Shadows in the Everglades
- Reads 3,796
- Votes 409
- Parts 49
**COMPLETED THRILLER**
A 2003 murder in the Everglades.
D.C. corridors of power.
Caribbean hideouts.
Mexican marigolds hiding fentanyl.
A final stand in Miami that silenced the Raven forever.
One detective. Three countries. Zero mercy.
Rick Seager started with a body in the swamp.
He ended it with cartel blood on Glades soil.
Faith | Family | Justice paid in full
The hunt is over... but the Glades never forget.
Read the full story. Vote if Rick earned it.
Thank you for walking this road with us.
#1 in 6 tags: DetectiveFiction | SuspenseThriller | FaithBased | Everglades | SouthFlorida | DiverseCharacters |
Swamp sounds: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0roOBY5ixTZxFtGWi3Xtiu?si=sSknSq6eTgaB6fa1x6iJ1A
**Prologue: Roots in the Soil**
**ARC 1: Everglades Genesis** - Ch1-Ch5
**ARC 2: Gulf Currents** - Ch6-Ch11
**ARC 3: Tribal Reckoning** - Ch12-Ch17
**ARC 4: D.C. Vipers** - Ch18-Ch23
**ARC 5: White House Shadows** - Ch24-Ch29
**ARC 6: Gulf Resurgence** - Ch30-Ch35 *(LIVE)*
**ARC 7: Mexican Maelstrom** - Ch36-Ch41
**ARC 8: Raven's Requiem** - Ch42-Ch47
All Rights Reserved
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
EXTINCTION EVENT | CARL GRIMES
Bad feelings are one part of what sucks about this world. Good feelings are the other. Because the good stuff is what can get taken from you, the rug that gets pulled out from under you. A warming feeling that, once it's gone, leaves you out in the cold. ───── ⋆✩⋆ ───── first person carl x fem!o.c. slowburn ff season 3 - 8 spanish translation: @iluvvfall portuguese translation: @-scarlletqueen started: September 8, 2021 completed: December 8, 2022 ───── ⋆✩⋆ ───── #1 in #thewalkingdead - 03/01/2022 #1 in #alexandria - 03/17/2022 #1 in #zombie - 04/02/2022 #1 in #chandlerriggs - 04/07/2022 #1 in #carl - 04/07/2022 + 09/28/23 + 06/28/2023 #1 in #twd - 06/19/2022 + 06/02/2025 #1 in #thewalkingdeadfanfic - 06/24/2022 #1 in #originalcharacter - 06/28/2022 + 08/27/24 #1 in #twdfanfic - 07/12/2022 #1 in #michonne - 08/03/2022 #1 in #walker - 12/21/2022 #1 in #carlgrimesfanfiction - 04/04/2024 #1 in #riggs - 04/18/2024 + 01/14/2026 + 03/23/26 #1 in #grimes - 01/27/2025 #1 in #carlgrimes - 04/17/2025 #1 in #carlgrimesfanfic - 05/14/25 #1 in #zombieapocalypse - 03/23/26 ───── ⋆✩⋆ ───── disclaimers: contains mature themes such as language, blood, gore, non-descriptive nudity, depression, etc. I do not own AMC's the walking dead, nor do I claim to. I only own my original character(s) and plot lines aside from the show.Complete
F O R D|| L O N E L Y ||(TWD)
"Long-term Hiatus, working on rewrite!" --------------------------------------------------------------- Ford Dixon was the youngest of the three Dixon brothers, just barely twelve years old when the world went to shit. A stubborn, quiet, almost shy boy looking for his brothers in an apocalypse world with the dead roaming around eating the living. Kill or be killed. He learned to cope with it. Holding out in a hospital after leaving his house he finds comatose Rick Grimes and decides to stay and make sure Rick is taken care of. Shortly after Rick awakes, they run into Morgan and Duane Jones. Over the course of the 11 years of a normal life, Ford had he had been reported missing nearly 13 times and ran away from home, the longest span of time being 3 weeks, nearly a month. He's been out hunting with both his brothers. Normally hiding away in the woods until his brothers found him. Now having just turned twelve the young boy gets separated from his brothers, sees his father get killed, and desperate to find his brothers again. ----------------------------- CW!!! Homophobia Mentions of Suicidal thoughts/actions Suicide attempt(s) Verbal abuse Undiagnosed ADHD/ADD Undiagnosed mental illness in general Mental Health/Self HelpComplete
I won't (The Lost Boys x reader)
𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙮 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙮𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚. 𝙎𝙤 𝙄'𝙡𝙡 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙙𝙤 𝙞𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝... 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙙𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣. ◇◇◇◇ Everyone knows about the disappearances in Santa Carla. But somehow, that doesn't deter tourists from making their way to the boardwalk. But you were no tourist. You knew where, and who to avoid. Too bad you didn't know not to help the new kids across the street. ◇◇◇◇ 𝙎𝙤 𝙄'𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚, 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝. ◇◇◇◇ TW: blood, murder, death, hypnosis, smoking, alcohol consumption, probably more that I can't think of right now Reader discretion is advised ◇◇◇◇ 𝙋𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙪𝙥, '𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙣'𝙩. 𝙍𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙜𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙪𝙥, '𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙣'𝙩. 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙪𝙥, '𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙄 𝙬𝙤𝙣'𝙩. 𝙄 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩'𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙮𝙥𝙚, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙄 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡.Complete
What We Could Have, Where We Could Go
WARNING: this book includes guns and physical violence. Feel free to click off if any of that makes you uncomfortable. This world is full of endless possibilities. Hybrids of all kinds, monsters which roamed the night, creatures everywhere! I could go anywhere, do whatever I wanted. Nothing could stop me!! That was until I came across these little villages and my mother always told me to stay away from them. "They see us as something wrong. They'll hurt and torture you, so promise me you'll stay away from them." My mother told me. I never thought much of it, but it always made me curious what was there. - Scott gasped as he realized he was late. This was his big day, he couldn't fail his parents by skipping. Scott ran towards the forest and banged into the wooden shed, grabbing the bow and satchel of arrows before dashing out to his post. The forest floor crunched beneath him and he panted quietly as he kneeled down. A twig snapped and Scott gasped as he saw bears and lions surround him. Scott shot at them and the arrow hit one of the lions, which all started to chase him. Scott screamed for help as he ran, trying to get out. Trying to find others who could actually save and protect him. ~•~ Scott is a hunter, who is actually a big scaredy cat and longs for a life different than the one he has, and Jimmy is a free bird who can do basically anything he wants. It all changes when Scott and Jimmy meet. Hybrids end up showing up more, some getting captured and hurt. After Scott realizes how bad his life is, he tries to make a getaway and Jimmy shows him the life he could have. (Cover art is not mine) This work belongs to me, @Seth189. I reserve the rights to this work and please do not repost it. It takes me a long time to come up with this stuff and it would be better to write your own work!!Complete
Pretty Monsters (Murders At Raven Oak Prep)
THE DEAD DO NOT SPEAK. For years I coexisted with the living, but my life has forever known the waking shadows of death. As a clairvoyant, I wield a rare gift to communicate with spirits abandoned to wander in search of liberation from the lives they once belonged to. A gift I must use to find answers after being condemned for my mother's mysterious murder with the assistance of a lost soul, having latched herself to mine. When my estranged father demands me to enroll in the prestigious academy he once attended, Raven Oak Prep, we learn there are secrets hidden within its beautiful walls and paved with bad intentions. Secrets someone wants me to find. Seeking the truth proves difficult when the Student Council marks me as the enemy. Four beautifully, shattered boys hiding behind their masks to play out my brother's revenge in retribution for my mother's untimely demise. When their wicked games, and my morbid investigation becomes entwined, a shared connection is discovered that may just wake the ghosts of both our pasts. DEATH FOLLOWS US. After the falsified suicide of our girlfriend, we made a vow in the name of our brotherhood to uncover the truth. In the years since, we established no leads. Time turned us into monsters. We lost hope and said Fuck You to redemption. Until Beau's sister entered the doors of our academy with secrets that rivaled our own, unbeknownst she brought a depraved serial killer to our doorsteps set on murdering our students in a twisted game. His name? He calls himself Monster. Riddle after riddle the hunt against time to unmask Monster and understand his motives, grows, as he leaves a pile of bodies whispering old tales and written in ciphers. Who will be the next one? It seems history does repeat itself. We're all pretty monsters with secrets to kill for. No one and nowhere is safe. But what if the villain of this story was never the villain at all?
The Water Witcher (Completed)
During a massive drought, a Water Witcher goes trekking across several states to visit a friend but finds himself in danger when a group called The Hounds begins hunting him down. 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 1 ~ 🅦🅐🅣🅔🅡 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 Corbin has been witching water since he was a young boy. It's a skill his grandfather taught him to survive living in a time of thirst. He also taught him never to venture farther than their property because the world had become too dangerous with people fighting over water. As an adult, however, he finds himself alone. The home he once shared with his grandfather feels more like an empty shell with echoes of memories. Deciding to head for the road to visit a friend, he sets out to wander what's practically become a wasteland. Except, he soon discovers that since his last adventure north, Water Witchers are being captured and sold to high bidders by a group called The Hounds. With his friend Coyote living up north, a few states away, he'll have to figure out how to get there safely, but it won't be easy with danger at every turn. * * 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧: ~Editor's Pick - Oct 7, 2022~ @Wattpad - Adrenaline Rush @WattpadExplorer - Adrenaline Rush @WattpadDarkFantasy @Adventure - Featured Stories @Fantasy - Featured Fantasy @Mystery Featured Mystery @Adultfiction - Featured Adult Fiction @Action - Featured Action StoriesComplete
Till Death Do Us Part
Daryl Dixon x Wife!Reader Minors DNI After only being married for a year and a half, your brother-in-law drags you and your husband Daryl out of the house because the dead start to rise. The three of you find a group, filled with mostly nice people who take you in. Everything goes great until Merle gets handcuffed to a roof and the camp gets attacked, inciting a trip to the CDC, then you get the news of a lifetime. The official Till Death Do Us Part Playlist: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCEEjzNMnFiUlQTR8BDQeJGZlegyV-ou&si=F2Ar7Xxl0yMqKcOM TW: typical TWD violence, character deaths, canon deaths, smut, pregnancy, medical situations, detailed gore and triggering situations/topics, basically canon compliant TWD, birth scene, Reader's age is ambiguous but is over the age of 21, Reader is openly stated to not be from Georgia, but no other identifying details, please tell me if I need to add another tw Top Ratings: #6 in alexandria #52 thewalkingdeadxreader as of 4/19/2026
CAGED UP LOVE!
Who can hurt me? I asked myself. who can broke me further? Who can ruin me more than this. Who can? Six whole years of hell. i should do it. Leave the most powerful man. The same man who can turn the world around if he want to. He broke me, ruined me. Even when I give myself him to. I have married him. My son's father. The same man i love or once i loved. *** A man who is to rule half of the world, who is feared by the underground. The one said to be ruthless. He born to rule the dirtiest businesses. He is the same man who idiotically fall in love with a woman. A man who deserved to be loved, punished and to be dead. SAMUEL JAMES CARTER. Carter's were the bravest and feared mafia family in Italy. Drugs, Women trafficking, Assassins, all the dirty business you want your children never to be a part of. The King. The one who rules. That what he is. Cruel, rude, and sinner. That he hate his own mother for giving birth to him. He fall in love? Impossible. * She isn't pure but she isn't sinner. A sunshine, a beauty who lives in her own skin. Loved by her family and respected by everyone. She didn't question when her family was in danger. When group men barged into her house, captivating her family. Holding them as hostages, for two whole week. For giving them the roof the leader of the gang offered to marry her. Insulted, afraid, and broken she rejected him. He never used to listen to NOs then she did. He was man of his ways, she later offered if he knelt Infront of her, she will be his wife, for the rest of her life, she was sure he'll never knelt infront of her. But he did. He did in victory. Then came promise, which she broke it twice. TAYLOR AMELIA FOX, the bravest, the sweetest, the kind soul had trapped in a man's life. Too afraid to fly, too in love to decide. Will she ever get what she wants? ^^ Thank you for all the support for this story.Complete
Bikes & Blood
[The Wattys 2022 Shortlisted] "There's nothing to be afraid of in Santa Carla." "Nothing to be afraid of? Oh sweetheart. There's always something to be afraid of after dark." *** Santa Carla seems like the perfect place to start fresh and, after the messy divorce between Amara's parents. The blinding lights of the boardwalk seem to be the perfect place to get lost within- -the thrill of the night seeping into anyone brave enough to stay out past sundown. The screams and shouts of the boardwalk draw people in like that of a sirens call; pulling you into the heart of Santa Carla without an inkling of regret. The music, the food and the lights bring you back time and time again- -making it almost impossible to walk away without a backwards glance. For, the lost always find there way to Santa Carla- -The Murder Capital of the World. But, what happens when Amara is sucked into the mysterious and equally thrilling world of bikers, vampires and vampire hunters? *** The Lost Boys x OC (dark romance) Highest Rankings: #1 in thelostboys1987 #1 in david #1 in dwayne #1 in thelostboys #1 in tlb #1 in lucyemerson #1 in santacarla #1 in 80smovies #1 in polyamory #2 in michaelemerson #2 in 1987 #2 in emerson #2 in samemerson #4 in marko #6 in paul trigger warnings: blood, gore, violence, supernatural themes, sexual themes, alcohol/drug use, death, smoking and swearing started: 1st of December 2021 completed: 1st of June 2022 uneditedComplete
Forever Unfinished // Carl Grimes
|Book Two of the 'Forever' trilogy| Sequel to 'Forever Alone // Carl Grimes.' "Your journey will be hard. It will test the limits to your love for this girl. I can sense that you will discover yourself, you will learn new things and live life on the edge. Don't loose faith in her, what you find may not be what you seek." ~•~ Carl's world crashed down around him when he picked up the letter covered in black ink and broken promises. He is left with nothing but the shattered memories of the girl that left him because she believed that it would save them both in the end. With Lauren gone, life seemed a little more dull. Nothing brought him excitement because she wasn't there to enjoy it with him. Carl is left chasing after the breadcrumbs that Lauren left behind on her trail to find herself. After all, he would gamble with his life if she held the cards. One long journey and one million possible problems. But after everything he has gone through, will he find what he was looking for? ~•~ "That's what they say about soulmates, that their hearts beat together. Carl knew that if her heart stopped beating, his would too." ~•~ Completed : 17th April 2016 - Forever Alone, Forever Unfinished, Forever Broken - *Warning* ~ Contains violence~ All the characters are of the Walking Dead cast and a few of my own. All their rights and settings used go to the Walking Dead team. I do not follow the storyline but some settings and character plots may be used.Complete
Bad feelings are one part of what sucks about this world. Good feelings are the other. Because the good stuff is what can get taken from you, the rug that gets pulled out from under you. A warming feeling that, once it's gone, leaves you out in the cold. ───── ⋆✩⋆ ───── first person carl x fem!o.c. slowburn ff season 3 - 8 spanish translation: @iluvvfall portuguese translation: @-scarlletqueen started: September 8, 2021 completed: December 8, 2022 ───── ⋆✩⋆ ───── #1 in #thewalkingdead - 03/01/2022 #1 in #alexandria - 03/17/2022 #1 in #zombie - 04/02/2022 #1 in #chandlerriggs - 04/07/2022 #1 in #carl - 04/07/2022 + 09/28/23 + 06/28/2023 #1 in #twd - 06/19/2022 + 06/02/2025 #1 in #thewalkingdeadfanfic - 06/24/2022 #1 in #originalcharacter - 06/28/2022 + 08/27/24 #1 in #twdfanfic - 07/12/2022 #1 in #michonne - 08/03/2022 #1 in #walker - 12/21/2022 #1 in #carlgrimesfanfiction - 04/04/2024 #1 in #riggs - 04/18/2024 + 01/14/2026 + 03/23/26 #1 in #grimes - 01/27/2025 #1 in #carlgrimes - 04/17/2025 #1 in #carlgrimesfanfic - 05/14/25 #1 in #zombieapocalypse - 03/23/26 ───── ⋆✩⋆ ───── disclaimers: contains mature themes such as language, blood, gore, non-descriptive nudity, depression, etc. I do not own AMC's the walking dead, nor do I claim to. I only own my original character(s) and plot lines aside from the show.
More detailsContent Guidelines