by Lucy Auburn
Eventually, I succumb.
The last thing I hear is, "I wonder where she put that damned computer. Sal should've made sure it was destroyed in the tornado, along with everything else."
I come to in the trunk of a car, lungs aching. I'm woozy, but doesn't feel like much time has passed. I can still taste the storm on my tongue, and spot the trees of Coleridge in the distance. The two figures are standing over the trunk, wrapping my legs in rope, just like they've wrapped my wrists and ankles.
I try to scream, but my mouth is gagged.
Noticing that I'm awake, one of the men mutters, "Well, shit. Guess we'll have to chloroform her."
"Hold on—let me get my kit."
Terror makes my heart beat like a rabbit's. I find myself wishing for one of the Elites—any one of them—to show up and stop this from happening. I'd even take Georgia at this point.
But no one comes. Instead, as a cloth has acrid-smelling liquid poured on it, one of the men muses, "I wonder if she's as good a dealer as her brother."
"Does it matter? The boss doesn't like the trouble. She's done too much sniffing, so she has to go."
"Yeah, but it's always nice to use the tools you've got."
I try to struggle again, but they lazily reach out and grab me, then push me back into the trunk. There's nothing I can do.
The cloth descends on my face, and though I hold my breath, I know eventually I'll have to inhale through my nose—at which point, this will all be over.
My lungs are burning within seconds.
Instinct takes control, and I breathe in, even as my eyes dart around the parking lot, looking for my savior. But this isn't a fairy tale. No one is following me to save me from the dragons.
As I'm passing out, I hear one last thing.
"What should we do with her?"
"What else? What we did with her brother. I'm sure we've got enough rope in the trunk to do the job."
50 It continues…
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I’m just a girl trying to survive. Dying? Unexpected. Coming back to life? Even more so. Now these four snarky demons are haunting me. Shirtless.
It turns out you can die and live again. At least I can.
When a night out goes murderously wrong, I chose leaping to my death over getting tortured. Except it turns out I don’t die like everyone else.
I’m a phoenix — or so they tell me. Apparently I need training at the Phoenix Academy.
What I really need is to get rid of the four demons haunting me wherever I go, showing up when my heart is beating fast — whether I’m nervous, afraid, or well... other things.
But I also wouldn’t mind learning how to light things on fire with my mind or take out a man twice my size with my bare hands. All things the instructors at the academy want to teach me... if I can survive long enough.
Because there’s something deadly lurking in these halls, and it’s coming for me next.
Welcome to the first year at Phoenix Academy, a place where the paranormal lives — and dies — and lives again.
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It all started with a severed dick.
Not in the way you’re thinking; I’m no Lorena, poor thing. I wasn’t the one slicing and dicing. If I had, I would’ve picked a nice julienne, really gone to town on the thing until it was unrecognizable ribbons of flesh. Leaving it whole, swinging bits and all, just seems... cruel. Especially when the dude it was attached to was still (mostly) alive at the time to see his family jewels get taken and dangled in front of his face. What a last image to have seared into your retinas as you die.
Not that he didn’t deserve it. Richard was like the worst version of your shittiest ex-boyfriend. Imagine an actual pile of garbage given human form.
And his nickname was Dick, after all, so the demons were clearly going for something when they took his actual dick from him. It would’ve been funny if it hadn’t been so incredibly fucking disgusting. Demons do have a sense of humor, apparently.
I just wish they hadn’t killed me too.
Coming back to life was a real bitch.
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I just learned I’m a part fae succubus. And I need to find the men to sate my sexual appetite...
Here I thought I was a normal college girl with a high libido. Turns out that’s wrong—I’m so much more. I have powers, and if I don’t learn how to control them, I’ll wind up killing someone.
Baton Rouge has never been so hot as it is when I meet Leon and Naomi. And Tae Min, Petyr, Elah, Vincent: all fae. Here to guide me into my new life.
A life that includes hunting down the demon summoner who framed my best friend for murder. Catching bad guys, meeting dark fae, making a harem—my new life is different.
Worst of all, now I know my parents lied to me. I was never theirs. And my real parents?
Well, they’ve got a hell of a surprise in store for me.
Life isn’t easy for a fae like me.
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After catching my boyfriend screwing my best friend, I have only one place to go: home to my witchy aunts, their magic and our coven.
I was supposed to cry my broken heart away. Instead I did a spell to draw three men to me: Orlando, Roman, and Jack.
They were my best friends when we were kids. Then something more when we were all fourteen. And I still long for them.
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I just hope we can reunite in time to face it, or we might not live to see tomorrow.
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Also by Lucy Auburn
Phoenix Academy
Phoenix Academy: Awaken
Phoenix Academy: Unbound
Phoenix Academy: Forged
Phoenix Academy: Reborn
Coleridge Academy Elites
The Snake in the Grass
The Pawn
The Knight
The King
The Queen
Selena Pierce
Fae Like Me
Hell Sucks
Godspring
Seven Trials
The Black God
Wild Heart Chronicles
Primal
Feral
Savage
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Lucy Auburn is an urban fantasy/paranormal romance writer who lives in the Southwest. She loves writing interesting stories about strong women. Some of the writers who inspire her include Patricia Briggs and Sarah J. Maas.
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