Bücher von C. Rae D'Arc

You can hide from your past, but can you outrun it?Six years after imprisoning Abadda, the Wicked, Theo keeps the secret of his bargain, worrying instead about his duties as marquis and his son's unknown dark ability. But the immortal bargain demands payment. Accidentally released by two adventure seekers, Abadda returns with a devilish plan for revenge and domination. Taking her claim on Pansy and Theo's son, Abadda steals him to the land where escape is only a dream: Horror.Pansy returns to her homeland with Theo and an unlikely ally to rescue their son. Dunstan, the Night Terror, has become Douglas the Priest, who only wants his brother's approval. The last thing he expects to find in Horror is a Romance that threatens his magic and mission to save Aeron.However, the magics and abilities that identify Pansy and Theo as Heroes in Fantasy, instead label them as Hauntings in Dante's city of Inferno. They must hide their abilities or become hunted as witches by the locals. Pansy knows everything about how to kill Hauntings, but little about how to be one. Even with Supernatural help, Abadda and her army of Hauntings might be the end of Pansy and everyone she loves.Finish Pansy and Theo's haunted romance in this intense rescue within the Inferno of Dante's Divine Comedy. Fans of Seth Graham-Smith and Neil Gaiman will find "Don't Dance with Death" hard to put down.Don't forget: never split up.

The state of Margen is Grimm.Eighteen months after moving from the land of Horror, Pansy Finster has made her home in Romance. All she wants is to become a paramedic and fall deeper in love with Fantasy Lord Theodor Fromm while avoiding Hauntings like unusual animals, crazy relatives, and witches.As a member of Fairy's royal family, life was never that simple for Theo, especially when a mysterious death makes him heir to the Margen Duchy. Unable to choose between the home of his heart and the keeper of it, he proposes for Pansy to marry him in Margen; home to Jack the Giant Killer, the Little Red Cap, and the Robber Bridegroom. Except Margen has fallen under a curse of disappearing magics and people--including Theo's father, the duke. Pansy knows all about surviving werewolves and serial killers, but mountain giants and in-laws are another story. She must earn her place among royalty and help Theo save Margen from his tyrannical brothers: Dunstan the Night Terror and Oswald the Fire Breather. Friends and foes aren't who they appear to be as a sinister power rises to threaten every land in Fantasy...and even Novel. Werewolves and serial killers don't seem that bad now.Continue Pansy and Theo's haunting and romance in "Don't Marry the Cursed," book two of the Haunted Romance trilogy, by C Rae D'Arc. If you like Seth Grahame-Smith, Christopher Moore, or Grimm's fairy tale retellings, then this dark romantic comedy will more than satisfy! Don't forget; be careful for what you wish.

When dreams become reality, do we ever wake up? Fleeing her own kingdom, Garnet turned to the princesses of Ormio for help, starting with Ruby and Peridot. But Ruby was attacked by a surprisingly spry grandmother, and Peridot fell into restless sleep atop a pile of mattresses. As identical twins, they were inseparable with similar tastes in activities and men. This remains true even in their dreams, but some things aren't meant to be shared. Finding herself deaf and dreaming, Peridot travels across the USA, searching for the stranger named Leo. He might be a stranger, but he's also her fiancé.Meanwhile, Ruby dreams of blackness on a Texas cotton farm, quickly intrigued by two young farmers. Ruby wants to play matchmaker, but tragedy strikes when dreams and hearts don't align. With Emer, Marin, and Pearl awake in Somnus, they begin to spread the word of their return while requesting aid against the ogres. Little do they know that monsters worse than ogres have joined the fight. Queen Tanzanite has learned of their awakening and will do anything to stop her sisters from waking more princesses, even if, instead, it means awakening nightmares.

Sleeping Beauty was asleep for a hundred years. What did she dream about?Princess Emerald of Somnus planned the perfect ball for her sixteenth birthday. She even modeled it after the midnight masquerades that she and her sisters secretly attended. Everything was perfect...until a poisoned spindle threw her into a deep sleep with vivid dreams of an unknown land: modern England. In a world of smart phones and cockney, Emerald knows she must be dreaming, especially with her hypoesthesia and strange power over plants. Lost and confused, Emer is welcomed by the Honorables Caden Seaver and Mica Wright. These two sons of lords and best friends went looking for one final adventure to inspire their creative hobbies before family obligations ruled their lives. They never expected to find a lost princess who claimed to be dreaming. Emer's stories about Somnus might be the perfect solution to Caden's writer's block until she starts to influence his heart more than his writing.The longer that Emer dreams, the more she wonders what's happening in Somnus, which world is her true home, and how much time she has before the poison spreads through her body. Emer must find a way to wake up and trust her heart before the poison numbs it forever.Explore the beauties and wonders of today's England in this fairy tale retelling of Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty. Fans of Disney's "Enchanted" (2007) and twisted fairy tales may consider this story a dream come true.

Waking up is only the beginning.Princess Aquamarine (Marin) was happily married to the most accomplished Naval Admiral of Rezhina Valley, but her life turned upside-down the night that her sister Emer was poisoned. On the run from an unknown danger, she never expected to fall under a similar poisonous trap. Like Emer, Marin dreams of a world beyond imagining: modern England. Marin must brave the dangers of the Atlantic to wake up and return her husband from the form of a detestable frog.Meanwhile, Princess Pearl has fallen to poisoned dreams of a Renaissance Fair. No one, even her father, knows about her homeland except a kind photographer who claims to have met Emer. If only she could wake as Emer had or eat something that doesn't taste like apples.After one-hundred years of sleeping, Princess Emerald has much to rediscover about her homeland, including the whereabouts of her sleeping sisters. However, with whirlpools and thick darkness surrounding them, finding them might be the easy part. Reaching them is another story. Emer and her companions have no time to dawdle before the ogres grow impatient and hungry for revenge.Join Emer and her friends as they travel through the ruins of Somnus, searching for her sleeping sisters who retell "The Well at the World's End" (an early version of "Princess and the Frog") and "Snow White."

Does the heart beat faster from love or terror?As a born-and-raised citizen of Horror, Pansy Finster has survived Hauntings such as mad killers and poltergeists by living her brother's rules, including, "Avoid dolls, clowns, and masks." But after the death of her fiancé, Pansy finds herself alone-which is a dangerous status in Horror. When she flees to Heartford, Romance, she's startled that a masquerade has Regency ladies screaming... in excitement.Culture-shocked, Pansy struggles to avoid any ill omens, such as repeated glances from the curiously handsome Lord Theo, from Fantasy. With a seemingly useless magical ability, he could be the Romance Pansy never knew she needed... or her most deceitful Haunting yet. Pansy must learn to love like a Romantic and teach her new friends to survive like a Horror before the masquerade becomes a massacre.Follow Pansy Finster's hauntings and romance in "Don't Date the Haunted," first book of the Haunted Romance trilogy, by C Rae D'Arc. If you like Seth Grahame-Smith, Isaac Marion, or Christopher Moore, then this dark romantic comedy will keep you up! Don't forget; it's never just a power-outage.