A classic tale of which I am sure you are all familiar with. The long golden haired beauty gets rescued by her knight in shining armor, her evil witch of an adoptive mother keeping her under wraps and away from the world. But- what if the roles were reversed? What if the prince is not all who he says he is? What if R...
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| Previously Featured | | Book One of the Moon Chronicles | "To hear, one must be silent." The Power of the tongue and intelligence of a human being is what makes them different from God's other creations. It is what makes them powerful, it is what makes the human being rule every other creation. But they forge...
Magic is supposed to be easy; there's Black, White, and Green Magic, and once a Witch picks a path, that's really all she has to worry about. But for Darlena Agara, things just keep getting harder. She's torn between her best friend's choice of the Black path, and her on-again, off-again boyfriend's choice of the Whit...
Hailey always thought she had a pretty ordinary life. The only thing that could be called unusual in her life was that her mother had disappeared into thin air not long after Hailey's birth. Soon, though, her mother is not the most important thing on the young girl's mind as she discovers a hidden side of herself and...
(UPDATES EVERY SUNDAY) You don't believe in God, Lucas? That's okay. He believes in you. And he's coming for you... There's some seriously weird shit happening to Lucas. First, a runaway bus nearly puts him ten feet under, and no one can explain exactly what happened. Next, an asteroid the size of said bus destroys ha...
[Completed] Cursed as a child, Cinder Valentine lives life as beast, forced to perform in a traveling carnival. Only on the night of the full moon does she change back to her human form. The carnival travels through the Kingdom of Edenraye on the eve of the Prince's Ball. Every maiden in the kingdom is invited, but t...
The day Vasilisa Hedge was murdered for witchcraft, she left behind three things: a bloodthirsty village, a magickal daughter, and a soul-stealing doll. Now Karina, Vasilisa's daughter, is grown up and accused of witchcraft herself. Banished from her village to the Forest of the Dead along with Hans Pinkerto...
[ Fantasy / Romance / Book 1 ] In Pyxis, a city of fairies at the icy border of civilization, Queen Andromeda intends to reach into the modern world of humans and kill everyone associated with her ex-husband, Scott MacRae, the King of the Unworthy, born with the ability to live in either world, fairy or human...
Rin is a Kitsune, or at least she was until a witch's spell turned her human. To regain her powers, Rin must make the lord's son fall in love with her before the next full moon. She thought it would be easy, her kind have been seducing humans for centuries. But Hikaru is different. He's handsome, intelligent, and kind...
Leo Sundridge, Third Duke of Erroll, always knew no one could love him. His mother, father, wife. He could live with that...until his wife suddenly cursed to find true love or die. Arabella Beauley secretly longs for adventure while tirelessly serving her family following her mother's death. Escapades in a haunted cas...
She is the most powerful Jinni of all. He is a boy from the streets. Their love will shake the world... When Aladdin discovers Zahra's jinni lamp, Zahra is thrust back into a world she hasn't seen in hundreds of years -- a world where magic is forbidden and Zahra's very existence is illegal. She must disguise herself...
Harriet has always been the type of girl who would rather ride horses than stitch embroidery, practice her sword-fighting than practice her curtsies, and she'd rather dream about being the first female knight in all of history instead of a docile wife on some nobleman's arm. When a war between the allies of Ecrivenia...
"It's a lose-lose situation. Only one of them is a little less lose than the other one. Your call." Twelve kingdoms. Twelve powers. Twelve lives intertwined in a dark vortex of insanity. A dark twist on different fairy tales. [contains some graphic violence/torture]
One of the winners of the OnceUponNow contest! Of Sirens and Beasts will be published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster on October 11th in the Once Upon Now Anthology! Football uniforms and tutus do not make a pretty picture. That is what Cal's football team, the Beasts, strongly believe. So when thei...
Cast out of the tower where she's been locked up her whole life, Ivy is suddenly all alone in the desert with nothing to call her own, not even her name. Starvation seems inevitable until Leon, a chivalrous merchant comes along to bring her to a city she's never heard of before. From there, life could be perfect were...
When a teenage girl is lured to a faery festival in Ireland by a scheming banshee, the chain of events triggered can only lead to death. There's one way in, one way out, and two queens eager for a sacrifice of their very own.
*A Little Red Riding Hood retelling* --- Rose LaRoux is not your delicate flower. At least not after witnessing her Grandmother's murder by a monster she thought only lived in grim fairy tales. It's been ten years since then and Rose is not only a hunter, but one...
In the night when the kingdom of Incantasi has been conquered by the tyrant Henry, Cassandra Monfort is born-a girl who could save the kingdom from the evil ruler's hands. When the seal appears on her twelfth year, her whole life changes. King Henry orders the execution of her parents, and it happens before her very e...
NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK AND E-BOOK This is a 10-chapter sample of a published novel. A stolen kiss. An unstable curse. One big mess in the making. Derric Harver never expected to amount to anything more than the palace stableboy, but when Princess Maria's curse keeps her from accepting a prince's proposal, she turn...
he drugged her with an apple; then tried to make her beautiful as the queen ⚠️read with caution, may contain sensitive subjects; tw: ab*se, r*pe⚠️ highest short story: #33 (11/2/16) :D
Everyone knows the story of Snow White: blood red lips, ebony hair and skin the colour of freshly fallen snow. Her vain step-mother, desperate to be the 'fairest of them all' attempts four times to have her killed, until her prince comes to save the day. But what if Snow wasn't a princess, but a prince. And the quee...
Evelina the Water Witch- Book One Evelina Crimm just wants to be normal. She has her life planned, until she spends summer vacation with two crazy Aunts and discovers she's a Water Witch. Soon things get a little freaky and she's living a double life, slinging hash during the week and dodging black magic spells every...
*Now a featured Wattpad story! Zara was never meant to be an outcast. Once upon a time, she was a Red Cape- a member of the respected forest guard. That was before the accident, though. The one that left her partner dead and her to blame. Now expelled from the guard and living a life of shame, all Zara wants is to red...
Aeons once ruled the world. Now, their empire lies in ruin, and the survivors hide on the fringes of society. Nahlia is a librarian's apprentice who's obsessed with Aeon lore, scavenging for hints of their legendary power. But others are searching too, including the Templars who seek to hunt down the Aeon survivors...
In the heart of Japan during wartime, Akira-Lee Yuki wants to bring honor to her family. She is not one to think of marrying, but if that brings honor, so be it. Only thing is, she has a problem that tosses her honor out the window. To restore it, she joins the men's army to help her country in a time of need, though...
Adelaide envied the girls that received the coveted red riding hood each year which was an official invitation to the Prince's Harvest Ball where the young girls would meet their suitors. So when awakens on her eighteenth birthday she is elated to find a prized hood waiting for her. But soon she discovers the true hor...