A simple domestic abuse case turns deadly when the alleged abuser is killed and Stephanie Ann "Sam" McRae's client disappears. When a friend asks Sam to find Melanie Hayes, the Maryland attorney is drawn into a complex case of murder and identity theft that has her running from the Mob, breaking into a strip club and forming a shaky alliance with an offbeat private investigator to discover the truth about Melanie and her ex-boyfriend. With her career and life on the line, Sam's search takes her from the blue-collar Baltimore suburbs to the mansions of Gibson Island. Along the way, she learns that false identities can hide dark secrets, and those secrets can destroy lives. This is the first book in the Sam McRae Mystery Series. I'm putting this up online, one chapter per week. But if you just can't wait to read the whole thing, you can buy it at any of the retailers listed here for just 99 cents: http://www.debbimack.com/project/identity-crisis/

Brian and Christine have never been close. Now that she's disappeared, and he's changing into something monstrous, people are starting to talk. People like the police, for instance. And a strange boy who claims to be Christine's long-dead brother. Also, people are starting to shoot. At Brian. A lot. It's annoying, because all he really wants to do is find Christine and maybe ask her out or profess his undying love or something. So yeah. If he has to become an evil entity of mythical power in order to get the girl? So be it.

Timmory Cross, a restless university student and newly-turned werewolf, must navigate her complicated double life while hunting the beast that turned her. ***** Timmory Cross has always lived in the stifling, student-run town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She would do anything to escape--until she discovers the people of Wolfville have been hiding secrets in plain sight. The first secret? There are werewolves in Wolfville. The second? Somebody wants to kill them all. And now those secrets are Timmory's too after she's rescued from death by the Wolfville pack. Forced to adjust to a new life as a werewolf, she finds the solution to her wanderlust by seeking the rogue werewolf that changed her and the frightening hunters that want to exterminate her kind. Between a pack eager to call her family, a best friend that drags her out to every party, and a boy in her class who gets too close too quickly, Timmory struggles to make sense of her new life as a werewolf while avoiding certain death at the hands--and jaws--of those that hunt her. In order to solve the riddles of Wolfville, she must start by accepting one ever-important fact: Wolfville is not run by students. It's run by wolves. Content and/or Trigger Warnings: This story contains strong language, mild sexual content, and violence/gore. [[word count: 90,000 - 100,000 words]] Cover designed by Lucas Fisher WOLFVILLE is #1 in THE DIRE DAWN series. WOLFVILLE was updated March 12, 2021 with this new version of the story focusing on Paranormal elements.

A collection of short stories for devils and darlings in weird towns and odd places. CONTENTS: 1. Bodies, Bones, and Blotched Hearts (Rated: M) A girl contracts the Devil and is sentenced to live in a never-ending, underground rave. 2. County News 3. Would Be King A werewolf Alpha is usurped by his younger sister, and not even death can stop his revenge. 4. Sunsets and Cigarettes An ex-anarchist, a kleptomaniac, and a three-legged dog meet up at the end of the world. 5. Case File: #667366 An FBI file on yours truly. 6. Nomenclature (Rated: M) A drunk, suicidal teenager is lured into a game of life and death by his previous self on the eve of his nineteenth birthday. (Now optioned for TV by @TNT network.) 7. Parasite (#100WordScream) It's alive. 8. When The World Empties A bereft girl street races. 9. #31creepywords A series of horror stories told in no more than thirty-one words. 10. The Unmanned Mission A team of astronauts crashland on a red plane, but no one back on Earth knows they're missing. (Featured in Epic Tales from Beautiful Minds Anthology: TeamSFHorror hosted by @Ooorah/@LayethTheSmackDown) 11. "You are the White Rabbit, but it's not enough." A poem based off the character created by Lewis Caroll. Entry for #madmarch. 12. Launch Day Where to find my weird and wacky flash fiction on Wattpad's new Tap app. *WINNER OF @Nyhterides THE GLAMOUR OF GROTESQUE CONTEST *Selected by the @BlairWitchMovie --- Cover art: Kacey Lynn (Wattpad/Instagram: @untroubledheart)

As zombies rise, an abused woman is forced to make a change in her life. Norma Deckard is a good wife. She does what she's told. She tries her best to never step out of line with her overbearing husband, Baron. He sets the rules and she follows them. That's how it's been for years. But then dead people begin to wake up. Norma's small little world is changing and suddenly she's never felt more trapped. She will have to face many fears and Baron Deckard is just one of them.

In the fall of 2007, a quirky, sensitive girl named Hannah had a crush on an insensitive jerk. And I was her father. In the summer of 1984, a quirky, sensitive girl named Emily had a crush on an insensitive jerk. And I was that jerk. Loosely based on a true story (well, several, actually) "The Idiot Who Ran Into A Tree" is a comedic, bittersweet tale of parenting, teen angst, summer camp and a quarrelsome oak. All the names have been changed. The nicknames, however, have stayed the same.

*****WATTYS 2015 WINNER!***** WATTPAD STAFF PICK (9/7/15) In the end, the robots win. But you already knew that. "Everyone Died + My iPhone Stopped Working" is a collection of short interviews with some of the survivors. People who have tremendous insight into the rise of Artificially Intelligent machines or, more often, don't. Why did the robots rise up? What did they want? Why couldn't they be stopped? Can they be stopped now? Is humanity doomed? And what the f--k is going on with the squirrels? You will get the answers to all of these questions. Or some of these questions. Or none of these questions. We'll see. I will be updating this once a week until I run out of stuff that I find funny. Then I'm done. Cover art courtesy of the hilarious and ridiculously talented Dave Pressler. (http://www.davepresslerart.com)

"Sure, it was robots this time. But who's to say that it won't be zombies next time? And when the zombies do come, who's going to be ready for it? Me." - Marietta "I mean, like, say what you want about the robots, but at least they weren't gross!" - Lila Welcome to the long-awaited sequel to the irreverent and uproarious 2015 Watty Award-winning EVERYONE DIED + MY iPHONE STOPPED WORKING! It's been three years since humanity was *almost* wiped out and the lucky survivors are now breathing easy, confident that they no longer have anything to fear from murderous robots. And indeed, they do not. But unbeknownst to them, there is another extinction-level threat on the horizon. It's a ferocious new enemy... and it smells terrible. Cover art courtesy of my ridiculously talented friend Dave Pressler. http://www.davepresslerart.com