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.

I thought my fiancé was a good guy. Not the greatest in the sack, but decent marriage material. Too bad it took finding him in a compromising position—with his mother—to figure out how wrong I’d been. When they told me they’d kill me if I ran away, I believed them. I didn’t, however, believe them when they said the magical Ash tree in the woods would eat me alive. Wrong again. Lucky for me, Ash didn’t kill me. Turns out he likes my stories. And my, um, sap. So, I’m sure I can convince him to let me go once he’s been properly…satiated.

I ran. It chased. She destroyed me. A dark sapphic paranormal erotic short.

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."

I wake up bound in a winter wonderland with no memory of how I got here. Thousands of Christmas lights illuminate the land around me—a sprawling tree farm transformed into a mystical land of candy. Through rows of evergreens wrapped in twinkling lights and past peppermint archways that morph this place into a dark fairy tale, I run as he closes in. He knows this place. Every path. Every hiding spot. He knows me—my body's treacherous responses, the dark desires I've fought to hide.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jeg trængte virkelig til ferie – to ugers pause fra at være countrystjernen Pixie Hart og ro til at være mig selv: gode gamle Kelly Jo Sullivan. Men takket være nogle overivrige paparazzier skal jeg nu babysittes af en bodyguard. Og ja, den tidligere soldat Xander Buckley er lækker, men der må være grænser for, hvor overbeskyttende en mand kan være. Alligevel kom jeg til at kysse ham. Jeg ved ikke engang, hvordan det skete – det ene øjeblik var vi på nakken af hinanden, det næste over hinanden på en måde, der var helt igennem forbudt for børn. Jeg ville uden tøven lægge mit liv i hans hænder.

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?

"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.

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.

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.

There was a time in Detective Eagle Woodard’s life that he would like to forget, but Eagle’s past catches up with him and it’s threatening to destroy everything and everyone he holds dear.

If Celia and her group of smoking lesbian agents are going to take over Asia and overcome the Anti-Lesbian and Anti-Smoking League, they will need to deal with Mai Li first, and there may be no greater lesbian seduction challenge for her! In this episode of Overcoming Lal Li, Celia notes with satisfaction how two of her protégés, Asha Lin and Icha, have a particular fondness for one another. Their love itself is going to be a great weapon in the fight!

Shelby is cute enough that she's grown accustomed to random creepy men vying for her attention. But when she meets Cameron Nickle, an eccentric doctor who can't stop talking about plants, she's intrigued, at least.