Love can bloom in the strangest places...and people! A cursed king and theworld's strongest witch are about to cross paths, forever changing their futureand the fate of the world!

"My wish is for you to become my wife!" "DENIED!" Witches-the centuries-old mages that command power immense enough to bring catastrophe. Oscar, the crown prince of the powerful kingdom of Farsas, was cursed as a young boy to never sire an heir. Hoping to break the magic, he seeks out Tinasha, the strongest witch on the continent. To meet her, he climbs her tower, as she is said to grant the wish of any who successfully do so. Yet, when he arrives at the top...he requests that Tinasha become his bride!

A week has passed since the murder at the festival, and Oscar has returned to his busy daily life with government affairs while Tinasha has finally begun to be respected as a court mage. But because they are often seen together, there always are rumors about them in the castle, and their nightly meetings to uncover the ones behind the incident aren’t helping any. Then, during one such meeting, Oscar accidentally ingests an aphrodisiac in front of Tinasha...

"There are three "angels"--two boys, Bob and Manny, and a girl, Shell--all sixteen. They recruit a fourth angel, Jerry, also sixteen. Despite their youth, all carry an ugly past. They deny it by turning a falsely brave front to the world, by using hip, obscene language to conceal their real feelings, by drowning their fears in frantic action, by directing their mounting rage at one another. Fighting themselves and the boredom of the hot Texas summer that stretches before them like a barren desert, they range parks, streets, derelict houses, killing time by playing private and very dangerous games. They get their kicks by picking on people--strange people, perverts, anybody--trying to get into their heads. As they hover in the limbo between childhood and adulthood, the four "angels" maintain a precarious balance among themselves and within the intriguing but hostile world confronting them. They keep playing with fire until the playing explodes into a terrible reality they all have to face. Rechy's four teen-agers are in many ways still children--tinged with innocence and capable of beauty--but they are also tigers, ferocious, cold, destructive."--www.johnrechy.com.