[ONC 2025 Shortlister] * * * And so you see, you couldn't really say I hadn't been warned. You couldn't say I didn't know what lurked out there amongst the trees. Because I did. I had been told. I had been warned. But I didn't believe. I didn't listen... * * * Fern lives on the edge of a wood, about which many myths, legends and folk tales are told. But when one of these stories appears to come to life before her eyes, she has a decision to make. To believe or not to believe. But such decisions are never as easy as they first seem... * * * The Demon of the Woods has been written for ONC 2025.

After discovering she's a descendant of Hades, Avery must find a way to escape those hunting her and ultimately choose between her two opposing soulmates. ***** Once Avery Stavros kissed her best friend's older brother Vladimir, she knew there was no turning back. But as the only living Stavros left, she needs to make a careful decision between him and Adrian despite being able to read both of their minds - something that should only be possible between her and her one soulmate. Love or life? Which one is more important? Loving someone or saving your own life? When the Greek gods and goddesses start meddling with the life of humans, everything's doomed to crash and burn. What will Avery do to protect the one - or ones - she loves? [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]] [[ Wattpad Picks: Saturn Needs Sequels]] [[ Paid Stories 2018-2022]]

**Completed** Alia de Luca wants revenge. When her best friend is murdered, she swears to find and get even with the people who are responsible. For her plan, she needs access to the most powerful peers in the kingdom. Luckily she has a powerful and mysterious ally, who secures her a place at The Royal Academy. It is where she meets Prince Nathaniel, he is being hunted by a group of rebels, who want his head and a group of girls, who want his crown. Alia is hunting him too, for her revenge. Someone should have told her, when you walk the path of revenge, you must dig two graves. ******* Highest Ranking #71 Fantasy 26/01/17

- Lanterns at Dusk - {Unedited} When Lady Aracelli Danger is pressed into an engagement with the enigmatic Caius Draemont, she steps into a world of wealth shadowed by whispers. Draemont Manor, standing dark against the northern sky, is a place of secrets. It's walls heavy with memory, its master colder still. Caius is handsome, commanding, and distant, a man both alluring and unsettling. Society murmurs of his tragedy, of the fire that claimed his family, but in his silence lies a deeper mystery-one that unsettles Aracelli even as it draws her closer But the manor itself seems alive with watchful shadows, and Aracelli soon finds her nights plagued by visions that feel more real than dreams. The line between devotion and danger blurs, and every step she takes deeper into Draemont's halls binds her to a fate she cannot yet see. Torn between duty and dread, Aracelli must decide if her heart is leading her into love or into ruin. { A Victorian Gothic Paranormal Romance }

The Moon was meant to be a sanctuary. Instead, it became a trap. When Luna arrives on the fractured remnants of humanity's last refuge, she's thrust into a world of ancient magic, crumbling alliances, and whispered prophecies that speak her name. Shadows move beneath moonstone palaces, and someone is always watching. An old power stirs beneath her skin. And somewhere in the ruins, a man with haunted eyes and a familiar touch waits-torn between duty, desire, and secrets that could break them both. To survive, Luna must decide who to trust in a war shaped by blood, betrayal, and a power awakening inside her she can no longer ignore. Some destinies are written in starlight. Others must be carved from ruin.

Do you love stories like Demon Slayer or Jujutsu Kaisen? Ever wondered what it feels like to stand in the battlefield yourself? To fight demons not with a perfect team... ...but with people who doubt you? With scars no one sees? Long ago, when the skies still wept silver and earth remembered the taste of demon blood, a great war raged-a war not between kingdoms, but between humanity and the abyss itself. Seventeen demons of terrible power descended from the void, led by one who called himself the Demon King. His command could turn the moon to ash, his voice could bend time. Cities fell. Oceans boiled. Hope itself nearly vanished... until a legendary circle of demon slayers, wielding forgotten powers, gave their lives to forge a seal-locking the Demon King and his cursed legion beneath the deepest shadows of the world. That seal held for centuries. Until one day... a man-curious, desperate, foolish-found the ancient site. And in his ignorance, he broke the lock meant never to be touched. The air turned black. The earth screamed. And before he could even run, the Demon King awoke... and ended him. Now, one by one, his fallen generals rise again. But so do the Hunters. This is not a story of peace. It is the story of war reborn. Of love tested through darkness. Of blood, sacrifice, and the crimson gate that divides salvation and ruin. Welcome to Crimson Gate. Where demon hunters bleed, break, and rise

The Cards I was Dealt is a poetic memoir told through letters and tarot. Each chapter is a raw, honest message to someone who shaped my journey--some with love, some with pain, all with impact. These aren't just stories. These are spells, confessions, lessons, and elegies wrapped in moonlight and shadow. Some letters will bless you. Some might burn. But all of them are real. Written by T.H. Moonwright, this book is a mirror for the misunderstood, the neurospicy, the survivors, and the sacred rebels still learning how to hold it all. ⚠️ Content Warning: This book contains sensitive themes including trauma, grief, abuse (domestic and sexual), mental health struggles, and family conflict. Read with care. Honor your triggers. Take breaks when needed. This is a safe space for truth-not pity.

Seventeen year-old spirit medium Emily Chambers has a problem. Actually, she has several. As if seeing dead people isn't a big enough social disadvantage, she also has to contend with an escaped demon and a handsome ghost with a secret past. And then there's the question of her parentage. Being born an entire year after her father's death (yes, a year) and without the pale skin of other respectable English ladies, Emily is as much a mystery as the dead boy assigned to her. Jacob Beaufort's spirit has been unable to crossover since his death several months ago. It might have something to do with the fact he was murdered. Or it might not. All he knows is, he has been assigned by the Otherworld's administrators to a girl named Emily. A girl who can see and touch him. A girl who released a shape-shifting demon into the mortal realm. Together they must send the demon back before it wreaks havoc on London. It should be a simple assignment, but they soon learn there's nothing simple when a live girl and a dead boy fall in love. THE MEDIUM is the first book in the Emily Chambers Spirit Medium trilogy. Yes, that's *trilogy* - meaning not everything will be wrapped up nicely at the end of The Medium. There are 2 more books after it, both of which are published. Check out my website for details.

Meli is a beggar in 19th century London. Not just a beggar- a pickpocket. A thief. And a good one. ************* I didn't ask to be a beggar. It was just what becomes of orphans. I suppose I could have gone to work at a factory- but I was sure it wouldn't have paid as well as the pocketwatches and coins that the uppercrusts of England supplied me with. Besides, I had never been caught before. I didn't even worry myself over the possibility. Even if the theft had been noticed- as if!- I was the only girl among the group of young thieves. The last to be suspected. Me being caught was an impossibility! Until I made a mistake. Until my hand was seized as I reached into the pocket of a nobleman. I expected to be sent off to a prison or a workhouse. Perhaps to be whipped, or even hanged. Not to be sent to a reformatory school. Not for that same nobleman that I had stolen from to adopt me from that reformatory school. Not a life sentence to the strictness and rigidity and discipline of nobility. Not a governess who tells me when to sleep, eat, bathe, study, and speak. This was not the life of poverty and thievery that I had planned out for myself. And I didn't like it one bit. *Warning: Will contain outdated aspects of 19th-century life and childrearing. This includes but is not limited to corporal punishment, old-fashioned medical treatments, and strong references to social class and the struggles of the working class.*

For months Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her - and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect, pure flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out...