Kim Pritekel

Life is good as Roishin and Enori move into a new house and make some big decisions about their relationship. Elsie and Isla have found their way to each other, and the two couples have created an incredible foundation of love, support, and cooperation for baby Mariota, who is crawling through her first year of life.Once Elsie moves back into Caisle n Thiar after Garratt's attack, she begins to stake her claim as mother of the future queen of Sursha. Her Druid blood begins to heat up, and after a nighttime visit from Macha, Queen of the Druids, she is blessed with new gifts that send her soaring to new heights. She becomes eyes and ears for Roishin as she and her shadow, a young Druid named Terryn, inadvertently unlock the powerful realm of Bowhar.Using her chameleon ability, Ava, close friend to Roishin and Enori, as well as the young woman Roishin saved from 1860s Washington D.C., is sent into the realm, which has been locked down for more than five hundred years after the Bowhar war. Posing as Terryn's boyfriend, the two discover that not only is Bahutha back, but Garratt may just be destined to raise an army after all.Join Roishin, Enori, and the characters you love, along with some brand-new favorites, as they delve into Shadows, Book 5 of the Destiny series.

Roishin, now seventeen years old, is integrating fully with the Order of Ankou. With Enori as her mentor, she will be shown things she never imagined, in times and places she never dreamed she could access. She will also be introduced to another world entirely, Duras.There, she is taken to the Crystal Palace, where the doors are awaiting her. All she has to do is accept her destiny and enter. Her love for Elsie reaches a fever pitch when she is asked to do the ultimate as the "bringer of life." However, Elsie is engaged by duty to Garratt, Roishin's brother and heir apparent to the throne. Though her parents are quite liberal in their thinking about the rights of women in Sursha, Roishin must face the fact that throughout history, women have always been limited by men in power. However, do Fallon and Cateline have a bigger plan for Elsie?Elsie and Roishin will be bonded together in a way they never imagined possible. But, will it ultimately tear them apart forever? Continue the journey in the Destiny series as Roishin discovers Doors.

At almost thirty years old, Honor Hayes is yet again dealing with the dumpster fire that has become her life. The queen of self-sabotage, she packs up her car and leaves town before the fallout after sleeping with her boss' wife. Out of options, she reaches out to her cousin, Liberty Faulkner and is offered work with her Uncle Steven's construction company in the small, Colorado mountain town of Wynter. Accepting the offer, her intention is simply to get back on her feet and get back on the road. But then, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Greek beauty, Amalia is in what is essentially a forced marriage to wealthy salon owner, Nocola Russo. She's far more valuable to him for her looks and phenomenal body than her skills working in one of his high-end salons. Constantly under threat for any move her controlling husband doesn't like - particularly if she were to get pregnant - Amalia is forced to make the ultimate sacrifice for her unborn child. She must escape. A network of underground advocacy groups helps Amalia steal away to the other side of the country, where she is hidden in Wynter, Colorado. There, she just wants to finally be free to start over and have her baby and live in peace. There, not only does she find the maternal embrace of Lady Wynter, but also brash tumbleweed, Honor. Will they find their way together, or will Honor yet again blow up her own life? Journey back to Wynter as she once again wraps a new pair of lost souls into her fold, while saying goodbye to a beloved resident.

Ashton King is the would-be heiress of the King-Kraft Chocolate empire-though her sexist father is reluctant to hand over the reins. Spending most of her time at the London division, Ashton comes back to headquarters in Denver for meetings and holiday plans for the company. While home, she's asked to spearhead a new project for their best customer's brand-new business: an exclusive gentleman's club dealing in chocolate and passion. There, she meets the intensely sexy Pearl. At The Black Pussy Cat, anonymity is the name of the game. Everyone must wear a mask, including the women who work there as the escorts in their sophisticated, beautiful evening gowns. Despite the masks, Ashton and Pearl are instantly attracted to each other with nearly animalistic passion, and soon they begin a professional relationship: high-paid sex at Ashton's massive estate. While intense and erotic, the masked sex only makes Ashton want more from the secretive Pearl. Meanwhile, a traitor emerges at King-Kraft, trying to win Jack Kraft's favor and sully Ashton's reputation. When Jack dies and leaves everything to Ashton-to her profound surprise-the sabotage turns violent and more personal, endangering Ashton and even threatening Pearl. Ashton must unmask the saboteur before it's too late, but deepening feelings for Pearl start to complicate matters. Will love be the answer when all masks are removed?

As promised by Enori, the mysterious Head Priestess of the Order of Ankou, Fallon and Cateline receive an addition to their royal family-a newborn found in the woods. The prince and princess of Sursha are thrilled to welcome baby Roishin into their home at Caisle n Th ar. Nearly thirteen years later, the girl has proven to be far more than meets the eye. Intelligent, curious, and feisty, Roishin keeps everyone in the castle on their toes. Her parents know it's time to reveal the deepest family secret to Roishin-that her "father," Prince Fallon, heir to the throne of Sursha, is really a woman. As Roishin adjusts to this new reality, she is also struggling with changes of her own, including abilities she cannot explain and new feelings for her best friend and personal attendant. Her behavior might simply be explained as adolescence rearing its chaotic head, but this is no normal child. When Enori comes back into their lives to claim Roishin for the Order, things begin to take a dark turn. Ghosts, visions, unbridled rage, and unmitigated fear plague the family as an ancient evil threatens to tear apart the world as they know it. Can the burgeoning teenage Daughter of Ankou right a wrong before it's too late?

Fifteen-year-old Mercy Faulkner is hit with the hardest blow of her young life when her beloved father is killed in an accident. Now, she must leave all she knows to move with her mother, a hard woman that she feels like she barely knows, to the small mountain town of Wynter, Colorado. Her mother has been offered a job there and a place to live and start over for the two.Bethany Wynter, seventeen, gorgeous and the granddaughter of the founder of Wynter and early residents, Justice and Thea Kilkoyne, she has everything going for her. She and her twin brother, Billy are at the top of their game - popular, well-loved in the community and dominate in academics and athletics.But, when the beautiful and shy Mercy shows up in town, a sibling rivalry will begin that will split the twins for the first time in their life.When World War II hits the shores of the United States, everything changes for everyone. Who will go off to war, who will come back, and will any of them ever be the same?

Cateline is the seventeen-year-old daughter of a nobleman in fourteenth-century France. It's a time when children aren't seen as those to be loved and cherished, but instead are used as pawns and bargaining chips on the chessboard of control and privilege.She is married off to a prince in the country of Sursha, a Gaelic-speaking island nation near Ireland. Fergus, her betrothed, is next in line to take over once beloved King Carthac dies. Or is he? Fallon, the youngest royal child and only girl, has been raised as one of the king's sons her entire life, for reasons she has never fully understood. A natural fighter, she was raised to be a warrior and head the Crown's Elite Guard assigned to protect her boorish brother Fergus. Forced to fill in for her brother in an unexpected way, an instant attraction between Fallon and Cateline forms. In a game of thrones filled with deception and betrayal, even the most secret love can mean death.

Christine Swann is a world-famous singer/songwriter and lesbian icon, known for her edgy style and heart-pounding songs. Gorgeous, rich and miserable. Her music has always been her life, her escape from an unimaginable childhood, and choices no thirteen-year-old should have to make. Now, pushing thirty, she wants out. From all of it. Willow Bowman lives in the farmhouse her beloved grandmother left her, with her husband. A pediatric nurse and small-town girl, she relishes in the safety of her marriage that keeps difficult questions at bay and keeps her life quiet and peaceful, because that makes sense to her. Until one night when Willow is driving home and is about to cross the old, rickety Dittman Bridge not far from the farmhouse, and she sees a figure jump off into the cold waters below. The moment she jumps in and pulls the woman dressed in leather pants out, both their lives change forever.

Grey Rickman, a journalist for The New York Times, is offered the opportunity of a lifetime and a huge boost to her career-ghostwriting a memoir for one of the world's most beloved actors. She is deeply in love with her girlfriend, dancer Christian Scott, and her world couldn't be better.Christian, though proud of Grey and all that she's accomplished, is facing her own career dilemma. All she's ever wanted to do is perform and create, her body her kinetic canvas. But, in one of the few industries where youth matters above all else, her time is coming to make decisions that no woman in her mid-thirties should have to make: is it time to retire? As the career of one begins to explode into the stratosphere and the other's implodes after a career-ending injury that makes any retirement discussion irrelevant, Grey and Christian begin to drift apart. Changing priorities and newly built walls lead to fears and accusations, further tearing at the fabric of the love they've worked years to create. Will cooler heads prevail to warm up the hearts of the deeply passionate couple in time to create a new dream for their second act?

A victim of a massive corporate downsize, Liberty Faulkner suddenly finds herself without a job, without a home, and without a plan. Though certainly not part of her vision, Libby decides that the familiar is the safest path back to her life goals. In this case, the devil she knows is home: the tiny mountain town of Wynter, Colorado, a close-knit place where everybody knows everybody and everybody's business. Seems like the perfect place for the twenty-five-year-old to start over and figure out who she is without being noticed...not.Sergeant Grace Montez escaped her dead-end job and toxic relationship in New Mexico and moved to Wynter to help build their police department from scratch. Now an established figurehead in the community, she's got her professional life dialed in and even mentors new recruits on the force. After a challenging childhood and lifetime of abandonment and disappointment, Grace hasn't been interested in another relationship-especially because no one has caught her eye since a certain quirky college student who used to make her caramel macchiato at the local coffee shop moved away three years ago.Now that quirky college student has returned as the beautiful, mature woman Libby has become. Can Grace keep her distance, or will she finally take liberties with what is being offered?

Faith Fitzgerald thought that if she got an education and became a high-powered attorney in Manhattan, maybe-just maybe-she'd gain the attention and respect of her absentee father. Considering he was the only parent she had left after her mother's suicide when Faith was just a child, she thought that's what it would take. She was wrong. What she dreamed would be glamorous and satisfying turned out to be grueling and thankless. Since she wasn't willing to play the game between the sheets, she was forced to stay in the cubicle jungle doing all the heavy lifting while the men got the credit and the rewards. Deciding she is done, Faith packs up and, with the flip of the bird to the rearview mirror, leaves New York and heads home to Colorado. She has nothing there: no job, nowhere to live, no relationship with her father. Truth is, she barely has a relationship with herself. On the drive home, she finds herself in Wynter, a tiny mountain town at the foot of the Rockies. Looking more like it belongs in a made-for-TV Christmas movie than on the map, Faith is utterly enchanted. When she tries her luck and buys a raffle ticket at Pop's, Wynter's charming caf , her prize is far more than meets the eye-or the heart. Enter Wyatt, a feisty, sexy southerner and waitress at Pop's, who just happens to be married to a local sheriff's deputy. All is not as it appears with the All-American boy and his Georgia peach.A colorful cast of unforgettable and charming characters will teach the jaded attorney that sometimes to find yourself all you have to do is go back to the basics...and have a little Faith.

As the dark days of the Dust Bowl came to an end, the midsection of the United States tried to rebuild and revitalize. In the small, dusty farming town of, Brooke View, Colorado, teenager, Eleanor Landry and her mother were dealing with her father, a self-appointment fire and brimstone preacher to his congregation of two. A plan to survive.