Why The Chicken Cross The Road

‘It’s not that there aren’t good people in the world. It’s that the bad ones are so much easier to find.’ A teen mother raises her daughter on a looping road trip, living hand-to-mouth in motel rest stops and backwater towns, stepping occasionally into the heat and chaos of the surrounding cities. A life without permanence, filled with terrors and joys, their stability is dependent on the strangers—and strange men—they meet along the way. But what is the difference between the love of a mother, and the love of a friend? And in a world with such blurred lines, where money is tight and there’s little outside influence, when does the need to survive slide into something more sinister? ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Forced to flee and live as rogues, Emma and her mother endure the unthinkable. Just when she thinks it can’t get much worse, Emma is brought salvation by a pack with a sad past of their own. Will she find the love she deserves? Can she overcome her traumatic past and allow herself to be loved? On this journey, she leans into her wolf Morrigan who has a dramatic past of her own. She will learn so much about herself and her wolf in the story to come as they travel down the rocky road together and discover her family's secret past. This is a story of love, power, magic and overcoming hardship.

As the only daughter of a casino magnate, I have grown up surrounded by danger and betrayal. To keep me safe, my father has raised nine bodyguards from a young age. After I come of age, he asks me to choose one of them as my fiance. Everyone expects me to pick Harry Hunt, the man I have secretly loved for years. But I do not—not after what happened in my previous life. On the day of our engagement, I was kidnapped, and my hands were pierced with poison-tipped spikes. Tortured and desperate, I called Harry for help. His response still haunts me today. "Victoria, stop with these games. Your location shows you're still in the hotel suite. Trying to pull these pity stunts just to keep me to yourself? Pathetic." With another woman laughing in the background, I closed my eyes and gave up. As the iron cage sank beneath the waves and the sea filled my lungs, my life ended. Then, I open my eyes and find myself back on the day my father asked me to make a choice. This time, Harry's name is the first I cross off the list. But why is he crying and begging me to marry him at my engagement banquet with Jeffrey Reed?

"My will to live is weak.By all accounts, I should be dead, but somehow I made it through. Broken, battered, and barely hanging on, I’m forced to rely on the man who destroyed me. Recovery is a long road, and I’m not sure I can take it by his side, so I punish him, refusing to grant forgiveness.But it’s still there—the spark. That incessant pull that I can’t escape.The deepest scars of our hearts spill out. All the secrets we kept locked away are laid bare.Everything is different. Time is running out.All the infractions are catching up to us."

Mortani Bartolome is a lovely, small, but cool woman. She doesn't care if it's a guy or a woman; if they collide on her road without a settlement, her fist will be the judge. Even her boyfriend's lover, Clyde Louis Contreras, CEO of a well-known corporation and grandson of a billionaire, is vulnerable to her toxic hands. Will her fist help her if she realizes she is destined to marry the person she despises the most? And this guy is none other than the man who became her ex-boyfriend's lover. Is there anything she can do to avert this disaster? Or will she fall in love with a Clyde Contreras instead of avoiding him?

The line between good and evil is permeable, and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces which either make or break us. The is no stopping death when it comes knocking at your door.

Lena Wellington’s life takes a very devastating turn when she is betrayed by her boyfriend and tricked into a one-night stand with billionaire Carson O’Connell. Struggling with feelings of being betrayed and the overwhelming burden of her mother’s life-saving surgery, Lena finds herself backed into a corner with no way out. Just when all hope seems lost, a glimmer of light appears in the form of an unexpected proposal: a marriage contract with Carson, the billionaire. Left with no choice, she must accept the contract to save the life of the person she cherishes most. Will the contract lead her to a road of new love and new hope? Or will she be led to a world of danger that threatens her very existence.

After Sophie's friend dares her to do something crazy, she ends up going on a road trip across the country to party the night away. However, fate has something else in mind and the bus she is in breaks down in Moonstone Falls, a strange town in the middle of nowhere. She meets a handsome and mysterious man named Simon who convinces her to stay with him, as they are destined to be together. Sophie notices strange things seem to happen in Moonstone Falls and when the moon rises every night, she can hear wolves howling. Can Sophie adapt to a world she would have called fantasy in the past? She hopes so...

10 years earlier, Jason drives down a dark deserted road on his way home from a birthday party, when he sees a red haired woman walking along side the road. Picking her up, he finds out that she is not what he thinks she is. Instead, he ends up losing his soul. Spending the next 10 years of his life looking over his shoulder, he eventually comes to the realization that the only way to get his soul back is to kill her. Does he find and kill her or does she haunt him for eternity. Find out in The Soul Eater.

From the cross world of wealth and destitution, love blooms between the superiority of Primo and his wife's replica, Larika—under a curb sequence of transformation. "I formally announced you... my wife."