Sarah J.'s Bookshelf
Life is a series of first times that I can't wait to share with you
Paul is trying to navigate a messy forced coming out.
Ben is trying to navigate the dissolution of his family and having to move to a new state.
When they meet, there is this instant connection between the two of them. Like they were meant to be. Surely, you can't find the one on your first try. But it's nice to let yourself believe that your love story is epic enough to beat the odds.
The story is told through all the first times they share.
Some parts will include mature content.
Concubine 999
After the conquest of her home planet by the galactic empire, Lady Zarathenia agrees to become the 999th hostage concubine of the Endless Emperor. But, the palace planet Viverides is rife with backstabbing and intrigue. With 998 other concubines, not to mention tricky intergalactic politics, Zara must navigate the dangers to ensure the safety of her home planet. Will she rise through the ranks or succumb to the treachery?
Healer's Touch
Death Is A Bottom?!?
Deyonte Wallace is no stranger to the uncanny and supernatural. Ever since surviving a near-death car accident as a child, he's developed the ability to see otherworldly ghosts, entities, and monsters.
And he can't fathom having to deal with a bigger burden.
Deyonte can't focus on hobbies or his studies as a first-year master's student due to constantly having to fend off supernatural nuances that are strangely attached. Even so, these creatures, though annoying, have never been violent.
That is until one kills him during his nightly ritual of midnight coffee runs.
Deyonte should have been dead, but to his luck, he was saved by a mysterious creature that was different from the rest. Death itself.
Death informs Deyonte that his soul is caught between a state of living and deceased. Due to the uncanny strong power within his soul, it's not the last time he'll be monsters and demons menu. As much as that terrifies Deyonte he can't help but feel a strange attraction to the entity known as Death.
As Deyonte and Death battle hell spawns to escape deadly experiences and unravel the mysteries of each other's past they will somehow get themselves wedged between a crossfire of heaven and hell with both of their very souls on the line. During this quest, Deyonte will have to discover if making out and topping the Grim Reaper is worth all the headache
Peculiar Academy for Misfit Beings Year 1
One night can change your life forever
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Never in the eighteen years I've been living did I expect to be a witch, nor did I expect to be accused of murder. Now that one was shocking.
I'm sent to meet with the Ministry of Magical Beings where they decide my fate.......
In the end the old hags send me to Peculiar Academy in the chance to prove my innocents.
Now my plans to go to Miami University was dead in the water, and my friends are now nothing more than a second thought.....Cruel I know.......
Thankfully when I arrive its just a week before school starts
But nobody told me the school was full of misfit beings............
WHAT THE HELL HAVE I GOT MYSELF INTO?!
To Be A Girl
It all started with a dare. Kaspen has a little sister, Memory Tortilla.. an ugly duckling with so much pimples on her face that causes her to become the target of bullies in all girls school. Memory Tortilla commit suicide, his world crampled and his heart shuttered. He didn't do anything to protect his sister, he blame himself about what happened so his friends come up with an idea, they dared him to be a girl within 3 months. They dared him to pretend like his sister, an ugly duckling to make him experience his sister's miserable life. Without hesitations he agreed, considering it as his punishment for being irresponsible big brother to Memory.
Enrolling in Katalina Academy he met Labhaoise Everette Lorenzo, his dormmate. A playgirl, heartless, judgemental and naughty student. She always give him a hard time and bullies him if she had the chance so she's not definitely his type!
But why the hell when the girl suddenly confessed that she found herself liking him and starts to doubt about her true sexuality his heart beat suddenly became abnormal?! He suddenly want to question himself too because he knew that he wouldn't fall for a girl like her but he still end up swallowing everything slowly and fall for her faster and harder.
Fire and Magic (The Jadori Book 1)
A girl who sees ghosts. A magic out of control. A group hellbent on destroying what they’re afraid of.
Maddie Johnson is sent to a mental institution because she talks to people who aren’t there. She insists that they’re ghosts. Just as she thinks she’s convinced the doctors that she is fine, a dark-haired ghost with dreamy brown eyes rushes in and ruins everything.
Instead of going home, she is sent to a halfway house that helps people with mental illness assimilate back into society. Problem is, one of the residents hates her and the house is haunted – oh, and the cute ghost has followed her. Maddie tries to get away, but then she hurts someone using magic she didn’t know she possessed. Now she has a new problem. She will have to learn to control her magic.
She discovers that the town has secrets; people are going missing. How far are people willing to go to destroy what they are afraid of? Maddie and her attractive-but-annoying spirit might just find out first-hand.
FIRE AND MAGIC is an exciting first book in the Jadori Series that will transport romantasy fans to a fascinating world that exists within our own, filled with suspense, danger, magic, ghosts, and romance.
© 2024 Susan McKenzie. All rights reserved.
Silver Lining
"Sorry, Greg. I'm not leaving. This is my place now too."
These words from a man he barely knew threatened to shatter whatever remaining sanity Greg had after going to great lengths to move on from the death of his fiancé.
As if his dead ex's betrayal wasn't enough, he must now deal with another blow from the grave: an unexpected visitor who was everything Greg wanted to avoid.
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Cover Illustration by LuckySR
Leading Lines
Marc's life can be described as anything but easy. Growing up in an orphanage ever since he was a baby, the young man witnessed many of his friends coming and going as new families were opening up their arms for them. Always left behind, he grew up to be somehow distant yet full of life, always looking forward for the light to shine. . . And that light was named Chris.