Beauty Magic

Aphrodite delights in helping mortals find love, but she is definitely not delighted by the constant attention from the godboys at Mount Olympus Academy. So she comes up with the perfect plan to try and deflect some of that attention: She'll help a fellow goddess girl, Athena, find her very first crush. After giving Athena a fabulous makeover, Aphrodite is suddenly an afterthought as the boys at MOA go gaga for Athena's new look. And Aphrodite is a bit unprepared for just how much attention one of her best friends is now receiving.

Charlie Tannehill and her twin sister, Maggie, are just eight years old when an unfortunate scientific discovery upends their world—and the world order. The revelation? Extinction, encoded in every creature’s DNA. The expiration date for humans? Only four generations away. A decade later, unsure of what tomorrow holds, Charlie and Maggie enroll as counselors in a government-run human-husbandry program.

In this book you will find a complete guide to white magic spells that will help you attract everything you desire. Through rituals, spells and secrets, you will discover how to use the energy of the universe to create positive changes in your life. But beware, dark magic is a powerful force that must be used with caution and respect. This book will guide you on the path to the inner peace, happiness and prosperity you deserve, but be aware that the dark secrets of black magic can also be dangerous. From spells of forbidden love and mysterious beauty to protection and dark energy, this book...

Belle wants more out of life than the small provincial town of Villeneuve can offer. There she stands out from the crowd with her unique point of view, her strong-willed independence, and her love of books. She longs for travel and adventure, for a life as exciting as the stories she reads. But when Belle's beloved father is taken prisoner by a beast in an enchanted castle, her path is forever changed.

Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents—also talented musicians—who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But when an accident leaves her parents debilitated, she abandons her future for a job at a high-end beauty and wellness store in New York City.

A princess in hiding... Princess Emilia Vertius has spent most of her life in a secluded cottage hidden deep in the Kingswood. Despite a curse looming over her, she spends her days exploring the forest and painting everything nature has to offer. When Mia finds herself hopelessly trapped in a poacher’s snare during a rainstorm, a handsome stranger stumbles upon her in her predicament. After cutting her free, he insists on helping her home, and in doing so, threatens all the secrets she’s spent her life trying to keep. A huntsman with a heart of gold... Left with debts after his ...

In the shadow of death, they found a reason to live. After years of torment at the hands of the Institute, Dain escapes captivity by surrendering to his primal side, taking refuge in his wolf form and vanishing into the wilds of western Virginia. Stripped of everything human, he expects nothing but solitude—until he crosses paths with Isabel Russell. She awakens his desire to fight back. Izzy is no stranger to pain. Facing the final stages of cancer, she’s left behind sterile hospital rooms in search of peace, hoping to spend her remaining days surrounded by nature. What she doesn’t ...

A RITA finalist from Lisa Ann Verge, the multiple-award-winning author of historical and paranormal romance. "Let yourself be swept away by the utterly enchanting atmosphere of a best-loved fairy tale, and you’ll find yourself caught in Ms. Verge’s marvelous, magical tale. As always the author delivers a book that is uniquely wonderful."--Romantic Times "An exciting, fast-paced medieval romance. LISA ANN VERGE is on the verge of climbing to the top of this genre, a position she definitely deserves.--Affaire de Coeur Wales, 1272 Rhys is a man accursed, forced to hide his scarred face ...

Twelve tales, 12 dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life...and death.

To live happily harem after, you have to fight for your fairy tale. Five classic fairy tales take on a reverse harem* twist in the first installment of Happily Harem After. Experience Alice in Wonderland, The Four Clever Brothers, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, and Cinderella in ways you never have before.

Edited and re-released! A suspicious fire… An orphaned child wanders into the woods… Police, fire and the locals search for little Ivy! Where can she be? The forest is large. And it is dangerous! Bodies of water and animals are just the tip of the iceberg! The forest is haunted. And the locals never enter! But the town holds out hope. They search the forest anyway. But Ivy isn’t found. And she is not seen again until ten years later! When Ivy emerges, she emerges naked, trembling and afraid. She walks into a diner and into the lives of a childless couple who take her in and start ...

All Gesela's life, her home village of Elk has been cursed. And it isn't a single curse—it is one after another, each to be broken by a villager, each with devastating consequences. When Elk's well goes dry, it is Gesela's turn to save her town by killing the toad that lives at the bottom. Except . . . the toad is not a toad at all. He is an Elven prince under a curse of his own, and upon his death, his brothers come for Gesela, seeking retribution.

A desperate woman in need of sanctuary... Alina Dameron has spent the last six years of her life married to a man who abuses her. In an act of desperation, she flees during a snowstorm and wakes up in a strange manor house whose only inhabitants are a mysterious man who won't show his face and a curious house spirit that takes the shape of fabric. Trapped because of the storm, Alina has no choice but to stay with this stranger who sometimes seems more beast than man. A lonely duke forgotten by the world... After a decade of seclusion, Edward Blackmore is used to being alone—in fact, he ...

Birdie’s keeping it together; of course she is. So she’s a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town. Still, Birdie can remember happier times from her youth, when she was free in the wilds of nature. Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and scarred recluse who appears in town only at the change of seasons, brings Emaleen back to safety when she gets lost in the woods. Most people avoid him, but to Birdie, he represents everything she’s ever longed for.

The epic novel Beauty Is a Wound combines history, satire, family tragedy, legend, humor, and romance in a sweeping polyphony. The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead. Kurniawan's gleefully grotesque hyperbole functions as a scathing critique of his young nation's troubled past: the rapacious offhand greed of colonialism....

In the next installment of the Happily Harem After Series, Snow White, Goldilocks, The Wizard of Oz, and Sleeping Beauty are retold with a reverse harem twist. Four classic tales, four brave women, and far too many sexy men to count. If you haven't read reverse harem before, this book will convert you.

This time the magic mirror sucks Abby and Jonah into the story of Beauty and the Beast. When the siblings accidentally mess up this enchanting and magical tale, hijinks and hilarity ensue...and things get pretty ugly!

Sleeping Beauty was asleep for a hundred years. What did she dream about? Princess Emerald of Somnus planned the perfect ball for her sixteenth birthday. She even modeled it after the midnight masquerades that she and her sisters secretly attended. Everything was perfect…until a poisoned spindle threw her into a deep sleep with vivid dreams of an unknown land: modern England. In a world of smart phones and cockney, Emerald knows she must be dreaming, especially with her hypoesthesia and strange power over plants. Lost and confused, Emer is welcomed by the Honorables Caden Seaver and Mica ...

Love conquers all...even death itself. Darius Blackthorne, once a feared necromancer, thought he had lost everything when his beloved Eliza died. Cursed and isolated in his crumbling manor, he had resigned himself to an eternity of darkness. Until Beauty arrived and changed everything. Her pure heart awakened something long dormant in Darius. But their newfound love is threatened when Beauty falls victim to a deadly poison. Desperate to save her, Darius embarks on a perilous journey into the Underworld itself. Facing trials that will test the very limits of his soul, Darius must confront ...

More than just a collection of spells, The Marie Laveau Voodoo Grimoire contains tips and recommendations for improving one's spell-crafting skills and living a magical, spiritual life. The author draws upon her own Creole heritage to bring this unique and regional style of magic to the greater public in a clear and accessible way.