After escaping a stalled elevator into a zombie apocalypse, Emily must learn how to trust people again or risk losing everything in this terrifying world. ***** For Emily, every day of the last two years have been a blur. She keeps her head down, takes her college courses online, and only goes out to work at her mandatory internship. But all that changes on the day the office elevator breaks down, leaving her trapped when the screams begin. And when the doors finally open, revealing a dystopian world ruined by bloody teeth and disease, Emily is launched into a terrifying run for her life, caught between the strangers she's not sure she can trust and the man-eating monsters that hunger for her flesh. Now she must learn not only how to survive in this new and dangerous world, but also how to overcome her own inner demons before they cost her something more precious than her life. [[Wattys' Shortlist]] [[Promoted by AMC]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: The story contains some gore, violence, strong language, and dark themes. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Falling in love is hard to do when no one will even look at you, and those that do hurry to look away. Andrea is a seventeen year old girl who has always wished for a sense of belonging, but being only half native to her tribe sets her apart from everyone else. And the other townspeople of Wapatau seem to avoid her just as easily. But life is always easier with a good friend. Her best (and only) friend Kaida has always been her moral support, and Kaida’s older brother Konai has always been there to tear her back down. With only days left in school, and the Spring Equinox festival just around the corner, Andrea looks at her life like a glass half empty. Until a random series of events, and a dark and stormy night, change her life forever.

Death. Death was hated by both mortals and gods. Death was merciless and indiscriminate. Death had a son. Might take a while for me to update.

Wren Martin is socially awkward. She blocks off herself to the world, hiding behind her favorite hoodie. All she wants to do is keep a low profile, and graduate well enough to qualify for a college scholarship. But then a babysitting job leads her to cross paths with Asher Reed, Eastview Highʼs notorious athlete. When a field injury kickstarts his senior year, heʼs turning his free time and attention to Wren. And maybe she might not want to be invisible after all. ***** [Watty's Collector's Edition Winner] [TFA Runaway Prize Winner] [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Santoro

They say a picture can tell a thousand words...but what if it's sending you a message from the dead? Aspiring horror writer Gwen Coleman and her workaholic husband, Noah, have finally found their dream home and quickly move in with their young daughter Harmony and infant son, Caleb. What begins as an unexplained shadow in the background of their daughter's photograph, soon turns into an imaginary friend named Maria. It doesn't take long before Gwen notices a change in her daughter's personality. When Gwen begins receiving eerie text messages and videos from an unknown sender, she worries Maria may be more than a figment of her daughter's imagination. As the secrets of her new home are revealed, Gwen discovers that perhaps her life has become the most frightening horror story of them all.

Kiara had a good life with a normal family, that is until one night at the age of 6 her parents were murdered by two vampires. Having to go through an awful childhood, she finally gets a new start 10 years later. Getting a new place, new school and new friends, little does she know that she still has a lot to learn about her new friendships, enemies, and many secrets of her past, as to who she truly is, and why she is so important to the underworld creatures.

Holly is a young werewolf who has been singled out her whole life, but when her pack finally pushes her too far causing the thin thread she had been hanging onto to break she thinks death will be her salvation. It’s a shame her plans are interrupted when she meets the alpha of vicious pack though, but is she to broken to feel love, a feeling she no longer believes in?

Featured Story - Book of the Month --- Love, death, retribution and unpredictable outcomes. She died too young, too soon and too beautiful:- What secrets did she carry with her to the grave? Meet Bill Douglas, an international assassin as he attends an emotional and personally shattering funeral of a long lost friend. Reflection and soul searching transports him and you to a time from his past. Critical events unfold and life changing consequences begin to emerge. Watch and feel yourself live the experiences as the book takes you places you have never been and shows you things you have never seen. Recent comment on the book: - Hi Doug, I've just finished reading all of Consequences Unforeseen and I must say that I really enjoyed it. You write with the kind of 'tough' style that I like in Raymond Chandler and you have brought your hero to life through the flashbacks that provide a kind of panorama of his story from childhood on. A particular strength is the way that the locations are vividly depicted, the glittering waters of Cannes contrasted with the stark countryside of Scotland and so on, this brings Ian Fleming to mind, as does the whole piece in fact... .

He was new. He was handsome. He had his secrets. And he wanted her. Hazel met him once at the train station and couldn't get him out of her mind ever since. When he suddenly appeared at her school, he wouldn't stop going after her. Torn between her unexplainable attraction to him and her fear of relationships, she wanted nothing to do with him. But what he wants is what he gets, and Hazel just might have something else altogether to fear.

Ouran High School Date club is a story about how love comes at the strangest times from the people you least expect it from. This story continues after the anime, when the host club is back at school. Kyouya and Tamaki are now 3rd years and Hikaru and Kaoru are now 2nd years. Honey and Mori have already graduated. As for Haruhi she found out that her mother went to Lobelia and has gone to continue her mother's legacy there. The Date club: The date club is a group of girls that came together to create a quiz that matches the Ouran academy students with their perfect match according to their answers. Karariri is the girl version of Kyouya, Hitomi is the girl version of Tamaki and Kiyoko and Kamika are the girl version of The Hitachiin brothers. The girls get the Host club members to fill out the quiz and they all end up with who ever they got on the quiz. This story is full of twists and turns, love and struggle and I hope you take the time to read it! If you're a fan of Ouran this is a story you don't want to miss out on!