Nocte Defunctorum...also known as Night of the Dead. One night of every twenty years vampires can come into the human world and take Potential Mates. Audrina Knight has every intention of staying human, and not getting invovled with vampires...unlike her best friend and classmates. She wears a simple mask, invisible to all but herself, and keeps the bullshit away. But just when she thinks she's safe, she is brutally taken from everything she knows and loves and thrust into a world of dark fantasy she could have never imagined. Forced to compete for the love of the vampire prince himself, Nicholai Romano, Audrina must find a way to escape this world before she irreversibly becomes apart of it. But what happens when Audrina actually starts to have feelings for this cruel prince? Enjoy the heavy metal shackled to her wrist and the rough kisses that could literally kill her? Even worse...will she go against Girl Code 101 and compete with her best friend for the love one wants and one detests? Full of twists and turns, Forever Dead is filled with love, hate, murder, sex and everything else in between, if there is anything. But the real question is, do all stories have a happy ending, because in this world, being dead doesn't necessarily mean forever...

"Would you rather have me call you a slut or a princess?" - Xalorad "A whore in his dungeon and a saint pup in the public." Marissa Mcpherson didn't know what she was putting herself into when she signed up for a session at her Alpha's dungeon. A little play of chains and whips was her expectations but after the passionate night, she craved for more and more. Her desires took a dark, wicked turn and she began wanting to be trapped behind the stoney walls, stripped and taken till there was nothing left of her soul. However, there was only enough she could get before she had to pay a visit to hell.

Vincent Shaw is defeated, half-dead, and broken in more ways than one. A powerful werewolf now in exile Vincent's mistakes haunt his every step. Evelyn the Meek is a sweet little half-ling and a skilled alchemist. With her own tormented past Evelyn risks life and limb to nurse a broken werewolf back from the brink of death. With a scheming mystic in the mix, an army of evil at the gate, and a vengeful mercenary on the hunt - Vincent and Evelyn must overcome all odds and each other.

Greta Klassen is a human teaching at a school for Lycans or werewolves. Only she isn't aware of it. She also not aware that Alexander Walsow (a Lycan) has been declared by the school to be her protector. He is bound and determined to make her listen to him, and she is just as bound and determined to have nothing to do with him. Follow along as Greta is placed in so many precarious situations that she finds herself always in need of Alexander's help, and Alexander always there, but never happy when Greta refuses to listen to him and therefore finds herself in danger.

/ complete / Life hasn't always been kind to East Winters, but for the most part, she's finally made peace with the incident three years ago that tore her family apart. The same can't be said for Edgecliff; half the town still won't look East in the eye, and the latest wave of petty crimes isn't helping. Two fires and a dead mom hardly prove her innocence. Even worse, Asher is back in town-but no matter how close they used to be, East can't forget what he did on that fateful night... As small incidents snowball into startling revelations, East begins to realize that there might be more to her family, more to her sleepy little town, more to even herself than she could've ever imagined. / best ranking: #25 in Paranormal / featured story in 2016, 2018 / Wattys 2018 longlist

"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to fight for her freedom. There's only one problem: a powerful man blocking her way.

". . . I'm doing it for her. Even if it means reading about every single private moment of her life. . . " Kelsea Richardson went missing three weeks ago. Demi Costello thought that they were best friends, but obviously not. Not if your best friend doesn't tell you why they're about to disappear off the face of the Earth. And no one seems to know where Kelsea is. So Demi decides to play detective, but from reading Kelsea's diary which she left behind, it's as if she is running around in circles. Nothing makes sense. No one will help her. And Demi grows frustrated as she learns about the things that Kelsea kept from her - family traumas, romance, and of course, incidences with Demi herself from Kelsea's perspective.

"Why do you call me that?" "Everyone has been calling you Snow Queen since you transferred schools and you're just now asking why?" he asked incredulously. "Yeah, I guess I am." He looked straight into my eyes and said, "It's because you're like snow; beautiful and cold."

It's been two years since she moved to England before she once again had to live in California with her father. The change of scenery helped after her mother's death, but despite her father's support, she felt empty. Confused and lonely, she meets him. He was there, he was avaliable, and in their own fucked up little ways, they completed each other. He saved her, and if there was a way to reverse time, she would thank him. “Find what you love and let it kill you.” ― Charles Bukowski