SKEPTIC IN SALEM: AN EPISODE OF CRIME is Book #2 in a charming new cozy mystery series by bestselling author Fiona Grace, author of Murder in the Manor, a #1 Bestseller with over 100 five-star reviews (and a free download)!When Mia Bold, 30, learns that the pharmaceutical company she works for only cares about money, she quits on the spot, walking away from a high-powered career—and from her long-time boyfriend, who breaks up with her.With the podcast taking off, and with a romance brewing, Mia ...

"Very entertaining. Highly recommended for the permanent library of any reader who appreciates a well-written mystery with twists and an intelligent plot. You will not be disappointed. Excellent way to spend a cold weekend!".--Books and Movie Reviews (regarding Murder in the Manor)SKEPTIC IN SALEM: AN EPISODE OF DEATH is Book #3 in a charming new cozy mystery series by bestselling author Fiona Grace, author of Murder in the Manor, a #1 Bestseller with over 100 five-star reviews (and a free downl...

Sabrina Reed is Nathan Alden’s wife, but not by his choice...
"I found her like this, Sir." The guard announces.
Sabrina rubs her eyes to get the blur cleared away from her vision.
"What are you doing out here Sabrina?" Nathan spoke between his teeth.
She sits up and fixes her messy hair.
"What are you doing out here?" He spoke louder this time. Demanding an answer. He was
wearing a jet-black suit and a white button-up shirt. His eyebrows were creased and his arms
were crossed.
"I came back late...

Despite her efforts to be a dutiful wife, Roxanne's marriage becomes increasingly unbearable. She discovers that her husband is having an affair with a scheming socialite. Roxanne’s heartbreak and humiliation push her to the brink, leading her to make a daring decision: she leaves behind her luxurious life to find herself anew.
Roxanne’s journey of self-discovery takes her to the bustling city of Paris. Through a series of chance encounters, she befriends the charismatic and free-spirited artis...

On the way to escape, a stranger took away her virginity. She didn’t expect that the stranger was Jasper Milton, who was rich and powerful, as well as ruthless and cold. It was said that he didn’t love woman. However, it was not true. She was suffering from a sore back after having sex with him every day, and finally she couldn’t stand it, “You don’t need to be responsible for me anymore, and you are free now.” He sat by her bed, pulled her into his arms, and said gently: “Stella, are you mistak...

“You want one hundred thousand dollars for your body, fine. Produce me an heir within six months and the money is yours when the baby is born.”
The coldness in his voice sends a shiver up my spine.
“Are you serious?”
“Yes.”
“B-but what about the other part of my request?” I stammer out.
“What other part?” he asks with his eyebrow raised.
I clutch the contract close to my chest. “The part where I get to leave. If I have your baby, Ansel, can I take the money and walk away?”
When I was bought at...

You may kiss the bride," the priest announced and my body shuddered in resistance as the words I told him two days ago rang in my ears. I won't even spit on your face let alone marry you, Liam Knight. His eyes were shining in triumph, clearly stating that once again he won. He smirked cruelly, taunting me without words how he forced me to do exactly what I said I would never do even if he begged me. He didn't beg, on the contrary, he forced me to marry him. He took a step forward, raised my chin...

“…I am sure when we spoke on the phone, this purpose wasn't suggested. You did not say wanted to meet me to end the marriage, therefore I did not say I will be here to help in doing that.
"Then why did you come?" She asked calmly.
“What reason should a man have to see his fiance, Adele? I am here to see you to get to know you more.”
He loved her more than anything else in his life, he desired her and he got her, but circumstances and responsibilities did not let him keep her long.
As the day...

Blurb: I never thought I’d find myself trapped in a gilded cage, but Damon Blackwell made me an offer I couldn’t refuse—a year of my life for my brother’s freedom. Cold, ruthless, and impossibly handsome, Damon promised me the world in public while stripping me of my dignity in private. What started as a marriage of convenience quickly became a battlefield of power, secrets, and shattered trust.
But I’m not the kind of woman who breaks easily. I walked away, determined to reclaim my life and ...

Aviena Carrinuevo, a famous celebrity. A star that always shines through the darkest night. The star that everyone likes but what happens when the star started to dim?
When her career started to turn upside down because of one scandal, her sister slash manager made her marry the hot billionaire that has the power to control the industry she was in.

Jasmine is a beautiful young woman trapped in an unwanted marriage with billionaire Daniel verma what will happen next? Will she ever be able to love him? Or something unexpected will happen with her to know more read the exciting journey of jasmine

“Marry me, Leilani.”
“What?”
“We will have rules. There will be a contract.”
Eyes widened in shock, she muttered, “You want me to be your wife? A contract wife?”
* * *
After her Tinder date goes horribly wrong, Leilani heads off to join her best friend at a wedding. There, she meets a man with the strangest proposal ever.
A contract marriage.
A normal person would have said no but a lonely person would consider the idea. So, she says yes...

Christopher Grayston only wanted to marry to stop his grandfather from asking him to remarry. As a result, he married a girl he met outside civil affairs. He wanted to marry someone with whom they would never consummate their marriage. So he settled for a young girl he had just met standing outside the Civil Affairs Bureau, knowing full well that he wouldn't touch her because she was just a girl. Camila Mendoza fit the bill since she was young, though she was a temptress without even trying. The...

She doesn't remember getting married. Why?
Sophia went to Las Vegas only to drink her pain away. Little did she imagine, she would end up becoming someone's wife. But who’s the lucky guy?
Who knows?
Even she doesn't remember. She was fucking intoxicated!
All she has is a marriage contract with an expiry date and a bank balance big enough to pop her eyes out.
Contractual terms:
1. Do not marry anyone else unless I permit you.
2. Try not to whore around. Your mother-in-law wouldn't be happy.
3. If...

Kira Bryams, after being drugged by her stepsister and her fiancé during a family dinner with her fiancé's family at a hotel had a one night stand with a man.
What she didn't know was that the man she slept with was the richest and most powerful man in the country; Sanders Wealth.
After finding out that everything was a plan by stepsister and fiancé from the very beginning, Kira almost killed herself. But Sanders Wealth came with a proposal that would change her life.
Extract
"Are yo...

Trigger alert: violent scenes; unsuccessful sexual assault.
Glossary available. Check Table of Contents.

Marry with me, and you will be given 1.5 billion dollars.
Getting rid of Mina, Fred's wife, after five years of her problematic self, he finally felt relieved.
He needed a new wife so he got married to Jayda on the contract that she was going to be given 1.5 billion dollars. Fred and Jayda had shared a strong bond a few years back after an accidental 'one-night stand'.
Trying to balance their relationship seemed to be a problem, as both of them were too enclosed in the fear of revealing their...

“Open your legs… open it wide!” He whispered seductively into my burning ears, at the same time using his other hand to hold me tightly to the bed.
“Never … you beast… let me gooooo please Craig… please…” I switched from snarling at him to begging at once, he parted my frail naked leg and without warning plunged deep into me,I hated myself for being so weak.
His thrust into my inner thigh was fast and merciless, “you belong to me Kim… get that into your skull!” He kept repeating to me, I cou...

The only good fox is a dead fox.
A phrase 23-year-old Wren Vessylia, a fox shifter has known all her life. Hunted, sold, beaten, and tortured all her life, all Wren has known in her life is pain. So when one day she is sold to an Alpha who uses her as leverage for the powerful Alpha Cassian Knight, Wren realizes her life is about to change drastically.
Alpha Cassian Knight and his pack, the Moon Lichen pack have been battling a centuries old curse that only a nine-tailed fox can break. When he...

"I am so honored that my mistress is back in her bedroom."
His voice was very deep, and he pressed me on the bed. I secretly felt bad in my heart. If I had known better, I wouldn't have tested my reaction. This time, I played too seriously!
I tried to break away, but it was too late. He pulled off his tie and tied my wrists to the head of the bed.
Everyone used to say Myluna was the family's abandoned child, unworthy of being the dream lover of thousands of girls. When the audience witnes...

Leilani, an ordinary woman who found herself in a contract and loveless marriage.
She had believed the contract marriage would turn into a real marriage but she took back her words the moment she caught her husband in a compromising state.
Seeing his ex is back, and he truly loves her. She offered him a divorce letter, to not hinder him from being together with the person he loves.
"What do you think you are doing, Leilani?. You will forever be my wife."

She was a plain girl from the countryside, who had married New York's top aristocrat, Harrington, in place of her sister. During the day, she worked diligently as a humble maid. But at night, she removed her scars, revealing an unparalleled beauty, becoming the president's substitute pampered wife. When her substitute identity was discovered, New York's socialites eagerly anticipated her humiliation. However, they witnessed her unlocking a exciting life: blending fragrances, concocting medicine,...

Mina is an orphaned duchess living in the capital of the Nodor Kingdom. While her father was from an elite family, her mother was a gypsy from another kingdom. The high society of Athea looked down on Mina and her exotic looks making her a pariah by their social standards.
Commander Jayden, is a war hero and a bastard of disreputable and mysterious origins, coming home to claim his beloved (who happens to be Mina’s cousin, Rosalyn) only to find out she married the prince. Heartbroken, Jayden thr...

I am a human. A person who had never even known that wolves in human form existed until one day I collided with someone who removed me from the existence of every human's mind- except for his own kind - the werewolves.
His dominance is never ending. The ways of his love for me are overbearing. Maybe he will change- but was I always holding a false hope?
Book 2- Dominant Hybrid is published on Dreame App as ebook and on Wehear App as an audiobook. Jump over there to enjoy. Thanks!
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"Cecelia has always been amused that her name means blind, when, as a witch, she was born with the gift of sight and can see past the glamour of the Others that share her world – vampires, werewolves, angels, demons, and their ilk.
Revealing that she can see through their glamours would be dangerous – humans would consider her mad, and the Others would hunt her for the risk to their secrecy that she presents.
When her best friend Paris talks her into taking a job at a men's club Lia is t...

Curse Breaker Books 1-3 features the first three books of the Curse Breaker Series in one action-packed boxed set. Curse Breaker Enchanted Sarn wants to be like everyone else, not a mage with a power he can barely control. But he must hide his magic in a country run by a group that wants to destroy all magic. But that magic comes in handy when he wakes up far from home with only his cloak to protect him from monsters and murderous trees. How will Sarn return home in time and unravel the dark con...

Alex's first day as a college student was great so far. She enjoyed her new classes and classmates, especially the man she sat next to in her first subject. The guy's name is Richard. He's handsome and nice, and Alex cannot help but be mesmerized by him.
And then she met him again on her last subject. Maybe it was Destiny that made then meet again, and it looks like the feeling is mutual been the two of them. There is only one problem. Richard is a Quinto, and the Quintos are the mortal enemy...

Alondra Thomas. She is attractive and seductive. Despite her good looks hides a bitter mark of poverty. Who would have thought that her life revolved around just one place? Along with various men who defiled her character, men are the reason she got herself out of poverty as long as she can only give the right service to them, that her body is her only investment.
She was an escort girl. She had been bedded by all the types of men she met. She had built confidence over the years to do all ...

“I just broke up with my boyfriend, a month ago. He was my first, in everything. He was such an ass, and I miss him. I can’t understand exactly what I saw in him, and why the hell do I miss him so much!”
“Do you know the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else!” She snorted a laugh. “Who comes up with corny stuff like that?” She was silent for a while, deliberating the phrase in her head. Then she spoke, slow. “When you think about it, it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea.”
Le...

The Interstellar Brides Program will never be the same...The leader of the Interstellar Coalition has lifted the ban on sending brides to the wounded warriors on The Colony. Survivors. Warriors. They fought in the Hive War and earned the right to claim a mate.But these warriors are outcasts. Contaminated. Destined to live out their lives far, far away from anyone frightened by their unnatural strength and alien enhancements. Honorable fighters, they continue to serve, to protect the Coalition wo...

Ryuk Mingyu, a woman who came from a chaotic, working class family, got a new job!
Where? At Nam Corporations, one of the big, three prestigious companies in the city!
She applied for a regular employee's position. But as if luck was on her side, she was chosen by the CEO himself to be his new secretary. This choice, however, was only the beginning of a challenging new chapter of her life.
Being handpicked by the CEO personally, she became the target of bullying by her office mates on the top...

Aurora is A simple maiden living in the occupied lands of Montenegro.
At a banquet truss, She was invited to the mansion of the Montenegro and one night changed her life when she met her siblings, Manuel and Ezekiel.
She discovered that the siblings had a strange feeling for her. She discovers that she also has a secret love for Montenegro.
How can he fight that love without hurting the other one?

Ethan Vecton
Handsome , smart as hell , manly body and a playboy. He only look at beautiful and hot girls. He hates and always get cold to nerdy , stupid and ugly girl.
Kimberly Medilton
She's one of the Vallon's kids but she lives in Seattle with her grandparents. Her grandparents always teach her how to live ordinary before she will go to London for university. She's plain , not smart and dress up like she has no money. Her only beauty is her heart to be exact.
"Never because I will cherish...

Eliza's life was destroyed by them: her boyfriend and her best friend. Five years ago, her boyfriend's career was at its lowest point and Eliza sacrificed everything to support him. However, her best friend fooled Eliza to be a surrogate mother. When her boyfriend led a successful career, he dumped Eliza because she had lost her virginity and had babies. It was just an excuse for the affair between the shameless couple. Losing all interest in life, she agreed to marry Mr. Valentine, a disfigured...

This is the sequel to 'His Unwanted Wife'
Excerpt
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Get out! There is nothing left between us." Nathan yells.
"What do you mean Nathan? We're married."
His lips thinned. "My lawyer will be calling you about that."
"Nathan." She pleads. "Why are you doing this? This isn't you."
"Sabrina." He put a ton of emphasis on her name. "You don't know me, you don't have the slightest clue who I am. That sucker, you knew as a husband, no longer exist. You're going to see who Nathan Alden ...

After ten years of marriage, Hollis Meyer believed she had found an extraordinary husband. Little did she know, he would lead her on a destructive path! Disguised as a marriage, he manipulated her emotions, plotted for her wealth, and even wiped out the entire Meyer family, all for a fleeting moment of true love.
But fate intervened with a meticulously planned murder, sending her back ten years in time! In this new life, she pledged to utterly destroy him, reduce his bloodline to ashes, and cu...

The one-night stand man became my savior and lover.
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"Oops," I groaned as I bumped into his hard, firm chest. It felt like hitting a rock, and my nose even turned red.
Before I could respond, he moved my hand downwards. I could feel something hard and long between his legs. Above my head, his sexy, low voice was full of flirtation. "Miss Lewiston, are you now satisfied that I am able to be your husband? You can now check if I am normal," he said as he pressed my hand against his hard ridge....

At the age of 18, Patricia married Martin Langley, a man who was paralyzed from the waist down, instead of her stepsister, Debbie Brown. She accompanied him through the darkest moments of his life.
Despite their two-year marriage and companionship, their relationship didn’t mean as much to Martin as Debbie's return.
Martin, in order to treat Debbie's illness, heartlessly disregarded her pregnancy and cruelly bound her to the operating table. Martin was heartless, he left Patricia feeling lifele...

(Book II of the Mafia's Girl Series. )
(AN: Please read The Mafia's Good Girl before this book!)
“Before we get on with our business, there’s a bit of a paperwork you’d need to sign,” Damon said suddenly. He took out a piece of paper and pushed it towards Violet.
“What’s this?” she asked.
“A written agreement for the price of our sale,” Damon replied. He said it so calmly and so nonchalantly, like he wasn’t buying a girl’s virginity for one million dollars.
Violet swallowed har...

"Eve, what exactly are you up to." Ethan held her chin, staring into her eyes. "Have you developed a new way to achieve your divorce goal?"
"Who said I wanted a divorce?" Eve flashed him her sweetest smile. "You're my darling husband, and my only goal is to make you happy."
Ethan looked as if he was about to have a heart attack.
The driver lost control and the car almost slammed into the gates.
In her past life, Evelyn was doted on and admired by her husband, Ethan Anderson....

"Our relationship is just a contracted marriage. You and I, both have benefits. Don’t think I'll give you something called love. I will never love you."
He looked at the woman sitting on the bed, coldly warning her not to do anything too extreme.
Amanda's life is associated with criticism and abandonment from her parents, from others. Her face had a terrifying scar, even her voice was stolen. Amanda suddenly realized, she was just a piece of chess for others to take advantage of. When she is n...

“You, I chose you to be my seventh wife.”
Her eyes widened. She couldn’t believe that among the twenty women that passed through his evaluation, he chose her!
“C-can you choose another woman?”
“I chose you. No one in this room passed through my taste. It was only you, I will make sure to get you pregnant, Shiloh."
Shiloh Harding, a 25-year-old half human and half Lycan from a wealthy family but when her father died, their family fell into debt that they needed to pay off.
Loki Roosevelt, a 3...

"Why?" she muttered as tears welled up in her eyes, "Why did you do it?"
He said nothing, and only picked up a document and stretched it to her.
Boldly written on it is ‘Divorce Agreement’.
She raised her eyes to him, studying him through blurry vision, "Why are you doing this to me?"
"Clarissa is back," he said with a straight face.
"Clarissa is back... that’s why you sent me to another man’s bed so that you can have enough evidence to divorce?" she thought to herself, not having enoug...

"Do you hear that? The woman who is chosen to be Damian Chase’s fifth wife will be offered 5 million dollars!”
“Even 10 million dollars I won’t marry such a jerk!”
Sabrina Jade was recognized for being a competent and gorgeous secretary. For five years, she had worked for her boss Damian Chase, who was renowned as a womanizer. Almost every woman who knew Damian wanted to sleep with him, but in Sabrina’s eyes, her boss is an absolute asshole. She just wanted to stay away from him.
Sabrina ne...

He leaned down and kissed her, pressing his full lips against hers. Her body shook with the sensation of him against her. A dormant desire roared to life inside of her. She wanted more. She wanted him. With a small moan, she twisted until she was pushed against his chest. His hands skimmed her waist and she kissed him deeper, her tongue thrust into his mouth.
He kissed her back hungrily. She tasted of roses, fresh air, and something earthy he couldn’t identify. He was taken back by the power of...

“I’ll just tell it to you straight! That night you drank the wine that I added a little something to, and out of good will, I found two brawny men for you so that you could fully satisfy your desire. Who knew that you would be so insensible? You actually entered some wild man’s room, and even unceremoniously!” Margaux’s tone was full of disgust: “Trojan was too kind-hearted, he was afraid that you wouldn’t be able to accept the truth, so he said that it was him that night!”
“You……” Arisen was...

It was a perfect plan to destroy both their families in one go. Manipulated with the aid of sorcery, Samantha and Leo were caught in-between their grandparent's old fraternity feud when they found themselves in a one night stand situation.
The previous night was blurry. Samantha was aghast when she realized she was not in her dormitory room…
"Did we have sex!?..."
"Why can't I remember?..."
Leo thought it was just a hook-up between two adults, only to learn he must marry her even if she was...

In order to revenge, and find out the truth, she to be crazy married the Bryans' young mistress. The first year after marriage, he found that she was offering descendants of the master. In the second year after marriage, he found her strength, unarmed split brick. In the third year after their marriage, he discovered that she was a pianist, a secret investor, and a hacker ... In this way, he tore open her vest one by one. William Bryan felt very aggrieved, 'Wife, how many secrets do you still ha...

During the day, she is his efficient assistant; at night, she is his soft and alluring bed companion. Her mother's treatment requires money, leaving her no room for pride. The clear-cut transactions of money and sex have kept their relationship in a tacit understanding for three years. Finally, just as he finds himself unable to resist his growing addiction to her, she delivers a crushing blow: 'You have a white moonlight in your heart, yet you lie in my bed every night. Aren't you a scumbag?' W...

"I'm a person, not a tool for you to vent your desires!" I silently screamed.
Alex's voice was cold and piercing, "You are my wife, fulfilling my physiological needs, legally and properly."
"Our cold war isn't over!" My resistance was useless as Alex had already entered my body.
His cold hand stroked my breast. In five years of marriage, after countless times of making love, he knew exactly how to arouse my desires.
Just as my body trembled, about to reach climax, the phone rang abruptly. Al...