“We don’t kill unless the person deserves it. Everyone can be redeemed in our minds, but there are a select few who need to lose their lives because of the evil residing within them. You are one of those.”
I hand my sword to Jaxon, and in a swift move, he slices his uncle’s head from his body before attempting to hand the blood covered sword back to me.
“You can clean that first,” I protest, and Jaxon laughs before wiping the blade down and giving it back to me. I accept and place it away.
“All loose ends tied up.” Jaxon lets out a long breath.
“Yes, time for our happy ever after.”
He pulls me close to him for a kiss.
“I like the sound of that—a real fairytale ending.”
“The boy and girl fall in love and get to have lots of sex.”
“You read my mind.”
Jaxon scoops me up into his arms, and returning to our lodge nearby, we don’t leave the bedroom for days. The perfect honeymoon.
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Anna Edwards is a British author from the depths of the rural countryside near London. When she has some spare time, she can also be found writing poetry, baking cakes (and eating them), or behind a camera snapping like a mad paparazzo. She’s an avid reader who turned to writing to combat her depression and anxiety. She has a love of traveling and likes to bring this to her stories to give them the air of reality. She likes her heroes hot and hunky with a dirty mouth, her heroines demure but with spunk, and her books full of dramatic suspense.
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The Glacial Blood Series
A world of shifters and witches, magic and mayhem, unforgivable lies and unbreakable love. A world where family is born not only through blood, but bond. With plenty of the threats to come—and a secret that remains untold.
The Touch of Snow
Fighting the Lies
Fallen for Shame
Shattered Fears
Hidden Pain
Stolen Choices
A Deadly Affair - June 2020
Power of a Myth - October 2020
Banishing Regrets - December 2020
The Control Series
The Control Series: A complete, dramatic, witty, and sensual suspense romance set predominantly in London.
Surrendered Control
Divided Control
Misguided Control
Controlling Darkness
Controlling Heritage
Controlling Disgrace
Controlling Expectations
Controlling the Past
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Dark Sovereignty Series
A complete dark and suspenseful series set amongst the elite of a London society intent on finding power in the wrong place.
Legacy of Succession
Tainted Reasoning
A Father’s Insistence
Preview of Legacy of Succession
Chapter One
VICTORIA
I swear I must have read the same page in this high society gossip magazine at least five times. You know the sort: who’s marrying who, which couples are divorcing, and who’s running around Chelsea in nothing but their bra and knickers. It’s boring! But then again, it’s more interesting than the life I have. The highlight of my day would be if the cook changed the strictly ordered meal plan that I’ve eaten every week, without fail, since I turned sixteen. Five years of the same food is enough to send anyone crazy. But I shouldn’t complain. My father, Arthur Cortland Hamilton, Viscount Mayfield, is a wealthy man, and I lead a life of privilege. I’ve never wanted for anything: clothes, makeup, books, they’ve all been produced within hours of asking. My days are often spent lounging around by the indoor pool after swimming a hundred lengths, as I am now, but I want something more. I didn't go to regular school like normal people — I was educated at home by a governess. My brother, Theodore, Theo for short, went to a local private school. He would always come home with tales of the friends he’d made and the games that he’d played. My games would consist of reciting my times tables, so I didn’t fall asleep from the monotony of the day. I once asked my mother why I wasn’t allowed to go to school, and all she would say was ‘to protect your reputation’. I have no doubt my gravestone will read, ‘Here lies, the honorable Victoria Hamilton. She died from boredom, but at least, her reputation was intact.’
I give up on the magazine and place it down on the ornately carved sixteenth-century table. I take off the towel, which I’d wrapped around me after my swim. I’m dressed in only a small black bikini. It’s the one I always try to choose because of the inlaid embroidery of a rose on it. It’s my favorite flower.
“Miss Hamilton?” I turn my head toward the middle-aged butler when he addresses me. He bows.
“Yes.”
“Miss Bennett is on the telephone for you.” He hands me the phone, and I wave him away before squealing into the receiver.
“Tammy, how are you?”
She's excited about something. I can tell from the hyperventilating breaths coming from the other end of the phone.
“I did it. I’ve taken my last exam, and it feels so good. I’m sure I passed it. I answered nearly every question.”
“I’m so happy for you. That’s amazing news.”
Tamara Bennett is my only friend. She’s the same age as me. We grew up together. She made life tolerable in this mansion of no fun. Her mother, Elsie, is lady’s maid to my mother and me. She doesn’t know who her father is. Her mother tells her it isn’t important. We used to make up stories that he was a hero off fighting for his country, and one day, he would come back for her and Elsie. He never did though, and the truth, about him being a father who abandoned a pregnant woman, seems a lot less exciting. Still, I’m glad she came to live with me because it means I can live vicariously through her. She’s been at Oxford University for the last three years, studying law. I’ve missed her so much.