A late-Victorian mystery-romance where the daughter of a bourgeois merchant struggles to find clues pertaining to her missing fiancée following a sudden miscarriage. Meanwhile, she is assaulted by eerily intimate dreams and men who harbor a vicious ill-will. With her father out of the country and her desire for answers burgeoning, Maxine Chambers steps into a frightful world wrought with enigmatic individuals and eldritch terror. Accompanying is her recently hired valet, Hugo Ly, a former French Foreign Legionnaire of many talents and indomitable humor. Together, they navigate the occult and the criminal, seeking answers and fighting for breath. AN: Thank you for taking the time to read! Please comment, vote and favorite, if you find it to your liking or have any questions! New updates every Friday.

Volume one of "Fractales by the Fractale Raven Writer ", a series of short stories of various genres involving The Great Beyond, Aeos Prime, and other worlds of the Fractalverse.

There is a world within our own. A world of Angels, Demons, and all manner of creatures and beings you thought only existed in your mind. Including the Nephilim; angel-human hybrids charged with protecting the Human race. But their job gets harder and more confusing as groups of Nephilim go missing without a trace, and Demonic activity rises exponentially. There are whispers throughout the Demon world that Lilith is gaining power. Cyrus Rainwater and six other Nephilim are chosen by an Angel even the Nephilim thought to be a myth. Why were they chosen, and why did Lailah Claim a Legion at all? There's something terrible looming just beyond the horizon, and Cyrus and his new Legion might be the only ones who can stop it. Not only that, but Cyrus can't seem to use his own Angelic powers. What's blocking them, and why? Disclaimer: There may be mature content later in the book, and there is some mature language used as well.

Abie is a Madren man living in Ckastia whose nationality makes it difficult to find work in a city still bitter from the war seventeen years ago. To care for his family, he accepts an offer to work as a testing subject for a mad witch who lives in a creepy tower. Maeva is a witch who hears voices in her head and needs an ordinary person to test her invented spells. To complete her work and protect others from her fate, she must hide the truth of her madness with the help of her sister. Natasha is a near identical copy of her witch sister if not for her complete lack of magic. To fulfill her greatest desire, she reaches out to a figure from Abie's past who appears to have a secret even darker than his tendency for black magic. In a desperate attempt to prevent a second war, the testing subject, the witch, and the sister must test the strength of their relationships as well as their own power to save the city of Portwenn in its darkest time. But as the truth emerges, even the power of the gods may not be enough to quell the rising tensions.

E-awards 2017 - "Best Treasure" Everything--every choice, every action--is done for a reason. Have you ever dreamed of waking up in a world distant, in so many ways, from your own? For teenagers, like Ryuuki and Asuka, on the cusp of adulthood, this is certainly the case. Mysteriously, the pair find this dream fulfilled by a prophetic diary in Asuka's possession, that guides her towards meeting Ryuuki and venturing into this new world. After being given an unexpectedly dangerous welcome, their latent potential surfaces. Ryuuki soon discovers that this potential is of interest to the wrong kind of people. He must remain vigilant of this, but what if they were to latch on to their existence? Would he have to quell their malicious intent at the source? Gifted with a forbidden aptitude for magic, how will Ryuuki overcome the sequence of events now facing him in this monarchical society who threaten to disturb the peace once more? Life can be bitter-sweet when teaching us lessons; only when it takes something from us, do we truly realise its ephemeral beauty. [First Draft]