The Brigade Watty Awards. Thousands of Stories. A Couple of Rounds. Hundreds of Genres. One Winner Each.

Sometimes <3 means like. Sometimes <3 means love. Like the emotions it represents, sometimes <3 gets complicated. Fifteen-year-old Summer Day has a plan for the perfect school vacation until her mom drops the M-bomb on it. She wants Summer to do something 'M-eaningful' this year. Could anything be more meaningful than gossiping with best friend Madison or hanging out with perfect boyfriend Brady? Summer skirts her mother's demands by promising to construct a website - then launches a secret blog instead. But when the most annoying boy in the universe keeps showing up in embarrassingly intimate situations, Brady grows jealous, and Summer turns to her blog readers for help. They devise a plan but everything backfires when the boy she thought she'd always hate reveals he knows the stories behind the stars, the lyrics to all of Summer's favorite songs and the s'mores-lined path that leads straight to her heart.

One year after the maze trials begun, she was thrown into the maze of Group A where all the gladers mistake her for a boy at first. Although she knows life was never a fairytale, she still learns the hardest part of it all through the hard way - Growing up.

Three sisters. Three fates. One prophecy. The Preston Sisters must decipher the Shadow Prophecy in time, or all will be lost. Gwendolyn can't believe her ears. Her mother, Evelyn, is lying on her death bed and telling her that she is a witch. A royal one at that. Evelyn goes on to say that she will be dead within the next day, and the spell she has woven around Gwendolyn and her sisters to bind their powers will be broken, and she will come into her powers, and her curse. As if that is not enough, her mother also informs her of the part of the prophecy she was able to decipher. Gwendolyn has a soulmate and their union helps decide the outcome of the two-pronged prophecy. One problem. She has not met him yet, and does not know if she wants to. Her luck with men has been awful her whole twenty-two years of life. Will Gwendolyn let her walls down in time to find her soulmate and help fulfill the prophecy?

There is the world we know: the Seen. All around that, lies the Unseen. The Shaman stands between these two worlds that weave together in an intricate dance. The Unseen worlds are vast, and filled with things beyond our comprehension. But the Unseen affects us, either way. Wayra is one of the last of the Andean Shaman. She grew up learning all the secret mysteries of life and the universe. In school, she studies the Environment. Outside of school, Mountains, rivers, and clouds speak to her. She journeys between the realms of the living, and the dead: tuned into those countless energies that affect our world. In the ordinary world, she struggles to find her place- both as a young adult, and as a healer. A healer in a society that no longer understands the power and importance of cosmic forces. At 19, Wayra is coming into her power- finding confidence as she navigates these worlds. Suddenly, there is something new in the Unseen: stalking Wayra. It begins with trivial things, but quickly becomes bigger things. Chaotic terrifying dreams in unknown landscapes become omens of danger to come. Her animal totems disappear from her life, her friends are in danger. The darkness in the Unseen begins consuming her life. Wayra must figure out what the force drawing toward her is, because it might be more than her own personal world at stake.

Being a powerful woman in a man's world is often isolating -- a reality Amber Chase has accepted. After all, her tastes are often too eccentric for most of the men who dared to get close. With a curated selection of designer power suits, red-bottomed stilettos and multi-million dollar deals, she enjoys nothing else but control. Despite meticulously crafting her world, an unexpected interview throws it into chaos. A striking beauty with nicely cut jaw and an equally formidable reputation, Vincent Wolfe presents himself with a gaze that seems to pierce right through her. But beneath his mesmerizing exterior, she senses a darkness that mirrors her own. As Amber explores deep and uncharted waters with this enigmatic paradox determined to pursue her, she resists the urge to let him in. Enamored by his beauty, she believes submission will hold his attention. He, captivated by her confidence, assumes dominance is the key to hers. Or....is it? When power plays intertwine with pleasure, a line between control and surrender must be drawn. Who gets to draw that line? This deliciously subversive tale of power and submission will shatter perceptions as two powerful forces indulge their truest, darkest selves for their deepest, carnal needs. _____________ This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Copyright © 2015 Alyx Aundria All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

What Bryce Beaumont, a young researcher from California was to discover on Mykonos-that Greek island of billionaire hideaways, nude beaches and world-class nightclubs, was more than a playground for the privileged. In his probing the undercurrents of the jet-set high season, he would learn the little island was also home and history to a very ancient clan of beings. One of them, a darkly lithe and stunning woman, had been waiting a long time to keep a family promise alive. It would materialize that summer-as would a cabal of strangers from the nary world of the undead. . . . Melina Vespucci was Greek-Italian. She was single, jaw-dropping wealthy, reportedly the descendant of a Venetian Duke . . . and as a resident of one of the white villas atop a Mykonos cove. . . still beautiful after five-hundred years . . .

*** Just a few intro chapters - full book available on Amazon, or you can read the original version for free on Wattpad *** Pay your stake. Roll the dice. Do the dare. Getting divorced at twenty-five sucks. Teaching over-confident rich kids when you ought to be designing handbags for Mulberry sucks. In fact, every single aspect of Daisy Fitzgerald's life is one big fail. But when Xander, a veritable Knight-in-Shining-Cricket-Pads, knocks her off her wedge heels, Daisy topples into his world of It-girls, players and Michelin stars. At a party, buoyed up on champagne and escapism, Daisy agrees to play Forfeit, the ultimate game of dares. Round One was a fun way to pass an hour, Round Two wasn't for the faint-hearted, but no one wants to stake £5,000 to play Round Three, not until they're persuaded by a vitriolic social media campaign that's about to go viral. £25,000 is up for grabs, but the game's called Forfeit for good reason. Blackmail, betrayal, revenge... move over Gatsby, there's a new bunch of bored young things in town. *** Caution. Forfeit's rated at PG-13, but it does contain strong language and scenes of a sexual nature. Just sayin'. Cx *** Being open and honest, I'll only be posting the first 30% or so of #Forfeit here. If you like it and want to read the rest, it's available on Kindle. It won't break the bank - 77p, 99c are the launch prices and the Kindle App is free! Keep posted for chances to win signed copies and Kindle freebies. If you feel cheated that you can't read it all for free, the first/ original draft of Forfeit is still on here. It's posted as a book in its own right, but it's also at the end of the new #Forfeit chapters in this version. Thanks for reading. Cx