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All Your Fates (Currently editing/updating) by TheKarada
TheKarada
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They say in life there are no second chances. But what if you had blown it with the girl of your dreams? What would you do knowing that she was out there, in other realities, realities you hadn't screwed up? That kind of thing could really mess you up... and it could make you do "some crazy." Down-on-his-luck David Blunt is as loser as a loser you can get; recently kicked out of school and fired from his dead end job, David's been squatting in his flop-house apartment, avoiding his landlord and subsisting on stale fortune cookies and cheap street meat for weeks. But when David reads a fortune that predicts an epic future for him, he starts to think that his luck is about to change. Emma Gossett is a spirited world traveler full of wanderlust, and never stays put in one place long enough to form any attachments. Her lovable and eccentric Gran insists this is because she was hidden from the Norns as a babe to keep them from naming Emma's fate, a fable Emma puts little faith in. But when Emma meets David, her faith in reality is shaken to the core. Does this rambling cynical romantic hold the answer to the prevailing sense of déjà vu she's been feeling lately? Or is it just something else, as her new and mysterious and magnetic acquaintance Gabriel insists? Perhaps he holds the key to the mysterious sensations she has felt of living another life alongside her own. All Your Fates is a multiverse mindwarp with supernatural elements that one reader commented: "This story is twisting into ways a pretzel couldn't even try!!"
FALLEN PETALS: THE DECEPTION, THE DECEIT, & THE DAMNED by AUTHORHARLEMHOLIDAY
AUTHORHARLEMHOLIDAY
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"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap . . ." GALATIANS 6:7-8 HARLEM HOLIDAY'S much-anticipated debut novel takes readers on a roller-coaster ride through the life and mind of 17-year-old Symone Harris, the victim of a violent sexual assault at the hands of a predator-Detective Jack Fisher. Her father's best friend and partner is a crooked cop, a bad seed in the New York Police Department. The story begins with Symone's dark, life-changing secret; the sexual violation and later, a pregnancy. Raped by a man she'd thought of as family, turns her life upside down. Guilt and embarrassment diminish Symone's self-esteem and sense of self-worth, sending her into a tailspin of bad choices. Symone's extreme efforts to conceal the truth from her family and friends have a domino effect of consequences. As she spins a web of lies, trying to bury her dreadful secret of the rape and pregnancy, she is pulled deeper into deception with everything spiraling out of control. Ultimately, Symone's deceit causes the heartbreak and suffering of everyone she loves. Lives begin to unravel, one by one. Symone must find the courage to speak out and stop Fisher from hurting anyone else and destroying her family, or she risks losing everything. But will she do it before it's too late? FALLEN PETALS: THE DECEPTION, THE DECEIT, AND THE DAMNED is the first release of a fiction collection of literary works and a reflection of the bitter realities Harlem Holiday's work has allowed her to witness and champion against in her life's journey.