Frozen Tears
The ultimate gift of one far too young to give it. 1500 word short story.
Alex can’t understand why Nadia is with Ethan. Nadia is the most beautiful girl in Freedom, New Hampshire, and Ethan is a grade-A jerk. But as Alex observes the budding relationship, his jealousy turns to worry. Historical research and some damning photos reveal Ethan’s dark side. Alex is sure Ethan is a threat to Na...
[Merry Sister Mary Series Book 2] Sister Mary is a nun of extreme exceptions. She loves playing pranks, manipulating people for her own gain, running and screaming from the smallest of water droplets, and finding trouble wherever she goes. But behind her unholy exterior, lies a woman devoted to doing good in her own u...
Found in a dusty attic, hidden under a mound of misplaced bits and bobs, I came upon a tome full of legends, myths, and most importantly monsters. It was a glimpse into an unknown world, a window to Tartarus's most bizarre and mysterious creatures. I read into the night ignoring the time until at last my eyes grew he...
Abandoned on the steps of a church as an infant, Evelyn Ferne finally feels as though her life is coming together. At long last she has the parents she's always longed for, as well as her first taste of real romance and love. But try as she might her life has never been normal. Abilities to which she has little contro...
Sherwood Institute for the Magically Afflicted. A refuge for those seeking remedy from curses, hexes and other fantastical ailments. In one night, Ariel Winters went from socialite wannabe to cursed freak. Her heart is turned to glass by a vengeful witch and she is shipped off to Sherwood Institute to find a cure. Whi...
| BOOK ONE | COMPLETE | [#RBLS finalist - top 7] Rebecca Morley lives a normal life. Well, as normal as a teenage life can be. Boys, friends, makeup . . . They don't matter to her. She's just the freak of her school, the one no one wants around. Growing up as an orphan she was never wanted. She's built up walls to pro...
Bran has always wanted to try and see the Fae during Midsummer's Eve when the Earth realm and Faery are blended. What he didn't count on was meeting a beautiful Fae princess who would turn his world completely upside down, wreaking havoc on both his life, his heart, and his future. *Note: Faery Kissed, a 30,000+ word...
A dark twist on Faeries. For Shade, a chance meeting with a powerful Teleen faery warrior who wields electrical currents and blue fires along his skin has her joining him on a treacherous mission for the good Seelie Faerie Court across the land of Faerie. Magic and malice abound and nothing is what it really seems to...
Fall deeper into the mystical world of Faerie... When Sophia Rose, descended from the royal Court of Danu, discovered the elixir of Faerie in Cambridge's Fitzwilliam museum, she was instantly thrown into a world she had longed forgotten and became bound to the Seelie Court's Mac Fabian. Now that, Sophia has woken the...
Once Upon a Time the Beryl crystal maintained equilibrium in the mythical kingdom of Faerie, which resides alongside our own mortal world. When the crystal is stolen, the land of Faerie began to slowly perish. When researcher Sophia Rose comes across an ancient crystal in Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum it represents a...
[SEQUEL TO 'WAKING THE FAE'] The Dark Fae are gone. The Queen is back on her throne where she belongs. But with no one to trust and the threats closer to home, Rebecca is struggling with it all. Her world has been thrown upside down and the weight of the world is now on her shoulders. . . Long may the Queen reign...
Isabel Stone wanted a normal life. But when the unexpected death of her father leaves her at the helm of the family business, things quickly go from weird to worse. Vampires are on the loose and out of the coffin, and only Isabel can walk the fine line between the world of the living and the world of the undead. Torn...
****Taken down for publication with Parliament House Press in 2019*** ****Bonus Story Available: The House of Seven Smiles***** ***Wattys 2015 Winner!!!*** Magic runs bone deep... In a world overrun by monsters, humans struggle for survival underground. Magic is feared and reviled, but rooted deep in the bloodlines of...
Being Half-Fae Laila, has always avoided the fae like the plague, hating them for taking her father from her. Now a chance has come to get him back. The deal? Pretend to be engaged to the High Prince of the Seelie court. To complicate matters further, Laila must endure the Seelie Queen's never ending wrath, the hate...
Swallow is now published as a Wattpad Book! As a Wattpad reader, you can access both the Original Edition and Books Edition upon purchase. When Mildred wished for death on her bullies, she never expected a demon would possess her and make all her dreams come true...but is it worth her soul? ...
In the highlands of Scotland in the medieval ages. A time of darkness, mystery, myths, and magic. Malvina a young girl watches as her world around her crumbles and all that she has ever known disappears. As she makes her way on her own, hunting a beast feared throughout Scotland, she finds a young boy in a destroyed...
On her seventeenth birthday, Kami receives a mysterious artifact and a ticket to visit her estranged grandparents in Egypt. When she arrives, no one is there to meet her. Alone in an unfamiliar country, she discovers their disappearance is only part of a greater threat. Whispers of strange creatures made of a shadowy...
Bethany's mother always told her she was special. Possessive of arcane abilities, Bethany always had to keep her secret hidden from her superstitious village. Where all eyes are tuned for the supernatural. When seasoned witch hunter arrive - and won't leave - Bethany sees no choice but to flee her village. Only to b...
They come from two different worlds. She’s a fairy princess forced from her secluded and secret home and he is an alpha within a powerful pack. What happens when he realizes that she is his mate? And will a little fairy dust change the course of their relationship? May 24, 2013: Short Story #10 Copyright 2013 by...
Willow Kingswell has been listening to her Nana's tales of enchanted kingdoms for as long as she can remember. But when she is transported to the realm of Mistolear, she is stunned to learn that the stories were true. Suddenly, Willow has to fit into a royal family she didn't know she had, deal with customs she doesn'...
I wrote this short story for FAE magazine ( http://www.faemagazine.com/ ). The story, titled "Oaken Mead" is featured in the Spring 2015 issue . The cover artwork of the same title, by my wife ©Jasmine Becket-Griffith, is also featured in the Spring 2015 issue. The story is innocent and playful. The melody and the can...
A Wattpad Featured story! (Note: UNHEEDED is the second story in the Undone Realms Series. However, this story can be read first as it has a stand-alone storyline.) Meet new characters...explore the Dual Realms...discover how Clara became unseen. When the impossible is made possible, Avie, the stepdaughter of a realm...
WATTYS 2016 WINNER Untouchable. Stone. Jewel - these are some of the names used for people who are born with a gemstone at the centre of their forehead. This unfortunate phenomenon cannot be detected before birth, it cannot be prevented, if a family has a Jewelled child, there is only one outcome: Before they're sixte...
Nobody knows what is really happening in the Howlin' Woods, but almost every new moon terrible screams, shrieks, and ghastly noises are heard by the whole town of Burns, Florida. Anyone who has dared venture in there at night never returns. It has been known as a place of evil clear back to when the Seminole Indians i...
Fen Rolec is a female Ust, a recent Kelumar majikian graduate, on a planet called Absynterra who had learned to play music through colored stones she found as a young girl and calls it cisum. She is tasked by the Kelusora at graduation to find the Kelujun medallion that can reactivate the Kel, an interplanetary tran...
A newly expanded and professionally edited version of the Boy in the Woods is now available for sale as an ebook and paperback! Buy it at Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and many other online outlets. Winner of the 2014 Wattys Talk of the Town award. After a devastating accident takes Jess's parents, a c...
The Golden Queen, Book 1 When GallenO'Day is hired as a bodyguard to escort a young woman through the woods to the forbidden ruins at Geata Na Chruinn, it seems like an ordinary job-but all too soon, he finds himself fleeing for his life from creatures that seem like escapees from a nightmare-the alien dronon, led by...