(Book 1) In a world where a virus has spread turning most of the population into flesh eating monsters, there are two friends partying it up in New Orleans when the infection hits. Far away from home, they are trapped and trying to make sense of all that has happened with the help of new friends and enemies along the way. Zombies aren't the only thing to fear... Copyright © 2013 by N_D_Iverson All Rights Reserved. (Warning: This is the unedited, raw first draft) **The edited and polished version, with bonus content and a never before seen chapter, is now available on all eBook retailer websites!**

Now a digital pilot for SYFY The Society knows when we're going to die. They imprint it on our arms at birth. I was supposed to die yesterday. I'm the girl who's Expired. Winner of the 2020 Readers Choice Awards Cover by @Forcade

The plot to fool the Russian Royal Family had many casualties, none more so than the would-be Anastasia. Fleeing across the seas with her fate in her hands, this is story of Anna, a Sister of the Black House and Stepsister to the girl who would be Cinderella. Welcome to Good Tales For Bad Dreams, a short-fiction series of re-imagined fairy tales. Each story is set in a different time and place. Some will be familiar, others will not. So, strip bare your assumptions, open your mind and see these tales told like never before. *Note: This displaced character story shifts the traditional tale of Anastasia from the Russian Revolution to 1600s Europe.* *Warning: Mature themes. PG-13 sensuality. Not suitable for younger readers*

Someone, long ago, once told me that the heart is born with a desire inside. This desire burns inside your heart, eating away your heart from the inside. Your heart desires a treasure, it craves it. All your heart wants to do is to get this treasure and keep it. Your heart wants to steal this treasure away from the world, and keep it for itself. Even though this treasure can be stolen from you, it is never out of reach. Somehow, someway, you can still grasp it. That's what I think Italy is doing, he's getting his treasure. I might not be able to tell what that treasure is, but I can say this; Italy will do whatever it takes to get it. - Yao Wang, The Silencing