A teenager kidnaps a dead classmate from his own funeral and brings him back to life with the intention of helping him graduate high school. Instead, chaos ensues when he unearths a murder and a mystery that goes beyond the grave. -1st Place in the Imperial Awards-

Desmond Crenshaw doesn't have much going for him. He street races for cash, deals drugs to get by, and drags himself through each day with only one goal: survival. He's a reckless high school dropout with very few talents that won't get him arrested-definitely not someone you'd want around your child. Vaughn Torres agrees, he's been seeking a solid reason to cut off the friendship between the troublemaker and his daughter since the day they met. He gets one, too, when Des's vices begin to bleed into their lives and Winter is officially in danger. Des is given an ultimatum: he can only be around Winter if he distances himself from the crime. There's only one way to do that. A change of employment, specifically to Vaughn's mechanic shop, though that balance is a lot easier said than done. No, things for Des are never that simple. Not when he's working under the watchful eye of a man who hates him. Not when he starts genuinely wanting to be better, and is faced with the rocky road of leaving a life of crime entirely. And especially not when he's been in love with Winter's dad for years.

In which an underground fighter in desperate need of anger management and a snarky mafia boss make a deal with an explosive reaction. ... Some people were born lucky with silver spoons in their mouths and trust funds established long before they were born; others were born with dirt underneath their fingernails, barely scraping by. Twenty-three-year-old underground fighter Linus Ward was used to the latter. Raised in the foster system and bounced from one bad situation to another, Linus learned early on that surviving wasn't a simple task but having his foster siblings did make it a lot easier. However, when Linus' foster sister got caught up in a con gone wrong, what should've been a routine identity switch and a clean getaway ended with spilled blood on her hands and a target on her back. To guarantee his sister's safety, Linus was forced to make a deal with someone as dangerous as the people hunting him: recently-named mafia boss Teodoro Raymond. A paid bodyguard position with guaranteed safety should have been a good thing. Yet, when sparks started to fly and the lines between protection and obsession blur, Linus was left to decide if he was clawing his way out of the world that's always tried to chew him up, or falling even deeper into it.

Luca Romano was the kind of person who preferred silence over small talk, logic over emotions, and solitude over crowds. He was also a law student. His classmates thought he was cold, but Mason Torres--his loud, chaotic best friend--knew better. Luca didn't follow rules unless they benefited him, and he didn't bother pretending to care about people he didn't respect. When their hated professor, Bob Cerberus, was mysteriously killed on the street, Luca barely flinched. The man had it coming, most of the class would agree. But the next morning, when a tall, sharp-eyed Russian named Aleksandr Volkov walked into the classroom as their new professor, something inside Luca shifted. Aleksandr wasn't just handsome, he carried himself like a man who'd seen war, who hid knives behind every word. What Luca didn't know was that Aleksandr wasn't there to just teach law--he was there to uncover the truth. The CIA believed one of the students was responsible for Cerberus's death, and Aleksandr was their undercover agent sent to expose them. But the more he watched Luca Romano--the quiet prodigy who didn't fit into any mold--the more he found himself distracted. Luca's silence wasn't emptiness; it was control, the kind of restraint Aleksandr admired too much. As suspicion deepened and danger crept closer, the line between investigation and obsession blurred. And soon, Aleksandr had to ask himself whether he was protecting a suspect or falling for one.

BOYxBOY || ACTION || ROMANCE || FANTASY || LGBT Wickeds have grown to a whopping 3% of the entire U.S. population. No one knows where they originated, or how they came to be. Some contest that they were ever human at all, but 'Demon spawn', or 'sons of Satan'. Sometimes they're just simple college students, making their way in the bustling city of Seattle. It's been three years since Kailan Tsai and Vincent O'Connor have seen each other's faces. After their dramatic pasts, they were separated by fate itself, only to be reunited once again--and under the same roof, at that. Rekindling their friendship would be an easy task at hand, but deep emotions lie beneath calm waters. Can they survive in a world set on destroying them, or will they bite back? In a world of wickeds, nothing is absolute.

--- Noah Everly thought teaching at an elite private school in the heart of the city would be an escape-a chance to fade into the background, to quietly exist. But from the moment he stepped into his classroom, he felt it. The heavy, burning gaze of a predator. Kieran Wolfe isn't just another student. He's obsessed. His teacher is his. No one else should look at him. No one else should speak to him. And Noah certainly shouldn't be resisting him. From subtle manipulations to outright stalking, Kieran's obsession knows no bounds. He leaves gifts, invades Noah's space, and watches his every move. When jealousy takes hold, things turn even darker. No one is safe. Not Noah's colleagues. Not his friends. Not even Noah himself. Because Kieran won't stop until Noah realizes the truth. He was never free. He was always Kieran's to own.

A college student finds an injured vampire in the woods, saves his life, and helps him stay hidden from those hunting him. However, the job as the vampire's secret guardian turns into something more intimate as they both give in to their desires... || Gay || BxB || MxM || LGBT || Romance ||

Insanity was bred in the pits of Hell. Emeri Marcello was a deep believer in that. His sole empire clawed away at a being, tearing apart their mind, leaving only a mess of tatters and blood in their wake. There was no escape. Be it the surface world, or the gnarled mangroves of his very mind. There was no solace, no solitude. How was one ever expected to survive against the call of the damned when locked away in such a monstrous prison? Emeri had never fantasised of anything else. A ruler in his own right, a king amongst paupers, with a domain of flame and sin at his fingertips. What else could there possibly be? He had pets to entertain him, to bleed for him, to fall at bended knee to his every command. What else might possibly tempt him away from the sickening reality he had come to know? Boredom, perhaps. The petulance of a neglected child, feeding the impulse of an arrogant adolescent. One simple choice, one eternal decision, that had been Emeri's fate. His path changed. Not in a fit of rage, nor some wrathful tantrum, in that tiny verdict that had whispered to him from the very darkest part of himself. From the abhorrent version of his own normality to something new, something interesting... Someone interesting...

BOOK ONE Demitri Inou is an assassin of the new government, molded and manicured into the perfect pet. Obedient and submissive, he'll do anything the Con Rồng tells him to because he knows the consequences of disobeying them, but even through years of torture and instilled fear, he remains somewhat defiant towards his handlers. Though he's lost all humanity, virtue, and hope of being free, he refuses to completely succumb to them, and uses his hatred towards them to fuel each assassination. Being the skilled killer he is, it isn't at all surprising when the leader of the Con Rồng sends him on a mission that could either end the new government or boost their following and power. A mission to eliminate the leader of the Phoenix Rebellion, Phoniks Vidroh. At first it seems like just another mission, another simple assassination, but things go terribly wrong, and Demitri finds himself smack in the middle of the rebellion, fighting against the strings that tie him to the Con Rồng, and the hope of freedom and safety with a childhood friend he'd always assumed to be dead. "... and even as the world is consumed in the flames of evil, the strong will continue to rise from the ashes." ((rated M, will contain explicit content, sexual themes, rape, blood, violence, & mature language.)) **cover art by ChiyoPurr on DA: https://www.deviantart.com/chiyopurr**

When werewolf Boris was assigned the ungrateful task of guarding a vampire to keep him away from his community, he never expected to fall for the man instead. *** Vampires can't be trusted. Unlike other supernaturals, they depend entirely on blood-preferably that of humans. To allow them to live in Pinewood among humans is inconceivable. Yet, one charismatic vampire named Etienne wants to push for exactly that. In an effort to keep the people of Pinewood safe, Boris, the werewolf guardian of the town, strikes a bargain. He will live with the vampire first. If Etienne can be around him for one month without biting him, he will be allowed to live with the humans. If he fails and takes a nibble of Boris, the deal is off. Boris never expected the bloodthirsty vampire to last longer than a day. But Etienne is not what he expected at all. While he may not be dangerous to the people of Pinewood, however, he definitely is dangerous to Boris in all kinds of other ways.