasons to want him dead. Is she guilty? Will Nick's feeling for her help her get away with murder or land her in prison?

City of a Thousand Tears

Beulah is a city divided by privilege and poverty, and seventeen-year-old Ellio lives in the poorest district of all—the Downs. Assigned there at birth, even his extraordinary gift with machines isn’t enough to escape Beulah’s rigid class structure. But the boundaries of his world start to crumble the night he encounters a mysterious young woman. Kaya is stubborn, impulsive, and volatile. His opposite in every way. Worse, she’s from Aurea, the city’s golden district, and beneath her hardened exterior lies a web of secrets tangled around Retiarius, the city's elite fighting guild. How did ...

Category Science Fiction
Cured

Ember Greene and Trudy Parker met during their college years and on the night that they meet at Shot Therapy to reconnect, Embers’s life begins to change. For six years, Ember has closed off her heart, moving from one man to another, trying to feel something other than her own pain and guilt. Colt Barnes is a plastic surgeon who strives to give people a better quality of life, especially children. The night he watches Ember leave the bar with another one-night stand, he resolves to offer up a challenge to get her to view herself in a new light. Little does he know that the challenge will chang ...

Category Romance Steamy
Listen to Your Heart

Ethan Bell fell in love at Christmas Tree Falls ten long years ago. He’s never forgotten that big, cuddly bear of a man and fondly recalls their ski resort romance. Now, he’s miserable in what was supposed to be his dream job and has no clue how to fix his situation. When Ethan gets a mysterious letter requesting his presence at the Falls, he can’t help but wonder if it’s the answer he’s been looking for. Theodore “Teddy” St. James lost his heart when Ethan walked away all those years ago and it still hurts to think about what might have been. Teddy is happy as a jack-of-all-trades at his fami ...

Category Romance Steamy
Deep in the Heart

She's mending guitars and her life. He's trying to forget the war with music. Will one broken instrument make their love a smash hit? Jenna Olsen isn't sure she'll ever escape her terrible choices in love. Becoming a skilled guitar craftsperson helped with the anxiety, but she dreams of the day when she can trust someone again. When an up-and-coming country star asks for a custom guitar in an impossible time-frame, Jenna falls for the challenge… and the man. Camden Grace loves his music and adores his fans. His passions help him cope with the physical wounds he sustained in Iraq, but he remain ...

Best Buddies

"Your son’s invisible friend is not imaginary." Kate’s little boy has a new buddy, one even he can’t see. Can’t hear. Can’t feel. Yet, it’s feeding him information about the world. And about the future. He is using this thing, this undetectable entity, to advance at school. And to help Kate gamble. Despite her addiction.

But, for every morsel of knowledge, his friend demands a favor in return. And those favors are growing increasingly cruel and depraved. It is only a matter of time until people start to die.

How can Kate defeat an entity that knows her plans before she think ...

Category Horror
The Handfasting

When the renowned French knight, Sir Noel de Ware, comes to Scotland to claim his betrothed—the most beautiful heiress in the Highlands—he's sure he's been given the best holiday gift ever…until he discovers the spirited lass he's wedded and bedded is not the right sister. Ysenda of Rivenloch never intended to be a counterfeit bride, and when she begins to fall in love with her handsome husband, she becomes trapped in her own deception. Only true love and a Yuletide wish can set things straight and grant them a happily ever after.

Louisiana Hotshot

WANTED: HOTSHOT P.I. WITH NEAR SUPER-HUMAN SKILLS. Confirmed grump Eddie Valentino placed the ad. Hotshot twenty-something Talba Wallis knew exactly how to answer it. And thus was born the dynamic duo of New Orleans private detectives.

Category Mystery-Cozy
The Blood of Their Sins (Book Three of the Soul Series)

Some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried forever… Zahra Foster screams in the night, and wakes in a cold sweat. But for the first time in her life, she wants to see her dreams. She needs to. Because this isn’t just about her anymore—it involves Jayce, too. And her dreams could save their lives. Blood has been shed, betrayal committed, and the sins of their past are coming back to haunt them. Zahra knows that if they want to survive, they will have to uncover the damaging secrets buried deep in their souls. They will need to see who they truly are and what they have done, because those wh ...

Category Romance Suspense
Deadly Chance

Desperation fuels freelance news photographer Tempest Raines when Russian rebels kidnap her adult son. Out of options to rescue him, she dredges up her past and turns to the only man she believes can help her. Navy SEAL Commander Chance Adams has sworn off women, but when Tempest comes to him for help, his past haunts him once again. What is it about this woman that makes him want her as much as he loathes her? The rescue mission they undertake is fraught with danger for both Tempest and Chance, but if Tempest's secret gets out, she isn't sure if getting killed might not be her best option.

Bloody Legends

Are you afraid of urban legends? Prepare to be even more scared when they become real! Dr. Daniel Cooper is a vicious serial killer who finds himself bored with killing only prostitutes and homeless people. In order to indulge his most morbid and sadistic fantasies, he decides he’ll start to perpetrate his crimes by staging famous urban legends. His insatiable hunger for killing makes him plan every murder with extreme cruelty, to make every death as gruesome and gory as possible. Is it possible that urban legends could inspire such macabre crimes? Daniel’s hubris and wit lead him into a dange ...

Category Horror
A Baby for the Alien Prince (Celestial Mates)

Take a Human female as a mate on the off chance of saving his race? Absurd. At least that's what Prince Elorshin Do'ana thinks. It's true, the Alvan race is dying. There have been no new births in years and if they don't do something, their entire race is doomed. However, Elorshin doesn't want to bind himself to a mate that can't fully share in the fated bond that all Alvan crave. Forced into a marriage by a House more powerful than his own, Prince Elorshin doesn't think he will ever know happiness, that is until he meets his bright, luscious bride. Margot Whelan wants two things, one of which ...

Razor

Now is not the time for a relationship! Alia My son’s hot football coach is driving me to distraction. Terrorists killed my husband five years ago, now I’m focused on raising our two boys and giving innocent people a voice. I am not looking for a relationship, but wouldn’t mind a good roll in the hay with the sexy giant of a man my boys call coach. Razor I don’t have time for any distractions right now, especially not the beautiful, curvy mother of my son’s best friend. My best friend Grif was tortured and killed before being dropped off on Valhalla. Now, I bide my time until I can ave ...

Bloodridge

To find justice for those he loved, a man finds himself at the center of a dangerous global conspiracy…

When Jon Sommers finds out his fianc Lisa Gabriel died in a terrorist bomb attack, he is visited by spymaster, Yigdal Ben-Levy, who throws Jons life into chaos, when he tells him that Lisa was not a fellow graduate student but a Mossad spy sent to bring him to Israel. Ben-Levy convinces Jon to seek justice for Lisas murder by joining Mossad and going after Tariq Houmaz, her killer.

Shortly after training, Jons entire new team is executed by the bomb maker, who murdered ...

Eclipsed by Love, Books 1-3

Enjoy reading these first three romances inspired by the 1878 total solar eclipse. Although the books were originally published in several multiple author projects, for the first time I have put them in order of occurrence. MAIL ORDER BLYTHE – the book that started it all. Blythe is forced out of her job as a maid after her employer discovers she is with child due to the lecherous behavior of the adult son. To remove the problem from her household, the employer gives Blythe the ticket money to join the soldier at Fort Fred Steele in Wyoming Territory who agreed to marry her, even though th ...

Category Romance Sweet
Beachcomber Heat

from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Queen Book 4 in the Beachcomber Investigations Series This summer's heat wave on Martha's Vineyard is breaking records--and so is the crime wave. A rash of jewel thefts creates a demand for more security than the police can handle. Shana insists that Beachcomber Investigations take a case to protect the Gable's jewels because she's desperate for the big fee from their rich client. Dane will do almost anything to keep her happy--and to keep her with him on the island. Almost anything. But the case turns dangerous when a dead body turns up and th ...

Category Romance Suspense
A Murderous Charade (A Regency Mystery Romance) (Relentless Society Mysteries)

A timeless villainy, a growing love, and the couple who battles them both . . . Miss Marianne Beaumont, a spinster, and her younger sister are on their way home from a night at the theater when they come upon a townhouse fire. They stop to help the victims, including Mr. James Harcourt, a confirmed bachelor, and his parents Sir and Lady Harcourt. Although Mr. Harcourt distrusts the beau monde, he accepts Marianne’s ministrations. That should have been the end of their association, but then a folded piece of paper shaped like a chameleon slips out of his mother’s sleeve. It’s an ornament Mar ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
Kaylee's Justice

Eva St. Claire, along with her siblings, carry a heavy burden. Each, in their own way, see the nightmare of evil hidden beneath the surface.
Serial killer Mason Smith rots in prison for the murder of a young woman. However, the secret of another killing, still resides within him. Through Eva's unique family ability, she knows Mason is guilty of yet another murder, and she is determined to see him put to justice.
When FBI Agent Adam Frasier's father reveals a blindsiding secret, he's forced to delve deeper into his investigation of the Angel of Death, and Eva holds the key. Dogged b ...

Butler to the Dark Lord: A Grim Choices Gamebook

In this comedic fantasy gamebook for adults, YOU play Mr Artanon, the conniving butler to the dark lord, and the choices you make shape the story. Navigate a cast of treacherous nobility and unwelcome relatives. Help the household werewolves make it through ‘that time of the month’. Manage a kitchen staff of stupid goblins. Teach the castle harpies the merits of personal hygiene. Accidentally sleep with a virgin due to be sacrificed to the Shadow God, and more. With multiple pathways and 9 different endings to discover (not to mention plenty of ways to meet an untimely demise), you're going to ...

Category Fantasy
Dear Dead Xander

Category Fantasy
Buried at Tumble Lake

"Murder, She Wrote" meets "Criminal Minds".

While Louise and Ben, her black Labrador retriever, are out on their morning walk around the lake, Ben discovers a severed hand. He leads Louise to the rest of the body, but they cross paths with the masked killer. Assaulted and left for dead, the body is nowhere to be found when Louise regains consciousness.

Could the killer be a member of the Guns, Poisons, and Daggers group of mystery writers who booked cabins for the upcoming weekend? Perhaps a writer taking novel research a bit too far? As the hunt for the killer and the missing b ...

Category Mystery-Crime
A Royal Christmas Fairy Tale

From Karen Schaler, the Emmy Award-winning writer of Netflix sensation A Christmas Prince, comes this next feel-good royal romance, filled with humor, heart, and hope, featuring an exclusive excerpt from Schaler’s new sparkling holiday novel, Love Always, Christmas! A charming Christmas village, a storybook castle, a royal ball, and a gorgeous prince are the last things New York City reporter Kaylie Karlyle expects to find on her holiday freelance assignment to Europe. But when the family she’s interviewing turns out to be the royal family of Tolvania, Kaylie has a meltdown when the quirky que ...

Category Romance Sweet
Killing Symphony (A Serial Killer Thriller)

A serial killer on the loose. Another victim. A sudden turn of events...A short psychological thriller. Enter the mind of a psychopath EXCERPT They never see it coming. Never suspect or wonder. Too busy chasing money and relationships, desperate to prove themselves to people who don't care. Consumed by pointless conversations and hollow attempts to appear happy, a serial killer is the last thing on anyone’s mind...

Death by the Dunes - A Pelican Shores Cozy Mystery

Nothing ruins a gorgeous coastal sunrise quicker than…a dead body.

It’s toes in the sand for Finn as she plants herself at Pelican Shores beach, awaiting her first Texas sunrise.

So much for her “reset” artistic vacation! The colorful sky simply illuminates Finn’s next headache ...

Category Mystery-Cozy
DeathByte

When the plans to a new device that could change the course of world politics forever is stolen, every country goes looking. It’s going to be a free-for-all.

When someone breaks into William Wing's Hong Kong apartment and steals the hard drives from his computer, it sets severa ...

Druid Ancestry

Druid Ancestry

Lyons Gate Volume 1

A Dark and Twisted, Ancient Affair

Lazlo Greyson is a wealthy CEO and sole heir to a lineage of Gaelic kings. Tired of shallow relationships with opportunistic socialites and fleeting encounters, Lazlo yearned for a deeper connection in his life. Enter Peter Elliot, a dubious character who had a reputation for trouble. Despite his reservations, Lazlo found himself ensnared by Elliot’s nefarious offer. 

Elliot arranged a shady meeting between Lazlo and Soraya Heffernon, an encha ...

Category Fantasy-Urban
Compelled

A woman is brutally murdered. That same night Detective Sidney Langston is rushed to the hospital with chest pains. Nothing is wrong, yet the pain persists until the slain victim reaches out from beyond the grave for Sidney’s help to vindicate her wrongfully imprisoned husband. Sidney must solve the crime and correct an injustice – or forever be tormented by the woman’s ghost.

Category Mystery-Crime
Freedom Skies

One day in 1860, everything changed for everyone, everywhere.  In Victorian London, in an age when steam and clockwork power are all-important, a series of events throws Oliver, Jake and Charlotte into conflict with the authorities. They come from very different backgrounds and join forces with an escaped slave, a street urchin and a prostitute to form an airship crew - The Rebel Runaways. With the country in the hands of the army and beset by street gangs, escape is their priority. When they realise the depths to which the corrupt government and a wicked industrialist are willing to s ...

Category Fantasy-Urban
Marrying Off My husband

Can true love begin with a little white lie?

When well-meaning Louise decides to play matchmaker for her new friend, Eve and her fake husband, Spencer, she sets in motion a whirlwind of emotions, misunderstandings, and unexpected connections. What starts with a fake date to appease Louise soon blossoms into something real, as Eve and Spencer find themselves drawn to each other despite their initial reservations.

But as their feelings for each other grow deeper, the web of deception threatens to unravel everything they've built. When the truth finally comes to light, trust ...

Pucking Off-sides With My Brother's Best Friend

Aurora

I lost my V-card to my brother’s grumpalicious best friend years ago. Now I’m stuck with this hockey heartbreaker as my new roommate…

Aiden freakin Weller is back—hogging the WiFi and leaving his laundry all over my yoga mat.

I’m trying to rebuild after catching my fiancé sexting his CrossFit instructor.

Now I’m focusing on my new role as the team’s social media manager.

But it’s hard to concentrate with Captain Abs doing pull-ups on my doorframe.

I’m tra ...

Category Elite Missions
Cat and Mouse

Cat and Mouse is the gripping tale of two sisters fighting for their ideals in the turbulent year of 1914. When Sarah, a militant suffragette, is arrested for a dramatic protest for women's rights, her sister Deborah tries to rescue her from prison. But what will her husband, and secret lover, do?

A Matter of Time

Can a man with a past and a woman from the future forge a love for all time? Nobody would blame widowed doctoral student Eliza James for giving up on Happily Ever After; at twenty-nine, she’s suffered more loss than most people do in a lifetime. But Eliza’s convinced her own hero is still out there, waiting for her, just like in the beloved romance novels she devours. Every Jane Austen-loving girl deserves a Darcy, right? Only Eliza doesn’t dream of a modern-day affair: she wants the whole Regency experience. When a magical manuscript thrusts her back two hundred years into the arms and life o ...

The Doctor's Aphrodite

Having grown up in a time where social distancing is the normal no touching, no physical contact with anyone not in your family. Deona is enlisted into the carrier program that the government runs to help repopulate the world after several viruses killed off a majority of the world's population over forty years ago. Alejandros is a doctor in training at the facility where the women in the carrier program are tracked, inseminated and resulting babies are delivered. When he meets Deona she's going through the initial testing for the program. Feeling an almost immediate pull he knows ...

Category Romance Steamy
Catch and Release

An ex-mob fixer must solve the murder of a hitman’s wife and daughter before becoming the next victim. A vigilante justice crime thriller with a twist ending. Connor Harding is a problem solver. Retired hitman Freddie Blasko has a problem. Twelve years ago, someone murdered his wife and daughter, and now he wants Connor to find the killer. Connor’s not keen to take the case because he knows an unsolvable murder when he sees one. Twelve years is a long time, and there’s no evidence, witnesses, or bodies. But Freddie isn’t the type to take no for an answer. He gives Connor an ultimat ...

Raven's Apprentice

Raven's Apprentice is a compelling true story from the west coast of B.C. that launches you into the world of Raven and our interconnectedness with all living things. "Suddenly, without warning, they spun on a fin and started charging the boat. My thrill turned to real panic. Killer whales attacking a boat. Had there ever been such a thing? A paralysis gripped me. Now, within striking distance, they slipped into an arrowhead formation just below the surface. If the leader of the pack didn't bring the boat down, his flanks would." "At about 20 feet off the bow, the frontrunner broke the surface ...

Category Non-Fiction
Trapped with the Mountain Man

I was just trying to warm up.

The tattoo parlor where I work is freezing cold, so at closing time, I decide to hop in one of the few tanning beds in the building and warm up.

But when the security alarm goes off for some reason, a hunky firefighter breaks in to save me. In the process, he manages to damage the lock. And now we're locked in together.

As he works to free us, an attraction starts to build. And it might just be an attraction we can't resist.

Trapped with the Mountain Man is an OTT age gap romance featuring an alpha hero and V-card he ...

Category Romance Steamy
Celestial Academy: Essence

Orphan. Slave. Drug dealer. As a Demon-Owned human in an Afterworld that has Hell and Heaven on Earth, I’m the lowest a being can get. My life is one of drudgery, degradation—and mortal danger. And that's before I started dealing Angelescence. Unlike anything in existence, it's a drug only I can produce, and everyone would kill, or die for. With decommission and execution closing in, I’m desperate to buy out my and my best friend’s Indentures. But upping my operations only gets me arrested, and my terrifying captor drags me to the Celestial Court to stand trial. My sentence? Conscription to Ce ...

Fighting for Her

Sasha Krause is my best friend, my coach's daughter, and about a hundred and fifty times too good for a bonehead like me. When a swift and embarrassing knockout throws me out of contention for her heart, my only hope of a second chance is in getting a champion's belt wrapped around my waist. Victory is so close; I can taste it. And I won’t let anything get in my way. Tonight, I'll fight – and I'll win it for her. Broody Heroes. Resilient Heroines. Love Worth Fighting For.

The Raven Witch of Corfu - Episode 1

A terrible evil lurks in the mountain… Lizzie is not your average tourist. She may have just arrived on the idyllic Greek island of Corfu, but her mind is not on having a good time. Far from it, Lizzie has a daunting task to undertake: to claim back her twin brother who was kidnapped twenty years earlier on her previous visit. In a cave. By an evil witch. When Lizzie sees her brother again, she receives the shock of her life. The witch has tricked her… And, as if this weren’t enough, a handsome local steals her heart to complicate her life even further… "It's a step up from Mills and Boon - mu ...

Category Romance Sweet
Lilly-Puss and Pharaoh: Where Is Home?

Lilly-Puss is a beautiful, fluffy calico cat. But what’s the use of being purrfect when she's a prisoner? She’s determined to run away and be free. Her newly arrived cellmate Pharaoh promises to help her escape, but he has his own agenda. As his telepathic abilities grow, he plans to secure a lavish home with lovely human servants for him and Lilly-Puss. When two humans arrive at the shelter, Pharaoh sees his chance to befriend them and make them provide for his and Lilly-Puss’s needs. But Lilly-Puss distrusts humans and considers them low-intelligence creatures. She also ignores Pharaoh’s ...