Maverick hero Ben Malone, is back in another action-packed, thrilling adventure, this time as a Los Angeles private eye. Amid his adjustment from LAPD detective to running his own private investigations agency, a strikingly beautiful blonde carrying a bundle of cash pays a visit to Malone's office with a somewhat curious problem-she witnessed a murder but for personal reasons can't go to the police to report what she saw. Empathetic with her delicate situation, Malone agrees to take on the unusual case for a private detective-finding, identifying, and bringing to the attention of the LAPD, the murderers so that they justice can take its course without involving his client. All in all, in the beginning, the case seems innocuous enough and an easy money assignment, that is until things start to unravel. There are three more connected murders before Malone's investigation even gets started. From there, like an out of control roller coaster, things go downhill fast and from bad to worse. Malone learns that the string of murders is mob-connected. The man believed behind them is a well-connected, heavy hitter, a vicious mob boss in the Los Angeles' Ukrainian criminal underworld who will stop at nothing to eliminate Malone's client. In the initial confrontation with the Ukrainian gangster, Malone is stunned to learn that his love interest, feisty psychiatrist Sara Bernstein is caught in the crosshairs, having been abducted while attending a conference in San Francisco. She is held hostage by the mobster as leverage to force Malone to betray the whereabouts of his client. He also discovers that everything may not be as it first seemed with his attractive client. She may be up to her pretty ears in a little criminal behavior of her own. Malone races against time, first to rescue Bernstein, and then to sort the innocent from the guilty in time to solve what rapidly evolves into a complicated web of deceit and criminal wrongdoing where it seems fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Can a down-at-heel private eye trust himself when he takes a job he doesn't want? His grip on reality wavers as he sinks deeper into a confusion of murders, violence and corruption in 1950's Los Angeles. Wartime memories and the ghost of a murdered girl haunt him as he seeks a way through the lies. Who can he trust? Not the client, not what he's told - and maybe not himself.

Its New York, 1924, and Prohibition is in full swing, which means so is the Mafia. Grace Hanson is a seventeen year old that's just graduated from high school, waiting for her life to begin. In the meantime, she lives with her father, Dr. George Hanson. Unfortunately, her father has gotten himself into a bit of a tough situation. To get him out of it, Grace makes an agreement with some dangerous men: Her marriage for her father's life. Now Grace has been thrust deep into the world of the underground mafia. Trying to catch her bearings, and cope with her new husband, Luca, and his family of criminals may prove to be too much for her.

A hidden tower. A trapped servant. An evil enchantress. Sound familiar? In a bygone world of steam and airships, Alek builds singing automatons for the villainous Lady Elise, hoping that one day he can buy his freedom. Everything changes when a healer's apprentice happens upon the tower. With Felix's help, Alek learns of a whole new world beyond the boundaries of his tower. If they're lucky, he can escape the Lady's grasp once and for all. But to do so, they'll need allies, ingenuity, and a lot of courage. Read on for a tale rife with adventure, magic, and unexpected love, set against the backdrop of a familiar fairy tale. WINNER of LGBTQ/OnceUpon LGBT Fairytale Retelling Contest! https://www.wattpad.com/353142574-contests-contest-3-once-upon-a-time-results

Ashes, ashes, ashes and soot, the girl would sit in the cinders and loose himself. Her eyes welled up in tears, remembering what her stepmother had always said. "A strong boy like you shouldn't be prancing around in dresses." She would always say. "Get to work, or its to the cinders and ashes with you!" The girl wished she could change, become what she was meant to be. Not that it mattered, she was stuck in this wrong body, and stuck in the basement covered in her namesake. Covered in cinders. She blew out the firelight of the candle and crawled into bed. --- Transgender Cinderella????????? COMPLETED AND CURRENTLY BEING EDITED AND PARTIALLY REWRITTEN CAUSE IT WAS WRITTEN IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS OH NO-

Written specially for the WP LGBTQ+ "Once upon a time" contest! "Hi. My name is...hmm. I can't give that away yet. I can however tell you that I'm in the tale I am about to tell you. Maybe I have a tail and maybe I have beautiful eyes the likes you have never seen. It doesn't matter. I have a story. You see sometimes, they tell you things the way they see them. I am about to tell you the REAL story. Buckle up. First of all, his beard wasn't blue...yet".

[FIRST DRAFT] What if the myths....were real? On the planet Earth nothing is impossible. Everything beyond your imagination exists. To the most terrifying monsters to the things that are thought to only live in legends. So because of that, it shouldn't really come as a surprise when two Gods, Thoth and Hermes, find a fledged demon in the back alleyways of Greece. What does come as a surprise, though, is when they find themselves thrown into a conspiracy that forces them to help the young demon understand how much of a powerful threat she really is before it's too late. (Cover credits: @netshaly )

Can love really withstand anything? Can it withstand a secret? How about a lie? Ophelia is socially anxious. Libby is extroverted. Ophelia is closeted. Libby is out. Ophelia is numb. Libby is hurting. When a chance encounter leaves both their worlds turned upside down will their opposites attract or create an irreparable rift?

Prohibition hangs over New York like a nauseating smog. Most partygoers escape its presence by getting lost in speakeasies set up around corners of the streets, in basements, attics, etcetera. The more desperate—young or old, rich or poor—flock to the speakeasies run by demons. Their liquor holds more than just alcohol, it contains a dangerous power that causes the drinker to become lost within their own mind, living out their fantasies—if only for the night. Robert Hermann is part of a group of men that are supposed to bust these demonic "Dreamwhisps". However, after a fatal incident, he finds himself working for one of them. Now he must obey every order, every job that the powerful and charming Mr. Russell gives him. Failure to do so could lead him on a train to Hell; both physically and mentally.