[Soon by WATTPAD BOOKS] In the prestigious race of stars, Sozo must hide the truth of who she is or pay with her life, but her blossoming relationship with the most talented competitor threatens everything she's worked for. ***** Every ten years, the lucky chosen bond with stars and race to win a wish. Any wish. Sozo is one of the lucky chosen, but she has a secret: as an Omen -- cursed beings that can transform into monsters -- she's forbidden from competing. Discovery would mean her death. Can she hope to keep her identity a secret, let alone win the race, especially as the talented and sunny Naqi enters the picture? When Sozo is given an ultimatum, she has to choose: betray her Omen people, or betray the people who are slowly, surely, becoming like a family to her. --- WATTYS AWARD 2020 "Bar none, this was [Senior Editorial Specialist] Amanda's absolute favourite read from the Wattys this year. It makes you cry, just from pure, uncontainable joy, and the ending kept us reading until nearly 6am. Everything about this story is beautiful. We were astounded that anyone could create something so magnificent and moving and magical. This level of storytelling mastery will never not blow us away." [Word Count: 70,500]

Inside my network of blood and bone and their network of tendon and meat we have, you and I, our histories of hunting and being the beast. earth-65 au. a sato sisters story GWEN STACY / HARRY OSBORN © 𝖇𝖆𝖞𝖕𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖘

In a secluded woodland mansion, a reclusive widower prepares to receive a visitor, a beautiful young artist commissioned to paint the man's dying portrait. Over an extended sojourn, host and guest will exchange glances, touches and accusations. They will undress not only the artist's naivety but also lay bare the corruption of the mansion's other inhabitants. But as the artist experiences a series of strange and terrifying events, slowly descending into madness, he discovers a horrifying truth. In a desperate bid for redemption, the artist seeks to banish the evil that lurks within-the painting, the house and himself. But will he be strong enough to resist the demons nipping at his soul, or will he succumb to the same fate as those who came before him?

𝐵𝐼𝑇𝑇𝐸𝑅 𝐼𝐿𝐿 𝑊𝐼𝐿𝐿.

[ORIGINAL DRAFT SAMPLE] She is twenty-nine when the FBI comes for her, but Catherine Themis was only seventeen, grieving and naive and angry, the first time she wiped someone else's blood from her fingers and felt the snake rise in her chest. She was seventeen when she stepped into the dark and never looked back. ***** By day, Catherine Themis is an unassuming civilian administrator for the Dedwich Police Department, but by night, she is a notorious vigilante known as The Hangman. Struggling with her violent urges and the psychological cost of her actions, Catherine becomes the target of an obsessive serial killer and a relentless FBI agent, and as the hunt for the Hangman intensifies, Catherine must decide which life she wishes to live and what she values more: vengeance or her fading humanity? A psychological thriller in the vein of MINDHUNTER and HANNIBAL, SERPENT HEART is a deep-dive into the life and history of a conflicted vigilante forced to confront her inner demons and evade a national manhunt. Catherine questions the efficacy of her own convictions as the FBI closes in and a vindictive murderer puts her family, love, and identity in jeopardy. With everything on the line and time running out, who will Catherine Themis become? --- [[AVAILABLE ON AMAZON]] [[REMOVED 24 DEC 2021]] [[2019 Watty Winner - Mystery & Thriller]]

impossible heists, lawless youths, and centuries-old paintings that hold immeasurable power. ✧ cover art by Louise Delfin

virtues are for fools, darling.

The stars as our witness. POETRY / PROSE judecarden © 2021

❝ THE APOCALYPSE DOES NOT WAIT FOR LITTLE GIRLS, MISS TAALIS. ❞ ― a runaway, an ex-apostle, a heretic, a soothsayer, a seductress, and a child all navigate an incoming apocalypse under the backdrop of an ancient city, a burning friary, a dark prophecy, and a doomsday cult.