No one knows Crius' name; he's the Shadow of the Sands, the mercenary-killer and unknowable traveller. No one knows he escaped the capital to flee the pantheon. No one knows he's hjerte, and that he's slowly going insane. And he intends to keep it that way. That's until his life is thrown off-kilter when a demon-girl who swears she's not a demon offers him a job. Until he meets the person he's supposed to capture, the Prince of Romes and half-god heir. That's when his secrets threaten to spill out into the open. +++ Romes is a scary place. The capital is home of the pantheon, a family of ruling gods whose appetite for human hearts can only be sated by the hjerte who live in their temple. The desert is wrought with mercenaries, pirates and a mysterious group of demonic warriors known as the Sister-Saints. Romes is not a safe place to live. But Crius can't leave. He's bound by the all-encompassing need to rescue escaped-hjerte, like himself. But more than that, he's bound by his need for revenge. And the sister-saints seem to be offering. That's until he meets the prince, who isn't anything like his family, and discovers that the voices in his head might not just be voices -- they might belong to a greater being, who'll scream for freedom until his skull snaps in two.

The Divine Five are the heirs of the most affluent families in the small town of Fairgrass. Notorious for being ruthless, cunning and stupidly good-looking, Dacre was content to avoid them for as long as possible before he finally graduated. It didn't matter that he had a dumb crush on Carter Gold, heir of the Gold fortune - his first priority was making it out of Fairgrass alive. But when Carter invites him to the party in Gresswell Forest, it's not like he can say no. What might've been his first proper teenage experience ends in bloodshed after barely making it out with his life. Being a witch, Dacre thought he would be prepared for any kind of supernatural force thrown at him. He was wrong. Dacre must make the choice between saving all of Fairgrass, sacrificing his sanity in the process, or breaking his family curse and forever remaining in servitude to a pantheon of young, cruel gods.

what really is the difference between a 𝔰𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔱 and a 𝖒𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗? In my experience, there is no difference at all. [this is a collection of poems i've scribbled down into my notebook and forgotten about mostly! i'm hoping to turn them into some kind of story :)]

A boy whose home was taken from him seeks freedom. A mindrenderer with dangerous hands hopes to undergo his own redemption arc. When Cole was younger, his mother told him about the men who played at being gods. Self-righteous, arrogant fools who stole his people and used their wicked mindrenderers to take away their free will. And as he got older, they nearly took away his mind, too. Alistair didn't like his job. If it were up to him, he would've discarded the part of him that made him a mindrenderer years ago. Perhaps then he wouldn't have hurt so many people. When the pair are forced together after a failed assassination attempt, they discover they might have to put aside what they know about each other in order to survive. Or kill each other in the process. (WARNING: THIS IS A ROUGH DRAFT!! i'm so very sorry)

| Sequel to Cobweb Head | Will and Leo are on the road, both the Frights and walkers close behind them. When feelings begin to arise within the duo, things start to get messier. ||| Will is fighting with his feelings, the echo in his head, and the constant fear that he might not be human. Leo is certain that the Frights are simply confused, that everything will be fixed once he gets the chance to talk to them. Oh how wrong he is. Confronted by nightmares they hadn't thought possible, secrets better left buried, and old friends and enemies -- the two boys suddenly find themselves in very deep shit.

Lucy Schraan isn't just nervous about dating someone - she's positively datephobic. When she comes out to her over-involved nerd friends, though, they convince her that her time has come: Lucy Schraan is going to find a partner. (Probably.) *** When Lucy comes out as pansexual to her close friends - a group of AP-taking, theatre-loving nerds - they're not surprised. (Surprisingly.) In fact, they want to help her find a partner. There are a plethora of cute girls in her arts school, like Ash Kagawa in her APUSH class and thespian queen Lia LaFollette, and Gene Mann from her required gym credit has weirdly nice forearms. (Like, nice-nice.) Lucy is terrified of dating, though. She's comfortable playing other people, experimenting with different parts and different lives. Living her own life? Absolutely terrifying. *** Picture "YOU DON'T LIVE HERE" by Robyn Schneider meets "THE UPSIDE OF UNREQUITED" by Becky Albertalli. ***UPDATES EVERY FRIDAY. PROBABLY.

Drastic measures are a last ditch effort to save yourself after twenty-one heartbreaks and thirteen failed relationships, or at least this is the logic behind Wyatt Carter's decision to open his podcast: The Bottom Club. When it goes viral, however, sending his reputation down the drain and taking his sanity along with it in the process―he must come to terms with the fact that there is so much more to life than tall boys with cute laughs, deep voices, and messy hair. - [ Cover © by Harvey Elliot ] [ Copyright © 2022 by Harvey Elliot ]

Jane Joyce is a "serious vocalist" who's far too busy stressing about her choir dreams and her ex-boyfriend to have time to worry about the chaotic new girl who looks like she might just about ruin Jane's one chance to show her tiny little town just how far she'll go to surpass expectations. *** Jane Joyce is anal when it comes to music - specifically, vocal music. Her technique is flawless, she knows her theory and her composers, and she knows how to make things work. She's a naturally talented musician, and years of hard work have made her somewhat exceptional. Kierra Hyde, on the other hand, likes to sing because it's always felt natural to her. It's nice to have something she's good at - and Kierra? Kierra is amazing, regardless of how little she appears to care or how her vowel placement is a little too Idina Menzel at times. The both of them are too talented for their own good. When the two collide their school's vocal jazz choir, they have competition for the first time. Things aren't looking great - Jane hates Kierra's chaos; Kierra seems to hate Jane's lust for perfection. But when Jane is to perform an original composition at their school's winter choir concert, for better or worse, there's only one person she's confident in the ability of: Kierra.

Every few centuries, a Great Hero is born to defeat a Great Evil. Aven Ellington, the most powerful sorcerer alive, has been called this Hero all his life. But Aven is solitary and withdrawn, and his magic is made of darkness and shadow. When he arrives at the magical Olden Academy, he must come to terms with the fact that he's not the Hero everyone hoped for -- or perhaps even a Hero they want. Noah Penn, a magicless human, is an outcast at Olden. Shy, stubborn, and kind, Noah soon finds his way into Aven's heart -- but can Aven place his trust in someone else when he hardly trusts himself? And will he really bother to save a world that's hell-bent on hating him?