Sophie Boyd has spent her whole life longing for an escape from her dreary childhood home and distant widower father. So when she receives a generous scholarship from the prestigious Bragdon Academy, she jumps at the opportunity to trade her working class upbringing for a boarding school education alongside Europe's rich and famous. But strange happenings are afoot at Bragdon. Sophie is dogged by dreams of death and serpents, and something lurks in the woods behind the campus--something that may have the key to understanding the death of Sophie's mother. With the help of her standoffish roommate Holly and the charming star student Alexei, Sophie begins to untangle a centuries-old web of blood debts and old magic. In order to save her own soul--and those of her friends--Sophie must come face to face with an ancient god and the trauma of her past. Updates weekly on Fridays!

"Still the phoenix sits upon / The world in fearsome form, / With a crown upon her head / And the beauty of a storm." Newfound World, c. 1699: A phoenix nests on the roof of a house in a small colonial town, sending ripples throughout the community. Why is the phoenix here? Is she friend or foe? Heaven-sent or hell-bent? The town will grapple with the bird's presence in heated clashes of suppositions, superstitions and science. _____ HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 in Allegorical (July 2020) #1 in Cautionary / CautionaryTale (June 2020) #1 in Didactic (June 2020) #1 in FantasyPoetry (August 2020) #1 in Iambic (April 2022) #2 in NarrativePoem (June 2020) #2 in Postcolonial (August 2024) _____ AWARDS: 🥇 1st place in Poetry | Autumn Awards (2020) | @GinaCharlotte 🥇 1st place in Poetry | The Talent Awards (2020) | @TheTalentAwards 🥉 3rd place in Poetry | Star Gazing Awards (2020) | @StarGazingAwards 🥉 3rd place in Poetry | The Sunshine Awards (2020) | @SunshineAwards2020

Pirates of the Caribbean comedy and adventure meets a naive narrator, werewolves, fish people, and more in this fantastical adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless Treasure Island. After the murder of his mother, Walter Avery sets off on an expedition to a supposedly nonexistent island, led by the X-marked map that Lisa Avery had left in his possession. With this as his only lead to those that had torn his life apart, Walter disembarks with a varied cast of personalities on a voyage of revenge, while those with him seek peace, knowledge, glory, and adventure. "AUDIOBOOK" for chapters up to "The 'Just Right' Captain": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNQrysFZubI&list=PLCZjhmwo5_DGvtPux_sn7IeVlB5p5uy-z 1st place winner in the Action/Adventure category of The Butterfly Awards 2020 1st place winner in the Adventure category of The Chaos Awards 8 2020 1st place winner in the Adventure category of the Glory Awards 2020 1st place winner in the Fantasy category of The Belle Ame Awards 2020 Featured on @ StoriesUndiscovered official reading list from March-April 2020 Featured on @ talesofthedeep official Ships Ahoy ~ Pirate Tales reading list Featured on @ Wattpad's Editors' Choice List January 2021