Story By Gwendolyn Friend
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Gwendolyn Friend

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Gamer, crafter, and pastry enthusiast.
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Heroes of Veritas: Necromantic Inclinations (Book 3)
Updated at Oct 18, 2024, 13:12
Stary Writing Academy III - Girl Power: Chasing Her Apollo After a disastrous failed wedding to her childhood sweetheart, Captain Killian, Lydia Lionette leaves everything behind, fleeing to a place she’d never expected herself to end up - the Zircyn Empire. Determined to leave behind her ex-fiance and shed the burdens of the family business - heroism - Lydia enrolls at the Academie Esoterique, intent on pursuing her love of artificing in the place where magic and machines mingle. A natural born necromancer, Dia struggles to come to terms with the dark abilities she’d always been terrified of - along with her newfound interest in one tall, dark and handsome drow artificer - Harmon Desrouleaux. When Killian reinserts himself into her life, claiming that they have a shared destiny, will Dia choose the comfort and familiarity of someone she’s known her whole life - or let herself chase after the burgeoning relationship between herself and the prodigious younger artificer? Note: This third installment of the Heroes of Veritas follows Lydia, daughter of Elise - the heroine of the previous two books. There is also a subplot featuring Ichigo and Seraphina!
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Darcingtowne Wolves: The Flower Moon Games (Book 2)
Updated at Nov 9, 2022, 17:30
No matter what anyone tells you, being a mateless werewolf blows. No one knows this better than Carrie Prym, Delta of The Misfits, who has spent the last five years waiting for her fated mate to come. Tired of being alone, and ready to get down and dirty, she attends one of the city's largest Haze Parties. Unfortunately, before she can even finish her first drink, she ends up getting knocked out and kidnapped by a man who works for the mysterious underground supernatural group known as the WIC Company. When Carrie wakes up, she's forced to compete with a veritable harem of other she-wolves in the infamous Flower Moon Games, a now outlawed series of challenges that mateless ranked wolves would set in order to test the worthiness of potential she-wolf partners. Knowing that her survival depends on her ability to not just out-fight, but out-think her competition, and desperate not to end up with a chosen mate when she feels her true mate is still out there, Carrie tries her best to remain in the middle of the pack - hoping against hope that her packmates find her before she draws too much attention or has to make choices that she'll regret the rest of her life.
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The Billionaire and the Bestseller
Updated at Jan 31, 2022, 22:00
Fall For A Billionaire - Redeem Ex's Love For most authors, having their best selling debut novel turned into a movie would be a dream come true, but for the intensely private librarian Nicolette Cavanaugh, nothing could be more anxiety inducing. Especially when you throw into the mix her childhood sweet heart turned billionaire action star - Colton Reid - who tries to shoe-horn his way into the lead role. Desperate to keep her identity under wraps, Lettie agrees to help Colton win the role - not realizing that he's also angling to win back the role of Lettie's boyfriend at the same time. Will Nicolette be able to push past her lingering hurt and take a second chance on love her first love, or is it just too late to forgive and forget? Read on to find out!
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Cocoa Remix
Updated at Nov 25, 2021, 21:19
Lonely office worker, Avery, is fed up with love. After watching all her friends find their match, get married, and live happily ever after while she languished in the doldrums of single life, she finally worked up the courage to ask her sales partner and co-worker, James, on a date for Valentine’s Day. She even took the time to prepare him handmade chocolates - a hobby she’d never shared with anyone before. Unfortunately, he turned her down flat - having already been asked out by someone else. As Avery searches out specialty chocolate shops so that she could enjoy her annual Valentine’s Day tradition of drowning her woes in champagne and chocolate, she comes across an ad for a chocolate shop she’d never heard of - Cocoa Remix - run by the handsome and mysterious chocolatier, Pascal. After consuming her delectable treats, Avery wakes up on the morning of Valentine’s Day one year earlier, getting the chance to try and win James’s affection. The problem is, she’s not sure she wants to! Fascinated by the magic she encountered at Cocoa Remix, she’s torn between pursuing the tasty and whimsical chocolate maker, or the serious but dedicated co-worker she’d had a crush on for years. Who will Avery choose?
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She Who Walks With Yaks
Updated at Oct 13, 2021, 14:59
Stary Writing Academy III - Girl Power: Rebirth of the Heroine Social worker Genevieve is reborn into the fantastical world of the video game Veritas, but instead of being put into the role of a heroine, a villain, or even a tertiary character that still might play a role in the grand scheme of things, she's instead been reborn as the most despised types of NPC - an escort quest NPC. Sorely disappointed with her dreary life as a yak farmer in the Frost Peak mountains, Genevieve jumps at the the chance to join the first party of adventurers that actually takes the time to walk her and her yak, Fluffyhooves, to market. If only she'd realized sooner that the four handsome members of her adventuring party had more in mind for her than just questing and dungeoneering. With a whole quartet of talented adventures at her beck and call, will Genevieve finally achieve her dreams of completion - quest oriented or otherwise - and score one for humble escort quest NPCs everywhere? Read on and find out!
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Darcingtowne Wolves: The Misfits (Book 1)
Updated at Sep 15, 2021, 07:11
After being accepted to the prestigious Promenade Collegiate university, young Alpha female Penelope Silvius finds herself thrown into the complex world of inter-alliance pack politics, rude royal relatives, and a complicated mate who can't seem to decide what he really wants. Will she fight for not just for her pack of Misfits, but her true fated mate - even if he says doesn't want her?
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Heroes of Veritas: Bardic Inspiration (Book 2)
Updated at Aug 13, 2021, 23:00
After the events of the Second Desolation, Elise finds herself struggling to cope - both with her own survivor’s guilt, and with the unwanted fame that comes with the title of Hero of Veritasia City. With new threats being posed by the invasion of the Zircyn Empire, will Elise and the Dire Beavers be able to come back together and face the challenges ahead? Read on to find out!
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Haunted Savannah
Updated at May 29, 2021, 22:52
Part-time ghost tour guide Savannah's life took a turn when her best friend, Shane, unexpectedly died. When Shane's enigmatic twin brother, Cory, transferred to her school and started showing up everywhere she went, she thought her life couldn't get any worse; it was like being haunted. Then, her doorbell started ringing - randomly. Even after she disconnected it. With a growing sense of dread, Savannah suspects that she's going through what every ghost enthusiast who ever went on her tour hoped to experience; she started to think, just maybe, she really was being haunted.
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Heroes of Veritas: Crafting Bonus (Book 1)
Updated at Jan 31, 2021, 22:00
When Elise started playing MMOs she'd intended to use them as an escape from the grind of her everyday life. But, after spending years under the thumb of her guild's dominating leaders, she started thinking it was the game she really needed to escape from. She just didn't think she'd get away from both her real life, and her fantasy life, by going backwards through time and space. With her fantasy world now a reality, Elise uses her knowledge of crafting and game lore to help her make the most of her second chance at life in the world of Veritas.
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