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Don't Look For Who? by Matthaios_07
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This story revolves around a teenage boy, Jake Leblanc, whose parents were murdered by a mysterious man who called them out of nowhere. But he doesn't know that. What he knows is a completely different scenario- his parents died in a plane crash. Ever since his parents passed away, he lived with his aunt and uncle's house together with his cousin. But 16 years after the incident, little did he know that everything he knew about his parents was something that was kept secret from him. Without having an idea about everything that's happening around him, sudden changes and discovery came in his way. Will he know everything, will every secret kept from within be unveiled? Genre : Mystery, Thriller
To Follow the Light- The Untold Story by ellieerose_
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Crippled streets. A silent whisper. Broken beams of light. Her eyes saw it all. The despair; the brokenness of her world. With only her father's hand shielding it all from her. The year is 1948, rubble and collapsed houses littering the streets of Northern France. Marietta, struck with amnesia, remembers nothing from the war. Not her identity, not her experiences, not her family. All she sees is the present, overcome with a cloud of darkness as France slowly struggles to rebuild everything it had before. When her curious mind leads her to the attic, her life is changed in an instant. A broken beam of light reveals a box, filled with photographs. Photographs of her past, of her family, of memories that she can't remember. Slowly the truth begins to trickle out, Marietta slowly crushed with it. As she struggles to find who she really is, and to grasp everything that has happened to her, Marietta begins to find a light. A light that she must learn to follow. [slow updates]
Goats from Lambs by PaulKingston
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Headless bodies start appearing in the streets, so cunning Detective Rashida Heyes and her partner have to stop the killer to prevent the apocalypse ***** After bodies start appearing in the middle of the streets, hollowed and headless, Detective Rashida Heyes and her partner, Travis Virgil, are given the case. However, once they dig deeper, meeting the emotionally broken Victor Eccelstone, and realize how heavily the church is involved, Rashida has to acknowledge that this case might be bigger than she had ever imagined. These crimes aren't the act of one man - they're the beginning of the end of the world [[Winner of the 2017 Wattys Storysmith Award]] [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]
Dream Catcher  by SheHopes
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[COMPLETED] (BOOK I IN THE DREAM SERIES) Dani Deleon has a problem. With a single touch, she can see people's nightmares. When she starts to see the nightmares of a sadistic serial killer known as The Maestro...everyone around her becomes a possible suspect. With the help of Detective Jax Michaels, will Dani be able to stop this symphony of murder? Or will this unlikely duo fall victim to the very madman they're chasing? ----- THE DREAM SERIES: Book One: Dream Catcher Book Two: Dreamscape Book Three: Dream Hunter Book Four: Dream Phantom
Admonitions For Women by MargaretCardoness
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The Ming Dynasty has been shattered. But the pieces must be picked up. Little Peony has been cut on the shards of her broken country. Her family has been ripped in twain, and she is far from the only home she ever knew. She lives in the nest of snakes called the imperial court. In a time when women were considered inferior to men, and society deemed obedience the most important virtue, Little Peony struggles on a journey of self discovery and must choose between love and a chance to make the Ming dynasty what it truly was meant to be: bright. First place Winner of the Heavenly Awards Historical Fiction Category and Hidden Gem Award, the Mist Award Historical Fiction Category, and the Gem Awards Historical Fiction Category, and the Tomato Awards.
Trepidation | Trepidation Trilogy | The Empty World Sequence by KaranSeraph
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Epic Futuristic Dark-Fantasy Adventure --- Claudia is a rational existentialist with ties to them. Danjel is a devout Catholic raised to fear them. Everyone has witnessed violence between Humans and Darkling. Europe is at war, with citizens declaring allegiance to the ruling Union of Darkland Nations or the revolutionaries of the so-called Etats Liberté. Danjel and Claudia share a belief that lives are more important than borders, but they do not agree on the tactics they should use or when it may be righteous to stand and fight. Danjel's pacifist preaching combined with Claudia's knowledge of remnant information networks draws a following, even as foreign troops move toward their location. Fleeing conflict, their refugee caravan grows into a tribe: the Goth. The Goth travel war-torn Europe where Danjel and Claudia are viewed as living saints. Forces on both sides of the military conflict are threatened by the potential for Europe to fall under the sway of a single charismatic leader. They will use whatever assets they have to stop the Goth: terrorist squads, the US Army, even Claudia's vampire ex-boyfriend. ----- Rated 'M' for some scenes of sexuality, mild strong language, vampire-related blood and violence, and graphic military battle scenes. Warning: descriptions of terrorism and war. 3rd Draft. Cover by author, based on iStock photo of Regensberg, Germany by Mikhail Markovskiy.
Witchfire (discontinued first draft)  by Flixir
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"The eyes begin to see clearer in the darkest times." The Martial Empire had been built to withstand an onslaught of human kind. With brutality in their blood and name, they were considered as humanity's most lethal enemy. They were called Witches. When Gin learned that the monsters that lived on the other side of the wall exist, she knew that her peaceful days in the city of Ksenia was at stake. With her life on the line, she had to keep herself away from the nature that was in her instincts and magic from her fingertips intact. Upon the dark chasing after her, wanting her back, Gin had to carry a secret within her. A secret that will cost her life. After all, freedom was never free from the start. Updates Starts on Fall Cover Artist: Celin Chen @Abyss-of-Crazy
Shadows May Fall by annemariehartnett
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Winter, 1917. Dorothy never really thought that war would take her older brother, but like so many others before him, Ian enlisted and departed Canada in khaki, leaving Dorothy to care for the youngest Gaston, Charlie. The return of her employer's son eats away at Dorothy: why should he, the rich man's son, the spoiled brat, be back home sleeping in his bed while her brother sleeps in the muck somewhere in France or Belgium? Robbie Monroe isn't the brat who ran off for a great adventure. Nearly deaf in one ear and deeply lonely, he is a man struggling to put his life back together after his time "over there," and Dorothy seems to be the only one he can talk to. She doesn't want to trust him but she can't help it, and Dorothy soon finds herself with something she didn't realize she desperately needed: a friend. Before the war's end, fate has one final reminder for Dorothy that happy endings don't always happen in real life, no matter how much she tells herself they can. Set in in the weeks before the 1917 Halifax Explosion, Shadows May Fall is a non-traditional World War I romance.