Delights Have Violent Ends

Zoe Jensen's parents kick her out because she doesn't want to share them with Alice Reed. She ends up homeless on the streets. She ultimately dies of starvation. When she's reborn, she finds herself standing before Alice. The latter is crying and begging her. Zoe is delighted by this. Alice can have her parents if she wants them—Zoe doesn't want to lose her life because of them again!

The things we want are so very rarely the things we need. Clifton Heights, a modest Adirondack town, offers many unique attractions. Arcane Delights sells both paperbacks and hard-to-find limited editions. The Skylark Diner serves the best home-cooked meals around, with friendly service and a smile. Every August, Mr. Jingo’s County Fair visits, to the delight of children and adults. In essence, Clifton Heights is the quintessential small American town. Everyone knows everyone else, and everyone is treated like family. It is quiet, simple, and peaceful. But shadows linger here. Flitting in dark corners, from the corner of the eye. If you walk down Main Street after dark, the slight scrape of shoes on asphalt whispers you're not alone, but when you look over your shoulder, no one is there. The moon shines high and bright in the night sky, but instead of throwing light, it only seems to make the shadows lengthen. Children disappear. Teens run away. Hunters get lost in the woods with frightening regularity. Husbands go mad, and wives vanish in the dead of night. And still, when the sun rises in the morning, you are greeted by townspeople with warm waves and friendly smiles, and the shivers pass as everything seems fresh and new... Until night falls once more. Handy's Pawn and Thrift sits several blocks down from Arcane Delights. Like any thrift store, its wares range from the mundane to the bizarre. By daylight, it seems just another slice of small town Americana. But in its window hangs a sign which reads: We Have Things You Need. And when a lonely traveling salesman comes looking for something he desperately wants, after normal visiting hours, after night has fallen, he will face a harsh truth among the shelves of Handy’s Pawn and Thrift: the things we want are rarely the things we need. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Is it possible to spend a lifetime loving your childhood friend? And after so many years apart, is it possible to win the love of someone who only saw her as a child? If you love Christmas stories, but think they could have spicier scenes, get ready, you're going to fall in love with "A Christmas Miracle - My Perverted Doctor" Ricardo and Manuela have known each other since they were children. She was always in love with him and her dream was to conquer him, but, being eleven years older than her, Ricardo only saw her as his sister's best friend. Now that Ric is back in Brazil, after living in Canada for eight years, he will meet the sexy and provocative woman that Manuela has become, in addition to being surprised by the erotic books she writes. Facing violent exes and many challenges, the love of these two will be tested, and only a Christmas Miracle will be able to unite them forever. HOT book prohibited for minors, with scenes of explicit sex, physical and psychological violence and profanity. Despite being a story of love and overcoming, this book contains triggers. ️Good reading.

My story is about a feisty omega with a couple of “gifts” from the moon goddess. She is forced to take a chosen mate under the orders of her alpha. Her chosen mate ends up being a terrible husband who cheats on her and whom she has two kids with, she then meets her fated mate, a Lycan king. They struggle to be together and things take an even rockier turn when the omega and the lycan king have to work together to save the human and werewolf world from a growing clan of vampires.

Herlo, who is everything considered a freak goes to a gala in a heavy uncontrollable heat under the guise of a suppressants, hoping the night goes with not one soul noticing. But when the Alpha’s son Romare Vitale ends up marking her against his own will, chaos befell that night. Herlo becomes the center of the attention, the woman Romare Vitale suddenly hates with every fiber in him. She’d trapped him came there with a motive and there was intention of letting her go scot-free. Herlo will have to die, but there is one problem… She Is His Mate.

Ava is madly in love with her father's best friend and she would stop at nothing until she have him. Sean is overwhelmed by Ava's feelings for him but he comes around and ends up falling for the young beautiful woman. After all, the forbidden is the the most desirable. What happens when Ava's parents finds out about their relationship? What happens when Sean's son is crazily in love with Ava? Would they be able to keep their relationship, at the expense of their family? Or would love triumph over all?

He rejected his fated human mate to save his pack. Now the cursed Luna he broke is the only one who can save—or destroy—him. “Mine.” That single word from the most dangerous man in the room changes my life forever. I’m just a broke human waitress, juggling two jobs to pay my mother’s hospital bills, when a brutal bar fight ends with my throat under a stranger’s claws…and my fate sealed by a kiss I never asked for. Ronan Vale, Alpha of the Crimson Hollow Pack—cold, merciless, untouchable—claims me as his mate in front of his warriors. There’s just one problem. I’m human. His pack wants me dead. And Ronan? He rejects me in public the very next day. To the wolves, I’m nothing but a bargaining chip: a human “Luna” tied to the Alpha by a contract arrangement to keep peace with the human council. To Ronan, I’m supposed to be an inconvenience—a weakness he can not afford. Then why does he look at me like he wants to devour me? Why does my body burn whenever he’s close? The more Ronan touches me, the more something inside me awakens: sharp senses, violent hunger, flashes of another life that doesn’t belong to a human girl at all. I’m not just a human Luna. I’m the cursed mate he once swore he’d never accept… and this time, I might be the one who walks away.

I am born with a body that draws men in, but the moment I marry, I develop a terrifying allergy to them. Every time my husband and I try to be intimate, my skin erupts in violent rashes, and I nearly suffocate. Still, I want a child so badly that one night I climb into his bed in secret, willing to gamble with my life. Strangely, nothing happens—no hives, no swelling, no shortness of breath. My husband even takes me to a clinic, where the baby is confirmed healthy. For the first time, I believe life can return to normal. Eight months in, we share a bed again. The allergic reaction hits instantly, worse than ever, and I'm rushed to the hospital. When the procedure ends, he is nowhere to be seen. I step into the hallway and hear him talking with his friends. "Did you see her face? Swollen like that. Ridiculous." Leonard Carter swings a vial of the custom serum he has been giving me and snorts. "I engineered this formula myself. It makes her break out the second a man touches her. It keeps her off me. "She wanted a baby so badly. Fine. She's carrying mine and Hannah's. That should make her feel accomplished. "When she gives birth, I'll let her spend the rest of her life calling herself Mrs. Carter." Blood drains from my face. The child I've been cherishing isn't even mine.

Hermione’s life had been pretty simple, having to deal with the stigma attached to cat shifters, an order of shifters from the cat species considered violent and uncontrollable. She would never have believed that the moon goddess would give her a lycan for a mate! Being a dominant cat made things hard for Hermione and her mate, though the raging passion between them could not be denied by both parties, just when things were starting to fall into place, a dead past comes back to life, bringing with it a vengeful madman and an unhinged spirit, hellbent on bringing forth an apocalypse that will leave two dominant species affected. Hermione has to choose between her mate and her specie. A fight for love, family, and dominance ensures Will Hermione find a way to keep her mate and at the same time prevent her specie from hurtling into extinction? Theme: passion, betrayal, revenge, and love.

Evelyn spent three years playing the part of the perfect, invisible wife to Arthur Hayes, a man who only married her out of a sense of obligation to his father. She endured the cold nights, the silence, and the constant belittling from his family, hoping that one day he would truly see her. But when his first love returns, Arthur doesn't hesitate to throw divorce papers in her face. ​After a final, violent confrontation where Arthur chooses a lie over the truth, Evelyn disappears with a secret he was never supposed to know. Five years later, she is back—not as the girl who needed a savior, but as a powerhouse who owns the very debt threatening to sink the Hayes empire. Arthur wants his heir and a second chance, but Evelyn is no longer for sale. This time, if he wants her, he’ll have to survive the wreckage of the lies he once believed.