For the last four weeks, the fate of the City rested in the hands of two seventeen year olds who have no idea they're best friends. Olivia Shadowheart and Jason Frostsong saved the City from being conquered by the Other, if only barely. As both their civilian selves and as Banshee and Cryophoenix, they pulled together and overcame Starsong's challenge, earning their amulets that will allow them to trust one soul with their true identity. If you ask them, they'd say they deserve a break. But with a complicated relationship developing between them, a new Luminary pair to train, and the old darkness locked away beneath the City beginning to pull free, their fight has only just begun. Only a set of ancient secrets and discovering the truth of what ended the first civilisation so many millennia ago will allow them to save both the city and the people they care about. They have one chance to learn the name of their partner. The question is: will they even want to? [Updates every Wednesday (Australian time)]

Almost a year ago, Olivia Shadowheart and Jason Frostsong had to figure out how to protect a city from its own possessed citizens without anyone knowing they'd had anything to do with it. They are Banshee and Cryophoenix--two of six Luminaries that save the Manifested from themselves when the Other takes their minds and turns them into twisted monsters bent on revenge. But like all Luminaries, Banshee and Cryo's true identities are a secret, even from each other. As the newest Luminary pair, not much is expected of them except to learn and train for their eventual responsibility in a few years but Banshee's got ambition. She's determined to be more than Olivia ever could, and with Cryo by her side, they find themselves in the middle of a battle they aren't ready for. Their lives, both civilian and Luminary, are about to collide. The question is whether they can learn to trust each other--both with and without the transformations--or if the Other's growing power will claim more than just their secrets. *+*+*+* [ Both books are in this work. Book 1 is chapter 1-38, book 2 continues straight after] [ NaNoWriMo16 & 17] *+*+*+* Cover by @Prisim

Bioterrorism and Retroviruses. In fiction, that usually leads to zombies, but the tails and muzzles are a giveaway that something did not quite go as expected. Divan has a hard enough time figuring out what he wants to do with his life after deciding against professional sports, but when a bomb blast infects him and his family with the so-called Dyer virus, turning them Furry, it gets even worse. Struggling to figure out how to survive his new life and the challenges that come with it, he now faces trials that he would never have thought existed as what remains of humankind surprises and disappoints him over and over. One Dyer Wolf can't change world. But one attitude can.

Dragons used to hunt the skies. Now they're the hunted. In the kingdom of Blackthorne, every dragon wears a collar around their neck, a visual symbol of their oppression. Their magic and their dragon form have been taken from them, yet though they look like humans, they live like second-class citizens. Worse, the king has started ordering their arrest, and nobody knows what happens to the dragons after the king's men take them. When her father is arrested, Wynne Pendragon decides to take action. She's going to bring her father home no matter what the cost--even if that means resorting to violence.

I'm sorry... I'm so sorry... I deserve this chair... I deserve everything that happened to me. I'm a horrible person. I've killed. My friends...oh god, Carly, Allen, Felix... I'm sorry... I'm a horrible person, and for reasons you don't even know.

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. *+*+*+*

I'm being followed. I'm 16 years old, and people want me dead. Life wasn't always this hectic. See, my school year started off normally; boring as hell. Until this new kid in my biology class started acting weird. I guess I should mention I'm not exactly your normal 16 year old boy. I like rock music, and I have black hair and green eyes. Pretty normal right? Wrong. My roommate and I are dragons. Anyway, I found out the new guy from my biology class, Damian, works for a secret government dept. specalizing in paranormal activity. Guess who they blackmailed into being their newest secret agent? Life's hard enough trying to win over the one girl I like, survive my roommate's dramatics, AND juggle flying into active volcanoes whenever John (the head of the paranormal activity dept.) wants me to locate some new energy crystal. The only problems is, until a while ago, I thought Borgos (my roommate) and I, were the last of our kind... Everyone else who's like me was killed in an explosion when I was just a baby... but something's not quite right anymore... they're hiding something, I know they are. Something isn't quite right in the deptartment of paranormal activity...something's happening. Something big. Bigger than me, or Borgos, and maybe even the entire world and... ...I think it's up to me to find out just what it is. I'm sure you're probably wondering who I am right now. Well. I'm Ace Draconis. And this is my story