Two aliens on the run, manage to bump into each other on a distant planet at just the right time. ✨~✨~✨ Liri Delaney, the only child of Dubrovn planetary moguls, is accused of murder. Scouring several solar systems to find the true murderer, she runs into trouble in New Seattle. Ardon Rowe, a sweet-talking High-Draconian hybrid, sees her plight and offers his unconventional services. The two find more trouble than they ever bargained for with wrongfully imprisoned Shape Shifters, military battleship chases, and needy lovers. Lustral: rite of purification. ✨ ONC 2020 Shortlister! ✨ ✨ Featured on: ✨ @ScienceFiction ~ Intergalactic Reads (Space Opera). @YAMystery ~ Can Somebody Get This Walking Carpet Out of My Way. @SpeculativeFiction ~ Breaking the Space Time Continuum. @BeyondSol ~ Andromeda Action/adventure @Readers Choice Awards 2020 winner. @Winter Rose awards 2nd place winner. @PrettyInPunkBC 2022 third place winner. @TheAmbys ~ Space Opera winner '22. 👽 Lustral is the type of SciFi I adore. Strong characters, creative worlds and species, and a plot that keeps you at the edge of the seat and so many twists that will leave you dizzy. ~ @SallyMason1

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.

Constance meets a hot man named Beom on a bus. She always sees him on her commute to her new job, but is too scared to say anything to him. One day, she decides to talk to him. He is surprised when she can see him. After all, he has invented a way to be invisible to everyone, saying he's done with other people's expectations. Constance has to slowly coax Beom to stop doing that by convincing him of the value of being seen. |One of my entries for the 2023 Open Novella Contest| |Cover designed by @EstelleKnightrise| |Description is under construction| © Sherly Holmes 2023 (All Rights Reserved)

"can we go back to the dark when we were all strangers in the dark" In order to bring an end to the war between the two rivalling Lycan families in the City of Moon, Euryale finds herself alone bearing the responsibility of saving her pack and her loved ones. For the Treaty to be invoked, she must give herself to the ruthless Alpha-to-be of the Morgenstern family in exchange for peace. As a mere half-breed, it will be impossible to earn the respect of those who look down upon her and win against those who seek for her downfall, especially the cold and distant Lorcan Morgenstern, the man she is promised to. But she only discovers she may need him more than she realised, and a fight for her freedom and her family's lives becomes a fight against her own heart. Written for the ONC2023

In their dreams, they are always children. The Garden, around them, trees and foliage covering their heads like woodland crowns, and the sweet scent of ripened fruit dangling on the reaching branches smeared all over their cheeks. Garlands of laughter strung among the grasses; the picnics, the golden, sunny skies, the winds of wonder and delight. In their dreams, they are still there, always, waiting. But dreams have consequences, and someday they must wake up.

❝ 𝐃𝐔𝐌 𝐕𝐈𝐓𝐀 𝐄𝐒𝐓, 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐒 𝐄𝐒𝐓. ❞ 𝐀 𝐃𝐀𝐘𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐑 she was, 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐌𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬 had always kept the real world out of her reach. When her grandmother's passing seemed to hold more secrets than she bargained for, Alana's hopes at an adrenaline-filled life quickly turned into nightmares of staying alive as she was thrown into the game of survival she had never thought of playing the protagonist of. The chosen one, they said, the only worthy descendant of the world's greatest assassin walking the line between reality and abnormality - but how much can one person take when the stakes of living a life of mystery and intertwined love are much higher than expected? ♰ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ♰ 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐎𝐄𝐒 they claimed to be, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 played the role of the stories you'd tell in the dark, the concealed identities of the world's bravest warriors. The legacy continues fifty years down the line, yet this time, there's no telling of how it will go down in history - for the light had made its appearance. Five, soon to be six, agents of the deadliest spying organization have one goal in mind - finish Operation Nightshade even if it meant risking your life. One mission that their ancestors couldn't complete, and one legacy to be fulfilled, but one question remains unanswered. Who will make it out alive to tell the story? ❝ 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐑. ❞ 𝗡 𝗢 𝗧 𝗘 ━━━━ • CURRENTLY BEING REWRITTEN

| ᴏɴᴄ 2023 ꜱʜᴏʀᴛʟɪꜱᴛᴇʀ | x7 ꜰᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇᴅ | ❝ ᴡᴇʟʟ, ɪ ᴄᴇʀᴛᴀɪɴʟʏ ʜᴀᴅ ᴀ ᴍᴀʀᴠᴇʟʟᴏᴜꜱ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ʀᴜɪɴɪɴɢ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ.❞ Goddess-blessed Zofia has the power to heal even the gravest of wounds running through her veins, the urge to use it when she sees even the smallest of bruises stronger than the intensity of a wildfire. When a Dragon-born soldier - an enemy of the Kingdom of Aerla - falls from the sky with his wings torn to ribbons, this impulse is no different. Dragon-born Larc has been banished from the Nusal Empire as the war between the humans and the dragons begins to grow. With the intention to seek revenge on his people for exiling him, he asks the help of the humans to destroy the powerful artefact his queen has been searching for. Is it the right decision for Zofia to trust the enemy that grips the Kingdom of Aerla in the throes of war? Or should she have never healed him when he fell from the sky? BOOK ONE - COMPLETE COVER AND END BANNER BY @ryevain 2023 © -DeeIsDead-

[DUO spin-off, prequel to Codename: DEMON]  In the city of Portia, the government has a small branch called the Special Connections Division. On the outside, they serve as a way for for the government to keep an eye out for non-government funded organizations. On the inside, however, their job is different: they operate as a black ops, weeding out criminal organizations and gathering enemy information from the shadows During the night, Lucinda Saffirus works for the SCD as an assassin who uses her blood as a weapon. But during the day, she's a private detective working to solve the major crimes, especially murders, in the city. Juggling new jobs isn't new to her, but raising her eight year old son as a single mother changes a lot of things. Life isn't already easy, but a new threat makes things more difficult--one of the top members of the city's most powerful criminal organization has figured out her identity, and she's given one rule: play their game. And she has no choice but to accept. Otherwise, her family, friends, both jobs, and especially herself will be at risk.

❝ DEATH IS COMING. BUT SHE DOESN'T FEAR HIM. ❞ For the people of Khaya's little village living amidst the woods is quiet, and even more, so it became since the creatures lurking in its shadows turned into mere fairytales. Little does Khaya know that the stories she loves to tell are true. But then on a cold winter night, an odd priest and his young soldier appear in Lasow and bring with them the message of death. For Karachun, the God of Death is to revisit them. While they are worshipped like saviors by the villagers Khaya cannot shake the feeling of mistrust in those mysterious strangers. However, if their prophecy turns out correct she might get the chance to meet the one who took her most beloved years ago. And Khaya is not afraid to face him. Yet, she does not know what battling the god of death himself means - nor what secrets can be revealed only in the deepest dark. _____ Entry for the Open Novella Contest 2023 under prompts 50 & 62

[Complete] An old mansion. A stranger with a gift. And a mysterious disappearance of a family. ***An Open Novella Contest 2023 Shortlister*** ***2nd Place Best Cover at The Massive Awards*** ***Bronze Winner at the Throne of Awards*** ***Third Place at Glorious - Awards*** Ten years ago, all the four members of the Belmonte family, the most illustrious family in the town of Sta. Barbara, suddenly disappeared, leaving their mansion and all their belongings behind. Time passed and still the mystery of their disappearance could not be solved. In the same town, Claire Mendoza wanted nothing but to go to college and be able to help her family. That was why she immediately took the offer to be an assistant caretaker of the empty ancestral home of the Belmontes. By taking the job, she was given a salary enough to someday send her to college and to even give some to her family. Fueled by her mysterious dreams, Claire's stay in the mansion soon opened her curiosity to the questions hanging around the abode, demanding to be answered. What happened to the Belmonte family ten years ago? How and why did they suddenly disappear? And why did the caretaker's handsome and attractive son, Jonathan Del Monte, suddenly appear and claim to be a Dreamweaver, trying to begin a cult in their school? Claire must find the answers to them all. *** Follow me on my Twitter account @_KittyCruz_. Thank you! 💗