It is 1905, and young Johann is leaving his home, family, and shame behind him in the Black Forest of Germany to seek his fortune in America. With a generous employer and a well-suited profession waiting for him, what else will he find hiding in the towering trees and shimmering rivers of the Appalachian wilds of North Carolina? Pain, love, and unimaginable strangeness hover outside the light of campfires at night and are whispered about over fine china and champagne flutes. The shy, serious young Johann must hold himself together as the darkness of the forest draws him in with beckoning eyes and sharp claws. This tale is a slow developing romance with supernatural elements that will eventually appear, I promise. Enjoy the romance and the beauty while it lasts.

Kian Brown, a cynical and sarcastic ex-rugby player, is trapped in an elevator with office sweetheart Tate on his way to a potential promotion. Will they go crazy while they wait for freedom or will something more start to bloom? ========================== Kian Brown has one focus. He dreams of getting promoted at Beauke.co--the illustrious publishing house he works at--to give him the financial stability he needs to support his dream of being a poet. He's told himself that no matter what, he won't let anything stop him from achieving his dream; he's worked too hard and suffered too much to let that happen. That is until he, on the way to a very important meeting with his boss about a potential promotion, ends up trapped in an elevator with the one person he's been actively avoiding; Tate Wilkinson, the only person that has the skills for the promotion Kian's gunning for. His witty charm that makes Kian unable to form sentences doesn't help either. Fearing that Tate could be the end of Kian's career, he's kept his distance, hoping that he doesn't succeed. At least, that's what he tells himself. As tensions rise and body heat gets trapped in the elevator, Kian's not sure if its the room or Tate's perfectly windswept brunet hair or his wide sky-blue eyes that's making him sweat. As Kian reluctantly gets to know him while they wait for a way out, Kian discovers that maybe, just maybe, his poetry dream isn't the only thing missing from his life, and that his attraction towards Tate might not just be one sided. ========================== Prompt #47. Cover made by the lovely @pea0buttersandwich !

'Don't look, Lillian. Never look into the eyes of a Sin-Eater, you will be as cursed as he is and will forever languish in darkness.' Lillian Elmes remembers the warning her mother gave her about the town's Sin-Eater only too well. How could she not when she'd ignored it as a child, only to find herself plagued with nightmares when she'd seen with her own eyes what the dark work of the Sin-Eaters entailed? Now an adult, Lilian's curiosity still burns deep, especially when she crosses paths again with the town's freshly-appointed Sin-Eater, the mysterious and strangely alluring, Daniel Carver. Desperate to find out whether the rumours about the dark priests are true, Lillian makes the journey into the forest to spy on Daniel in his woodland cottage, only to realise that she really should have heeded her mother's warning all those years before. For Lillian Elmes, looking into the eyes of the Sin-Eater is going to bring her far more than she had ever imagined it would - murder and mayhem, ghosts that just won't lay to rest and an attraction that might just be more lethal than the undead who've started rising from their graves.

When powerful witch Marithyda Skyelorn becomes a participant of the Royal Exposition, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with the Prince--or to be the cause of his death. ***** Every year, the kingdom of Karvoth hosts the Royal Exposition: a corrupt carnival where a race of citizens who possess powerful magic, known as the Touched, are exploited for the enjoyment of nobles. But when Marithyda Skyelorn's grand performance ends in tragedy and pits her against the deranged King, she must make the impossible choice between remaining in exile and participating again in the dangerous competition that ruined her life--to end it once and for all. (Book One of the Skyelorn Chronicles trilogy) [[2020 Watty's winner, Fantasy]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: Some scenes contain violence that may upset sensitive readers [[Word Count: 50,000-60,000]]

#1 in paranormalromance 02/06/19 #1 in aliens 02/27/2019 #2 in paranormal 07/10/2019 #2 in horror 07/18/2019 #7 in apocalypse 12/24/2021 **COMPLETED** 🌙 { "What are you?" Farrah asked in a low voice, still clutching the outfit close to her body. Isen tapped a long nail against his hard jaw, trying to figure out an appropriate response to her question. He eventually shrugged, shaking his head like it wasn't important. "I have been here ever since the Purification." He glanced up at the starry sky, "Things are much more different down here..."} xxx No human expected their demise would arrive from the heavens, disguised in a bright, foreign blue light that instantly killed billions. Farrah is a survivor, and as far as she knows, the only one. All she has left is a small house in the town of Windsburg- an isolated, quiet area with food to provide for a whole community. But every place has its demons. When the sun sets, an unknown entity lurks through the town, only to leave and repeat the same process the next night. Farrah has managed to avoid confronting the creature, but an unexpected turn of events forces her to be outside at the wrong time- an action that would result in her making contact with a fearful, yet unusually friendly monster...

[PREVIEW ONLY] No one knows the real identity of the hospital's Plague Saint is sixteen-year-old Winter Pierce. No one knows she's a fraud. And no one knows she's a killer. While floods and heat waves devastate the southern lands, the northern cities face blizzards and plagues. Up until two weeks ago, the Plague Saint of Devil's Pass was a real doctor. But when Winter learned he was only saving the rich and planned to let her mother die, she confronted him. And killed him. The death was an accident, but taking his place to save lives was a choice. Then, Winter's forced to kill again to save her brother. Her double life, already doomed to fail, is complicated further when her assistant insists on tracking down the murderer. Attempting to cover her tracks leaves Winter tangled in a political web. All the while, people are getting sicker, and trying to find the cure leads her to an enemy far smarter and more dangerous than she is. Powerful people want to see Winter fail. There's more to the plagues than meets the eye. Winter is rapidly running out of time, but she's determined to save her brother from death and her city from corruption. And she'll kill anyone who gets in her way.

The city of Under-London, the mound of the Unseelie Fey, has a history and heritage as rich as its ancient people: kings and queens, humans and fey, who have shaped the mound and its people from its humble beginnings to its most recent turmoils. There are Midir and Edaine, a lonely fey king and his lost wife; Cadeyrn, the desperate and furious sidhe soldier; Caroline and Wyn, a pair of star-crossed lovers; Martin and Sig, a duo who risk their hearts and lives for the safety of others. Through it all a single being, Hunt-Leader--an ancient being who controls a wild and ravenous host of spirits called the Sluagh--works in the goddess's name to bring peace and justice to humans and the Twelve Fine Families of the Fey alike.

Eighteen-year-old Eden discovers her mother has lied to her for as long as she's been alive: her father is not dead. He's alive, and somewhere in London. The main problem? Not only is her father not dead, he's also not human.