Recommendations based on "When Fate is Cruel: A Short Story Collection"

Karys Eska Is A Deathspeaker, Locked Into An Irrevocable Compact With Sabaster, A Terrifying Eldritch Being--three-faced, Hundred-winged, Unforgiving--who Has Granted Her The Ability To Communicate With The Newly Departed. She Pays The Rent By Using Her Abilities To Investigate Suspicious Deaths Around The Troubled City She Calls Home. When A Job Goes Sideways And Connects Her To A Dying Stranger With Some Very Dangerous Secrets, Her Entire World Is Upended. Ferain Is Willing To Pay A Ludicrous Sum Of Money For Her Help. To Save Him, Karys Inadvertently Binds Him To Her Shadow, An Act That May Doom Them Both. If They Want To Survive, They Will Need To Learn To Trust One Another. Together, They Must Journey To The Heart Of A Faded Empire, All The While Haunted By Arcane Horrors, And The Unquiet Ghosts Of Their Pasts. And All Too Soon, Karys Knows Her Debts Will Come Due-- Provided By Publisher.

Lambda Literary Awards Winner 2020 - Aurora's Angel is a blend of action, adventure and slow-burn romance centered around shapeshifters, set in a vivid fantasy world. Joined in a battle for survival a broken-winged angel and a shapeshifter huntress with a bloody past form a bond that may change their world. Alone since her father’s murder, Aurora has spent years hunting his killers. Battle-weary she’s ready to start over where no one knows who or what she is – she just has one last mission. Everything is going to plan until she discovers the beautiful winged girl caged underground. Her decision to rescue Evie and to help her get home safely, despite avians being infamous for selling out shifters like Aurora to cutters and black-market flesh dealers, will put her on a perilous path. As the women travel together their attraction grows but Aurora is guarding her lonely heart almost as much as her dangerous secrets and Evie is struggling to accept how important Aurora has become to her. When their enemies conspire to kill them, they may be each other’s only hope. Aurora is powerful but she’s also emotionally scarred and it will be up to Evie to save her from herself and to fight for them or innocent people will die along with the guilty ones and Aurora will disappear from Evie’s life forever.

"An instant romantasy classic!" -- Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling authorEnter a new world of romantic fantasy from award-winning author N.E. Davenport—a journey of powerful magic, enemies-to-lovers, and political intrigue—as a warrior-princess and a vengeful king from rival fae courts form a fierce alliance to take down a merciless despot.Princess of the Aether Dominion, Kadeesha wants nothing to do with fae politics. She is a warrior, first and foremost, and believes her greatest strength is leading her squadron of elite winged serpent flyers to protect her homeland. But bound since infancy to be betrothed to the Hyperion High King, ruler of all Dominions, she has no choice but to do what men have chosen for her.Repulsed by the idea, she decides to spend one last night of freedom—in the arms of a dangerous stranger who takes her to sexual heights she’s never experienced before…but who is only using Kadeesha to set a trap for the High King.For the High King and the kings of his six Dominions were responsible for the decimation of the Apollyon Court, and its new king, Malachi, wants his pounds of flesh.On Kadeesha’s wedding day, Malachi and his special forces attack. Her father is killed, and Malachi wounds the High King, ultimately taking Kadeesha as hostage back to his land.But she is no true hostage. The two form a pact: she will help lure the High King so Malachi can kill him once and for all, and he in turn will not harm Kadeesha or the Aether people. And as much as Kadeesha hates politics, she is now the Queen of her folk. Fae bonds are unbreakable…and so, perhaps, is the attraction Kadeesha and Malachi feel for each other. For even as they must publicly display their connection to provoke the High King’s jealousy, they struggle to resist the powerful allure between them in order to achieve their ultimate goals.

“It’s official Take a Psycho to Work Day. Why else would I be here?”Hunted. Hated. Betrayed. Outcast Dagger Ixur is on the run for his life. As one of the most recognizable members of his royal house, he has a bounty on his head that guarantees him no quarter from any friend or even family. But surrender isn’t in him. He will fight to the bitter end. A resolve that is sorely tested when he narrowly escapes a trap that leaves him severely wounded. With what he believes is his dying breath, he saves a boy born to an extinct race from a group out to enslave the kid for his legendary abilities.Ushara Altaan has spent her entire life hating the Andarion royal house that drove her entire species into virtual extinction. As a rare Andarion Fyreblood, she is sworn to end the existence of any royal she finds. But when Dagger saves her son’s life, she is torn between her people and a debt that can never be repaid.Yet worse than Dagger’s family that’s still out to end hers and him, are the League assassins after him who will stop at nothing to claim the lives of her Tavali family. The only hope she has to save them all is to put their future and her faith into the hands of the very enemy whose grandmother personally extinguished Ushara’s legendary lineage. But how can she ever trust Dagger when he is a disinherited outlaw whose real name is synonymous with betrayal?

A short story collection by the award-winning author of The Birthgrave and The Silver Metal Lover, the first installment of a two-volume series.

Amanda Reed has been given an ultimatum: risk her life as a madman's spy or her young sister will live out her life frozen in stone, a decorative statue in a wizard's cold mansion. To free her sister, Amanda needs help, help only one man can provide ... the man who betrayed her and broke her heart. Liam Gallagher is an orphan, scoundrel, and one of the Others; he learned to survive by any means, without hesitation or regret. He had orders to seduce Amanda, and then, against all odds, he fell in love. To win back her trust he will risk everything. Time is running short and these two wounded souls must learn what trust truly means can before they succeed.

She made peace with the unbelievable... ...but then the unimaginable happened. Only his fear stopped the elinefae clan Leader ending her life on the spot. But he might as well have done. Can the soul mates ever be reunited? Or will the Leader carry out the execution? Kiera, formerly Shakira, faces more threats than ever as her quest for peace and home continues. Can she lift the curse from her father? Is the fae realm really a safe haven from her enemies? Are any of these fantasy beings trustworthy? Can she survive?

No matter how far you run, the past always catches up. Mark Wellings started life as a witch, but he’d locked the memories away when he became a werewolf and gave up his magic. Now nightmares remind him of the hell he escaped. Gina Somerset cannot remember the tragic circumstances that led to her becoming a werewolf. Mark eased a deep fear from the first time they made eye contact. Now she wants to help him face his own dark past. Something evil lingers and Mark senses the danger. Everything changes in one fateful moment when Gina is captured by vampires. One of the witches abducted recognize Mark and tells the remaining members of his old coven.  What brings Mark and Gina closer together may tear them apart as Mark’s past catches up.   

Danger threatens to shatter the hope for a new beginning in a world of angels and demons in this explosive paranormal romance by author Brian Feehan, son of legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. After being forced away for seventeen years, Alice is finally home. But home isn’t what she thought it would be, and every day the secrets she holds from her parents grow with weight. But how do you tell your mother and father that you’re not normal? That the world is a far more dangerous place than they have ever known and you are anything but the small, innocent child that was torn from their arms all those years ago?   Owen can’t say goodbye, and Alice can’t hold on to him tightly enough as the pressures of danger and obligation grow stronger and stronger. With a broken heart, Owen is headed to San Francisco with his crew of musicians. But the Golden City is filled with history and secrets, and brutal deaths are just lying in wait for Owen and his people. To survive these trials and this city, Owen will need everything he has—even the broken parts he gave to Alice—to have any hope of doing the impossible one more time.

"Destiny my ass." Jade Glaster refuses to believe the Fates rule her life. After Scourge soldiers leave her orphaned as a child, a young Jade vowed never to be powerless again. Now, grown and strong, wielding the affinities of fire and healing, Jade protects innocents as an enforcer for her world's elite policing agency-The Talon. When an emissary mission to reinstate a race of exiled Elves brings Galan into her life, Jade finds herself overwhelmed by new passions, some welcome, some not. Although Galan's antiquated views on women offend her to her heated core, when the Scourge attack his family, she agrees to help him navigate the outside worlds he knows nothing about-the magical Realm of the Fair and, stranger still . . . the modern streets of Toronto. Through their sensually charged pursuit of justice, Jade discovers that when dealing with the Fates-destiny is never random.