Also Titled: THE SEVEN CANDLES Highest Ranking: 12th in Psychological Horror 13th in Eerie 2nd in Zimbabwe 1st in Bulawayo *** The body of a forth former called Michael Malaba has been found inside the Lobengula High School yard. Although it's been found hanging from a pine tree, something frightening about it makes one thing certain; his death wasn't a suicide; and it wasn't natural either. When sixteen year old Isabel Ndlovu's nightmares slowly start to invade her reality, she knows she's the only person who can solve the mystery behind Michael's death. After all, only she can hear the whispers of his sad song; and only she knows that Michael's death will not be the last. *** Initial Cover Design by @DeeDeeMars New Cover Design by @NK_HadronWrites

For shop girl Evin, alchemy is an understood part of life. She learned how to brew superior potions at a young age and can't imagine her life without the use of Alertness, For General Pain, and Menstrual Cramp Cure. Though already apprenticed to a local master alchemist, she can't help feeling that there might be more for her to achieve. In a different part of the continent, Master Bricot teaches alchemy at the University of Craestor and is working feverishly at his residency project--translating the sacred document The Facerum--when a student of his approaches him seeking help on an unprecedented issue. And south of Craestor in Daitak Capital, the Seat of the World, Emperor Regent Bryn Beynon can't stand potions or those who make and sell them, believing their use, especially martially, to be barbaric and cruel. His first act when coming of age will be to begin imposing legal strictures on the use and sale of such items. Out in the Wilds of Tief, Craix, who travels alone, has never been safe. Not since she was born. Forever trying to evade her pursuers, she travels across the country, constantly intercepting important messages. And over all people in the realm of Heladrith, a pantheon of powerful gods sits in judgement and benevolence, silent for centuries--but not for much longer. Potent is an original, third-person omniscient, past-tense, low fantasy tale with an ensemble cast of approximately eight characters of different genders, orientations, colors, and classes. --Seeking beta readers for this manuscript! Please comment and leave feedback!--

Thirteen-year-old David Rhenford is used to winning. He has a great family, great friends, and a closet filled with trophies, but his never-ending winning streak is pitted against the ultimate test--magic. When one desperate prophet's spell goes wrong--or perhaps too right--David is stolen away to a world under the rule of the last wizard of Atlantia. Mages make up the resistance fighting for the freedom of the people. A wizard's magic is unparalled, however, and nothing of Atlantia has been able to defeat him for centuries. Cue David's mysterious and unexpected arrival. David's lost, afraid, and fed up with a life without wi-fi. People are looking to him for rescue, but who the heck would put a middle-schooler in charge of saving an entire world?