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After a messy breakup, I wanted one night to forget. No names. No complications. Just heat, chemistry, and a handsome, dark-haired stranger who made my knees weak and my heart race. But when pre-season training starts, guess who shows up on the ice wearing my father’s team’s jersey? Declan Murray. Rookie defenseman for the Denver Aces. My dad’s newest project… and the guy who had me pressed against a wall six months ago, whispering things that still make me blush.

When a string of children vanish from Saoirse’s village, she alone suspects the beast lurking in the Wild Wood near her home, just beyond the summer goddess’s temple. Though others discount her theory of the children’s fate, Saoirse witnessed the monster of legend and barely escaped its snapping jaws. But when her beloved younger brother disappears as well, Saoirse must confront her greatest fear and return to the Faerie Hill.

Sawyer Townsend is everything I shouldn’t want: a divorced single father with an adorable little boy and a damaged heart. He’s been burned by betrayal before, and so have I. We’re both determined to keep love at arm’s length. So why has he been featuring in way too many of my fantasies lately? And why did I walk in on him taking care of himself—catching a glimpse of his many piercings in the process—and hear him groan my name? Giving in to the attraction between us would be a bad idea… but with every passing day, I have a harder time remembering why.

Ellyana finds herself betrayed and imprisoned, separated from Galenor and uncertain about her future. Has she sacrificed her entire career for a lie? Survival demands Ellyana’s compliance with Prince Dorian’s manipulative schemes, the mastermind behind this betrayal. As she discovers her pivotal role in the feud between brothers, choosing a side becomes imperative. The challenge intensifies as Prince Dorian closely monitors her, tempting her with an offer she can’t reject. Reluctantly bound to the prince, she is struggling with a task she swore never to undertake again.

Ellyana Harrow is an outcast. Born in a world of the fae and offered to the military of the Human Realm, her heritage made her a second-class citizen. But despite her hardships, Ellyana rose through ranks to become one of the most talented intelligence officers in the kingdom. Her latest assignment is a subject named Galenor, a fae from the Realm of Wind. She needs to spend a month locked in the same quarters as the fae, befriend the subject and extract any information she is ordered to.

Lonely archeologist Maryn Ferguson studies the past as if she belongs there, but when she and her team uncover an ancient artifact in the peat bogs of Scotland, her carefully controlled life spins out of control. Pulled under a Fairy Dun by none other than the Celtic goddess of winter, Cailleach, Maryn cannot reconcile the black and white world of academia with a land of fairies, gods, and monsters.

So whole: poems on reclaiming the pieces of ourselves and creating something new talks about looking back to move forward, new thoughts on god, our inner lives, embodied living, and books, books, books. If you long for the freedom to be your true self, if you ache for healing and wholeness for yourself and a broken world, if you need some lighthearted fun amid all the hard, Marla's got you. This book is a collection of mini-love letter poems to herself and all of us.