The Love Stories

What if everything you wrote came true? In the rural town of Taylor’s Grove, eighteen-year-old, Ellie Derée finds solace in her writing of sweet tales of magic, kingdoms, and a dragon. A dark past haunts her trust in others, so she holds her stories close to her heart. All of her romantic fantasies go into the stories she pens based on the ones her missing dad told her as a child until she meets Erick McKinley, a handsome and refined gentleman with a secret hiding behind his silver eyes. He’s the prince from her book, a prince mistakenly cursed to transform into a dragon every moonlit night. When Erick steps into her world, he’s unaware that his curse will only get stronger, eventually consuming him if he doesn’t find true love by the upcoming ball. Because of past heartbreak and abuse, Ellie is terrified of falling in love again. As their connection deepens, she grapples with her past and the vulnerability that love demands. The thought of losing Erick weighs heavily on her heart, but her scars make it difficult for her to open her heart to the possibility of heartbreak once again. Determined to save him and the kingdom of Tyral, Ellie must uncover the truth behind the curse while wrestling with the choices she made during creative stupors so the man she’s grown to care for deeply isn’t destroyed by a curse he didn’t deserve. As the ball approaches, she learns that true love can inspire courage and hope, but will she overcome her fears to embrace it? With only true love standing between Erick and his doom, Ellie must confront her emotional walls. Can she find the strength to open her heart and write a new ending that leads to their happily ever after? In this enchanting romance, Ellie discovers that love, despite its risks, holds the power to break even the darkest curses–if she only dares to believe in it.

Though her fellow Holiday Spirits could assist Mortals with belief in their different holidays, Holly, the Spirit of Christmas, was never given the opportunity. Instead, she was doomed to do nothing but write out the assignments for her siblings as they went to the Mortal Realm to fulfill their individual purposes under the cruel direction of Wren, the Spirit of Halloween. This changes when Holly sees a man struggling significantly with belief, not only in Christmas, but is wracked with constant torment of memories of Christmases past. Determined to escape the Spirit World and achieve her purpose as one of the Holiday Spirits, Holly sneaks through the Portal between the Spirit Realm and the Mortal Realm to seek him out. When the two meet, Mr. Aaron Jasper seems the most cynical and stubborn person in all the Realms. But once she discovers the secrets of what has made him so hurt by the world, she realizes maybe she’d been wrong about him and maybe she’d been wrong about the true meaning of her own holiday as well. Holly must find a way to convince Jasper of this before her time runs out at midnight Christmas Day or else she could be banished for abandoning her post in the Spirit Realm and stealing the assignment that changed her existence forever.

In the neon glow of Reno, Nevada, Will Markus’s life takes a nightmarish turn when he witnesses the murder of his beloved fiancée, Bianca Wixom, a spirited young woman devoted to her religion and family. With the shock of her murder still fresh, Will becomes a prime suspect, trapped in a web of circumstantial evidence that seems insurmountable. Behind bars, Will finds an unlikely ally in his goofy defense attorney, Smith Edwards, whose unconventional tactics might be the key to unraveling the truth. As they delve deeper into the case, they uncover a dark underbelly of secrets and betrayal that stretches far beyond the scene of the crime. With the clock ticking and his future hanging in the balance, Will must confront his turbulent past and the demons that threaten to destroy him. Can he clear his name before it’s too late? Or will he be condemned to 25 to life for a murder he didn’t commit? In this gripping tale of love, loss, and the fight for redemption, Will must battle for not only his freedom, but the legacy of the woman who loved him unconditionally.