They say some people are favored by the gods. Others need to make their own luck.Book 1There is a single lesson in the heart of every Viking: Those who use magic are put to death.When a handsome young warrior rides into her village and Liv barely has time to notice. There is coin to be made with the arrival of the king.But the fates have other plans.The two strike up a friendship that grows closer, even though Liv knows she will never rise above her station.She makes a promise that even though she cannot love him, she will protect him.And that promise will require the greatest sacrifice of all.Book 2Witch.In the blink of an eye, Liv's hard-fought life turned upside-down. Not only had she used her powers in the open and exposed her secret, she had done so in front of the king's own soldiers. No sooner had the dust settled, than she was arrested before the entire settlement and sentenced to death. Alone in a prison cell, she begins to think about where things went wrong...The fabric of the realm might be slowly changing, but it was still ingrained in the heart of every Viking child, never to suffer a witch. The clock is ticking, but all hope isn't lost. Erik owes a heavy debt, and feels the weight of that burden.Is it possible to escape the consequences of her actions? Even if she could run, would her chances be any better out in the wild? The executioner comes at dawn, and two people are considering opposite sides of the same question: When a life hangs in the balance... is it possible to walk away?Book 3What do we do with witches…?With the smoke from the settlement still hanging in the air behind them, Liv and Eric strike out on foot into the wilderness. But the fates weave a twisted story, and it isn't the escape either of them had in mind. Cut off from Trina by the arrival of the imperial army, the pair find themselves truly stranded, without the hope of either coin or supplies. The woods are rife with danger on the best of days, and that's without the price that had surely been put on their heads.Blood is in the water, and the imperial hounds have caught their scent. But even if they manage to stay ahead of the spears behind them, there's trouble brewing on a different front. A closer front.Liv's not the only one harboring a secret.Sometimes freedom comes at too high a cost.The Viking TalesAdversity - the PrequelWarriorDefenderContenderAffinityHeroineVictoryIn a time when Vikings clashed against Romans, and whispers of magic held back the tides, a young woman staggered out of the forest and gave birth to a special child…

Jane Thornton: The Complete Trilogy. A Heart-Stopping, Post-Apocalyptic, Why Choose Romance! Jane watched quietly as the world fell apart, surviving by doing what came naturally for her. Hiding. Until they found her. Then everything changed."'Have you seen the girl?' "I was the only girl here. The only living soul in this whole damn town. It had been almost a year since the beginning of the end, and I'd been here the entire time. It was my hometown, where I'd grown up. And where I thought I would die. Eventually. But I wasn't ready. Not yet."

In a world where fairytales keep coming to life, there’s a bureau dedicated to helping the victims caught up in the Grimm Effect. But sometimes even those investigators fall prey to a happily ever after…The big, bad wolf is about to go down.Through sheer determination—and a whole lot of stubbornness—I, Blanche Hood, managed to evade the Red-Cap curse. Unlike my mom, I didn’t fall for the huntsman or get eaten by the wolf, but I did gain a purpose. I became an agent for the Fairytale Bureau. My job? Countering the ugly side of the Grimm Effect.My latest case involves a string of murders by a wolf, but I keep getting distracted by my neighbor. I will resist his growly voice. I will not notice the way his muscles bulge. I don’t have time for romance because I need to focus on my job, especially since the perpetrator is taunting me. The killer is asking for a showdown, and he’s going to get it. He won’t be able to resist when I don my red hood to act as bait.Things don’t quite go as planned. Turns out the wolf was under my nose this entire time. By the time I discover the truth, it’s too late. Too late to lament the fact I was played. Too late to regret what could have been, and when I foolishly walk into a trap, it will take a miracle to save me. But everyone knows the Brothers Grimm stories don’t always have happily-ever-afters.If only love truly could break the curse.

Last month, I was living out of my car. Now I’m couch-surfing in Brooklyn. All I’ve got are some bad memories, an empty bank account, and a pigeon I named Hendrix.So when a mysterious, sinfully hot man offers me a deal, I have no choice but to accept. I’ll pretend to be his live-in girlfriend for a month. In exchange, he’ll give me a job at his exclusive club in Hell’s Kitchen.But I soon learn there’s way more to Asmodeus than meets the eye—he's a demon. From the underworld. And if I break my deal with him, I’ll lose my soul.Fortunately, it’s just a month. A month of heated stares and fake kisses that feel all too real. My soul—and my body—can survive this…I hope.

On a quest to find a king…Before the next full moon irrevocably changes him.The only thing standing in his way is a queen.Tasked with a quest to find the lost Book of Werewolves—needed to save the entire werewolf species—alpha wolf Trouble Saint-Pierre sets off on a perilous adventure from Paris, to London and on to Transylvania. The last thing he expected was to clash with a brazen vampiress who doesn’t know the meaning of restraint.Bunny is the name she has been using for the last century. The vampiress—and former queen of France—wears armor around her heart. Though Trouble is growing on her—the sexy big bad wolf bewitches her—she is determined to claim the book to ransom the duplicitous brother she’s thought dead for centuries.So begins a race to the book, fraught with demons, a cunning word witch, a vengeful warlock, and a vicious pack leader who intends to genetically modify the entire werewolf race. As they grow closer, will Bunny step aside and allow the werewolf she craves to claim the book? How far will Trouble go to save his brethren? Sworn enemies from the start, he and Bunny have gained respect for one another—or could it be…love?This spicy, action/adventure paranormal romance is part of Michele Hauf’s world of Beautiful Creatures.