A contemporary retelling of the Jack-o-Lantern myth. Happy Halloween! (cover image by Paul Cézanne, used with Creative Commons)

Something sinister is lurking in the dark, walking through that cold Halloween wind...

SECOND BOOK TO THE MYSTERY OF SCARLETT On day everything changes. Suddenly Scarlett grows a pair of black wings, and develops magical powers she can't control. Then the mysterious guy in her dreams who keeps calling her Scarlett shows up at her high school, seeking her attention and she can't help but have the odd sense of déjà vu that she has known him forever. If that isn't weird enough then how about the black wolf who won't stop following her around. If dealing with uncontrollable powers and wings, Scarlett still has to deal with her last year of high school, and keeping everything a secret from her father, who is a Supernatural Hunter. Scarlett must learn to balance the old lives of Scarlett and her own, as she battles evil foes, her own inner demons left behind, and her conflicting feelings for two guys. Will Scarlett overcome being lost and find who she is? Read in Finding Scarlett.

Scarlett has always been a mystery in the world of Lux, where supernaturals live in uneasy alliances and in kingdoms. The fae with fae, werewolves with werewolves, and so on. Your kingdom is chosen for you based on species, and nobody knows what species Scarlett is. So she is bound by no rules and by no kingdom. For 3 years Scarlett dropped off the radar, nobody could find her and the world of Lux is turned upside when Scarlett returns unexpectedly and when Damien, King of the Werewolves,finds out that Scarlett is his soulmate...

E.L. Wright Middle School Columbia, SC 1987 We were asked by our Seventh Grade English teacher to start a journal. We would have time to write in the journal every day. We could write whatever we wanted. Since I instantly disliked this woman who wore too much mascara, I decided I didn't want her to know anything about my personal life...so I announced that I would write a book. I was 11 years old. The "journal" was a SuperShades wide-ruled notebook, with robin's egg-blue paper and stickers all over the cover. It still has my teacher's smiley-faces and checkmarks in it. There are many authors out there who say they would rather die than publish their first attempt at a novel. I am not one of these authors. This first attempt, originally titled "Seventh Grade Magic," only goes to Chapter Seven. (The dates in the notebook and teacher's checkmarks only run through October 22nd...I guess we stopped journaling, but I never stopped writing.) By that point, the title of the book had changed to "The Golden Band," and the plot had taken on a life of its own. The summer before eighth grade, I sat down and rewrote the entire book, continuing the story well in to my high school years, all the way up to the penultimate chapter. I will publish that separately as "The Golden Band (High School Version)" so as not to lose this original story. Other than a few (surprisingly few) spelling, punctuation, and formatting fixes, this manuscript is as intact as the original handwritten version. I hope you enjoy my childhood fantasy. xox ~Alethea June 23, 2013 Cover Illustration by Casey Cothran, circa 1988

Jeremy Blake is too old for the monster under his bed...but that won't stop it from killing him. Originally published by The Story Station, November 2009 Cover illustration: "The Nightmare" by Henry Fuseli, used under creative commons from www.athenaeum.org

List of singular publications: Nowhere (Fine Lines, Winter edition) - A personal essay - February 10, 2015 The Pink Scraf (Ashtrays to Jawbreakers, V. 2) - A contemporary short story - August 16, 2014 Regretful Memories (LALUNA Magazine) A poem - April 5, 2014 Sean's Bullet (2013: A Stellar Collection) A military-fiction short story - October 23, 2013

Re-releasing through Clean Teen Publishing July 28, 2015 Goodreads Book of the Month [July, 2013] Two destinies. One death. Eric has less than a year left before his fated battle when he meets her. She's a shade like him, but separated from the Dark - and with more power than she should have. And he can't stay away. Jessica is new to town and desperate to figure out who, or what, her birth parents were. But she can't find them without overcoming Eric, and she won't let him stop her. "Minutes Before Sunset" happens through the minds of two young adults as they struggle to survive their paranormal realities and find balance in their human lives. Visit ShannonAThompson.com for more tales of the Dark.

He sees the future. She sees the cost. And the State sees everything. Two years after a massacre sparked by a future-seeing drug, the State hunts down anyone tied to tomo-and sixteen-year-old Sophia Gray is surrounded by secrets. Her father traffics weapons. Her best friend has a dangerous past. And the reckless boy who just showed up in her backyard? He's running tomo straight through her town. When his visions put everyone she loves at risk, Sophia must choose: protect her future, or save the people who built it.

What if the Bible has it all wrong about the Anti-Christ? What if this person is female and what if she actually has a choice? Meet A.C. a.k.a Angelica Cunningham Angelica is drop dead gorgeous, lives in a sprawling mansion with her two aunts, attends a prestigious private school, is an A student and excels at everything she does effortlessly. She has a great life. That's until her 16th birthday and it all goes banana's. One of her aunt's fall mysteriously ill on the brink of death. Angelica is suddenly telepathic, has a heightened sense of smell and is seeing supernatural beings, that only exists in fairy tales. Angelica's family is forced to tell her the truth. Her aunts are actually supernatural beings that have been charged with protecting Angelica from her father, Lucifer. He has put a bounty on Angelica's head and every creature from the Abyssal Realm a.k.a Hell is looking for her. In addition she has a hot guardian angel that has been assigned to her since birth that she can now see. She is suddenly thrust into a dangerous, magical world. Between dealing with her new identity, a love triangle, hiding from her father, and just trying to be a teenager she has to make a decision to run, fight or wait for the darkness to consume her. PG-13 Some material may be inappropriate for peeps under 13. There is some profanity use and drug use. Enter at your own risk. (Honestly it's not that bad) Highest in Fantasy #1 Highest in Paranormal #18 Cover by Jessica Dueck aka @StarsColdNight