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10 stories
Dark Riverbed by Andreth88
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Emerging from the river mist, theater student Ella finds that she is no longer in the year 2019, but has slipped through time and space, landing in the year 871 AD in England during the time of Viking invasion. Dressed in a Medieval costume for a college performance of 'Hamlet', she is mistaken for a lost Saxon princess, Aethelthryth of Northumbria, and is taken hostage by a raiding party of Danes. Their leader, Thorvid, is young and ambitious. Eager to prove his worth to his older half-brother, Ivar the leader of the Great Heathen Army, he sends the request directly to the newly crowned King Aelfred of Wessex for a rich ransom and decides to deliver her to the English king himself. Aelfred is destined to become one of the most renowned rulers in English history, known for his militaristic savvy, his scholarly pursuits, and his piety. When they reach Uintancæstir, called Winchester in modern times, Ella is torn between the Danish warrior and English ruler as they maneuver around each other in volatile times where the risk of betrayal can not only cost your life, but your soul as well.
Book Of Ruth by Andreth88
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"Bitterness is unbecoming of a woman, but I cherish mine like the memory of first love. I see nothing in Leon Wagner, but an automaton. He is a machine of the Third Reich. I am surprised he even bleeds." In the summer of 1945, the world rejoices at the surrender of first Germany then Japan, but healing is a long time coming. Though they are not visible, Ruth Tucker's wounds run deep. Having worked as a nurse for the American Red Cross since the invasion of Normandy, Ruth's hatred for her country's former enemy runs deep. While stationed in Zell am See, Austria, she is assigned to nurse in a German POW camp. She meets a young Wehrmacht soldier, Leon Wagner, who speaks English and strives to spark a friendship with her. But Ruth's bitterness is almost too strong. All she sees in Leon is a heartless machine. Slowly, through a shared love of books and their families, she begins to recognize his humanity and starts to feel her own stir in her heart, something she thought long deadened by the months of violence.
The Savage Inheritance by Andreth88
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In 1745, Miss Mercy Savage is left an orphan after her notorious, money lender father is killed in a mysterious fire. His infamous riches, and extensive library, are all left to her under a single condition. She must leave Boston for the town of her parents' origin, a small New England hamlet snug in midst of marshland and swamps. There she becomes the ward to her father's only childhood friend, Cyril Bawden, at his sprawling brick home filled with books and shadows. But there is a dark figure haunting her steps, one that is seeking what is due to him, something her father promised years earlier. Inspired by the short story by Washington Irving, "The Devil and Tom Walker"
Fairer Than Fae by Andreth88
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Livue's father made a terrible mistake. To compare the beauty of his newborn child to that of the jealous and ancient Fae was an insult that could not be ignored by the fair folk. And so, the princess was taken in vengeance, the Fae leaving behind a changeling in Livue's place to trick her parents into believing it was their daughter. Meanwhile, the real Livue would be raised in a house that dwelt between the realms, cared for by Queen Foxfrost of Winter and her sisters of Summer and Autumn. At eighteen, Livue discovers that she is not the only one of mortal blood to be brought into the Fae realms. The half mortal son of the long lost Spring Queen is imprisoned there as well, Gebhardt the Iron Prince, the greatest Fae Killer in the land. He becomes a loathed captive of Foxfrost, the Fae queen who raised Livue as her own. Livue realizes that she must choose between truth and loyalty to set right the wrongs done by her surrogate mother, a fairy she has come to love. A retelling of the tale "Fairer-Than-A-Fairy" from "The Yellow Fairy Book" complied by Andrew Lang.
Silver Gardens by Andreth88
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"Ben first found me on the edge of April. I was peering out across the saltwater marsh, wearing my mother's jeans and clutching a funerary urn." *** In 2008, after the collapse of the American economy and a subsequent super-flu epidemic, 20 year old Annabeth Kidd is alone as the country crumbles. After she drives north from Portland, Maine, she breaks down on Route 182 and meets Ben, a young man raised by a paranoid, Doom's Day prepper father to anticipate a post-apocalyptic event of this nature. The two of them find an abandoned trailer park called Silver Gardens outside of Bar Harbor and settle there. Their intimate dependence on one another, originally a desperate need for human companionship, blossoms into something deeper than they can name. A myriad of diverse characters are drawn to the haven of Silver Gardens Park. They are just everyday folk wanting to survive the lean years following upheaval and build a foundation for the next generation. Ben and Annabeth become determined to give them that, hoping for a future that they may never see themselves. A story about the first months after the downfall of modern society and the survival of love despite the destruction.
Galatea: Collected Poems by Andreth88
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...a collection of poetry...
All The More Strange: A Retelling of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Andreth88
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What Estella Green spies at the window casement haunts her sleep. The violent and passionate murder of a gentleman is not an event to be ignored and the shock of it sends ripples through Victorian London. But Estella has more secrets than just the nightmares that invade her sleep. She is the newly employed "night apprentice" to the upstanding, but clandestine Dr. Henry Jekyll and what she learns in his shadowed laboratory could lead to vicious end for her as well. Or perhaps her salvation.
Where Wolves Fear To Prey by Andreth88
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In 1999, seventeen year old Rowenna Porter and her mother move four hours north into coastal Downeast Maine. Grieving her grandmother's death, both Helena and her mom are looking for a new start in their little house in the small town of Peabody by Abiel Lake. Rowenna loves their new home though it is a little strange with flickering faces reflecting in the window panes and bumps in the night. Though always a believer in the extraordinary, Rowenna isn't concerned, only thrilled. Her interest is peaked when she is told of the tragic history of the camp and the cursed Tanner family that once owned it. The web tangles further when she discovers the strange connection her own family has with the Tanners and their murdered son, Gideon.
Morning In Autumn by Andreth88
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September of 2004, in the aftermath of a school shooting, new student Connie Turner avoids the young man who saved her younger brother's life, while battling with a shameful awareness that she is not the same as before the event. Meanwhile, Max Nathan learns to live his life as a media hyped hero only because he was able to stop the shooter by accidentally killing him, a boy who had been his friend since childhood. While recovering from his injuries, Connie's brother Brandon reaches out to the shooter's stepsister, Imana Kelly, attempting to understand why this event occurred in the first place. For the rest of the year, these four students of Cleargate High struggle to accept what has happened in their town, an event that none of them saw coming. However, they begin to see that healing can mean different things to different people.
No Longer & Not Yet by Andreth88
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"If they had slipped between dimensions and were now hovering around the late '70s, then what could they do, but wait? Perhaps this place was like an elevator. They were in between floors, merely anticipating the doors to open again. Which they would, hopefully, at some point." At an empty depot in the middle of nowhere, two college kids wait for a Greyhound Bus. But then the clocks stop at 4:00 PM on the dot. The sun hovers above the horizon, suspended in space. August Kamenski and June Wilde soon realize that the suddenly abandoned town is stuck in an inter-dimensional limbo, somewhere around September of 1979. And with a population of only two. A New Adult romance with a twist.