Emma's life was normal. Or as normal as life could be. Then a spur of events happen that change her life forever. She learned that no one is who you think they are and that enemies and friends are really closer then you think. Now she's outcasted with a boy who's already betrayed her once before and another boy that won't even look her in the eyes. They uncover many secrets, trying to figure what happened to them. Also why it happened. It leads them on an adventure with many awkward twists and turns, hardships, romance, and a secret that will scar them for life. Test subjects wasn't something they ever thought about. Until now.

Nineteen-year-old Natalie Wood has tried be everything her long-time crush, Gardner Yates, could ever want--including following him into the same University. Frustrated from four-years of no success, she embraces a moment of rebellion and discreetly get a tattoo, only to discover a boy named Kaden at the tattoo parlor stole her same design. To make matters worse, the boy is an eccentric improvisational actor and expressionist dancer with a taste for reckless behavior. In order to keep Gardner from getting the wrong idea, she makes a promise with Kaden to keep their twin-tattoos a secret. But secrets always seem to have a way of getting out and uncovering truths that she couldn't have even imagined. Original Story by: Arabia J Copyright 2016 - All rights reserved ❤ #SafeLove #youngadultreads #Wattys2016 #ChickLit #TeenFiction

************************************************************************************** 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.

We all know the old Greek God mythology right? Wrong. Some stories were locked up and never told, and one of these stories involved a God, one of the greatest.

"No escaping this place, " Falentine whispered in her ear. "You belong to us now" Adelina and Tessa, her twin sister, live in the small town of Illysia with her boyfriend Daniel. She was safe and cared for by her overprotective parents. The world beyond the woods of Illysia is perilous, and Adelina doesn't know much about how the world came to an end and how supernatural beings with power, unlike anything she could ever imagine now rule it. Things change when Adelina meets the rulers of this world, and she begins to question everything. Who is she, Why is she here, What do they want with her, and why have they been searching for her? As Adelina comes face to face with her new chaotic world, she soon discovers that there is one question more important than any other. Can she protect herself as well as the ones she loves?

The final battle for love, life and liberty has begun! Ayla has had to defend her people in the past, but this time, it is no mercenary rabble outside the gates of her castle: it is the army of the Margrave von Falkenstein himself. Her people are outnumbered and have nowhere to run. But they do have one last, desperate hope: A knight in blood-red armor with the face of a god and the heart of a devil. Will the enemy succumb to him? And more importantly... will Ayla? The third and final volume of Robert Thier's "Robber Knight"-Trilogy.