By Alexandrea Weis
Synopsis:
Ready to get her life back on track after ending a painful marriage,
Danica Giles returns to the Creole cottage where she grew up in the New
Orleans French Quarter. Danica is anxious to rekindle her friendship
with a former resident from her old neighborhood, the seductive Gaston
Deslonde. But Gaston isn’t exactly a normal guy. The charming man has
been dead for over a hundred and fifty years, and the childish crush
Danica once had on her ghostly playmate quickly turns into something
much deeper. When a handsome new man enters Danica’s life, Gaston vows
to do whatever he can to hold on to her. Danica soon discovers that the
most forbidden of all desires cannot be satisfied without paying a grave
price.
Love can blur the lines between life and death when you are living among the ghosts of Rue Dumaine.
Authors:
Krystal George
Amanda Alberson
Kate Marie Robbins
Cheryl Casey
Heather Kirchhoff
Lorne Oliver
Majanka Verstraete
Cindy Bartolotta
Patrick Van Slyke
Kim Stevens
Twinkle (Sugandha) Varshney
After reading the spine tingling stories in this Indie Author Anthology,
we are sure that your dreams will be anything but... pleasant!
Join some of your favorite Indie Authors on a journey to make your skin crawl and your heart rate increase.
From
ghosts, to murderers, to things that go bump in the night... our
Authors do their best to send you cowering under your covers!
By Heather Hildenbrand
I killed a girl last night. I did it with my bare hands and an old piece
of pipe I found lying next to the dumpster. But that’s not the part
that got me. The part that scared me, the part I can’t seem to wrap my
head around and still has me reeling, was that when she charged me, her
body shifted – and then she was a wolf. All snapping teeth and extended
claws. But by the time I stood over her lifeless body, she was a girl
again. That’s about the time I went into shock… And that was the moment
he showed up.
Now, all I can do is accept the truths that
are staring me in the face. One, Werewolves do exist. And two, I was
born to kill them.
By Jessica Gibson
Magic flows through Jillian Proctor's veins as surely as blood, but so
far her life outside Boston has been peaceful. William Morgan blows into
Jilly's life like a hurricane, unleashing her magic and sending her out
of control. Unknowingly, William brings an enemy who only wants to
posses the power of the witch. Jilly must learn to harness her magic
before she loses it - and everything in her life is destroyed.
By Belinda Frisch
The Fence
A dying woman and her grieving husband
struggle with an arrogant, nuisance of a neighbor. All her husband wants
to do is to let her pass in peace. In this macabre tale of death and
dismemberment, good fences really do make good neighbors.
Bitter
An
abduction. A possible murder. The perpetrator burned beyond recognition
lands in the care of a physician who fights to save him until his
identity is revealed. Her daughter was his victim. Will he be hers?
Crow
When
the theft of a black magic talisman goes awry, the team's members turn
on one another in this tale of curses and the things people will do to
avoid them.
The Deal
A deal with a demonic force comes with unexpected consequences when a woman bargains for the health of her ailing husband.
Payback
When those closest to you break your trust, the only option is payback.
Six
months before an outbreak of viral plague turned the residents of
Strandville into a mob of flesh-hungry undead, Max Reid was a new father
struggling to overcome a gambling addiction for the sake of
his family.
Desperate to keep his secret, out of work, and on
the losing end of a debt large enough to get him killed, Max turned to
Mitch, a Nixon Center guard and the closest thing he had to a friend, to
make the money he needed to break-even. What he didn't know was why
Mitch was so eager to help him or how far he'd have to go for the cash.
Max Reid is about to find out a terrible secret that will change his life and push him to destroy others'.
By R.K. Ryals
Books never die, but they can be forbidden.
Medeisia is a
country in turmoil ruled by a blood thirsty king who has outlawed the
use of magic and anything pertaining to knowledge. Magery and scribery
are forbidden. All who practice are marked with a tattoo branded onto
their wrists, their futures precarious.
Sixteen year-old
Drastona Consta-Mayria lives secluded, spending her spare time in the
Archives of her father's manor surrounded by scribes. She wants nothing
more than to become one of them, but when the scribes are royally
disbanded, she is thrust into a harsh world where the marked must
survive or die.
By January Valentine
Jack Bailey is just a few weeks away from beginning his dream
career as Forest Ranger in the upstate New York town of Angel's Bend.
Jenny Rudea, veterinarian in training, is madly in love with Jack, and
the animals she cares for.
On the way home from her
house one night, Jack takes an unanticipated detour to Hosner Lake.
While there, he encounters something that raises the hair on the back of
his neck. What is out there, on the other side of the lake? Is it a
shadow, a hunter, a wolf? Without a weapon or a flashlight, he is not
about to stick around to find out.
He
hops on his bike and heads for the main road where something leaps onto
his back, causing the accident that steals his mobility, threatens his
sanity. As if this isn't bad enough, when he wakes up in the hospital,
paralyzed from the waist down, he has no idea what occurred on the
lonely road, but is now a prime suspect in a murder investigation
because of what was found almost pinned to his body: a naked girl whose
throat has been slit.
In his comatose
state, Jack hears detectives interview Jenny at his bedside. He
eventually regains consciousness and is transferred to a rehab where he
hopes to recover the use of his legs. The police are searching for a
serial killer, mutilated bodies have been piling up across the country,
as well as in Angel's Bend. While Jack struggles with his physical
injuries, he must also defend his innocence.
Jack
manages to slip in and out of the window of his room mysteriously, at
will, even though he's in a wheelchair. The only one who notices his
disappearing acts is his physical therapist, Rachel Huntress, who is
almost as weird as the predicament Jack has found himself in; Jack's
extraordinary abilities and hairy appearance don't seem to faze her at
all.
There are tense scenes which
include violence and raw emotion in this werewolf whodunit. Who is the
murderous werewolf? Jack? Or could it be his high school rival,
Detective Don Delgado. It's anyone's guess. Along with mangled corpses,
there are several possible suspects. This killer is not part of a pack.
He's a ruthless rogue.
By Cambria Hebert
I'm disfigured. Scarred. Ugly.
When I look in the mirror, I see a stranger. When I look over my shoulder, no one's there…
Yet I feel watched. Hunted. Afraid.
And then he tells me I’m beautiful.
He tells me I’m safe.
I believe him.
Until someone tries to kill me.
Secrets abound, danger is near, and still… my heart desires a boy with whiskey-colored eyes and far too many secrets.
Secrets that could cost me my life.
To stay alive I have to look deep, beneath the masks everyone wears, to find the truth.
To find myself.
By Alexia Purdy
"Never tease anything that wants to eat you. My name is April Tate and
my blood is the new gold. Vampires and hybrids have overrun my world,
once vibrant with life, but now a graveyard of death shrouded in
shadows. I fight to survive; I fight for my mother and brother. The
journey is full of turns that I am quite unprepared for. And I'm just
hoping to make it to the next Vegas sunrise..."
In a
post-apocalyptic world, a viral epidemic has wiped out most of the
earth’s population, leaving behind few humans but untold numbers of
mutated vampires. April is a seventeen-year-old girl who lives in the
remains of Las Vegas one year after the outbreak. She has become a
ferocious vampire killer and after her family is abducted, she goes
searching for them. What she finds is a new breed of vampire, unlike any
she has seen before. Unsure of whom she can trust, she discovers that
her view of the world is not as black and white as she once thought, and
she's willing to bend the rules to rescue her family. But in trying to
save them, she may only succeed in bringing her fragile world crashing
down around her.
By Matt Shaw
“You’d never see the ghosts, not properly. You’d only catch a glimpse of
their shapes out of the corner of your eye and you’d hear their stolen,
vengeful scream; an ear-piercing shriek to steal the lives of anyone
who heard it.”
* * * * *
For
Craig, the trip to the cabin was supposed to be a quiet retreat from
his hectic city life where he could concentrate on writing his latest
novel. For his wife, Susan, and his two kids, Jamie and Ava, it was
supposed to be a weekend vacation.
For all of them, it became a nightmare.
By Anna Applegate
At the start of her senior year at Kingsbrook College, a small school in
Northern Michigan, Ariya Adams has a perfectly normal existence.
Determined to make this her best year yet, she attends her classes and
hangs out with the friends she has come to love more than life.
That
is until the arrival of the sexy and mysterious transfer student James
Rymer, who captivates her affections almost instantly. With her emotions
on the fritz for no apparent reason, and unsure if he shares her
feelings, Ariya finds herself on an emotional rollercoaster in which
everything she knows and loves is questioned.
When fantasy and
reality mix, Ariya’s world is turned upside down and she learns that
“normal” isn’t what she thought it was. Danger soon comes for her and
she discovers that everyone has been keeping secrets from her. The
battle between one’s duty and what feels right will have to be fought
and it may be a struggle for Ariya to stay alive. When Ariya’s life and
the lives of the people she cares for most are endangered, she learns to
never underestimate the power of blood.
Protected is a New-Adult, Paranormal Romance. It is the first book in the Ariya Adams trilogy.
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