There is no night in the Everburning City. There can never be. ***** For four hundred years the Everburning City has withstood the advance of the life-strangling fog known as the Gloam. Its walls have held back five invasions, but on the eve of the sixth, the city's inhabitants know things have changed. Golems are coming out of the mist, and the bodies of the dead are rising at the Gloam's bidding. The city's last and most desperate line of defence comes in the form of the Crafters, individuals who can channel the power of fire, though they risk their sanity each time they do. The brightest of these valiant heroes are Tabitha a'Loria and her apprentice Gerald Reath. Risking their lives, they mount their airships, determined to save the last bastion of humanity - the Everburning City. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

"Every Darkness has a Light; every Light has a Darkness. This is how it has been since the dawn of time, and this is how it must remain until the very end." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There once lived a human girl with magic in her veins; for years she dreamt she danced in a glade of sunshine with a beast that wore the face of a little boy. Spring melted into summer; summer into autumn; autumn into winter. As the mortal girl aged, the darkling boy followed suit. Their meetings in her Dreamworld continued until one day, the young man offered the young woman her freedom. The woman accepted. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Athinea is a realm divided between guardians of light and creatures of darkness, and the darkness is rising. Felicity is of mortal descent, a young woman trapped by an abusive partner and an overbearing father. Alone and afraid, Felicity seeks refuge in her Dreamworld, a place she has visited whilst asleep since she was a child. Felicity believes her safe haven to be part of her imagination, but when she is offered freedom from her mortal life in exchange for a favor by a familiar stranger, she finds it is anything but as she is launched into the middle of a revolution against a maniacal queen. In a realm ripe with magic, Felicity discovers not only her own identity, but also learns that perhaps her mortal soul plays a larger part in the chain of events to come, and that the man she has forged an impossible connection with could bring about the end of everything she holds dear.

they called him a child and disordered for wanting to get out a series of poems meant to bridge the gap between the night sky and the blue ocean. from many people who have seen both and are hoping to change the entire world with words alone. they struggle to find a way to explain everything with ideas that make any sense at all. {Started March 15, 2018} {Ended ---September 13, 2018} {Wattpad Editors Choice Award: December 20, 2018 - April 12, 1019}

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Facing the most powerful man in the Lands armed with nothing but a sword and the hope that she could prevail, was not the direction Akira saw her life going in. After witnessing her family's death she had stayed away from it all, living in hiding. Yet when she discovers that her dragon is a Dragon of Legend and together they are to challenge Haiden, the ruler of the dark Lands, her life plummets into chaos. Taken in by the Academy, where young dragon riders are trained to fight, she must rise up and prove herself worthy of the name of the 'Rider of Legend'. Yet as Akira finds out, fighting for an almost hopeless cause when no one believes in you, is not easy. With all odds stacked against them, Akira and her dragon must fight for their own lives as well as try to fulfill all expectations and free the Lands from a tyrant's rule once and for all.

2016 WATTY AWARD WINNER - HQ LOVE THE TERM SHEET is a fast-paced technothriller about entrepreneurship, startups, encryption, and the delicate balance between national security and individual privacy. Its complex characters explore thought-provoking questions about the role of technology in an ever-changing society. Step into the high-stakes game played by today's technology innovators, who push the envelope and risk it all. Get ready, this thrilling book gives you a taste of what startups are really like. _____________________________________________________ David Alexander, a young programmer in Portland, Oregon, loathed his job. Computer programming had always come naturally, but being an employee never suited him. So he tried entrepreneurship instead. After making a series of embarrassing blunders, David finally hit on a startup idea that stuck: encrypted chat. Sure there were alternatives, but as Edward Snowden has shown us, most of them (willingly or unwillingly) have backdoors for spies and bad guys. A new approach made David's app one of the most secure options out there, which caught the attention of many people, including Shawn Douglas from the Secret Service. Shawn Douglas worked with eight different presidents, preventing twenty assassination attempts, forty-three terrorist plots and two bullets. When he was promoted to a desk job overseeing and organizing travel, he picked up on a cryptic email thread that hinted at a threat to the President's life. In a race to unravel the conspiracy, Shawn and David both have to make some difficult decisions. Will Shawn stop the terrorists in time? Will David be able to navigate his startup out of a crisis and keep his entrepreneurial dream alive? Or will fate deal them both a crushing hand? Read the book to find out.