Princess Aelwen leads a peaceful existence as the daughter of the high queen of the land of Eveanor. However, her life is turned upside-down when her kingdom is besieged by vicious dragons and a wicked spell takes hold of her, transforming her into one of the scaled beasts. ((This is simply the rough draft of the novel, the fully edited and illustrated version is for sale here: https://www.amazon.com/Scarlet-Reign-Dragon-Queen-1/dp/0998582816/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492722599&sr=8-1&keywords=dragon+queen+scarlet+reign ))

This is the sequel to Dragon Princess so if you haven't read that yet then read it before you read this one... Shade is at war against himself and against time. Being brought back from the dead has a price, and his is costing him his humanity giving him limited time before the beast inside of him destroys him. What is worse is that his creator, Belladonna, has control over his will and if he doesn't either do everything she says or regain control one way or another the fire inside will consume him. Aralia has taken a dark turn after she was forced to leave Shade in the rubble of her enemy's castle. Unknowing what's going on with Shade she too is at risk of losing her humanity in the destructive war that now rages in her lands.

Needs editing I looked at the dragon that I grew to love. There was something strange about him. He shared the same beautiful blue eyes that Veren had. The curse of a dragon is that they can not love anyone except for one. This causes Veren a lot of heart ache, which makes Veren hardened and cold. Veren is a loyal friend to the king. He is used to help the king defeat and conquer cities, but when the kings take a few more servants in. Veren faces something he has never faced before. When Irina joins the king, she grows to love his loyal dragon. She despises Veren, but she knows that Veren holds some dark secrets. When the kingdom is put in danger all secrets are revealed.

Book 3 in the Dragon Series

Clara was an average nurse working at a local hospital. After being convinced to take a longer shift Clara is on her way home when she swerves off the road and down a hill. Getting out of her car she looks down and realizes she is standing on ice that was now breaking. She plummets through the ice and into the deep cold icy water. When she wake up she is surrounded by people she doesn't know in a time period she doesn't belong. Join her for her journey in Jane Austen's time period. Highest rank so far #405 in Fantasy

Summertime for Blair Reynolds and her friends had always been carefree and fun...until the summer they happened upon something that was not human. As they band together in a fight for their lives, Blair's true love becomes something more than human. Something unnatural. And their survival depends entirely upon their ability to keep a secret. * * * Thank you for reading CICADA. I'll be posting a new chapter every Monday, so keep an eye out for new additions. You can find out more about my books and me, including links to my social networking sites, at my website: www.bellewhittington.com. If you're interested in purchasing your own copy of my books, you can find them here: http://www.amazon.com/Belle-Whittington/e/B005CVY8R8

This novella was a Hugo and Nebula nominee twenty years ago. I lost both to Charles Sheffield -- whom I married five years later. Life sometimes really is just as strange as fiction.

There is a school for the gifted, but not the gifts you are expecting. These gifts are the power to control the elements. This academy finds these teens and kids and bring them to learn how to control their element. No one has been gifted with more than one elemental power. Until now.

I'm not who they think I am. A docile girl who meekly obeys her stepmother and stepsisters. Some kind of sick angel who cheerfully bears their mistreatment. That's what I WANT them to think. Because then they won't suspect what I'm really up to. The ball, the prince - it's all part of my plan to come out on top. Stepmother and her demented daughters will pay for every floor I have scoured, every sneer I have borne. They don't know about the white magic, how I use it to enhance myself. They can't see that my heart is black as midnight, rotten as a poisoned apple. They're about to find out.

The pursuit of a young woman lost in this world's hypocrisy and idealism and finding her own way, her own self.