A prophecy realized. A shattered heart. Legacy was warned what would happen, but she thought she could outsmart the prophecy. She was wrong. How can she pick up the pieces of her life when everything is shattered? Her heart has been ripped out, leaving her soul bared and Legacy incredibly vulnerable to those who want to destroy her. Somehow, she must find the strength to move on with her life, and it will be the greatest test to her growing strength. She’s been given warnings all along, and she has no choice now but to heed them. There’s one, though, that sparks hope, as she wonders just why it had always come from Adin...Everything isn’t always as it seems. "All I can say at this point is WOW...The story line has grown and developed into a gorgeous landscape that takes readers on a fantastical voyage through Greek mythology interlaced with a typical high school backdrop. To be totally honest, I adore this series, and am eagerly anticipating each book as it comes out." - Night Owl Reviews TOP PICK Scroll up and click to continue the legacy ♥︎ Order of Goddess Series: Goddess Legacy Goddess Secret Goddess Sacrifice Goddess Revenge Goddess Bared Goddess Bound
A powerful girl. An epic love triangle. A devastating prophecy... Legacy thinks she’s just an average high-school girl with a sassy best friend and a not-so-secret crush on the hottest guy in town. Yep, pretty basic. When Adin, the boy of her fantasies, shows up at her surprise seventeenth birthday party, it’s the highlight of her life, but what she discovers that night will rock her entire world and leave her questioning the reality she’s always believed. It should’ve been a normal birthday. A celebration to kick off the summer before her senior year, and maybe even an unexpected start to the romance of her dreams. Not a bleak warning of what’s to come. It can’t be true, can it? There’s no way this can all be real. But it is. And when she meets River, the cocky new guy in town, she has no choice but to face this reality, which is so much more devastating than she could’ve ever imagined. Average? Yeah, she’s anything but normal. Then again, a goddess never is... "A fast paced book that will grab a reader from the beginning and draw them in, and will just not let go until the very end." - Night Owl Reviews TOP PICK Scroll up to begin the journey of a lifetime. ♥︎
Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than she was supposed to, forcing her to team up with an exiled prince to navigate an unfamiliar planet in this smart, thrilling sci-fi adventure, perfect for fans of Renegades and Aurora Rising. When Andra wakes up, she's drowning. Not only that, but she's in a hot, dirty cave, it's the year 3102, and everyone keeps calling her Goddess. When Andra went into a cryonic sleep for a trip across the galaxy, she expected to wake up in a hundred years, not a thousand. Worst of all, the rest of the colonists--including her family and friends--are dead. They died centuries ago, and for some reason, their descendants think Andra's a deity. She knows she's nothing special, but she'll play along if it means she can figure out why she was left in stasis and how to get back to Earth. Zhade, the exiled bastard prince of Eerensed, has other plans. Four years ago, the sleeping Goddess's glass coffin disappeared from the palace, and Zhade devoted himself to finding it. Now he's hoping the Goddess will be the key to taking his rightful place on the throne--if he can get her to play her part, that is. Because if his people realize she doesn't actually have the power to save their dying planet, they'll kill her. With a vicious monarch on the throne and a city tearing apart at the seams, Zhade and Andra might never be able to unlock the mystery of her fate, let alone find a way to unseat the king, especially since Zhade hasn't exactly been forthcoming with Andra. And a thousand years from home, is there any way of knowing that Earth is better than the planet she's woken to?
Indeed, human motherhood was held in such low esteem that Eskimo women were forced to give birth completely alone, with no human companionship and no helpful deities of childbirth. Likewise, while various Mexican goddesses ruled over healing, women's crafts, motherhood, and childbirth, and functioned as tribal protectors or divine ancestors, none of them either embodied the earth itself or granted fertility to the crops: for that the Mexicans looked to the male gods of maize and of rain. Nor were the rituals of these goddesses nurturing or peaceful.
A bridesmaid sometimes gets what she wants And a goddess always gets what she needs When her brother Andy married his girlfriend Lea — and their boyfriend Sean — Jessie felt sorry for herself. Here she was, alone, unloved. But when two gorgeous firemen friends of her brother decide to show Jessie a very, very good time, well, who is she to say no? And when they make her feel like nothing less than a goddess — well, who is she not to say yes? This first in a series of sequels to The Visitor Comes for Good, this short story can be read on its own or as part of The Visitor Saga. MFM Menage — heterosexual threesome romance Extract Jessie waved at Andy and her new sister-in-law as they rode away in the flower-decked cart, and she found herself trying not to think about the men at her elbows. Jessie hadn't ever been exactly overburdened when it came to male companionship. Booger barely counted, and they'd been divorced for over a year — all but for forever before that — and besides him... Beside her, two men — men — in dress uniforms stepped forward, each taking a hand. Jessie's middle flipped, then flipped again. [...] "So, Jessie," said the older one, Pat, the captain, who looked more like George Clooney than any man Jessie had any right to be near. "You're looking a lot happier than you did this afternoon." Smiling at him, Jessie tried to say something cute or clever but all that came out was a kind of wobbly Hmmmm! On her other side, Billings, young, black, and sweet as honey, squeezed her hand. "Nice wedding. Easy to be happy." "Three nice weddings." Jessie laughed, fighting down the panic brought on by the two very different hands holding hers. "God." Not even thinking about it, Jessie began to lead the two men back toward Pa's shed, where she'd led Booger so many times back when they were kids — away from the house, from prying eyes. But tonight there were dozens of Harris cousins and guests laughing and drinking. Prior's brothers, passing a blunt around. Deacon... Something stronger than panic began to grip Jessie's middle. The men didn't seem to notice. Pat was chuckling. "Well, three nice weddings. And unique. Can't say I've ever seen anything like it." "You okay with it, Jessie?" Billings whispered. "Okay?" Jessie was struggling with the image of Deacon Lawrence after Prior and Cherry's wedding. Him passed out on her bed upstairs, dead drunk with his pants halfway down. And her, kneeling there between his knees, ready and raring to go, left to take care of herself. Again. Humiliating. Deacon hadn't said a word to her since. Not that she could look him in the face. The other guests were laughing and her cousin Billy had started playing "Devil with the Blue Dress," but Billings continued, still whispering, "Okay with Andy, and Lea, and... You know." Sean. Andy and Lea and Sean. "Oh, yeah" said Jessie, not sure at all how she felt about it, but only having enough room in her head for Jessie and Pat and... She turned to Billings. "Um. You got a first name?" Pat snorted and Billings scowled. "What?" Jessie asked, hoping she hadn't just fucked the whole thing up. But it seemed like asking a boy's first name when you were about to do whatever it was they were about to do was kind of a reasonable question. Billings's annoyance softened as he looked at her. "It's okay. I just don't use it a lot. It's... Mario." "Super Mario!" chuckled the captain. Billings growled at him, but Jessie recognized this: two boys giving each other shit. She laughed, feeling slightly less out of control, and squeezed their hands. They both laughed along. Then, as they rounded the back of Pa's shed, Pat leaned over and kissed her, his lips finding hers without hesitation but without too much force. Billings's — Mario's lips touched her bare shoulder, and began to work their way up toward her neck. Now she was feeling out of control.
Hearkening back to the widespread worship of a mother goddess at the dawn of civilization, Walker argues for a restoration of this primal religious sensibility which celebrated the Earth's fertility and woman's innate power to bear new life.
"Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash some power to take us all away from our home to the place of our dreams. But we weren't witches. We were five Chicanas living in San Antonio, Texas, one year out of high school."One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It's all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors. Over the next few weeks, shy, modest Fernanda starts acting strangely-smearing herself in black makeup, shredding her hands on rose thorns, sucking sin out of the mouths of the guilty. The local priest is convinced it's a demon, but Lourdes begins to suspect it's something else-something far more ancient and powerful. As Father Moreno's obsession with Fernanda grows, Lourdes enlists the help of her "bruja Craft crew" and a professor, Dr. Camacho, to understand what is happening to her friend in this unholy tale of possession-gone-right.
When desire meets physical boundaries, it’s time to get a little creative… Cassie Tucker is no stranger to deadlines, so when she gets assigned to a new project at the last minute, she knows the drill. It’s not until she discovers who the project leader is that she gets worried. The man is a legend in both the IT department and in the looks department. Like, seriously, he’s ridiculously gorgeous. There’s a reason the women at her firm have dubbed him The West Coast Hottie. Thankfully, he’s hundreds of miles away, so any ogling of her new boss will be masked by filters and slow internet connections. Ian Cope is thrilled to be working with Cassie. Not only is she talented and smart, but there’s something about her that he’s never been able to ignore. If they worked in the same town, there’s no doubt he would’ve asked her out a long time ago, so getting put on the same project is a small victory he’ll gladly take. Then he learns the truth behind this assignment, and all his excitement crashes. Find a way to justify closing Cassie’s office while denying his attraction to her? Talk about a dream turning into a nightmare! There’s no way this is going to end well, especially when he crosses that line from professional to hot-and-heavy personal. Ian and Cassie embark on a sensual path, learning the hard way just how cutthroat business can be …especially when it’s mixed with forbidden pleasure.
Seventeen-year-old Phoebe, unable to control the powers inherited from her ancestor Nike, must attend summer camp with a group of ten-year-olds, while coping with her boyfriend's apparent betrayal and mysterious messages about her deceased father.
A sassy woman who knows what she wants. A shifter who accidentally gives it to her. Lillian Caldwell has eyes on her ridiculously handsome neighbor who also happens to be one of the men who recently bought her family’s land. Unfortunately, that now makes him her new boss. Not that this change of events will make her view him any differently. She has big plans for this man, including the getting-him-horizontal variety, and she always gets what she wants. She’ll find a way to make her cranky new boss purr…and maybe get a little something else in return. Jack Woods knows he’s a jerk who’s made a lot of mistakes, but who can blame him? He’s a living, breathing mythical creature on an incredibly short leash. Most of his brothers have created a balance between their animalistic side and the normal world, but he can’t seem to stop being so cynical. His recent discovery of an old family secret may shed new light on his dark path, but his attempts to dig further are thwarted when he’s forced to work with Lillian. Oh, she’s gorgeous alright, but she’s an even bigger pain-in-the-ass- than he is, constantly pushing his buttons and ignited his desire. They have no choice but to work together, but a night of drunken passion turns these enemies into more than just lovers. Now they must find a way to cope with the consequences without killing each other first. All’s fair in love and…an unplanned mating.
