It's been a year since the day that changed Aaron Turner's life forever, and with the daily reminder looking him in the face every morning - it's a day he'll never forget. After cutting off the love of his life and running off to escape his past - the young man is plagued with trust issues and fighting his inner demons. When an old friend is murdered, Aaron finds himself whisked back into the cold world that nearly took his life and the man who he'd once risk it all for.

*Standalone prequel to Swallow* Owen Munson has a sinister hobby. He tends to daydream about cutting up his classmates. Try as he might, he can't lock the urges away. When he seeks help from an unorthodox source, those urges that should have been closed off are actually set free. Now he's killing against his will and he's extremely good at it. He can't tell and he fears he may never be caught. Morgana Feare is obsessive and compulsive. Two very handy traits for a new detective who's eager to show her worth...but also dangerous traits if gone unchecked. After a case leads her to an unlikely place, she starts to do strange things. Her obsessiveness and compulsiveness takes over. She starts taking anything she wants causing dire consequences for the previous owners.

Takashi and Toryn met each other when they were five. Became best friends at ten. Were inseparable by time they were fifteen. Built an indestructible bond at twenty. And now at the age of twenty five, after twenty years of friendship, due to the slowly deteriorating memory Toryn has had since she was a baby, she will one day forget everything. Including the one thing Takashi told her the first time they met. "Don't forget about me." -Takashi Maxwell Cover by: @lucida-

When Lisa Dumont travels down to New Orleans to stay with her mother for the summer, she finds herself entangled in a web of century-long territorial disputes between undead and supernatural forces. Lisa soon realizes that she has become torn between the blood-loyalty to her mother, Voodoo Priestess Madam Dumont, and the intrigue she has grown towards Elder Vampire, Hezekiah Mercier - the enemy. And consequently, the heavy discord between the two factions leaves Lisa with life-changing decisions to make that could possibly alter the fate of both groups and everyone else in between. ** **DISCLAIMER** This story is UNEDITED and UNREVISED. I haven't made any adjustments to this story since I first wrote it, which was when I was about 18 years old. I'm 23 now, for reference. I adore this story with all I have, but most of the chapters I haven't even revisited since I first uploaded them. Any mistakes, I'm usually notified of them by readers who point them out in comments. Please tread lightly, for there are undoubtedly historical inconsistencies, incorrect language translations, grammar and punctuation mistakes, and information that hasn't been properly fact checked. This is a work of FICTION. Have fun with it, please! But also beware that this is an amateur piece (that I had a great time writing). Follow me on instagram! @ceaselessmindwrites

She's alone, pregnant, and being pursued by creatures that want her baby. Nosocomephobia (fear of hospitals) and tokophobia (fear of child birth) are two major themes in this short, heart-pumping thriller. Taylor is a mother-to-be for the first time. When she goes into labor, she goes to the hospital and unwittingly steps into a trap. Newborns are the food of choice for this race of creatures, and they want Taylor's. Are you afraid of hospitals or child birth? You will be after you read this.

Gold "Goldie" Monroe is a seventeen-year-old born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She lives in Glenwood projects, where you can hope to make it out of. Her mother taught her from an early age that love, and men ain't shit, and that money is the only thing you need. Everything is going good for Gold until she has to pay off her mother's debt to a ruthless hustler. They both come up with a plan of her robbing and killing a hood famous hustler Zane "Z" Taylor for the money, but it ain't that easy getting close to him as they thought. With her mother's life on the line, and death knocking on the door can Goldie stick to the plan. © 2013 Ebony Goddess

Ohio native 'Doll' was living the black American Dream as a young girl , but when she meets Bliss she enters the fast lane and becomes a women, overnight. Step into her shoes and see how she manages to find love, find drama, and find herself cover credits: @blue_china

In a vacant apartment of a Cleveland housing project on a bitter cold Winter night, 16 year old Arianna gives birth 2 a child. Moments later, she does the unthinkable... SHE KILLS IT. Now with her child's fresh blood on her hands, she realizes the one thing harder than killing her own child is keeping it a secret for the next 24 hours.

**WARNING: Strong Descriptive Sexual Language and Voilence is used** Book Two Tamicka is in the situation to where she has to takeover Smooth's operation while he is in the hospital. She becomes a boss chick real quick but runs into a few issues with other Pimps that began to come out the shadows. Will Tamicka successfully run the Sex Factory or will it all come tumbling down?

**WARNING: Strong Descriptive Sexual Language and Voilence is used** Book One **Chap. 20 is private so please follow to be able to read** Innocent virgin girl, Tamicka, meets the notorious pimp of the city, Tyrell. They immediately fall in love for one another, which causes money and friendship problems to occur. Tyrell slowly begins to learn to love again while Tamicka is developing to become a strong independent woman. When everything around them seems to be falling apart, they continue to have one another's back.