‘Tara and the Giant Queen was a compelling, enjoyable read. It started off strong and continued to maintain my attention and interest to the very end,’ A.J. Culey, Author

Tara and the Giant Queen is a fantasy in the Land of Giants. Nine-year old Tara finds herself in a strange land after a storm. She accidentally lands on the head of the queen of giants and is taken into her care. The good queen promises to help her return home but there are evil giants who believe Tara is a magician and are out to capture her for her magic powers. What follows is danger, courage and a fascinating journey home. And yes, fun, because Tara and the boy-giant, Montek, become great friends.

Previously published under the title: Cheetaka, Queen of Giants.

Heaven’s Jubilee
Followers of The Way were being rounded up, but I never expected to be one of them. I wanted to ask God, “Why Me” but would it do any good? Instead, I prayed for strength and endurance, little knowing how much I would need it.

Zane’s Consequences
I’d always done things my way. Why would my flight test be any different?

Hope is All that is Left
Our parents had been arrested and Liz and I now hid from unknown enemies. We had nothing left until we remembered one thing: The hope that spring would come again.

New Life So much pain. So much suffering. We were sick without cure until the angel came.

Darren’s Choice
I never should have signed the contract. Not without knowing what my invention would be used for. Now I had a hard choice to make. Violate my conscience or forfeit my life?

Authors note: Some of the subjects dealt with in these stories may not be appropriate for children younger than 13, so please read with discretion.

Who says love doesn’t come around again?
Seven stories of single parents finding love for the second time

The Ticket to her Heart by D. G. Driver
Dalton Jones is a traffic cop who feels guilty about giving a speeding ticket to a beautiful single mom. With his teenage daughter’s help, he finds a way to meet the woman again, and they fall for each other. Only, he’s neglected to tell her who he really is.

The Perfect Beginning by Nancy Pennick
Tracy DeMarco hasn’t been on a date with a man in five years. She has a child to raise and a job she likes. Her daughter says she needs to get a life. Tracy thought hers was fine until a vampire shows up on her doorstep one Halloween night.

A Love for Michelle by Tara Fox Hall
Left by her boyfriend on the same night she lost her job, Michelle isn’t looking for love when she runs into Max and his two children while sledding. In a few short months, the new couple is inseparable. Then Michelle realizes she’s pregnant with her ex’s child. Will Max love her enough to accept a baby that isn’t his?

The Price of Silence by Katie Stephens
Even though Maggie and Rob are divorced, neither can deny the love they still have for each other. As they wonder why their marriage failed, Maggie’s artistic agent is determined to have her. Grant befriends her children in a bid to make her his wife, but will Rob stand aside and allow another man to take his children … and his soulmate?

Mr. Right or Mr. Right Now by Caroline Andrus
Celebrity photographer Rebecca thought her life was perfect, until she walked in on her husband and the nanny—in bed. A drunk phone call later, she’s managed to snag the most sought after male nanny in Los Angeles. Months later, at her best friend’s urging, she dives back into the dating pool, but will she end up with Mr. Right Now, or will she realize Mr. Right is already at home with her kids?

For the Love of a Horse by Daisy White
Single mum Ali has done everything she can to forget the past, but when a new love is threatened by a freak horse riding accident, she is forced to face her memories. Can she find the courage to take her second chance for love?

Unexpected Match Maker by JT Adeline
Peyton Geoffrey never thought she needed another dad, until her mom’s past boyfriend, Tate Langston, entered her life. Will Peyton be able to get this surly man to understand how important he is to others, and get him and her mom together again?

What if Cinderella had been sent to kill the Prince?

Kayden never thought of herself as the Belle of the ball, but she finds herself in the royal palace, surrounded by society darlings – and the only thing she has in common with them is that they’re all vying for the Prince. They’re after his crown. She’s after his head.

Her mission was simple — get close to the Prince, and kill him. . .

Kayden entered the palace under a lie, one designed to get her close to the Prince. On the outside, she may look like a princess but beneath the mask, a killer lays in wait — for the perfect moment.

Dvarius was not ready to take the crown, nor was he ready for a wife . . .

But due to his father’s unexpected death and an archaic law — he must find a bride before he is allowed to take his rightful place on the throne.

And the one woman he wants — just might be the one who is there to kill him…

Merrilyn’s life is quiet and predictable. An apprentice to the royal healer, she spends her days helping in the village or up to mischief with her best friend who happens to be the handsome younger son of the king. But when a mysterious archer shows up in the forest and shoots their escort, Merrilyn’s life is forever changed. Caught in a battle between two forgotten gods, she must embrace her destiny and fight the very powers of darkness before it’s too late.

Caity Jones wasted a lot of years waiting for the “two kids, a dog and a white picket fence” dream to come true, but she’s ready to move on now. Letting go of society’s idea of the perfect life, she’s purchased a five-acre property in the small rural town of Willows. She’s determined to live a solitary life and become a writer. And that means staying away from men altogether.

Tom Murray owns and runs the local feed store in Willows. His marriage was a failure but his family is strong, and he can’t imagine a world that didn’t include his three young children. He’s an uncomplicated man, living an uncomplicated life—and he has every intention of keeping it that way.

Both are mature … both have baggage … and both have agendas that don’t include romance.

And then they meet.

Author Biography:
S M Spencer grew up reading the romantic suspense works of incredible authors such as Daphne du Maurier and Mary Stewart. Their books stirred in her a passion that would last a lifetime—to write stories that would stay with readers long after they’d finished the books.

Although S M Spencer grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area she now lives in Australia and writes clean romance, mystery and fantasy books from the home that she shares with her husband, horses, cats and dogs.

First in the Movement of Crowns series.

Is it the perfect or the worst time for the kingdom to…change?
The nation of Diachona rejoices as the king’s daughter and heir, Constance, turns twenty. Yet, not everyone approves of Constance’s desire to sit on the National Council: a Council run solely by men.

What’s more, oppressive threats from a neighboring, powerful empire are rousing the people’s fears. Amid rumors of war and personal doubts about her future, Constance suspects that her growing love for one Commander Alexander may be ill-timed. Especially if this is the end of the kingdom as they know it…

This book is inspirational historical fantasy: fictional history in a completely fictional world.

Edward, called CinderEddy by his stepbrothers, has been treated as little more than a servant ever since his mother died after her remarriage. When the Princess Elicia is kidnapped, however, his stepbrothers join the other knights attempting to rescue her, and Edward uses their absence to make his own attempt at her rescue. He doesn’t expect to succeed, but somehow, he keeps finding himself on the right path.

Even at fifteen, sometimes it takes murder to get what you want.

Christy Hadden never fit in. Desperate for change, she accepts a scholarship that sends her on a national political trip to Washington, D.C. Fitting in could be just around the corner. Her hope dies when she discovers the hierarchy in the group is even less accepting than at her high school.

But when Christy witnesses the murder of a senator’s aide and unwittingly involves the whole group, she finds herself hunted by the killers and watched not only by the FBI, who want to protect her, but also by two hot guys—and the girls who lay claim on them.

Threatened on all sides, she must change if she wants to survive, but who will she have to become?

If she can’t find a way to believe in herself enough to become who the FBI needs her to be and the courage to stand up for herself and lead her group, it will cost them their lives.

Sometimes murder is just the beginning.

If you like spine-tingling suspense, wall-to-wall action, and non-stop adventure with a dash of romance, you’ll love the first book in Cindy M. Hogan’s page-turning Watched series. Buy Watched to start the white-knuckle thrill ride of the Watched series today.

Young Adult, Teen, Mystery, Action/Adventure, romance, survival, spies

All Cindy’s books in order

THE WATCHED Series
Watched
Protected
Created
Adrenaline Rush
Hotwire
Fatal Exchange
Secrets
Redemption Lost
Scepter

CODE OF SILENCE SERIES
Kate Unmasked
Kate Concealed
Kate Empowered
Kate Unleashed

Christy and Jeremy Novellas
Royal Guard
Secrets in the Sand
Secrets in the Storm

GRAVEDIGGERS

SWEET N’ SOUR KISSES

The Descension in the STRANGE AND LOVELY ANTHOLOGY
Wingless

Bianca Hawkins is an orphan. She’s lived the last few years trying to repay those who have helped her. She owns nothing, but still feels thankful and joyful. When she finds out there are no funds available for her to stay in the church she dutifully serves, where will she go?

Pastor Elgin finds a new place for her. Another church that needs someone like her to do chores and keep the place in order. The problem is that it’s almost a world away. The Colorado Territory is going to be her new home.

Decker Tilton goes to work every day in the grist mill happy to be able to stay busy. A hard work schedule is supposed to keep him from his memories. It doesn’t. His guilt is nearly too much to bear.

Despite his best efforts to avoid the new girl in town, Decker is intrigued by her. She’s practically determined to be his friend, but he’s skeptical since she’s from the east. Jane was from the east and he can’t have that kind of woman in his life.

Bianca recognizes that Decker needs someone. A friend. She’s attracted to him, but they can’t ever be more than friends. She has nothing to bring to a marriage and he has too much pain.

As this unlikely pair falls quietly in love, will his past and her insecurities keep them from being just what the other needs?

If you love mail order brides historical romances, you’ll enjoy Annie Boone’s sweet and clean mail order bride stories!

A secretive company keeps itself off the radar and out of the news for over fifty years. What kind of power does it take to command that kind of privacy? What secrets is it trying to hide? Billy Roth doesn’t know and doesn’t really care. His blue collar job collecting garbage for the company pays very well. The last thing he wants to do is risk his position by asking questions, but his coworkers start disappearing and things get really strange, really fast.

“Invited” into the company by a couple of thuggish looking bodyguards, Billy is awed by the high level of security and rather impressed to learn the company’s motto: Make every person the best they can be. That sounds like a pretty noble objective, but Billy soon realizes that motto might not be one hundred percent correct. Eliminate every person who’s not the best they can be is starting to sound much more accurate.

With demons behind the conspiracy Billy’s first step in faith will be an exorcism. Is he ready?

The Scinegue Series 
The Secret 
Traitor Within

Carson Trent doesn’t know that the beautiful Millie Cruise who literally falls into his lap on the morning train is really Camille Harper, a rock star of the romance industry.
Millie doesn’t know she is headed for Carson’s grandmother’s picture perfect inn in a quaint New England town.
Neither Carson or Millie know that their lives are about to spin out of control thanks to a patch of black ice, a cow, and a little white Christmas lie.

Alora’s mundane teenage life is about to change!

Alora has visions. Only while in the shower. And only of one stranger: a handsome young man with long brown hair, intense green eyes, and the oddest clothes. A young man who vanishes whenever she opens her eyes.

And then one day, he doesn’t…

Alora’s safe world is soon turned upside-down as she’s thrust into another realm where her soulmate waits, magic abounds, and unfathomable evil seeks to claim her.

A merciful king.
An unjust lord.
A choice to forgive.

~*~
Raboc’s eyes narrowed to slits and he thrust his arm forward until his fingers closed around Ancel’s throat. The young man knew better than to resist the powerful lord, but his jaw clenched.

“To the dungeon with you. Guards!”

“Lord, have mercy,” Ancel pleaded. “Give me time and I shall pay the other half.”

A short story.

Chosen (The Amish Bloodsuckers Trilogy-Part1)
Jael is just an average teenage girl with over-protective parents, an unrequited crush on the hottest guy at school, and a best friend she shares everything with. Until her parents let her in on the secret they’ve kept for nearly sixteen years…
Jael is the Chosen One. Born to be a vampire slayer, her destiny was written in the Book of the Shunned. She’s been chosen by God to set the Minnesota Loon Lake Amish community free from the grip of the Bishop, an ancient and powerful bloodsucker who has been using the Amish people for his own personal Jamba Juice.
Will she leave her friends and all she knows and follow her destiny to Minnesota willingly, or will the Bishop bring her destiny to Sunburn, Nevada?

Book 2 – SHUNNED
Book 3 – RECKONING

She needs a new life, he’s determined to maintain the status quo. If they don’t compromise, the whole town loses.

Midnight Shelby is starting over. A real estate agent’s virtual tour of a building on the main street of the small town of Legend, Tennessee caught her eye and she’s leaving her smarmy ex-husband, the big city, and corporate life behind. The town is struggling but Midnight has ideas that will give it new life as well.

Martin McClain was born and raised in the Legend area. His family has lived there for generations, and he feels a duty to preserve the past. The website his son created has been good for business, but although Martin is a real estate agent by trade, he’s wary of newcomers’ motivations.

Especially Midnight Shelby, who seems bent on changing everything…even him.

Sir Charles Hallwyn is on a quest for dragon eggs when he encounters an angel sitting on a rock. The angel says he has to sit on the rock for three years, a punishment for an uncharitable remark he made at a friend’s expense. Sir Charles recognizes an opportunity when he sees one (he’s been selling dragons to train young dragon-fighters for years now) but as it turns out, dragons are also good at recognizing opportunities. And there’s one very angry dragon-mom on the way.

Originally published in Dragons, Knights and Angels magazine, Even A Stone sees a chance meeting change Sir Charles’ entire life, and an angel may learn whether even a stone warms up if you sit on it.

Even A Stone can also be purchased as part of the “Seven Angels Short Story Bundle,” along with “Damage,” “Winter Branches,” “Hired Man,” and eight bonus shorts.

Buy Tender Love and get Tested Love for free…

She’s a committed Christian. He’s a dedicated father. Will a chance meeting repair their fragile hearts?

Tessa Scott can’t help but question God’s will. After the animal surgeon’s long-term boyfriend cut loose, she’s all alone except for the goofy, untrained stray she met outside her clinic. But when a trip to puppy school reveals a dashing single father, Tessa wonders if becoming a wife and a mother may be part of her path…

Ben Williams kept most of his feelings inside when his wife left him. Absorbed with his work and raising his son, he’s surprised by his therapist’s prescription to get a new dog to care for. The captivating woman he meets at training class stirs something inside him, but can he move past his painful divorce to open his heart all over again?

As their friendship grows deeper, the challenge with Ben’s rebellious son rises to a whole new level. If Tessa can overcome her doubts and Ben can embrace his future, then they may just find God’s peace after all…

Tender Love is the first standalone book in The True Love Series, a set of contemporary Christian romance novels set in Queensland, Australia. If you like charming characters, faith-filled families, and friendships that become something more, then you’ll love Juliette Duncan’s inspirational second-chance tale.

Buy Tender Love and get Tested Love as a bonus!

Books by Juliette Duncan

Contemporary Christian Romance

The Shadows Series

Lingering Shadows

Facing the Shadows

Beyond the Shadows

Secrets and Sacrifice

A Highland Christmas

The True Love Series

Tender Love

Tested Love

Tormented Love

Triumphant Love

True Love at Christmas

Promises of Love

Precious Love Series

Forever Cherished

Forever Faithful

Forever His

The Potter’s House Books Series

The Homecoming

Unchained

Blessings of Love

A Time for Everything Series

A Time to Treasure

A Time to Care

A Time to Abide

A Time to Rejoice

Billionaires with Heart Christian Romance Series

Her Kind-Hearted Billionaire

Her Generous Billionaire

Her Disgraced Billionaire

And one more to come…

Middle Grade Christian Fiction

The Madeleine Richards Series

Rebellion in Riversleigh

Problems in Paradise

Trouble in Town

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Jeanette Peterson left behind the man who loves her to go to nursing school in New York, promising to come back in six months and marry him. His love is the only thing that sees her through the trials ahead. When the time comes to make the toughest decision of all, will she choose justice or mercy out of many shades of gray?

From Amelia C. Adams, bestselling author of the Kansas Crossroads series, comes this novella about one girl’s desire to follow her dreams and the man who encourages her from miles away.

Vydor is riding a wave of success, but now his ship, the Dragon Claw, is being sent to investigate a mysterious event deep within the Empire’s space. A secret research colony has fallen silent and the forces sent to investigate were never heard from again.

A new enemy has come to the Empire bringing with it dark powers that were abandoned long before the Empire was born. Powers that were thought to be legends and myths.

It’s up to Vydor to keep this force at bay and protect the Empire, but it may come at the cost of his faith and shake the foundations of the Empire itself.

The Lost Tales of Power is an open-ended series of Sci-Fi/Fantasy books set in a vast multiverse featuring a mixture of traditional fantasy and science fiction elements.

Lost Tales Series:
Volume I – The Enemy of an Enemy
Volume II – The Academy
Volume III – Rise of Shadows
Volume IV – Resurgence of Ancient Darkness
Volume V – The Sac’a’rith
Volume VI – Spectra’s Gambit
Volume VII – Sac’a’rith: Rebirth
Volume VIII – Mage Hunter
Volume IX – The Cerulean Mines
Volume X and beyond – TBA

Addison Falls in Love

A Short Romance Story

Book 1 in the Love Series

Addison has been in a romance slump. Ever since her ex-boyfriend cheated on her, she has retreated from the dating world. Her friend Clara thinks that it is time for her to get back out there and meet new people and she has a certain handsome young man in mind.

**How does Clara persuade Addison to get dressed up and go out to a bar with her?
**How does Clara engineer a meeting between Addison and the handsome Michael?
**How does Addison find herself going on an unplanned date?

Discover how Clara uses her matchmaking skills on the unsuspecting Addison with delightful results.

Addison Falls in Love is a 5,000 word short romance story with a happy ever after ending. It is the just the thing if you are looking for a pocket-size story to read during your lunch break or while waiting for an appointment. Enjoy.

She wanted independence.
Then life took an unexpected turn.
Can Olivia find hope in the midst of her darkest hour?

When Olivia Martinelli, a naive nineteen-year-old, moved out on her own, she never could have imagined what direction her life would take. A life-changing decision, a betrayal of trust, and a painful consequence leave her devastated. Will Olivia find the strength she needs for the journey ahead?

** Inspirational Romance **

Lucas Thissel has something he fears: an alien species of palm-sized glass fairies called Lucent Sylphs. They came through a portal from a metaphysical dimension, and they indenture themselves as slaves to human beings. Too much neglect or unkindness, and they will cloud over and disintegrate. Too much love and their hearts are overcome and burst.

And one has attached herself to him.

Winner of the prestigious Reader’s Favorite 5 Star Award, and Finalist in the Reader’s Favorite Short Story/Novella Contest!

They call Zegin a Shooter. The best starship diagnostic troubleshooter in all of Cydonia – maybe even in all of Epsilon. But what seems like a routine job turns into a frustrating chase for a rogue computer virus – one that threatens to destroy the starship and Zegin.

The mystery behind the source of this threat is just beginning in this first story in a series of Zegin’s Adventures. As a bonus, this includes the short story “Jezi’s Delima”, and a teaser for the next Zegin’s Adventure.

Here be dragons … and selkies and griffins and maybe even a mermaid or two.

Twenty fantasy authors band together to bring you a collection of thrilling tales and magical monsters. Do you like to slay dragons? Or befriend them? Do you prefer to meet cephalopods as gigantic kraken or adorable tree octopuses?

Each story focuses around a fantastic creature from folklore or mythology, and they range from light and playful tales for the whole family to darker stories that may make you wish to leave the lights on. These stories carry the Fellowship of Fantasy seal of approval. While our monsters may be horrifying, you won’t stumble into questionable content.

Perfect for the fantasy lover who can’t get enough of mythical beasts.