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The Forest and the Sea: A Cinderella Retelling Tracy Zumwalt Publication date: November 12th 2024 Genres: Fairy Tales, Retelling, Romance, Young Adult Reynette is desperate to escape the servitude of her step family at Laudermann Manor and the lustful desires of the loathsome, Sir Bjorn. Lord Ehrhart seeks to please his father and their subjects by securing a future wife and future Duchess of Badenberg. Will a chance meeting in the woods lead them to find their hope and future within each other’s arms? The people of Badenberg are preparing to celebrate the anticipated, Midsummer Festival. In the worn hallways of Laudermann Manor, a young servant girl longs for freedom and love. Bound by duty to her cruel step family, she yearns to attend the festival and meet a kind, brave suitor who will seek her floral wreath and therefore, declare his intent to pursue her. Her hope takes a turn when her wreath is sought by a mysterious, yet somehow familiar man. Meanwhile, Lord Ehrhart, son ...

Silk Malice Eve Dangerfield (Snow White, #2) Publication date: January 31st 2023 Genres: Adult, Fairy Tales, Retelling, Romance Once upon a time I was left with nothing. Betrayed by my stepmother and stolen by my ex-fiancé. Now I’m battered but intact, just like my prized innocence. My heart tells me I don’t want to belong to one man. I belong to four. But the criminals I love are proud. Too proud. Their brotherhood is in tatters. They fight for me. And they possess me, even as the enemies close in. Even as the foundation of our twisted family crumbles. Even as the dark legacy threatens to consume us all. Book two in the SNOW WHITE trilogy. This is a scorching romance between a woman and four beautifully dangerous men in which she never has to choose. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play Author Bio: Eve Dangerfield has loved romance novels ever since she first swiped her grandmother’s paperbacks. Now she writes her own stories about ...

Velvet Cruelty Eve Dangerfield Publication date: October 11th 2022 Genres: Adult, Fairy Tales, Retelling, Romance Once upon a time I was promised to a powerful man. I was raised to be dutiful and innocent. But on my wedding day, I’m stolen by four men. Men who loathe my fiancé. They’re going to use me to fulfill their vendetta. One of them only wants my body. One of them wants me as his wife. Another one offers freedom… at a price. And the last wants me dead. I was raised to be a good society wife. Now I’m facing a battle of wits and breathless desire. My only hope is to set aside my innocence. Or learn to use it as a weapon. Author’s Note: VELVET CRUELTY is a scorching romance between a woman and four beautifully dangerous men in which she never has to choose. Read at your own discretion. Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble / iBooks / Kobo / Google Play — EXCERPT: A girl barely old enough to be called a woman is sitting on a bench two hundred feet below me. She’...

  She was the face that launched a thousand ships, The fierce beauty at the heart of Olympus, And she was never ours to claim. In Olympus, you either have the power to rule... or you are ruled. Achilles Kallis may have been born with nothing, but as a child he vowed he would claw his way into the poisonous city's inner circle. Now that a coveted role has opened to anyone with the strength to claim it, he and his partner, Patroclus Fotos, plan to compete and double their odds of winning. Neither expect infamous beauty Helen Kasios to be part of the prize... or for the complicated fire that burns the moment she looks their way. Zeus may have decided Helen is his to give to away, but she has her own plans. She enters into the competition as a middle finger to the meddling Thirteen rulers, effectively vying for her own hand in marriage. Unfortunately, there are those who would rather see her dead than lead the city. The only people she can trust are the ones she can't keep her hand...

Red Cambria Hebert (House of Misfits, #5) Publication date: March 18th, 2022 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Fairy Tales, Retelling, Romance Once upon a time… An orphaned boy runs away, knowing he is better off in solitude than in the company of those with whom he does not belong. However, Little Red is not meant to be alone, his crimson halo a calling card to those far and wide. And so off he goes… into the woods to attract the eye of a wicked wolf. Better to see you with. Better to hear you with. Better to taste you with. Astoundingly, the woods are not a frightening place, and Little Red flourishes among the weeds and thorns until he isn’t so little anymore. And the wicked wolf he’s gone to catch? Well, this forest has more than one, and perversely, their snapping teeth and sharp claws make him feel at home. Years after walking into the woods, Red is expected to walk back out, carrying with him the head of the most dangerous predator. But those who sent him into the ...

A Land of Never After R.L. Davennor Publication date: October 26th, 2021 Genres: Adult, Dark Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Retelling All my life, I’ve dreamed of the sea. Mermaids, stormy skies, daring adventures, pirates…it was little wonder I sprinted to the docks the moment I left the orphanage. Eager to begin my new life, I searched for a ship that would have me—and found a thief instead. I chased the bastard. Now I’m trapped. I’m told this place is Neverland, but everything I touch is dead or dying; what’s left is hellbent on killing each other. Monsters lurk around every corner, and everyone I meet hides a damning secret. I’m thrust in the middle of a deadly feud, and the only one capable of unraveling the curse that plagues us. Neverland is my home now. Until it’s done with me? It will never let go.   Peter Pan meets Pirates of the Caribbean in A Land of Never After , but reader beware: this children’s tale has been reimagined for adult lovers of all things dark and dead...