Contrary to popular belief, Cupid is not a cute little cherub. And he’ll take revenge on any who say differently. Just ask Ilar, Commander of the Lycaon guard… Lady Rhiannon’s beauty is distracting suitors from her older sister and ruining her chances at marriage, so her father has her locked her away in a tower. Believing she is going crazy from the isolation, Rhiannon hears a frightful voice. The next thing she knows, she wakes up in a strange forest pursued by mythical wolf men. And, worst of all, their leader is taking her home with him. Ilar is irritated to discover an enchanted female—a human, their ancient hunters—disrupting his Lycan Guards. One sniff of this mortal’s enchantment and the men go insane, trying to kill each other for her hand. Ilar has no choice but to break the spell by claiming the female as his own. But who knows what will happen when Cupid’s Enchantment is broken? From NYT & USAT Bestselling Author Naughty Cupid Series Anniversary Edition Reader Note: This book has been re-edited and revised for it's anniversary. Paranormal Werewolf Shifter Fantasy Historical Romance Naughty Cupid Series Cupid's Enchantment Cupid's Revenge Cupid's Favor Genres: Dark, High Fantasy, Epic, Medieval, Historical, Paranormal, Other-World Romance, fairies, elves, demons, trolls, mythical, fanciful creatures, shapeshifter, Psychic, paranormal romance, elf, fantasy romance, Wizards, Sorcery, action and adventure, alpha male, bad boy hero, damaged hero, fae, fantasy, hea, kick ass heroine, kick butt chick, legends, labyrinth, magic, myths, romantic adventure, shifter romance, Wizards & Witches, sprights, knights, nobility, royalty, cupid, valentines day, spells, witchcraft, enchantment, comedy, humorous, romantic comedy

When a single arrow inspires romance, can you really trust happy endings? Sometimes love needs a shove. Eliza Herman (a.k.a. The World's Worst Cupid) has spent her entire life carefully avoiding her calling as a Descendant of Eros. After all, happily-ever-afters are nothing but a myth. But when a family crisis requires her to fill in at the local Cupid-for-hire shop, Eliza finds herself enchanting couples under the watchful eye of her assigned mentor, Jake Sanders...the one man she could never get out of her head. Before long, Eliza is rethinking her stance on romance—until things start going terribly wrong with her enchantments. Now Eliza and Jake must fight to unravel a conspiracy that could destroy thousands of relationships, including their own...and spell the end of Love itself. No pressure, right?

In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, Telemachus. Other islands—real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue—the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.

Enter a land of magical ponies in this chapter book series that features illustrations throughout! The enchanted island of Chevalia, where ponies rule, has finally had its magic restored, thanks to human Pippa and pony Princess Stardust. Her task complete, Pippa has returned to our world . . . but her friends in Chevalia are never far away. It's Valentine's Day, and Pippa is so excited to get a surprise visit from her best friend, Princess Stardust. But Stardust needs Pippa's help. . . Troublemaker Divine has cast a spell, and the ponies of Chevalia have forgotten how to love and started fighting! Together, Pippa and Stardust must search the forests, fields, and volcanoes of Chevalia for a way to break the curse. Can they remind the ponies how to be kind before Valentine's Day is ruined? Pippa's adventures in magical Chevalia are brought to life with delightful illustrations. Collect all of the books in the Princess Ponies series: A Magical Friend A Dream Come True The Special Secret A Unicorn Adventure! An Amazing Rescue Best Friends Forever! A Special Surprise A Singing Star The Lucky Horseshoe The Pumpkin Ghost Season's Galloping An Enchanted Heart

Turtle Croakies: Naida’s old mentor, Alice Parker is back, and she’s brought a problem with her. A big one. One that’s already testing the sprite’s ability to keep it in lettuce and strawberries. Love Croakies: Banshee bunions! As if Naida didn’t already have enough trouble with her love life. Now she has to save someone else from dying of love. Piped Croakies: Just when Naida thought her life couldn’t get any weirder, life upped the strangeness quota to a never-before-seen level. When a long line of critters, dazed and seemingly oblivious, marched past Croakies, Naida knew she had a situation on her hands.

Cupid's livid. It's bad enough he made two people fall in love, but now thanks to King Larus, the whole Immortal Realm knows about it. There's only one thing a troll can do. Get Revenge. Lady Mina and her sister are impoverished, starving, and their castle home is crumbling around their feet. With their father is dead, the servants have all fled and left them to fend for themselves in the middle of winter. Mina doesn’t think things could get worse, until they're kidnapped and left as an offering to a handsome man-beast. After Cupid caused a great disruption amongst his lycans by bringing an enchanted human to their realm, King Larus had to meet with the Council of Elders to tell what the troll had done. It should have been enough to stop future mischief. Or so he thought. Now he’s trapped in the woods with two beautiful women—one whose madly in love with him and one who wants nothing more than to claw his eyes out. Larus is quickly learning not to underestimate a troll bent on revenge. From NYT & USAT Bestselling Author Naughty Cupid Series Anniversary Edition Reader Note: This book has been re-edited and revised for it's anniversary. Paranormal Werewolf Shifter Fantasy Historical Romance Naughty Cupid Series Cupid's Enchantment Cupid's Revenge Cupid's Favor Genres: Dark, High Fantasy, Epic, Medieval, Historical, Paranormal, Other-World Romance, fairies, elves, demons, trolls, mythical, fanciful creatures, shapeshifter, Psychic, paranormal romance, elf, fantasy romance, Wizards, Sorcery, action and adventure, alpha male, bad boy hero, damaged hero, fae, fantasy, hea, kick ass heroine, kick butt chick, legends, labyrinth, magic, myths, romantic adventure, shifter romance, Wizards & Witches, sprights, knights, nobility, royalty, cupid, valentines day, spells, witchcraft, enchantment, comedy, humorous, romantic comedy

Beware of trolls bearing favors. When Lord Malak saves Cupid from a sandpit, the troll is honor bound to settle the life debt or risk being called upon later—even if the lycan noble insists he doesn’t want any reward for the deed. Simply breeding the man’s goats isn’t enough to repay such a price. No, for this he needs something more. Knowing the perfect gift to be revenge, Cupid delivers the one thing that seems to aggravate Lord Malak the most—Lady Sophia. After being kidnapped and drugged by the horrible Cupid, Lady Sophia wants to go home—to a place where magic doesn’t exist and there’s no chance of being eaten by a dragon. But most of all, she wants to be rid of her escort, Lord Malak. The charming lycan swore to protect her and see her safely home, but it seems fate and a little troll have other plans. From NYT & USAT Bestselling Author Naughty Cupid Series Anniversary Edition Reader Note: This book has been re-edited and revised for it's anniversary. Paranormal Werewolf Shifter Fantasy Historical Romance Naughty Cupid Series Cupid's Enchantment Cupid's Revenge Cupid's Favor Genres: Dark, High Fantasy, Epic, Medieval, Historical, Paranormal, Other-World Romance, fairies, elves, demons, trolls, mythical, fanciful creatures, shapeshifter, Psychic, paranormal romance, elf, fantasy romance, Wizards, Sorcery, action and adventure, alpha male, bad boy hero, damaged hero, fae, fantasy, hea, kick ass heroine, kick butt chick, legends, labyrinth, magic, myths, romantic adventure, shifter romance, Wizards & Witches, sprights, knights, nobility, royalty, cupid, valentines day, spells, witchcraft, enchantment, comedy, humorous, romantic comedy

Apuleius’ tale of Cupid and Psyche has been popular since it was first written in the second century CE as part of his Latin novel Metamorphoses. Often treated as a standalone text, Cupid and Psyche has given rise to treatments in the last 400 years as diverse as plays, masques, operas, poems, paintings and novels, with a range of diverse approaches to the text. Apuleius’ story of the love between the mortal princess Psyche (or “Soul”) and the god of Love has fascinated recipients as varied as Romantic poets, psychoanalysts, children’s books authors, neo-Platonist philosophers and Disney film producers. These readers themselves produced their own responses to and versions of the story. This volume is the first broad consideration of the reception of C&P in Europe since 1600 and an adventurous interdisciplinary undertaking. It is the first study to focus primarily on material in English, though it also ranges widely across literary genres in Italian, French and German, encompassing poetry, drama and opera as well as prose fiction and art history, studied by an international team of established and young scholars. Detailed studies of single works and of whole genres make this book relevant for students of Classics, English, Art History, opera and modern film.

When Edith Templeton’s stories began appearing in The New Yorker in the late 1950s, she quickly became a favorite of the magazine’s discerning readers. Her finely honed writing, honestly drawn heroines, and distinctive themes secured her reputation. The Darts of Cupid collects seven of Templeton’s stories for the first time and reintroduces one of the truly great writers of the twentieth century. In settings ranging from a decrepit Bohemian castle between the wars to London during World War II to the Italian Riviera in the 1990s, the heroines of these stories often find themselves confronting unfathomable passsions and perplexing actions by others, but they seldom feel regret.