Isla Du'Cade has spent her life living on an island free from pirates and navy scuffles. A town meant to be a neutral place for trade and passage. She is a baker by trade and a pacifist by nature, believing that her life had no place lingering on the open ocean-- despite being the daughter to one sea-crazy pirate, Kazza Du'Cade. When the Blacktide Pirates dock in Port Mortain, searching for Kazza's daughter, Isla soon finds her quiet life to be under threat. Upon being dragging onto the Blacktide Pirates ship--the Dawn Breaker-- Isla is told a truth that thrusts her into what she so desired to avoid. The ocean becomes her island and the Dawn Breaker her home. Forced to fight, wield a magic she didn't think she possessed, and lead the crew to their treasure, Isla finds herself teetering close to an edge she thought she had left behind after her parents death. She will come to question where her loyalties lie, who she can trust, who she must leave behind, and who she must become. The new tide of pirates is on the rise and Isla Du'Cade is the first wave.

When her father sets an illegitimate successor on the throne on her stead, Lillemor's raging fury leads her to unravel what she's capable of. Forsaken, she sets off to use her newfound powers to end the witch trials, seize her crown, and, as impossible as it sounded, to cease the insidious wars. But when she meets one of her coven sisters and the darkest sorcerer of all time, Saturna, Lillemor begins to question who the real enemy really is . . . The neighbor nation or the malevolent woman she's slowly falling in love with? Salem means Peace. That's what her father taught her. Now Lillemor is torn between keeping it safe and watching Salem become everything it isn't, or revealing her powers to save the kingdom and get burned at the stake.

Lee Danford, a singer-songwriter in high school, puts down his guitar permanently after experiencing a loss caused by his passion for music. But when a persistent Matthew Hargrove--seeking to impress a girl in their class--offers him a sum he can't turn down, he is forced to reckon with the weight of his trauma. Will their one-on-one guitar lessons help them learn something deeper than the space between each musical note? Can Matthew strum the chord that Lee's heart has silenced? Or will every string he plucks push them farther from each other?

Dot Alby was just a face in the crowd. A quiet woman with plain clothes, a factory job, and no record. Until the day she was arrested for a string of killings so calculated, so untraceable, that experts still don't know how she did it. But the real horror begins after her capture. As Dot sits silently in a cell, the murders continue-impossible, identical, and signed with her name. A doctrine begins to spread. Clean. Poetic. Unstoppable. It calls itself The Correction. Victims range from the powerful to the cruel to the seemingly ordinary. There's no pattern, no demands. Only one chilling promise: "You were never waiting for change. You were waiting for permission." As society begins to fracture under the weight of its own secrets, those who once sought justice are forced to confront a question more terrifying than guilt: What if she's right?

When aliens invade, four baristas are forced to become the saviours of the world. Grab your double-shot of java and strap in - it's going to be a bumpy ride! ***** In the Earth's darkest hour, unexpected heroes are stirring... their coffee, that is. Four baristas on a camping trip are under-qualified to save the world from an alien invasion. But thanks to a hologram with no fashion sense, newly developed superpowers and an alien with a guilty conscience, they've landed the job anyway! So grab your double-shot of java, your blueberry muffin and strap in - Hasta barista, baby. [[2018 Wattys winner and twice featured]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Please note this is a sample of the book, which has been published and is available for purchase: Ebook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WKFVKQJ Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1644342154

In Delta City-a world subjugated by metahuman oppression-survivor antihero Persona races checkpoints with limited powers to stop a device wiping out his kind forever... or get locked away for good. Think of this story as X-Men inspiration with a dark twist.