[WATTYS 2024 SHORTLIST] When a troubled young man named Jake Featherstone enrols at a mysterious and isolated college that has had a recent murder take place, he soon finds himself becoming involved with the friends of the victim and with the killer still at large, perhaps the next victim in line.

Antique store owner Liz brings home a Victorian taxidermy hound from auction, unwittingly unleashing dark forces on her wife and son. ***** Nat Loman has finally married the love of her life, Liz, and is getting used to her role as stepmother to Liz's 5-year-old son, Liam. The Loman family runs a bustling antique business so they attend a sale where a striking, black taxidermied hound is up for auction. Liz picks it up for the business, but it ends up being stored in their home, where Nat notices strange things occurring. She quickly discovers the past residents had died violently. Then she hears from a friend about the myth of "the devil's dog", a hound that perches in the shadows, tearing families apart from the inside. Soon, people around the Lomans are dying, and Liz is changing, darkening. It's up to Nat to save the woman she loves from the darkness closing in, and to save Liam from danger no matter what she has to sacrifice. [[Winner of the 2018 Wattys "Hidden Gems" category]] [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

**COMPLETED** How can Viv help Siobhan?

**COMPLETED** April is sexual assault awareness month. Are we always paying attention to those around us? Do you think you'd notice if someone's behaviour changed?

What starts as emotional support becomes something deeper, full of stolen glances, quiet understanding, and growing intimacy. Lesbian U-haul turned slow build. From the perspective of now knowing they were each the other's first experience loving a woman.

Prequel to The Forgotten! To remember is to live again, and Naomi Rae Harper definitely wants to be remembered. She isn't sure how, though, and her controlling aunt and life at school aren't making it any easier. Will Naomi find a way to properly live? To never be Forgotten? Or will she be pulled down as she tries? (literally just naomi's backstory for those who wanted it!)

**Disclaimer** This story only makes if you have read 'Death comes for all' and ' Eight Years' It's been 18 years since the start of the Apocalypse. The zombies are no longer the biggest threat, but an organisation that wants to take England and rebuild it. No matter the cost. In the midst of it forms a small group of rebels who want to stop them. But are they able to stop the Black Death

The world as it existed is long gone. A nuclear war destroyed everything, but between the mutants and the famine, small groups have formed with the same goal. Survival. But danger lurks everywhere, and every decision can be the last.

Char is always very smiley. But nobody knows what she is really like when she is behind closed doors...

A tale in which a thief with a double life grudgingly becomes a hero. ➳ Liana Mason has a life anyone would envy. Nobody suspects that the once orphaned girl grew up to be the city's notorious vigilante. She has been fine walking on the edge of morality for much of her life, but when an assassin arrives in her city she's forced to play a role she never imagined she'd choose: hero. A Robin Hood retelling. Trigger Warning: This contains themes that may be triggering for some readers (violence, sexual assault, etc). Cover designed by Ray Gardener