Jessica Sprigg expected to inherit a bookshop, not magical powers, mysterious new relatives, and a talking cat with an opinion on absolutely everything.
But after her great-aunt’s death, Jessica moves to Lavender Lake and discovers that magic is real, she’s a book witch, and her inherited familiar, Astrix, is equal parts helpful, hilarious, and infuriating. With an enchanted shop to run, newfound cousins to meet, and an entire magical town to explore, Jessica is ready to begin a strange new chapter.
Then she wakes up to find herself splashed across the front page of The Grapevine, Lavender Lake’s notorious gossip magazine, alongside a collection of scandalous and categorically untrue rumors.
Jessica makes the grave mistake of confronting its owner in front of half the town. When she visits him the following morning to apologize, her words fall on very dead ears.
Now Jessica is the prime suspect in his murder. Half of Lavender Lake wanted the victim silenced, however, and untangling their secrets proves almost as difficult as controlling her newly awakened magic. To make matters worse, the grumpy and irritatingly handsome sheriff can’t decide whether to enlist Jessica’s help or lock her up.
Handcuffs. And not in the good way.
With Astrix providing more sarcasm than assistance and a killer determined to keep the truth buried, Jessica must clear her name before she becomes the next front-page tragedy. But someone in Lavender Lake isn’t who they appear to be, and murder may be the least dangerous secret hiding in town.
Titles in the Wicked Witches of Lavender Lake series include: (Prequel) Sprites and Scoundrels ~ Potions and Commotions ~ Costumes and Curses ~
Every instinct tells me to claim her. Every rule I’ve ever lived by tells me I can’t.
Halsey Gallagher came to Red Pine to disappear. Sketch the trees, forget the scandal, be left alone.
Just one problem… She has no idea she already belongs to me.
One scent on a mountain trail and the bond hits like a lightning strike. It’s sudden, absolute, undeniable.
My tiger begs me to take her. Even as my law tells me to keep our secret.
She’s sharp-eyed, guarded, healing from a wound she won’t talk about. She’s also completely human, which means she has no idea what just found her in these woods.
She thinks she’s just drawing wildlife. She’s about to learn one of the things she’s been sketching has been watching her back, every single day, and has no intention of stopping.
I’ve hidden what I am my whole life. For her, I’m done hiding.
~Standalone~
This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.
Damian Ledger is his brother’s keeper. He’s been tasked with keeping an out-of-control tiger shifter out of trouble, but when his brother’s tiger targets a human, Damian knows life just got way more complicated. Now he’s stuck between protecting his brother from himself and protecting a human woman he’s never met. Misty is gorgeous and driven, and completely naïve to the existence of creatures like him. He must stay in the shadows to keep humans from finding out about him and his brothers, but something about Misty is dragging him into the light. He has to be perfectly diligent and never allow his brother to see her again, but it is getting harder and harder to protect her when all Damian wants is to be with her.
Misty Antone was attacked years ago by something she still can’t explain. She has tried to tell everyone that tiger-people exist, but no one believes her. Now, after rebuilding her life, she gets a glimpse of the man who has visited her nightmares. He is asking her for help, but he has problems she didn’t even realize existed. How can she help someone who isn’t even human and doesn’t abide by human laws? A wise woman would steer clear of a monster like Damian, but the more she gets to know him, the more she realizes he has been protecting her from a danger she doesn’t understand. She falls hard for the tiger shifter and breaks all the rules to be with him, but Fate has other plans, and they are on a direct path to destroying the Ledger brothers’ legacy.
Titles in the Ambush series include: Tiger Born ~ Tiger Bitten ~ Tiger Betrayal ~
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I leave corrections in the margins of donated romance novels. “A real lycan would NEVER say this.”
Two years of those notes, and the 6’5” lord of the ridge has kept all four hundred and three of them.
Ambrose Dunmore has silver at his temples and hasn’t signed his real name to anything since 1851. Now he’s hired me to organize his family’s ancient estate records.
Then he catches me reading one of my spicy paperbacks out loud.
He traps me against his desk, looks at my notes, and whispers: “You’ve been correcting me for two years. Come do it where I can feel it.”
When shifter politics turn dangerous, he takes control the only way he knows how – by printing a public declaration that exposes me to the entire town. He thinks his word is final. But I’ve spent four years editing other people’s sentences, and he doesn’t get to write my ending.
If he wants my answer, he can read it on the front page. Like everybody else.
Titles in the Possessive Silver Fox Alpha Shifters series include: My One-Star Review Summoned a Silver Fox ~ My Podcast Insulted an Alpha Wolf King ~ My Sticky Notes Seduced a Lycan Lord ~ My Bookclub Flustered the Lycan Alpha ~
This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.
This town has a word for women like me. They’ve been using it since before I was born.
I keep the light. I keep the wards. I keep a harbor that has never once kept me. Then the sea took a man, and something in my chest pulled hard enough to put me in after him.
He came up breathing. He looked at me like he already knew me.
Mate. Both of us. The same second.
When the council stood up to blame me for the wards, he was the only person who asked for proof.
Nobody has ever asked for proof before. He won’t leave my side, and it’s going to get him killed.
I’ve been alone my whole life, and I could have lived with it.
I can’t do one more night without him.
~Standalone~
This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.
A wolf shifter baker. A hot dragon uncle on babysitting duty. And five cupcake-fueled dragon toddlers who accidentally play matchmaker.
Brianna Montclair has no time for romance. She’s finally living her dream: running a bakery with her best friend in Red Lodge, Montana. The hours are brutal, the to-do list never ends, and Brianna is determined to make her bakery a success.
Then Flynn Ashford walks through the door with five sugar-hungry dragon toddlers in tow. He’s charming. Ridiculously handsome. And according to her wolf? Her mate.
As if that weren’t complicated enough, meeting Flynn awakens magic Brianna never knew she had. Suddenly, her carefully organized life is spinning out of control.
Flynn Ashford has been guarding the hidden dragon world beneath the mountains. But throughout the centuries, no challenge has been as great as babysitting his sister’s five toddlers. He bribes them with the promise of cupcakes.
Then he meets Brianna at the bakery.
Flynn falls first—and hard. Now, he’s juggling five dragon toddlers, stolen moments with Brianna, and the growing certainty that he wants a life he never imagined outside the mountain.
But choosing his wolf mate could cost him his position, his home, and his place among his own kind.
And as tensions rise between the dragons determined to stay hidden and those longing for freedom, Flynn must decide how much he’s willing to risk for the she-wolf his dragon has already chosen.
Titles in the Shifter Nation: Montana Mates series include: Grumpy Alpha Wolf ~ The Baker’s Dragon Mate ~
This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.
I broke into the one vault no man has ever beaten. He shut the door behind me.
I’m not a thief. I’m a woman with a mother in prison for a murder she didn’t commit, an uncle I’d love to see rot, and one option left: steal the proof from Silas Holt, the reclusive safe-maker whose locks have never been cracked. Three years of lawyers, letters, and closed doors led me to his mountain. The storm did the rest.
Silas is huge, silent, and furious that I beat his masterpiece. He cuffs me with his own hardware and promises me the sheriff the moment the road clears. Except the road washes out, the lines go dead, and my captor keeps looking at me — every soft curve of me — like something he means to keep. He feeds me. He warms me. He growls when I get too close. And I’d swear there’s gold moving in his eyes.
Because the thing on this mountain isn’t just a man. He says I’m his mate — one bite, once, for life. But the monster who framed my mother followed me up here to burn every loose end.
Including us.
No trusting my jailer. No falling for the bear. And absolutely no letting him bite.
Titles in the Iron Mountain Bear Shifters series include: Claimed by the Bear ~ Hunted by the Bear~ Rescued by the Bear ~ Chased by the Bear ~ Guarded by the Bear ~
This story may contain language, violence, and/or sexual situations intended for an adult 18+ audience.
An enchanted bookshop. A town full of secrets. One cat who would much rather be sleeping.
Until the new owner of Lavender Lake’s magical bookshop arrives, Astrix has been left in charge. His duties are simple: watch over the shop, protect its secrets, and spend as much time as possible stretched out in a warm sunbeam.
For a while, all is quiet.
Then an intruder attempts to break into the shop and tear down the magical defenses protecting it.
Forced to abandon his favorite sleeping spot, Astrix sets out to discover who is targeting his bookshop and why. The intruder left few clues, but in a town like Lavender Lake, someone is always watching.
Unfortunately, most of the witnesses are the town’s familiars.
Now Astrix must interrogate Lavender Lake’s cats, birds, and other magical creatures to uncover what they have seen. The only problem, as he already knows, is that getting a cat to do something it does not want to do is almost impossible.
As Astrix ventures deeper into the relatively tame underbelly of the magical town, he uncovers hidden secrets, unexpected mysteries, and a plot so sinister that it leaves even him speechless.
Briefly.
Someone wants the bookshop’s defenses gone, and if Astrix cannot discover why, the shop may not be the only thing in danger.
Good thing he still has a few of those nine lives left. He might just need them.
Max always felt too ordinary for the magical village of Lampton. No place more so than her mum’s bookshop, where the recommendations are more than just a matter of taste – they’re magic.
When Max’s mum dies suddenly, she leaves her daughter Lamplight Books and makes one last wish: that Max would spend a year working in the bookshop before she sells it.
Max has no desire to uproot her busy city life to return to a place that always made her feel inadequate, but she can’t ignore her mum’s last request. So she decides on a trial run of two weeks – if she can’t even last that long, then a year would be impossible…
