When she unexpectedly dies, Mackenzie Bowen lacks the paperwork she needs to pass into The Beyond. To avoid sitting in a waiting room for centuries, Mack is paired with Leon, a miserable Reaper, and hopes to either undo her death or earn her spot beyond the pearly gates. ***** Twenty-three-year-old Mackenzie 'Mack' Bowen thought she'd get more of a shot at life before a fatal accident puts all her plans on hold. Dead and resigned to that fact, she's shocked when her soul is collected by a Reaper named Leon, who has arrived to take her to The Beyond. While the idea of the end doesn't sit well with her, the pair soon discovers that she doesn't have the paperwork to get past the pearly gates. Faced with a choice between a centuries-long wait on an appeal hearing and taking a job to earn her spot, Mack chooses the latter and becomes Leon's partner, much to the pair's chagrin. But it seems whoever engineered her unexpected passing isn't done yet, and Mack soon finds herself in the middle of a tangled web of lies, secrets, prowling Hell Hounds, and, most frightening of all, corporate bureaucracy. [UPDATES MONTHLY] [CONTENT WARNINGS IN AUTHOR NOTE]

[On the longlist] A reaper. A red scythe. A cauldron of souls. Elise Amor is a tarot card reader and has seen this tarot card in her dreams for months - the only problem? The card doesn't exist. The real question is why she then finds the card tattooed on a man she has never seen before. This so-called man goes by the name of Damien, who is in fact a deviant reaper and harvests the souls of the rich for his own intentions. He approaches Elise for a reading to find out if he will succeed in his endeavours, and although she confirms that he will succeed in his venture, the cards also give a warning. But Damien refuses to listen. It isn't long before the dangers that the cards foretold pull Elise into Damien's troubles. ____________________________________________ Cover was made by @dreamtastic ! :D

Antique store owner Liz brings home a Victorian taxidermy hound from auction, unwittingly unleashing dark forces on her wife and son. ***** Nat Loman has finally married the love of her life, Liz, and is getting used to her role as stepmother to Liz's 5-year-old son, Liam. The Loman family runs a bustling antique business so they attend a sale where a striking, black taxidermied hound is up for auction. Liz picks it up for the business, but it ends up being stored in their home, where Nat notices strange things occurring. She quickly discovers the past residents had died violently. Then she hears from a friend about the myth of "the devil's dog", a hound that perches in the shadows, tearing families apart from the inside. Soon, people around the Lomans are dying, and Liz is changing, darkening. It's up to Nat to save the woman she loves from the darkness closing in, and to save Liam from danger no matter what she has to sacrifice. [[Winner of the 2018 Wattys "Hidden Gems" category]] [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

An aspiring knight unwittingly saves the dragon he was sworn to kill. But can he also win the dragon's heart and stop his kingdom from burning to ashes? *** It is tradition for knights to prove their worth by slaying a dragon in the Serpentine Mountains. For Laurence Montbow, an aspiring knight from a decrepit noble house, it's his only chance to save his family from losing their land, and to secure a good marriage. After a dragon hunt gone wrong, however, Laurence finds a naked elven man with amnesia instead. Knowing the guileless elf wouldn't survive on his own, especially when trapped in his enemy's land, Laurence reluctantly takes the man along and tries to help him regain his memories. This act of goodwill turns complicated as the elven man keeps worming himself further into Laurence's heart until it becomes hard to fight the attraction. But the elven man is not what he appears to be... and neither are the dragons from mount Serpentine.

In the year 2039, physicists have finally discovered a way to access the 10 dimensions proposed by Sting Theory, leading to the creation of a national forest preserve and dimensional junction called Dimensions National Park. Here visitors can enjoy and explore the beauty of any dimension they choose via a Dimension Cleft: a wormhole created through the power of technology and arythmatic. But after number of disappearances and deaths, it would seem that there is a darkness lurking in the worlds beyond ours... It is up to Void Johnson, a junior park ranger, and his friends to figure out what the cause of these malfunctions in the dimensions. Can they keep the forest and its inhabitants safe? And can they stop whatever is on the other side of these dimensional doors from getting in?

Flowers, invitations, music... a Cinderella carriage or an elephant... Thomas Morgan can arrange every wedding wish while sleeping with a bridesmaid or two. What's the challenge about Carter and Dennis' wishes? The wedding has a circus theme and Carter needs help to come out to his family.

Criminal necromancer & vampire private eye team up to solve the case of the missing barista. *** When a client drops dead in her fortune telling parlor, 'reformed' necromancer Isla has no choice but to illegally resurrect the poor gal. Your girl's got priors, alright? Hiding a corpse will send Isla back to the slammer. The client's just a Tourist, so Isla is certain nobody will notice. But you know what they say: The only things certain in life are death, taxes, and a handsome vampire poking his fangs where they don't belong. Gregor, a vampire private detective, has been hired to find another vamp's misplaced favorite bloodbag-- I mean, barista. Greg knows the fraudulent and distractingly attractive psychic, Isla, is the key to the barista's whereabouts, but he just can't put his fangs on what it is she's hiding from him. If her little whoopsie is discovered, Isla fears both the otherworldly authorities and an ancient vampire will have her throat. So she does what any girl would do in her situation. She hires Greg to find the risen barista for her first so that she can undo the resurrection. Sparks fly and blood splatters as Greg and Isla investigate Philadelphia's secret paranormal society, throw literal bones at the werewolf mafia, commune with the spirits of dead vampire-brides, dodge arrest by the magic fuzz, and occasionally pop off for late night cheesesteaks. The Vampire Always Bites Twice is the Wattys 2022 Grand Prize Winner! The "Bites Twice" Mysteries 1 - The Vampire Always Bites Twice 1.5 - Doubull Indemnity [revised version coming soon) 2 - Shadow of a Curse (Coming Fall 2025) This book contains explicit sexual content, paranormal violence, animal harm, and gore.

COMPLETED - To Evelyn Schubert the thought of having a predetermined soulmate seemed a bit far-fetched. Lucky for her, this was an old practice amongst her kind thousands of years ago and is outdated for a modern-day Lycanthrope. Unlucky for her, her mate is not a modern-day Lycanthrope as she is. When she meets Adam Deveraux, his primitive ways seem almost barbaric. As an Alpha Superior amongst only a council of few others like him, he is a powerful pure-blooded Lycanthrope who is one of the rare still granted assurance of a mate, a role he soon finds filled by an unlikely Evelyn. To Evelyn, the Lycanthrope world has changed: traditions have become outdated, old practices are no longer in play, and she's content with that. But what happens when she gets pulled into a world she thought no longer existed by a man she never thought she would meet? // Story by @MaybeManhattan, Cover by @hesocean Highest Ranking: #2 in Werewolf Featured by @Werewolf and by @Wattpad Trailer can be found in Chapter One

Cara’s mother has disappeared. Her father isn’t talking about it. Her big brother Max is hiding behind his iPod, and her genius little brother Jackson is busy studying the creatures he collects from the beach. But when a watery specter begins to haunt the family’s Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize that their scientist mother may not be who they thought she was—and that the world has much stranger, much older inhabitants than they had imagined. With help from Cara’s best friend Hayley, the three embark on a quest that will lead them from the Cape’s hidden, ancient places to a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. They’re soon on the front lines of an ancient battle between good and evil, with the terrifying “pouring man” close on their heels. One chapter will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays until all 10 chapters are up. These will be followed by the second book in the series, The Shimmers in the Night. A Junior Library Guild Pick; Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011; Selected for the ABC Best Books for Children Catalog; Locus Notable Books.

Rowena Flores has problems...and we're not just talking about her anger management issues. After cursing her cheating ex-boyfriend, this home goods cashier's life is turned upside down when a pack of werewolf shifters accuse her of being a murdering witch. Will Rowena ever prove she's not a witch? Will the hunky pack alpha ask her out? More importantly, will she clear her name before she's burned at the stake? A Not So Cozy Mystery Series: Book I: Good Witch, Bad Alpha Book II: Never Cheat a Witch Book III: Oh, Shift! *cover made with Canva