| Wattpad Featured | A nameless mutant child escapes certain death at Alkali Lake. Years later, she reunites with the man who helped her escape. Plagued by flashbacks of her past, she tries to erase the person she once was. As she adapts to her new life, she'll rebuild herself from the ground up in a world about to be changed forever. --- An X-Men & Marvel Cinematic Universe crossover. X-Men content from the films 'X-Men: The Movie' and 'X2: X-Men United' ONLY -- except Jean Grey survives the events of X2. The characters of Ace, Matt, and Vince are of my own creation, so DO NOT use them in any of your own works. #120/5.6K [02/02/19: #398/63K] in 'scifi' is an honor, wow! #38/1.6K [#60/2.5K] in 'superpowers' and #551/11.2K [#732/20.4K] in 'marvel' are also fantastic, I'm thrilled. (Cover design by doesnotloveyou; Photo by Craig Schlewitz)

WATTY 2016 WINNER of the HQ Love Award! Strange Yarns is a ball of tangled tales. Twisted, knotted, and intertwined. Like Tales of the Crypt, the Twilight Zone, and The Outer Limits. Strange Yarns is not just a collection of ghastly tales, these are yarns, and yarns are sewed together. Follow the yarns and see the grand design... think of this as an evil quilt. Ghost, ghouls, and cannibals being studied for nutrition research, Strange Yarns has got it all. ALL EXCEPT HAPPY ENDINGS!!! (The Author's Lawyer's retain the rights to define happy endings.) I'd love it if you'd vote. And if you really like them please share with a friend. And if you hated them, please share with an enemy. *Josh Saltzman is a Canadian Comedy Award winning writer and director. Recently he was the head writer of season 2 and 3 of Inspector Gadget on Netflix. His other credits include Fangbone! (Disney XD), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Animated Series (Sony/DHX), and in live action Call Me Fitz (HBO Canada). Josh has also made lots of weird videos you can find on youtube.

Aeons once ruled the world. Now, their empire lies in ruin, and the survivors hide on the fringes of society. Nahlia is a librarian's apprentice who's obsessed with Aeon lore, scavenging for hints of their legendary power. But others are searching too, including the Templars who seek to hunt down the Aeon survivors. When the Templars attack her family, Nahlia is forced to infiltrate a secret academy and rise beyond everything she's ever known. https://davidmusk.com/books/aeonica-the-lost-redeemer

When an alien invasion plunges the Earth into chaos, our greatest cities fall, their inhabitants hunted, enslaved or killed. One desperate group of survivors discovers humanity's only hope: an alien weapon powerful enough to reshape worlds. But an ancient intelligence also desires the talisman, an abomination feared even by the forces of the Peerless Empire. The survivors must undertake a nightmare quest across a nation transformed by alien violence and human treachery. Can they survive long enough to save the human race?

Hecate's sacred polecat has gone missing. Hera suspects that wizards and witches, a race that has been hidden from all demigods, are behind it. She plans to wage a war against them. However, Hecate fears the complete annihilation of her own race that she created, knowing that they are weak when compared to the powerful demigods. She concludes that the only way to reunite the two races and bring peace to the worlds, is to send some demigods and wizards on a quest together. So she chooses four demigods and throws them into a world mysterious and completely foreign to them. Thanks to @Chocolov3r for the amazing cover ~ Featured on the official Percy Jackson reading list for @Fanfic ~ [this is a PJO/HP crossover and all characters belong to their respective owners-Rick Riordan and J. K.Rowling]

THE SILENT DEAL is an award-winning explosive adventure. The Magic Trick (book 2) is out, and book 3 comes out next year. Within these pages lies mystery, magic, mythology, and wide cast of gypsies, gamblers, fire-jugglers, and thieves. The Card Game awaits... ** WHEN VIKTOR AND ROMULUS, two peasant boys, dig too deep into their town's strange past, they awaken the wrath of a mysterious overlord. As the blood brothers struggle to survive, their search for answers takes them through gambling parlors, fortune-teller dens, and moonlit forests full of monsters and men alike. But even with the help of their friends, can they escape the deathly experiments that their foe is creating in Staryi Castle? ** WINNER of 'Outstanding Fiction' at the California Writers Con. 5 STAR Finalist of the 2015 Readers Favorite Awards.

Kao was more than just a Dark Warrior, his kills and success rate put him on the fast track to becoming a legend in the Unknowns. So when he received orders to eliminate a potential threat to demon-kind, he was up for the challenge. But in his attempts to carry out his assignment, he quickly discoveres that claiming victory will prove far more difficult than he anticipated. Marked as "unchanged" and falling out of favor, his adversaries have riddled his path with distractions and ploys to overtake him. Now thrown into a quest to discover the keys to unleashing the Reckoning, Kao's every action brings him closer to revealing the darkest secrets of the kingdom. But will he be able to put it all together in time to ignite the rise of the Unknowns? _______________________________________________ Mark of the Chosen initially began with a short story Idea and now I'm wondering if I should explore taking the story to full length. So please share your feedback in the comments, vote and follow me on wattpad!

In the kingdom of Highfire, you can pack an entire house into one suitcase, grow a vegetable in a second, and have an intriguing conversation with a tree that is four times your size. If you are Aurelie Dranoir, the chosen heir to the Highfire throne, you might not find all these things as appealing as they sound.

**One can be evil, and still have a good heart, just as one can be good but still have a heart tainted by evil.** "There was an undeniable comfort and stability in a stable future, at having every detail of your life meticulously planned out. But even so, there was a part of me, an ever persistent part, that longed to be uncertain, for mystery. If only I had known what that uncertainty would cost me." Lana Eleanor is in trouble. After accidentally revealing her magic, her parents set off to the palace for her execution. In the kingdom of Eerea, there is no greater crime than magic. Betrayed by those closest to her, she tries to escape using her new abilities, only to find that they are now useless. When the notorious Andreas Scott Grigoli saves her, she must choose between two dangerous paths: go with a murderer, or stay and be killed. She chooses to go with him, but remains suspicious of his motives while fighting a strange attraction to the mysterious man. When she learns of a common enemy, she begins to trust him a little more. He begins to teach her magic, but each lesson drives a wedge between them. As new faces and dangers appear, it becomes clear that hiding for her life and trying to master her powers are simple compared to surviving Andreas' mercurial attitude. //special thanks to @ZaraHoffman for the blurb!//

Ellie is a soldier in a world without governments. A generation ago, a series of financial crises caused most of the world’s governments to collapse, and left many of the people in those countries in terrible personal debt. Since then, the worst debtor nations have been under military occupation by the troops of the debt recovery corporations, and the worst debtor of all is Měi-guó, the old United States. Ellie is serving in the Afghan Police Action when she receives bad news from home. She is told the daughter she hasn’t seen in years is dead. She flies home from war, upset, to do what needs to be done, but once there she finds out all is not as it seems. Ellie’s daughter is alive and unhurt. She is being held by of one of the many debt-recovery corporations. Held, for leverage, to make Ellie do the corporation a favour. Ellie’s daughter will be returned unharmed if Ellie does as they wish. The son of a company director is lost somewhere in the wilderness of post-debt-restructuring America, and hasn't been seen for three days. The company wants Ellie to go and find the kid, and Ellie doesn't know if she can. The one rule she's stuck to all her working life is to never to go to America, but now she might have to. She will have to, if she wants to save the daughter she hasn't seen in years. This is fairly dark and gritty near-future dystopian SF. ----- Debt Collectors War is now on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QZG1RHI/ Also on iTunes and B&N and other places. Just if that's easier to read that way! But please don't feel obliged or anything, and thank you for looking -----