With a past shrouded in mystery and a childhood spent constantly on the move, David Rose has lived a life without consequences or connections. The last thing he cared deeply about was his friendship with his barely-remembered brother he hasn’t seen since he was seven.
When he discovers his mother burning a letter from the estranged family they’ve been running from, David ignores his mother’s warnings to reclaim what he lost.
What awaits him is a fog-shrouded castle full of threatening strangers and dangerous secrets. Torn between the meaningful relationships he’s always yearned for and his own sense of morality and self, his only hope lies in a power he never knew he possessed.
Meet C.T. Bryce
C.T. Bryce is the pen name for the writing partnership of two authors who are also partners in life. They have been creating stories together for years and have decided to share them with the world. This is their debut novel and the first in the Guthanderkaz series. They currently reside in Santa Cruz, California.
They love cats, foggy days, the songs of corvids and all things gothic.
The Awakening, book 1 of The Elders Trilogy is a paranormal coming-of-age romance story. Jessica Cartright is haunted by a faceless man who controls her nightly dreams. Each night, he draws her deeper and deeper into a nightmare she can’t escape. She struggles to break free of his dark power, but in this realm, she is his prisoner. For David life in the shadows isn’t a choice—it is a necessity, stemming from dark secrets, corruption, and lies. In a moment of abject weakness, he reveals himself to another human, an act strictly forbidden. And one that doesn’t come without consequences. Jessica’s dream morphs into her waking life. She no longer knows if the horror she’s experiencing is real or if it is the dream. Now she fears for her very life and has no one to turn to and nowhere to run. The Elders Trilogy books must be read in order.
Meet Raven Kitts
Raven Kitts pens contemporary and paranormal romance as well as erotica.
Raven lives in the desert southwest with a plethora of furry four-legged friends, her bearded dragon, Demona, and a desert sulcata tortoise named Tortie.
What if the fans told pro football to take a hike?Young Billy Watkins has always loved football. When befriended by a pro player, it seems like Billy’s football dreams have come true. But when his friend gets injured, Billy discovers the dark side of the sport. He finds himself at odds with the commissioner of the Professional Football Association when Billy confronts him about his friend along with his lies about the kneeling players protests. Will the commissioner merely dismiss him, or will Billy’s courage win the day and help his friend?
Meet Michael Kelso
Former Corrections Officer turned Author. I’ve published 2 crime/mystery novels based in a prison, a YA novel, and several short horror story collections. Currently working on part 1 of a 2 part mystery/suspense novel. Some of my stories have been narrated by youtubers, garnering nearly 3 million views over the last year.
If Harry Potter lived in Middle Earth and had to loot dungeons to pay his school fees…
When Jack Vance’s grandfather is murdered, his dying words are to get Jack to promise to attend Darkthorn Academy. Jack doesn’t like it, but he’ll do what is necessary to honor the man who raised him. Surviving Darkthorn Academy won’t be easy. Jack will have to make alliances, learn to harness magic, and face dangerous enemies, both alive and dead. If he’s lucky he might just make it to second year.
This is a coming-of-age, sword and sorcery fantasy adventure with gamelit aspects, including a slightly overpowered MC, a dragon companion, and a team of adventurers. Inspired by games like Skyrim and Diablo 2 and Fallout.
Meet Robyn Wideman
Lost in the world of being a full-time adult, Robyn discovered that you can make a career of telling cool stories.
Now he spends his time imaging epic fantasy worlds full of aspiring cultivators, underdog heroes, dragons, monsters and more. Adulting has never been so fun!
Aryan is a young man living in the coastal village of Kornur, India. He dreams of becoming an artist one day, but his dream comes to an abrupt end when his father passes away when he is only sixteen, and since then he has been condemned to live the mundane life of a fisherman. But fate gives him a chance to achieve his dream and he moves to Mumbai in the hope of becoming a successful artist. The story then follows Aryan’s life in Mumbai as a struggling artist, the new things he learns and experiences, and his quest for self-discovery. During his struggle, he strives to master a new style of painting in order to stand out and succeed. He perfects his broken Hindi and explores human nature by observing himself and the people around him. He ponders on the nature of power, the desperate need for lies, the craze and importance of cricket in India, and the cultural differences between a small village and a big city, and he explores the relationship between God and human charity. This is a coming-of-age story about perseverance and survival.
Meet Arthinkal
Arthinkal is a pseudonym for Jordan John Anthony, who was born in Mumbai, India. A Fisherman’s Dream is his debut novel. He also maintains a website on which he posts essays on subjects that interest him. Connect with him on: https://arthinkal.com/ https://www.instagram.com/arthinkal_/
Now a 2020 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal Winner in the Fiction – Dystopia genre!
Some superheroes want to save the world. Damian is just hoping to save himself.
In the post-Break world of superpowers, necromancy is the one gift nobody wants. Everyone knows what happens to Crows; they go mad and they go bad. That’s the story of infamous mass murderers like Crimson Death, Gravedigger, and Sally Cemetery. It’s also the story of David Jameson, an otherwise unremarkable man who came home one day and killed his wife, orphaning their five-year-old son, Damian.
Thirteen years later, Damian has inherited more than just grey eyes and a beak of a nose from his father. He too is a Crow, doomed to become a killer unless he can find a way to avoid the violent madness endemic to his powers. When a Finder offers enrollment at Los Angeles’ Academy of Superheroes, he jumps at the chance, believing training could be the key to changing his fate. His classmates despise him, the majority of his teachers want him expelled, and his mom’s ghost hasn’t said a word since reappearing when he was nine, but Damian isn’t the kind to give up. He’s going to take control of his destiny or die in the process.
It’s that or end up like his father.
See These Bones is a post-apocalyptic, superhero, coming-of-age ghost story… with expletives.
Meet Chris Tullbane
Chris began as a gleam in someone’s eye, but birth and childhood were quick to follow. He’s been fortunate enough to live in Spain, Germany, and all over the United States of America, and is busy planning a tour of the distilleries of Scotland.
He currently lives in Nevada with his angelic wife and ever-expanding whisky collection and occasionally ventures outside to peer upwards, mutter to himself about ‘day stars’, and then scurry back into the house.
Chris is the author of two series; The Murder of Crows and The Many Travails of John Smith, as well as a collection of novelettes and stand-alone novels, Stories from a Post-Break World, which are set in the world of The Murder of Crows. He frequently shares updates and content on his author website at https://christullbane.com.
Angela Abrams of Manere, California, is like any other seventeen-year-old dealing with friends, crushes, and the politics of high school, but Manere is not like any other town. Nestled between desolate highways of the Southern California desert sits the community of Manere; a town too remote for even the most adventurous traveler to stop. After graduating, Angela has the opportunity to go beyond the town’s limits but must say goodbye forever as Manere does not allow one to return after they have made a life outside of Manere. Once she discovers a series of missing people, all of whom are being covered up by the corrupt Manere Police, Angela decides she must do something. Along with her best friend, Milo, Angela uncovers the truth behind a childhood friend’s disappearance and the mysterious circumstances of her father’s death during her last summer in Manere.
Meet Megan Bushree
Megan Bushree was born and raised in Southern California. She attended the University of Redlands and National University, where she earned a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A. in English with an emphasis on rhetoric. Since 2007, she has been a novelist and freelance writer for various periodicals and websites. She currently lives in Washington state with her family.
Fear is a double-edged weapon. When a Shadow spreads over the utopian Colony, the only human enclave in a lonely planet, the young will be the first to understand the danger that hovers above them. What they find about themselves in that struggle will lead them to greatness… or to the destruction of their idyllic way of living. Who will rise a hero, and who will become a monster? In the tradition of Ursula LeGuin and Isaac Asimov, this is the story of a people that do not know fear… and what happens when they discover it. Of what is left when paranoia becomes all-encompassing, and men find the evil within each of them.
Meet Mars G. Everson
Mars G. Everson writes Sci-fi, Fantasy, and especially likes writing a mix of both. His favorite authors in those realms are Ursula K. Le Guin, Arthur C. Clarke, J.R.R. Tolkien and Brandon Sanderson. He became a writer mainly so he could put his name in the same paragraph as those writers. Mission Accomplished! He would like to live in a time where technology is indistinguishable from magic. Luckily, reality is turning that way really fast. The bad part: reality is turning that way really fast. He lives with his wife and superhero sons somewhere in America, when not travelling around this world and others in the multiverse to learn as much as he can about the human experience.
The Hastie Girls, a coming-of-age book, is the first installment of a two-part series. Set in the 1950s, within the confines of sheltered English village life, Emily only yearned for a small-town romance, and Belle sought adventure with aspirations to be a doctor. A journey of shocking naivety to shattered dreams and where the sisters’ loyalties will be challenged.
Meet Jaycee Fox
Jaycee Fox writes novels and is devoted to giving her reader a story that will resonate deeply and won’t be soon forgotten. She has written many articles on various subjects, including health and wellness. Jaycee has worked in the field of biostatistics and as a teacher and uses all these life experiences in her writing. Her main inspiration for her first series comes from her mother’s journey of growing up in the English countryside, and Jaycee’s own close sisterhood bond. Jaycee grew up in Nova Scotia but was born in England and now lives in Arizona with her husband. She has two sons and a daughter – all now in pursuit of their own dreams. The Hastie Girls is her first novel. You can email Jaycee at [email protected].
Aubergine has her eyes fixed on the stars—the brightest one is her former boy next door. For Aubergine, her high-fashion internship is the chance of a lifetime. It brings her back to the city she loves, gives her a break from her mom, and most importantly it sets the stage for her to reconnect with her secret crush and former boy-next-door, Fulton. Upon arriving, she quickly discovers love isn’t in the air in New York City. Rather than having the reunion she’d been daydreaming of, she returns to find Fulton seemingly has moved on from the special bond they’d forged on the ranch in Montana with a new life and more annoyingly—a new girl. Desperate for any distraction, she pours her heart into her work. Unending hours and one disastrous store opening later, she’s still unable to forget about her unrequited feelings for her former boy-next-door and she finds herself depending on the attention of a handsome new friend. Now Aubergine must make a choice . . . Does she risk their friendship by confessing her love for Fulton or leave him behind for an adventure with a handsome new guy?
Meet J.P. Sterling
I write clean and wholesome stories to make you laugh, cry and swoon.
