“Hot chili in slow cookers in Hell.” Wren chuckled.
“How do you feel now, Wren?” I pulled some glasses out of the cabinet and put them on the table.
“Like there’s two of me,” she answered after a moment. “Me, and then After me. That throne thing was strange. It’s really, really powerful. I wouldn’t want to have to do that every day for fear it might twist me.” She glanced at her brother. “Like, the One Ring.”
My husband smiled. “Well, it could be dangerous if someone else beside you or I, or Lily sat in the proper thrones. It would twist them, eventually.”
Vance put a bowl of chili in front of me. “Do not come between the nasgul and his prey.”
I cracked up laughing, and tried to stab him with my fork. “You’re damn skippy! Where’s the crackers?”
“Oh, no, no,” Vance said, dropping a large bowl of spaghetti on the table. “We do this kind of chili Cincinnati style.”
“At least tell me there’s cheese?”
“This is Hell, there is no cheese.” Vance couldn’t keep his face straight after that, and cracked up laughing. I couldn’t help myself either, and we all had to stop what we were doing for a moment to compose ourselves.
Just as I was about to help myself to some of the pasta, there was a knock on the door we all used when we were coming from Earth.
Wren hopped up to answer it.
Miriam stood there.
I gasped and jumped to join Wren after tossing a shocked look at my husband. He seemed surprised as well.
“How did you get here?” I asked, taking the door from Wren and pushing it open. “You can’t access this part of the After until—”
My gasp was loud, and Miriam stepped into the kitchen to make room for another figure in the doorway.
A tall, handsome man with all the characteristics of a man from northern India including a lovely light amber skin, black-black eyes and long dark hair stood there, looking, for all the world, sheepish.
Lucifer gasped, and stood from his chair, walking over.
“Narayana?” He was staring. “You remembered.”
The man nodded.
“Who is this, Miriam?” Wren asked, but I could hear that she had her suspicions.
The man walked into the room and extended his hand to her. “I am Lakshmi-Narayana.”
Her jaw dropped. “Laxmi?”
…Pride has found her Temperance…
The Sins are gathering.
BALANCE
Saints and Sinners 5
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Armed with a pen name, Katherine Rhodes has gird her loins and set her mind to writing erotic romances which are kinky, dirty, and fun. As a lackadaisical laundry goddess, and an expert in the profundities of bad music and awful literature-thanks to her husband-Katherine strives to find balance in the universe and time to cook dinner. An East Coast dweller, currently located in the Philadelphia Tristate area, she is the proud servants of three cats and would take a vacation in Prague over a day at the beach any time…
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Broken Bonds
Knots
Untied
Lessons
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Inevitable
Club Imperial Volume 1
SILVER SOUL
Not Quite Juliet
CITY OF STEEL (THE VAULT)
Innuendo
Double Entendre
THE CLUB SERIES
The Darkest Corners
Anything for Her
Teach Me To Sin
Come Fly with Me with Isobelle Cate
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The Fire Saga
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THE DA SILVA HEIRS
All the King’s Horses
Princess of the Plains
STANDALONES
Captain
Acts of Contrition
Obsidian Escape
PARANORMAL ROMANCE
VAMPIRE CROWN
Queen of Gods
King of Gods
Death of Gods
Blood of Gods
War of Gods (Coming July 2020)
SAINTS AND SINNERS
Sleeper
Exchange
Filthy
Fall
Balance
THE COMPLEX
Balance Point
One Thousand Wishes, One Thousand Stars
THE JUNEAU PACKS
Taming Alaska
Frozen Alaska
Exploring Alaska
Uncovering Alaska
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Moonlight Calling
THE WITCHWOLF CHRONICLES
Passion Flames: The Demon Slayers 1
Turned: The Lastillions, Inari Council 1
THE ELEMENTAL DRAGONS (Pine Valley)
Darkwater
Skydance
Fireborn (coming 2020)
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Shadow in Glass
Family Portraits (coming 2020)
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STANDALONES
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S.A. Sommers
S.A. Sommers has ink in her blood. Sucked into the world of MM Romance by another author, she couldn’t resist di
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A New Jersey native, she swears like a sailor, has a terrible love for Rutt’s Hut, used to sneak into Greenwich Village as a kid and wanted nothing more than to write grand adventures of the human spirit. Living outside of Philadelphia, she swears (profusely) that you can take the girl out of Jersey, but you can’t take the Jersey out of the girl.
Married, Mother of Cats, world traveler, and expert destroyer of dinners, she believes strongly that love is love, and if you have a problem with that, [single finger Jersey salute].
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