"Lightfoot crossed the room in two steps, startling me. I backed up until my shoulder blades hit the wall, and then he was right here, leaning close to me. Impossibly close." Cassandra has a deadly secret, and an addiction to gambling. Her secret could get her killed, which is why she spends most of her life moving from city to city. While on the run from a murderous gang of cheated men, she is rescued by the man who calls himself "Lightfoot". Lightfoot is a master thief, notorious for his many daring jobs. And now the master thief wants something from the gambler, and he isn't going to let her go until he gets it.

{{completed}} ((Possibly my favorite book so far!)) By definition, a sociopath has the following behaviors: superficially charming, manipulative and conning, lack of remorse, shame or guilt, lack of empathy, and ,lastly, incapacity of love. That would be Judeikas for you, a man that attends the Psychological Summer School yearly along with many other students between which Vivien also found himself. Vivien is a guy with a passion for mental disorders so, naturally, he was being more and more intrigued by Judeikas. So what happens when Judeikas turns the tables?

When Clara Allenson stumbles on an antique necklace, she does not expect it to save her life-until it does. It plunges her into the depths of an enchanting world where past and future are intertwined. There she meets Tamer, a vagabond with a hidden past. Together, they embark on a dangerous journey in search of ancient artefacts that are the keys to protecting Tamer's world as well as sending Clara back home.

In a world with two suns, Tesni Kendrick has been taught to fear the blue sun and the people it shines over. In the South, the Wilde can harness the blue sun's power to perform great and terrible feats of magic. Tesni makes her home in the North, where the Wilde are the enemy, the blue sun doesn't shine and magic doesn't exist. Or at least it's not supposed to. For five years, Tesni has hidden her ability to wield magic and suppressed her powers. But when her father, the king's most loyal general, captures a group of Wilde men, Tesni's curiosity gets the best of her. From a handsome Wilde boy, she learns there is more to her magic than she ever imagined. Tesni's quest for knowledge--and the consequences it brings--takes her on a journey to the Wildelight, where the blue sun shines in full force and magic runs rampant. Can she learn to tame her magic from a people as wild as their name?

After the Maelstrom and fall of the Punt at Camp Darkness, the entire facility has to be restructured from the bottom up. Despite having faced the very real possibility of her death, Gideon the Fury has returned as a House Counsillor to help those teenagers who come to the Camp with some serious issues. But when some Fell magic is activated and no one can escape, something starts to stalk the Camp; Counsillors and Campers alike start to turn up partially eaten. Neither the Fury nor the local Loki Virgil are surprised when everyone starts to blame Gideon, but when she is repeatedly attacked by an unseen foe, it becomes very clear that something wicked this way came. Gideon's not the scariest thing at camp anymore, can a combination of luck and madness see Gideon through, or is this the time she can't BUMP back?

After a less than stellar Run that has left her ship damaged, her crew wounded and her own body battered, Captain Felix Katt is just about ready to go on vacation. There was just one small problem, after almost twenty-two years, she finally has the location to find her father, his first name and a sudden, blooming need to at least see if he was still alive. But first she would have to get out of her hospital bed. And across an asteroid field. And avoid a bounty on her head that the Sisters put there. And avoid any Hounds because she'd just killed one of their own. And the hardest part, talk her crew into going along with all of this. Oh, and to make things more interesting, a Shuffle hits and suddenly Felix is facing off against her very worst nightmare: herself.

(The Triumvirate Histories Book Two) What do you get when you add a girl whose life has been more than boring over the last few months and another who looks like a Southern Belle Barbie come to life? Two roommates who are bound to not have anything in common. And what about when you add her nerdy, yet extremely good-looking boyfriend into the mix? Getting to think about that guy you fell for who thought it'd be nice to tell you he loved you before disappearing. And what do you get when you add seeing the guy who'd shot you in your first college class, the next day almost being kidnapped by the secret society that he was a member of, and finding out that your roommate and her boyfriend are totally not who you expected? Yep. The second kidnapping of Emmy Alexander, though I was more than happy to go along with it this time. After months of waiting, I thought I wasn't going to be a part of the mission of the Brotherhood, the secret society that was hidden to the world, as they continued to try and piece together the puzzle of where their hidden history was located. But when the leader of the other secret society makes a promise to come after you, she definitely intended to keep it. So now, I was back in the protection of the Brotherhood, back with John Raymond, that guy who apparently forgot about those three words he said to me before disappearing. But was I complaining? Heck no. Because, along with being with him again, I was officially back to being a part of the mission and we were traveling the world yet again, only breaking into the government buildings of the wealthiest nations in the world this time. And, of course, the Knights, that other secret society, were going to try to do anything to stop us just like the last time. They wanted me...wanted my help in getting into the heart of the Brotherhood, which I still didn't want to happen. And I thought my life was going to be boring again. Yeah, whatever.

#26 in Action on 7/3/2016 Joanna Blake is a reckless girl who wished to be normal all her twenty-one years but knew that wasn't really possible for her. Unfortunately her recent assault of a citizen wasn't helping the matter. Specially when the assaulted citizen wasn't all that innocent. She is sentenced to finish one year in jail. She didn't care about the jail part as much as the part were she was threatened to be killed before she went to the jail. Her cousin and lawyer, Mark found a solution that could be even more threatening for both their lives. She had been a survivor her whole life. but will she be able to survive this? When she finds her self in a prison surrounded by extremely criminal.... Men!? Mafia, Gangsters, Molesters, Bad boys, and crazy friendships. Lies, Doubts, Terror, dark pasts, betrayals, Madness............... and love? Read prison Chic for an epic agony a messed up girl goes through. but who knows? maybe among this misery, happiness head will rise.

Imagine the second you're born, a consultant removes you from your mother's grasp and runs a battery of genetic and physiological tests on you. Thirty minutes later they give you a score out of one hundred which denotes your level of perfection. If your score is above eighty and you work hard to maintain that score you will have a charmed life; well fed, well-rewarded, spoiled. But fall below eighty and you're labelled Flawed, and life will not be so kind. Hannah is adopted by a Flawed family when her birth parents choose their social standing over their daughter and endures a life of struggle, hunger and service. One day Hannah is escorted to the regional government office and told that the Consultant who delivered her, who labelled her Flawed got it wrong! Now, she is being relocated back to her birth parents, to live as one of the Ninety-Five- all medically and legally judged as perfect. Entering this new life Hannah has an impossible decision to make which puts not only hers, but the lives of everyone she cares about at great risk. "The Numbered- where no one wants to be number one". Authors notes: -This is a first draft of my story and will be edited soon. -2013 Began writing Flawed -2015 Watty Winner/ Named changed to The Numbered -2016 Completed The Numbered -2019 Optioned by eOne for development into a TV show.

It's been three months since former enforcer Amaranthe Lokdon and the notorious assassin Sicarius thwarted kidnappers and saved the emperor's life. The problem? Nobody knows they were responsible for this good deed. Worse, they're being blamed for the entire scheme. With enforcers and bounty hunters stalking them, and the emperor nursing a personal hatred for Sicarius, it's going to be hard to earn exoneration. When Amaranthe's team discovers mutilated bodies in the city aqueducts and a mysterious illness incapacitates thousands of citizens, she and Sicarius see an opportunity to solve the mystery and prove their loyalty. But they'll have to defeat vengeful shamans, man-eating predators, and deadly mechanical constructs, all while dodging imperial soldiers who would rather kill them than accept their help. Nobody said exoneration would be easy. The Emperor's Edge Series Reading Order: The Emperor's Edge (Book 1) Dark Currents (Book 2) Deadly Games (Book 3) Conspiracy (Book 4) Blood and Betrayal (Book 5) Forged in Blood I (Book 6) Forged in Blood II (Final Book) The books are available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Smashwords, and iTunes.