Snowblood Blood will tell... In the dead of winter, three damaged people learn that 'the dead of winter' is not just an expression. Dr. Yukie Kuwano, her lover Matthew Darrow and his teenage daughter Kari are going on vacation in Japan, and tentatively feeling their way toward becoming a family. However, even as they start to bond, the ghosts of Yukie's past, both literal and figurative, threaten their fragile new ties. Worst of all, atop Mount Hakkoda, the last stop on their trip, Yukie will learn the truth about herself: she is not entirely human, and snow is in her very blood... Set on an alternate Earth where excess life force breeds strange creatures, Snowblood combines elements of fantasy, science fiction, horror, Japanese folklore and the paranormal to serve as a backdrop for a genre-defying tale. (Yep, Cold-Blooded, rewritten for publication.)

NOW A WATTPAD FEATURED LIST STORY!!! Being the best comes with a terrible price. Slade Wilson, AKA Deathstroke, is among the finest assassins and mercenaries in the world, but every relationship he’s ever had has ended in carnage and betrayal, whether with father or brother, wife and child, friend and ally. Of all those he’s ever cared about, only two are left. One is his daughter Rose, known among costumed adventurers as Ravager. She’s a member of the Teen Titans, but she’s never felt entirely at home among them or anywhere else. Even though her father trained her mercilessly and dosed her with the same serum that made him what he is before he turned on her, he's all the family she has. The other is Yukime Kuwano, a professional henchman who seems to live and breathe secrets. She’s been his lover for two years, and she’s searching for something in this world or the next. Slade wants his daughter to continue her training and follow in his footsteps. Knowing how little Rose trusts him, he's come up with the perfect bait to lure her back: someone she can trust. A new mother. Yukie is all the things he isn't--warm, reliable, and kind. Yukie thinks she's taking her lover on vacation to Japan as a way of saying goodbye to both him and the world. Her interest in the supernatural is leading her places where there is no turning back. But when Rose unexpectedly joins them in Tokyo, they bond so quickly and so naturally it's like they're already a family, just as Slade planned. The question now is: Who will get what they want, and what are they willing to sacrifice to get it? (Busy being rewritten into an original story called 'Snowblood' in the hopes I can get it published.)