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The Fire Princess is betrothed to the Air Prince to bring peace to their warring nations. While she tries to adapt to the new kingdom, she discovers a plot to reignite war, so she must join forces with the Winter Princess to prevent it.✩✩✩Princess Lumi is sixteen, painfully quiet and shy, and blindly loyal to her abusive twin brother, Tai. Her dream is to join the fire army and serve her brother faithfully. But her dreams are shattered when her grandmother, Empress Kiyo, arranges her marriage to a foreign prince.Prince Raphael of Lombardia is all good looks, grace, and charm, with the ancient magic of air and thunder in his blood. He's the perfect match; the heir to the most influential nation in the world. But his father has a reason for this arranged marriage, and Raphael will always put his nation before his new bride-to-be.Then there's Ariane and Isabella Domez: sisters, and orphans of the Fire Wars. With no one else to care about them, Ari will do anything for her younger sister. Even if that means waiting on the cruel Winter Princess, who has sworn to hate the Fire Princess.STARRLINGS reading order:Book 1: HOUSE OF FIREBook 2: HOUSE OF WINTERBook 3: HOUSE OF NIGHTThis young adult fantasy novel is set in a world full of elemental magic, magical creatures, and warring kingdoms. The first book in this series is set almost entirely in a magical school, Hilverton College, where the most elite magical students - princes and princesses - train to become powerful Starrlings, and learn to harness their own magic and the magic of their creatures, called Kinnlings.Read the free young adult fantasy novel series now.…

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FANTASY TRILOGY SERIES ✩Book 1: HOUSE OF FIRE {patreon exclusive}Book 2: HOUSE OF WINTERBook 3: HOUSE OF NIGHTAfter the events of the Midwinter Championships, our heroes have been flung in separate directions. Ari is in hiding, stealing from the kitchens, and trying not to be arrested like the other Vastiens, who are being rounded up and send to camps. Lumi is on a ship bound for Kakaio, while Jinni, Lumi's tiger, is still recovering from an injury.After ten years of peace, a war is starting again.…

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FANTASY TRILOGY SERIES ✩This is the final book in the trilogy.Book 1: HOUSE OF FIREBook 2: HOUSE OF WINTERBook 3: HOUSE OF NIGHT…

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Free to read!19-year-old Jane, newly-single, moves to London to work for her friend, Kitty. But Kitty is hiding something about the café - and about Jane and Kitty's past. ***** If you looked at her Instagram, you'd think Jane had the perfect life. But a family tragedy and a big break up shatters that illusion, prompting Jane to drop out of university and move to London. She gets a room above a bookstore and a job as a barista, thanks to her childhood friend Kitty. Struggling with feelings of loneliness among the happy staff, Jane feels further ostracized when Kitty refuses to discuss Matt, who used to live in the bedroom Jane took over and who left under mysterious circumstances. As Jane struggles to find herself, and get the attention of the cute bartender, Harper, she discovers that the Brew Books café is brewing with dark secrets.[[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]…

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Childhood best friends to enemies to lovers.Alina wants nothing to do with the rebellious bad boy, Liam Somner.Which is difficult, because he goes to her school. And lives on her street. And keeps showing up at her apartment, and sitting in her kitchen, smearing way too much cream cheese on his bagel and... refusing to wear a shirt.Alina and Liam have history. Too much of it, and it's messy and painful, and should be buried deep and forgotten. But Liam feels like there's unfinished business between them.Unfinished business, like finding the burial place of Liam's great grandfather. And saving Oscar, Alina's brother, from his depression. And that promise that Alina and Liam made at midnight, with legs dangling over the East River, to never leave the other behind.Liam and Alina's past is a tangled web of life debts, family secrets, betrayals, and forgotten promises.So even though she swears she hates him, when Alina realises Liam is awake late, she finds unexpected company in her enemy.Two insomniacs, wide awake in the city that never sleeps.COMPLETEword count: approximately 60,000 words…

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A cute little romance on a beach in Australia ☼18-year-old Indy has finally returned to her mother's pretty little beachfront cottage, where she used to spend every summer. This is going to be the summer she finally confesses her love to Ryan, the boy next door. But this year, Ryan has brought along a girlfriend.Indy is determined not to let heartbreak drown her, because when you get wiped out, you've just got to get back on the board.…

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"Number one rule in my book - don't fall in love with your best friend.""Because we all know how that ended last time." ♫Emily Maisonwood always thought she would grow up and marry Lucas Elmhirst, her childhood best friend. Until he did something she could never forgive him for.Now they're in their final year at Hilverton College, an exclusive high school separated into three competing houses.Emily leads the Cernette Hawks, with her best friend, Watson Langley, against the Landor Tigers and the Prisley Wolves.She knows if she can just make it through this year, and make it through this war, she can escape this school, this city, the history and the memories.But Lucas is trying to push his way back into her life. He knows something about their past - and her father's past - that Emily doesn't know.…

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After a difficult first few months working in the Brew Books café, Jane is finally feeling at home - until the past comes back to haunt her. ***** After months of working at the café and bookstore, Jane has finally started to grow into her independence and stop viewing her self-worth in Instagram likes. But suddenly Harper, the cute bartender Jane feels a spark with, seems to have eyes for someone else. Kitty unleashes a secret from Jane's past that she's not sure she'll be able to get past. And the lingering affects of Matt's absence in the bookstore create a conflict which threatens to tear the entire crew - and business - apart.(Book 2 in the Brew Books series)[[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]…

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{Written 2013}Note: edited & rewritten version, "Breaking Her Rules", is on my profile16 year old Veronica "Benny" Bennett is just starting her senior year at the prestigious Hilverton College, but already her world is falling apart. Her best friend, Watson, has just started dating another girl. She's started to fall in love with a taken boy. Her father is being questioned about a murder that happened 16 years ago. And worst of all, her biggest enemy, Lucas, who was her childhood best friend, knows the secrets about her past. ♫ music can bring people together and tear people apart ♡ Praise for Reprise: "I actually stayed up till three last night reading this. Seriously, it's that good." - @ForeverInSpac3 "HOLY FUCKIN SHIT THIS WAS SO FANTASTIC" - @the1975 "this is one of the best books I've ever read" - @sodabottle "Every chapter left me gaping for more" - @conscience xx Elle…