Bøger af Carlotta Hughes

Fans of Finley Fenn, Zoe Ashwood, Tolkien, and Ruby Dixon will love this epic sci-fi fantasy monster romance series!"My soul ached and bled and tore at seeing my other half so hurt. There was nothing I could do for him right now. And it ate me alive inside."The thrilling sequel to Rhuger's Pearl.AMELIAWith Rhuger and I finally letting go of our insecurities and becoming mates, I thought I would be free of Rìgh Orok's slimy grasp. Boy, was I wrong. Captured, beaten, and bound, I was forced to sit before Rìgh Orok on the ride to the Oc'Turin lands. When we finally arrived, Rìgh Orok was hailed a hero, Rhuger labeled a villain, and our baby growing in my belly laid claim to by our captor. Rìgh Orok thinks he can break me to his cruel will. But I've already survived his kind once before, and I'll do it again.Would Rhuger and I be able to survive the treacherous halls of the Oc'Turin clan, our bond holding true? Or would everything I'd ever wanted and needed be ripped from me forever? Regardless of what the fates decreed, nothing and no one would stand between Rhuger and me. Our future was too bright to be snuffed out by the likes of Rìgh Orok. And I was far more deadly than my soft appearance made me seem.RHUGERPain was an old friend. Rìgh Orok had his bastard warriors beat me, whip me, and break me any way they could while I was forced to walk barefoot all the way to the Oc'Turin capital of Clach-tholl. My pearl, my mate, and cridhe rode at the front of the line, seated before my nemesis. Thoughts of shredding his guts for daring to touch my mate kept me focused and conscious. Rage was too soft a word for what I felt toward the wretched Rìgh, and he would pay the ultimate price for putting his claws on Amelia.But what would happen once Rìgh Orok was dead? Would the Oc'Turin welcome me back as their Rìgh? Or would they put me down like a rabid animal? Even if Amelia and I survived this, the challenges that lay before us were daunting. One thing I knew for certain. Rìgh Orok would be defeated and I would claim my cridhe, would see our bairn enter the world. No matter the cost.This is an 94,000 word, full-length, slow-burn, sci-fi alien orc romance with a plus-sized sunshine autistic FMC, grumpy morally grey MMC, intense world-building, epic fantasy, plenty of simping, hurt/comfort, who hurt you?, fated mates, lots of smashing, and a guaranteed HEA.The Content Awareness section is on the author's website and at the back of the book.

Fans of Finley Fenn, Zoe Ashwood, Tolkien, and Ruby Dixon will love this epic sci-fi fantasy monster romance series!"'I would worship you if you let me.' And I would. Gods, I'd fall to my knees at the altar of her body and roar her holiness to the stars."AMELIAGrandma Ruth's Tolkien-inspired bed-and-breakfast holds a secret, a broken interstellar gate. She tells me my grandfather wasn't human, but an orckin who had come to Earth through the gate, and returned to his home planet through it. Getting the gate to work to find him was the easy part. Now, face-first in the dirt of his home planet, I have no plan. No way to get back, either.Rhuger finds me. A seven-foot-tall green orc bristling with weapons whose sinful mouth and dark laughter make my heart race. With his help as my bodyguard, I'm navigating this new world. But I've been given two weeks by the Rìgh of the Oc'Dellor to find a mate within the clan, or risk being married off to avoid war. I know who I'd choose if I could. But Rhuger has made it clear that I am his duty, nothing more. Though he can't keep his hand out of mine.RHUGERNever in a thousand years did I imagine finding a lush female within the Craobh na Beatha, the holy six-winged tree. She's orckin, but not entirely. Amelia's a rare beauty, but I'm an exile from a rival clan, barely accepted into the Oc'Dellor despite my prowess as a warrior. Appointed as her bodyguard, I keep having to remind myself that someone like her is not meant for someone like me.But it's not just Amelia's soft curves and bowed mouth that haunts my dreams. It's how she perceives and moves through my world with awe and gentleness, how her touch awakens something within me. When Rìgh Orok of the Oc'Turin makes a play for her hand, I'd do anything to prevent her from living the nightmares of my past. Including fighting against everything that would tear us apart in order to make her mine.This is a 180,000 word, full-length, slow-burn, high heat, sci-fi alien orc romance with a plus-sized sunshine autistic FMC, grumpy morally grey MMC, intense world-building, epic fantasy, plenty of simping, hurt/comfort, who hurt you?, fated mates, and a guaranteed HEA.The Content Awareness section is on the author's website and at the back of the book.

Fans of Finley Fenn, Zoe Ashwood, Tolkien, and Ruby Dixon will love this epic sci-fi fantasy monster romance series!"When I touched the gate, I saw my red thread of destiny. I believe the Source led me across the stars to you. My cridhe."RUTHAfter my old life burns to ash, I make the wild decision to buy a coastal farm intending to convert it into a Tolkien-inspired bed-and-breakfast. The ramshackle buildings, overgrowth, and daunting hard work are all things I expected. What I didn't expect was to stumble across an enormous washed-up wall of muscle on my beach. Thorn isn't human. He's an orc from across the universe who speaks with a Scottish accent, wears a kilt, and is dead set on making me his mate.But I've got more important things to take care of, like completing the renovations on time and keeping a nosy FBI agent at bay. Thorn stays, he helps me, protects me, and shows me heartbreaking patience. Thawing my heart even as he heats my blood. I want him, badly, but I'm too broken. And the last thing I want to do is break his heart of gold.THORNA dream sets me on a path far from my homeworld of Talam, to a broken gate that awakens at my touch. Drawn forward by fate, I travel through the gate and across the stars. I wake on a strange planet called Earth with the lovely human female from my dream draped atop me. Ruth is my cridhe, my soul-bound mate. But how am I to woo her when we look so starkly different? When her world is beyond my wildest imaginings? When it is so obvious that males in the past have hurt her terribly and still seek to do so?To stay by her side, I make a wild gamble to help her realize her dream. In exchange, I'll get to live with her, be near her, and protect her. Even if she never accepts me as her cridhe. It would have to be enough. But it's a fool's promise because I know in my soul that I could never get enough of her.This is a full-length 65000-word sci-fi alien romance with fantasy elements that is HFN. Content Information is available on the author's website. Originally a short story included in the Big Feels Monster Romance Anthology.