You were lucky. At least that's what everyone else said. Lucky you didn't die at your psycho father's hand. Lucky the rain of terror ended after his arrest. Lucky you escaped to Riverdale. Lucky you met him.

After escaping a stalled elevator into a zombie apocalypse, Emily must learn how to trust people again or risk losing everything in this terrifying world. ***** For Emily, every day of the last two years have been a blur. She keeps her head down, takes her college courses online, and only goes out to work at her mandatory internship. But all that changes on the day the office elevator breaks down, leaving her trapped when the screams begin. And when the doors finally open, revealing a dystopian world ruined by bloody teeth and disease, Emily is launched into a terrifying run for her life, caught between the strangers she's not sure she can trust and the man-eating monsters that hunger for her flesh. Now she must learn not only how to survive in this new and dangerous world, but also how to overcome her own inner demons before they cost her something more precious than her life. [[Wattys' Shortlist]] [[Promoted by AMC]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: The story contains some gore, violence, strong language, and dark themes. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

❝That's what makes them so perfect -- they were two different sides of the same coin.❞ -- Frank Deford. A story of which two sisters meet their unlikely match in a midst of an apocalypse of flesh-eating undead 'people' and a hidden strife between supernatural beings and entities.

Top 35 in TNT contest When Elena decides to take her brother, Tommy, and childhood friends Colin and Russ on a trip to the Grand Canyon. They stop in a small town infamous for it's missing posters. Blackwater Ridge, a gloomy forest terrain. And a black crystal lake to die for. "No one knows what goes on between the eerie trees and the soil of the Blackwater Ridge forest. Some say when you get lost you find your worst nightmares in those woods. The strangest part is the water. A lake about three hours into the woods. Only a few have ever seen the depth of the forest to get a good look at the black watered lake. Some say it's a gate to hell." The gothic girl was leaning far over the counter with an evil grin on her face. Elena couldn't tell if she was just doing this to scare them or if she was just a psycho. "Well, what do you say?" Colin's expression was curious and his tone of voice showed he was intrigued by what the gothic teen had to say. "Only the Devil may know." She smiled slyly. PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO VOTE AND COMMENT IT MEANS A LOT!!!

Schuyler believes that she knows the world she is in, and she believes she is in control but when she learns the truth, she is far from in control. With blonde hair, blue eyes and a smile so pure that one would believe she could do no wrong, innocence dripped from her skin and that was the way that Schuyler preferred it. In reality, she was far from innocent, and even further from pure but that was not what she wanted her prey to think. She needed her innocent facade, and her pure smelling blood in order to trap the wolves in her web, and once trapped the only escape was death. This is not your typical Red Riding Hood story, where Red allowed others to kill the wolves, and where she was too innocent to do anything. No, this is a gruesome, horrific retelling where blood is the main theme and deception follows closely behind.

"A good wolf should never leave her pack's territory. A good vampire never drinks werewolf blood. Too bad both of those rules were already broken." In an effort to escape a tragic past, Roxie’s aiming to leave her pack for good and set out into a world that’s always been off limits. If only her childhood friend, not to mention the future Alpha, wasn't standing in her way. But little does Roxie know that outside her pack territory, her blood is a prized commodity. One vampire is hot on her trail and ‘damaged’ or not, she has to keep him from draining not only her blood…but her heart as well. After all, pure Lycan blood is always the sweetest…

Calina remembered very little from her life before it was stolen from her. As she cradled the sleeping boy in her arms, she tried to recreate the one thing she could never forget: the feeling of being a mother. She hummed softly the way she had for her own children and kissed his cool cheek. When she had spent every moment she could with him and the sun threatened to rise, she fed from his tiny throat. It was euphoric, but it lasted only for a moment. Then the hunt to find another would begin. Stone Hoyt was assigned to the solve a string of child killings that everyone believed was the work of a serial killer on the loose. But Stone was more than a street cop and knew firsthand the work of the undead. His past experience and training would lead him to network the underground and invade the nests. Finding the vamp that decided children were acceptable targets. And when he did, there would be no hesitation in putting a stake though its heart and sending it back to hell where it belonged. Stone would gladly go there himself, as long as the vamp was with him. ****finished version of the Wattpad draft****

Fall under the spell of Keira and Ryker as they work together find the killer behind the brutal deaths of Salem's Crossroads Coven. ***** Dr. Keira Wynter, an Anthropology professor and expert in the occult, is called in to assist with an investigation that has her returning to a place she vowed she would never set foot in again. In one night, Salem has lost its most powerful coven and the only defense to keep the Crossroads closed. The city, a haven for witches, vampires and demons who hide in plain sight, is now under threat. No one is safe as the body count piles up, and Keira must work with the local Sheriff to find out who's targeting the city's most powerful witches and why. As they begin to unravel the mystery, they discover things are not as they seem and come to the realization that there is a deadly force in play; a force willing to sacrifice anything and everything that gets in its way. With each step closer to the truth, Keira not only needs to deal with the ghosts of her past, but also contend with her attraction to Sheriff Ryker Kincaid, the vampire she is inexplicably drawn to.

Hate. Contempt. The only emotions Murphy O'Neill is capable of. Hate for Elijah, the Werewolf who brutally and savagely killed his mate. Contempt for the Alliance, who allowed the murderer to escape. A string of gruesome slayings in Boston points to Elijah's return, and Murphy is determined to track him down and make him pay for destroying his life. The one thing stopping him? A mouthy, opinionated FBI agent who just can't be told to mind her own business. Twenty years ago, the Boston Wolf Killer suddenly disappeared without a trace. The killings stopped and the city began to breathe again. Kaitlyn Quinn's father, a detective with the Boston PD, was the last victim before the police and FBI lost all trace. Special Agent Quinn has been assigned to the FBI's task force to track this killer down. For Kaitlyn, it's personal. She intends to bring her father's killer to justice no matter the cost. Even if it means teaming up with an ice cold, emotionless FBI Profiler. Everything is not as it seems, and Kaitlyn is thrust into a world she didn't know existed. To catch the psychotic killer, Kaitlyn and Murphy must put aside their animosity and navigate the thin line the separates their two worlds. ** Buried is the second book in the MASKED series **

They thought life might return to normal. They were wrong. After putting a stop to Elise's genocidal plans to exterminate humans with the wolf gene, the Alliance thought they were done with the Unum Sandalf Alpha. However, odd animal attacks and bizarre creature sightings point to Elise's return. Now with the CDC and a secret government department aware of genetic differences in some humans, they must find Elise before the entire werewolf community is exposed. However, as they get closer to tracking down the elusive Elise, things aren't quite as they seem, and the team is confronted by hybrid creatures' which are not quite human-and not quite wolf. Can the team stop Elise before their race is exposed and humans discover they are not the only ones at the top of the evolutionary scale?