When destiny called, she pressed 1 for more options With the name Robyn Fortune, shouldn't luck be a sure thing? Instead, black clouds love me. All I did was show up at a family bar mitzvah and cue lightning . . . this huge storm blew in. My mom announced she was leaving my dad and moving in with me. (Perfect! More competition on JDate.) I found out my boss planned to fire me. (Help wanted: Be the exclusive makeup artist for a two-faced network news star.) My ex's gambling debts left me near bankruptcy. (Please buy our wedding gifts on craigslist.) But, good news. I was offered money to date a man who had worse luck than me. (Dear Visa, I hope you appreciate that I said yes.) If not for my friend Rachel, I would have chickened out. Instead, I went to his apartment, spotted an old photo, and realized it was HIM! The boy I was mad for in college but never got to meet. And get this! Turns out our paths had been crossing since birth. Coincidence or karma? Our finagling families wouldn't talk . . . until the day destiny sent me on a wild ride that became my long lost spiritual journey. Ladies, take my advice. When fate knocks, answer the damn door!

Erin, a non-Chinese teenager living in San Francisco's Chinatown, ghostwrites an online advice column, but when a reply to her ex-best friend backfires, Erin's carefully constructed life takes a crazy spin.

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Isn’t it just like a man to exit a relationship when he finds out a woman has a few little secrets. I’m Tempest Pomeroy - the woman with the secrets. The last time I saw my boyfriend, Jack Lang, he was out cold on the floor of the Enchanted Glen clubhouse. Not from drinking; he’s the sheriff, after all. No, Jack tripped after getting a look at the real me. I’m a storm witch. My whole life has been a lie, but I can’t dwell on that. Time is running out for my brother River. Since River’s disappearance, Jack and I have gone from attraction to suspicion, support to friendship, from romance to oh-my-god-get-away-from-me revulsion. Once this ex-Navy pilot is up to speed on everything, he’ll either join us or grab his daughter and take the first jet out of Middle Earth. 'Cause there's a lot of everything. The Destiny Paramortals is a series with recurring characters on their Paramortal journey. They are not standalones. Here you’ll meet shifters, vampires, dragons, tempestaeries, djinn and fae with surprises at every turn. Everyone gets their HEA, just not in book 1. Read them in order. Destiny Paramortals (Paranormal Urban Fantasy /Romance) Storm Crazy Cry Me a River Eve of Chaos Blame it on the Moon Take these Broken Wings Blood Moon

Millionaire of the Month: Devlin Campbell Source of Fortune: Family-owned bank Motto: Do the right thing Buttoned-up banker Devlin Campbell pridedhimself on his control. That one passionatenight in Atlantic City had been an aberration,but one with lasting consequences: his mysterywoman was pregnant. Now that he'd found her—thousands of miles away—Dev approached Nicolewith a most decent proposal. But would theirardent beginning allow these virtual strangers toforge a bond that was more than skin deep?

An American soldier, Sergeant Abbey “McJack” finds herself recently widowed in the Iraqi war. Her life tour and her original career in aviation cut short. She had lost everything she held dear to her from the love of her life, to her ideals, her faith, and dealing with the world in general. Having no family of her own, her deceased husband’s family already distant and mute, she is advised by a mutual friend and co-worker to take stock of her life and to take a trip abroad in order to find out what she wants to do with her new life. In her travels, she ends up in Ullapool finding the idyllic life much to her liking that she finds starting over much easier than she thought until she meets Gregory McGregor. For Greg, this new and attractive tourist piques his interest, though he is not the only one in the small town to notice her. He finds her weary from her tour of duty in the American-Iraqi war. He first assumes she is on military leave, for she barely talks about the past and keeps to herself on most occasions. In due time, he realizes they may have met before and is reminded of his promise for revenge. For she was the one to cost him nearly his life and for taking his brother’s life, practically rendering his family apart. However, there was one small problem; he had become smitten with her. Did the faes of fate have a sick sense of humor or was God above to blame? Only time would tell, completing its full intricate weave on its circular path.

Welcome to Destiny, or should I say Middle Earth… Jack Lang, sheriff, former Navy pilot. To say Destiny was not what I expected would be like saying Wolverine's fingernails were long enough for a manicure. I'd been looking for Mayberry, a quaint little safe town to raise my daughter. That ship sailed when I met Tempest Pomeroy, who turned out to be a storm witch with a djinn brother and an ex who was… hell, I don't know what he is. But I wasn’t sure I could stay. I had a teenage daughter to consider. Tempe Pomeroy, Tempestaerie, mail lady, and - as Jack likes to say - trouble magnet. Isn't it just like a man to exit a relationship when he finds out a woman has a few little secrets? In case you haven't figured it out, I'm the woman with the secrets. Following Jack's, um, enlightenment, he finally started investigating my little brother's disappearance, but time is running out and our relationship has gone from attraction to suspicion, support to friendship, romance to oh-my-god-get-away-from-me revulsion. Jack’s an ex-Navy pilot. He says he wants to know “everything”. He may stick around, help me save my brother and discover the whereabouts of my mother, but I doubt he’ll still want to take me to the Mardi Gras ball, once he knows “everything”. He'll probably take the first jet out of Middle Earth. 'Cause there’s a lot of everything…