Every family has its secrets. Unfortunately for Harlequin Jones, everyone knows her family's nasty little secret. For eight years, Harlequin and her mother have tried to forget the truth and bury the horrors of their past, but when Harlequin's grandmother begs for her to come and stay, the truth refuses to stay dead. Returning to the home of her grandparents brings back many happy childhood memories for the thirteen-year old Harlequin; memories of home-made apple pie, playing pretend-horses in the yard and fishing down at Bitter Creek. But the visit brings back something else, something Harlequin thought had ended eight years before and she is about to learn that her family's nasty little secret is far worse than she could ever have imagined. Blood is thicker than water and family is everything. There's no place like home...

They say the end of the world started in a military lab. Some poor bastard who'd agreed to take part in one of those experiments-for-cash programs, signing his body and blood away, all the in the name of science, just so he could afford to buy food for his kids. 'They were all meant to be given placebos', they said. Except he wasn't given a placebo. He was given something else, something terrible, whether on purpose or by accident, I guess we'll never know, but what I do know is that it never started with him. It started with her. With Alice. My Alice.

**FEATURED STORY JULY 2018* **WATTPAD HQ READ OF THE WEEK AUGUST 2018* **WATTYS 2018 WINNER** Casey Brogan is on a mission to self-destruct. Whether it's booze, drugs or men, she's spiralling out of control and stepping over the line, to destroy the demons of her past and herself in the process. Ethan Drake isn't looking to be anyone's saviour. He has enough demons of his own and a legacy he'd do anything to avoid. Following a near-fatal overdose, Casey discovers a world beyond the one she knows, one where dark creatures wage an age-old war and where nobody is who they appear to be. Now hunted by those who want their world to remain a secret, she must decide whether she can put her trust in Ethan, or whether he is just as much a threat as those that want her dead. After a lifetime of trying to destroy herself, Casey is about to do just about anything to keep herself alive.

Following the traumatic birth of her daughter, Kathleen-Anne spirals into depression and struggles to cope with her newborn baby. Desperate to put some life back into the wife he adores, husband Rheemus suggests that she takes some time out to have some fun with her friends and Kathleen-Anne reluctantly finds herself at the home of Barbara Arden, the town medium. Invited to take part in a séance with the spiritualist who many townsfolk believe is nothing but a charlatan, Kathleen-Anne places her fingers on the planchette and waits for the Ouija board to answer Barbara's call. When the candles begin to flicker and someone whispers her name, Kathleen-Anne realizes too late that Barbara isn't a charlatan at all and that she should have listened to her Mama's warning never to visit the medium's house. As the lights go out and the screaming begins, Kathleen-Anne is about to learn the hard way that when you call something over from the other side, it never wants to leave. ****** This story was commissioned by Universal Pictures and Wattpad and inspired by the movie Ouija: Origin of Evil.

Spencer, Vince, and Edeline are still missing, no news of them but a trail of bodies that has now returned home. Now, for the first time in a hundred years, the vampires and the werewolves must work together to stop a war that is just starting. But, with the casualties already coming in, can they put aside their differences and work for the common good? Can they put aside the blood that separates them? The third book in the TEETH series

Before Thomas became a vampire, Spencer, August, and William all went through the same thing. Well... almost the same. Enjoy these three short stories of sirings from the TEETH series.

Constantly coming second sucks. But at least you're not dead. Carson is fed up of coming second. The wolf pack that was meant to be his is under the control of his brother-in-law, who continues to undermine him at every turn. Now, the vampires are breaking the laws that have been in place for a hundred years. A chance encounter with a curious vampire inspires Carson to hatch a plan that will put him-and the pack-back on top. But if it works, it could change more than the tenuous pact between the wolves and the vampires. It could destroy everything Carson holds dear. Carson is about to learn that being first in life can also mean being first to die. As his plan spins out of control, his goal to destroy the vampires might also turn the werewolves from hunter to hunted. MEAT: THE SECOND SERVING is the second book in the TEETH series

Reprint of the long out-of-print 2001 poetry chapbook, featuring a collection of pieces dealing with love, lust, date rape and mental illness. Rated R for subject matter. Not for the delicate.

Crispin was no fairytale hero. He was a creature from the dark, a demon that would either destroy me or save me. My life rests in the hands of a monster and my love in the hands of a man but which one will save me.

The clock was ticking, measuring time down to the last second. The last heartbeat. The last breath. The last moment I would have on this Earth. It was a slippery slope and I knew when I saw the bottom, that was it. My time was up. When Georgiana Vertigo was given only a handful of years left to live, it was hard to see the possibilities of what the future could bring. With the past locked away in the dark recesses of her mind, Georgiana set off to live the last few years as best as she could. Quicker than any Slayer before her, she worked her way up the ranks of Sword & Arrow to become the Guild's Second in Command. When it comes time for the current Leader to step down and chose a successor, Georgiana is her would-be choice. However, before she can step into the role, she must solve the current case she is working on. A serial killer is murdering prominent members of the Otherworld community and leaving them on display in very public, very human places. It's not the first murder case she's ever worked but there is something different about this one. The simple assignment is soon made difficult when the latest intended victim survives and she's forced to protect him. A task that should be easy, even with the time constraint of solving the case in a week, but it's clear everything will become complicated when she learns who she'll be protecting and who is committing the murders.