Bøker av Cara Crescent

Do you enjoy spinning tales of love? Do you like guiding characters past obstacles to meaningful relationships? Do you want to become an author of Romance novels, enchanting readers in the biggest-selling genre? Or do you write in a different category, looking to infuse your plots with powerful love stories? In this book, you'll get insider knowledge from two experts. Cara Crescent and Rayne Hall are both experienced fiction authors with different specialisms. Cara specialises in writing for Genre Romance - especially in the sub-genres Paranormal and Science Fiction Romance - while Rayne pens fiction in other genres, mostly Gothic and Dark Fantasy, and weaves love stories into them. Step by step, they'll show you how to entice readers, grab their hearts and excite their passions. You'll learn how to: write witty, bantering dialoguecreate a female lead who steps off the page, and a male lead with whom readers will fall in lovestructure a Romance novel from a sparkling beginning to a meaningful happy endinghandle heat levels - from sweet and chaste to sexy and sizzlingsubmit your book to agents and publishers, or publish your ownThe book covers: The most popular plot tropes from 'Pretend Relationship' and 'Friends to Lovers' to 'Secret Baby'The specific needs of Gay, Menage and Harem RomanceThe bestselling sub-genres, including Medical Romance and Paranormal RomanceBelievable happy endings for Romance Novels and heart-wrenching endings for tragic tales...and much more. The authors guide you to keep your characters and readers chaste for Sweet Romance, how to write steamy action scenes for Erotic Romance, and how to build intense erotic tension without graphic details - and which of them is right for your book. You can use this guide as a self-study course. Each chapter contains information, professional tips and cautions about novice mistakes to avoid, and concludes with an assignment, so you can put what you've learnt into practice.

Three years have passed since Earth's brush with Armageddon, the destruction wiping out two-thirds of Earth's population. Mankind not only co-exists with daemons now, their very existence depends on them.Ember Moon was a survivor long before the world's near miss. She endured a childhood of abuse from her step-father, her mother's death, and the disappearance of her best friend and first love, Harrison Cayce. She never forgot Harrison and once old enough, set out to find him on her own. Unfortunately, her most promising lead was a trap that left her possessed with a dangerous demon. Now Ember needs Harrison's help to control the demon, or the demon will control her . . .eventually killing her.Harrison Cayce Sinclair knows a thing or two about survival himself. Adia, a powerful daemon who abused and tortured boys, abducted him as a teenager. Harrison endured her twisted love, watched as she cruelly used one boy after another, and was the only one to make it out of her chambers alive--at least as alive as a newly transformed vampire can be. Now, years later, the young girl he never forgot is caught in the sick games of the one woman he's been unable to bring to justice.The only way to stop Adia is to return to the dark place where it all began . . . but is their love strong enough to survive the past?

Griffin Jude Payne is the last U.S. Marine. He's determined to take down the U.N. and send their twisted dream of a global utopia back to hell where it belongs. After assassinating the Prime Minister, he is captured and exiled off-planet. His enemy's widow boards the same ship, presenting Griffin with a unique opportunity--Prudence is his ticket back to Earth. With her as his hostage, he intends to gather the exiled residents of Asteria, commandeer a ship, and head back to reclaim Earth for all people.Prudence has no intention of returning to Earth now that she's escaped. She wants Griffin to join her in making a new life together on Asteria. As they struggle to survive on the hostile planet, he's blindsided by her tenacious bravery and sweet sensuality until he's no longer sure if she's his hostage, or if he's hers.