[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. ...
Sylas hates parties, but when he's invited to a fancy charity ball, he goes along for his sister's sake. After inadvertently stealing a magical relic, he finds himself caught in a deadly intrigue, on the run, and falling in love with a man as dangerous as the magic now bound to his life. ...
In a world of magic users, Josalyn is a normal girl who tries to find answers to the cause of her parent's disappearance. In doing so, she encounters many people who don't want her to find out the truth. With allies by her side, she goes on a journey to find the answers she seems as well as stop those who get in her w...