For as long as anyone can remember, the kingdom of Nilemah has been overrun with rats. No one quite knows the cause, but there were rumors of someone going town to town and ridding them of the infestation. Gwen Weatherby thought they were nonsense until the day he rode into town and changed everything. A vain fae prin...
When his vampire blood begins to poison him, dhampir Elio Starling falls into hallucinations. As the delusions get darker, and the line between reality and dreams blurs, he believes he is losing his mind. There is only one soul he can confide in, a mermaid and part-time lover named Lux who suffers from an intolerance...
It's 1893, and eighteen-year-old Catriona "Kitty" Thackery is bored out of her mind at the countryside parsonage she was raised in. All eleven of her cousins have grown up and moved out, leaving her without an outlet for her youngest-child mischief. Until cousin Joey returns from America alongside his dashing benefact...
Donna and Caleb are really not the perfect couple. From hospital visits to feeding tubes, life is a bit more complicated for them than it might be for most people their age, and that becomes clearer than ever when a simple cold can turn deadly. ONC2023 entry: "I had a marvelous time ruining everything."
My superpower is invisibility. Not by choice. It's the only way I know how to be. Until the cute guy on the bus shows me how to fly, but there's a catch. And it has nothing to do with me being the one who can see him. But sometimes falling feels a lot like flying. And I don't know if I'm ready for either. Prompt...
| 𝟳𝘅 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 ·|| HUNGER GAMES x CINDER || ONC 2023 Honorable Mention Amidst the escalating unrest between the windborne utopian city of Lighthaven and its seedy, oppressed underbelly Fumedge, the Grand Duke of Lighthaven, Lucius Sextus, comes up with an ingenious solution. To provide much-wanted respite fro...
***2023 SHORTLISTER FOR THE @OPENNOVELLACONTEST & FEATURED ON @STORIESUNDISCOVERED'S 'FEAST ON FICTION' READING LIST IN OCTOBER 2023*** Born and raised within a few steps of Hollywood's golden gate, Arlene Berkshire always knew she wanted to be an actress. After some minor roles in overlooked features, Arlene gets her...
ONC 2023 Shortlist | Fiona had one dream for her entire childhood: to move to Hollywood and act. Unlike the kids around her who wanted to be astronauts or pop singers, her dream never shifted to something more realistic, practical, or ordinary. At age 19, she allows the flip of a coin to decide her fate. Will she give...
One Kiss changed everything. Hailey is done with college and on the verge of either losing her job or climbing the ladder and maybe restructuring her love life. When she's mismatched with the wrong person on a date, a stranger swoops in to be the hero. He may be charming, but he's the kind that breaks one like a prom...
SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE / ROMANTIC SUSPENSE ⋆ They say you meet the same people on the way up and on the way down. In her wildest dreams and story plots, novelist Delaney Sharpe never fathomed this could apply to her, or that it would involve Phoenix Alden, the ex-boyfriend who ghosted her while his acting career was on...
Nani James was born in Hawaii. No matter how hard she tries she will never look like an island girl. Compared to her Polynesian best friend, Jessica McHale, Nani will always look like a tourist in the islands she loves. Determined to keep men away, Nani will do anything she can to not let her heart get broken again. ...
One woman's deep dive into a cold case will reveal shocking answers to a mystery that has captivated an entire town for decades, answers someone will do anything - even kill - to keep from coming to light. * * * One year after the incident that completely disgraced her, private investigator Mysti Coleman...
Rescued from a blind date from hell, a career woman's one night stand with her would be savior has unforeseen consequences. **** Up and coming New York apartment manager, Vanessa Torres' life is going perfectly according to her five year plan. Well, everything except...
The sea is calling and she must go. *** An accomplished novelist returns to her hometown to seek closure for the childhood memories that have haunted her for her entire life. The journey takes her around the town and places her at the edge of the sea. And the decision is in her hands. A cosmic horror novella. An ONC...
Harley never expected her new boss to be the same man who saved her from a terrible blind date - nor that he would be a sexy Italian billionaire hell-bent on making her his. -- Harley Goode is no stranger to tough times. But when she lands the job of her dreams - being an official translator for a large company - thin...
Until recently, Mia's biggest challenge was attracting visitors to a province whose unsolved crime rate keeps climbing. After her Bear Claw Lake ice fishing tourism campaign gets axed because a body was discovered, an unusual stranger offers her unconventional help to catch a potential serial killer. Even with his he...
Nikki Valentine is a smart, successful boudoir photographer with a curvy body and passion for empowerment. Despite this, she has spent years in a relationship so full of red flags she should have run a mile. Whilst on their eighth relationship break, she agrees to go on a date to a football match as a last-ditch attem...
{ ᴏɴᴄ ʜᴏɴᴏʀᴀʙʟᴇ ᴍᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴ & ᴀᴍʙᴀꜱꜱᴀᴅᴏʀꜱ' ᴘɪᴄᴋ } Tate has been the bartender at The Imp's Bottle for years. The dive bar attracts a trickling array of unusual patrons, but due to his social anxiety, Tate avoids conversation and interaction. ...Until a random encounter with a beautiful girl causes Tate to open up in a way...