[Formerly Featured/Historical Horror] Masquerading as a gentlemanly bachelor living in Victorian England, Joseph Redding is a fraud amongst the living. After splitting from his partner in unspeakable, underground crimes, he must now pay the price for disturbing the dead. When a ghastly spectre reveals itself to him one night in hospital, he finds himself hurled into an abstract streak of mysteries and homicides that will begin to unravel his fictitious existence. And it seems everyone is on to him... So begins the sinister fate of Joseph Redding as he is lured down a one-way path of paranormal horror, of secrets, and wanton desire. Discover why readers call this "brilliant", "classic" and "twisted"! -------------------------------------- • @IncarnateMovie Top Exorcisms Reading List • @ParanormalCommunity Ghosts Reading List • @HistoricalFiction Gothic Reading List • @Adultfiction The Gothic Reading List • @ProjectRefresh Refreshers Reading List • @OnlyTheBestNovels Best Horror Reading List • Wattpad Featured in Paranormal • Highest rank #11 in Horror (Nov 2016) PRAISE FOR THIS BOOK: "...I ate the twisted plot right up, relished in the conflicts throughout -- from Joseph's own internalised woes to the cryptic secret brilliantly built up..." FR "...This has been a terrific departure from the norms of horror convention..." IRC "...I loved this story not just because of the horrifying twists but because of the brilliance behind its plot. I've never read anything like it..." RC "...Classic prose, meticulously written, reveals the promise of a chilling tale that begs to be told..." KN "...I loved this original story. It tapped into so many idols of mine, but just saying that does not give the story the weight it deserves..." MB ------------------------------------- 25,000 word novella

It begins with a plant. It begins with Baz. In the old days of the Empire, only talented Casters could eat the Baz grains and tap the power that lay in the seed. Bazza'Casters were powerful, legendary figures with abilities that were limited only by their talent, skill and imagination. These days, Casting is for everyone. Bazza'Jo brought the power of Baz to every corner of the Empire, using it to bring all the lands of the world together. Because of Bazza'Jo, everybody can Cast. Everybody does. Living in the furthest reaches of the Empire, Raina Ratherham doesn't care about Casting. She's more concerned about the conflict that is brewing between the people of her home town and the people who live in the woods that surround them. Raina is just as fiercely loyal to her friends in the woods as she is to her family in the town. Caught between field and forest, Casters and warriors, farmers and hunters, Raina is determined not to choose a side. She is going to fight to protect them all against the distant powers who are trying to break them apart... Bazza'Jo is a Young Adult Fantasy inspired by the wonderful books of Philip Pullman, Kenneth Oppel, Frances Hardinge, Diana Wynne Jones and others! I hope you'll enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

When your soul is hunted, you can't hide forever. Thousands of years ago, an evil known as the corruption seeped into the land. Where once it was contained by the Sentinels -- humans or elves gifted with magic -- it now thrives unchallenged, gaining strength and claiming those that once fought it for its own. Nineteen year old Skye has always known this. Living with demons on your doorstep is a constant fight for survival, but she’s determined to not become one of the corruption’s monsters. To keep her soul pure, no matter the cost. But with the Sentinels gone, betrayed by their own, it’s only a matter of time before the corruption seizes them all. When a scouting mission goes awry and Skye is taken prisoner, her blades can’t save her. Marked by the corrupted Sentinel, she waits for a fate worse than death to take hold. Only when the Silverborn, knights dedicated to fighting the corruption come to free her does something awaken within her. Something powerful. The power of a Sentinel. Celestial. Fire. Water. Nature. Shadow. None are safe from the corruption. *+*+*+*

Ambrose. The name is not only feared, but shunned and reviled. He's a monster sentenced to a life of desolation and loneliness, and no one but his tormentor knows his whereabouts - at the bottom of the ocean. A creature of the sea cursed because of one simple mistake... Mari. Her life was a small happy bubble until it's popped by the finding out that her boyfriend has been cheating on her - just as the cruise ship she's on starts to sink! She's sure that death is near until she drowns upon an underwater cave...and a hulking man with swirling eyes. Seeing a chance to escape, Ambrose forces the terrified Mari to help them both, but not before ultimately changing her life...and her legs. Their worlds turning upside in the matter of minutes, Ambrose is on a mission to clear his name and Mari's on a mission to return to land. But how can she do that when she slowly starts to fall for the dangerous, damaged man who only wants to be free...and heal her own heart in the process? THIS IS A FREE SAMPLE

[Watty Winner 2012, Fantasy / Teen Fic / Adventure / Romance] Stars. For millennia, humans have stared up at the sky watching them light up the night. Unknown to most, they've been watching back, protecting us and keeping us safe from dangers. However, in the land of Astron, two girls are struggling to keep themselves alive. Miriam has a dark secret, living a secluded life with all the benefits that wealth provides. While Annabell is a poor orphan with a natural born gift of getting into trouble. With the help of two handsome lads, they have to uncover the truth about the prophecy that the Elders have worked so hard to hide. They need to find each other before it's too late. Change is coming, and Darkness is growing. In a race against time, they have to find the Rising Star before it's too late. Solem, help us all. [This is the first book in 'The Lores of Lyra]

★ 2013 Watty Finalist ★ The day Reyna gives her friend Dante the chance to be her boyfriend is the day a demon's soul awakens within her body. His name is Mundus, and he can read her thoughts and sense her emotions. Reyna desires her normal life back but instead finds herself spooked by her mysteriously scarred uncle and stalked by a disturbed young man with a living shadow. When confronted by the young man, he proves to be dangerous and fearsome. In order to have a fighting chance, someone as powerful needs to be found, and Mundus is the one for the job. His body with its power still exists, but it's sealed away in the realm of demons. And Reyna is the only one that can take him to it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***NOT a Devil May Cry fanfic - "Mundus" and "Dante" are stand-in names because I suck at names. XD Cover design by @dematerialize

Elena Amell had been part of the Circle of Magi since she was ripped away from her family at the age of six. Now, after fourteen years of vigiourus study, she is becoming a promising mage with the help of her friend Jowan. Elena knows her place in the tower-mostly because if she didn't she'd be cruely punished by the ever present templars-but there was still a part of her that wanted to travel. Annria Mahariel is an elven apprentice who was dragged to the circle after she witnessed the brutal murder of her mother and killed a great number of men in the Arl of Denirum's estate five years ago at the age of fifteen, and ever since, she had trouble trusting humans. Even so, Annria had always found it interesting how Elena-First Enchanter Irving's star pupil-could be so friendly towards her when it's already obvious she is aware of what she had done. This is the story of two girls who must save their country from the dreaded Blight. One will become a famed Grey Warden and one will follow close behind as the two fight against the Blight, an impending civil war, and not to mention the archdemon before Fereldan falls.

The year is 2021 “The Prophecy” (By Jordan Bryant) takes place inside London, both above and below ground. Society has been firmly split between those who choose to live underground known as "Rodents" in the anarchic world of the Underground postings known as "The Network". However, they have to fight off constant attacks from the organized raiding parties and bandits, who reside above ground. Also, living primarily above ground is “The Collective”, who oppose the Network and are trying to destabilize them from the inside using spies and informants to undermine their operations. Religion plays a major part, with a twisted form of Christianity overwhelming the weak nation of new – world born people. The main character "Lozada" lives at Square One, at a time when the civil war between the Collective and the Network is at its peak. “The Frenzy”, a rogue alliance loosely associated with the Collective Leader, kidnap Lozada and his men, they aim to sell him off as a slave or a bribe in a deal with the Collective. However, the Frenzy’s main intentions are to buy young exuberant scavengers, to maximise chances of locating “The Prophecy”. All assemblages get mention of this Prophecy, an ancient remnant of ancestral knowledge created by “The Masters”; a book that would eventually steer civilisation from a crazy frantic world to a new phase of existence. Lozada and his carefully assigned organization made of him and three other audacious characters swiftly set off to find the book and create a divine group of rational people to prevent the prophecy going into insane minds such as the Frenzy. But as creatures lurk in the shadows and many extreme groups will murder any resistance, an anxious hunt for the so called prophecy begins which will test the boundaries of insanity, power, and corruption…

"The best stories are often secret." ... Lisaa Kaileigh Knox was living a simple high school life with her best friend Reed Flint, they were the closest of friends. Reed's liked her for a while now. Growing up together only strengthens his feelings towards her. But once they move in to college, it's a different story. ... Agent Stallion of the X Quadrant is being punished. He hadn't been taking his job seriously enough, treating it like a game, so when he blows up the entrance to The X Quadrant's super secret facility wide open. They have to move Head Quarters and do a massive cover up. It's time to teach him a lesson. And what better way to do that than to make him face the past he tried to escape and do a lowly body-guard job at the same time. ... What none of them seem to know is that Lisaa is possibly the biggest ticking time bomb in the history of nuclear disasters. Oh well, The X Quadrant thinks what the kids don't know can't hurt them. Right? That's not all the big questions are yet to be asked such as: Why does Grandma know about all this? What is Lisaa's childhood babysitter doing in the middle of this mess? And most importantly; who the hell thought up the name X-Quadrant for a secret organization that rivals MI6. Seriously, someone should get on that. ... The X Quadrant will take you on a ride you haven't been on before. the ups and down, the humour and the adventure. From Stallion to Reed. From the school campus parties to the Head Quarters of The X Quadrant. Find out what this super secret organization is about and why is Kaileigh's life - or is it death? - a top priority? ... I can't tell you. Read to find out.

<Away and away the woodpecker sang; for there's nothing to find in this land, so refrain> Book one of the Netheron Chronicles. Welcome to Netheron. A land on the brink of a war in which it has no hope; it's ancient protectors have returned to their own lands, and the land is now left virtually unprotected, helpless in the hands of a merciless Halavarde warlord. Or so some would like to think.... But there is one who still has the power in him to turn the tide of the ancient war . . . to bring and end to a dispute that has spanned centuries. . . . In a world shaped by secrets, this unlikely hero must find the truth about everything he knows . . . including himself.