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KINDLE EDITION
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Tiffany Roberts(I may be an arachnophobe but Ketahn is an exception)
- The Spiders’ Mate
- This three-book series features an alien spider and human romance that will leave your heart aching in the best of ways. Ketahn our otherworldly Vrix, stumbles upon our main female character Ivy locked in sleep within a cryogenic chamber that crashed landed with her colony ship to an unknown world far from their initial destination. Ivy being accidentally woken up by the naturally frightening vaguely humanoid spider-like form of Ketahn soon discovers that he is the only thing standing between her and death in the harsh reality of their world. Despite their alienness from each other in the body, they discover through trial and error, language barriers, friendship, curiosity, and a growing attraction a love that will change the very foundation of their world. This book is full of heartfelt moments, dangerous triggering encounters, insight into Vrix’s society, and a vicious Queen out to destroy anything and anyone who gets in her way. A sci-fi romance featuring an oddly matched but well-made couple who fight to protect the ones they love from harm, and survive in each other’s arms.
- “Our hearts threads, our spirits, are all that matter, and they are bound. Fate brought me to you, my heart’s thread, and even if it tried to turn me away, I would defy it. Nothing will come between us. So long as the sun, moons, and stars make their treks across the sky, you will be mine, Ivy.” (Tiffany Roberts, Entralled)
- “Our hearts threads, our spirits, are all that matter, and they are bound. Fate brought me to you, my heart’s thread, and even if it tried to turn me away, I would defy it. Nothing will come between us. So long as the sun, moons, and stars make their treks across the sky, you will be mine, Ivy.” (Tiffany Roberts, Entralled)
- This three-book series features an alien spider and human romance that will leave your heart aching in the best of ways. Ketahn our otherworldly Vrix, stumbles upon our main female character Ivy locked in sleep within a cryogenic chamber that crashed landed with her colony ship to an unknown world far from their initial destination. Ivy being accidentally woken up by the naturally frightening vaguely humanoid spider-like form of Ketahn soon discovers that he is the only thing standing between her and death in the harsh reality of their world. Despite their alienness from each other in the body, they discover through trial and error, language barriers, friendship, curiosity, and a growing attraction a love that will change the very foundation of their world. This book is full of heartfelt moments, dangerous triggering encounters, insight into Vrix’s society, and a vicious Queen out to destroy anything and anyone who gets in her way. A sci-fi romance featuring an oddly matched but well-made couple who fight to protect the ones they love from harm, and survive in each other’s arms.
- Monstrous Hearts
- An erotic paranormal romance out to get your heart. The raw emotional blend Julie Midnight put into every word, and tone crafted, carved a well-nestled place in my heart. The Monstrous Hearts series enfolds around Alice a woman stuck in an emotionally abusive relationship, suffering through continuous trauma old and new in need of love, care, and patience, meets a wolf who turns into a man cursed with immortality in the forest. And with their shared attraction, and soul-deep wounds, they discover within each other a love they never expected to find or deserve. Alice and Colton’s chemistry and compatibility are without question. Silent, ancient, and fiercely protective Colton with his love, respect, and reassurance helps Alice grow in confidence, and security, and heal with sharp teeth that will bite back. The shells of living that they were are no more as they fight to protect and love each other against the bloodthirsty, soul-eating, witches and ghosts of the past that refuses to let them live and heal in peace.
- “To lose oneself in a beast – to go into the forest and offer tender heart to slavering jaws – is to learn the grief of not what is given but of what might become lost.” (Julie Midnight, Wolf’s Bane)
- An erotic paranormal romance out to get your heart. The raw emotional blend Julie Midnight put into every word, and tone crafted, carved a well-nestled place in my heart. The Monstrous Hearts series enfolds around Alice a woman stuck in an emotionally abusive relationship, suffering through continuous trauma old and new in need of love, care, and patience, meets a wolf who turns into a man cursed with immortality in the forest. And with their shared attraction, and soul-deep wounds, they discover within each other a love they never expected to find or deserve. Alice and Colton’s chemistry and compatibility are without question. Silent, ancient, and fiercely protective Colton with his love, respect, and reassurance helps Alice grow in confidence, and security, and heal with sharp teeth that will bite back. The shells of living that they were are no more as they fight to protect and love each other against the bloodthirsty, soul-eating, witches and ghosts of the past that refuses to let them live and heal in peace.
- Wraith Kings
- A great read for anyone looking to immerse themselves in a story thick with magic, wit, politics, cultural differences, and an evil queen set to destroy the world in pursuit of power. Our main characters – noble woman Ildiko, niece to a human king, and Brishen a Kai prince of no value came together as a political marriage between two species. This book is refreshing in the fact that despite their cultural, familial, and physical differences they really made it work out. Their strength of character and witty intelligence is admirable, for all the trials they face against the deceit and wickedness of others, they held strong to their beliefs and love for one another, never afraid to do the right thing in their journey. Despite their lack of physical attraction, they came to accept, love, and admire each other with an attraction that is more than skin-deep, but a beacon of light for one another in the void of loneliness and growing darkness.
- “If I die before you, I have no more light for you to carry to Emlek. That reconfigure holds one of my memories. You can take that instead – a paler light.” . . . . “Not a paler light,” he said. “A radiant one, from a woman in whose presence I will never be blind” (Grace Draven, Radiance)
- A great read for anyone looking to immerse themselves in a story thick with magic, wit, politics, cultural differences, and an evil queen set to destroy the world in pursuit of power. Our main characters – noble woman Ildiko, niece to a human king, and Brishen a Kai prince of no value came together as a political marriage between two species. This book is refreshing in the fact that despite their cultural, familial, and physical differences they really made it work out. Their strength of character and witty intelligence is admirable, for all the trials they face against the deceit and wickedness of others, they held strong to their beliefs and love for one another, never afraid to do the right thing in their journey. Despite their lack of physical attraction, they came to accept, love, and admire each other with an attraction that is more than skin-deep, but a beacon of light for one another in the void of loneliness and growing darkness.
R. Lee Smith (My heart bleeds in the best of ways for this book)
*Disclaimer: This is a deeply impactful novel not for the faint of heart. This book is stacked with trigger warnings, violence in every sense of the word, blood, gore, and an emotional train wreck of an experience.
- Land of the Beautiful Dead
- I honestly feel like I cannot accurately express the sheer intensity of love I have for this book and the characters within. How it’s changed and awakened so much of myself. This book will force you to question your morals and your perception of good and evil, it’ll make you stare into the grey and dark of life without mercy and question your character and others. I love this story so profoundly and I have not found another read as intense as this. You’ll learn and feel so much in the best and worst of ways down this journey between Lan and Azrael. This book will make you feel sad, frustrated, and angry to the point of tears, with moments that fill your heart with the light of hope, and humor you’ll wish to never let go, and in spite of how seemingly fleeting they are, it ultimately ends in happiness when you think all is lost.
- Struggling in a world overrun by the dead that does not die, either as Eaters (zombies) or sentient dead people that follow the unquestionable rule of their Lord Azrael, an immortal corpse of a man with powers to raise and influence the dead. Azrael whom we all look to as this villainous overlord of the story, a living god that destroyed the age of man, blurs those lines painfully when you get to know him and all his sufferings. Ones he’s witnessed and felt at the hands of humanity against their own kind and the brutal injustice towards him for being born different. The love and acceptance he’s ached a millennium for, he finds unexpectedly in Lan, who barged into his life, struggling to survive with nothing left to lose, but a suicide mission to convince him to end the eaters whilst giving up much of herself and what she believed in, in their journey full of heartache and struggle. And whilst staying true to her goal: end the eaters because humanity, despite their faults should not continue to suffer so, learns that things are not so black and white, and that love can be found in the most unlikely of people and places.
- “I know you are afraid. I know. You fear the pain, the weakness. You fear the threshold of the unknown. But these are all so temporary, my Lan. Do not let the fear you feel tonight rob you of all your tomorrows. Remember…” His hand moved to her throat, tracing the scar there from end to end before gripping her chin and forcing her head back so that she had to look at him, see him. “Life is precious,” he murmured. “All the more when it is ending.” (R. Lee Smith, Land of the Beautiful Dead)
- I honestly feel like I cannot accurately express the sheer intensity of love I have for this book and the characters within. How it’s changed and awakened so much of myself. This book will force you to question your morals and your perception of good and evil, it’ll make you stare into the grey and dark of life without mercy and question your character and others. I love this story so profoundly and I have not found another read as intense as this. You’ll learn and feel so much in the best and worst of ways down this journey between Lan and Azrael. This book will make you feel sad, frustrated, and angry to the point of tears, with moments that fill your heart with the light of hope, and humor you’ll wish to never let go, and in spite of how seemingly fleeting they are, it ultimately ends in happiness when you think all is lost.