'The Last Samurai' meets 'Shōgun', meets 'The King and I'... For years she believed herself to be cursed. Every time she grew close to someone they were taken away from her, paying the ultimate price. And now the curse struck again... Lottie has been falsely accused of her uncle's murder. She must escape or she will hang. It's 1854 and America's lawless West is not a place where a lonely woman can count on justice. Then, by the turn of fate, she is given a chance to revisit Japan and seek the people who raised her. In Imperial Japan, divided between isolationists and modernists, she finds an unexpected love and a new sense of belonging. She also finds someone else. Someone from her past... What will she choose? Where will her loyalties lie? Cover design by More Visual Ltd.

Trackers. With their duel colored eyes, that tattoo on their faces, and their unusual gifts, its not a surprise why normal people are scared of them. Lady Scarlett, or better known as Dark Tracker Scarlett, is all too familiar with others being afraid of her. Her freedom was taken from her because of her special powers that came on that horrible night. However, her fate of forever being feared and caged changes as Death comes and gives her a kiss, sending her to Death's Academy. She didn't die, she was just recruited into the all male school to train with the most deadliest of trackers. Trackers that are to work for the hidden Prince of Death himself; if they can make it. As soon as Scarlett steps into the academy, trouble is already stirring. From the group of boys that she meets as soon as she opens her eyes to the mysterious Tracker Isaac, her fate is just starting to be spun. New and old Kingdoms are going to war, taking more and more trackers to destroy each other. Death is ready for this war. However, something unknown is stopping him. He continues to stay hidden from the world, nobody knowing his face; yet toying with everyone all the same. Follow Scarlett as she journeys through the twisted game called fate: meeting friends, foes, and old enemies that all want one thing... Death's little assassin; then Death's ending itself.

*Recording starts and muffling can be heard in the background* Hello? Hello? Can anyone hear this? If you can, please be warned. What you are about to hear is not normal. You may think what you hear is completely fiction and I won't blame you it is hard to believe, but this "fiction" is what I'm living up until now. *can hear the girls heavy breaths and and ear deafening noise comes from the mic* S-sorry I don't have enough time, THEY are coming. Stop listening if you do not want to be caught but continue on if you want to learn the truth. I only ask for this recording to never fall into the government's hands, for I may have to run from society too. *the recorder becomes static, howls can be heard across the room, glass shatters but everything is still, the tape continues to loop*

[ sequel to Can't Get Enough ] With their surfing safari over and their summer coming to a close, a tight-knit group of Californian teens are preparing for a new school year and the new problems it entails. For Alana, it seems simple: join the surf team, focus on graduating, and grow closer to the guy who captured her heart over the summer. For Cole, it's a bit more complicated: he must stand behind his values, start with a fresh new outlook for his senior year, and maybe even find the courage to ask out the girl of his dreams. But when the group makes a surf film that goes viral and sends the media knocking on their door, their quiet coastal atmosphere changes dramatically. Lines are drawn, relationships are torn, and hearts are broken. With the weight of potential colleges, romance, and staying rooted in their faith pressing down on them, the gang will have to grow up fast if they want to make it through the impact zone and into the waters of success.

A surfing safari down the coast of California, a few shocking and rather unpleasant secrets, and four inevitable relationships that seem doomed to fail - this is where six salt-encrusted, surf-stoked teenagers find themselves as they rocket down PCH in a beat-up Volkswagen surf van. Alana Walker was born and bred in the waters of Ventura, CA. She's known as the best surfer at C Street and has a heart for God. Cole Anderson, on the other hand, hates anything that has to do with church and loathes being second-best to a girl, especially when that girl is Alana. So when these two get stuck on a month-long surfing safari, they find that their relationships - and more importantly, their faith - is about to be compromised. However, the old saying still rings true: opposites do attract. [ adventure #3 ] SEQUEL: CAUGHT INSIDE

"What was it like to witness the creation of the universe?" "Terrifying." When Atara, Merc, Cal and Lilith wake to darkness, they're each more than a little afraid. With no memory of who they were before, and with the universe bursting violently to life around them, they must work together to survive and to get home - wherever that may be. Because the longer they stay in this dark new world, the harder it is to do so. © 2015 by shayebay This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All Rights Reserved Highest Rankings: #8 in Poetry; #20 in Science Fiction