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Shadowed Heroes Book One: The Shadow Initiate As children, they were taught the difference between heroes and villains. At Starfall Academy, Andrea Nox learns the truth is far more dangerous. In a world where heroes are ranked like celebrities and public approval determines power, Starfall Academy trains the next generation of elite protectors beneath the glowing skyline of Elarion. Gifted with rare shadow abilities and born into one of the most influential hero families in the city, Andrea arrives at Starfall already carrying the weight of expectation-and the secrets of a system she was raised to survive. But behind the academy's prestige lies something darker. The Halo Index tracks every student's popularity. Sponsors manipulate hero careers. Entire districts are abandoned beneath the shining towers of the Upper Halo. And somewhere deep inside the foundations of hero society, erased names and hidden experiments threaten to expose the truth behind the world's greatest heroes. As Squad 89 rises through the academy ranks, Andrea and her teammates become symbols the public can't stop watching. But the more famous they become- the more dangerous the system becomes to them. Because in a society built on performance, the most powerful heroes are not always the strongest. They're the most marketable. Perfect for fans of superhero academies, political dystopias, found family dynamics, and morally complex heroes, The Shadow Initiate is the explosive first installment in the Shadowed Heroes series.

In the war-torn kingdom of Hetri, Nirah is an anomaly. After finding out she is one of the infamous Moon Summoners, she goes to Camp Eviri against her will to train and join the army, destined to use her powers to protect her kingdom. But one day she accidentally releases a dangerous power, known to be possessed only by the mysterious person called the Weaver, who's been haunting Hetri for centuries. The news travel quickly, and Nirah is soon believed to be both the miracle and the disaster of the kingdom. With everyone now wanting her either dead or as their pawn, she gets sucked into a dangerous game where she cannot trust anyone. Forced to fight for the cause she never wanted to be a part of, she will have to find a way to stay alive, no matter the consequences. | First book of the Chronicles of Eviri trilogy | -🌕- STARTED: 6/3/2024 FINISHED: TBA Cover made by @Dayisdemigod and @WonderfulMiracles

*This story is now published. You can read up to the 6th Chapter in Wattpad, or purchase on amazon. If you'd like to receive a FREE COPY in exchange for a review please message! * Fawn is an orphan with a power not seen in decades. Brought up stealing to survive in an ongoing war, she has managed to avoid being forced to fight in a war she wants no part of. Until one day she was caught in a heist by the most powerful magic-user in the country and his right-hand man, General Volorn and Captain Axel. Forced to serve as one of the general's Crimson Guards, things couldn't get any worse. Or she thought until tragedy strikes and Fawn found her world will never be the same again. Please if you enjoy the chapter then leave a vote or a comment. Any feedback is greatly appreciated! Copyright by Rebecca Challoner

🌑 SHADOW BORN By EchoingInk22 Juno was the weakest hunter at Blackthorn Academy-an E-rank nobody in a world that worships strength. Mocked. Beaten. Forgotten. Until his own team betrayed him... And left him to die in a dungeon. But death was only the beginning. Awakened by a mysterious system bound to the shadows, Juno is offered a second chance-not as a hero, but as something darker. Something powerful. Now reborn, he walks the line between man and monster, collecting the shadows of his enemies and rising beyond the ranks that once held him down. Enemies lurk in every corridor. Allies hide secrets of their own. And as the truth about his powers begins to unravel, one thing becomes terrifyingly clear: The world isn't ready for what Juno is becoming. Power isn't given. It's taken. From the darkness, a king will rise.

A powerful sorceress. A dead heir. A vengeful prince. Four years after being imprisoned for the murder of the Ichigan heir, Diana is offered a deal from the man who hates her the most: the brother of the man she murdered. The deal entails aiding the kingdom in their war in exchange for her freedom. While spending time with Liam, however, Diana finds herself beginning to fall for him. These feelings arouse guilt and shame within the young sorceress for falling in love with her dead lover's brother. Prince Liam's kingdom is on the brink of being conquered. Out of any other options, Liam turns to his greatest enemy for assistance with the plan to kill her once the safety of his kingdom is restored. As time goes on, Diana's guilt is called into question causing Liam to launch a secret investigation. As Diana seems more and more innocent, Liam is left with one question in his mind: if Diana did not murder his brother, who did?

Eternity was placed in her hands. She chose to let it burn. When an ancient power offers her immortality, she refuses - knowing it will cost her everything. Love becomes a weapon.Fate turns cruel. And every choice leaves blood on the ground. A dark fantasy about sacrifice, impossible love, and the price of saying no. If you love slow-burn pain, moral choices, and haunting endings - this story is for you.

When a wounded hunter crosses paths with a reclusive fae beneath a silver moon, their uneasy alliance sparks a journey. Elijah hunts a powerful vampire lord who has long evaded death. Fiora, a fae healer seeks a rare plant whispered about only in myth. Bound by a fragile bargain, the two must travel north through forests haunted by shadows and creatures of the night. Yet with each step north, duty and desire begin to entwine, and trust takes root where suspicion once lived. Some paths lead not only through darkness, but toward the light neither thought they deserved.

Alesana is a spirited young woman who was shipped off by her ambitious parents to live in the king's castle as just a girl, to be betrothed to the prince Kalmir, and one day become the princess. Her entire life has been planned out for her and her independent nature has been bogged down by kingdom bureaucracy. Miraculously, her betrothed is the ideal partner and the both of them have even grown to love each other. But the seemingly idillic kingdom holds many dark and dangerous cruelties, corrupt leaders, and sorcery that was meant to be only fabled. When the prince's oldest friend, the wild and dashing Sinder, comes to visit on the night of a grand celebration, he comes with troubling news that threatens to crumble the fabric of the monarchy. Love and loyalties will be tested, true motives will rise to the surface, intrigue and adventure of a lifetime will call to the hearts of the daring.

Reformed thief Bells Pendragon is on the run from the City Guard, and she doesn't know why. Three strikes and it's off to the Royal Mines to work off your crimes, and with two crosses already inked into her palm, Bells is out of time. Saved from capture by a mysterious enchanter, Bells accepts a job working at an enchanted trinket shop. But Felix Lockhart is more than meets the eye. Under a flirtatious and flighty exterior he plays a secret game- one in which he's already made Bells a pawn. As the City Guard close in, Bells must clear her name even as her attraction to Felix grows. But unless she finds the key to his Pandora's box, his secrets may cost Bells her freedom. Updates every Sunday!

Before Olympus had a throne... there was Night. And Night gave birth to something the gods were never meant to find. Hidden within the golden cruelty of Olympus is a girl no one is supposed to remember. Kallista is nothing more than a forgotten presence in the shadows of gods' children-soft-spoken, overlooked, erased from attention as easily as breath disappears into air. The world has always looked away from her, and she has learned to survive inside that blindness. But some things were never meant to stay hidden. When Erevos, the so-called blind and broken prince of the Underworld, steps into her world, everything fractures. He sees her-truly sees her-in a way no one ever has. Not as a girl. Not as invisible. But as something far older, far more dangerous, and far more divine than Olympus was prepared to remember. Erevos is not what he seems. Neither weak nor blind, he is the heir of shadows who has spent his life watching gods pretend they are untouchable. And when he looks at Kallista, he does not see innocence. He sees awakening. But the gods are not blind. The heirs of Olympus begin to circle her like wolves drawn to a forgotten flame. Secrets buried beneath Tartarus stir. The Primordial Night begins to remember what was stolen from her. And love-when it finally comes for Kallista-does not arrive gently. It arrives like a claim. As obsession. As fate. As something neither gods nor death can undo. Because Kallista is not just being watched. She is being found. And once the truth of what she is begins to rise, Olympus will have only two choices: Bow... Or burn.

Around the world, magic is woven into everyday life. From Europe's elemental academies to Asia's ancestral rune schools and the sprawling network of North American training grounds, children ages ten to seventeen spend every summer in camps designed to teach them how to control magic-or survive without it. What most teens consider a yearly obligation, Emera has always treated as something far more serious. Raised by her aunt in a quiet Michigan town, she has spent every summer at Camp Aurelia, doing everything she can to understand a magic that has never quite behaved the way it should. Emera has never believed she was powerful. If anything, she thinks she's broken. Her magic is unpredictable, strong one moment, silent the next, never consistent, never normal. While other students cast clean, sharp spells, Emera's magic feels like static: buzzing, restless, wrong. She hides the misfires. She hides the strange reactions. She hides the dream echoes that haunt her nights, fragmented memories that couldn't possibly be hers. And the faint symbols that sometimes flicker beneath her skin? She shoves her sleeves down and tells herself they're just afterimages from spells taught too late at night. The counselors watch her. Her aunt worries. But no one knows the truth. Emera is not simply different. She is one half of a Twinborn-a rare, nearly extinct magical phenomenon in which identical twins inherit a split ancient power so potent the realms once trembled beneath it. One twin carries Creation. The other carries Destruction. Separated at birth, their magic was divided and hidden to save them from warlocks who sought to control their power. But as the protective spells begin to weaken and the dream echoes grow stronger, Emera's Awakening approaches-and the truth she was never meant to uncover surges to the surface. When destiny rises, when fate reveals its hand, and when Emera finally sees the world for what it truly is, the collision will change everything.

Everyone in Highwater knows the sea is dangerous at night. Parents warn their children of it at night, that the waves and the sand and the salt are a terrible force, that the creatures that lurk within it will rise to steal you away without a care. Before the sun rises the next morning, you're gone, with no trace of you left upon the shore. Marin Draycott has never much believed in sirens. She'd never seen one, and never known anyone snatched away by the supposedly-wretched creatures. When her father would tell her tales, they'd seem like half-truths, merely a tall tale to stop his daughter from straying too close to the danger of the high tide in the darkness. The Sirens of Highwater were merely folklore, and Marin didn't believe in them one bit. Until one night, when she and her best friend, Lilian, sneak out one night onto the shadow-covered sand, and the waves ripple too much beneath the steady sky. The sirens rise to claim their prize - a body, a soul, for each high tide - and steal Lilian away into the depths below. The water barely ripples as she falls and Marin swears to all that will listen she will find a way to bring what's left of her best friend back.

I wasn't the type of girl who believed in fairytales, much less tales about faeries, but that changed the day the fae walked into my life. Staying away from my lakeside hometown was the plan, but Mom died suddenly. Dad said she suffered a stroke after she dug up one of the ancient Native American graves in our backyard. Creepy, I know. Creepier still, there was no corpse inside the old coffin, only fresh rose petals. As we made preparations for her burial, unnervingly odd and beautiful newcomers poured into my small town. A coroner with emerald eyes and black hair, much too young for the job. An arrogant blond socialite, who lived to get under my skin. And a tattooed Native man, who wasn't supposed to be alive. By dying, my mother had inadvertently revived an age-old feud between the fae and the tribe that hunted them. A feud that was about to tear my world apart. Start reading this paranormal adventure that readers are comparing to Vampire Diaries...but with faeries.

It's modern-day England. Witches are hidden in plain sight, along cobbled shopping streets and abandoned buildings. Everything is different - except the witch trials. They are happening again: witches are being burned at the stake and nobody understands why. Nobody but Devan Lee. She has seen the truth, and she chooses to run from it and straight into the protection of Greer Reid. The problem with darkness, though, is that it follows you everywhere. What happens when it catches up to you and the one you love with all of its secrets in tow? COVER BY @wishuponajinni

What are wings for if not for flying with dragons in the realm where islands float in the sky? The life of order and monotony is not enough for a winged demon like Ansgarde. When society rules suffocate her, she escapes to fantastic dreams of dragons and epic quests. If only someone qualified took on the challenge to break the Dragon's Curse, her dream would come true - she would share the sky with a dragon. After all, the prophecy says that a demon like her would free the ancient race. But no one takes the legend seriously. No one but her. *** This book has been featured on the following Wattpad reading lists at one time or another: - Open Novella Contest: 2020 Shortlist, - Fantasy: Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, and Featured Fantasy Stories, - High Fantasy: Wonderland, - YA Fantasy: Magical Creatures, - Watt-Dragons: Legendary Creatures, - Magic: A Magical Journey, - Secret Treasures: Fantastical Realms, - Warrior Goddess: Fantastical Warriors, - Horns and Halos: Underworld - Demon stories. 2nd place winner in The Dream Awards 2021 hosted by @TeamOfDreams. *** No trigger warnings. Just a laid-back high-fantasy adventure. This novella is a standalone prequel to The TriRealm series.

THE PRIMAL RULE OF WINNING: DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH THE CONTENDER. Three months shy of her eighteenth birthday, Ness is forced to return to Colorado. Even though it's been six years, and the wolves of her all-male pack don't recognize her, she recognizes them. People who shun others because of their gender are hard to forget. Especially Liam Kolane-son of Heath, the crudest and cruelest Alpha to have ruled the Boulder Pack. Liam is as handsome as he is infuriating, as kind as he is punishing, and he makes Ness's traitorous heart race, which isn't good. After all, he's a Kolane. Like father like son, right? When Heath dies, Liam vies to become the new Alpha and no one dares challenge him. Except Ness. Thus begins a treacherous game. The rules: winner takes all...including loser's life. Fans of Kresley Cole and Jaymin Eve will devour A PACK OF BLOOD AND LIES.

In Crimson Storm, the Élu, a race of Gifted humans, have lived peacefully in the realm of Lutèce in the centuries since the Schism War. Now, a strange sickness and a failed coup d'état has rattled the foundations of Lutetian society. Three traitors, once-trusted Mage Masters led by Grand Master Günay, defect to the daemon realm of Crystallos, leaving Lutèce with a promise and a threat: to rise above the angels of old and reunite the three realms under one rule. In the wake of this devastation, Mage Second Siena Charis is taken hostage, trapped in Crystallos with no way of getting home. She can only watch as Günay sets his larger scheme into motion, a plan which threatens to upset the precarious balance and plunge all three realms into chaos for the first time in centuries. Caught in the middle of this cascading chain of events, three young Élu in the human realm come face to face with one of Günay's daemonis, forcing them to find temporary sanctuary among the Déchu, the Guardians of the world with whom the Élu have been at odds since the Schism. Faced with a new threat, Déchu and Élu must try to reconcile their past wrongs in order to survive the coming storm. Crimson Storm offers fast-paced action and a slight spin on the angels and demons trope, all while reintroducing a classic wizards with staffs archetype. It's sword and sorcery bound up with anime-esque sequences against a historical backdrop that is reminiscent of our own world. It is the first novel in a planned 4-book series.

If you had wings... If you could fly... How would it affect your life? Your love? Your freedom? Keira has wings, and she is alone. The city girl hides her wings from the world, believing she is a freak, haunted by strange men in suits who constantly follow her movements. Keira exists for the night when she can take to the skies and soar above her troubles. Noah and Leigh have wings too, but they've always had each other. Fraternal twins, the gorgeous brothers have shared everything, despite being total opposites. Noah is a dark genius with a deep spiritual faith, while the cheerful Leigh is a vet with a heart for helping others. One night, they all fly into each other and the adventure begins. As the three new companions grow closer, attractions develop and the cracks begin to show in this complicated triangle. Keira, Noah and Leigh need to work together because a new threat is looming - a ruthless government agency is hunting them down and life as they know it has changed forever. As the three friends fight for their freedom and Keira tries to decide which of the brothers her heart belongs to, the feathers are sure to fly. A romantic fantasy for new adults and adventure lovers.