Her destiny is her greatest fear. ​ Seventeen-year-old Halen Windspeare will do anything to extinguish the flames that spark beneath her fingertips. But, returning to the place where she witnessed her father drown forces the fire to ignite. Refusing to release the rage that burns within her, Halen's hell bent on fighting the fire. But when she encounters a breathtaking stranger from the ocean depths, everything changes. As Halen is thrust into Dax's underwater world, she discovers the hidden truth of her destiny. However, what is expected of her may be more than she can endure. Now, Halen's forced to fight the rage within her to control the magick that burns inside. But when a vindictive demon has other plans for her, Halen must determine who she can trust in this new and dangerous world. Can Halen sift through the web of lies and accept her fate before her enemies destroy them all? ​ Shadow Hunters X The Little Mermaid Read the first ten chapters on Wattpad! Continue reading for FREE on Kindle Unlimited. Link in bio

"What the hell?" I took a step closer to the mirror, staring at my reflection in disbelief. The person looking back was still me, but at the same time it wasn't. I had the same thick, dark, curly hair. The same hazel eyes. The same olive skin with a light dusting of freckles (ugh) scattered across the bridge of my nose. But my curls were now streaked with highlights. And not the subtle, golden-brown ones that sometimes appeared during the summer. No, these were an aggressive, dazzling blond that went from the roots of my hair all the way to the tips. It looked like I had spent a full day getting my hair done in some upscale salon. Never mind that I had never set foot in such a place since the day I was born. My eyes appeared somehow wider and more luminous. The colour brighter, my eyelashes darker up against them. And, when I looked closely, my pupils seemed to be slitted almost like a cat. I looked down at my body. My skinny arms-which had always refused to gain any definition no matter how hard I exercised-were lined with flat, wiry muscles. My bony shoulders were now curved and smooth. My scrawny legs were toned like a dancer. I reached down and lifted my shirt, revealing two subtle lines running vertically down my perfectly flat stomach, hinting at the rock-hard abs underneath. My whole body was rippling with strength. Like liquid steel.

This is a project that I had to do in school for ELA, we had to rewrite the ending of this to how we think it would end before reading the actual ending, so this is my twisted ending. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is a first-person narrative of an unnamed narrator who insists he is sane but suffering from a disease. The old man with whom he lives has a clouded, pale, blue "vulture-like" eye which distresses the narrator so much that he plots to murder the old man. The narrator says that he loves the old man but hates only the eye. The narrator insists that his careful precision in committing the murder shows that he cannot possibly be insane. Hearing the old man's heart beating loudly and dangerously fast from terror, the narrator decides to strike, jumping out with a loud yell and smothering the old man with his own bed. The narrator then dismembers the body and conceals the pieces under the floorboards, making certain to hide all signs of the crime. Even so, the old man's scream during the night causes a neighbor to report to the police. The narrator invites the three arriving officers in to look around. He claims that the screams heard were his own in a nightmare and that the man is absent in the country.