Heiress by day, thief by night, Nix Seddiki expects to become a blood mage, like all her ancestors before her. When she discovers her talent lies in necromancy- forbidden to all but royalty- she is equally baffled and delighted. When her secret is discovered, the king offers an ultimatum. Use her skills to steal priceless and powerful relics on his behalf, or hang for treason. Together with the court executioner and a beautiful illusionist, Nix must discover what the king is planning, and if he can be stopped.

** THIS STORY HAS MOVED** The full novel of Love Is is now available (as of 12/20/2020) on my profile and in the link of the first part! There are new chapters and 30k words of extra content to check out. Thank you so much for all the love and support! Find the new story here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/251887344-love-is-the-novel-new-release - After the loss of her mother, Emily Hutchinson is struggling to cope with her grief and keep her mother's legacy alive at Dana's Diner. Concerned about her wellbeing, diner regular and lumberjane Kit Acker opens an invitation to Emily to spend the holiday season with her. Together, they'll find what it means to make a house a home, overcome grief and enjoy the little things in life.

It closed the distance between them with slow, deliberate steps. Mary let out an involuntary whimper. She wished she hadn't fled. Mary squeezed her eyes shut, desperately hoping this was a nightmare. It brushed against her. She felt its breath. This was where she'd meet her end. Just like her people had. She could've sworn the guttural sound it made was a laugh. "Run," it taunted. *** A Shifter's blood is more coveted than gold. Unfortunately, all Shifters have been dead for years. So when word gets out that one has been spotted, Mary is intrigued. Chasing what is likely a false hope, Mary travels to the Blue Forest with promise of great reward for a Shifter found alive. But the forest is scattered with corpses, and the few things that live there could easily add her to the death count. With the threat of Beasts and the greed of man, only the powerful or a fool would search for a dead race. Mary is neither, but this may be her one chance to meet a Shifter. Consequences be damned. *** Updates every other Friday 1st place in The Fam Awards 2020 2nd in My Hard Work Awards

A university student walking home at midnight runs into Kuntilanak. He tries to sweet-talk himself out of ending up as her meal. "My mother warned me about girls like you." (My entry for the "Nightly Tales" Contest.)

This is the Emperor. I think. Alexandr. Queen Victoria's grandson, the foreign British power. I feel his blood beat, thin, beneath his paper skin, in those blue veins. Something amiss. Something that's too weak in the Russian snow, the turned earth. His hand is cold against my cheek, thumb winding through my coiled hair. "How can I thank you for saving my son's life?" He runs a thumb against my lower lip, waiting. Not pressing, just hoping with bated breath. The walls are thin. The walls whisper. I pull away with a cold smile. I catch my eyes in his gaze, the forbidding ice of my home. Of what the snow made me. The wild, black hair of a vědma. "Haven't you heard? I'm the devil, Alexandr. You don't want to bed me unless you wish to lose your soul." *** A parallel universe where Rasputin was born as Matryona Grigorievna Rasputina. There was real magic. And the tsar most certainly fell under her spell. When she falls, so too will St. Petersburg. *** DARK FANTASY (UPDATES WEEKLY) COPYRIGHT 2018 BY SOPHIA WHITTEMORE. All Rights Reserved.

"I'm not star-crossed. Not unless you cross me." Ro is a Montague who killed her father to inherit the drug-running business and their considerable stash of bio-tech. Jules is the heir to the Capulet Casino and the single rose of the blood-stained, rotting streets of New Verona who wants to escape their captive world. But will the rose smell as sweet if Ro steals them away? *** Two crime lords, both alike in villainy, In New Verona, where we lay our scene, From older murder leads to new misery, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From the delinquencies of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd felons take their fight; Whose misadventured bio-tech overthrows Do with much death bury their parents' might. Let the tech war into brothels, casinos, and fatal masquerades, And in the shadows of the city's cruel rage, Aside from their vendetta's end, nothing could remove, Turn now your consciences from this page; The which if you, with patient eyes attend, The past is gone, this dark future we must end.

The giant beneath the mountain has awakened after three centuries' slumber and devours some of my fathers' best men every morning. He will continue taking lives, one for every giant our ancient ruler killed to steal his land. But I know this ice giant, this jötunn, as Fell Hallvarðr. He came to me as a regular boy in dreams. He rumbles towards the citadel, tall as five men stacked shoulder on shoulder, I hold out a hand. "Fell Hallvarðr," I call out, ignoring the screams of horror from the warriors around me, "I place you under my royal protection, as the old ways of Cloelia Regina called upon. None of my people shall harm you so long as I live." The people cry out against me, but Fell falls to one knee, dropping me gently to the earth. "Then you shall live, little human-traitor." He replies, "in return for what?" "I shall become queen. And you shall fight for me." * Queen Cassia is a royal embarrassment. People snicker at her, knowing her lungs are too weak to draw breath, much less fight. Her parents fear she will not have the strength to undergo the ceremony to become queen, and that the royal line will have to be passed to an outsider. But all this is disrupted when the giant beneath the ice mountain, thought to be a myth, awakens and attack their city of Ymir. The rest of the cities along the Borealis are in rebellion against the main kingdom of Idriola, and Cassia aims to earn her birthright by uniting them all. * Prequel to "Legends of Rahasia Series" (Priestess for the Blind God, Princess for the Witch Doctor, Pirate for the Dead Goddess). This is the tale of how Cassia became Cassia Boadicea Regina of Idriola, the ruler of blood and ice. The fearsome matriarch of the North & conqueror-queen. (Inspired by Nordic myth). *** COPYRIGHT 2019 BY SW Fae. All Rights Reserved. #1 in Epic Fantasy on January 5, 2020 Highest Rank 3/12/21... #11 Nordic #18 projectwomanup #49 Unlimited (4/4/21) #5 stopgenderroles #37 epic fantasy

"The Blind God walks around me, and I feel my mind prodded again like it was in the cavern, a spider weaving a tangled web. "Would you do anything to be remembered, Ode, even play a villain, the one who rises against the Chosen One?" In answer, I draw my dagger and make a slight incision against my thumb. Blood drips down, hot against my flesh. I hold my hand out as an oath, a promise. My ghouls hiss, yearning to drink. "I would rather reign over darkness than grovel as a servant to the light." *FEMALE ROBIN HOOD MEETS ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS* Ode Ngayoh is the only child of a bloodthirsty desert warlord. When the Blind God chooses her as champion, she's deemed a dark witch, a blemish against the Empire for her necromantic powers of summoning ghūls, the undead. Facing off against the prince and his handsome lover, Ode stands alone with the cursed god's favor. However, the more Ode defends the outcasts of the Empire, the more she finds herself being labelled a villain... (UPDATES DAILY) Highest Ranking Fantasy #16 on November 30, 2017 #1 in Dark Fantasy on July 13, 2018. #1 in Desert May 16, 2018 #6 in Kingdom COPYRIGHT 2017 BY SOPHIA WHITTEMORE. All Rights Reserved.

➳ A quarry, two cousins and a daredevil act that has far reaching consequences ➳ A never-ending desert, a lost traveller, and a fennec fox with a lisp ➳ A pair of brothers on the run from an enraged dryad These are a but few of the short stories to be found in this collection, one for every October day, varying in length, genre, and tone. The prompts of the day are bolded, and each fill runs at about 500 words long. (prompts via fictober-event.tumblr.com)

It's been ten years since Zee Crenshaw stepped foot in his hometown of Desson. After his abrupt and mysterious exit, no one ever expected to see him back. So when he walks into the office of the town newspaper, workplace of his high school best friends, no one can figure out why he's there. That's when he breaks the news: the town's biggest religious organization, Bloomfield Church, has been lying to all of them, and is no church but a massive cult, in which he was trapped for his entire childhood. No one can believe his words; that is, until he offers evidence no one can turn away from.