[COMPLETED - NEW VERSION BEING UPLOADED ON PROFILE] Cordelia Bellrose lives a pristine life, in the upper class. The year is 1909 and though the Victorian Era has passed, a new one is about to enter. Cordelia is arranged to become engaged to Nathaniel Rowe, a man she has no interest in loving. Upon an unfortunate event, she is forced to give up the life she once knew. Everything ending back to vampire, Killian Claybrooke, a vampire who has been walking among the living for hundreds of years. He wants fun and takes the opportunity to snatch it, when he crosses paths with her, on his nightly feeding. Cordelia wants to move on and refuses to live life for a man, after all the events that have plagued her. However, without knowing it, Killian plans on getting everything he wants from Cordelia. She has to make sure she does not lose herself anymore than she already has, despite Killian's vampire friends entering the households and a greater threat that has Cordelia on a thin line, to figure out where she is meant to go. For a girl of her age, she soon begins to break all the rules she's grown up learning, to just to grasp her one true desire. Freedom. *2nd Place in 2017 The Invisible Awards*

It starts with a simple itch, nothing more. Maybe a few random spasms or the occasional shudder but you'll think nothing of it. Then you'll get blood shot eyes... Not enough sleep? It gets worse, much worse. The itching turns to scratching, clawing at you skin until it bleeds... and bleeds and bleeds. Then comes the anger which tips you over the top making you brake into a full blown seizure. Madness. You still with me? Well you won't be if they catch you, you'll be one of them...infected.

Olivia has always been ready to meet her Matched partner. However, when the Matching system fails, she is paired with Neo - a heartbroken boy who is totally uninterested in her. *** Olivia Jensen has always known that she will be meeting with her Matched partner at eighteen. She is confident that she will be the perfect pair for him to love her. What she does not expect is Neo Carmichael, a boy who already has loved someone outside of his Match and is not interested in being with her. Completely taken aback by his confession, Olivia finds herself to be the first incompatible Match with Neo by a seemingly 'perfect' Matching system. What seems to be the first signs of the system failing ends up opening a whole new world for Neo and Olivia as they navigate a life that they discover to have been built upon lies and secrets. (Book One of the Death of the Future Series) [[Editor's Pick | April 2021]]