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Masquemaker

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Six years. Six years since Alyse had first come to Carnevale Manor. Six years since she'd left behind the human world for dazzling beauty, flashing lights, and powers that defy reality. At Carnevale, Alyse helps run the Masquerade, a nightly party filled with laughing and dancing and ending with blood. She serves the Masquemistress, who acts lovingly to Alyse, and the Gamemaster who loves her in a different way. In just six years, Alyse has built a new life here with a new family who she'd do anything to protect. But tensions are running high between the masqueraders and their masters, and it comes to a head with an attack on her family. And so Alyse is left to choose. Safety, or that of others? Stability, or the lives of those she loves? In the heart of deception and duplicity, the masks are coming off. And the fallout is irrevocable.All Rights Reserved

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Masked ✔ by AlwaysWillTry

* * * "...Why are you following me?" I only muttered in case no one was really there. I didn't want any surrounding people to think I was crazy and just imagining someone behind me. "I didn't even get a thank you." To my surprise, there was a response. Slightly horrified, I spun around to look my rescuer in the eyes. Scratch that. In the mask. He was wearing a mask. * * * Saved from a rapist by a pirate. At first, Vivienne sees pirates as scums. She believes all of them are full of greed. Well, Vivienne isn't completely wrong. But when she accidentally boards a pirate ship belonging to the Masquerade Messes, her entire life takes a turn. Perhaps for the better, perhaps for the worse... either way, Vivienne occupies her time by trying to identify her rescuer. He's a part of the crew, but the only time he appears is during the masquerade parties. She tries to figure out who he is, but she struggles badly. He's just always masked. * * * //completed as of 12/15/16//

Loving Lady Georgianna (Spirited #2) by LibMikie101

***COMPLETED!!!*** ---- Everyone has secrets... Vincent, Viscount Thorne, perfected his wicked grin and his good-humored mask years ago. He has no time for fools. Or that fickle emotion, love. The ton is full of sheep blindly walking into heartbreak. After all, he had ruined his best friend's little sister for love only to have ripped away from him. Thorne had no choice but to leave her waiting that night in the garden. It was his only choice. So, why does he still regret it so damned much? Especially now, when the lady in question reenters society, scarred but hardly broken. The Duke of Burkeley - that pompous, uptight wanker - declares himself her fiancee, and Thorne finds he will do whatever necessary to keep her out of that prig's clutches. A wager is in order. He'll find her a better bridegroom and then let her go. If only he could. ...but eventually, even the best kept secrets come out... Lady Georgianna is done hiding. So what, the love of her life left her waiting for hours in a darkened garden? So what, the fire chose that evening to entrap her, leaving her face burned? She dares anyone to place her into an imposed exile. Once was enough. With the Duke as her betrothed - the most arrogant and influential of them - Georgie will finally have everything she wanted within her grasp. Well, if Thorne hadn't intervened once more with his ridiculous talk of wagers. Suddenly, Georgie's in a game she can't afford to lose. But, what if she wins? ...Until everything comes crashing down... By season's end, the masquerade ball reveals more than their masked faces. It's a blazing unveiling that trumps even Beau Brummel's exile. The question remains. Will it lead to their ultimate ruination? Or might it just be their salvation? *** UPDATES: Irregular, but I'm going to try for every Friday! HIGHEST RANKING: #2 on 3/6/2017 Book 2 in the Spirited Brides series. **CAN BE READ AS A STANDALONE** *** Beautiful cover and Graphic by @angelanguyenn!

Painful Desires by Kitty_Bloom365

Alyse, the last of her kind, dances at Tainted Sins, a night club in the vampire district in Chicago. She lived a quiet life passing as a human, until the owner of Tainted Sins, asks her out. Alyse tries to keep her independence and all her friends safe, but the local anti-supernatural group Kill All Monsters And Survive or KAMAS have made it dangerous to be a 'monster'. How can she, the last Oniea stay safe when they are hunting down her friends as well?

Masquerade ✔ by DragonsDreaming

Clara is thankful for the job she has on the Llewelyn family manor airship, and doesn't want to do anything to jeopardize that. But when her mistresses, the Llewelyn's daughter Araminta, demands that Clara take her place at ball being thrown in Araminta's honor, Clara's world is thrown upside down when she meets Araminta's soon to be fiancé, Harrison Norrington. Clara returns to her regular life, but cannot avoid Harrison forever. As she navigates hiding her connection with her mistress's fiancé, Clara's life back on Earth is being threatened by a sinister force. Secret relationships, people disappearing, and threats to the wellbeing of Clara, her home, and everyone she cares about, swirl together in this alternate reality, steampunk fantasy. Will love be enough, or does Clara have greater responsibilities?

The Moon Lore by RightRosewood

***COMPLETED*** Returning to her family's eerie hometown Lorelai's main focus was to enjoy the Halloween's magic, just like her grandma used to tell her. She wanted to see it all, live it all. But that was not it, she did not expect she'd come across something...someone that'll pique all her curiosity, she craved answers. Answers to her strange dreams. When she finds herself caught up in the town's sinister, moonlit rituals, she meets him- a stranger whose emerald eyes feel more familiar than her own reflection. Haunted by memories that aren't hers, and drawn to the stranger by an unexplainable force, Lorelai soon learns about the things binding them. A Lore her grandmother told her to entertain her with the thrill of darkness turned to be more than just a lore. The curiosity gets the best of her as dark figures emerge from the shadows, she learns her past and future are intertwined with his in a twisted way that defies time, sanity, and even death. As danger closes in and forbidden memories resurfaces the main question emerges, was the curse a blessing in disguise, a way to bring them closer, a way of universe pushing them together forever or will it destroy them and tear them to their cursed deaths?

The Amulet (A tale of Eswor Book 2) by HannahRose00000

~Sequel to "The Masquerade Ball"~ It's been three years since Kava has seen her family and friends, three years since she left before Warren had planned, and three years since she got ahold of the Amulet of Undoing. She's wondering alone with her loyal horse by her side jumping from house to house, tavern to tavern. She can't go back home since her face is practically planted everywhere as well as Warrens men. She's welcome into the kingdoms of the fey and the elves, but is soon under pressure to get rid of the Amulet as she's lost sight of what's really important. Tired of being a coward she faces Warren instead of running with the hopes to stop the threats of war that loom over the nation. Will she succeed or is war too powerful for the mighty Captain of the Guard?

Lycan Blood/Editing (#2 book to the Lycan series!) by BloodyArrow_358

((A/N)) If you haven't read "Lycan King" you should definitely read it for a better understanding of "Lycan Blood." or you can just read this book and go back and read "Lycan King" your choice. ********* ***** ** I follow closely behind Lucious through the dark forest, looking at his tensed back. "I was only helping. I know you're angry Lucious, but you can't go around doing whatever you want anymore. My father has laws in place for these types of things." If Lucious would've wiped that pack out, he would've had to answer to father for his crimes. Lucious turn around glaring at me. "Don't tell me what I can and cannot do! I don't give a fuck about your father nor his laws! He's not my fucking king!" He spits the words at me, before turning walking away. I let out a sigh, looking at his back as he disappears through the thick trees of the forest. He may not accept father as his king, but that doesn't mean father won't punish him for the laws he breaks. ************** ************ ******** **** After all the killing and fighting, Lisa just wants for things to go back to the way they once were, but the peacefulness of her old life back in the human world is long gone. Lisa is now shoved into the world that she was always meant to be a part of. She's no longer in the human world, living by the human ways and laws. Here its killed or be killed. While Lisa fight for her respect amongst the wolves, Lucious is planning to get revenge for the death of his father and friends.

The Darkness Within - Hunter X Hunter Fanfiction by just_smile_back

Unfinished & abandoned. Mira doesn't really mean to be a bad person, it just sort of... happens. She was locked up most of her life in a place called Asylum. There, they trained children to become assassins, with the goal of being strong enough to overcome the Zoldycks in a fight. All of them. At once. Mira just finishes some... business... when she is found by Hisoka. Well, she finds him. He brings her to the Hunter Exam, not knowing how strong she really is... During the Exam, Mira meets Gon and Killua. Will they become friends? Will they stay friends? Will Mira become a Hunter? ...or will she fall prey to the evil that she was brought up to cultivate? -- "No! Please! Don't do this!" My mother screams at me, her hands soaked in my father's blood. He is lying on the kitchen floor. In his chest is a gaping hole, where I had ripped out his heart just minutes before. I could have done it cleanly, without a speck of blood, but it didn't seem fitting. After what my parents had done to me, their deaths deserved to be bloody. "And why shouldn't I?" I ask my mother, well aware of the sadistic grin that was spreading across my face. I've missed this feeling. Strong and in control. "You knew that this would happen the minute you sent me to that godforsaken place." "I'm your mother. You wouldn't exist if not for me!" She shouts, heartbeat pulsing rapidly. "How could you do this to us? You monster!" I can feel my grin falter, but I clench my teeth and hold back the unwanted emotions. "Yes. A monster. Just as I was all those years ago, before you decided to abandon me. You left me to them, mother." "You didn't deserve a place in our home!" "You're right, mother," I reply quietly. "I deserved to be tortured, instead. I deserved to be alone. Whatever helps you sleep at night." And though I no longer take pleasure in my actions, I tightly grip the dagger that was a second ago secured to my waistline, and slit her throat.

Dusk by despiteous

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A Masquerade of Spiders by EinatSegal

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Masked ✔

* * * "...Why are you following me?" I only muttered in case no one was really there. I didn't want any surrounding people to think I was crazy and just imagining someone behind me. "I didn't even get a thank you." To my surprise, there was a response. Slightly horrified, I spun around to look my rescuer in the eyes. Scratch that. In the mask. He was wearing a mask. * * * Saved from a rapist by a pirate. At first, Vivienne sees pirates as scums. She believes all of them are full of greed. Well, Vivienne isn't completely wrong. But when she accidentally boards a pirate ship belonging to the Masquerade Messes, her entire life takes a turn. Perhaps for the better, perhaps for the worse... either way, Vivienne occupies her time by trying to identify her rescuer. He's a part of the crew, but the only time he appears is during the masquerade parties. She tries to figure out who he is, but she struggles badly. He's just always masked. * * * //completed as of 12/15/16//