Gambling addict Amelia Walker was orphaned at a young age, and was never told anything about her true parents. Without the knowledge of her past, she doesn't realize the dangers of the world around her, even the dangers of the eerie Crowley Brothers. She is thrown into a mind game of a world that shouldn't even exist, and discovers her part in it's creation. The more she discovers about her past, the more she finds out about the poison that pumps from her heart and thrives in her veins. With her new enemies, she must discover that Love is Humanity, and Jealousy is Insanity.

The city of Harborne is one with a troubled past. Its influence once wiped out an entire nation and, in return, it brought the wrath of the Dragon-Kin, of Bron and the Viper, down upon its walls. For over a year it survived, protected by the subtleties of its location, by the ocean and the rain, until its fate was eventually sealed by one of its own. In this world where everyone is born with magic, Edward Montgomery, who somehow had not a scrap of power within him, turned his heart to darkness and let the serpents through Harborne’s battered gates. And though this happened seven generations ago, there is still a saying in the city that survived Bron: “No magic leads to dark magic”. Which wasn’t a problem when Kiara was a child and could disappear from sight with nothing more than a simple thought. Only now she’s inexplicably crippled, with no magic to speak of, and the horizons beckon. She’s headed East, to the Mirror City, because they say a man can buy anything there, anything at all. And anything is exactly what she’d give to get her magic back. She’s willing to face dragons for it. Lucky, really, since Ben is tired of this power he cannot control, and he’s headed East too, to see if he can’t just sell his. **** Watty Award Shortlisted (Most Imaginative Setting) 2012 *****

The land is dark. The sky is grey. The people are crying. Can you hear them? Amorika was born into a land of death and sorrow. She has known no warmth from the sun, no relief from the wind, no calmness from a river's song. Such things do not exist in her world. In the fortress she lives in, there is no freedom for her. She has always accepted this, knowing that trying to leave would lead to a punishment worse than maybe death itself. But her seclusion has not kept her innocent of the horrors of the world forbidden to her. The sorrows of the land have always come to her doorstep in the form of either the dead or helpless. Her father, the Dark King, makes sure that everyone within his rule knows what he is capable of; what he has been capable of for nearly a century. He lives in an immortal state, wrought from a war long since past, and the conquering of an enemy now considered myth. But the King knows his enemy still stirs. He has forbidden Amorika from leaving his palace-fortress for he knows that she is the only one of his many children that has any chance of connecting with this old force, and thus give him a way to destroy it completely and live eternally. At the age of twenty, Amorika begins to discover that her father's treatment towards her is more than it appears.. Following a path of clues left by a now deceased scholar, Amorika discovers that there is more history to the Great War of old than she ever thought. Within only a matter of days she finds herself running away from the one place she has known best, guided only by the words of a dead man and a mysterious force she had once considered to be myth. She runs to find the place where the Stag is still strong, knowing that she may be the only one capable of awaking the one person strong enough to rid the world of evil and it's crimson stain.

A story about a girl, her brother, and powers from a forgotten religion.

*Being edited!* There's always a time and place for death but Death is always on my side. I was raised by humans but I am not human. I am on the run for my life with my best friend Autumn. My name is Silver, and I have a huge secret. I am a Demon, have had other supernaturals sent as assassins to kill me and best of all, I am a teen in the middle of a love triangle. Btw, it use to be called Silver Iris [I loved that title :( ] but I discovered anothe Silver Iris about a Demon so I decided to change the name. Strong language and Violence occures.