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The Better to See

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Reads 124
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Parts 35
Time 8h 23m

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Vermeille Greene hates her missing father, the French, and acting like a lady. When she helps a neighbor after a frightening break-in, all three are suddenly making more of an appearance in her life than she would like. Kidnapped twice over and given experimental drugs in the service of a war she never agreed to fight, she must find a way back to her mother and her life. 

Sarah Blake is proud of her position as a civilian soldier. After her scientist brother is accused of treason, however, she begins to question her allies as well as her own moral high ground. Fleeing across the ocean, she must rescue a woman she's never met before her brother's research is used to horrifying purpose.All Rights Reserved

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Avarice of the Sea | | b o o k 1 by emporiums

[ #JustWriteIt - #WattyAwards2014 - #NaNoWriMo ] Princess Maxine's family suffered the heartbreak of her mother's kidnapping years ago, but it's in the past... or so they thought. There's more to her kidnapping than Maxine ever knew, and it's become painstakingly evident that she's next, especially after a pirate attack that led to her disappearance. If only she knew why. Among the confusion of being forced prisoner, no one dares speak a word to her of what Captain Avarice has planned, and her mother is a topic that none of the pirates would touch with a ten foot pole. It's agonizingly obvious that whatever Avarice has planned, it's far more terrible than anything Maxine would even consider. Crossed between her desire to go home, and a growing appreciation for life on the sea, Maxine finds herself falling for two men at once, befriending the crew, and stuck in a rut where tensions grow high around the conflicts she faces. Amid danger and romance, Maxine's life is about to make a turn-for the worse or for the better? [CHECK OUT THE TRAILER!]

Solacium by fantasynote

What do you do when a tall, unreasonably attractive alien crash lands in front of you? You shoot him of course. ─── ･｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ─── It's been years since a nuclear war decimated the Earth, killing about 90% of the world's population. The ones that survived now live in the ruin of nuclear wastelands with their numbers slowly dwindling due to starvation, radiation, and even murder by a gang called The Deviants. Blake West is one of the survivors - sassy, brave, and brutally sarcastic, she takes crap from no one. With her father's past as a cop, she knows her way around a pistol and has managed to survive by following a few simple rules. Rule One: Trust no one Rule Two: Never go anywhere unarmed Rule Three: ALWAYS shoot first Simple right?

The Grean Household by uninstalledproxy402

"It was a mistake..." She told her mother, folding her hands into each other. "Marrying him..." Her mother said nothing, she simply sat there as her only daughter stood across from her, on the verge of collapsing from bruised ribs and cracked shins. "Mom." She wanted to reach out, softly tap her aging mother. Though that was the restriction of her life. The binding stereotype that she was gentle and slow to anger. In reality, what wanted to explode from her ribs was a scream of an animal, and the tears of repressed rage and fear. She wanted to throw her body onto the floor, but the thought made her damaged body ache more. There was no response from her mother. The deafening silence reminded her of her own quietness as her husband shouted at her, his fists bloody. He told her that she was only a tool for his amusement and a money-whore for her indigent family. She was nothing else but a tool for both parties. And she was starting to believe him. --------------------- Sarah Johnsen's life spirals from the normal gritty resilient fight to a serene wonderland. On the outside, she's married to a kind family with untold riches, but on the inside, her husband is the devil himself. Forcefully married at 18, Sarah was forced to kill her own dreams of becoming a doctor in order to bind her poor family to the rich bastards of Glendale by marrying their youngest; Oliver Grean. Their arrangement had the ability to brew the largest timespan of misery any of them has ever known. From lost toddlers to paid staged kidnappings, the binding of the two families, the Johnsen's and the Grean's created a mixture of chaos, confusion, sorrow, fear, grief, and dangerous rage. And there seems to be no haven to escape to. Or is there? (TW: Rape, molestation, abuse, kidnapping, abandonment, swearing, murder, drug use, suicide attempts/thoughts, necrophilia, fire; READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!) !-A series of lore for the Stratford Series (first installment is "Casanova")-! [Final Version]

Love At The Sea by AuroraPotter14

#10 in Jilyfanfiction out of 115 stories Lily Rose Evans was a young eighteen-year-old girl, living in the kingdom of Cokeworth. She lost her mother at the tender age of five. She was raised by her father, alongside her brother George Evans and her sister Petunia Evans. When she was fourteen, her brother disappeared. After her father dies and the king of Cokeworth, King Andrew Selwyn, tries to force her into a unwanted marriage with him she runs off. Her only aim was to find her brother and stop this marriage from ruining her life. She meets a group of pirates and their captain, a twenty-two year old young and handsome man by the name of James Potter and her life changes forever. On the other hand, James William Potter is a handsome young pirate. He owns the pirate ship Phoenix. His life is changed when his attention is captured by a young and mysterious redhead whom he met at the King's Cross Port. Disclaimer: Does J. K. Rowling go to school? Easy enough, I am not J. K. R.

Chain of perfection [unedited] by clairexcoffee

Blake and Avi weren't friends. But when both of them are dragged to a fantasy world where they're auctioned off and used as slaves, they have no choice but to stick together and find a way to escape this world where everyone hates them. Kai is tired of her life, her job, and her fake friends. She always wondered what the other world would be like. But when her parents' and friends' true colours start showing, she needs to escape more than ever. It's not just their predicament that's horrifying. The city they're trapped in, picture-perfect at first glance, reveals unsettling secrets unseen to the tourists' eye. Could the citizens be trapped too? This book is undergoing lots of changes, including the cover and title. [[word count: 14,292]]

The Bad Guys Justice League: A Father's Journey by Flashbolt157ninja

After a doctor appointment at S.T.A.R. Labs by Caitlin Snow, it is discovered that Jack is part human. They discovered he's part Orc! His mother was human and his father was Orc. He learns that his birth mother died later after giving birth but discovered his father is still alive! So Jack, his friends, and the Bad Guys go on a quest to find more answers on who his parents were. But as they do, danger and foes will emerge.

Sky Pirates by GregoryAKompes

It's 1851. Queen Victoria has once again called Lord Parker Greene into service, this time to discover how and why her flying mail schooners have been disappearing. While Greene chases the sky pirates, his niece and nephew, Mildred and Cole, his wards since their father disappeared, are coming of age in bucolic Wickwillowshire without much supervision beyond the staff at Wickwillow Manor. Parker and his missing brother, Cecil, under the guise of being Plant Hunters, travel the world as Queen Victoria's emissaries. They right the wrongs that allow England to remain powerful and a wonderful place to live, even while the rest of the world falls into squander. This time, the battle is against the sky pirates who have been stealing the flying mail schooners. The mail currently contains plans for new steam operated objects and devices-the pirates want to obtain these plans to use them against England. Back at home, Mildred and Cole find love with the arrival of the new Vicar and his two children.

Book 5! Reader X Baki Characters ~The Bottle Of Curse~ by Tomatochan09

At last...,its summer time!,Y/n is very excited that this year she will be spending it together with her loved ones in Tokyo. After the trouble with the time machine and Pickle,Y/n still craves for adventure.She goes to the beach with her friends and as they are hanging around and having fun,she finds a bottle washed up on the shore with something like a map inside it,but no matter what she does,it doesn't open. When she finally manages to open it,inside it she finds a treasure map,but despite the treasure map,she accidentally freed all the sealed dangerous mythical sea creatures kept in it for thousands of years, including a very dangerous spirit... To stop the creatures that have now spread all across the sea from creating chaos,Y/n has to go on a long journey and find the unknown treasure drawn on the map,but in the process,she has to face many problems... With the others help,they start invastigating about it and try to collect clues since there isn't much information drawn on the map.Y/n collects information and with Guevaru's best pirate ship,her and her friends sail into the seas to find it! In the prosses of it all,she finds new...interests... Will she find the treasure and get out of this journey unharmed?What awaits for her into the now dangerous seas..?

The Secret of Moonacre 2: The Shrouding Darkness by BlurpleBean

All seemed well after Maria saved Moonacre Valley. She's been gone for three years to finish her schooling and finally she's returned home. But the very first night she is there, terrible nightmares assault her and something feels off. Darkness has been taking over Moonacre Valley and it is up to Maria and Robin to discover what is threatening them and stop it before everything is lost. And what about Robin? He's certainly been acting strange lately. Why is he seeming so gentle towards her when he so rough and wild for the rest of the world? (Better than description I promise)

Love and Leather by writing_at_sunset20

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Avarice of the Sea | | b o o k 1

[ #JustWriteIt - #WattyAwards2014 - #NaNoWriMo ] Princess Maxine's family suffered the heartbreak of her mother's kidnapping years ago, but it's in the past... or so they thought. There's more to her kidnapping than Maxine ever knew, and it's become painstakingly evident that she's next, especially after a pirate attack that led to her disappearance. If only she knew why. Among the confusion of being forced prisoner, no one dares speak a word to her of what Captain Avarice has planned, and her mother is a topic that none of the pirates would touch with a ten foot pole. It's agonizingly obvious that whatever Avarice has planned, it's far more terrible than anything Maxine would even consider. Crossed between her desire to go home, and a growing appreciation for life on the sea, Maxine finds herself falling for two men at once, befriending the crew, and stuck in a rut where tensions grow high around the conflicts she faces. Amid danger and romance, Maxine's life is about to make a turn-for the worse or for the better? [CHECK OUT THE TRAILER!]