The Blood Moon Festival is a deadly competition that selects the next generation of dragon riders. Most competitors spend their childhood honing their Divine - a rare, godlike power typically found in the ruling class. But Raven Black, a poor orphan with an unusually powerful Divine, spent her childhood breaking more laws than she can count. At sixteen, Raven's list of crimes is taller than she is, and she is paying the price for it. Caught and sentenced to death after a heist gone wrong, Raven figures her luck has finally run out. That is until a dragon rider sees potential in Raven's Divine and offers her a chance to avoid execution by competing in the Blood Moon Festival. With no other choice, Raven enters Skydescent, a castle where contestants train and form alliances. As the only ex-criminal, Raven figured she would be the most cutthroat, her competitors too worried about honor to get their hands dirty. But in Scadril, a powerful dragon is honor. 128 competitors enter the Blood Moon Festival, and each will do whatever it takes to come out on top.

The aliens kill every human they catch, or in rare cases, put trackers on them to discover their hidden villages. When Natalie is caught in an ambush, she is unexpectedly released. But there is no tracker. The Saursunes have an entirely different motive this time. *** Run. Don't look back. When Natalie is trapped in an alien ambush, she is unexpectedly released. The first human to ever be let go. The Saursunes invaded centuries ago, and everyone knows that getting caught is certain death. Natalie is confused but grateful to be alive. As a porter, one of the few humans with the rare ability to teleport between special crystal formations, she must leave the safety of her desert village every day to help gather food. When other villages increase their raids on the Saursunes' farms, the aliens retaliate by hunting down every human they can find - except Natalie's group. Instead of trying to kill her and those helping her, they bring them food instead. Is it a trap? Or something else? Natalie isn't sure, but one thing is certain: the Saursunes aren't done with her yet.

When a mafia princess's dangerous past catches up with her, she is forced to confront her complex connection with a mafia boss-a man she once loved, and now hates. Standalone in the Sons of Sin series *** In a single night, Imogen Murphy lost almost everything. A daughter of the Irish mafia, she believed her entire family and her beloved gruesomely murdered, so she disappeared to protect the life of her unborn child. Five years later, she is brought back into the world she abandoned when she and her daughter are abducted by Torin, the man she once adored. Mafia boss Torin O'Brien has become cold and merciless, dismissive of both Imogen and their child. But passion still burns between them, and they will need each other as old betrayals and sinister promises threaten everything they hold dear...

Newborn vampire Ruby Diaz must master her new powers in order to defeat a notorious vampire cult planning to doom all vampire and human souls to Hell. But things get complicated when she finds herself drawn to Orpheus, the alluring and dangerous lord of the Vampires, who holds an inner darkness similar to her own. ----------------------------------------- On a midnight trip to her town's most haunted and dangerous road gone wrong, Ruby Diaz gets in a brutal car crash that takes the lives of five of her closest friends and nearly her own. Except she is offered a second chance to be reborn a vampire. Thrust into this new world, a rare and deadly power releases from deep inside of her. This power draws the attention of alluring and dangerous Orpheus, the lord of the Vampires. He wants her part of his army in a war against the Shadows, a cult of lesser vampires who, with a single drop of blood, can condemn one's soul to Hell. Ruby finds herself drawn to him and the darkness inside of him that is a lot like her own. As the danger of the Shadows increases, Ruby must rely on Halle, one of the few survivors from the crash, and Orpheus, whose darkness might be darker than she'd realized. With the weight of the safety of human and vampire souls alike on her shoulders, along with an all-consuming darkness inside of her she can't escape from, who can Ruby truly trust in this world of blood and darkness? Content Warning: Depicts scenes of graphic violence. Discretion advised.

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**Cosmopolitan featured** **Wattpad Featured** **The Literary Awards Winner (Best Voracious Reads)** [UPDATES ON FRIDAYS] ***BOOK 1 OF THE DARK DUOLOGY*** Alex has always followed a very safe and practical path when it comes to her career and her men. A well mannered and somewhat privileged young doctor, she's always done everything that's been expected of her. And it's worked out perfectly well. Until now... Jake has led a life of violence, power and darkness in the gritty underworld of London's east end. Respected and feared, he's forged a life for himself in a world he's always felt apart from. A world he knows he doesn't want to live in forever. A world he knows he won't survive in forever. When one fateful night brings them both together, an instant attraction draws them both into a strong obsession that neither is able to deny. One that neither of them wants to deny. Jake knows he has to have her, and Alex knows she shouldn't let him. http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a48773/wattpad-on-cosmo-a-dark-fall/ If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in it's original, safe, form, please go to: http://my.w.tt/UiNb/tkO7Pu1IIF © Copyright 2015 All work is property of Scarlett Drake, any duplication or reproduction of all or part of this work without explicit permission by the author is illegal.

[COMPLETE] Brenton Tucker swept like a cool breeze into the long, stifled summer of Amelia's life. He was everything a hero should be-- all easy smiles, broad shoulders, and rakish good looks. Years of common sense left her when he invited her into his company, and she found herself tangled with him beneath virgin sheets. He worshiped her body, crooned sweet promises into her ear, and a dismal future forecast of drudgery and struggle lifted away at his words. He claimed her, stole her away from strangled city life, and rewrote her future in one glorious night of star-crossed lovemaking. There was just one problem-- Brent Tucker wasn't hero of Amelia's story.

As an angel trained to fight the forces of demons, Chiara knew to not let them take her alive, but she never expected to survive her first battle. Trapped in the depths of hell and tortured, only one thing is keeping her alive - the demon kept prisoner with her in the cold, dark cell. As the deadliest demon alive, Logan knew better than to piss off his commander by stealing whiskey and bedding his concubines. But the ladies were lonely and the whiskey was too tempting. He's paid dearly for his transgressions, though, spending months in a cell being tortured, only to regenerate at night for fresh torture the next day. Time blurs and he grows restless to be freed so he can rejoin the battles against angels, until a new captive is brought to his cell. The second he sees Chiara - her beauty and fierce strength, the blinding white of her wings - he is lost and she is the path forward. He would destroy every demon in hell to free her, but to possess her, he will have to destroy himself.

No one ever said what would happen when dragons and aliens meet. And no one told me that I would be in the middle of it. Tasha was studying hard to get through her last year of university when she was kidnapped. She certainly didn't expect to wake up with four feet and wings. Mad scientists are bad enough, but things get even more complicated when aliens appear and wipe out the human race. Is there a way for her to hide her true identity in this new world while retaining her humanity? --------------------- Sneak Peek: I jumped over the lip of the tray and beat down hard with my wings. I had expected to only slow my fall; I had not expected to end up gaining so much height. I squawked in surprise and spread my wings wide in alarm before gravity regained its hold on me. With several awkward back-winging motions of my wings, I landed lightly on the floor. Well, at least I know my wings work. I glanced at the man in the corner as he was scribbling quick notes. I turned around to regard the tray again. They say practice makes perfect. With another hop and a single wingbeat, I managed to land in the sand tray with fanned wings slowing my momentum. That was much more graceful. But a wing-assisted hop wasn't true flight. And I still wasn't on the windowsill. ---------------------------- Entire semi-polished draft can be read on Wattpad. The polished version may be purchased on Amazon as print/audio/ebook. Copyright November 2016. All Rights Reserved. Readers may not copy, alter, or steal this story. Fanfictions are allowed to use my *world*, *labs*, and kidnapping/metaforming idea as long as credit is given. Loosely based on a story of a loyal war dog who had originated as a street stray. The Cover was done by Dedefox at https://www.deviantart.com/dedefox