City of Roses is about what happens when Jo Maguire, a highly strung underemployed telemarketer, meets Ysabel Perry, a princess of unspecifiable pedigree. It’s also about hearts broken cleanly and otherwise, the City of Portland, Spenser, those moments in pop songs when the bass and all of the drums except maybe a handclap suddenly drop out of the bridge leaving . . .
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City of Roses is about what happens when Jo Maguire, a highly strung underemployed telemarketer, meets Ysabel Perry, a princess of unspecifiable pedigree. It’s also about hearts broken cleanly and otherwise, the City of Portland, Spenser, those moments in pop songs when the bass and all of the drums except maybe a handclap suddenly drop out of the bridge leaving . . .
The world is exactly as you know it. No, really it is. Except that your landlord might be a spirit, the tree outside your window may be a nymph, that flash in the sky wasn’t a trick of the light and that guy in the suit might just not be a bored lawyer on his lunch break. . . .
Volume 2 ~ Billy Elizabeth Whyte’s investigations into the past and the supernatural continue. A barguest wreaks havoc on the moors above the town and Billy Lawrence is introduced to the world of RoYds. . . .
Corrie, Edie, and Dawn are excited, nervous, curious, and, well, lots of other emotions about their first semester at Chatoyant College. They know it’s going to be a weird few months: they’ve left their familiar high school existences for something completely new, their college is the only one in the United States with a magic program, and it comes complete . . .
James Decker just won’t stay dead. Slain while rescuing a young woman from a would-be rapist, he finds himself in a pseudo-life, caught between two realities, belonging to neither. Haunted by the ghosts of his father and grandfather, he learns that the woman he rescued is in fact an Innocent, the physical embodiment of hope. As it turns out, seeing . . .
Set in modern day America. James Damian has just recently been recruited by the Queen of the Winter Court of the Fae. His mission is to track Summer’s new recruits. However, the entrance of a beautiful hit-woman may bring to light some interesting new facts. . . .
This is a serialized web story that follows the students at Carpe Arcanum, a magical university hidden on the campus of a traditional university, as they struggle to deal with their new lives and situations that has been sprung on them. . . .
DisAbled Oddities exists somewhere between a novel and a journal based on true experiences of illness. It revolves around a strong young female character who struggles with personal disabilty, thrust into a tale of urban fantasy in which unexpected effects of her illness arise as a key factor in resolving a philosophical shadow war between fae with repercussions for two . . .
Anvil of Tears is the first book in the Reforged trilogy, a science fiction series with strong fantasy elements. It will be released in 236 segments, beginning on July 20, 2009 and ending on January 18, 2011. The story centers on Maeve Cavainna, an angry young princess of an outer-rim system that fell one hundred years ago, and the . . .
Fairy Tale inspired paranormal short stories by Dorlana Vann and guest writers. . . .
Amber McKenzie considers herself a normal, if somewhat bland-looking college student. Then one morning, she feels the touch of something cold and evil, something she can’t see or explain. Amber barely has time to reflect on it before she attacked in the bathroom by her best friend. She comes home and finds her family slaughtered, forcing her to rely . . .
Running from the law, a young daoine sidhe (black elf) takes refuge in a tavern, only to discover that his drinking partner for the night is also wanted in the same kingdom. After failing an escape attempt, Erick is escorted to see King Finrod along with the mountainous half-orc Luther. They are both charged with the task of hunting . . .
Briefly, I love A Change in the Weather.
I love it because it has fairies and goblins and cockatrices. Because the dreaded victory of the Bad Guys is palpable and I could feel my heart beat just a little bit faster in fear of the brave protagonists. I love it because [more . . .]
With that being said, it’s a bit disjointed so far. It starts off with the hook as the prologue. Most of the time I skip these and I probably could have skipped this one if it hadn’t tied in with the rest of the story. This is what confused me a bit and what caused me to think the story [more . . .]