Nora Roberts The Awakening Series Novels & Stories

I tried to run, but my legs wouldn't move. He had drugged me in the car. My consciousness blurred; I had to focus just to stay awake. I was done for. If anyone could save me now, it would have to be my phone. But it had been smashed by Thomas and left behind on the road. Despair consumed me… until the distant roar of a car engine reached my ears. Thomas frowned, hid the knife behind his back, and warned me to stay quiet. Then he went to check outside. What happened next, I don't know. When I woke, I was lying on the side of a road. The sky was completely dark. No one was around.

This had to be Freeda. Freeda was still clad in the skintight black outfit of a battlefield warrior, as if she were eager to flaunt her status as an Alpha Female. When our eyes met, she raised her chin in a deliberate show of arrogance. The rest of the room grew quiet, their eyes on me, waiting for something to unfold. Rosie Holman, Vahn's mother, was the first to break the silence. "Cecilia, Pearly, come sit beside me." Rosie beamed as she pulled out a chair for me. She was a short, plump woman, her rounded figure a result of the constant medication she needed after being poisoned with wolfsbane in the past.

If any of these subjects upset, trigger, distress or anger you then take this as a warning NOT TO CONTINUE READING. Also, this is a rewrite/combined book of a series I have posted on Dre*me. For those of you who have followed my work for a while, you might know the original book series, The Forced Series which follow Rose, Kane, Alexander and Raven Tavish. This is a rewrite and it will be different. I will be making a lot of changes and the biggest being this WON’T be four books. I have taken those four books and combined them into one long book here. So, please no comments about how this is stolen work or similar to another authors series. This is my original work and I am the original auth

"Help! Someone, help me!" I heard loud cries for help. When I opened my eyes, I was back to the day my mom's foster daughter, Edith Kellie, jumped into the river. My mother, Evelyn Newbury, leaned over the railing, her heart sinking and rising with Edith. In my previous life, Evelyn had jumped in without hesitation, only for Edith to push her head underwater. The result? Evelyn had drowned, while Edith had been saved.

She searches for a perfect spot to lay down, and when she got it, she lies down and in no time she fell into a deep slumber. That same night, Norma Elspeth walks to her library and pulled out one of the books on the bookshelf and immediately the bookshelf moved and revealed a secret passage. She walks down the passage holding a wooden torch in her hand and she enters a dark stark room. A woman and a man are seen lying down on an old wooden bed. Norma Elspeth kept the wooden torch on the lamp holder and walks to the bed where the man and woman laid. "Oh sister, too bad, that, soon, I am going to kill you, I just need to get the book of shadows so I will be able to take the spell I need to tak

Unfortunately, Nora and Toby never got further than kissing since it turned out Nora was using him to get to his just-widowed brother. Toby sighs, turning to face the she-wolf. He groans as his eyes drink in the sight before him. Nora was sexy, with her lean, tan body and her perfect tits. Her gorgeous platinum hair stuck to her body as the water cascaded down the curls. The water rolled off her small curves, and her nipples stood at attention. "See something you like, gorgeous?" Nora glides her hands over her breast, moving to her clit. She rubs her thumb over her button, moaning as she pleasures herself. Toby gulps, and Nora's other hand grabs his member. "Nora, stop. You're not my mate."

Julian had settled Nora in the crook of his arm, and with his free hand he found Claire's on the bed and covered it, and she turned her hand over and held his and they sat like that while Ethan talked nonsense to Thomas and Rosa watched from the doorway with the expression of a woman who had been running this household for twenty-two years and had never been more satisfied with an outcome. Outside, the March night was cold and clear. The pack house was beginning to stir — it was almost five AM and the night watch was changing, and somewhere below them the kitchen was coming alive with the first sounds of morning. North Ridge waking up to an ordinary day that was also, in every way that matte

, she replied. The woman, apparently unfazed by Mr. Samuels's demeanor, extended her hand towards me with a gracious smile. "And who might this be?" she inquired, her gaze lingering on me with a hint of curiosity. I offered a polite smile in return, though I couldn't shake the feeling of unease that settled over me in Nora's presence. "I'm Sara," I replied evenly, careful to maintain a neutral expression. "Pleased to meet you." Nora's smile widened at my response, though there was a calculating glint in her eyes that didn't escape my notice. "Sara, how lovely," she remarked, her tone dripping with faux sweetness. "I'm Nora Roberts, a friend of Zack's."

Chapter 24 Avoidance didn’t begin as a plan. It began as instinct. Nora woke up one morning with a tightness in her chest that refused to loosen, no matter how many deep breaths she took. Her phone lay beside her, screen dark, mercifully quiet. For the first time in weeks, there were no messages waiting for her. No demands. No guilt disguised as affection. She stared at the ceiling and realized something unsettling. She didn’t want to see James.

{Ava's POV} I was awake before my alarm. I lay still for a few minutes in the early quiet of the room, listening to the small sounds of Nora sleeping in her crib across from me — the soft, untroubled rhythm of her breathing, the occasional tiny movement that made the crib creak. There was something about that sound that straightened something in my spine every single morning. A reminder of exactly what I was doing all of this for. I reached for my phone and pulled up Mr. Bennett's number.