Cristina Proto Books

From global phenomenon Callie Hart comes a highly addictive enemies-to-lovers Romantasy filled with sharp banter, thrilling action, and steamy romance! In a harsh desert land, twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is skilled at keeping secrets, including her strange powers and her history of stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs. However, secrets are like knots, eventually unraveling. When Saeris encounters Death himself, she accidentally reopens a gateway to a realm of ice and snow. The Fae, once thought to be mere myth, are real, and Saeris finds herself in the midst of a centuries-old conflict that could cost her life. As the first of her kind to venture into the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years, she unwittingly binds herself to Kingfisher, a captivating Fae warrior with his own hidden agendas. He plans to exploit her Alchemist's magic to safeguard his people, regardless of the consequences for either of them. Death has a name: Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. With a murky past and a foul attitude, he is Saeris's only chance of returning home. But beware of the deals you make, for the devil is in the details...

The conclusion of the Mount Trilogy brings intense drama and passion as characters navigate the complexities of love and power. Dark secrets and dangerous alliances threaten to unravel their lives, pushing them to confront their deepest fears and desires. As the stakes rise, each character must decide what they are willing to sacrifice for love and loyalty. The gripping finale promises unexpected twists and a resolution that will leave readers breathless.

Keira Kilgore is struggling to save her family's New Orleans distillery and finds herself in debt to powerful and shadowy Lachlan Mount.

"When she became pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to a convent to be looked after as a "fallen woman." Then the nuns took her baby from her and sold him, like thousands of others, to America for adoption. Fifty years later, Philomena decided to find him. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Philomena's son was trying to find her. Renamed Michael Hess, he had become a leading lawyer in the first Bush administration, and he struggled to hide secrets that would jeopardize his career in the Republican Party and endanger his quest to find his mother. A gripping exposâe told with novelistic intrigue, Philomena pulls back the curtain on the role of the Catholic Church in forced adoptions and on the love between a mother and son who endured a lifelong separation."--