Anita Blake never expected to be a mother and never wanted to be, or thought that she never wanted to be because of her life and her job not only as a federal marshal who helped with the supernatural side of the law but also as a powerful necromancer. However, for a favor from of all people Dolph Storr, she agrees to take in a sixteen year old girl who has been almost through hell, named Brittany Nicole Winters. And little by little not only does Anita grow to care for Brittany but so does everyone in her life that she loves and that love her. Everything seems like it will be okay as Brittany slowly comes out of her shell she has been hiding in within herself. That is until the people who had been abusing Brittany to the point of Breaking start to make themselves known, and it only gets worse when those same people kidnap Brittany to finish what they were doing to her. Can Anita and the other save Brittany before it's too late? And will Brittany ever be able to be happy and have the two things that she desperately wants: Love and Family? Disclaimer: I don't own the Anita Blake characters. Only my own.

Abe Barrett is surrounded by ghosts - some of them are even his roommates! But now Abe's visions show something dark coming, and it wants Abe dead. ***** When Abe Barrett's family died, he started seeing ghosts. Soon he was living with three of them, and it turns out ghosts are just as eccentric as people. Abe is bothered by the ghosts constantly since he doesn't want to solve their murders, avenge them or do much of anything. He just wants to do his job and relax. His dreams, however, have been getting darker as people in town start to disappear. Soon Abe realizes there is something hunting him, and that same threat was involved with his family's deaths. A legacy of darkness is chasing Abe Barrett, and his supernatural roommates may not be enough to save him. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

What if we could see the evil creatures following us around? What if we could see the demons taunting us day in and day out? Those demons that install fear and anxiety into our minds. My family can. We are the blessed few chosen by God to destroy the evil beings dragging us to hell. We see things no one else should or could. I thought I could fight them off. I was raised to be the strongest but that crumbled when he came along. Cal was the nightmare that turned into a reality. He corners me in the darkest of places; twisting me into a cynical destructive world where nothing makes sense. I don't know how much more I can take before I erupt pieces of what could have been.

I'm so sorry for the confusion but this is the third book to my "Mark of the Royals" series. The second book is "Royal Pain: The Origin" which is also being sold at Amazon if you'd like a hard copy. So if you haven't read the first book and I'm sure most of you haven't read the second then this book will only confuse you till then. Also if some of the chapters are missing try updating your wattpad app or refreshing it. This book is completed so you should be able to read all of it. THIS IS THE UNEDITED VERSION SO DON'T HATE BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second. - Johnny Depp It has been ten years since Darius and Deva have taken the throne. Their rule together had brought the kingdom to great triumph and the lycans are now more free to live without fear. Everything is going well for Deva and her life until an ancient lycan curse arises. The Relic Moon threatens to ruin every lycans dream of ever living in true peace with the vampires. Then an old enemy shows up to help Queen Deva contain the situation. Adamarius wants nothing more than to be in Deva's life and teach her how to embrace the pain of the curse. But with him will come the secrets of the past. Secrets that will bring everyone she loves to their breaking points. Anger will rise, trust will be tested, but most of all pain will be inevitable. And as always I promise the book will not disappoint.

This is the continuation of Royal Pain. The second book to my series of Mark of the Royals. Deva is alive but will she survive her new world as the crown to the vampire kingdom is handed down to her.

A serial killer stalks Barbados and Detective John Riley returns to the island to stop them before they turn their attention to the people closest to him. ***** A serial killer stalks the tropical paradise of Barbados, leaving victims naked in canefields and the island police force is ill-equipped to handle the case. Enter Seattle homicide detective and Barbados native: Detective John Riley. John hasn't been back to Barbados in decades, and he has his own demons to face. But as he combats the heat, the media, and the very police force he's working to help, he desperately hopes he can stop the violence before the killer turns their attention to the people closest to him. [[Wattys Winner]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

When all is about to fall, when darkness will descend and all will turn to dust, who then do you call in your final moments of peril? You call the ones who do not fear the grip of pain, the jaws of death, the command of the darkest forces ever assembled. When all other lines of defense fall, you call up your final defense. Your last line of defiance. And right now, Celestria has need of the rag-tag crew of seven that it calls The Lastliners. CELESTRIA PHASE: 2 Original art by Frederico Toscano, forever in humble admiration of his craft.

The boss runs the strip club DIRTY WORK, and I work for the boss. The girls aren't dancing, but the guns keep firing. I've still got my uses, and the trigger finger is twitchier than ever now. The Red Rose gang are still around, there's trouble around every corner, and sometimes I wonder if we'll ever make it out alive. It's dirty work, but someone's got to do it. CELESTRIA PHASE: 2

When you're a vampire, death is something that happens to other people. Now the only thing Bob wants is to get revenge on Sebastien, the lustrous-haired, girlfriend-stealing, drug-dealing sonofabitch who murdered him. Bob continues to break the vampires laws, but this time he's got an ally in the enigmatic Countess Vera as he seeks murderous revenge on newly turned vampire Sebastien. Revenge may have to wait as he tries to convince the deadly vampire Beatrice to train him. Nobody ever mentioned that vampires have to hold down a day job. NEW CHAPTERS WEEKLY on FRIDAYS! (25 in total) (50,000-75,000 words)

Diagnosed with a terminal illness, Peter Katz hires a hitman to take him out. But when a cure is discovered, Peter's got to outrun the assassin to stay alive! ***** When douchebag lawyer Peter Katz gets diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wants to die painlessly. Still, death seems to elude his every attempt, so he hires an assassin to kill him at a random time and place within the month. Unfortunately for Peter, right after he orders the hit, a treatment is discovered that would add decades to his life. Now Peter Katz has to start running, until the month-long deadline ends. Desperate to survive, he has to deal with tall-dwarves, unionized suicide workers, art terrorism and all the insanity that being alive has to offer. Will he make it to the end of the month? Or will Peter Katz live a life's worth of craziness in however many days he has left? For what is Comedy, but Tragedy + Time? [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]