Roses in the Devil's Garden
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yahoo: A clumsy, unsophisticated person.
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Fallen Rose: Book Two
Nights in the roaring city remind bright young things that life's too short to take for granted. Tucked away in Times Square hides the Pantheon: a secret cabaret for wealthy gay men. Pretty young men in elaborate costumes and rouged lips are eager to please, and the champagne flows all night long. It's a world of frivolity, fantasy, and debauchery. As Eros, the most sought after performer at the Pantheon, Julius uses his beauty and charm on enthusiastic patrons, but growing weary of superficial love, he longs to make a better life for himself.
Five years after being declared mentally unfit after surviving the trenches of No Man's Land, Edward Joseph Clarence Junior pieced his shattered life back together. Now he's ready to take on the family empire. To celebrate his thirtieth birthday, Edward's cousin takes him to the most posh nightclub in town, the Pantheon. Falling under the sway of Eros, Edward and Julius find a love they've never imagined and the chance for a future they had only dared to dream about. But as Ares, a notorious gangster and Julius's most important--and dangerous--client watches them, the threat to their love and their lives grows by the day.
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One moment Riley Murrough is living a normal life working in a coffee shop, and the next he's running for his life from demons, learns he bears the mark of a shape-shifter king from a magical realm, and--worst of all--he's destined to become the mated prince to the arrogant tiger shifter he would rather strangle.
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CHARLIE COCHET is an author by day and artist by night. Always quick to succumb to the whispers of her wayward muse, no star is out of reach when following her passion. From adventurous agents and sexy shifters to society gentlemen and hardboiled detectives, there's bound to be plenty of mischief for her heroes to find themselves in--and plenty of romance, too!
Currently residing in Central Florida, Charlie is at the beck and call of a rascally Doxiepoo bent on world domination. When she isn't writing, she can usually be found reading, drawing, or watching movies. She runs on coffee, thrives on music, and loves to hear from readers.
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Between the Devil and the Pacific Blue Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts Healing Hunter's Heart
Love in Retrograde
THE AUSPICIOUS TROUBLES OF LOVE
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DREAMSPUN DESIRES
#7 - Forgive and Forget
#41 - Finding Mr. Wrong
FALLEN ROSE
Roses in the Devil's Garden
A Rose by Any Other Name
NORTH POLE CITY TALES
Mending Noel
The Heart of Frost
Vixen's Valor
Loving Blitz
Disarming Donner
The King's Courage
North Pole City Tales (Print Anthology)
SOLDATI HEARTS
The Soldati Prince
The Foxling Soldati
THIRDS
Hell & High Water
Blood & Thunder
Rack & Ruin
Rise & Fall
Against the Grain
Catch a Tiger by the Tail
Smoke & Mirrors
Thick & Thin
Darkest Hour Before Dawn
Gummy Bears & Grenades
Tried & True
THIRDS Beyond the Books Volume 1
THIRDS Beyond the Books Volume 2
Thick & Thin and Gummy Bears & Grenades (Print Anthology)
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