In Peabody, Massachusetts, Luna Aldridge shares a home with her boyfriend, Kyle Tuttle. Sensing that something is off, she feels a stirring within, a yearning for something beyond. Driven by this, she seeks Laura and Victoria advice, the Salem Witches. The witches, with eyes like chips of ice, and the air around them thick with the scent of old herbs and a faint cackling energy, advise her to write in a journal, believing it will sharpen her psychic senses. Following their counsel, she met Geo. Sunlight glinted off his spectacles as she listens to his advice, schooling her in the craft, while his presence gave her a low hum of warning. The air hummed with an unseen energy. With each sunrise, she explores true magic. As she delved into psychic witchcraft, the drama unfolds through her visions; a swirl of dark images. Kyle's odd actions, a nervous energy she can feel in the air, stokes her suspicion. His every move was a shadow, a secret held tight. Guided by the Salem witches, she refines her psychic abilities and learns to sense psychic energy. Receiving the witch relics following a ritual they performed, she feels a magnetic pull from the relics, even as Kyle confesses to the secrets he had been keeping. Next Series: Little Monster; The Luna Aldridge Series (Part 2) *This story is mature. It contains bullying and some sexual content. It is recommended for 18 years and older. * Copyright © 2023 Jamie Sweet

Meet day-dreamer but witty private investigator Rex Chamba in his very first case to find a missing shovel and to uncover the reason why so many different people are so very interested in possessing it, this simple old tool for digging which seems so restless.

Running saved her life. But what happens when the truth catches up? Karen Clark has one goal: escape her father's bloodstained legacy and survive long enough to expose the secrets her mother died for. With nothing but bruises, bare feet, and a stolen train ticket, she flees the only home she's ever known-and steps straight into a new nightmare. The Wellingtons are rich, polished, and hiding something behind their perfect smiles. Now stuck under their roof, Karen must play by their rules while digging up the truth about her past... But some secrets were buried for a reason. And if she's not careful, she'll end up silenced just like her mother. A fierce, emotional thriller about family, betrayal, and the price of survival.

The Detective * SUMMARY * The Havoc at the LAPD increases when an officer got himself in the middle of a big drugs gang's radar. Detective Rivera from San Diego flies in to hopefully bring an end to it. Being back in LA after years of working there brings back memories and people It's a situation which isn't foreseeable; things happen on patrol, people are being searched, bosses are being talked to. Just then, the suspect appears in front of the detective her eyes. Is there a way to get herself out of this? Captain Andersen doesn't seem too thrilled with Rivera's presence. How come? That was one thing Lillian couldn't solve, until they started talking. Who would've thought captain had such a mindset? Lillian Rivera is a thirty-six year old fierce woman. She knows what she stands for and is not afraid of confrontation. She is confident, sarcastic, fearless and humoristic but empathic. Being a detective is her calling. She has a complicated relationship with the captain of the LAPD; Zoe Andersen. Lillian is 5'7 tall, She has dark brown wavy hear that reaches her collarbone. Her clothing style is chique/casual. She enjoys to drink wine on her free evenings and loves to go luxury shopping. • The faceclaim to get a better visual image of Lillian is a mix of Emily Prentiss and Lena Luthor. For additional vibes feel free to check out the Pinterest board based on her looks, aesthete and mindset https://pin.it/CVvzDNZEm • *DISCLAIMER* * Lillian Rivera is the only character that belongs to me. * The other (listed below) characters belong to The Rookie universe. (Zoe Andersen, Tim Bradford, Lucy Chen, Jackson West, John Nolan, Talia Bishop, Angela Lopez, Sergeant Grey, King Midas, Aaron Thorsen, Celina Juarez, Nyla Harper, Monica Stevens, Casey Fox, Cole Midas, Southern Front etc.) * This is (fan)fiction. * There are curse words used. * Mentions of murder, drugs, blood, crime etc * INFO * * Written from the "I" perspective. * wlw story

Beverly Hills' heiress and hunter of serial killers Sapphire Dubois is back in this ferocious, festive, and funny mystery-one where her marriage, her life, and the life of a little girl are at risk in a madman's twisted sacrament. Sapphire Dubois is about to celebrate her first Christmas in Beverly Hills with her new husband, Detective Aston Ridder. She has assured him that her days of defying death to save victims from serial killers are over. But after three months of marriage she hasn't kicked the habit. Sapphire feels compelled to check out a lead-two women with similar descriptions have vanished from the same location. After breaking her promise, the daring crime fighter gets abducted by the very killer she was hunting. While a distraught Aston scrambles to find his missing wife, Sapphire wakes up in a bizarre reality where she is now the victim, forced to play a part in her abductor's sick ritualistic game. Soon she realizes she's not alone; a little girl is imprisoned with her, and Sapphire is her only chance of escape.

A summer has passed since the catastrophe at the country club. Heiress and vigilante Sapphire Dubois has escaped to Paris, where she has shed her rich persona and lives as the infamous Serial Catcher. When the handsome Detective Aston Ridder tracks her down, Sapphire returns home to find Beverly Hills in chaos. A new vigilante has taken over Sapphire's old job, and will stop at nothing to get her predecessor out of the way. Meanwhile, a man with dark intentions and a deceiving smile has nestled his way into the rich community and is killing off heiresses. It doesn't take long before Sapphire finds that this man, the next killer she has to catch, is none other than her estranged father. Already plagued by sickening memories, Sapphire is pushed to the limit when her father initiates a deranged game that threatens both her sanity and the lives of everyone around her. While Aston struggles to keep the woman he loves from drowning in her father's madness, Sapphire battles to outwit her merciless opponents before time runs out and more innocent blood is spilled.

While setting her sights on a new serial killer, Beverly Hills heiress and vigilante, Sapphire Dubois, fights to cancel the wedding of the season in the sequel to the bestselling New Adult Thriller STALKING SAPPHIRE. As a new serial killer dubbed the "Stripper Slayer" plagues Los Angeles, Sapphire once again sheds her socialite persona, this time to go undercover as a penniless stripper. Struggling to find the brutal man before he slays again, Sapphire finds that the thin wall separating her double life is cracking. Her family and friends expect her to walk down the aisle with the most eligible bachelor among the Beverly Hills elite; a man she doesn't want. Meanwhile, the man she does want, handsome Detective Aston Ridder, is making her life hell as he closes in on the Serial Catcher's trail. Sapphire scrambles to keep the chaos at bay, unaware that someone else is tracking her as well. A serial killer from her past is back and will stop at nothing to get his vengeance.

Despite the illusion Sapphire Dubois presents to the rest of the world, she is not just your stereotypical 22-year old Beverly Hills heiress; she hunts serial killers. While her fellow heirs spend their nights with trending celebs and drugs at the hottest club, Sapphire secretly spends hers luring, capturing, and anonymously handing over So-Cal's most wanted killers to the police - just your average Tuesday night. What Sapphire doesn't know is that one of her adversaries is watching her every move, aware of both her true identity and her unconventional hobby. Needless to say, he doesn't approve. Used to being the one who redefines the definition of predator and prey, Sapphire's world abruptly shatters when a gruesome 'gift' arrives for her at the Beverly Hills Country Club. With her involuntary crush, handsome Detective Aston Ridder, close on her tail, Sapphire now has to rethink her routine strategy and figure out how to capture a killer who already knows she's coming.

An ancient tool for digging, a shovel, an heirloom of a dwindling tribe, has gone missing, and Rex Chamber went out to find it as his very first case. What is so special about this shovel? Rex thought. For every turn, more and more people are becoming interested in acquiring it for themselves, and they are even ready to kill just to get ahold of it. Join my invented hero in his hilarious adventure and perhaps, his only case ever to solve.

The Old Rule has fallen, which is called the Beast that was carried once, in the past, by its look-alike beast, the red dragon. The dragon carried the Beast on his back in the past and used it to deceive and control the whole world, and to oppress the holy ones of God for an extended 1,260 years. But the transition of time from night to day came, and the dragon was bound and imprisoned, leaving his look-alike beast exposed, weakened, and shattered to many factions opposing each other. Moreover, its authority to rule the world was taken and divided among the people. This gave the rise of a new beast or rule which is from the people, by the people, and for the people. It has two separated leaderships, the power of religion and the power of politics. In this new era, so-called as the times of enlightenment and freedom, Rex was born and will try to experience this freedom, or so he thought, because the new rule has the same spirit like that of the beast and the dragon, the spirit of pride. It will rule in behalf of the beast and will try to deceive all people to worship the symbol of the Old Rule, the image of the Beast. Can Rex be really enlightened and join the others, to resist, stand and persevere till the end? Can he refuse to praise, exalt, and pledge his life to the banner of the Beast?