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A Lost Love

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by Jennis Slaughter


  "You're almost out of time, Lily. Please, just let go?"

  I look down at the control panel. I know what I have to do.

  Lilith Madison is captain of the Phoenix, a spaceship filled with an elite crew and travelling through the Delta Gamma Quadrant. Their mission is mankind's last hope for survival.

  But there is a killer on board. One who kills without leaving a trace and seems intent on making sure their mission fails. With the ship falling apart and her crew being ruthlessly picked off one by one, Lilith must choose who to trust while tracking down the killer before it's too late.

  "A suspenseful...exciting...thrilling whodunit adventure in space...discover the shocking truth about what's really happening on the Phoenix" (Clarion)

  "There's a lot of action, sex and forward motion. The ride...will keep readers turning pages in excitement and anticipation. A sleek and sexy sci-fi thriller." (Kirkus)

  47

  When Delaney Delacroix is called to locate a missing girl, she never plans on getting caught up with a human trafficking investigation or with the local witch. Meeting with Raelin Montrose changes her life in so many ways that Delaney isn’t sure that this isn’t destiny.

  Raelin Montrose is a practicing Wiccan, and when the ley lines that run under her home tell her that someone is coming, she can't imagine that she was going to solve a mystery and find the love of her life at the same time.

  Insight

  In the sequel to Insight, Delaney and Raelin Delacroix have their past to come back to haunt them, but it's not in the way that they expect.

  Who has it out for the newly married couple? Is it family members who feel that they deserve some of the good fortune or someone that they missed during the wrap up of the human trafficking case?

  Will the Montrose Ley Lines give them enough warning so that they can protect themselves and their friends or will they be silent, leaving the Delacroix’s to figure things out on their own.

  Who has it out for them? Is it someone that they missed during the wrap up of the human trafficking case or is it something more sinister?

  Intuition

  When Navy SEAL Sydney Martin feels her twin sister die, she knows that she has her work cut out for her in finding who murdered her. When she gets a delayed text, asking her to protect something, she vows to do just that.

  What she didn't know was that her investigation would involve her sister's best friend, computer programmer Chance O'Neil, and that they would end up running for their lives in search of the truth all while falling in love.

  Would they be able to bring the guilty parties to justice before they are caught or will it all be for naught?

  A Sister’s Wish

  A collection of seasonings & spices, put together properly, can enhance any meat, poultry or seafood. I have collected recipes for over thirty years & I decided that it was time that I share them. Over 200 recipes have been passed along from family & friends over plates of finger licking good ribs, succulent chicken & tasty seafood. I hope that you all enjoy these as much as I did eating the results. Keep the smoke out of your eyes, but in the meats.

  Cookbook: BBQ Recipes

  In the continuing saga of Raelin and Delaney Delacroix, they finally find time to take a vacation to a private South Pacific island. There they find a waterfall cave, and Raelin is granted a wish that she never thought would happen.

  Once they are home, they have to ready for their upcoming bundle of joy, but unbeknownst to them, someone is watching them and their friends. What does life have in store for them now?

  Instinct

  Cookbook: Makin’ Bacon

  Cookbook: Care for a Dip

  In a world where Vampyres battles wolves and other Vampyres, and all feed on the human race; a king must choose between the life of his daughter and the survival of his people.

  Abigail was raised to be pure as wolves threatens to overrun them, she accepts her role in her father's bargain with a Vampyre. When the enemy of your enemy is your friend, sometimes your friend needs a blood source.

  Lexxington has lead the Black Sun Army in countless campaigns over the last three thousand years. Unmated for millennia, the warlord fights with reckless abandon, seeking ever more glory for the House of Frost.

  When the warlord of the ever powerful Black Sun Army first tastes the blood source; sparks fly that could upset the balance of the coming war, and save the human race.

  Blood Source

  In the male dominated sport of Formula 1 racing, Samantha ‘Sam’ Dupree is struggling to make her mark against the boys. She hears about a driver who is making a name for herself in NASCAR and goes to check her out. Little does she know that she’s in for the race of her heart.

  Addison McCloud wants nothing more than to drive. She doesn’t care about fame or fortune; she just wants to be fast enough to get herself and her family away from her abusive father. Meeting Sam changes her world and revs her life into overdrive.

  When the two women meet, sparks fly like the race cars that they drive. Will they be able to steer their relationship into something more and win the race, or will their families make them crash and burn? The boys of Formula 1 are going to learn that Southern girls are a force to be reckoned with.

  Sex and drugs, a way of life for Samantha Petrino, but the party girl found herself faced with bitter experiences which forced her to face the magnitude of viciousness of her past and suddenly forced to decide to live for the day, or live for the future.

  Standing on the sidelines, Samantha’s friend and business partner, Melanie Anocco, believes that you reap what you sow, and secretly took pleasure in watching Samantha fall from grace. A secret relationship and the beginning of betrayal begins when Melanie pursued a relationship with April, Samantha’s girlfriend.

  The business partnership and long time friendship ends sending Samantha running. Finding comfort in her therapist, Samantha finds herself falling in love for the first time, but what can a married woman offer her? The journey of heartbreak and betrayal advance forward until Samantha loses the one constant in her life her high-school friend Brenda to cancer. A promise made to Brenda before she passes has Samantha transforming into the woman she was destined to be. Now can Samantha put the pain of the past behind her and rebuild a friendship with Melanie or would she continue to run?

  The Crossroads

  Courageous, determined, Homicide Detective, Danni Pacelli's is unmoved by death and violence, but when promoted and partnered with Annabel Flanery, the charming, sexy and young rookie detective softened the hardened heart. The perfect life Danni fought so hard to build, and protect, was now at stake, as she hunted down a brutal serial murderer, all the while discovering she has feelings for her new partner.

  Danni finds herself spiraling, as the lines of hunting down the killer, or protecting her partner from certain death become blurred, as Danni finds herself wondering how to catch the killer while protecting her heart.

  The more the two battles to save lives, the more in love Danni falls, but will she be brave enough to face admitting her feelings, and win Annabel’s heart, or risk losing the security, and the life of solitude, she’d always known? Or will she face losing Annabel instead?

  Heart of Fire

  WARNING ~ book contains graphic violence towards women

  A serial killer plagues the gay community and leaves a trail of dead bodies across state lines. Agent Danni Pacelli and Agent Parker Stevens rush against time to catch their killer and stop the body count from increasing.

  Agent Parker Stevens life was perfect when transferred to a new city and new location which offered her solitude from the grief of losing her partner and children to a predator. But, while hunting down her suspect, she meets Samantha Petrino who takes the once closed off Stevens and opens a world to new love. The charming advertising agent breaks down her defenses, and no matter how hard she fights to protect her heart, she finds herself falling for the beautiful and intelligent woman.

  New to the FBI, Agen
t Danni Pacelli’s struggles to balance her personal life along with the job, to save her relationship, she convinces her new partner to bring in Annabel and utilize the young detective’s skills to track down their killer or risk losing Annabel all together.

  The heroic efforts of two agents who hunt down a serial killer, but find more than they bargained for.

  Heart of Vengeance

  What happens when two women, from different worlds collide?

  Jordan Watkins, self-assured, successful attorney, who trusts no one, dates often but believes it is not in her genes to have a successful relationship. All that changes when she meets and falls for Angela Gratace, who is still discovering her identity.

  Angela did not mind being alone, it came with the territory she had learned in her youth. Keeping to herself was the best option. But, that was before Jordan Watkins walked into her office, and into her heart, turning everything Angela believed in upside down.

  Thrown into a whirlwind of emotions, Angela is now faced with the dilemma of having to admit she is not only attracted to the young successful attorney, but also women. Struggling with her identity, Angela questions if she is gay, straight or bi-sexual, or just going crazy. Will she risk everything she believes in, or face her demons, and choose happiness, or die protecting the secrets, lies and betrayal, of a past she tried hard to forget.

  Out of the Mist, The Secret

  Turned into a vampire 1200 years ago, Nira fights hard to regain her humanity. She makes a pact with the Gods to fight the evil who is trying to destroy mankind and in return, the Gods agree to grant Nira her wish to become human.

  A vampire assassin hardened by centuries of fighting against evil; disciplined and loyal, Nira never strays from her mission or the rules set out for her. She purged all her weaknesses, including her emotions to the back of her mind.

  In a twist of fate she meets Stephanie, and finds herself not only fighting for her soul, but for Stephanie's life. But the moment she met Stephanie, something dangerous awakens in her, something possessive and powerful, she discovered she would do anything to protect the woman who was slowly claiming her heart, even break all the rules if she has too.

  What happens next, not only shocks Nira but also Stephanie. In the end, it is Stephanie who saves Nira...and more.

  The Fallen

  Roberta Pena finally has her dream job of being a Biology Teacher at the high school that she once attended, but something sinister lurks in her classroom. She begins to have unusual paranormal experiences. Is she simply losing her mind or is there a ghost trying to make contact? How will she deal with the mystery of the room that often smells of death and where she has begun to have so many unsettling and ghastly sightings? Will she solve the mystery or be forced to leave her career that she worked so hard to achieve? Might she find love in the process?

  The Death Room

  Sadie’s Revenge

  In a world on the verge of being told that everything they once thought was merely myth is real, can one teenage girl cope with life changes she never saw coming?

  Seventeen year old Kyndle Callahan began her year as a typical high school senior. Well, as typical as a girl can be while living life as a werewolf. She wasn't bitten or scratched as most people believe all werewolves are made, no, she was born into the pack that's always been her extended family. She's never seen the people she grew up with as the monsters of myth and legend but everything in her life is thrown into a tailspin when her father springs some shocking news on her. Suddenly, reality as a werewolf is much scarier than the stories humans tell. Stunned by the prospect of spending her life bonded to someone she can’t even stand sharing the same space with and devastated at the thought of losing the only love she’s ever known, can Kyndle settle into who and what she is in time to set things right? Can the girl that grew up knowing only pack law stand up, embrace her true calling, and become the woman she was meant to be despite going against everything her family believes?

  With the help of her best friend Abbey, Kyndle must navigate a confusing world of wolf culture, teenage drama, and coming out in a group that believes her lifestyle is unnatural. Follow her journey through pain, heartache, several states, and the fight to be with the girl she loves and take her place in the world.

  Her Calling

  Kyndle met Frost when she was less than 15 years old, but she knew, even at that young age, that they were destined to be together forever. They make a formidable team—at home and at work.

  Kyndle is one of a very small number of females in the US leading their own werewolf pack. None of those other female leaders are “mated” with other females, but despite her success as a leader, the pack council members want Kyndle out! She has three strikes against her: she is young, she is female, and she is gay!

  Two individual males in the past few months have challenged Kyndle’s position as Alpha of her pack, and both paid dearly...with their lives. One was Frost’s brother, the other Kyndle’s very own father.

  And now Celeste, who has carried a torch for Kyndle since their childhood, has returned hoping to tear the two mates apart and claim Kyndle as her own.

  Will Kyndle and Frost be able to stave off the threats to their love and partnership?

  And what about the threats at work? Not only could Kyndle’s leadership be at stake, but her life as well!

  Her Right

  Carrie flees from the demons of her present, trying to protect the ones she loves.

  Frankie hides from the demons of her past, and the memory of loved ones she failed to protect.

  A modern day princess thrown to the wolves, Carrie's only hope is the rancher who had spent the better part of a decade in self imposed, near total, isolation. Frankie's history of losing those she tries to save haunts her, but this madman threatens her home, her livestock, her sanctuary. She knows she can't do it alone, has she still got enough support from her oldest friends?

  Frankie

  Melanie had been teenager when she'd been driven to flee Harker's Island and the madness that surrounded her family there. She hoped to find some peace and closure, but it is not meant to be. Small towns have long memories. Melanie has not been forgotten, nor forgiven. When trouble erupts, will she rise up and become the hero needed to save the town, or will she walk away and leave them all to their fate?

  Hell Comes Home

  The government kidnapped her mother. Some unknown entity slaughtered her father. The two forces have always chased her. One wants her as a specimen, the other wants her dead.

  When a third force joins the chase, led by a hunter from another world, can Tracy Hawks maintain her advantage? Will she ever have a safe place to call home?

  Hunter

  It was such an odd thing to most people. Arlessa, the most powerful witch in generations, High Priestess of the Borelian Temple, was in hiding, serving on the battlefield as a healer/dispatcher. They did not know, could not know, that for Arlessa to return to the Temple would mean spending the rest of her life in a marriage she did not want or in a prison from which there would be no escape.

  Those who hunted her did not know, could not know, she intended to return, but in her own time and on her own terms. When that day arrived they would face a power they did not dream existed, a power that would tear apart their carefully constructed society. The Black Witch of Nova would come, and their world would fall.

  Novan Witch

  He sacrificed his humanity to save his loved ones. The Company left them to die. Now he's looking for revenge. The utter destruction of everything the Company holds dear. The Company's CEO has a daughter. A child for a child, if Rathbone can survive the hunt for her.

  When she turns out to be the companion of the Black Witch of Nova, Rath might have to find a new target. He has certainly found a new army, a new purpose, a new lease on life, and most importantly, a new family.

  Assassin of Nova

  Out beyond Nova Prime, at the very tip of the galactic arm, a single star clings tenuously to its hold o
n the galaxy. Circling that lonely star is a planet called Exile, where the R.I.M. Company sends its biggest failures, its greatest secrets.

  Those secrets are about to be revealed. The Novan Witch and her hounds have a mission there, someone they need to find. This could tear the Galactic Empire apart.

  Beyond Nova

  If the Novans thought their victory in the Galactic War would allow them a lifetime of peace, they were wrong. Enemies are popping up everywhere, suspicions abound, and they are left with nowhere to go.

  When the Novan Witches blew apart a sun they created a gap in space-time-reality. That gap is growing and now they have nowhere else to go. Can they survive in the Gap?

  Claimstake

  VENGEANCE IS HERS

  She always fought for the underdog and never harmed an innocent, but her power couldn't be hidden in a small town. Unable to make herself heard, and tired of the abuse at home, Starla Kirby fled to the city. In her defiant desire to be heard, she turned from the Light which would not help her, and called upon the Powers of Darkness, awakening something terrible in the process. Thus was her fate sealed. Did she have the power to keep the world safe from the terror she had awakened?

  There was only one slim chance.

  Dark Star

  Tracy and August had won the day on Earth, but the Vorlox Empire was far from finished and their attack comes from an unexpected direction. The Corelians were destroyed and now Tracy finds herself caught between the remnants of the Corelian species and the mighty Vorlox Empire.

  Tracy has always concentrated on her own survival above all else. Now she finds herself having to include others in that plan. To top it off she begins to manifest new abilities, abilities that are as dangerous to her companions as they are to her enemies.

 

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