Kalen Mercer's Rules of Survival Rule #1: Don't get caught. Rule #2: Always get even. Rule #3: Trust Nobody. Survival isn't just a word to Ioney Mercer; it's a way of life. Having grown up in poverty in Chicago where some of the most ruthless gangs in the country preside, Ioney knows better than anyone what it takes to stay in the game. Or so she thought. When her older brother Kalen is brutally murdered and Ioney is left to take care of her younger siblings, she doesn't think things can get any worse. That is until in a cataclysmic turn of events, Ioney is thrown into a pit of danger her brother has left behind. Sinister people have suddenly developed an interest in her, she unwittingly falls into the middle of growing gang rivalries, and unfortunately manages to land herself under the scrutiny of Chicago Blood Kings Enforcer Justice Montoya. As things escalate rapidly, Ioney finds herself at a crossroads. Can she trust notoriously ruthless gangster Justice Montoya, or is he just another enemy she has to conquer in order to survive.

... for a moment I thought that everything was back to normal, that I was okay. But then it came crashing down on me. Blood was valuable. Blood was life. The loss of blood had a price. A high one.

Seven girls tied by time. Five powers that bind. One curse to lock the horror away. One attic to keep the monsters at bay. ** After the storm of the century rips apart New Orleans, sixteen-year-old Adele Le Moyne wants nothing more than her now silent city to return to normal. But with home resembling a war zone, a parish-wide curfew, and mysterious new faces lurking in the abandoned French Quarter, normal needs a new definition. As the city murder rate soars, Adele finds herself tangled in a web of magic that weaves back to her own ancestors. Caught in a hurricane of myths and monsters, who can she trust when everyone has a secret and keeping them can mean life or death? Unless . . . you're immortal.

Alene Lafitte is an art history student at Tulane spending her summer in between freshman and sophomore year working at a rowdy bar in New Orlean's French Quarter. Her summer drastically changes when she unexpectedly meets a handsome, mysterious young man named Perrin. Her attraction to him baffles her; it's almost as if she knows him from another time or place. As she pieces together details about Perrin's life, she becomes aware that he's the ghost of a Civil War soldier who has developed an obsession with her. Perrin has plans for Alene, and while she is scared to death of getting too involved in his world, she is also uncontrollably drawn to him.

Monsters. Fairytale creatures. Aboriginal deities. These are only some of the things that Christopher Pierce has to deal with in his everyday life. It's just that "everyday" happens to be filled with strange, magical, and most of the time unpleasant things. Chosen as a Knight, a champion of humanity, and the rightful wielder of the ancient blade, Gram, Chris does all he can to protect the denizens of New York City from threats they aren't even aware of. It's during a supposed vacation-slash-business meeting assigned to him by his dissociated sister however, that Chris finds out what it really means to be a Knight as he clashes with forces even more terrifying than the darkest of gods and monsters. Note: If you're reading this for the first time, read the [COMPLETE] one. I tried re-editing the whole thing and haven't gotten around to finishing so there will be inconsistencies (like originally, the story was set in the Rockies but in the re-edit, I've moved them to somewhere in Europe).

"It doesn't take a real man to die for a cause. Any idiot can do that. What takes a real man is living for one." - Solomon Short Something dark and sinister has taken root underneath the streets of New York City, preying on the innocent folk who reside therein, but really, what else is new? As Christopher Pierce struggles with the dilemmas of simply existing, these malevolent forces might just be exactly what he needs to get his life back on track. ---------- A prequel to the Knight Casefiles series, Genesis deals with life before Chris decided to take on the Knight's mantle, or at least before he decided to take it seriously.

"That’s the way things work in my family. My parents are separatists, my brother is a pot-head and my younger sister is a Human-Sized-Bratz. But I wouldn’t trade them for the world. Well I would trade my brother when he triggers the smoke alarm at two in the morning when he opens the door of his room to go bake brownies. But then again, his brownies are pretty damn good." This is the story of Azélie Tremblay. A happy girl with a happy life. But when is anything ever not complicated?

"Push" is a softcore social science fiction novel centering on the life of Ryan Fuller, a teenager with a troubled past who awakens to an extraordinary ability. Through a series of fateful events, Ryan was able to escape his horrible life in favor of one on his own, eventually settling in Boston and beginning anew. Little does he know that his new life is just the calm before the storm, a peaceful prelude to the tragedies that will befall him.