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Hostile Holiday (Stand Alone Tales Book 19)Romance · Viola Grace
Orla escapes a party where her family tells her they want her organs and ends up in another realm fighting for her life with only an ugly holiday sweater to defend her. Good thing she learns fast.
Orla has been bullied, cursed, and locked in lower-level jobs because of family. Her mother is gone, her friends are in danger from association, and all she wants is peace. An invitation to her family’s Yule party, one day early, bodes ill and makes her queasy.
Orla prepares for anything, but having her grandfather demand that she prepare to be an organ donor for him wasn’t on her bingo card. She agrees and begins plotting how to get out of it, but her brother curses her path home and sends her into an icy river. Got to keep those organs nice and fresh.
Fighting her way out of the deadly water, she stumbles through the forest, holding only one thing she wants to keep with her—an ugly Christmas sweater that makes her feel warm and loved. It was thrifted, but it is now hers, and it feels like it was always meant to be with her.
She is shoved through a dimensional rift by the avatar of winter, fights for her life in Winter’s arena, and learns a lot more about herself in the process. A clerical error changed her from guest to fighter, and when Winter comes to her rescue, it is the beginning of the end of her family and the start of an actual life.
She is just happy to make it home for the holidays, armed and angry.
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Scales of Time (Shattered Stars Book 16)Fantasy · Viola Grace
Working for a scaled merchant takes a turn when her ancestor decides to stake a claim on the only human on his world. She strikes up a friendship and works toward romance. He goes straight for romance.
Kris missed her friend when they parted ways, but continuing to work with the merchant they had been contracted to is still fun. Controlling the blazing heat that she emits under duress is also awkward, but she manages. Her boss has provided her with a series of items to make her life easier.
Now that they are on the merchant’s homeworld, Kris finds out that her allergies are threatening her life, as about seventy-five percent of the foods are out to kill her. She is careful, but as none of the locals are allergic to anything, they don’t take her situation seriously.
A sudden trip to medical care results in scans that let the local Hmrain know she isn’t just a visitor. Overseer genetics are in her body, and they just need a little something to get them started. Essan flexes his wings and looks at the alien, making a decision that will change his life and hers. For eons.
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Ancient Rising (Shattered Stars Book 15)Fantasy · Viola Grace
An accident gave her power, and living her dream of archaeology gave her peace until her blood woke an ancient Hmrain who had actually spent time on her world and gave her another touch of home.
Harwin is the last of her family, and her name is their name. Crushed in a cargo accident, she was repaired using the wrong setting on a medical device. Her brain and body were rewired and telekinetic, which led her to a new point in life: bodyguard.
Helping a Hmrain when someone tried to attack his consort gained her a free bond and let her take on her dream job with an expedition to a silent world. There was an ancient temple, and the description made her heart ache with home sickness.
Finding an ancient temple in the middle of an empty space was astonishing, but having her blood be the key to the entryway was downright odd. The team was excited, and days passed before a raider came to take what the temple had to offer. It sets off a chain of events that takes Harwin to the end of destruction and builds her back up in the arms of Ra.
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Instinct for DisasterFantasy · Viola Grace
Cassandra has bought out her bond; she seeks her chosen family out. Six years in the mines have left their mark. Her survival isn’t secure, but the overseer puts a claim on her future.
Cassandra used her suitability for an exotic occupation to leverage a safe haven for the women she weathered the end of the world with. They were safe on a friendly world, and she was out mining a dangerous element used in all regenerative medicine.
She pays off her bond in two years and continues on for four years more before a critical buildup of the mineral gets her banished from the mining base. She arranges her transport and applies for access to the world where her friends now make their homes.
Running into the overseer of the world in question, she makes friends with the Hmrain, who actually owns the estate next to the home she purchased. Being neighbours is odd, but he helps her navigate the traditions of his world.
As a free woman, she has the right to negotiate for anything she wants, but when Yasku lets her know that he has her in mind, she has to consider her way out and if settling down as a consort might not be what destiny has in mind. She is in desperate need of a vacation.
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Spirit Island (Betas in Waiting Book 26)Fantasy · Viola Grace
Serin has cleared the island of the painful past, and now, she is ready for her future. She just has to find him. Perhaps her friend can help her locate the mate she has waited for.
Serin has destroyed her family home and scrubbed the ground clean. Now, she just has to complete the rebuild of her home, and then, she is going to have room to start a family. She just has to find her destined mate.
Jane has found her baby's father, but working things out between them can wait until after Serin's partner is on the radar. They have waited this long, after all.
So, after working to turn the Wonder Island village into an adults-only resort for the next decade, Serin has to push herself into focusing on the life of the island herself. At that point, her mate just walks up to her, and the next phase of her life begins.
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Homecoming (Betas in Waiting Book 25)Fantasy · Viola Grace
Serin left home betrayed and with a broken heart. Years later, she is forced home by circumstances beyond her control to take on her family legacy.
When Serin saw the love of her life making out with her sister, her heart sank, and she left home that same night.
Years on the mainland got her an education and a job in logistics and administration for the film industry. She works behind the scenes for a number of directors, and the work is fun and fulfilling. When her body gives her a signal she can't ignore, she heads back to the Wonder Islands to seek out a mate. Her personal assistant, Aeryn, is in tow.
Aeryn is excited to be in the islands. When she changed, she had to relearn everything. How to dress, stand, sit, and move in general. Her sister helped her get started, and then, Orla disappeared.
Aeryn finds out that the mysterious island might not be uninhabited, and her sister turns out to be working on Wonder.
A lost island that appears every few decades turns out to be more than meets the eye, and the ladies learn that there is nothing but a scramble of confusion to find the right mate in an ocean of candidates.
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Shattered Magic (An Obscure City Book 3)Fantasy · Viola Grace
Hari has tried to avenge her past and strike a balance for her future. Time will judge her success.
Born to an unusual combination of extranaturals, Hari is duped into filling a space for a ritual at the governor's mansion. A night of horror, death, and panic burned her soul. Hari spent the next night being punished for simply being chosen, though the prior events stopped any possible pursuit of that choice.
Unable to shake off the spectre of that night, she continues to move forward in life until unruly vampires in the strip club summon her from her domain, and she is forced to enforce the defense of her business. The governor's assistant arrives, and the governor is on his heels. They subdue the vampires, and the reunion is undeniable.
Time, revenge, and life in the dream realm all come to a head as Hari finally agrees that Zerul is her destiny and she can learn to be the lady of the manor as long as she doesn't raise her voice.
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I Dated a Legal DevilFantasy · Viola Grace
A bachelorette party brings Drin to the attention of the boss of the nightclub, Hell. Her problem is that he's a long-standing crush and patron, and he knows it.
Drin has a miserable life. She is constantly scrounging for money, fighting for respect, and hiding her activation. As far as she knows, she is a muse. She gives her targets inspiration and intellect, but her body pays the price. A metabolic active uses their body to power their manifestation, and Drin spends her life hungry as her body burns power to survive in public. She is asked to sing in public to help a bachelorette gain a win in a live singing competition, but she ends up going against the city's most popular male singer. They sing a duet, and her opponent is so thrilled that he grabs her and kisses her. She drops him with her knee, and the club goes silent. The devil emerges and walks toward her. She sees him coming and is shocked to see her best friend's brother approaching her, and she's stunned when he kisses her in front of several hundred partiers. He sweeps her to his lair, and they have a short conversation involving her work for the Blind Date Corporation as his escort. A day later and she's being arrested for breaking a restraining order. Her best friend's family has blocked her, but now, she is hauled to lock-up for talking to Vikor. Things can only get better from there, right? When the devil arrives to defend her, her case is won, and her heart is lost
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Portal Magic (An Obscure City Book 4)Fantasy · Viola Grace
Two friends with a shared tragedy find life companions in very different ways. One gets a familiar, and the other gets everything she didn't know she wanted.
Missy is delighted to be reunited with her sister and mortified to be tied to Tannic once again when she is so close to being free of the birdbrained jock. They settle in for companionship and slow courtship, but Missy's mindset is difficult for most folks to understand, so she calls in reinforcements.
Rehalla is a friend from school, and when together, she and Missy understand each other.
After meeting Tannic, Rehalla acts as a translator for some of Missy's behaviours, and soon, they have an arrangement that helps Missy act in a socially acceptable manner at her sister's engagement party. With that settled, Rehalla is ready to flirt with some of the available guests when a shocking rejection sends her into a spin that leads her to the origin of her executioner abilities and a family she could never have imagined.
It's no wonder that she has been feeling blue. She was always supposed to be.
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Blood Confirmed (Written By Fate Book 2)Fantasy · Viola Grace
Her training is to heal, but her blood wants to rule. An approaching armada will have to decide for her.
Neffa was raised to forage, heal, and embrace her local community. Her skills are stellar, earning her a place in the royal palace when healing is necessary.
Born of a local and a member of an alien race, she is hated by the occupants of the palace. While treating the king, she is injured in a skirmish with the crown prince. The resulting laceration isn't serious, but the guard commander realizes what he's seeing. Her blood is the blood of the royal house. There can be no mistake.
Duke Morro is sent to guard her on the way to the compound where her kind is contained. He learns a few things when he meets her parents, and after the shock wears off, he understands a bit of what is going on in the village.
The world they stand on doesn't belong to his people; it belongs to hers.
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The Safest Place She Knows (Betas in Waiting Book 21)Fantasy · Viola Grace
Iris is an ex-nanny, Lya is a broken mechanic, and Zelle goes from job to job. These three are bound by fate, circumstance, and a love of alphas. Eventually.
Iris is a cocktail server with a price on her head for live delivery. She is stalked after a night out and has to run. She looks around and heads to the safest place she knows. She climbs a wall and collapses. The dogs rush in, and she is protected from followers. Then, her old boss walks up, and her fate is changed forever. Going from ex-nanny to lover isn't as large a jump as she thought.
Lya is a friend of Iris who has been having a rough time. Pursued by the Omega Centre, attacked and broken by alphas, Lya is trying to keep herself and the child in her care safe and free. It isn't going well. Iris's new mates know someone with similar interests to Lya, and once she hears about his snake, she's all in.
Zelle was on a survival show with Lya, and as they are cousins, they share the bonds of blood. She had been following her instincts when she propositioned someone on the way to the island for the show, and when she began getting ill one week later, she admitted she may have miscalculated. Sure, the guy had been pretty, but this was a hefty cost.
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Lost Treasure (Betas in Waiting Book 22)Dark Erotica · Viola Grace
Haravin was betrayed and discarded by her best friends. Now that she has a new life, they return and try to drag her back, but she's changed. Really changed.
Hara was a competitive ballroom dancer, but her partner betrayed her by telling her community they were lovers. It led to a cascade of aggravation and punishment from her community, and when it came out that he was sleeping with her omega best friend, he was congratulated for getting one of the rare ones, and both of her besties discarded Hara.
She didn't know what to do and had to leave her family and friends to start over. So, she did. She ends up as a housekeeper in a pride of friendly feline alphas with their two omegas. She occasionally doubles as Ford's assistant. She ends up stunt-dancing, and that spurs Ford to find her alpha. She has a very specific adaptation, and it needs a very specific alpha.
A meeting in a museum sends her across the world and to an island that doesn't greet her warmly. It's all right; she's a treasure to any who meets her, and eventually, she starts to believe it.
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Whispering Waves (Betas in Waiting Book 23)Fantasy · Viola Grace
Nina is in the islands to seek out family and the sound of waves. The owner of the island where her brother is stationed just happens to be a maestro when it comes to the sounds of the sea.
Nina had an accident that left her with a craving for ocean sounds and an expansive tattoo on her back that has curving crests of water that almost seem to move. She's a little uncertain where she goes from there, so when her brother offers her a safe haven, she heads to the research station in the islands.
Spending time with Drake is something she has looked forward to, but being introduced to the owner of the island is a bit of a shock. Her craving for ocean waves is soothed when he's near, and Kimo's knowing expression is telling her that he knows why.
The courtship that ensues makes the memory of the alpha attack fade into the background and gives her hope for a future with those she trusts around her. She just has to face her fears and brace for the disappointments of family feuds carried forward a generation. She might want to stick with the ocean.
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Free for Adventure (Betas in Waiting Book 24)Fantasy · Viola Grace
Amby has learned a lot about herself since the medical intervention that set her free. The marks on her back are going to give an eclectic mix of mates if she can find them.
Amby was a victim of fanaticism gone wrong, but now that she is free, she wants to experience what life has to offer: body and soul.
A travel vlog has been proposed, and Amby is chosen for the honour of host. She learns to climb, swim, and how to handle insects before she is sent halfway around the world to the Wonder Islands.
On the first day there, she runs across the first of her three marks in the form of the hotelier, who has decided to show her around the island. When things heat up, she catches the beauty of the islands, all for public consumption.
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