Villette
After a family disaster our protagonist, Lucy Snowe, travels to Villette where she teaches at an all girl's school and gets wrapped up in romance and adventures.
After a family disaster our protagonist, Lucy Snowe, travels to Villette where she teaches at an all girl's school and gets wrapped up in romance and adventures.
"Who will we send after the little witch?" The room went silent as one of them stood up from her throne, pacing forward. Her skirts flowed over the marble floors as silently as a whisper. Every eye was drawn to her. "I will go after her and make her my slave." She revealed flawless white teeth in a playful smile. "It...
**WINNER of The People's Choice Watty Award** Finn Harlow met his soulmate in kindergarten, but fate wasn't kind and she ended up marring his best friend. After years of watching in silent agony, he's certain he's met a girl who can finally mend his broken heart--until he finds her in the arms of her lover. In walks...
Ashley didn’t know the man of her dreams was waiting for her when she moved to the country. But could her unknown health condition get in the way of true love? Find out what fate awaits her
Some days ago, I needed a break from editing. I put on a song and started to free write. This is what happened.
After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today’s leading master of what Tolkien called “secondary creation,” the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their o...
Selene, one of London’s most famous women, has lived her entire life under Vampire rule. She dances at Bleedings, where human prisoners are bled to death by specially trained Vampires, and the blood barely moves her at all. She obeys and admires her owner, the rich and powerful Hector Stanley, who cares for her more...
A short story about loss, love, and the afterlife. When James loses Melanie, he is inconsolabe. But when he meets with her former professor, he discovers more than he ever could have imagined. He is not the only one who has dealt with loss. James discovers Melanie may have never left him after all.
Even in the year 1717, one month, one week, or one day, can make all the difference in the world. One month ago, Tess Willoughby was the daughter of a well-to-do physician in London, and she witnessed the murder of an old seer. Coming into possession of the dead woman's odd ring - an ancient Spinner ring, known by the...
Smile, nod, and follow. That's slightly most of Elea's life living in the shadow of her beautiful best friend Marilyn--naturally second place to this first place kind of girl. When she meets Liam, the tall, sweet smelling, not to mention good-looking guy Marylin is friends with things might look up. Or not. Through t...
Angel is a prototype. Designed and built to resemble a human, she is programmed to think herself far inferior to them. Her emotions are just digital codes and a robot's life is worth nothing compared to a human's... or so they say.
A collection of random shorts and musings to get the creative juices flowing...
At the end of Reynolds Street, this castle has been there for more than a hundred and fifty years. It used to be the private residence of Nelson Gilbert Reynolds in 1859. He was the sheriff of Ontario County. Of course he spent a fortune at the time to build it. It wouldn't otherwise be the largest private dwelli...
Warning - contains swearing , mild sexual references and loud music. This is NOT a Harry Potter fanfiction or "Pottica Erotica" A hotel porter hears strange noises coming from the top floor in room 704. All the while Metal musicians are losing the ability to sing their own songs since the death of Metallica. Are the...
Theodore Vancroft a young man, newly of age went off to explore the newly discovered lands of Modern day West Africa. What he discovers there will change his life forever.
Book one. I'd spent my entire life without a mother. But, when professors come to my father's inn, a cloaked figure known only as Sleepwalker begins to torment me with thoughts of her. When these dreams become too malicious, my father sends me off to the capital city in order to answer the questions burning in my mind...
Science Fiction / Short story: In the future there is the City. A hedonistic world where humankind's every whim and need is catered for by the Mind, the super computer that controls every aspect of day to day life. The human mind is a far more complex thing than even the Mind can anticipate though. What happens when t...
A steampunk short set in an alternative London. The Tower: a rock around which swirls a broken Empire, where Cloud Pirates rules the skies in their cloudships and power is all. Lead by Tower Commander Denalta, can Trooper Seth and his fellow Guards survive, and will the weapons supplied by the enigmatic Raven give the...
**Will be available in print and ebook formats September 13, 2016** When Elizabeth, Delia, and Emily were children, their grandfather told them a story about an island castle called the Needle's Eye-home to a lord and his three sons-which could be seen from the coast of their small village. The castle has since been h...
2012 SILVER MEDAL WINNER in the Indie Awards (from the Independent Publishers Association). When the heart sees more keenly than the eye, beauty is unexpectedly found. Gen is a teen-age woman. She is also a bio-warfare research project, designed by Col. Jack Eberhard. Born at Redstone Military Laboratories inside a qu...
On a perfectly normal day in Novemeber, world suddenly found itself a little more broken. Kiera Beckett, once normal and happily engaged, finds herself draw into the mapping and exploration of Elsewhere Incidents. People and places that are and can do things that do not belong in the normal world. With a group out to...
Three years ago, Maa'rof leaves for Malacca to study, leaving his childhood sweetheart behind. Keeping her reluctance silent, Nadiah lets him go whilst carrying the promise he made. Now a qualified Ustaz; Maa'rof returns only to be a distant stranger who hardly acknowledges her. Hurt and confused, coupled with her con...
Beautiful cover made by the very awesome ssaayyjj "At first glance, I really did wonder why the old lady had seemed so adamantly opposed to this town because it didn't look scary at all. Maybe she was balls-out against capitalism and nice houses-her smell could have foreshadowed it-because the place looked nice. Very...
The city of Harborne is one with a troubled past. Its influence once wiped out an entire nation and, in return, it brought the wrath of the Dragon-Kin, of Bron and the Viper, down upon its walls. For over a year it survived, protected by the subtleties of its location, by the ocean and the rain, until its fate was eve...
Science Fiction / Alternative History - His life's work complete, Dr Marvin Ledbetter leaves the known universe and journeys backwards through time. But where would you go, what would you want to see? Dinosaurs? Elvis? Who killed JFK? What would happen if your time machine went wrong and started doing things that you...
Just before Arphelia turns seventeen, she is told that she is to be married to Prince Wesley of a distant land called Marcaaia. However, she is already in a relationship with her guard and servant, the exiled Erith. She refuses to comply, but when Erith is sent away to Pharrish Island, she stops rebelling, knowing the...
**Winner: Licking River Writers Contest** After five years away, Jacks returns to reclaim his life- only to find a lush accountant with curves that fill out her clothes living in the apartment over his folks' pool house. Oh, the attraction is there- but Jacks doesn't believe in love anymore and Sophie can't trust her...
This is a collection of original fairy tales, like the ones we all heard when we were children. Because fairy tales never lose their magic, no matter how old you are.
Vampires? Check. Werewolves? Check. Death prophecy to hang over your head? Double check. Seventeen year old Emma Hutchinson struggles to find her place in the world she has been born to as she tries to decide whether she should be with Michael, the boy she has been dreaming about since she was three or if she belongs...