Inspired by A Song of Ice and Fire, comes a tale of Wind and Snow. Little Lyanna Mormont finds herself lost in the wilderness trying to find her way home. Winter is here and the night is dark and full of terrors... but the Lady of Bear Island is ready to brave the cold winds of winter and all that it brings.

In a protection camp where everything is regulated, afternoon escapades are the only thing keeping Simone sane. When an impromptu game with her best friend takes them further into the forest and uncovers the ivory tower, all their thoughts of protection and rules are shattered. With the tower's history of danger and death, Simone has to decide how much she is willing to risk to find out the truth.

[Reviving and continuing soon... on Royal Road!] Growing up has always been difficult. It's even worse when you have to do it all in one night. At the ripe old age of twelve, Ty's life is falling apart. Going to a new school is made even more difficult when his grandfather dies of unknown causes. Without him around, Ty feels the pull between standing by his grandfather's belief of holding onto the kid inside and pressure from his father to "man up" and leave it all behind. All of his troubles finally reach a head when, on the eve of his thirteenth birthday, Ty awakes to find himself in a dreamworld, one-so he is told-that exists to pit him against his greatest fears and insecurities. And to ready him for a final choice. Luckily, Ty is not without friends. He soon meets Genno, a wooden puppet his grandfather made for him years ago, walking and talking, ready to help Ty learn what he needs to return home in one piece. The list of trials range from a girly-girl version of his best friend (who wants to do nothing but kiss), an army of plush creatures (that are far more deadly than they sound), and a nightmare version of his town where propaganda and a puppet master have reduced the population to mindless slaves. But the worst part is the master behind it all, a cruel and abnormally tall skeleton dressed in mockery of Santa Claus and his suit. San wants nothing more than to best Ty and do what none of his kind has ever done before: defeat a child that has made "the choice." But Ty will stop at nothing to fight back against everything San's got in order to face his fears and grow up. Because, if he doesn't, he will end up a kid forever. Or, worse...never wake up again.

(Currently being rewritten. After editing, the story and characters will be drastically changed.) *********************************************** Magic, spells, witchcraft -- all things once taught to Dakota as fairytales and myth. As the young witch begins to explore her newfound lineage, a danger in the form of Archer Zahn introduces a threat greater than trivial high school drama. Dark and withdrawn, Archer represents the embodiment of fear among the Academy's students. As Dakota begins to fall into a pattern of frequent encounters with him as well as uninvited nightmares featuring the secretive boy, she begins to question his motives and his reason for being in the school in the first place. ☽ ☆☆☆ ☾

Petronel was born in the Southern Volcanic Flats, a vast, rocky wilderness covered perpetually in a layer of thick smoke and ash. On her first mission to retrieve the scales of a demon-like monster known as an arsi, she witnesses her friend fall into the fire, and vows to avenge him. On the other side of the Strange Continent, Adair washes ashore of the Great Desert with no recent memory of his life as a Prince of the Kingdom of Cyclonus. He, along with two other companions, must journey into the deep Desert to find a way to return home. Blythe, the second-born son of the King, is cursed with a deadly power soon after the arrival of a messenger from a foreign land. As tensions rise between Cyclonus and its colonies on the Strange Continent, a plot emerges, and Petra, Adair, and Blythe are caught in the middle of it. Check Out the Official Wiki: http://wet-fire.wikia.com/wiki/Wet_Fire_Wiki *also under website link in bio*

Prequel to Portrait of A Lost Soul. Explore the fate and destiny of James and Irelia, and discover how the Portrait of the Lost Soul and the pendant came to be. Irelia, an outcast and captive in a mental institution, needs to fear the Painters that come every night. She is rescued by James but soon she discovers that that isn't a good thing. At all. [MA - LSV]

(THIS IS AN UNEDITED, ABRIDGED VERSION OF PHANTOM ASSASSIN, WRITTEN IN 2015. PLEASE REFER TO THE 2022 VERSION FOR A MORE COMPLETE, REVISED, AND CLEAN STORY) Phantom is a foundation dedicated to infamous assassins. It was created to wipe out threats. Trace is a high-ranking, merciless weapon. He doesn't know quite what's happening most of the time, but as an assassin, his mission is always to kill someone. It should have just been another mission. Another pawn to get rid of. But he didn't expect to find his true destiny hiding farther beyond. © COPYRIGHT 2015 Support this novel for further enjoyment!

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************************************************************************************** An outcast rogue must break a curse put on his fate, or die on his nineteenth birthday. To survive, he'll need the sword of a maiden, the aid of an immortal, and the power of forbidden magic that could cost him the only girl he ever loved. ************************************************************************************ *** THE JACK OF SOULS won a Silver IPPY this year! *** THE JACK OF SOULS won 1st place in the PNWA Competition in Fantasy! * *** THE JACK OF SOULS won 1st place in the Southwest Writers competition! * *** A "Featured Book" on Wattpad! * *** Now a "Staff Pick" on Kickstarter! * *** Available on Amazon in paper, hardback, and ebook ! * *** My contract with Kindle Select won't allow me to post more than 3 chapters here, but... *** Sign up for my newsletter on stephenmerlino.com for alerts when it's free on Amazon! * MY INSPIRATION I wrote this out of pure love of trickster rogues; I love the wit over brawn motif -- Odysseus over Achilles, Raven over Eagle -- so I like to play with it in my stories. In JOS I set the rogue and con-artist Harric against a foil of warriors in a land threatened by magic and civil war. Whenever possible I turn familiar tropes on their heads: instead of a handsome young Lancelot, I cast a broken-down ex-champion addicted to pain-killing herbs; instead of a dashing Squire Brian, the old knight reluctantly takes an ambitious young woman as squire. Similarly, I re-imagine the standard medieval milieu by infusing aspects of two of my favorite historical periods, Elizabethan England, and The American Frontier. Both eras boast a kind of nationalistic arrogance that borders on hubris, and a magnificent spirit of resourcefulness and re-invention that is fun to play with. SERIES The Jack of Souls is first in a series. I am posting parts of the sequel here now (The Knave of Souls), to help me refine the story.

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Joshua Graham teams up with bestselling author Jack Patterson for an alternate history saga that will rock your mind. "A clever, imaginative tale of what if, rooted in secrets, believable and evocative, that will keep you guessing." —Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Patriot Threat “…Pure genius… the most intriguing book I’ve read in a long time…” —Suspense Magazine From the back cover: THE FÜHRER'S DAUGHTER In 1944, Adolf Hitler dispatched a pair of Horten H.XVIIIs to drop atomic bombs on Manhattan and Chicago. The unconditional surrender of the majority of the United States of America followed, bringing the Second World War to an abrupt end. Seventy years after the end of World War II, in which the Hitler-led Axis powers took control of most of the planet, the German Empire has essentially erased the very memory of the United States of America from history. Raised as a child of the Aryan States of America, a Utopian society built upon Nazi ideals, Grace Drexler—daughter of Hans Drexler, the American Führer—lives a privileged life as a model citizen and member of the Nazi party. But when a shocking discovery shatters her very grasp of reality, she unravels a truth that has been hidden not only from her, but several generations of Aryan-Americans as well—a dangerous truth that could bring about a revolution and the collapse of government and society. Now an inadvertent threat, Grace must flee her home and life as she knows it not only to stay alive, but to learn the truth about herself, and realize her destiny to change the world. The Führer's Daughter is a suspenseful alternate history thriller. With an epic sweep of Biblical proportion, it resounds with the timeless human struggles for freedom, and triumph over evil.