***Featured Story*** Five years ago, the brothers Sean and Levi disappeared from the woods without a trace. The police of Allsbury, Arkansas might have given up their search, but Brooklyn, one of the boys' best friends, is still desperate for answers. The morning before the boys were taken, Brooklyn began seeing things that others could not see - things that could not possibly exist. On every anniversary of the kidnapping since then she is haunted by frightening images and hallucinations that are getting worse each year and turning into warnings... Brooklyn's search for the truth of what happened to her friends leads her to the edges of her own sanity and into a fight for survival. Not knowing whom she can trust, she finds herself the hunted instead of the hunter. And she will learn that in this town, friendship is deadly. Thank you @Lucyface for the wonderful cover!!! Slow updates. Thank you for your patience! ((hugs))

Macabre: imagery that is disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury. There is beauty in such darkness. There are notes of hope and light amid our most desperate hours. "Dying Is an art, like everything else." -Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus" Original cover photo by Imustbedead Photography.

A companion to The Runner series. ================================== You already know the hero. Now, meet the survivors. Friends, enemies, Intacts and Fragments. These are their stories.

****Taken down for publication with Parliament House Press in 2019*** ****Bonus Story Available: The House of Seven Smiles***** ***Wattys 2015 Winner!!!*** Magic runs bone deep... In a world overrun by monsters, humans struggle for survival underground. Magic is feared and reviled, but rooted deep in the bloodlines of families, cropping up once a generation. These individuals are cast out, banished to the Above where humans are far, far down the food chain. When her younger brother is tainted by magic and forced to the surface, Azzy follows, determined to save the only family she has left, no matter what he becomes. ***Lovely Cover by @mulanjiang*** ***#2!! in Adventure 2/28/16*** ***#6!! in Fantasy 8/15/16***

Part 2 of The Runner series. ================================== The Runner's Rebellion was only the beginning. Tensions run high as the City struggles to repair itself after a civil war. Intacts and Fragments fight to find themselves a place in the new order amid whispers of a Queen being unfit to rule. The delicate balance will be upset when a new evil threatens the City, this time from outside it's walls. The war with the Wastelanders has finally begun. Kay and her friends are rebels transitioning into leaders. Tasked with keeping the City safe from war means forming an alliance with the enemy and going back into dangerous territory. Back into the Wastelands, into the desert where it all began.