When Aleta Kami's father dies in a horrific accident, she vows to never tell the truth to the Kingdom's Empress. After years of successfully concealing her magical powers she is ousted, and the power hungry Empress with genocide on her mind entraps her as a weapon. In a Kingdom forsaken by the stars and gods, Aleta is thrown into a quest with an old friend, a new enemy, and a confidant shrouded in mystery. Along the way she learns the truth about the gods and the stars - and unveils a web tying her to the tyrant Empress. But to save herself, her loved ones, and the people of her land, Aleta must come to terms with the truth - a task harder than mastering her powers of telling truth from deception. She must chose to keep her vows and remain in the comforts of ignorance she once treasured at home... or to unveil her deeply harbored secrets and risk damnation for a life she never imagined. Along the way, Aleta gains her footing, challenges her concept of faith, and must answer the age long question... What does she want? And has her wishes for a life changed? The Truth-Teller of Estrella is an Upper YA/NA Fantasy weaving classic adventure with Caribbean and South Asian folklore. Expect: Diverse characters ✋🏼✋🏽✋🏾✋🏿 LGBTQIA+ characters 🌈 New folklore + mythical creatures 🪄 Friendship 💑 Romance 💖 Adventure ⚔️ [ Formerly: "Hidden Truths"] Ⓜ️ Rated 'Mature' for language, violence, and brief sexual content. ✔️ Completed! 📌 Book inspo board: https://pin.it/3eWSmGW 🔊 Interested in the Hidden Truth's playlist? Listen while you read here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2jU5e0RLh3h1OrSLLugx9j?si=L5lxzr3hR_yyaV_kT2rTTg Rankings: #75 in #swordandsorcery #17 in #southasian #75 in #caribbean #853 in #kingdom #72 in #resistance #126 in #folklore

🥈𝕊𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕕 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖 in the Guilded Raven Awards hosted by @TheGuildedRaven 🥈𝕊𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕕 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖 in the Coalition Awards hosted by @CoalitionAwards 🥉𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕣𝕕 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖 in the Regal Awards, hosted by @YaDramaQueenbkp "Pareidolia is when a person sees facial features on objects, but it's more than that. We're constantly trying to make things like us, it's our hubris, the fatal flaw of humanity. We can't stop twisting everything to our reality, to what we want to see. Hubris. That's how we're die, because we can't get out of our own heads, we're never defeat our overlords because we can't think like them. Because we've designed them to be something else in our heads, in movies and tv shows, all our aliens are the same, we, humanity, have made them up, but we didn't make these aliens up, and that's why we're die." 1: Highest ranking in ironic 7: Highest ranking in wit 19: Highest ranking in invasion 23: Highest ranking in weird stuff 43: Highest ranking in post-apocalyptic 88: highest ranking in futuristic

In which a millennial black boy discovers the power of his thoughts and the impact of a pen. The consequences thereafter are devastating. A collection of shitty poems and real life experiences narrated from the perspective of a charcoal dreamer.

*SLOW UPDATES * 𝑺𝒚𝒇𝒂𝒔 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒍, The respected Dragon king who shows no remorse or kindness to anything that breathes. He's known for his hostility and people tend to refrain from contact with him, except his best friend and beta, Axil Chanarel, who knows there's a heart deep down inside him...somewhere. Syfas's anger originates from the pain of not having experiencing the mate bond. Searching high and low, from Tribes to rogue territory, Syfas remains empty-handed. His dragon roars for his Queen every night, someone he can share his burdens with, someone he can care for and someone to 'kiss' relentlessly. 𝑲𝒚𝒓𝒂 𝑨𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔, a sweet, innocent hybrid, lives with her father in a comfy cabin inside the Ethical Forest. After his mates death, her father closed off all contact and thought it would be best to protect Kyra the only way he knew how. The Ethical forest allowed them to hide completely in the shadows, a mystery to the rest of the world, but unknown to them, there's a monster lurking in the shadows searching for his Queen and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Kyras father knew that he couldn't keep her protected forever, soon her mate would secure that role, so after 18 years of lies, he's finally ready to come clean. 𝑴𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 ( 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 ❤︎∞) *mature content and strong language* *violence* Pictures included <3 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵: 14-12-2020 𝘌𝘯𝘥: ? 💛💛💛💛💛🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍 50% completed 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 ★ 1 in Dragon 1 in Prophecy 1 in Fairy 1 in magic users 1 in Pure 1 in Hybrid 1 in Care 1 in Quest 1 in Evil 1 in Truth 1 in Trust 2 in Care 2 in Prophecy 2 in Fairy 3 in Pure 3 in Quest

In a dark and deep land lives young Marjorie, a woman desperate for something more than her conventional life in her tiny village, Core. She aches for something dangerous, something like the dark forest, Mirkwood, which borders her home. Yet, there is a curse which haunts her people: a Wolf. For the last eighteen years, he takes one innocent life. Fate seems to change at the hands of Vivian, a Wardeness who promises Core a safe passage through Mirkwood. For a moment, Marjorie has everything she has ever wanted: An escape from a fate set in stone... until the Wolf set its dark intentions on her. Now, she is forced to decide: Will she defeat the Wolf or will she willingly be devoured? __________________ The stranger turned to face her. This close, it was easy to see his handsome features. From his high cheekbones to his piercing gray eyes, he was unlike any sully-faced villager. Instead, he wore his beauty with a casual grace, as if he were clueless to the plumpness of his lips or the flat, smooth surface of his chest. "Am I a what?" The man cocked a thick, dark brow up. He pushed his right hand into the pocket of his trousers, but not before Marjorie caught a glimpse of the heavy jewels on his fingers. He drowned in an opulence few villagers could afford. "I take that as a no," she said. "What is your name, stranger?" He looked to her, and then his gaze traveled to where men and women continued to fling themselves around the heat of the bonfire. You don't belong here, she thought.

Bexley Ross, a 17-year-old girl from New York, is fighting to stay alive during this disastrous new world. She has no one, except the dead. He gets closer to her than anyone ever has. He makes her forget the feeling of having to survive all the time. Will that last long? During this journey of survival she meets people who impact her life a great deal. She loves, loses, and learns but never forgets.

Jenn's wish to live a typical teenage life is ruined when the burden of her father's death provides a cruel reminder of harsh changes to one's reality. With the constant struggle of an overprotective mother and the challenges in their relationship, Jenn is yearning for more freedom. Perhaps a gemstone is enough to change her life as she endures on a dangerous yet thrilling mission to escape the ordinary and enter the world of fantasy. Is a little bit of adventure and romance enough to fulfil her wishes?

Storie Sovany is used to being dismissed as the fat friend, until she moves from New York City to rural Ohio for college and the charming frat boy Liam Alexander approaches her. Torn between disbelief and flattery, Storie hopes her luck may have finally changed - but is it too good to be true? [author's note: this is not a romance!]

Ray is low on time, luck, and hope; his only chance is an artifact that may not even exist. But upon meeting Landon, Ray is beginning to believe he might find all four. ***** Cambions are doomed to tragedy. They are weak, sickly creatures that rarely live to see their twentieth year. Ray refuses to resign himself to that fate. Upon learning of the Crimson Sheath-an artifact capable of preserving his life-Ray is prepared to fight, steal, and kill to get his hands on it. He is not prepared for Landon. Landon is an orphan with no memories of his parents, the only inheritance left to him a dagger, sleeping in a crimson sheath. Though he has no love of bloodshed and no use for a dagger, Landon isn't about to let Ray take his only link to his forgotten history, even if that means following the cambion past the edge of the world and into the shadow beyond. Content Warnings: Violence, semi-graphic gore, character deaths, profanity, mild drug and alcohol usage, abuse discussed but not shown, and morally-questionable people doing morally-questionable things.

"They become like us, but beautiful. Dangerously beautiful. Oh yes. And they can make the sky do their bidding. They cast spells with their music that can take away your willpower. And their hair . . . is the color of blood." *** There's a legend in the Amazon that tells of attractive and dangerous shapeshifters known as Encantados. When Sofia Aguilar meets one in the flesh, her life is turned completely upside down. Can she reunite a legendary shapeshifter with his past without losing touch with her own reality? *** "We call them . . . Encantado." The word was familiar, yet it tickled Sofi's inner ear in a way that only foreign sounds could. It felt like a name from another world. Somewhere far and lost. Somewhere that should have never been or perhaps might never be. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stunning cover done by the exceptionally talented @LigiaNunes Copyright © 2015 by Coco Nichole