by Anna Mayle
“Fifty or so kids to go,” Enoch promised. “I only have enough on me for the initial injections though. We’ll have to take them all back with us to finish the inoculations. I need access to the rest of my supplies.”
Cora piped up through her own earpiece. “This is a lot of brothers and sisters. I think we’re going to need a bigger shop.”
Enoch growled and Cora laughed at him.
Jacobi wished he could indulge in laughter but…“The plague bearers are still out there. All we know is they’re all connected to Skyler somehow, likely hackers, and they’re infected.”
“It’s enough, Jacobi,” Enoch promised. “We’ll be able to trace them. You’ll be able to trace them.”
“And when I find them?” he asked.
Enoch turned his head, scanning the area, so Jacobi could see the Angels all around him. “I think we might be able to handle them. What do you think?”
“We can do it.” Jacobi smiled.
Enoch’s smile was visible to him in the reflection from Cora’s
It wasn’t a perfect resolution. He and Enoch hadn’t saved the world—not yet. Still, they’d at least managed to save each other. Surrounded by death and Angels, the children they raised would have their chance. Cora made a better hero than either of them anyway.
About the Author
Brought up in the woods and wild, in a place almost forgotten by time, I learned that the best moments in life are the ones filled with the spirit of the earth and family around you. Second best to that is the moment I got an email saying ‘Bedtime Story for a Stolen Child’ was being published. My name is Anna Mayle.
Anna loves to talk to her readers and can be found at www.annamayle.com.
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In the Shadow of a Hero
A cop dies in the city, life goes on. For one little boy, though, it changed everything. Haunted by his past, Maxwell Thomas has grown up homeless and friendless, trapped by his guilt. Prowling the city, the small man guards the Church District like a vigilante, trying to make up for his crime. When he rescues the wrong rent boy, he is pulled back into the madness that destroyed him as a child. And now, another cop's life is on the line...
Nick Kenna is a beat cop with dreams of being a detective. When he stumbles across a murder and the very unusual suspect, he finds himself caught, not only by the mystery of the vagrant he's apprehended, but something deeper that sparks between them.
Will Nick be able to save Maxwell, from his past and himself? Or will love be lost as the broken man fades into the shadow of his hero?
Bedtime Story for a Stolen Child
Stolen away from his cradle as a child, Leinad has been a plaything of the Faerie for thirty years. He has been broken and put back together so many times that he cannot even remember what he used to be. He has given up all hope of escape, until a soft breeze through his cell leads him home, only to find out that home has gone on without him. A man with Leinad’s face is there in his place, with his siblings, acting out his life. A changeling. The creature who enabled his imprisonment and torture for all those years.
Daniel Tessel is a thirty year old folklorist. He is meeting his brother and sister at their family cabin, to spend the anniversary of their parent’s deaths together. His biggest worry is the séance his little sister is insisting on, and trying to stave off her inevitable disappointment. That is, until he looks up during the ritual to see his own face watching him from the window. He is pulled into the consequences of a plot he cannot even remember, accused of stealing his own life. Confused, angry, and frightened beyond reason, Daniel tries to escape from Leinad, but there is something pulling them together.
Revenge and passion are two very similar things. Blood sings, lust and tempers rise, and before they know it, neither is quite sure who the real monster is anymore. Or if it will even matter in the end.
Lullaby for a Stolen Child
They steal them away as children, drawn to their short but vibrant lives. They use them as dolls, slaves, entertainment of every kind, tasting the fierce brevity of human life through their captives. But there are times when a taste is not enough.
Where is the boundary between hate and love, love and lust, love and hate? Where do you draw the line between jealousy and longing? Is the passion of a killer the same as that of a lover?
And how can a human man hope to understand the ways of the two Fae who have turned his captivity upside down?
Dreams of a Stolen Child
Nightmares were supposed to begin with dark and stormy nights, not the cheerful colors of a carnival. Love was supposed to strike like lightning, not slip quietly through dreams and sleep until it bled into the waking world. Faeries were supposed to be myths...
Funny how nothing in Gentle Carvers life was what it was supposed to be.
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Sanctuary by Jessica Jarman
For Callie Summers, life after the super solar flare and deadly viral outbreak can be summed up in one word. Alone. Having lost everyone she loved, Callie travels on foot to her family’s remote hunting cabin, where her father stockpiled food and supplies for this type of situation.
Along the way, she meets Noah Hill and Ethan Erikson, a couple traveling the same direction. Callie struggles with her attraction to the pair until they make it clear they are just as interested in her.
With Noah and Ethan, Callie is no longer alone but can she bring herself to trust them in this new world where everyone is trying to survive no matter the cost?
Direct Contact by Ninnette Swan
Julie Gladwell has a secret. Acting as chief attendant for the New Government’s procreation program, she rears girls to carry the emperor’s heir. Only a few are chosen for the program, called “The Special Ones,” and they are given no names, only numbers. They see no one but authorized personnel until their twenty-first birthday. Which is usually when they die. Direct contact is forbidden. As she cares for these girls, no one ever suspects who she actually is.
Scientist Malcolm Odin hated his job and hated himself. Put in charge of the entire human engineering program, the experiments and suffering he witnessed made him sick. Still, it paid the bills and kept him living comfortably in Terrecina. He knew of far too many who’d fallen through the cracks, living on the earth below. The Level People, they were called.
When he confides his unease to Julie, she lets him in on her secret and into her heart. What starts as fancy ends in revolution, but how will they choose between their fellow man and each other?
Freefall by Bella St. James
Clancy Reed knew the rules of the Underground. But when the beautiful Jezebel banged against the makeshift medical facility door, begging for sanctuary, he not only crossed the line but totally obliterated it behind him. He should have called for a transfer crew and immediately sent her out of town. But something beyond her beauty and artificially enhanced sex appeal spoke to him.
When Nadine Cooper seized an unexpected opportunity to run from the government that used her as a sex spy, her only concern was leaving the past behind. The last thing she expected when she arrived at the gritty warehouse was a field operation that made her feel normal for the first time in her life – and a man whose kind hands and caring voice touched something deep inside her.
Their acquaintance should have gone by protocol: Twelve hours of recovery and then a permanent separation. But when the enemy comes to their door, their only choice is to go on the run as the world around them drops into a freefall.
Faith’s Revenge by Michael Graham and Suzanne Graham
Faith Daniels is experienced with using her body to ensure survival for her and her brother, even finding her own pleasure in her encounters with both men and women. When her brother is imprisoned as a Resistance member, Faith will use her talents in exchange for information to rescue him, even at the expense o
f losing the first man she’s ever loved.
Trake Forrester, a dark-skinned Aristo of New Washington, D.C., has had his eye on his blonde assistant since Faith started working for him. Her curvy build entices him, but it’s her innate kindness that draws him to her. When he has the opportunity to help her rescue her brother, his complicated relationship with his fiancée, Deja Cain, is useful as well as a hindrance to pursuing his feelings for Faith.
Finders Keepers by Lacey Thorne
Tomorrow the auctions will take place. Some women become brides, and some become nothing more than belongings who must do as they are told. Winter will have none of it. Taking the first chance of her life, she risks it all to escape, running into the desert and hoping to find something better.
When Roar, Scar, Gate, Shadow and Blade find Winter, they only plan to take her back to the safety of the settlement. But Winter isn’t going back. One way or another she will convince them there is no other option than to keep her.
What Remains: Untainted by Kris Norris
The apocalypse has passed. The dead have risen. But what remains…
Colby, Darcy and Barrett are hardened soldiers with a new war. A deadly disease has decimated the human population, reducing it to small pockets of survivors who fight daily again the raging hordes of undead plaguing the planet. The three men are part of a recon mission, scouting locations where humans have been reported still alive amidst the dead. But after ten months of searching, they're ready to give up.
Abby Brennigan has been surviving on her own for half a year, hiding out in an old abandoned control tower. She hasn't seen anything remotely alive in what feels like forever, until the three men stumble upon her hideout and into her heart. She'd promised herself she wouldn't get close again…wouldn't put herself through the torture of watching another person she cared about slowly fade until they turn into a monster straight off the pages of a horror novel.
But the boys aren't taking no for an answer and as they face one test after another, the big question is—how long can they all remain untainted.
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Table of Contents
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Title Page
This Sin Called Hope Copyright © 2013 Anna Mayle Edited by Tiffany Mason
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
About the Author
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