They say when life gives you lemons, make lemonade, but what happens when life takes away your ability to make lemonade? *** Jenna, a young woman brought up in an abusive family, struggles to take care of her younger sister and her ungrateful mother in the heart of poverty. When things become unbearable, she moves to the city in search of a better life. Will she succeed?

🏆 Chosen as Sci-Fi Story of the Month by Wattpad's @ScienceFiction. 🏆 Featured on Wattpad's @ScienceFiction and @ShortStory. 🏆X3 Awarded Best Science Fiction 🏆 Awarded Best Action 🏆 Awarded Best Novel 🏆 Chosen as Book of the Month by @CroodsGirl Shadow and Steel: A Sci-Fi Short Story Series. In a time when mankind has reached the stars, the light of progress does not shine upon all. On the fringes of known space, survival is a brutal dance of skill, cunning, and ruthlessness. Meet a hustler chasing the next score; a doctor trying to mend a broken world; an enforcer wrestling his demons; and a pilot who bends the rules of the sky. Each fights their own battles, until their lives become entangled in a web of dangerous alliances, shifting loyalties, and interstellar power struggles. Caught between blaster shoot-outs, high-speed starship chases and an unforgiving universe that devours the weak, the line between good and evil is as blurred as the stars themselves. In the silence of space, you either bleed out in Shadow or carve your path on Steel. Content Warning: This series contains violence, gore, death, harassment, strong language, drug use, psychological trauma, and mature situations. Reader discretion is advised.

It all began with curiosity. That curiosity turned to desperation. That desperation turned to hate. That hate, turned to war that would span millennia in just a few moments. One man's quest to rid the world of Darkness would be met with resistance unlike any the world had seen before. Would he win? Only time and discovery could answer that.

The gods have no pity for humans and their impermanence. Why would they care for lives measured in years, when time marches into millennia for them? The immortals stay in their city. The humans remain in their parts of the world. That is until a human terrorist group gains control over the Goddess of Death, forcing her to kill their enemies and increase their power. All immortals keep their backs turned on humanity. Except Samil, the God of Festivals and the Arts. Samil knows he isn't very powerful among his kind. Or important. Or confident. Yet, when he learns that the humans are desperate, he chooses to do a deceptively simple thing: Help them. ___________________________________ @Voyageavecmoi was kind enough to write this review of my book and she described it 100x better than I ever could lol. With her permission, I'm posting it below. Also, check out her book "Flight Risk." It's a sweet and deep romance about two characters negotiating their feelings for each other while life is doing everything to tear them apart. The characters have such mature conversations and, there's no reliance on the miscommunication trope at all. I'm *obsessed.* If you enjoy intriguing fantasy novels with deep and thoughtful themes, check out 'The Gifts of Mortality' by @eleanorkennedy14 . It explores the concept of mortality and how it gives life meaning through the eyes of both gods and humans. The story follows Samil, the god of the Festivals and the Arts, who is shocked by the apathy of his fellow gods when a human terrorist group gains control over the Goddess of Death. Despite finding no support among his kind, he's determined to help the humans, which sets him down an interesting course. There are lots of great twists in this novel, and I also loved seeing how queerness was worked in throughout both the immortal and mortal realms. Samil is a sweet and refreshing character to root for who is determined to see the good in the world.

The Sovereignty's mechanized army is all that stands in the way of galactic civil war, but when an unexpected and powerful invader exposes their vulnerability, the sparks of rebellion begin to burn. Arthros, the pragmatic Hokkonian Commander must face the bleak reality of the crumbling military he serves. A drastic change must occur if the Sovereignty wants to survive against the Union and their newfound ally. When Arthros discovers Jericho, the first human eligible to pilot a mech, his hope for survival is reignited. The clock is ticking, and Jericho must learn what it means to be Unbound before the star system descends into chaos. Can Jericho surpass his limits in time?

The black belt is regarded highly across any martial art. Years of training and practice are required across any discipline to reach this goal. Roughly 1 percent of the world practices martial arts and 16 year old Julie Khan likes to keep herself on the side of the majority. After a violent argument during a pickup basketball game, Julie decides to take up Brazilian Jiu Jitsu at her local gym as an answer. 18+ TW: Depictions of violence, sexual assault