Bøker av Sydney Winward

When Gabriel's young daughter contracts a deadly illness, the only way to save her life is to catch a faerie. However, he never expected her to be so kind or so beautiful.Lorella has been wary of humans her whole life, knowing them to be cruel and selfish in their quest for riches or renown. But when she's captured by a human who defies all expectations, her view of their kind can't help but shift into something completely foreign. With a journey fraught with danger, heartache, and blossoming feelings, will they be able to heal his daughter in time? Or will they lose everything they hold dear when the possible becomes impossible?

Monsters are captured for one reason only-to be experimented on and forced to serve in the king's army.Betrayed by the people she loved the most, Kikka Takasi has known nothing but pain and misery throughout the long ten years of her captivity. A strong will and pure determination have been the only things keeping her from losing herself entirely, even if she lost something as precious as her voice during one of their experiments. Convinced she would die in captivity, she's stunned when a group of Umazi warriors breaks her free and absconds her to safety.In his quest to rescue and protect monsters, Warren Steelsworn has vowed to keep himself from falling for one of them again after the tragedy of what happened the first time. But everything changes when he meets Kikka, a winged-snake shifter who shares a special spark with him. However, she doesn't speak, and it only makes him want to learn more about her. Despite his vows, he can't help the feelings of attraction and desire growing between them.But peace is short-lived when the king wants her back, and he will stop at nothing to reclaim her. Can Warren honor his vow to himself and let her go? Or will he shatter bonds and risk everything for the woman his heart has wanted all along?

Charles Lockwood's assignment was supposed to be easy-to escort the princess to the neighboring kingdom, poke around a bit, and get out and return to his employer before anyone noticed him. But his plans fall apart when they are attacked on the road, their party slaughtered before his eyes. He makes a stupid, impulsive decision to save the princess.Only to discover she's no princess at all. She's a stand-in.Emmaline Blythe has been threatened at knife-point to follow through with a marriage in the princess's stead. But when she's rescued from mercenaries by a handsome stranger with a helmet stuck to his head, she is forced to lean on him for protection from her numerous enemies who want her dead.But Charles is keeping secrets. Lots of them. Can she trust him to keep her safe? Is keeping his dangerous company worth the price of her freedom? Or will the darkness of his past catch up to them, threatening their lives and their blossoming feelings for one another?

After 1000 years of his reign, Dracula has fallen...and Jesper is his heir.Being Dracula's heir has always been a joke, as Jesper Degore never thought he'd actually take the throne in his lifetime. But when Dracula finally falls, Jesper takes the throne, and the transition is anything but peaceful. Soon after his ascension, he finds five armies on his doorstep, threatening to take his crown, including the formidable dark elf army.He only has one choice. To take the elven princess as his mate or doom his entire kingdom to war and destruction.Alavara Elroris has known nothing but darkness and control, acting as her father's puppet in his quest for power. When the elven king sets his sights on Ichor Knell, she has no choice but to obey.But she never suspected to be attracted to the vampire king, drawn to his good looks despite his cold attitude toward her. As they grow closer, she fears for his life. Because she can't protect him from her father.And she especially can't protect him from herself.

Emeric Dalena believes his life is over.For years, the forest fae has been bound to his wheelchair after being brutally injured by those in his village. But when he fakes his death and escapes the horrors tying him to his past, he finds he is lost once more, not knowing how to move forward when he is confined to his chair.Gweneth Caddell has lost everything.The High Healer sun fae sells nearly everything she owns to pay off her father's debts, leaving her destitute. The only way to stay afloat is to become the nurse to a wheelchair-bound man who wants nothing to do with her. At least until he learns of her healing magic.For the first time in years, Emeric has hope for a brighter future. But can Gweneth heal his legs and give him back the life he's always wanted? Can they fight the attraction they have for one another?Or will hearts break when fate threatens to tear them apart?

Even villains can have a change of heart.Barnaby Mavis has made many mistakes in his life and has been trying his hardest to atone for them. On his way to fix one of his mistakes, he gets thrown from his horse and tumbles off a cliff, the fall stealing his memories and placing him at death's door.Ivette Danvers' life changed the moment a man fell from the cliffside on her property. After nursing him back to health, she was shocked to find he remembered nothing of his past life. Not his name nor his home or family.Could their blossoming feelings be true, even when he doesn't remember his past identity?But as Ivette's past sneaks up on her, she realizes this stranger is the only one who can help her. But when he disappears, telling her not to come looking for him, she fears she will lose everything and everyone she holds dear. If she doesn't find him, her entire future will crumble. Including her heart.

She's the enemy. Loving her could turn his world to flames.When Seraphina Nova's younger sister is captured by her enemy, the Forest Fae, she will do everything in her power to get her back. Even if it means breaking into enemy territory, taking the chief's heir as her prisoner, and using him to ensure her sister's safe return.Getting poisoned and literally dragged across the entire forest had never been on Bastien Dalena's agenda, even if his captor had nice legs and beautiful wings. Despite the danger to his life, he knows one thing-Seraphina's kiss is hot. It's fire. It's deadly. And he can't help but want to feel the burn of her flames.But as war reaches its peak between their people, an unexpected danger threatens their lives and forces them to fight together and build a fragile trust. Time is running short. He must form an alliance with Seraphina... Before their people destroy each other first.

No one has ever managed to capture a selkie. Until now...On their wedding day, Klaus Lovik's bride is stolen by an enemy chieftain. He will travel to the ends of the earth to find her, and in desperation, he captures a selkie and uses her as a bartering piece. But the selkie's magic is powerful enough to drown entire islands, and if he's not careful, he might find himself in a watery grave.Mayla Brior is gifted with the power to shed her seal skin, enabling her to walk on land. But when a man robs her of the pelt, she is forced to follow his commands, endangering her skin, and preventing her return to the sea.Venturing into enemy territory, Klaus and Mayla bond, escalating their relationship into more than adversaries. He realizes his pending nuptials are a dreadful mistake. But it might be too late to choose another path, especially when he knows he has to eventually let her go.

He was the monster from her past. She was everything he didn't know he wanted.When Mirabelle Waters' father falls ill, she must return home from Edilann and find a husband quickly to take over the ranch. When two men are lining up at her doorstep for their chance to win her hand, the decision is easy. Because Barnaby is everything she wanted. And Gilberd? He was her childhood nemesis.The only thing Gilberd Keats aspires to be is a soldier in the king's army. But he soon comes to realize he must choose between a life with a sword in his hand and one with Mirabelle at his side. However, wooing her is not easy, especially when she has her eye on someone else. That, and the woman hates his guts.As the two become closer, Mirabelle realizes Gilberd might not be the villain she always thought he was. But will she get the chance to give him her heart? Or will her father's sinister past destroy any chance they have at happiness?Find out how Gilberd becomes Prince Sterling's personal bodyguard in this story that takes place 8 years before Yours, Sterling!

When Sophia Meadows' closest friend dies-the man she has secretly loved for years-a piece of her soul dies with him. Two years later, along her journey to meet her new fiancé, bandits derail and rob her train. She encounters the man who ripped her heart out with his death two years earlier. Alive and healthy. Samuel Woods is a bounty hunter, and..

Lord Death kills everything he touches, and worse, each day, he loses more control of his power. He has to find a replacement for Life before it's too late, but in order to transfer Life's power to another host, he must first kiss them to exchange a breath. No one has survived his deadly kiss. Meira Abrams is determined to rise above her humble ...

Fate has given her a second chance. The only things Elisabeta knows how to do is lie, cheat, and swindle. When her brother learns of a treasure worth kingdoms lying in the heart of Ichor Knell, the great vampire city, he sends her to steal it. However, the key to the treasury is safeguarded by the captain of the guard, a brute named Dracula. Dra...

Zachariah Degore spent ten years locked under ground as a feral vampire. Now he has to redefine what it means to be healthy and whole. With his human life behind him, he starts anew in the vampire city of Ichor Knell with the vampire shah as his kin. He must prove he is worthy of his place in this new world. Laurel Covaci is vampire elite, she w...

Adam Degore's personal need to find a cure for vampirism drives him to ensnare a vampire, but the creature he captures is Dracula's daughter. Worse yet, he's drawn to her-a monster he's vowed to kill. Despite her father's wishes, Willow chooses to live among humans instead of the vampire conclave where she would be safe. She wants a life filled with more than shadows. Being captured by a human, not to mention falling in love with one, is not part of her plan. With vampires and blood hunters closing in on their chosen prey, Adam and Willow need to trust one another. But will that trust come in time for them to survive and find a future together?