Shari Branning, Author
MY BOOKS
Fantastical and romantic adventures with lots of action, lots of heart, and thought-provoking themes. I aim to immerse readers in imagined worlds, shake them, scare them, make them think, and then wrap them in a warm fuzzy blanket of feels, no matter what the genre.
What Bullets Can't Kill
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​His six-guns aren’t going to solve this problem...
Rebel soldier turned gunslinger Nat Rider has seen more fights than he can ever hope to forget, and earned a violent reputation he can’t outrun.
After barely surviving an encounter with a mysterious, bloodthirsty beast, he is unwillingly drawn into the hunt for it. But is this monster the only thing stalking the hills?
He needs to find answers fast, because this unearthly threat has decided Rider should die next, and it’s not worried about his guns.
What Bullets Can't Kill is a standalone novella
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Betrayer
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If the price of betrayal is death, how do you buy a second chance?
Free spirit Evie Drake attends a local renaissance fair, where she gets a henna tattoo of an ancient symbol. Legend claims it will open a door to another world, but the last thing Evie expects is for the legend to be true.
Alone in a world where words are sacred and songs hold power, safety is fleeting.
One bad decision and suddenly Evie finds herself hunted - pursued across two worlds by creatures sent to claim her soul, and by a man ordered to bring her to justice.
She would give anything for a second chance... but will the ultimate price be more than she is willing to pay?
Unmask the Night
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Rowan D'Araines finally knows the truth about her husband. Now the question is, can she trust him?
After betraying his only friend, and with more blood on his conscience than he can ever atone for, Aaro fears it's too late to act the hero. But with Ormand backed by sorcery and plotting against the High King, Talva is on the verge of civil war and Aaro could be the only one capable of stopping the country's destruction. He'll need help from the Red Wolf, though, and her Shonnowan friends. That's if they don't kill him on sight.
Quench the Day
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One day to fall in love, and a king’s jealous curse to rip them apart…
Fiercely independent Rowan Keir has met her match in the king’s cousin, Aaro D’Araines. Fleeing social pressure from her family, Rowan travels to the western district in hopes of gaining her freedom. Instead, she ends up in the middle of an ongoing feud between Aaro and the cunningly murderous King Ormand. Both men are dangerous, and to her chagrin, both of them set their sights on her. Worse, an abrupt marriage to Aaro might be the only way to escape Ormand.
But when their plans go wrong, both their lives are shattered. Rowan, cursed to spend the rest of her life as a wolf, seeks refuge in the wilderness, while Aaro swears revenge and turns himself into a killer.
Their only salvation could be in each other, but with both of them thinking each other dead, by the time they learn the truth, will it be too late to change the monsters they’ve become?
Unseen Things
There’s darkness, and then there’s Darkness.
Vail used to be fearless- and ruthless- before he started seeing things. Now, pursued by government agents and talking dogs, he’s afraid he’s going crazy. But he’s even more afraid he’s NOT crazy. Unseen creatures of Darkness have begun to invade the world of the living, and Vail is the only one able to see the truth.
Matt is one of the few people living in the bombed out city who’s got survival fairly under control. That’s until Vail, injured and on the run, barges into his life asking for help. But helping him could well cost Matt everything.
Torie thought life couldn’t get worse than starving on the streets, until she agrees to participate in an experimental drug test that’s supposed to help with fear. Instead she realizes that she’s been poisoned, and all of her worst fears were never bad enough.