[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]]

ˏˋ°•*⁀➷┊ 𝗙 𝗘 𝗔 𝗥 𝗟 𝗘 𝗦 𝗦 ❁ཻུ۪۪ ━ 𝒂𝒅𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 /ˈfɪr.ləs/ 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘰 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳 : 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳 ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ≀➸ ❥ ❝ she wasn't looking for guidance or 𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, just some peace of mind; a place to fully 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈, unafraid of who she was and who she could 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆. ❞ .‧₊° ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ( 𝚄𝙽𝙳𝙴𝚁 𝙴𝙳𝙸𝚃𝙸𝙽𝙶 ) ( 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝟷𝟶𝟶 ) ( 𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚘𝚗 𝟷,𝟸,𝟹 - 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚍, 𝚜𝟺 - 𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 ) ( 𝚘𝚌 𝚡 𝚘𝚌 ) ( 𝚘𝚌 𝚡 𝚕𝚎𝚡𝚊 ) ( 𝚌𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗 : @𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚘𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 @𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚗𝚜 )

The world has been overrun by monsters. Governments have toppled, nations have fallen. Desperation has ushered in a new world order. Welcome to The Bright Waste where violence is cheap and salvation is in short supply. Where survivors are brutal and compassion is a rare commodity. Akiva is a scavenger for The Mothers. Her job is to scour the bones of the old world for any vestige of value, and to stay alive. That's the hardest part when the monsters have other plans. Her only hope is to stay in the light, glorious and burning bright. Editor's Pick List: June 2020

Wattpad Story Rankings Dark Legacy: The End of the Kai || #1 || Science Fiction on April 28, 2019 Dark Legacy: The End of the Kai || #4 || Fantasy on June 5, 2019 The End of the Kai of the Dark Legacy Cycle details the violent end of the Kai Order - an ancient, spiritual guild of warrior guardians and priestesses who have sworn their lives to protect the Oracle Queen of Atlantis - at the hands of Maniok, the being referred to as the "Great Evil" in the age-old Song of the Oracle King. It is a chronicle of Arkan, the last Kai guardian, and his desperate attempt to save the life of his priestess, who carries his unborn son, and his escape from Atlantis.

Sometimes the only spark of hope in a world riddled with chaos is a girl as broken and scarred as you. COMPLETE at 41 chapters.

[Formerly Featured/Award-Winning Novella/#2 in Horror] There is something eerie about this village -- this hole of silent, maddened people. In 1922 my Papa told me of a faceless entity that lurks amongst us in our isolated slice of Russia. The locals have kept this horror alive for a century, though the only ones who claim to have seen the Folveshch have succumbed to a life of sightless silence. My name is Stefan Alyovich and the people around me are changing. They slip into worsening madness every winter, and I ask myself: how much longer before I'm the only sane one left? ... The only one left alone with the Folveshch. ↟- ↟- ↟- ↟- ↟- ↟- ↟- ↟- ↟- ↟- ↟- ↟- ↟- ↟- ↟ • 21,000 word novella • Rank #2 in Horror • Rank #4 in Mystery • Horror winner of Greatbelt U.F Award 2015 • CBY October Book of the Month 2014 • The Cryptic Awards Best Horror Winner 2017 • Wattpad HQ Winter Escapes Reading List • Wattpad HQ Stranger Things Reading List • Fright Top Horror/Featured Horror/Stranger Things Reading Lists • Mystery Paranormal Mystery Reading List • ThePurgeMovie Urban Legends Reading List • TheGallowsMovie Best of Thrillers Reading List • Blairwitchmovie Top Horror/Thriller Reading List • OuijaMovie Top Horror Reading List • IncarnateMovie Top Horror ↟- ↟ - ↟ - ↟- ↟- ↟ - ↟ - ↟ - ↟- ↟ - ↟ - ↟ - ↟ - ↟-

You've never, ever read a book like this. When a sexually-transmitted plague breaks out in Ashley Young's small town, leaving its victims with a bizarrely amplified libido, everything about her life changes. DEAD IN BED is partly a suspense thriller with a strikingly unique story, partly a page-turning mystery about a disease that makes people hopelessly crave sexual contact, and partly a neo-western adventure in the American heartland. For readers who can handle a smart, controversial female protagonist who's willing to do anything -- no matter how difficult or morally questionable -- in order to survive, the series pulls them in like an unshakeable addiction. . . . Bailey Simms, teen author of DEAD IN BED, is stuck at home with a rare medical condition. Writing is her only escape, so she's determined to keep her salacious series hidden from her strict father. Soon an older boy starts to secretly help her, and Bailey finds new opportunities for freedom she's never had. But as DEAD IN BED grows in popularity, and Bailey's fans start to clamor for the sequel, she learns that being a successful Wattpad author may come with a terrifyingly dangerous price.

Coming face to face with demonic creatures ravaging her village, Jaclyn is given a choice. Her soul, in exchange for the lives of her family and friends or to watch as everyone she knows and loves is slaughtered. With the naivety of a child, Jaclyn agrees, sealing her fate with a blood oath, making her now a marked one. On her 18th birthday, her life will no longer be her own. It'll be time for the crimson eyed demon to collect. And he will collect....

You don't always get what you want, but if you're lucky, you might get what you need. For one week only, an impenetrable castle is open to the public, and Dale Armstrong has come to Bratislava to rob it. When he finds his partner's arms mangled, he desperately searches for a way to fix him before time runs out. Because the war in the Far East is sapping all the allied nation's resources, only The Nightingale Circus has the spare parts, the power, and the expertise to fix prosthetics and help the injured, but nothing is free. Unfortunately, Dale doesn't know about The Nightingale Circus's side job, but a forced encounter with the most dangerous woman in the city, the Golden Lady, sends him their way. On this roller coaster of crazy twists and flips, schemes and deceit, wishes and dreams, no one can foresee how the aerialist will land. Anything is possible in a world of Broken People. ----------------------------------- Broken People - A big heist, prosthetics, and The Nightingale Circus! ----------------------------------- This is the full Broken People novel, the first book in the Broken People series. For those who don't like to wait, Broken People is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, iTunes, and Smashwords. Leave a comment and make my day!

[completed] #wattys2015 What if our lives were controlled by a clock, ticking down until our lives ran out? In Evelyn Rose's world, everyone is given a certain amount of time, all measured by the clock, but there will always be flaws in the system. Those who die at the hands of another flaw it. Their souls are stuck in the world until they can take revenge on their killer, punishing them for tampering with the laws of fate. Evelyn is one of those murdered souls. She wakes in a graveyard, remembering nothing except she was instructed to find and kill her killer. Lost and confused, she meets a boy who claims to know her. The memories he stirs up may be the pieces Evelyn needs to complete her puzzle. Cover by @_MayTijssen #114 in paranormal © Copyright 2015 All rights reserved