✨A WATTYS 2022 PARANORMAL & "BEST CHARACTERS" WINNER✨ A college basketball star risks everything to prove his innocence with a girl who can communicate with ghosts. *** Ace Jones isn't certain about a lot of things in life, but basketball has always come easy. This is until he finds himself as the prime suspect of a murder he knows he didn't commit. Lucky for him, Devyn Brooks knows he didn't commit it either. But not because she witnessed it--she simply sees the victim as plain as day and even endures her incessant talking. Though Devyn usually does everything in her power to hide her supernatural ability, she'll have to start embracing it in order to save Ace from a common fate. And Ace will discover a deeper part of his identity that challenges his notions of the world. Will they be able to solve a case that America is so eager to pin on another Black man? ✨| FEATURED ON WATTPAD READING LISTS | ✨ 💕 Wattpad Editor's Choice Dec. 2022 💕 @StoriesUndiscovered, Thrills N Spills 2022 @SpeculativeFiction, The Crypt 2022 ⛈ A Stormy Nights Challenge Participant 2022 ⛈

[FULL KELS SERIES] When Ande wakes up on the bottom of the ocean with a fish's tail, she's not sure what she did wrong. Getting sacrificed by her island is a likely bet, but why---and why her---is a mystery. Out of her depth in an unfamiliar world, she soon finds herself wrapped up in the society of the Kels, the people who live under the sea. Desperate to get back to her island, she strikes an agreement with a squid-tailed boy whose sunny smile and knowledge of her language are a welcome assistance at first. Soon, though, she begins to sense that he's hiding something. Things take a turn for the worse when her way home gets complicated by the Kels' wars and several eerie myths about her people that may not be myths at all. The history of the Kels goes back farther than her own culture, and the harder she struggles to get back to land, the more the question arises: Does she belong in the water after all? ❖❖❖ Marked mature for darker themes and scenes, not spicy content. Compiled Kels Series: Book 1: Listen to the Water (COMPLETE) Wattys 2022 Shortlister Book 2: Song of the Deep (COMPLETE) Book 3: City of Coral (COMPLETE) Book 4: Sing to the Moon (COMPLETE) Book 5: Water Will Rise (COMPLETE) Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

Criminal necromancer & vampire private eye team up to solve the case of the missing barista. *** When a client drops dead in her fortune telling parlor, 'reformed' necromancer Isla has no choice but to illegally resurrect the poor gal. Your girl's got priors, alright? Hiding a corpse will send Isla back to the slammer. The client's just a Tourist, so Isla is certain nobody will notice. But you know what they say: The only things certain in life are death, taxes, and a handsome vampire poking his fangs where they don't belong. Gregor, a vampire private detective, has been hired to find another vamp's misplaced favorite bloodbag-- I mean, barista. Greg knows the fraudulent and distractingly attractive psychic, Isla, is the key to the barista's whereabouts, but he just can't put his fangs on what it is she's hiding from him. If her little whoopsie is discovered, Isla fears both the otherworldly authorities and an ancient vampire will have her throat. So she does what any girl would do in her situation. She hires Greg to find the risen barista for her first so that she can undo the resurrection. Sparks fly and blood splatters as Greg and Isla investigate Philadelphia's secret paranormal society, throw literal bones at the werewolf mafia, commune with the spirits of dead vampire-brides, dodge arrest by the magic fuzz, and occasionally pop off for late night cheesesteaks. The Vampire Always Bites Twice is the Wattys 2022 Grand Prize Winner! The "Bites Twice" Mysteries 1 - The Vampire Always Bites Twice 1.5 - Doubull Indemnity [revised version coming soon) 2 - Shadow of a Curse (Coming Fall 2025) This book contains explicit sexual content, paranormal violence, animal harm, and gore.

Orphan Ashalia sleeps with her eyes open, walks with her back to the dormitory walls and never lets the other kids see her fears. In a world powered by greed, every moment could be her last. She also has a secret. An ability so powerful that if the ruling caste knew of what she was capable, they might do to her what they did to her parents. At eighteen-years-old, Ash's recruitment day is approaching and she must face a choice - save her brother from certain death on the streets or risk her own life at the hands of a mysterious stranger with silver-blue eyes, who keeps turning up at the most dangerous and inconvenient moments. This story is for fans of Avatar the Last Airbender. Or those who love a book about hidden magic schools and hate-to-love slow burn romances. *COMPLETE* This novel was originally signed to Harlequin's 'Digital Series First' imprint before it closed and the author's rights were reverted. Please note: This novel + BONUS EPILOGUE is now available as an e-book from all good online retailers (Kobo, iBooks, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Scribd, Toino, OverDrive, Bibliotheca, Baker and Taylor, Hoople, and/or Vivlio). If you feel strongly about supporting independent artists like me, please consider checking out the link: https://books2read.com/PhoenixFromTheAshes

|| ✨ 2022 WATTYS WINNER ✨ || || x8 FEATURED || Kill the monsters. Claim the bounty. Escape to Alaska. ------------ Ten years ago, an event known as The Turning upset the balance of Earth's ecosystems. Demons emerged from the depths of Hell, dragging along with them obscure creatures from old myths and legends. In the midst of all this chaos, eighteen-year-old Raine Barlow makes a living by hunting monsters. No price is too high, no monster is too deadly. Her goal is simple: to make enough money to escape to Alaska -- where her parents are rumored to be held. And Raine just might be able to do it: the mayor of Eureka has agreed to pay her $10,000 to escort his young daughter to the City of Dust -- a former metropolis surrounded by walls and secrets. Armed with poison-tipped crossbow bolts, her own brand of small magic, and an aging battle-elk named Winston, Raine and her charge must trek across the dust-covered and desolate stretches of a California highway, all the while trying to avoid the monsters and demons who are trying to take over the world. Cover created by @Shreya_VA

-Ambys Favourite Paranormal Novel 2024- - Winner of the Tricolor Triennial Awards Paranormal 2023 - Keeping her true nature hidden was supposed to be simple. Go to work, pay taxes, don't eat too many humans. Easy enough. But when Celandine Doukas crosses paths with the Supernatural Council's head of mysteries, and a necromancer with godlike ambitions, secrecy goes up in smoke. As tensions escalate and suspicion grows, Celandine finds herself drawn to the secretive Druid Leofstan, who is unafraid to challenge her facade and leave her grappling with the consequences of her actions. The only hope she has of proving her innocence is to hunt the true creature lurking within the darkness, but it's about to find out Celandine's claws are a lot sharper. Luckily, she isn't afraid to leave a few more bodies along the way, as being diabolical is deliciously delightful... Ranking achievements: #1 Paranormal, Shifter, Supernatural (June 24) # 1 Magic council, Unseelie, Faery, Spellcaster Druid #2 Gothic #6 Antagonist #15

An angel becomes a guardian for a human haunted by a dark curse. ***** Azrael, a Seraph, is one of the last of her kind, haunted by a centuries-old curse that turns her people into monstrous Revenants. When she meets Adira, a human targeted by the same evil forces, Azrael's own darkness compels her to protect the young woman from the monsters - and from herself. As Kespen teeters on the brink of chaos, Jupyter agents Lisa Kirova and her vampire partner Roman race against time to unravel the sinister plot of the underground criminal mastermind, The Baron. With the city's fate hanging in the balance, Azrael, Adira, Lisa, and Roman must confront their own demons and forge an unlikely alliance to prevent an irreversible catastrophe.

𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗬𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗟𝗜𝗦𝗧 · EDITOR'S PICKS · AMBYS 2022 WINNER · A quirky Asian high school story fused with sci-fi, romance and mystery | A lonely, small-town gamer girl dreams big when she enters Komoreby High in a glamorous eco-city. When the first day hits rock bottom and a science anomaly zips her to a parallel universe, she must reforge life and love while solving the mystery to find her way home. *** Komoreby is the metropolis of the future--an eco-city brimming with stylish urban life, where dreams are forged into reality. It's everything Evanna Zeller's quiet, old town was not. Nerdy in mind and whimsical at heart, Evanna is a lonely girl with dreams far bigger than herself. She's darkly inclined with sunshiny kawaii, and she's herbivorous with a taste for video game blood. Evanna's adventure of a lifetime is her move to Komoreby, where she reunites with her childhood bestie at the city's most prestigious high school. When she expects a brilliant new start, pranks and betrayals sink the very first day to rock bottom. As if that isn't bad enough, a school tour of the city's high energy physics lab, home to a gargantuan particle collider, takes a bizarre turn. Now she's trapped in a parallel universe of draconian rules and warped versions of everyone. As she spins down a rabbit hole of mind-boggling quantum physics, can she find her way home through the murk of the unknown? All the while weaving through a social web of potential friends, foes and a mysterious rocker guy she's relentlessly drawn to. © 2021 Su Vida | Exclusively on Wattpad *** FEATURED @Anime @ScienceFiction + 25 more BOOK 1 of the Komoreby series WC: 108,000 This tale is loosely a sci-fi Alice in Wonderland. The strict school is based on real Asian schools (chap 4+). The ban on romance, classroom raids and shadow education are real. Expect shoujo/kdrama vibes, slowburn ship, gaming, rock music, real science and veganism!

𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗬𝗦 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗔𝗩𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗘 · 23x FEATURED · A gothic fairytale based on the Black Prince from Sri Lankan folklore | SAMPLE CHAPTERS ONLY ATM. BECAUSE QUERYING. A teen ghosthunter must defeat the alluring demon Black Prince in order to save her haunted city. *** The Great Haunting was just a historical plague. The alluring demon Black Prince wasn't real. It was the disease that drove the unfortunate maidens to insanity--a tragedy compounded by natural disasters that claimed many lives. Cityfolk with sense know that. Binara knows better. For those acquainted with her, Binara is just a teen spending school break in her ancestral estate with a strict governess, a workaholic mother and an ailing great uncle. Only her missing sister knew of her ability to detect ghost essence and the mysterious dark matter the city is using as a power source. Armed with science, Binara is confident that she's a better ghosthunter than the city's shadowy ghostbusting agency. When history repeats itself with increasing incidents of missing girls and hauntings, Binara blames the demon prince for the disappearance of her sister. It's time to fight back before darkness takes over her home. What better way than to set a trap for none other than the Black Prince? © 2022 Su Vida | Exclusively on Wattpad *** FEATURED @Fantasy @Mystery + 22 more BOOK 1 of the Black Avatare series Genres: Dark Sci-Fi Fantasy (Gothpunk) x Paranormal Romance x Supernatural Horror x Mystery This is a ghost story set in a tropical gothpunk city. Strap in for an anime-esque adventure full of spooks, mystery and slowburn romance. The world is based on Sri Lankan ghost lore, mythology and the Kandyan Kingdom. Might bring to mind: Mediator, Tim Burton, Alice Madness Returns, Supernatural, Bleach & Stranger Things.

Unjustly accused of murder, the Demon of Wrath joins forces with the Archangel of Justice to find the true culprit. ____ Sannarah lives from one deadline to the next. As a Wrath Demon, she is obliged to provide a certain number of human souls to the Fallen God every month so she can stay in the Human Realm. If she fails to do so, she'll be sent straight back to Hell. And it's not a nice place, even for demons. One day she follows the shady tip-off and finds herself in the middle of a gruesome crime scene as the main suspect. The lead investigator Melkyal, an Archangel of Justice, gives her a choice: she can help him find an actual perpetrator and get a clean slate, or refuse and spend a few weeks in jail for petty crimes. With looming deadlines, she can't afford to waste time. But teaming up with an angel can't be a good idea. Even though he seems reasonable and focused on finding the truth, he's still a mortal enemy. Sannarah has an opportunity to topple the unjust order plaguing her whole life, but the chances of success are slim, and the consequences of failure are unfathomable. Melkyal must choose between blind obedience to his god and trusting his own judgment. They may have to take a leap of faith to save each other. ____ 🌟Shortlisted for the Wattys 2022🌟 🥇place in the Count Awards in the Paranormal category ____ The beautiful cover made by amazing @Lueur_laVespine