A novellette about what happens when you try to steal stuff (or people)

What if you were tasked to draw dragon after dragon after dragon – ad nauseam and in captivity – to resurrect an entire realm?

Well, I cursed the lot of them.

Heartbroken over the treachery of the angel who was supposed to guard her, Lottie is trying to keep busy. Drawing one dragon after another and watching them leap off the page and out the window. If only she could leave her tower. But her captor said no without giving any reasons. If to believe all the storybooks, her happily-ever-after should be here soon. In the guise of a charming prince, no doubt.

Except her happy ending has been five hundred years coming and her only visitor is an annoying dragon she drew to life who keeps loitering about her tower. Doubtlessly to steal something.

Why couldn’t her affections be reciprocated centuries ago? Why is Gil so annoying? And where is her HEA?

This novella is a Rapunzel / Snow White mashup retelling and links to the author’s other works, but can be enjoyed as a standalone short story and a soundbite of the author’s writing style.

In case you love dragons, this novelette is also featured in my single-author anthology “Tales of the Dragons”.

Melisandra has a witch for a mother and goodness knows who or where her father is. She will beg, borrow and steal for her place in honourable society. At sixteen, her dream is to inherit and revamp the shop of the local apothecary when the old bat shoves her out the door. The local inn is the only place that’ll hire her and only if she’ll lie about her age. At least some of the patrons are wealthy, but the things the server girls do to see that coin transfer to them… Mellie picks out her target – a money-splashing fool by the name of Oz – but life has other plans.

Tamerlin is a dragon prince travelling the neighbouring lands incognito. Dressed like one of his bodyguards, he is drawn to Melisandra. It’s not just her looks and the string in his heart tethering them, but her quiet cunning and observations powers that set his heart ablaze to claim her as his own. No matter how set she is on winning the affections of another man.

Will Mellie make the right choice? Will Tam forgive her for shattering his heart? And how do you protect yourself against decades of watching the love of your life make mistake after mistake?

Read book #1 in the Cursed Hearts trilogy and find out. Here, a certain villainous fairy godmother gets whitewashed while another villain is made as their hearts are broken, cursed and mended.

Root for the exiled prince to restore five golden corals and save the sea. Cheer the siblings on the pilgrimage to rescue their village and prove their worth. Sneak into a glittery fae masquerade where shiny slippers and hearts get lost. Catch a glimpse of the firebird as it feeds on golden apples.

Resolve the mystery behind disappearing names and memories or get spooked by the ghouls protecting treasure in the hunted house. Unlock a treasure box with a secret. Search for five golden rings. Watch the elven maid resist the golden greed and fulfill the prophecy. And much more.

Get ready to be dazzled by these unique tales from award-winning and up-and-coming authors.
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Tartie, the Goddess of Small Things, is stuck. To help a friend in need, she has to pawn off her Storms ability – the one that shorts out every electronic gadget in range. With no qualified candidates in sight, Tartie resorts to a temporary fix.

It backfires. Badly.

Now there’s a new God of Storms—unhappy, destructive, and definitely not Zeus material—running around London. One of Piccadilly Circus Tube entrances has already tasted his accidental wrath. Tartie’s left holding the thundercloud, wondering if this disaster was exactly what the ever-meddling Ancient Goddess of Fate planned all along.

Storms & Schemes is the penultimate instalment of the Goddesses series—but it can be read as a standalone. (Though if you want the full divine drama, books 1–5 are waiting!)

Other books in the Goddesses series:

Book 1: Charm & Mayhem: Goddess of Fate (where Marina seduces her bodyguard and ex guardian angel Gabriel)

Book 2: Life & Death: Goddess of Light (where Ellie & Vic become Light & Death)

Book 3: Love & Money: Goddess of Luck (about Hans wooing Dita)

Book 4: Fire & Ice: Goddess of Frost (about Ava & Theo saving Iceland)

Book 5: Hopes & Dreams: Goddess of Air (where Della fake-dates Ari to save him from gold diggers).

After transferring her malfunctioning Hearth function to Theo, Della still has too many powers. She loves being Mistress of the Icy Northerlies and so, the only thing to do is to hand over Change to her boyfriend of 13 years. He’s about to propose anyway, so fair is fair. Things do not go as planned.

Amongst his siblings, Ari is the most level-headed. You have to be when your Father is Time and your siblings dabble in truth, procrastination and chaos. When his human mother ropes him into helping Della with her lodgings, he has no idea his life of serendipitous balance is about to be upended by one flighty damsel.

Will Della find someone to trust her powers with or is all hope lost for Grace and her operation? Will Ari get over his curse of the golddiggers? And what Change awaits us all, depending on who gets those powers?

Hopes & Dreams is book #5 in the series, but can be read as a standalone. Meaning: to read book #5 you don’t need to read the love stories of the other goddesses:
Book #1 Charm & Mayhem: The Goddess of Fate; or
Book #2 Life & Death: The Goddess of Light; or
Book #3 Love & Money: The Goddess of Luck; or
Book #4 Fire & Ice: The Goddess of Frost
…but those might be fun options.

She should have taken more care before spooking a desperate man with her kind offer to help. As she’s propelled toward oblivion, Lanie uses her final wish to save a car-accident victim from the River Thames.

While she watches over the man she saved, realization hits that Death came knocking too soon. Why is she so drawn to Peter, whom she never knew? What will happen to her once he’s hale again? After all, she is already dead.

After a week in a coma, Peter discovers a strange barefoot girl in his apartment. It’s not her Candy Striper uniform but the kindness of feeding his cat that prevents him from calling the cops. Why does she seem so familiar? Does she speak at all? And why are there girly things strewn all across his bachelor pad?

Will love conquer death? Or does fate have other plans for Lanie?

Remember Me is an urban Little Mermaid retelling where Disney-loving optimists and Andersen-honoring pessimists each get their own ending – a HFN for the sceptics and a HEA for the kind-hearted.

Books in the Agency of Guardian Angels series:
1. Recruit Me – prequel novella
2. Save Me – Gabriel saving Grace – book #1 in the duology
3. Guard Me – Victor saving Charlotte & Sally – book #2 in the duology, which happens in parallel to book #1
4. Remember Me – Lanie’s story – spin-off novella, which also happens in parallel to book #1

Remember Me is a standalone heart-gripping spinoff about what made the entire Agency of Guardian Angels go SOS.

Unalived in his prime, Victor is now the darkest new recruit of the Agency of Guardian Angels – assigned to save the unsaveable and fight the unfightable. If only he hadn’t called his operator a “wingless rat” while still on his probation period. The result: the vindictive pixie doubles his workload. His mission? To save two damsels in distress. Undercover.

The catch? One damsel is clueless and the other refuses to play along.

Sally is blind to the fact that her Prince Charming is right in front of her. To avoid death by pitchfork Charlotte has to learn how to stand up to her family and avoid drawing things to life.

Guard Me is a gripping, witty spinoff in the Agency of Guardian Angels series, unfolding parallel to the events of Save Me. Set between Victor’s breakup with Grace and his fateful meeting with Ellie, this story bridges the gap between The Magic Mirrors Saga and the Goddesses series. While it’s a standalone adventure, fans of Victor’s prickly charm (and those who hated him in Recruit Me), will find plenty to laugh as two women make him squirm in the name of earning his wings.

After her abusive ex Victor drives himself into a tree, Grace is scarred off men for life. Two years later, she rescues an orange tabby kitten and suddenly, a tall, blond and handsome man—the complete opposite of her ex—becomes a hovering presence.

When the monitors at the Agency of Guardian Angels start recording Grace’s uneventful life, the Watchers know it’s a warning. To save the girl from an impending bullet, Gabriel jumps to the rescue – in cat form.

Will Gabriel be able to find out the identity of the elusive assassin before there is an “again”? Can Grace get over her past to trust a guy who, strangely, is not angling for a date? And why does the existence of that particular orphaned girl make the Tally of Good & Evil go crazy?

Save Me is the main book in the Agency of Guardian Angels series and happens thirteen years before Charm & Mayhem and/or Cinders. Although it features Grace who later becomes the stepmother in Cinders, it can be read as a standalone from both of the author’s other series. The series provides a glimpse into the saves Gabriel undertook for the Agency before he retired and had anything to atone for in Charm & Mayhem.