Showing results for "The Tree" in Literature & Fiction

They call us The Four Horsemen. Four friends forged in fire and blood. No one knows where we came from nor how we got our name. Drake, Francis, West and I rule the financial industry like kings. Gods in our own right. We grew up with a fifth. A girl. Scarlett. She was one of us until she was ripped away from her life. The only trace of her was dust in the wind. One day she returned to the city and sought us out. Scarlett couldn’t remember who we’d been to her, but we recalled her all too well.

In their warm, cozy home filled with the sights and scents of Christmas, the happily married couple decides to make this year’s celebration unforgettable. Tessa has always dreamed of something bold and daring, a fantasy she’s kept close to her heart—and Kieran, her supportive and adventurous husband, is more than willing to make it come true. When their closest friends join them for a night of laughter, indulgence, and playful teasing, the festivities take an electrifying turn.

A new Civil War is brewing. With the city of Bewelcome as its headquarters, Allan Pinkerton’s Detective Agency leads a siege on Hex City, the town founded by “Reverend” Asher Rook and his consort, the Mayan goddess Ixchel. Monsters prowl the battleground, rocket trails of spells crisscross the sky, and an unnatural rain falls. Sides must be taken, but Pinkerton-agent-turned-outlaw Ed Morrow, spiritualist Yancey Kloves, and even Rook must choose what ruin or redemption means to each of them. Meanwhile, Chess Pargeter gears up for the greatest fight of his life—and death.

It's Abby's first time, and she needs to breed.... Virgin Abby has never seen a man in his sexual prime before, but that's about to change. In her world, men and women are segregated into separate villages, brought together by lust and need for children. Now, she's due to visit the foot of the breeding tree, where fertile women are regularly taken by the mysterious strong men who come from the woods. Her teachers have told the young woman that her lover will be gentle, loving, and majestic.

Amy is on the hunt for the perfect Christmas tree, but after visiting every lot in Billings, she’s begging to worry that the perfect Christmas tree doesn’t actually exist. In a moment of inspiration, Amy attempts to get to the heart of the season by traipsing into the snow covered hillside and finding the perfect tree for herself, but what she discovers is so much more.

West Greer - War They say violence is never the answer. I beg to differ. There’s no peace without a little pain. Drake, Prescott, Francis and I are monsters who live up to their name. The Four Horsemen. Gods reincarnated as men. Scarlett returned to the fold, but not as the girl we once knew. The girl I’d been obsessed with my whole life. The one I’d have given everything for. It all changed when she walked into Fortuity and gave us a run for our money.

When Prince Rupert of the Deer Wonderland Kingdom travels on horseback to the depths of the forest on his 30th birthday, little does he know that he shall stay there, imprisoned in the oak. Will he find a way to free himself from the spell? Will he change under the new circumstances of being part of the forest now? Will he find true, everlasting love with Amara, with whom he madly falls in love? Finding Tree Love is a fun, spiritual, and romantic fairy tale that will touch your heart and soul at the deepest level.

Soliciting a stranger online to fulfil my ultimate fantasy is probably crazy as hell. If you asked me what I was thinking, I wouldn't be able to tell you. All I knew was I needed this before I could move on with my life. Enter Dominic. The most sinfully attractive man I've ever laid eyes on and that's just his profile picture. His promise to fulfil my wildest dreams and his sultry, authoritative voice set my world on fire. How could a girl resist?

"Sliding his hand down her belly, skimming over her hip and stroking her leg, he did as he was told and grabbed the hem of her dress and pulled it up to her waist. Slipping his fingers underneath it he soon found her suspender belt but nothing else. No knickers. "I get the feeling you were planning on seducing someone tonight ..." he mumbled." Harry’s new wife, a young goddess in her twenties, fought with him constantly. If they weren’t fucking they were yelling at each other. This time he deserved it though, he had forgot her 22nd birthday.

Mary Brown, our fabulous, full-figured heroine, is off on safari with an old school friend. What could possibly go wrong? Lots of things, it turns out. Mary starts off on the wrong foot by turning up dressed in a ribbon-bedecked bonnet, having channeled Meryl Streep from Out of Africa. She falls in lust with a khaki-clad ranger half her age and ends up stuck in a tree wearing nothing but her knickers while sandwiched between two inquisitive baboons.

It started when they stole me from my life. The daughter of a crime lord who ruled with an iron fist. The heir to a family of blood and ruin. They left only a whisper of a name in the air. Il Diavolo. A man whose reputation preceded him. Ruthless. Merciless. Cunning. The one they called the Devil. He was as beautiful as he was terrifying. Except I wasn't scared of him or his three friends. They might want to use me in their quest for revenge, but they picked the wrong girl. Or maybe I was the right one and none of us knew it quite yet.

Dr. Harold Jones, a Professor of Christian Science has had a childhood dream of walking where God walked; to find the original location of the Garden of Eden from the Bible. Later in life, he comes into the funds to make this historical trip possible. He hires a ship and brings along four of his top students in his quest for the Garden and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

The Christmas Tree—an erotic short story of fantasy, intimacy and adult fun. Harmless and erotic for those moments that you need an escape from reality.

Talk about rags to riches. Cinderella had nothing on me. I have a sparkly new crown, a remodeled ancient castle, and I’m mated to six of the most delectable princes a girl could conjure. But my happily-ever-after honeymoon still seems a long way off. There are plenty of magical creatures in Haret and Earth who would kill to see me dethroned - literally - and we can’t let our guard down yet. Still, my men promised me a break and a bucket list, and my mates always deliver their goods. We’ll just have to get our sugar in small bites.

In this work of sensual erotica that defies description, Isabel is set to be wed. She goes for a walk with her friend, confessing about her hesitance to take the step, when she is suddenly lifted into the air and kidnapped by an old, giant tree - the mother tree. The mother tree begins to swallow her, but soon finds that stimulating this girl sexually will bring way more nutrition to her roots and the earth. What follows is a dubcon submission fantasy in which Isabel's deepest fantasy comes true: that of being a submissive to a dominant force.

The blood of the tree is its sap. It has sustained Scott Belvedere's family for generations. It's the secret ingredient behind the family's intoxicating ale and bourbon, among other elixirs. But only when Scott inherits The Family Tree Inn, deep in the hills of Virginia, does he learn anything about his family, its symbiotic history, or the mammoth, ancient tree around which the inn is literally built.

For the first time collected all together, C. S. E. Cooney releases fiction including the novella "The Witch in the Almond Tree," her erotic fairy tale "Witch, Beast, Saint," and the haunting "Braiding the Ghosts."

Laurel attends the weekend family reunion hoping to impress Billy with her accomplishments in the world of business, but instead she finds herself strangely reverted to a girl again; a girl who is eager to play in his private tree house if he will let her. Proud of her poise and demeanor in the real world, she has to have that stripped away from her if she also wants to do big girl things.

I let my temper get the best of me. Now we have less to work with and a much larger puzzle to solve. I wiped out our best lead and shook the foundation of my new rule, all in one shanking. Double crap. My Darkblood subjects no longer trust me, and we're being sucked into the biggest scavenger hunt of the two worlds. Even if the leprechaun's curse was never real, something more sinister was locked inside that gold coin: doubt.

When a new hotshot lawyer arrives at the law firm where Navina works as receptionist, she mistakes Riley for a bicycle courier. Maybe high-powered lawyers dress like bums back in Vancouver, home of the crunchy granola eaters, but in Toronto, they're supposed to wear suits and look serious. Still, he is pretty cute. When Riley invites Navina on a hike, she gets blisters galore, but luckily, Riley is equipped with bandages...not to mention bungee cords. Did he really plan to tie her to the nearest tree?