**** Top Pick, 2023 Amby Awards **** **** HighFantasy Book of the Month, June 2023 **** To save the world, Mage Aria sacrificed herself, becoming trapped with the personification of Darkness within an impenetrable tomb of rock and magic. But she had not realized how much of a hell that would be. Dreams of deep despa...
Steampunk light/ Comedy. A terrifying new exhibit on at London Zoo is the talk of the town. Amelia Tooting-Spur couldn't care less...until the creature escapes, throwing the Metropolitan Police into a panic. With the help of some of her eccentric friends from the Mastermind Society-- including undervalued mind-reader...
A ghost on the archaeological excavation of a Roman cemetery sounds like a perfect opportunity for Sandrine and Matt, founders of Ghost Guard Inc., to showcase their talent. But when they arrive on Vic's dig site to investigate, the ghost already disappeared - only to pop up in the museum's depot the next day. What sh...
LONGLISTED! Lucian Wentworth disappeared in 1819. Was he escaping a loveless marriage or was it something more sinister? No one believes the valet's story that his master vanished into a mirror. Until Ben Lucas visits Wentworth Manor and meets the same fate in 2022. Now stuck in a world full of magic and dangers, Ben...
|The gruesome and heart-wrenching unsolved killings that have plagued Ghana's Volta Region for nearly three years have left Voltarians terrified in this thrilling murder/mystery novel. | For three years, Brew Riverson, age 30, a well-known Detective had been following the series of unsolved gruesome murders that had h...
Ste ye hah mah, "Spirits hidden by woods." ~ Yakama Native American. ~*~*~*~ Future Entomologist, Zoe Thornton, loves horseback riding through Rimrock Forest. It gives her peace of mind and lots of insects to study. When she and her best friend, Takota Sohappy, come across a strange-looking hemlock, something ancien...
| 14x 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 · [Open Novella Contest 2022 Longlist] · Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson Saga meets The Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. *** What if your middle school cleaning lady told you you're destined to...
[Completed] [Unedited] ~Sometimes things don't go as planned. And sometimes people aren't who they claim to be. After all, looks are deceiving and strangers aren't always really strangers. On a journey of pain, ups and downs, Rho embarks a sinking ship armed with nothing but revenge, fueled by anger. Will...
What happens when you find out that the rumors that you always considered impossible might be true after all? How do you survive in a world that doesn't follow the rules of your own world? One where you are surrounded by danger and unfamiliarity whichever way you turn, whose laws don't follow any rhyme or reason that...
People in the city of Straga are dying. Rumor is spreading that Olesya Volinski--the daughter of a confessed witch--is responsible. She isn't responsible. She's just another victim. Waking up in a forest in the dead of winter soaked in her own blood was not how Olesya planned to begin her 25th year. Now she's in a ra...
In a land where dragons must split themselves into separate entities of Light and Shadow, silver dragon Magnus teams up with dwarf warrior Hilda and human wizard Kara to confront the angry Shadowfolk looking to reclaim the lives of their counterparts. ___ This is my entry for the ONC 2022 contest. Status: completed F...
⭐YA Romance Undiscovered Book of the Month [September 2022] Augusta Madueke can't wait to graduate from high school. As an introvert, straight A-student, she is bullied at school, and her 'unladylike' aspiration to be a Mechanical Engineer has ruffled a few feathers at home. She is determined to achieve success and s...
𝟮𝟭𝘅 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 · AMBYS 2023 WINNER · An Asian sci-fi retelling of The Little Mermaid that steers the tale you know in a whole new funky direction | An ambitious teen mermaid must venture beyond her guarded underwater city and brave the polluted, climate-ravaged wilds of the Indian Ocean, in order to find her...
In a world ruled by men, one woman makes a stand. When her father and brother die in the Napoleonic Wars, Corinna Wolverstoke of Penninghall and her mother Liz are thrown at the mercy of the merciless man who takes over the title. Corinna has to steal to stave off genteel starvation, but she does it with style: She d...