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“I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU FIRED ME!” she screeched, looking like she’d just lost a leading role on Love & Hip Hop. “I’M THE BEST EMPLOYEE YOU EVER HAD, YOU STUCK-UP BITCHES!” Then boom, she picked up her laptop and chucked it across the room like she was auditioning for the shot put in the Olympics. Trevor gasped. “Not the MacBook!” “I’M NOT LEAVING! YOU’RE GONNA HAVE TO DRAG ME OUTTA THIS MUTHAFUCKA!” she screamed while kicking over her filing cabinet and knocking the shared Keurig onto the floor. The damn machine sputtered its last brew..... Without Warning follows the unexpected and passionate love story of Sienna Carter, a strong,  witty, but unconfident woman who wasn’t looking for forever, and Knox Michaels, the charming younger brother in a powerful Chicago family known for their business, influence, and drama. What begins as heated encounters quickly spirals into something deeper, something neither of them saw coming. Their chemistry is undeniable, but with family secrets, jealous exes, workplace politics, and complicated loyalties surrounding them, navigating their relationship is anything but simple. When Sienna discovers Knox’s dark past, the once thought to be the carefree bachelor is thrown into a whirlwind of fear, surprise, and overwhelming love. Determined not to lose her, Knox steps up, claiming his future with Sienna even as both of their families reel from the news. As the two try to merge their worlds, tensions flare, siblings clash, friends turn into rivals, and unexpected alliances form. With an announcement party meant to bring everyone together turning into a powder keg of secrets and emotions, Sienna and Knox must decide if their bond is strong enough to survive the storm, because love, like life, doesn’t always come planned. Sometimes it comes, Without Warning

The legendary jewelry I ordered for my little sister had finally arrived at the boutique, so I brought her to pick it up. The moment we stepped into the mall, someone walked straight into me from the opposite direction. A cup of scalding hot coffee in her hand splashed all over my clothes. Seeing that the other person was a woman, I was just about to brush it off and say it was fine. However, the very next second, her crimson-painted fingernail jabbed straight at my forehead, and she spat right into my face. “Are you blind? Can’t you see where you’re going? Do you know how expensive this coffee is? It’s a special blend from the jewelry boutique! Someone like you can’t afford to drink it in your entire life!” She kept going, her words getting harsher by the second. Beside me, my sister’s eyes immediately turned red with fright. Not wanting to argue in front of her, I decided to call the police and let them deal with it. However, before I could do anything, the woman suddenly grabbed my sister by the arm. “So young and already with a kid so big, huh? Did you finish school before becoming someone’s mistress? Since you bumped into me in a mall owned by my family’s company, Jennings Group, I shall educate you on behalf of your parents today! Or you might cause even bigger trouble out there someday!” I froze. Jennings Group? As a daughter of the Jennings family, why haven’t I seen this so-called relative before?

Nyxara Vale was never supposed to survive betrayal. She was supposed to choose it. When her mate, Cassian Ward, and her best friend, Brielle Shaw, plotted to ruin her, the world mourned the heiress’s death. But here’s the twist—Nyxara didn’t just fake her fall. She planned it, step by step, so she could awaken the ancient White Wolf power hidden in her blood. Now she’s back, and honestly, nobody stands a chance. She’s got the wolf’s raw strength, the cold edge of a vampire, and all the temptation of a succubus. But that’s just the start. Nyxara is human perfection, too—top hacker, racing prodigy, MMA and Krav Maga master, world-famous chef, scent genius, and the brains behind a wildly successful lingerie and adult toy empire. She’s rich, skilled, dangerous. The deadliest woman alive. But coming back from the dead leaves scars. Brielle’s still around—and pregnant, a living reminder of everything that went wrong. Cassian’s still tied to Nyxara by a bond she broke to finish her transformation. He’s always there, a shadow of love she had to give up. And then someone new walks in—a mate untouched by her past, not afraid to push back, not bothered by her power. Desire gets tangled up with danger, and suddenly Nyxara has to figure out what she really wants—and who she can trust. Secrets start bubbling up. Old alliances fall apart. Nyxara has to choose what kind of legacy she’ll leave behind. The White Wolf wasn’t built to rule through fear or fate. She was made to rule through sheer will—and the many faces Nyxara wears are her sharpest weapons. She’s done being the girl they tried to break. Now she’s the woman that survives.

When NHL captain Ethan Brooks becomes the center of a career-ending scandal, the last thing he expects is to find comfort in a neighborhood bakery. Emma Carter has spent years rebuilding her life after losing her parents, pouring everything she has into North & Rye. She doesn’t care about celebrity gossip or billionaire families. She only knows that the quiet man who comes in every morning for coffee seems exhausted by the weight of the world. As their friendship grows into something deeper, Ethan begins finding pieces of himself he thought he’d lost. But falling in love with him comes at a cost Emma never imagined. Her bakery becomes the target of public outrage, her neighborhood is threatened by the very company Ethan’s father controls, and every decision they make seems to pull them further into the spotlight they both wish they could escape. With Ethan chasing one final chance at the Stanley Cup and Emma fighting to save the place that has always felt like home, they’ll have to decide whether love is enough when the entire world seems determined to tear them apart. In the end, Ethan discovers that redemption isn’t found in winning championships or changing public opinion. It’s found every morning inside a little bakery called North & Rye, where one woman believed in him long before anyone else did.

Richard Franklin has left his Midwestern roots behind to live on the coast of Maine with his family. But in the autumn of the year 2000, he must return to his Illinois birthplace on a sorrowful journey. His wife Michelle has been killed in New England by a hit-and-run driver who is never found, so back home he comes with her cremated remains, to fulfill a final wish and on her birthday scatter her ashes in the park along the river in Blackwater Valley—simply Blackwater Val to locals—the small town where they both grew up and fell in love. With him he brings his six-year-old daughter Katie who still grieves for her lost mother: Katie, who can sometimes guess who’s going to be on the phone before it rings. Who can stop all the clocks in the house, and break up clouds in the sky with her mind, and heal sicknesses, and who sometimes sees things that aren’t there...people who are no longer alive. All gifts she inherited from her mother. Only something isn’t quite right in the Val. Sinkholes are opening up, revealing the plague pits the sleepy hamlet was built over in the 1830s, when malaria and cholera outbreaks ran riot. Mysterious bird and fish die-offs begin to occur, and Katie can see ghosts of the dead gathering all around. But what she can’t see is the charred, centuries-old malevolence which has been waiting for her, and wants her for its very own. Or the pale Sallow Man who haunts the town’s nighttime streets...or the river witch—another Blackwater Val, of sorts—each of whom will be drawn one by one into the nightmarish bloodletting about to take place. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

For centuries, witches have fallen victim to the cruel tradition of witch-hunting. Baila is their only hope at salvation but she destroys all chances the witches have to gain power and freedom by repeating the horrible mistake that started the witch hunt. Hunted and ashamed, Baila dives into more trouble by trespassing into werewolf territory where the ruthless lycan king reigns. When she faces him, she realises that stories of his brutality may just be stories and not the truth. Time is running out and thousands of witches are being slaughtered because of her mistake but Baila's plan to use the lycan king to save her people gets complicated when she finds herself falling. Will the lycan king catch her? If he does, all hell will break loose and every dying flame and hatred against lycans and werewolves will be kindled.