When a local Italian antiques dealer is found dead in the Mediterranean Sea, thousands of famous paintings and relics from world Unesco heritage sites from Malta, Florence, Rome and all over Europe are smuggled into the black market to be sold to private collectors in order to finance terrorism. Lex Jackson and the Alpha group team up with the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to find out what the antiques dealer was killed for and who is behind the black market as they race across Europe dodging assassins.

David Adams, the first thriller author of debut spy novel and brother of Lex Jackson, is found dead after his first book signing at Poison Pen bookstore in Arizona. Now, it's up to Lex to find out what why his brother was killed for after he gets an urgent phone call from Jennifer Peters, his brother's editor (and former MI6 agent). Lex and the Alpha group race from Arizona to Europe to find the answer, dodging assassins and government agents. This will be their toughest op ever. **Cover by SydPanda5**freedomgirl007** and Sarah_Amlan

The snow on the mountains of the Jefferson National Park has settled. With her ankles buried deep in slush, Lily leaves her cozy cabin, bow in hand and arrows sticking out of her backpack, for the trees. There is nothing unusual about this hunt. Not until she spots something dark and mysterious underneath an old willow oak. Lily doesn't so much as flinch when her prey arrives. With her sharp eye, she strikes at the right moment, taking down her dinner. As she goes to collect her meat, a shadow catches her attention by the old oak tree-something that will change everything. ------------- Entry for the Open Novella Contest 2019 Suspense Fiction #1 - Winter Sun - 2/8/19: Title Change from HUNTED to WHEN BLOOD SPEAKS - © 2019 Sarah Lampkin Published to Wattpad 01.18.19 Initial Draft - Ongoing - Last Update 03.26.19

There is a house, notable for its lack of any interesting feature, that serves as home to four tenants. The last of these leads the reader down corridors of mystery and wonder. There's something about that place that makes him feel all is not well with his fellow housemates, none of whom he has ever seen. Pressure is put on him to find out more and his curiosity takes him down a path on which, once started, there is no turning back.

After the State orders troubled teenager Jo Spencer into Deep Sleep, an experimental rehabilitation program that promises to erase destructive behavior, she awakens one year later with fractured memories and a growing sense that something is terribly wrong. As she struggles to piece together her past, impossible recollections begin surfacing: gruesome events no one else remembers, missing pieces of her identity, and whispers that patients who enter Deep Sleep don't always come back the same. On the day of her rebirthday, every recovered memory deepens her suspicion that the treatment changed far more than her behavior. But the most terrifying question isn't what happened while she was asleep. It's whether she ever truly woke up at all. ***** 🏆 Round 2 Winner - Open Novella Contest 2020 🏆 Longlisted - ONC 2020 🏆 Shortlisted - ONC 2020 ***** ONC 2020 Prompt 15

Hiding out in an abandoned shack from their abusive pasts, Allison and Ethan Bryson entertain themselves by imaging all sorts of curious characters near the frozen lake outside their hut. But after Allison witnesses a man murder a young woman and discard her body beneath the icy lake, the line between real and imagine blurs. The struggle to survive increases when the young man discovers their shack and attempts to befriend the siblings. ***** The full-length, completed, stand-alone companion to Passing the Torch https://www.wattpad.com/story/90505120-passing-the-torch ***** [Wattpad Picks: Friday the 13th] 🏆 Long-listed in the #wattys2018! 🏆 1st place Winner of The Butterfly Awards 2019 in Mystery/Thriller. 🏆 1st place Winner of the Materia Awards 2019 in Thriller. 🏆 3rd place Winner of Top Shelf Teen Fiction Awards 2019 in Mystery. Copyright © 2019 by L.L. Sanders

Elliot and Dave had it all or so she thought. Dave came into her world and opened her eyes to love when she thought it didn't exist. They've been together and in love for two and a half years and when her and her friend Georgie thought they would finally get engaged to be married her world got turned upside down. She got blind-sided with no explanation, he no longer wanted to be with her. Is it real or is he being forced into it? Will they get what they want or is it too late? will her broken heart continue to bleed?