FOUND IN YOU (Book 2 in the Fixed Trilogy) by Laurelin PaigeChapter OneI paused at the doorway to the Park Avenue high-rise and stared at the building’s name engraved on the stone. The Bowery. Jordan had already pulled ...
The Winslow Incident - By Elizabeth VossPROLOGUEDaybreak found the veterinarian crisscrossing Loop-Loop Road, looking for his mind. He had lost it the night before and couldn’t seem to find it anywhere.Returning home empty-he...
Love Notes - By Heather GunterChapter 1-CharlieI wake up to incessant screaming. It’s deep and commanding and damn if it isn’t directed at me. It is way too early for this shit to start. The only words I’m a...
Indelible Love Jake's Story - By D.W. CeeChapter 1 Who is This Girl?Exhausted! That was the only word that came to my mind after working an eighteen hour shift. I was sure it was illegal for anyone to work so much but...
Henry & Sarah - By Suzanne KadrakChapter 1 – The ArrivalEngland - July, 1886Partridge Mansion could already be seen from afar.Nestled in the beautiful countryside, it was surrounded solely by green meadows and vast farmland...
Edge of Midnight - By Leslie TentlerPrologueAtlantic BeachOutside Jacksonville, FloridaOfficer John Penotti took a sip of his rapidly cooling coffee, fighting the drowsiness that always came in the last remaining hours before daybr...
Betting on Hope - By Kay KepplerChapter 1A cream-colored envelope bearing a law firm’s return address could not be bringing good news.Hope McNaughton stood in her family’s shabby kitchen and fingered the heavy, embosse...
The Watcher - By Lisa VoisinChapter OneI’d never seen a dead body before.The man lay on the ground near an uprooted tree stump with his face turned away. His tangled gray hair glimmered like ancient pewter in the late ...
The Mist on Bronte Moor - By Aviva OrrChapter 1Love is like the wild rose-briar,Friendship like the holly-tree—The holly is dark when the rose-briar bloomsBut which will bloom most constantly?—E. J. BrontëDoctors can be wr...
The Cold King - By Amber JaegerCHAPTER ONECALIA WOVE THROUGH THE CROWDED market with her basket held high above her head. The town’s people barely noticed the slight girl so it was up to her to steer around them or ou...
Jared - By Teresa GabelmanChapter 1Jared Kincaid was not in the mood to screw around. If Duncan had a clue what kind of mood he was in, he would not be sending him in to question Chad Evans. Duncan’s main focus had ...
Forbidden Alliance A Werewolf's Tale - By Danae AyussoI sniffed the air wildly, trying to catch his scent. Typically it would have been elementary to track him, his scent was ingrained in my mind like no others, but the ...
Wanted by Her Lost Love - By Maya Bankschapter OneAlmost enough to make you believe in the fine institution of marriage, isn’t it? Ryan Beardsley said as he watched his friend, Raphael de Luca, dance with his radiant ne...
Trying Not To Love You - By Megan Smith"Mom, I'm home!" I called out when I opened the front door."Hi, baby girl. How was school?" I walked over to my mom and gave her a hug. We shuffled off to the kitchen as we did...
CHAPTER ONETHERE WAS NO place like home.Or some sentimental, greeting-card bullshit like that.Neil Pettit swung his duffel bag out of the back of his rental car and then slowly climbed the paved walkway toward the dark house. ...
PrologueDivorce.His throat closed up even thinking the word. He was twenty-eight years old and had conquered the universe or thought he had.No! He had.Then his picture perfect world had shattered with one single word.Divorce.He&rs...
Chapter OneThey’re here in town. All three of them. Well, definitely two but I’m betting the third is skulking around here somewhere. Leah Baron slid into the booth and ignored the way her jeans squeaked against the...
chapter 1DON’T LOOK NOW, but Aiden just walked in. That statement was followed up with a long, lingering sigh of adoration.Waiting in line to order her morning coffee, Chloe Reiss smiled at her coworker Holly, who was st...
CHAPTER ONESTOP SMILING. EVERY time you smile, an angel dies.Wow, I answered. That’s a good one.The man with the negative attitude sat at the bar, looking as if he...
CHAPTER ONE‘ALL PACKED AND ready to go, Violet?’ her father called out to her from the kitchen.‘Coming,’ she called back, relieved that Christmas was over for another year and she could escape back to her...
Prologue0 hourSunny Loveless laughed as Emily reached for the silver rattle. Not now, sweet Emily Rose, she said. We’ll play Drop the Rattle when we get home. I have to pay the nice lady for the groceries.Emily gurgled ...
PrologueWhat right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry?Charles Dickens, A Christmas CarolThe car barreled around a curve next to Blue Valley Lake, tires squealing, barely staying on the pavement. Sue Ann gri...
Chapter OneIt’s twenty dollars for the lap dance. Ten more for a hand job, twenty extra for a blow job, and thirty for full service. No kissing on the lips, and you gotta wear a condom.David Lucky Landon lounged back ...
About the AuthorThough lacking much authentic Welsh blood, Kim Lawrence—from English/Irish stock—was born and brought up in north Wales. She returned there when she married, and her sons were both born on Anglesey, an island o...
Chapter OneChey stared at the pink eviction notice on her apartment door with a heavy heart. Setting the bag containing her camera equipment by her feet, she pushed up her sunglasses to read the fine print: This is your fina...
PROLOGUEALIK VASIN DOWNED the last of the vodka in his glass and waited for the buzz to make it to his brain. Nothing. It was going to take a lot more alcohol tonight. To have some fun. To feel something.Either that, or i...
PROLOGUEIT WASN’T THE BEST of times for Selwyn Chancellor. Lying in his massive carved mahogany bed, he was moving in and out of consciousness, lost in a darkening sea of foreboding. Wave upon wave of memories tossed him...
Chapter One‘Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.’ That was Murphy’s Law. And Alex Farrer knew with absolute certainty that her life had once again become the starring jewel in its crown of truth.‘Take cha...
CHAPTER ONE‘WHO THE HELL is Jess?’Drago Cassari raked his fingers through the swathe of dark hair that had fallen forward onto his brow, concern and frustration etched onto his hard features as he stared at the moti...
CHAPTER ONEBUT, I DON’T WANT A partner, Emily Tate said through her teeth. I like working alone. She clenched her fists to pound them on the desk in front of her and then unclenched them and smoothed down the jacket of her business suit, instead. I don’t need a partner, George.Her boss looked exasperated, and she automatically...
Chapter 1Branna Lind sighed and melted into the seat of the Realtor’s car. She sipped sweet tea; its refreshing coolness flowed and revived her sinking spirits. She offered silent prayers of gratitude. One for the drive-th...
About The AuthorTracy Tegan spent the last seventeen years as a dot com strategy consultant and has worked as a professional blogger about relationships, dating and issues pertaining to gender equality.Chapter 1 - First Impressio...
CHAPTER ONE‘ZACH? WHERE THE hell are you? You’d better not bail on me because I don’t think I can do this without you. Any moment now I’m going to give in and eat carbs and that is going to be the end of this dress. When you get this message, call me.’ The phone almost slipped from her sweaty palm and Tay...
Synopsis:Roanna Davenport was raised a wealthy orphan on her grandmother's magnificent Alabama estate, Davencourt...
Chapter OneMost people don't take cheerleading seriously. If they only knew...All-American girl, that's me. ...
In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed.