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Incipience by Authorkssmith
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Incipience (\in-ˈsi-pē-ən(t)s), noun: the act or process of bringing or being brought into existence. The meteors came without warning. Hundreds of thousands of them came raining down to the Earth, but they did little damage to the planet itself. It's the people that they brought ruin to. Upon impact, the meteors combusted into this fine powder that saturated the planet in its entirety. Within a few weeks, billions grew weak, millions were sick, and hundreds of thousands were dead. That's when they came. These beings from across the stars, the Inovarians, landed on the UN's front lawn with technology capable of fixing the planet within a few weeks. People around the world celebrated until we realized what their help would cost: us. Follow Charlotte-Amalie, a teenager from the USVI, as she feigns assimilation into Inovarian society and races against the clock. She has a year of experimentation to survive through before having to face an ultimatum: be drafted into the military to fight the Inovarians' war or forced into their breeding program. With the help of a covert rebel sec of the military, Charlotte-Amalie may just be able to beat the clock in time to get her and a few of her fellow Earthlings out before the battle begins. Book 1: Chapters 1-12 (Complete, publishing with New Degree Press Winter 2021) Book 2: Ongoing (Update Hiatus to meet publication deadlines for book 1)
Cut To The Bone by druidrose
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Azima Rousseau, a demon hunter destined to save her world from the denizens of the Underworld, has to venture through the Seven Levels of Hell in order to face its Prince and close the rift between their worlds once and for all. ***** Ever since her eighteenth birthday, Azima Rousseau knew she would die battling the forces of Hell just as her mother had, and every other Rousseau before her. So when her destiny delivers her to Death's door, it is not the Devil who answers, but the Demon Prince Malecoda. Instead of ending her fated existence as his sworn enemy, he decides to bind her into a pact that challenges not only the intensity of her will to survive but also the integrity of her soul to persevere. Together they soon discover who the monsters truly are- Azima's own people. [[ 2021 WATTYS SHORTLIST ]] ---------- Cover designed by Stefanie Saw
Pulse by _jnicole_
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-Editor's Choice! Dec 2019 - 17-year-old Lucille Monteith wants nothing else to find her brother, who, despite what everyone says, she refuses to believe is dead. She'll do anything to locate him, to bring him back home safe, though it begins to dawn on her that she's hopeless in her investigation. After a tragic accident, brothers Cian and Vincent Horne were torn from their normal lives. Vinny stuck as an earthbound spirit and Cian becoming an angel of death, the two roam the earth together, unafraid of death and its meaning. When Vinny discovers that Lucie can see him, however, it changes everyone in the trio's lives, and Lucie finds she may not be so hopeless after all. Embark on this journey as an angel, a ghost, and a teenage girl search for a loved one, battle their demons, and fight to keep pulses beating.
Revival: Of Cethore ✔ by Spider-Hawk
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The dragon is sleeping; it's fading away. Only one can awaken it, only one can revive it. Will they make it in time? Cethore was once simply a land divided by the people within. Of the seven tribes, great power ran through their veins, each power unique to its tribe, but one tribe was blessed with power over all other tribes. They united the tribes to form the nation of Cethore, run by the Council of Sixeen. For many centuries, peace reigned, until the darkness crept into their hearts. Samari is a homeless orphan hoping to find a good life somewhere, a place where she belongs. Luck is not on her side as she runs into a street fight that is bigger than it seems. When she joins a guild that works for a dead king, she finds a version of herself she never knew existed--and friends she never had. But now she has to step up in order to keep the darkness at bay. With the fate of her world in the balance, she must decide between staying comfortable or fighting for greater power. [Fairy Tail meets Avatar: The Last Airbender] Warning! This book contains violence, bullying, racism, and dark scenes. | Completed | Book One in the Of Cethore series | Featuring a map made by @Ladune
Crystal Corde by BladesOfCourage
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Fun-loving and goofy Adeline is friends with cynical and rational Raven, who has secrets that involve Adeline and a past she can't remember... After an encounter with a bully, Raven reveals that she and Adeline aren't really human, they're mages who can wield magic and much more. After Raven uses magic, though, she tells Adeline that they must go back to a place which she calls home. After dragging Addie through a portal to this world, she is told that she is the rightful heir to the throne of that world and she must take down the tyrant who currently controls it. How will Addie deal with this sudden responsibility thrust upon her? Will she succeed in her mission or will she fail along the way?
THE RELIC GUILD (and other stories) Updated regularly.  by Edward_Cox
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Magic caused the war. Magic is forbidden. Magic will save us. The Relic Guild is the award nominated first book in The Relic Guild trilogy. It was said the Labyrinth had once been the great meeting place, a sprawling city at the heart of an endless maze where a million humans hosted the Houses of the Aelfir. But when the Thaumaturgists, overlords of human and Aelfir alike, went to war, everything was ruined and the Labyrinth became an abandoned prison. The surviving humans were trapped behind boundary walls a hundred feet high, and all magic was forbidden. And now the war is returning. The Relic Guild are all that stand against the end of the city. But they are old, scattered and weak, and the enemy is growing in strength... Here in THE RELIC GUILD (and other stories) please enjoy a large chunk of The Relic Guild Trilogy (published with kind permission of my publisher Gollancz), complete short stories, the odd poem, one or two blog posts, and samples chapters from my other novels.
Work Of Heart Award (Close -open For Judges) by zethorix
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The Subway (Now Available on Amazon!) (Unedited Version on Wattpad)  by Jae-Jae
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~ AVAILABLE ON AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/dp/164434193X ~ She hated riding the subway. It was cramped, smelled, and the seats were extremely uncomfortable to sit on for hours on end. Now add a group of crazy mask-wearing, weapon-wielding, maniacs to the ever growing list of reasons why Gemma hated riding the subway. Gemma Conners is your average eighteen year old and for the past two years she's been riding the subway to and from school with no problem. She always expected the same ol' same ol'. Cramped spaces, hard seats, and perverts staring her up and down and "accidentally" bumping into her and blaming it on the train as it jostled people into one another. Never did she expect a group of masked men to rush in and hold everyone onboard hostage, demanding that they all play along with their sick and twisted idea of a "game". It was either that or die. To add on to her ever growing list of problems, one of the passengers onboard just so happens to be Archer Daniels, your typical high school "heartthrob" and Gemma's classmate. Her day just kept getting better and better. With Gemma's luck, she'd be lucky if she lasted five minutes. Yep. She really hated the subway. *Book Cover Credit: Irah Marie* Thanks again for making such an AMAZING cover!❤️
... by SAKlopfenstein
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A Brother's Perspective by Zurafuro15
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Following the end of The Police and The Yato, this is the second official mini fanfic collection called, A Brother's Perspective. The story focuses on Kamui's point of view in his life and his relationship with his sister and his sister's rival and admirer, Okita Sougo.