K. L. Cottrell

Spencer Frost is one broken and angry eighteen-year-old. He’s found himself on the ground after life delivered a sudden, unavoidable punch to his face, and he hasn’t been able to get back up. He doesn’t like that one damn bit, but what he likes even less are other people’s attempts to reach him. He doesn’t want their attention and he doesn’t need their help—or even deserve it. At least, that’s what he thinks before he meets Emerson King. She’s gentle where he’s abrasive. Calm where he’s tempestuous. Bright where he’s dark. And he’ll find she needs him just as much as he needs her because, although no one has taken the time to notice, life has been cruel to her, too. In this true-to-life and hope-inspiring new adult romance, Spencer and Emerson will learn that love is at its greatest when it finds you at your worst. **This story deals with sensitive themes, including suicide and abuse, and contains mature content.**

Sunlight Girl

Cindi Page

Greta Rose West

Leila Love

Elle Fielding

Piper Lee Burns

Barbara Kellyn

Laura Mowery

M. K. Condry

Lili Grouse

Lisa M. Miller

Nicole Sharp

This season, get swept up in the mistletoe magic of a holiday romance – or twelve! Sure to warm your heart and curl your toes, this sparkling new collection features Christmas-themed love stories by a diverse and talented group of independent romance authors from Canada, the U.S., Australia, the U.K., and Sweden. Whether you swoon for second chances, ship enemies to lovers, or sigh over destined soulmates, you’ll enjoy opening these sweet, spicy, and sometimes steamy standalone shorts, each wrapped in romance and tied with a big, bright bow of guaranteed happily ever after. For fans of Lena Hendrix, Janice Whiteaker, Nicole Snow, Melanie Harlow, and Kandi Steiner. Pour yourself a mug of mulled wine or hot cocoa, curl up, and fall in love with heartfelt holiday stories from around the world. USA: Piper Lee Burns, M. K. Condry, K. L. Cottrell, Leila Love, Laura Mowery, Nicole Sharp, and Greta Rose West. Canada: Barbara Kellyn. UK: Lisa M. Miller and Cindi Page. Australia: Elle Fielding. Sweden: Lili Grouse. The Independent Romance Authors Association (TIRAA) is a global community of independently-published romance authors where knowledge is shared and every writer’s success, big or small, is celebrated. To learn more about TIRAA, or to join this hive mind for indie romance authors, visit: independentromance.com

12 Naughty & Nice Novellas

Wrapped in Romance

Delicate

Marienne is different from how she used to be. After she recovered from the car wreck that nearly killed her, she withdrew from the life she was leading--not just because her family was destroyed and her friendships broken, but also because she started noticing some very disturbing things about the world around her. These days, along with keeping to herself, she simply endures the horrific monsters she sometimes sees in the place of seemingly normal men. She doesn't know what to do, so she does nothing.Gabe has been Light for eight years. He's accustomed to the unique lifestyle centered on destroying the creatures of darkness that infiltrate the human world to wreak havoc on it. As a Gatherer his job is to find new Light people and introduce them to their new way of existing, but the routine and relatively quiet life he's been leading for so long is interrupted when he encounters Marienne. She's distinctive, and of all the bizarre things he's seen in his life, her unexpected appearance is the one that shocks him the most.But these two strangers are on the brink of something much bigger than simply changing each other's lives. The scale balancing good against evil can only stay steady for so long before it tips toward darkness, and that upset is just around the corner. And Marienne, Gabe and everyone they know--Light or not--will be swept up in the fight to right it.

What Hides in the Darkness

K. L. Cottrell

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