LOVE, LIES AND A BLOKE by April Fifer, Danielle Hylton-Outland

LOVE, LIES AND A BLOKE by April Fifer, Danielle Hylton-Outland

What do you do when you don’t know who you are…and the one you love doesn’t either?

Katherine Thomas is a lackluster kind of girl who refuses to bend the rules. Until one day she loses her job and is forced to re-evaluate her life. One trip to Australia changes her world forever. 

She meets Brody, a hot and steamy man—in uniform. What she thinks is a night of fun and little lies turns out to be much more. One thing leads to another and Katherine realizes she’s in love. 

When an unexpected turn of events reveals Katherine’s true story, she must fight to make Brody understand that her love is real. Will she find a way?

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Copyright © April Fifer, Danielle Hylton-Outland 2015. All Rights Reserved, Total-E-Ntwined Limited, T/A Totally Bound Publishing.

“Next!” Katherine shouted from behind the outdated photo booth counter. “Please sit up straight and place your shoulders back.” Her voice carried through the building, and every time she spat out that same boring sentence it would be followed by a blinding flash from the camera bulb.

“Umm, can I at least smile?” the young girl asked, irritated and apparently over-confident just having earned her new license.

“No,” Katherine quickly said, then snapped the picture. The young girl stomped off speedily to what Katherine could only assume was the girl’s mother.

It’s a license, not a photo shoot, Katherine thought to herself. Katherine’s own license immediately popped into her head. Her chocolate-colored hair looked oily black and her deer-in-headlights look taunted her every time she had to display it.

Katherine Thomas was the photo taker, and she spent her entire day standing in the same spot and shouting out the same sentence over and over. She liked to call herself a ‘photo taker’ because ‘DMV photographer’ seemed a little overkill. There was nothing glorious about snapping people’s pictures on a camera that was older than her and having them come out looking like the customers were sunburned because the machine had too much red ink in it.

“Kathy… Kathy…” a man’s voice sang behind her.

Katherine rolled her eyes and finally turned to face her boss, Chuck. “My name is not Kathy,” she said through clenched teeth. He was a scumbag, and sleaze saturated every ounce of his aura. She could always feel him staring at her while she stood behind the photo booth.

When Chuck wasn’t treating her like she was an idiot, he was making sexual remarks to her. On two occasions, Katherine could have sworn he had brushed up against her ass on purpose. If she could have proven it, she probably would have nailed him square in the jaw.

“What do you want, Chuck?”

“I need to see you in my office,” he sputtered.

“What an asshole,” Katherine said under her breath. She motioned for Janice, her co-worker, to come take her place. Katherine and Janice had worked together for a couple of years. Janice was very beautiful and sweet in nature. Katherine wasn’t really friends with her per se, but she did like Janice. Katherine had always thought that she had the cutest shape and gorgeous red hair.

The line for the photos wrapped around the waiting room, and it was twenty minutes before closing. That’s how it always was. No one ever showed up in the middle of the day. It was invariably after four o’clock before the building would become overrun with human bodies everywhere.

Katherine made it to Chuck’s office, and he was sitting behind his twenty-year-old desk made of solid oak. A vision of her leaping over his desk and strangling him flashed through her mind. She quickly shook off the image.

“Yes, Chuck?” Katherine asked as she stood there.

“We are getting some complaints about your behavior,” Chuck said.

“By whom?” Katherine demanded then thought of the teenager earlier that had been one pout away from throwing a tantrum.

“By some of the customers. You never smile, and you seem irritated all the time,” Chuck went on.

That’s because I am, Katherine thought to herself, but remained silent.

“This is a customer service job. You need to be more welcoming.”

Chuck’s voice made Katherine cringe.

“Chuck… I stand behind a camera all day taking driver’s license photos. It’s an assembly line. There is no customer service! If I stopped every person and asked them their life story, we wouldn’t close before nine.”

“Sorry, Kathy. This is going to have to go in your review. I think you should take some time off and really think about what your future holds here at the DMV. I have scheduled for Janice to take your place for the rest of this week. You can go ahead and leave now, and we will see you back next week.”

A smile hinted across Chuck’s face, and the vision Katherine had earlier of strangling him popped back up in her mind. Katherine stared at him for a moment, knowing what was to come next.

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THE WITCH AND THE WEREWOLF by April Fifer and Danielle Hylton-Outland

THE WITCH AND THE WEREWOLF by April Fifer and Danielle Hylton-Outland

Washington DC’s journalist, Rye Yates is well-dressed, gorgeous and cursed. After an unusual encounter with a witch, his love for a woman could mean her death sentence.

When Rye meets Clair, her effervescent personality instantly grabs his heart.

What will Rye and Clair do when they uncover a hundred-year-old secret that was never meant to be revealed? The ending is unthinkable, and the betrayal and secrets leave no one unscathed.

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            “I pity you. You have just damned yourself. You will never keep real love until you give me what I want. A child is needed, and you will give him to me… or else,” she added shrewdly.
            “I will give you twenty-six days to decide, after that, there will be no counter offer.” She warned.
            “I wouldn’t in twenty six thousand years.” Rye countered with a determination of his own.
            The lights flashed and Dusk’s hair blew in all directions. She closed her eyes, concentrating. Then she spoke in a wicked voice that shrilled with each word.

“Love, you will never have and I curse you of any woman’s hand.
With every emotion of love will break harsh white teeth and a wretched oil coat.
The emotion of love will be no longer, in its place now a thirst you will not bear.
Days come soon when you will feast on love’s bones and hair.
Run you will say but the full moon will blind your human sight,
Death to her with just one bite.”

            Then silence. Dusk’s hair settled as the last light flicked once more before becoming solid again.
            “You have twenty-six days to give me what I want. Or on each full moon you will become one with the night – a wolf at best. I have cursed you of love. You will kill which you hold so dear, as the wolf inside you will take over and feed on the very one you love. I have given you an eternity of loneliness.”
            Dusk walked towards the door and turned to face Rye one last time. “You have twenty-six days before the first full moon. Use your time wisely.” And Rye shutter as the door slammed behind her.

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LOVE, LIES AND A BLOKE by April Fifer and Danielle Hylton-Outland

LOVE, LIES AND A BLOKE by April Fifer and Danielle Hylton-Outland

Katherine Thomas is a lackluster kind of girl who refuses to bend the rules. Until one day she loses her job and is forced to reevaluate her life.

One trip to Australia changes her world forever. Katherine leaves her hometown of Fleming to find herself, however she ends up finding love, lies and a bloke.

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~Excerpt~

Katherine squirmed in her seat, next to the window, hoping her flight partner was not going to be a complete nut-job. The man took his seat next to her.

 “G'day mate, the names Asher,” He said, holding out his hand. His accent was definitely Australian and automatically fascinated Katherine ...since that’s where she was headed. 

 “Hi, I’m Katherine.” She replied smiling.

 The flight attended returned with five mini bottles of the Vodka Katherine had asked for. “Here you go ma’am.”

 “Thanks,” Katherine said. She was a little embarrassed by all the alcohol, seeing how she just met hot Mr. Asher with his very sexy accent. Katherine took the bottles, and to add to her humiliation, one dropped onto Asher’s lap. Katherine's cheeks turned a bright apple red.

 Asher found this entertaining and calmly handed the bottle to her. “Wow, they really treat you good in first class,” Katherine said in a humiliated voice.

 The first nine hours of the flight Katherine slept. She woke to resting her head on Asher’s shoulder. She sat up quickly. “I am so sorry for falling asleep on you.” She tried to look at his shirt without him noticing. If she saw a drool spot, she was going to jump out of the window.

 “No worries.” He replied.

 Katherine began to drink the tiny bottles of Vodka. The more she drank, the more she began to talk to the Aussie beside her. She told him about her job, her inappropriate boss, her family, and last – her cheating boyfriend.
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FLESH AND FEATHERS by April Fifter and Danielle Hylton-Outland

FLESH AND FEATHERS by April Fifer and Danielle Hylton-Outland

Flesh Series Book One

Azaleigh's life is simple until, by chance, she meets Kale. Charming and handsome, Az is immediately drawn to him. But long kept secrets lurk in the hearts of those Az holds most dear, and dangerous plans are unfolding around her.

As her life begins to crumble and Kale disappears, Gage, charismatic and striking, arrives, providing a calm port in an increasingly violent storm. But with every narrow escape from a far from human bounty hunter who's after her life, Az begins to unravel a secret with the power to change her forever. In an increasingly hostile world of Angel and Fallen, Azaleigh must navigate her own path, chose her own side, and ultimately protect her heart.

Faced with two gorgeous men, an enemy she doesn’t know, and a future she cannot understand, Az must make a choice - the man she loves, or the man she cannot live without.

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Night had fallen on the forest earlier than expected. Scarlet appeared in front of a small cottage near the edge of the woods. Without hesitation, she grasped the handle to the bungalow door and pushed the heap open. Mland backed away as Scarlet entered.

"How did you find me?" Mland asked. Her long jet black hair hung to the side of her face, covering one of her eyes. Her skin, usually more russet, pinkened with anger.

Walking over to the wall, Scarlet stood by the smoldering fireplace. The smell of charred beech wood filled the room. She picked up the poker and began to move the logs around with the steel. Mland was cornered no matter where she stood and would not be fast enough to slip by Scarlet.

"Mland, you look shaken. Do I make you nervous?" Scarlet teased. "It seems you have been a busy witch. I had finally given up on tracking you, and now look, we meet by fate. What an uncanny coincidence." Scarlet laid the poker down with the tip in the flames. She knew her presence alone terrified Mland. "You have your Coven leader to thank for our reunion."

"They are not my Coven! They are amateurs with no respect for the true art of Sorcery."

Scarlet chuckled. "I don't believe you've given them enough credit, my friend. Your leader--I apologize, your former leader--was in possession of Qeres. It seems their skills are a little more advanced than you would believe. Or should I say 'were'?" Scarlet held up a burlap bag that was stained with blood. "I promised Tobias I would bring back a souvenir for him."

"Qeres, you say? Plan to bring back the dead?" Mland's radiant skin took on a yellow tint, betraying her fear. "You need the Arch to do that. I can locate her for you."

Amused, Scarlet said, "I have already done that."

"I have never told anyone of your secret. Shouldn't that be considered loyalty?" Mland continued to bargain.

"Actually, I consider that a loose end."

"Wait! I have something of great value. Tobias would be pleased." Mland's words spilled out, running together. "Besides, what will Tobias say when he hears of my death? There is no doubt he would be enraged."

Mland pointed toward a bow that leaned against the wall as Scarlet raised a brow in question. Mland went on to tell Scarlet of how she had placed a spell on a Horseman and stolen the weapon from him. Scarlet listened to the story with enthusiasm.

Finally, Scarlet spoke. "Well, you have proven to be valuable after all."

Mland breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you."

Scarlet inclined her head and lifted the poker from the fireplace then drove the point into Mland's chest.

Mland gasped. The smell of burning flesh overpowered the scent of the beech wood. Her eyes widened.

"You were right. Tobias will most certainly be upset. But then again, accidents do happen." Scarlet let Mland's body fall to the ground and then kicked a log from the fireplace. The smoldering wood rolled across the cottage floor.

She picked up the bow before exiting the room.

Fire consumed the tiny home in a matter of minutes.



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Ten days later

Scarlet stood in front of a tiny wooden doorway made of cheap rotting planks. The massive block-stone buildings went on for miles on either side of the Roman street, and boundless archways connected them at the top, creating an enormous canopy that shaded the cobblestone thoroughfare.

Although poverty-stricken, with many people lying on the streets covered in blankets, this region was one of the most architecturally beautiful places on earth. Regardless, she was not here to admire Rome's beauty or observe its ambiance.

She knocked three times on the door and waited. The white hood of her cloak covered her eyes, and she kept her head bowed as she heard footsteps approaching the door.

A small slat in the door opened, and a cold pair of eyes, the color of night, peered out at her intensely for a moment, and then were gone as the notch closed with a loud thud.

The door opened slightly, making the man who stood behind the frame partially visible. "You don't look to be one of the vagrants who clutter these streets." He sounded relieved.

"I have come for the bounty hunter," she replied. She kept her head bowed, carefully maintaining her anonymity.

"Then you must be mistaken." His words were harsh, and he was clearly frustrated by her intrusion. He closed the door abruptly without giving her any time to respond.

The cloaked woman knocked more firmly this time. "I have come to call on Kano. I seek his services."

The slat in the door cracked open again as the man stared out at her.

She lifted her head and slowly removed the hood, revealing her white eyes and platinum hair, which was wound in elegant curls and braids. Her face was pale as porcelain. When she made eye contact with him, a small grin pulled at the corners of her mouth. "Hello, Kano. It's been a long time."

Opening the door wide this time, the man had nothing to hide behind. He wore black pants and a wool pullover. Kano stood taller than average with his dark brown hair was cropped close to his head, framing a stern face. "Scarlet," he said, "I cannot say it is a pleasure to find you here." His high cheekbones made him appear as though he might smile at any moment.

Scarlet grinned. "May I enter?"

Kano moved from the doorway, allowing Scarlet admittance. Once she was inside, he closed the door and turned to her. "Why are you here?"

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