The Whaley House Novels & Stories

The tale of a widow's harrowing journey through grief and peril into the cold remnants of a dead world. Damon Sharpe had in part found victory, he believed, in his battle to unearth a truth obscured by time. By autumn, he was dead, leaving to his wife Anne a house of unfulfilled wishes, remnants, and the key to the enigma of his obsession, the Mourner’s Cradle. A journey through grief and peril delivers Anne Sharpe from her home in St. Charles to the faraway skeletons of a long-dead civilization where she will find the desperate answers she seeks…or die trying. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

The royal house of Medora sets up an international contest. The winner gets to marry the crown prince and one day rule as his queen. But with the entire world watching, and several other women trying to sabotage you, falling in love isn't easy. Jane didn't take the contest seriously at first. She never even thought she would get in. She is introduced into a new world filled with ballgowns, secret romances and of course: Prince Sebastian. Can she fall in love with someone so different than her? Or will the dark side of this new golden world get to her first?

A huge explosion brought Aaron to the fate of his love life. He doesn’t remember his past and yet, he was greeted by a new ‘family’ when he woke up. A house fills with eight doctors and the love story bloom between them. Bit by bit, Aaron starts to remember his past when he already in love with Hazel. While Hazel is still in trauma because of her past experience, she closed her heart tightly for years.Will their love succeed to bloom? Will Aaron stay with Hazel or pursue back his old love?This is a continuation from 10 Billion To Get A Wife!

Alexandria Morgan had a one-night stand with a man who turned out to be a billionaire with numerous businesses in America and around the world. This revelation left her mortified. Little did she know that sleeping with him would mark the beginning of a never-ending misery in her life. She got pregnant, was kicked out of her parents' house, and was forced to stop her studies. Six years later, she received a notice from Clyde Harlington, who wanted to claim her son. However, she could avoid it from happening if she agreed to one condition: marrying him without the possibility of divorce.

Andrea is a powerful she-wolf that has it all. Beauty, power, a family and the most loving boyfriend, but everything is snatched from her in a second as she lays on the cold ground, left alone to die as she slowly slips into the black, endless hole of death but life has other plans as she wakes up in the body of a weak omega, Tabitha. What happens when she's shipped to the powerful Alpha's house and she turns out to be his mate? The Alpha has a secret he's hiding from the world. Will a weak omega be able to break his walls and help him heal? What is the Alpha's secret?

Abby just wanted a job so she could pay all the debts and continue with her mother’s treatment. Until he gets a job to work in the werewolf house, the Alpha and the Beta of the pack. She never imagined that in the middle of our normal world there was a universe of mystical beings, much less that they were beautiful and dangerously seductive. Kai and Calian grew up together and learned to share everything, but not womens, they had never been attracted to the same woman, until Abby entered their lives. The twins discover that she is their mate and they were madly mad for the human. But no one had any idea that she was there as a spy, sent by her worst enemies: the vampires.

Tonia's life shatters when her Alpha husband, who has always loved her, finds his fated mate. In a twinkling of an eye, she becomes a stranger in her own house, as her husband showers all his attention and love on his fated mate. Heartbroken and dejected, Tonia ends up having an accidental one night stand with a handsome stranger. What happens when this handsome stranger turns out to be the Lycan king? Now, he will stop at nothing to have her by his side. What happens when Tonia's ex-husband regrets his actions and comes begging for a second chance?

When traumatized and desperate Calla Moreno accepts a job as a live-in maid at a billionaire’s secluded mansion, she expects silence, routine, and a safe place to hide. What she finds is Ronan Vexley—cold, dominant, and hiding darker secrets than she ever imagined. As twisted affections grow between them, and his charming but dangerous brother Dominic begins circling her like prey, Calla is pulled into a web of lies, obsession, and deadly truths. Trapped in a house that watches her, haunted by her past, and caught between two powerful men, Calla must decide who to trust—before the mansion buries her secrets too.

BLURB: Reina Cole is an eighteen year old teenager and heiress of the Cole family. After her old life implodes due to an embezzlement scandal, she transfers to Gravemont Academy. An elite school where surnames is currency. Everyone here wears a mask, but none more dangerous than the boys who’ve trapped her between them. One of them being Adrian Vale. Heir to a tech empire, leader of the notorious House of M, and the kind of boy who can destroy a reputation with one sneeze. Adrian treats Gravemont like his chessboard. He should hate Reina, she defies him, resists him, ruins his control and yet he’s drawn to her like a dare he can’t stop taking. Julian Carter wants her too. Adrian’s charming, golden cousin. He’s everything Adrian isn’t. Patient, sardonic, protective. But Julian’s interest hides its own game, and his family ties are far darker than Reina knows. What happens when House of M, an elite powerful club run by Adrian; throws a challenge on both men? Whoever gets to have sex with Reina Moore first, owes the other five thousand dollars. Two princes. One fallen heiress. A maze of betrayals. Reina thought she’d come here to rebuild her life, keep her head down and graduate. Instead, she’s caught between two rival heirs. Hate me. Lust me. Love me. Welcome to Gravemont Academy

Katherine De’Cheney had a life she felt was perfect. She had a job she loved working at the New York Museum as a Conservator. She was engaged to the love of her life. One day she comes home early to find him tangled in their bed sheets with his paralegal. Shattered and broken, she crumbles in hopelessness. In her grieving state she passes out. Opening her eyes she feels transported into another realm. Standing in front of her is her grandmother’s house which stands in front of a looming property that she dare not go near. The “LeFleur” mansion. A place that haunts her dreams. Something continues to call her spirit like a piece of her is locked inside waiting to reclaim her. Suddenly from behind, a Shadow of a man, shrouded in night. He reaches for her hand beckoning her to come. She jerks back and tries to run. “You cannot continue resisting me my dove” he says in silky voice with an old German accent. “Come home to me”. She feels her body relishing in his voice, his touch, and a hidden desire about him she does not know. The more she tries to pull away, the more she feels a pull towards him. Something kept nagging her. ‘What was drawing her back there?’ ‘Who was the sinister looking man she saw in the window as a child before the wolves came from nowhere to attack her. She shuddered, trying not to remember. What darkness was connected to that decaying old house? Why did she feel like something is calling her to return?