"My beautiful Puppet Boy and my beautiful Puppet Girl." A teenage boy and girl find themselves trapped in the lair of a crazy man obsessed with human puppetry. __________________ #1 in horror - 12/6/15 [featured - 12/30/15] IMPORTANT NOTICE - if you're reading this story on a site that is not www.wattpad.com then you could be at risk of a malware attack. Furthermore, please go to this link: www.wattpad.com/user/z0mbies, and report to me where you are reading this story. Thank you. WARNING: This story contains distressing material. Reader discretion advised. The characters in this book are fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.

EPILOGUE WILL BE FREE STARTING JUNE 29TH, 2023! Diana wakes up in pain, tied to a bed and unable to escape. She's been trapped by a group of surgeons with a twisted passion and she's their next victim. ***** Diana Slater, a typical University student, wakes up in pain, tied to a bed and unable to see. After a mysterious figure, known only as Dr. Sweeney, nurses her back to health she finds out the truth. The Doctor has kidnapped her and given her a cat's eyes as part of a larger ploy to turn humans into collectibles. Now she's being trained by Ben, another patient, with the skin of a snake, on how to behave. Diana and Ben are forced to work together to try to escape the murderous doctors - until she discovers Ben might not be the victim he makes himself out to be. The only person Diana can trust is herself, and if she fails, her eyes won't give her another nine lives. [[Winner of the 2018 Fiction Awards for Best Horror Story]] [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]] Cover designed by Holly Thurston

After her father's death and her mother subsequent abandonment of her and her twin sister when they were little girls, Moira found solace at her grandmother's lilac farm. Sadie and Gram are the only family she's ever known, so even though she has a strong desire to travel outside of their small dusty town, she's determined to not leave them behind. Sadie finally convinces Moira that it's time to chase and fulfill her own dream of traveling. Intending to travel through Europe by train, Moira embarks on her trip determined to get this wanderlust out of her system and go home. After a handsome stranger derails her plans in Austria, however, Moira finds herself more at home than she ever felt. Her connection to the food, the land, the culture, and Hans has her questioning if she's finally found the life that will ground her restless spirit. A sudden emergency back home interrupts her summer romance, and Moira must leave Austria, promising Hans she will return. She comes home to her sister, only to discover Sadie has been keeping a secret from her, one that forces her to choose between the family who's always been there for her and the new life she so badly wants with Hans.

The Silent War is a fraction of the darkness that dwells in Driftwood, California. The ever-gloom that blankets Driftwood's skies in perpetual gray hides stories ignored by Citywalkers, and seldom spoken in The Order, or even among Coven. There are worse things in Driftwood than moldering grave earth... where death itself is only the beginning.

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