Ari Callahan has no idea how to talk to boys -- or how to talk to anyone for that matter. Enter Zac, the cute new guy in town who won't stop texting her. But is his interest real, or does he have a hidden agenda? ***** Found as a young child washed up on the beach, 17-year-old Ari Callahan has never uttered a word out loud to anyone -- not even her adoptive family. Psychologists have diagnosed her with a condition called selective mutism, but Ari can't help identifying with her namesake character, Ariel, the little mermaid in the fairytale whose voice was stolen by a sea witch. Mermaid-obsession aside, Ari's silence makes socializing tough. She's never had a boyfriend or been asked out on a date. Not until Zac, the confident new arrival in town, asks for her number. But Zac has his own reasons for texting with Ari. He's part of a movement to sabotage the artificial music app called SirenSong, threatening to render human singing obsolete. Zac's collaborators have scoured the globe in search of a singing voice perfect enough to break the SirenSong spell, and their search has led them straight to Ari's beachside town. Will her relationship with Zac help Ari find her voice and unlock the secrets of her origins? Or will he use her and leave her high and dry? Title: Ari and Zac (formerly The Mermaid Hypothesis) Content Warning: This story contains references to selective mutism, suicidal thoughts, and early childhood trauma.

Dana's best friend Kitty has died in a car accident, and the only ray of light in the misery is when her grandmother appears in her spiffy red sports car to cheer her up. At the same time a nightmarish shadow appears to hunt Dana and she has to flee from her ordinary life with grandma, who turns out to be something quite different than what Dana had thought - a Huntress of Shadows. The truth about her ancestry is not an easy thing for Dana to accept - she was deliberately created to perform a task, to find something that should stay hidden, or it might threaten the world of humans as Dana knows it. Her existence is tied to the myth of the Nephilim, the descendants of angels, and her creator was someone who commands the forces of chaos and darkness, the source of all horror myths of humankind. Dana learns there is a world of shadows, the afterlife, dreams and time travel, surrounding the physical world, hidden behind a thin veil - and that there are ways to enter it from the physical world. Dana has no option - she is being hunted by creatures of darkness, and the hunt can only end in either Dana and everyone she loves being captured and turned into creatures of darkness - or Dana finding what she was created to find. Her hunters have skills no ordinary human can escape - but Dana is not an ordinary human. Nor is Daniel, the leader of a hidden Center fighting the darkness. Together with a chosen team they could travel the Unseen Worlds that surround the physical world, into the past, following a clue written down in ancient Egypt, and then walk the Trail of Angels, and find the hidden mystery before the dark creatures do. Dana must prepare for a long search in another time and place, knowing that both she and Daniel are wanted and hunted by the darkness. At stake is her love, and the destiny of the human kind. Copyright © 2016 Leena Pekkalainen

❝One girl, one book, and an entire nation that wants to keep her from it.❞

In the near future, the human race has been forced to quarantine an entire country after the Known Virus, also known as the K-Virus, spread throughout their lands, killing millions and mutating thousands. The Alliance, the supreme government of the world, have imprisoned them all in specially designed jail cells, more than 200 million innocent citizens. Every time the virus emerges from within a person, soldiers haul them away, never to be seen again. Now, Audra, herself a victim of the K-Virus outbreak, has begun to show symptoms. The soldiers come, and Audra finds herself in a new world, and realizes what really happens beyond the cell doors... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cover credits to @RebellionOfALifetime

[STORY HAS BEEN REBOOTED] Ivy just burned her boarding school to the ground, but that's the least of her problems. People are chasing her, the government wants to lock her up, and a group called Scorpion wants to recruit her. Ivy quickly learns that she isn't alone in the world. There are other kids like her. Kids with powers. They are known as the Supers, and now it's up to them to stop Scorpion. The fate of the country, and possibly the planet, depends on it. The Supers don't know it yet, but the whole world is about to change. They've become a part of something much bigger than an experiment gone wrong, or a fight for power, or the strange and sinister organizations trying to use the Supers for their own purposes. Something that could be bigger than the universe itself. // Completed Word Count: ~62,000 Cover by me Read more on my website: http://auroranelson.weebly.com/ Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/Uze4_QjdyYM Check out the pinterest board: https://www.pinterest.com/auroranelson28/the-supers-experiment/

((COMPLETED)) When Summer is kidnapped by a married couple who are determined to have perfect daughters,and a perfect family, there's just a sick twist to the entire thing. Slip up one time? It's death for you. Say the wrong thing? It's basement time for you, and you'll be lucky if you even survive. The others didn't. When the couple kidnaps two other girls,Paisley and Nicole,Summer is determined to get everybody out alive. Even with the costs. Making promises? Can she really keep them? Though Summer slips up all of the time,they refuse to murder her for some odd reason. Nicole stops believing that they'll escape,but Summer won't give up. She's got her mind set on helping everyone escape unhurt. The same question keeps flying around Summer's head. Will I be able to help everyone escape? -cover made by @achillies-

March 24th, 2014: Kevin Vásquez goes missing. April 9th, 2015: Kevin's remains are found. March 24th, 2016: Ricardo receives a message from an unknown number, the messenger claims to be Kevin. He's asking for help. He's not dead. He wants to come home. ~~~ "They all thought he died. Apparently they were dead wrong." The day of the two year anniversary after his foster brother's disappearance, Ricardo Vásquez receives a message from an unknown number. The sender claims to be his brother, Kevin and sends what can only be classified as irrefutable evidence that he's alive. But it can't be Kevin, right? Kevin was murdered. Kevin's remains were found. Kevin was DEAD! Or at least he was supposed to be. Now that Kevin's suddenly back, he wants Ricardo's help in exposing the truth and finding out who really tried to kill him two years prior. As the story unfolds, Ricardo uncovers terrible truths about those close to him, warping his mission into that of something more dangerous and twisted than he bargained for, especially considering the masked character who will stop at nothing to ensure Ricardo and his family suffers. Cover credit goes to: @moonlight_aesthetics

LOGLINE: When a man finds his love making the journey to supply a base on Saturn's moon Enceladus, he must face a threat that could destroy all humanity in the future. Hope can be deadly... After World War III, the planet Earth was destroyed. Of him only the memories of his survivors. Humankind, or whatever remains, lives on Mars in precarious conditions, expecting it to find a place in space to build a new home. Until on Enceladus, one of the moons of Saturn, humans find appropriate conditions for this, including water, for relief of all. But something hides in the depths of this unexplored place. Something ancient, hungry, that when discovering the taste of human blood will not stop, until devouring all the inhabitants of the place. How to fight with what you do not know? Chaiene Santos, writer of the series #TheChildrenOfTime, decides to innovate once again, honoring classic films like Alien, the Eighth Passenger and The Secret of the Abyss. Are you ready to dive into your most hidden fears?

When a wrong number led to a supernatural mermaid meeting the boys of Why Don't We, secrets that have been hidden away are now revealed. What will happen to the band? Will they start to fall apart? *cough cough* 1D effect * cough cough* Read to find out❤️

Throughout the year that Lara Hemmings has stayed with the Why Don't We boys in LA, she's kept a secret. The secret that allows her to sing like no ordinary human. The secret that she's a mermaid. Until she feels the shift in the sea's balance. Something dark is coming, something that wants to find the fabled Songcaster. Now faced with a growing threat to her existence and having to protect the boys she holds dear, Lara has face the realization not everyone is who they seem, and discover the path she was meant to find.