Bøker av Sj Sanders

Stacey Kendricks had been deceived by promises seven years ago that she was the one that the Calysii prince wished to have as his true mate, his bride-the one that he would relinquish his other ceremonial mates for. She had been young and foolish to believe it, and the cost of the foolishness was high-a gilded cage she had no hope of escaping. With her dreams of romance and love long destroyed, and her days spent trying to avoid the demands of her cruel and selfish "mate," Prince Gaix's sudden plans for a romantic destination Valentines' Day with his human mates was just nothing short of a painful mockery of the love The Mate Index Distribution Program had once promised her. To add insult to injury, they were heading to Kaidava, the most romantic planet in the Intergalactic Union, and the captain of their ship was none other than Captain Otorol, the Lorgor male she had been unable to forget. Captain Otorol was the one male who had come close to making her forget her promise to mate with Gaix all those years ago. Her attraction to him was immediate and powerful and she had tried to hide it behind disdain. But trapped once more on King's Glory with him, there was no hiding from the undeniable pull between them, even though it meant a death sentence for both of them if they were caught. With Kaidava offering the potential for escape, Stacey must find a way to choose her own fate and the love she was always meant to have. Varik Otorol was born into duty. The son of influential Lorgor female and a fleet commander, all of his life he was expected to serve the Calysii Empire without complaint despite his own rising sympathies for the cause of the rebellion. It was a ruse that he was forced to keep up, however, unable to bear leaving behind Caysta, the planet that held the one being he somehow could not let go: a pink-haired little female that every instinct within him cried out for. It was not logical. She disdained him and belonged to another. He had no right to feel as he did, especially when Lorgor did not mate imprint like other species. Yet somehow a bond developed that he could not ignore. Being assigned to captain the flight to Kaidava was both pleasure and torture as his instincts revolted against his control. He allowed himself to taste what was forbidden and now all hell was about to break loose as the planet of lovers brought them together over and over again. She was his, but getting her safely off Kaidava and spirited away from Prince Gaix was going to take a miracle... and perhaps one criminally minded local with connections. **content warning** Please be aware that though this novel involves an affair between the main characters, there is no cheating or sex with anyone else within this story. This novel also depicts a small amount of gore and death off-stage toward the end of the book.

Halloween is my favorite time of the year and its pumpkin spice everything. Not only is it tasty but all that cinnamon, ginger and clove is just the thing to keep away goblins and ghoulies. I should have known that everything would go wrong this Halloween when the pumpkins are sold out and I must substitute the traditional carved pumpkin for a fake one with a battery-powered candle and a prayer that it will be just as effective. A witch should know better-that even the best laid wards can go awry when there is other, powerful magic afoot. And magic will always have its day on Halloween night. I really shouldn't have agreed to help out the magician with a bit of magic on Devil's Night because now it has followed me home and there is no escape from what he summoned. But as the night wears on I'm more worried about whether or I even want to.

Winter was a time haunted with darkness and inhabited by dangers seen and unseen, creatures that would consume the light and devour the living. And on the longest night these dangers were even closer and more powerful, threatening to overwhelm the darkest towns and villages, and catch the vulnerable out on the darkest streets. In most towns, mages and townspeople alike worked together to keep the streets and houses lit with firelight and the luminance of a cheerful spirit. That was not the case in Albanthy. The mage of Albanthy was nothing short of a miser, drawing his high fees and giving as little as possible in turn. As the mage's employee, and promised apprentice should her work impress him, Ember Feuer was running out of all hope, her own spirit dwindling and as meager as the small flames she lit night after night on her spirit lantern. The call of the creatures hidden in the dark was a lure that was getting stronger and stronger, and she was beginning to fear that she wouldn't be able to resist it for much longer until a flare of her lamp dropped a most unlikely being into her home. An elemental. A salamander. A horned male with ruby scales and dressed in a festive burgundy as if attending one of the midwinter parties that used to light up the town. A male with a plan to save her and her little town--if only they can rekindle the spark of warmth and hope. Even if they must haunt the town's mage to accomplish it.

A Halloween seasonal short story in the Ragoru Universe following the events of Ragoru A widow, alone without any surviving family left, Eve has little in the world except her family's orchard in their little misty valley tucked away from the regular routes of travel. Having known little else except solitude, first following the death of her parents, and then later following the death of her husband, Eve is content with the life that she had at her little orchard and taking hauls of her harvests into town, even if it is a little lonely at times. When an autumn night brings a monster from the fog surrounding her home, the solo Ragoru upsets everything within her orderly life as he claims her home for his own. He's a beast. A snarly brute of a male. How is it that he makes her feel more alive than she ever has? Is he a threat, or the one thing she's privately wished for made into reality in the shadows and magic of the Halloween season? Skal is a lone male by choice. Older than many of the other males who came to this new world, he has no interest in forming triad bonds or mating. He only wants peace and a territory of his own where he can spend the rest of his life living undisturbed. After already having a mate and a triad in his old life, a family who died within his care, he has no interest in taking the chance of seeing the past repeat itself. Yet, when he comes across a foggy valley filled with trees, vegetation, and game, he follows his nose to the sweetest smell that has ever beckoned him. Is it the pumpkin pie, or the lone female who stubbornly dwells there that draws him so? Will they both taste as sweet? What can a lonely male do but savor what has been given him. A little Halloween magic may just be what it takes to bring two lonely hearts together.A little trick of fate is about to become their fondest treat.

The Ravening had left the world destroyed and more than one life irrevocably changed. For MaryAnne, who survived for years alone out in the destruction through the rise of new surroundings and creatures sharing their world, The Children's Home has been her personal sanctuary, giving her peace and purpose. But new nightmares walk their world. Nightmares that whisk away the children in the wake of a fae carnival. Determined to find the lost children, MaryAnne is forced to confront her fears as she strikes out to find The Night Carnival and whatever answers it may have for what she seeks. Drawn by an explicable pull to a troll who haunts her, she is to discover that not everything is at it seems. The Night Carnival, which promises the extraordinary and moments of rare pleasure to those who attend, possesses an inescapable danger for fae and humans alike. And the troll who awakens her blood and chases her fear away may be the biggest danger... to her heart. If they even survive. Because the darkness of the carnival hungers for something and the strange fog cries out with the voices of children as the Hallow Night draws near. Raskyuil has seen and battled much since leaving the Eternal Forest but finding his mate was never something he had anticipated or planned. But the Ha'shena will have as it demands and with every day that passes his hunger for her grows. She is the light within the darkness that has shrouded him for far too long but bit by bit it's revealing the true darkness that has ensnared him within the carnival. With a mate to protect and missing children to find, he must summon his strength to fight against a new enemy. And should they be lost to the madness of the carnival-then the gods have pity on them all for they will know true destruction by the time he is done. **content warnings coming soon