**WATTYS 2024 SHORTLISTED** To overthrow the cruel King who brutally slaughtered her foremothers, the last surviving water witch Elara Consuli must team up with novice warrior Juda Vikaris from the Serpent Order and realise an ancient prophecy, before the blood-thirsty ruler discovers her existence and kills her too. Season 1 of The Last Water Witch *** The waters surrounding the Kingdom of Druvaria are deadly. Cursed by the Naiad, the sorceress race wiped out by King Ban-Keren, no one dare step foot into the poisoned waters in fear of certain death. Everyone, that is, apart from Elara Consuli, the last surviving water witch. In Grimefell, the cut-throat slums of the citadel, Elara blends in well with the rest of the accursed thieves and vagabonds lurking in the shadows, but her secret comes with a heavy price. Juda Vikaris, also has a secret of his own. As a skilled novice of the Serpent Order, the brutal assassins loyal to the King, no one escapes his watchful eye or the edge of his blade, and what better way to get revenge for his mother's death at Ban-Keren's hands, than by infiltrating the elite guard itself? But leading a double life is starting to take its toll on Juda as the training of the Order seeks to destroy who he once was and turn him into a cold-blooded, emotionless killer with each passing day. Juda has his own reasons for hating the Naiad and Elara knows all too well that the Serpent Order can never be trusted, but can their mutual hatred of Ban-Keren - and mutual attraction - stop them from betraying one another? In a world of dark secrets and a blood-thirsty King hell-bent on retaining power any way he can, Elara and Juda must decide whether to stand together and fight, or to trust in their natural instincts and remain enemies until the bitter, poisonous end.

𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒄 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒗𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 | 𝒗𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒙 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 18+ An immortal called Darcia craves human blood like a beast. She's the only vampire in town, which makes it difficult for her to feed frequently without making her victims go unnoticed. One night, after she was passing by the orphanage, she thought she would find someone to bite there. Darcia found herself in the girls' room and became interested in one of them after being drawn to her appearance in a photograph. That's when a clever idea crossed her mind. Adopt an orphan as her private source of blood to end the frequent starvation. But little did she know that this girl would turn her world upside down. 🕯 Talia spends her teenage years in the orphanage. Her only priority was to leave after turning eighteen and start a new life. She always wished to be adopted, like any other kid there. It unfortunately never worked out for her, until... 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄. 𝐓𝐑𝐘 𝐓𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐏𝐘, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈'𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍. 𝐈 𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒, 𝐎𝐑 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒.

'Praying for the Devil?' With the war between the vampires and Varúlfur more brutal and blood-thirsty than it has ever been, Megan Garrick has been forced to seek sanctuary with the one person she hoped she would never have to turn to. By her side is her ever-constant companion, Lucius, the little boy who holds the key to opening the Gates of Purgatory and behind those gates awaits The Smiling Man himself. Now Megan fights a race against time to find the one being that can help her win the war once and for all. But where do you even begin to search for an Archangel? It seems the answers could lie within the journal of a seventeenth-century vampire and Megan just has to identify all the clues. Can she find them all before the Gates are opened?

'Whitechapel. The East End of London. Streets of tawdry degradation and grisly dark crimes of unlimited horror.....' From the comforts of London's middle class suburbia, to taking refuge in an old abandoned asylum in Whitechapel, Megan's life has changed immeasurably since meeting the vampire, Harper Cain. Now living with Harper, his blood brother Garrick and Garrick's gang of mercenaries, Megan finds herself at the centre of an age-old war between the vampires and their enemies, the lycan-esque Varúlfur. Still struggling to cope with the turn her life has taken, Megan discovers that not only is she unable to escape the ghosts of her past, but she is going to have to contend with some very dark revelations about her future. A vampire with the history of Whitechapel running through her veins she might be, but Megan will soon learn that there are far worse things to be frightened of than ghosts.

'I was falling. And he was going to catch me. I just knew he was.' For Megan Walden, life is all about perfection. She's the perfect friend, the perfect wife, the perfect office dogsbody, but what happens when she makes a decision that cracks the glass protecting her perfect little world? During a night-out in the shadow of her effervescent best friend, Megan meets Harper Cain and is instantly intrigued by the mysterious tattooed rocker-type with his trace of Bostonian accent and brooding darkness that lurks behind his smile. Knowing instinctively that she is playing with fire, and yet finding herself inexplicably drawn to the irresistible Harper, Megan embarks on a course that will destroy the foundations of her whole world and force her to question everything and everyone she has ever known. Plunging headlong into a nightmare she cannot stop, Megan realises too late that playing away with a mysterious stranger is the least of her worries. It's time for her perfect life to come to an end Will Harper catch her? Or will Megan be able to save herself?

When Sarah Solomon took refuge in an old cottage in the woods, she knew it would only be a matter of time before the monsters came a' calling. Cursed with a power she neither wants, nor knows how to harness, Sarah has become a target, but who is her hunter? The army of monsters at her door? Or the lone vampire who has killed many of her kind and is now claiming he's the only one who can save her? Faced with little choice, Sarah flees with the one creature she knows she shouldn't trust, only to discover their connection runs far deeper than a chance meeting in the woods. In fact, it's as deep as the blood running through her veins.

Book Three of The Downworlder Series ~~~~~~~~~~~ Living in a palace above everyone, dressed in elegant finery, sparkling jewels, and dining on rich and exotic foods. Quinta Moreau knows she is living in a fantasy world but it is so much better than her reality. Sold at a young age to satisfy her mother's craving for drugs, Quinta was rescued by her Mama, the purveyor of her castle, the keeper of the keys to the kingdom. The Korean Madame does her best to make life good for her girls but Quinta still cannot escape what she must do for her family. She sells herself to make sure her siblings are given a chance at a life that she never had. She feeds her mother's addiction hopelessly because that is what it takes for her to be allowed contact with the people she loves more than anything. She wants to take them away from that world and bring them to her own but Quinta knows that a pretend castle built out of the mind of a whore is no place for children. This is what she believes and knows until fate throws her a piece of the heavens and shows her just how hellish her reality can be because her heaven carries a gun and hell has a taste for children.

Tatum had done her best to survive. Kicked out of Haven and sent down to downworld, she had been forced to survive in a way that no one should ever have to live. But Tatum was a survivor and she made the most of her life on downworld, becoming the top earner, making enough marks to keep her off her back and away from the males that only want her for her body. That is until she is rejected. She is thrown into a new position in life, surviving like always but fighting in a different way as she finds herself hardened to males and mates. Cast off by her own mate she isn't expecting a sinfully attractive male to set his eyes on her and take no prisoners as he does his best to pull her into his world of decadence and pleasure. Tatum is torn between her soul and her heart and the what ifs that rage in her brain. But she knows very well that life and love are never what they seem and above all that she has been given a choice she had never been given before.

Book Two of the Downworlder Series ~~~~~~~~~~~ High in the mountains, far from the cities that housed Doyens and the beasts they lorded over, lived a small girl named Emily Nezzera until her world changed in an instant. Torn from her mountains, her family, her pack, she was thrown to the pureblood world of Doyens and pureblood elitism. Shattered to pieces from their torment she escaped their reality and lived within her own as she pieced herself back together. To combat the harshness of her life, Emily fixes the broken things of the world, nothing is too far gone for her to salvage. She re-purposes, fixes, or puts back together different but the broken things of the world come to life within her hands. That is what she believed when she pulled a physically broken man from the garbage when she realized what he was to her. Only she discovered her mate was broken far deeper than eyes could see and he was about to drag her down the rabbit hole once more because the king still craves his crown lost in the ashes of a dragon's fire.

Book One of the Downworlder Series ~~~~~~~~~~~ Do you know what it feels like to have your current reality torn from your grasp and a new one shoved in its place? Neither did Sutton Kendrick. Sutton had lived on Haven her entire life, floating above earth and the beasts that inhabited it. They were strange creatures. Half beast, half human. They were animals as far as she was concerned. Haven was safe. It was for the preservation of the purity of the human bloodlines. However Sutton's reality ends when after her eighteen birthday she discovers she has a beast of her own under her skin. Her world ends in a night of pain and the bang of a gavel because she is no longer human. No longer pure. She is thrown to the wolves. Her life changing in an instant. She has to learn how to survive, how to run, and how to live on a planet that is hellbent on devouring her whole because those that go to the downworld never return.