A collection of paranormal, horror and fantasy short stories woven around old legends, odd characters, the occasional werewolf and the darkness within, some of which have been published or picked up the odd award. There are things you cannot see unless they want to be seen, and some legends linger on despite the modern world. A Gift in the Dark is a compilation of short works, many based around old myths and legends, and starts with a tale of a miner's descent into madness, history and legend, drifts through darkness, past a retelling of Red Riding Hood, up a crane, and along to the end of the world.

Scarlett Skye continuously finds her self wondering why Drew still loves her. After everything she has done it is a miracle that he even looks at her. All she can think about is him realizing she is not worth it. Scarlett goes back in time to the moments she spent with drew and to the time someone forced her to say goodbye.

Revenge is a red thread tying two souls. While Love breaks you and Pain crushes the remaining bits, it’s Revenge keeping them all together. The Realm is an invisible world, wrapped around Terra without touching it, so close, and yet so far... But infinitely different. Five Empires dig their ways from countless fights, each and every Throne raising from its pile of dead. Treachery is everywhere in the Realm: discussed in a hidden room, plotted under silk sheets, or thought on a Throne. Every Terran story originates from here, every dreamlike creature and forgotten nightmare. The Realm is a torn world, bloody and twisted. But there’s more than meets the eyes. An Emperor learns one can use Revenge to either pull himself back to the surface... or drag someone to their hell as well. After bending the knee once, it becomes easier for a former Queen to do it again, but equally painful. A little orphan is scouted as a Bird for a royal Whisperer and struggles to fight her way back to her brother. Hope is no more than a joke to a priest who has seen Empires rise and fall and knows the way of gods. The burden of finding his father’s killer is pressing on a boy’s shoulders, while a lord’s daughter learns that her own life is at stake when it comes to playing with a pirate. Justice and Vengeance. So Alike Yet so different.

Isabella has suffered ever since her mother left her and her two younger brothers. Things only getting worse after her father begins drinking and physically abusing her. Her escape is the adrenaline and rush from racing, a lifestyle that was shown to her through more pain but later served as her purpose. There she meets Jace, a racer with piercing green eyes that unnerves her to her core. Someone she wants to stay away, to keep herself closed off from.

My heart hammers in my chest. Fire trails down my spine. My shoulders contort, my back stretches, my face breaks... I fight him. I struggle. I rage. And still I am being taken. My sight fades. The sharp tang of blood is an endless. The world around me is nothing but the black of my own insanity and I am dying. It mocks me. I cry at it, cry my anger, my sadness, my pain, and it hangs listlessly in the sky, suspended by heartstrings and I know I want nothing more than to cut them and take it from it's sparkling home in the sky and hold it out to my brother and say, "You see? You see what this had made me become?" And then running. Running and running and running and, then, red.

Stacy--whose name really isn't Stacy--is stuck in the hell hole pit stop of human sex trafficking where she is forced to service twenty guys every night. Upon reaching her unknown desolate location, she finds a diary of a girl who was in the same room before her only a few days ago. The girl's diary is her only way out of here so she can get back home to her husband and child. Will she survive? © Copyright 2012 Aimee Shaye All Rights Reserved