Nine Little Girls: an odd poem for the dark-minded

A dark free-verse poem that tells the story of nine girls who go their own way in the world instead of listening to the warnings of others.

Tender Veins

Vic has a terrible vice. He drinks human blood. After a priest challenges him to swear it off for 40 days to gain redemption, he finds himself weakened significantly – and in the company of a nurse who is a particular temptation to him.

Nevermor - (Book 1)

Epic, mind-bending, and as sweet as it is vicious, Lani Lenore’s Nevermor is a dark fantasy based on the legend of Peter Pan, geared toward a more mature audience. Recommended for 16+ – In 1873, 15-year-old Wren longs to escape her life in a London orphanage. Prompted by a world she sees in a dream, Wren begins to be...

The People in the Rickety House (novel preview)

(Now published as an ebook and in print! available at major retailers) By age 17, Leah has lost everything. Her mother left three years ago and has not been heard from since. She is at risk of losing her relationship with her younger sister Tabitha, who suffers from injuries that Leah blames herself for. Not only h...

Forsaken Dreamscape (Nevermor #2)

Forsaken Dreamscape is the second book in Lani Lenore’s Nevermor trilogy, a dark fantasy based on the legend of Peter Pan. Four years have passed since Wren left Nevermor – since Rifter promised that he wouldn’t forget her. Now 19, Wren is shut away in an asylum, accused of madness and of murders she didn’t commit...

Neverland: Forsaken Dreamscape (Peter Pan Version)

UPDATE!: Neverland: Forsaken Dreamscape will soon find its place alongside its successor, Forsaken Dreamscape (Nevermor #2) in a new Deluxe Edition! Watty Awards 2012 Finalist and much-loved fiction, this is Neverland: Forsaken Dreamscape - a dark fantasy twist on the Peter Pan legend. www.projectnevermor.wordpress.c...

Jack and Jill (novel preview)

((FULL VERSION AVAILABLE ON KINDLE, 9/9/14!)) Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water. Jack's a preacher's handsome son and Jill's a drunkard's daughter... Jill is a melancholy girl, strange to most; cursed to others. Her home is an isolated village where old superstitions are the key to normality. She...

Behind Sanity

American McGee's Alice fanfiction - After ten long years, Alice is finally able to leave Rutledge's Asylum, but with no memory of why she was originally admitted. All she remembers is the fire that killed her parents, and she has put it behind her. She has dealt with that, convinced she is sane. Alice goes home with h...

Shadow Sun (Nevermor #3)

As it began, so shall it end. Time has passed since the Rifter went into the sun, and while Wren has missed him terribly, she does not doubt that he will come back. She has tried to shadow her grief as she travels across Nevermor with what is left of the Wolf Pack, attempting to heal the land and restore it to its for...

The Needle's Eye (novel preview)

**Will be available in print and ebook formats September 13, 2016** When Elizabeth, Delia, and Emily were children, their grandfather told them a story about an island castle called the Needle's Eye-home to a lord and his three sons-which could be seen from the coast of their small village. The castle has since been h...

Love the Boys

"What exists inside the heart? Is it blood--as they say--or is it life? A soul? Is there fire inside there, a passion which burns so hot it could melt the world? Or is it hell?" Rosaleigh Pierce is giving love the cold shoulder. Her greatest fear is a broken heart, of being too naïve and trusting. What did carefulness...

The Hallowed (novel preview)

**PUBLISHING NOVEMBER 7, 2017** Celia wakes up to a room she doesn't remember, in a house she cannot recall. Suffering from amnesia, she doesn't even recognize her own face. Her circumstances only get stranger from there. She meets the LaCroix family, who took her into their home after an accident that left her uncons...

The Nutcracker Bleeds (PUBLISHED 2017)

A horrific retelling of the Nutcracker story. On Christmas Eve in 1905, a household in London finds itself under a centuries-old curse when a strange new toy is brought into the house. A young nanny named Anne is immersed in the horrific world of her unstable charge, Olivia, when a bite from a mouse makes her the size...

The Captor's Redemption (Novel Preview - Publishing 8/8/18)

The world is infested with monsters - demons that spawned from the darkness at the world's edge, from the Hell Realm that it fell into centuries ago. The people pray to the One God, Ariah, for a day when they won't have to fear for their lives, and the clansmen of the wilderness fight until their last breaths to gain...

The Mark of Thorn: Book of Scars

Gabriel, blind and scarred, wanders aimlessly, haunted by memories of his lost love. He remembers the thorns that took his eyes better than he remembers her face. To him, his life is nothing. He exists only to suffer. It takes meeting a woman with scars similar to his own-a woman who has her own memory of thorns-for G...

Dark Depths

**PUBLISHING 6/20/2017** Mermaids are soulless, flesh-eating monsters of the sea, wicked in all ways-but some are born with more humanity. Nathaniel Thomas believes in monsters. He's seen his share since joining the pirate crew of the Blood-Red Siren. Tales are rampant, especially of mermaids-the deep sea nymphs. With...