The Cunning
- Reads 1,211
- Votes 59
- Parts 16
Ongoing2h 44m
Last published Wed, Jun 8, 2016
The town of Stillwood belongs to the Hardwick family-- whether most of its citizens are aware of this or not. Set to inherit Stillwood from their mothers as resident witches, the Hardwick siblings, Anita and Warren must be ever watchful of their humble domain. When Gillian Lacker moves to town, the siblings discover something arcane and ancient inside of her, and it is unavoidable that she become part of their esoteric world. With her initiation, the once peaceful town of Stillwood becomes a chess board wrought with blood-- and Gillian is both the prize and its most important player.
All Rights Reserved
#215
familiars
Join the largest storytelling communityGet personalized story recommendations, save your favourites to your library, and comment and vote to grow your community.
You may also like
Lost Secrets (BWWM)
When a man arrives on her porch claiming to be her familiar, snarky fun loving Andrea can feel trouble brewing in her bones. Confirmation of that feeling comes in the form of a powerful old acquaintance blowing back into town bringing up Andrea's past that she'd rather keep hidden and reinforcing her future with the familiar she never knew she needed. *This is a spinoff novel from the AWAKE Series.Complete
Bound By Omission
Stella Davis was raised in the Order: a vampire hunting organization. Her whole life was hunting and killing vampires. Her whole future was hunting and killing vampires. Those were the cards she was dealt, but she wasn't prepared for her hand to be abruptly changed. Turned into the very thing she'd been raised to hate, now a vampire, Stella navigates her new reality by maintaining its secret. Her new station at the infamous, supernaturally known Willowbrook University, conveniently nearby where whispers of a cure led, she had a plan. She'd track the man down who supposedly had the cure, become human again, and no one would ever have to know. Easy. Until Rhys St. James showed up in her life and rattled her. Arrogant, annoying, and a vampire. No one could know what she was, but with their agendas somewhat lining up, she'd make an exception for him.Complete
All Hail Ruby Parker
Seventeen-year-old Ruby Parker has spent her life blending into the background at Dryfield High-until an unexpected encounter with a silver-eyed stranger turns her reality upside down. Overnight, Ruby learns she's not just another teenager trying to survive cafeteria politics-she's the rightful heir to Eldryn, a hidden magical kingdom teetering on the brink of war. As ancient forces awaken and enemies close in, Ruby must leave behind the world she knows and embrace her legacy. But the crown comes with a cost: a fractured royal bloodline, a prophecy whispered through enchanted mirrors, and a throne contested by dark sorcery. With the help of a misfit band of allies-a brooding guardian bound by oath, a rebel witch from the shadows, and a talking fox with secrets of its own-Ruby must prove she's more than a name in a lineage... she's a queen in the making. But can one girl rewrite destiny without losing herself in the process?Complete
My Dearest Warlock
Biological family doesn't always mean everything. Biological family can hurt you, break you, mock you, or leave you. Blood doesn't always mean everything. True family isn't defined by blood, but rather by true love that can never be taken or forsaken. Warlock Dowling was more than happy to receive the news that Nanny Ashtoreth and Brother Francis are willing to take him and raise him as their own. Although, he did receive a rather large shock upon learning the identity of his former nanny and gardener. But that doesn't really matter, all that matters is that Warlock has the family he always wanted. With adventures that only God could have though up and romances that have been boiling for centuries, the small little town of Tadfield is in for an awakening that no one expected. And sometimes, the unplanned things are the best.Complete
The Cursed Child: END GAME
Beneath the veils of an ancient prophecy, Leora discovers her true destiny. She is not merely a side character in Shiro's story-she is the descendant of Merideath, the woman who created the deadly game. Leora is the chosen key to end the game that has claimed countless lives. Alongside her friends, she embarks on a perilous journey to the enigmatic Palace of Niel, which the center of Umbia, a place that holds the secret to unearthing the world's forgotten truths. But as shadows of history and danger close in, the line between friend and foe begins to blur, and the price of revelation may be more than they can bear. Yet with every step toward victory, Leora unravels the truth about herself-a truth that could either save the world or doom it forever.
Where the Crown Fell - The Rise of a Forgotten Heir
In the quiet woods of Thaloria, Eleanor Labrelle lives a sheltered life-until her mother, Zara, dies with a final, haunting wish: that Eleanor returns to the court of Wonderworth and claim her birthright. With nothing left to tether her, Eleanor ventures into the infamous Outlands-an ancient, cursed forest no soul crosses unchanged. What awaits on the other side is a kingdom of splendour and secrets, where power is currency, and every smile may hide a dagger. Eleanor finds an unlikely connection with Prince Roman of Bravethorne-a man bound to another by duty yet drawn to Eleanor by fate. Their bond deepens into forbidden love, igniting tensions within the Court and threatening fragile alliances between kingdoms. Where the Crown Fell is a sweeping tale of forbidden love, political intrigue, and a young woman's fight to step out of exile and into power-if she can survive long enough to claim it.Complete
The Golden Dragon's Hoard
Astraeus, a baby dragon, escapes from his old coven and stumbles upon a little shop that he spends months stealing from and hiding in to survive. The witch and familiars who live there are... strange. They know he takes from them but don't put up different wards, don't do things that could hurt him. They know that he has a hide out in the aster tree, that he lives close-instead of getting rid of him and forcing him to move, they visit him. Talk to him, leave him things, they're kind. Different. Stranger than any other witch or familiar he's ever met. Stray is not used to things that don't hurt. The gentleness is terrifying. He'd rather stay away from them than learn why they don't have sharp tongues or bruised knuckles. However, on the night of a bad storm, he gets trapped inside of the shop, trapped with kind strangers. After getting caught, he discovers another dragon. He learns that life is not meant to be painful. He learns that he can be loved. He's allowed to want things with them. To eat, to not fear the cold, to live instead of survive. Everything changes and Stray is determined to make them his hoard, to make it complete.Complete
The Inheritance
After the sudden death of her estranged father, a young woman inherits his crumbling, isolated mansion nestled deep in the fog-choked woods of New England. The house-an ancient, sprawling estate with rotting walls, endless hallways, and locked rooms that whisper-has been in her family for generations, each owner meeting a grisly end. As she attempts to settle the estate and uncover the truth behind her father's final days, she begins to experience nightmarish visions, voices in the walls, and waking dreams of her ancestors' violent pasts. She soon learns the house is not simply haunted-it is a vessel for a legion of demons bound by blood to her family line. Armed only with her father's cryptic journals, an occult grimoire hidden behind a false wall, and her own unraveling sanity, she must confront the horrors within the estate before the house consumes her soul like it did the others.Complete
The Extraworld
Quinn Bhat just found out their mother is dead. She left for a research exhibition and never came back. They didn't even get to say goodbye. Now, with hardly any warning, much less time to grieve, they must move across and ocean leaving behind everyone they've ever known to live with the father they've never met, a man no less busy than their mother was. Unceremoniously dumped at Pine Mountain Academy, a boarding school in a tiny town north of Quebec City, Quinn is left to figure out what happens now. But maybe between huge storms, mysterious disappearances, and rumours of ghosts, their mother's story isn't over yet. And maybe, it's up to them to continue it.
Taming the Familiar
Much to her daughter's dismay, Alexa's mother has fallen in love with the idea of moving into a new house. To make matters worse, this particular building belonged to none other than her very own eccentric uncle that had recently passed away. The property was left in a state of chaos after he'd left, meaning the task of sorting through his possessions and cleaning the place up was left to them. Follow Alexa on a journey of discovery, learning about both herself and the black sheep of the family who used to own the house. It's one thing uncovering the disgusting hobbies her late uncle kept (a mixture of taxidermy, dissection, and ancient methods of torture), but when a series of mishaps leads to her inheriting something from the man she never could have dreamed up, it's up to her to make sense of the crazy situation.Complete
When a man arrives on her porch claiming to be her familiar, snarky fun loving Andrea can feel trouble brewing in her bones. Confirmation of that feeling comes in the form of a powerful old acquaintance blowing back into town bringing up Andrea's past that she'd rather keep hidden and reinforcing her future with the familiar she never knew she needed. *This is a spinoff novel from the AWAKE Series.
More detailsContent Guidelines