(Revisions Have Begun 01/09/17) 01/23/17 (New Cover By @Isabell_R_Buell of Dagger's Edge Graphics) Avian Daniels is average, despite not remembering much of her childhood before becoming a ward of the state. At seven she is discovered and taken in by a relative she can't recall from her past. she keeps mostly to herself and goes with the flow of life but Avian is not average at all. She soon finds herself in a situation she never dreamed of, but thought possible. Anything was possible, right? Even the things that make you question reality. Avian learns that reality is an understatement and fate has a way of twisting the threads until all you can do is accept what is dealt. Acceptance first, questions later. And there are many questions to be answered when her neighbors decide it best to protect her from forces that she's never encountered outside a novel.

(An Ever After Contest Entry, hosted by the _Once_Upon team) Wynter has been invited to attend a ball in honor of the Winter Solstice. Despite the jubilance in the air and on the faces of those in attendance, Wynter can feel the chill of something darker creeping in, causing her nervousness and she realizes she is the only one who can defeat it and save her happily ever after.

Aubree Arwin spent most of her years in and out of foster homes. Still unsettled with one family she decides to reach beyond the limit she has set for herself. As she seeks the answers to the questions that have plagued her and the relief from what ails, Aubree comes to realize she is far more different than what she'd initially thought. Mysterious figures suddenly appear and Aubree is forced to allow her abilities full reign over her course, yet the path she is lead down is one she couldn't have perceived, nor can she turn back. Within both the light and darkness, Aubree Arwin finds herself having to make an even greater choice, that will risk the lives of many in her newfound world.

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Once, we were certain we could drive the Roman Invaders from the land. Now, more and more of our kin in the South lay down their spears and kneel to foreign rule. I never thought we would fall too; not with the strength of our warriors, our intimate knowledge of the land, and tactics that had driven the invaders back time and time again. Yet, it seems I know nothing at all. When the chief of my tribe seeks to strike a truce with the invaders, everything changes. At a time when I should be learning from the elders of our tribe, or how to rule from my father, my hand itches to pick up a weapon instead. Yet the steel-eyed General who leads the soldiers camping outside our walls feels familiar to me in a way I can't explain, and for a man raised in Rome, he has a fire in him that I've only seen in my people. But talks of peace are threatened when a power that's lain dormant for decades is woken. . . . . .for our paths have crossed before.

The Journal of Conn O'Dowd - A companion diary for Angela McGurk's Bled Dry: Vampire Cohorts Book 5.

Let me tell you what it was to be made vampire. It wasn't birth. Birth implies pushing, tearing forth into the light, screaming. Becoming immortal was to be pulled, to be tugged irrevocably into darkness, and it was silent. I should have fought, any person should fight, but my mind had been filled with a hazy calm which forbade any battle. Struggling had been the last thing on my mind, even when my bus arrived and my assailant waved it on, dismissing my last hope of escape. Yet my lack of rebellion was far from the most unsettling part of the stranger's control over me. The truth was that the man could've asked anything of me and I would've complied, but he didn't need to vocalise his request. I knew instinctively what he wanted. I sighed and surrendered myself as he held me against his front in a lover's embrace, tipping my head and willingly giving him access to my throat. "One day you'll understand," he whispered, his tone subdued. I've often wondered since if he was really talking to me. Perhaps he'd been talking to himself, persuading himself that one day I'd know and accept his reasons for what he'd planned for me. I wouldn't. I couldn't. Because when my fangs came in, my world altered irrevocably. It became somewhere dark, somewhere filled with murder and blood, where magic was sinister and where even my closest ally seemed more like an enemy... Even if he did make my heart skip a beat. VAMPIRE/PARANORMAL/URBAN FANTASY

Leof was gone. I wanted to scream again at the thought. My Leof was dead, laid out in the shrine where I'd left him just before dawn. It hadn't taken an army to kill him, all it had taken was one wolf, one man whom he'd shown mercy to. Fenrir had done his job just as predicted, and I'd lost the only thing that mattered to me, the only thing that had kept me sane after the truth of my past was revealed. Conn was my strength, my heart, the very best parts of me and I'd never see him again. Once his body was given to the sun and his echo vanished I'd never hear him say the three words that were my reason to exist. I love you. I love you. I love you... But I'm not ready to let be alone. I'm not ready for goodbye. Condemning my Leof to Valhalla is something I can't do, but what if there's no way to bring him back? Can I just fade away? Slip into the coma and forget everything? Would it be fair to when the cohort needs me to protect them from Osier, from the Bloodied Hand, and from our ever increasing number of enemies?

She knows what hides in the shadows.. and now they won't leave her alone. Private Investigator Samantha Chase has survived one immortal killer. But while Sam believes the danger has passed, a wave of deadly animal attacks throws the city of Phoenix into a panic. Are these deaths the result of a wild animal, or something... premeditated? During the chaos, a college student goes missing, and Sam is hired by the family to find her. She quickly discovers the mysterious Taylor family hide dark secrets. Secrets they protect at all costs. Things are heating up between Sam and her Adam, her vampire boyfriend. Brought together by fate or chance, they now walk a fine line between the human world and the preternatural. All the while, Samantha's strange gift is growing stronger. But as Sam tries to embrace her strange power in order to solve her case, her dreams begin to show her visions she doesn't want to see... visions about Adam. When Adam goes missing, Sam fears the worst. She's desperate to find the man she loves. As the world seems to be turning on her from all sides, Samantha struggles to solve a case that her life depends on and find Adam at the same time. But to do this, she'll need every resource she has and some help from unlikely sources. Clean Paranormal Romantic Suspense & Urban Fantasy / Vampire Files Trilogy Book 2 (Part of a trilogy, not a stand-alone novel) *This is only a sample. Red Moon was published December 6, 2016. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NCB37GQ/ RED MOON Book #2 of the Vampire Files Trilogy (Book 1, Red Night is also available on AMAZON) (WARNING: If you are reading this story outside the official Wattpad domain, you are reading copyright infringed material that has been duplicated without the consent of the author. Do not continue or you may be subjected to prosecution under copyright legislation)