A simple family in the countryside have their lives changed when the Kingsguard comes with a dire message, one that brings them to the city of Mortel to find answers. But not all is as it seems in the city. The people live happily, the benevolent King Denile and his Kingsguard protect the living, and devout monks tend to the dead. But underneath that is a darkness plaguing everything around them. Ominous secrets lurk within the city. Hidden deep within the Halls of the Dead.

It's a deadly plan, and it goes like this: First, become a crew member of the Avourienne, a pirate ship notorious for its charismatic captain and wicked ways. Second, trick the ship's cunning strategist, famous for winning every game she's ever played, into believing a delicately spun lie. Third, get close enough to their tyrant king to put a knife through him. Deadly doesn't quite describe such a plan. In fact, inconceivable may be the better word. But Archer Kingsley has a knack for such things, and he feels he's going to pull off this plan with the ease he does most everything. Perhaps he's not quite aware of the absolute hell that's about to break loose, but truthfully, it's so much better that way. Because true adventures are born from uncertainty. * Cover by xxsoteria Mature themes you may encounter in this book: - harsh language (it's a pirate book) - violence (it's a pirate book) - sexual implications (it's a PIRATE book) However, this story does not violate any of Wattpad's mature guidelines and therefore is not marked as such. This is book one in the Venture Series. It is standalone and can be read without any prior knowledge. Featured on the following profile's reading lists: (15x) @adventure (Voyages and Sea Epics) @YAfantasty (New Adult Fantasy) @talesofthedeep (Pirate Tales) @HistoricalFiction (Revolution and Rebellion) @WattpadSeries (Action/Adventure) @WattpadHistoricalRomance (Pirate Adventures) @WattpadRoyals (The Adventure Awaits) @action (Fantasy in Action) @action (Adventure in Action) @antiheroesglaore (Wicked Women) @adultfiction (Journeys to Another Realm) @fantasy (Romantasy) @StoriesUndiscovered (Not This Road Trip Again) @WattpadDarkFantasy (A Kingdom in Shadows) @WattpadDarkFantasy (Out of the Shadows (featured stories)) @Romance (Worlds Apart)

✨A WATTYS 2022 PARANORMAL & "BEST CHARACTERS" WINNER✨ A college basketball star risks everything to prove his innocence with a girl who can communicate with ghosts. *** Ace Jones isn't certain about a lot of things in life, but basketball has always come easy. This is until he finds himself as the prime suspect of a murder he knows he didn't commit. Lucky for him, Devyn Brooks knows he didn't commit it either. But not because she witnessed it--she simply sees the victim as plain as day and even endures her incessant talking. Though Devyn usually does everything in her power to hide her supernatural ability, she'll have to start embracing it in order to save Ace from a common fate. And Ace will discover a deeper part of his identity that challenges his notions of the world. Will they be able to solve a case that America is so eager to pin on another Black man? ✨| FEATURED ON WATTPAD READING LISTS | ✨ 💕 Wattpad Editor's Choice Dec. 2022 💕 @StoriesUndiscovered, Thrills N Spills 2022 @SpeculativeFiction, The Crypt 2022 ⛈ A Stormy Nights Challenge Participant 2022 ⛈

When a government-funded project to create supersoldiers goes incredibly wrong, a zombie outbreak unlike any the world has ever seen in books and video games sweeps the United States. ••••• Daytona Pierce lost everything when the LycanZ pathogen spread to her hometown. Despite it being years since the first outbreak, she hasn't given up hope in a cure for humanity. On the contrary, she uses her position as sergeant in the Boston Quarantine Zone to keep up to date on the progress of an antidote. A mission gone horribly wrong sends Daytona on a trek cross-country in hopes of delivering the one person who could save the world: Soren Levisay. Only, more than just her life is on the line and despite her promise, she finds herself lost in the revenant's kiss and unwilling to let go. ••••• This will be written in first person point of view. Based off Prompt 33: And then I pressed my cheek against the asphalt and prayed the dead bodies would cover my scent. Additional, Prompt 5: A soldier always has two options when at a crossroads: to follow orders or to abort the mission. Started: 2/4/22 Ended: 4/29/22 Word Count: 34,238 CONTENT WARNING: contains mature language, blood and gore, and explicit scenes of various types including those of sexual nature © D. C. Bolton 2022

A MAN WITH NO HOME Tell me, sweet stranger, do you know the story of Normant Lumensky, the man from a mystical land universes away from Earth? Making an ark out of his chains, he turns from a prisoner of war into a fugitive. A WOMAN AGAINST THE WORLD Tell me, curious stranger, do you know the story of Jasmine Nicholson, the woman who spends her days working for a company that wreaks havoc not only on enemies, but on innocents, allies and everything in between? When the only light in her apartment goes out, she makes a promise to everything holy to not let the company get away with it. SUNFLOWERS BLOOMING AT MIDNIGHT Do you know that when she is sent on yet another mission of murders and ruses, she partners with the one person she should not come close to? Have you visited the cities of plastic beauty they leave in ruins as they hop in stolen cars and drive off into the dark? Tell me, eternal rover, do you know the story of their lives? If not, it's time to let your ghosts slip into their graves. Come, let us show you around the garden of voluptuous decay. highatmidnight | 2021-2022

When a quintet of adventurers with distinct skills ventured into a mystic jungle situated in the middle of an isle, what could possibly go wrong? ***** 🥇 FIRST PLACE WINNER IN THE NAUGHTY LIST AWARDS: BEST TITLE CATEGORY 🥉THIRD PLACE WINNER IN THE NAUGHTY LIST AWARDS: ADVENTURE CATEGORY ***** Word Count [13,000~20,000]

Magic is not real! Ancient History is just a part of someone's fabrication put into books. Shark and Troy do not believe anything they cannot see with their own two eyes or that science cannot prove. What would they do when a mysterious warrior save's them from an ancient magical assassin and sends them to another world? Now, they are facing the reality of being thrown into the strange world of Axial where every magical creature you have read about in books and seen in movies and those never thought about became their ally and greatest foe. This new world shattered their beliefs and all they thought they knew about life. And why does the hidden behind the scene's, Messiah of Darkness, leader of the Dark Empire, want them? How did he know they lived on Earth to send his assassin there? Read and find out. Do you like magic like in Harry Potter? Adventures like in Lord of the Rings? Or tales of Ancient Greece and Egypt, then this story will combine all of these in one place. [2nd Place in the Vibez Era Awards for Best Fantasy Book - 2021] [2nd Place in the Mysfic Award for Best Action Book - 2021] [2nd Place in the Sunshine Awards for Best Blurb - 2021] [3rd Place in the Enchanted Awards Best Fantasy Book - 2021] [3rd Place in the Meteorite Awards for Best Fantasy Book - 2021] [3rd Place in the Seasonal Contest - 2nd Edition for Best Fantasy Book - 2021] Please like, comment, vote and share with friends. I do not own any of these pictures, these are all from google. #trbook2021 #theseasonalcontests #iceflake2021

The Lands of Ralosia and Ranuulo (Book 1-3) (218.5k words) The Lands of Ralosia & Rannulo series takes place in a world with individuals capable of incredible feats of strength, animals of abnormal size, and races of people with distinct anatomy and cultures. Aero, Jirro, and Corri travel around the prosperous and beautiful Lands of Ralosia, coming across a variety of landscapes and people. Tournaments, hyena riding bandits, powerful creatures, a mysterious Masked Boy, the Three Deities, sacred weapons, and an underlying secret about their parent's sins. Ultimately their path takes them to the chaotic and desolate Lands of Ranuulo as the one known as Lunahreim seeks to fulfill his mission at any cost. The Lands of Ralosia and Ranuulo clash! Book 1: The Bandit Saga (88.5 words) Aero, Jirro, and Corri travel around the Lands of Ralosia, coming across a variety of landscapes and people. Tournaments, hyena riding bandits, powerful creatures, a mysterious Masked Boy, and an underlying secret about their parents lay in their path. Book 2: The Valr Saga (47.5k words) The Comet Tournament awaits! Every 30 years in a tournament takes place on Challenger's Lake a Fighting Tournament that coincides with Ralosia's comet. Many youths prepare for the tournament through rigorous training and undergoing dangerous adventures. Even the Three Deities have their eyes on these kids. But for the mysterious Masked One, this tournament isn't a simple game. Book 3: Zantii Saga (83.5k words) With the destruction of the barrier, passage between the the prosperous and beautiful Lands of Ralosia, and the chaotic and desolate Lands of Ranuulo. The notorious Sky Bandits seek to make up for past sins. Their children try to become more powerful. and learn the secret of Ralosia's Gauntlets. Meanwhile, the mentor of the Sky Bandits, Lunahreim, tries to fulfill his mission at any cost. The Lands of Ralsoia and Ranuulo clash!

Thalassa Maddox was obsessed with the notion of perfect; she needed a perfect house, a perfect husband and a perfect occupation. When she walks in on her husband with another woman, this perception of perfection disintegrates. Homeless, divorced and working for a takeout establishment, she is encouraged by a friend to accept a holiday invitation to restore her declining mental health. It was meant to be a relaxing environment to heal a broken heart; but it leads to her stranded in the middle of the ocean alongside the stranger responsible. Thalassa had always feared the ocean. How fitting that she would die there. Cover created by @meha-k Does have swearing.

A Dialogue Story Laurel Blair, a nineteen year old animation student in college, aspires to become a comic writer someday and so she decides to work on writing one in her notebook. However, she ends up losing it inside the airport while coming back from her trip to Greece. Just when she loses all her hope of ever getting it back again, she receives a message from someone unknown on a social media site called - talkO'gram. They begin talking and that simple action of losing something so precious to Laurel brings her closer to someone she never even imagined to be with.