Following
3 stories
The Tiger &  the Shrimp by WelshSeaman
WelshSeaman
  • WpView
    Reads 394
  • WpVote
    Votes 42
  • WpPart
    Parts 10
The year is 2002. Bell Cormier had just moved to the town of Bray, West Virginia, hoping for a peaceful high school life. However, sometimes fate has a way of making plans tumble downhill. Ever since he had set foot on campus grounds, Lauren Fletcher, the popular captain of the school's volleyball team, made it her personal mission to ruin his peace for reasons unknown. From headlocks, pranks, petty mockery, and chasing him with garden tools, Bell is convinced Lauren despises him. However, after a school intervention reveals the truth behind her actions, the lines between enemy and friend start to blur in the most unexpected way possible. Lauren doesn't hate him at all; in fact, it was the opposite. *** He's short and a wallflower. She's got a fiery spirit and hunger for victory, but when it comes to matters of the heart, she's an incoherent mess. Lauren was never interested in romance. She found it to be a waste of time and energy. A bag of scars she carried from her past when her height and personality attracted unwanted mockery. She built a wall of temper and attitude, concealing the sweet girl beneath. When they cross paths, Lauren finds her heart battering her ribs like a caged beast. Why does her head fill with stars when she sees him? Why does his skin feel like morning dew on sun-kissed blossoms? With fierce determination and possessiveness, she aggressively follows the song of her heart, blind to the fact that her actions contradict the very message she intends to convey. *** However, things begin to spiral into madness when a string of grisly tragedies shakes the lively spirit of the town, sending a surge of shock and fear throughout the people. The town held secrets. Secrets that begin to unravel one by one. And Bell isn't who he seems. Who is Bell Cormier really? And why is he in Bray? Would this revelation tear apart relationships and trust? Or would it bind them together stronger than ever?
Fatal Evidence | ONC 2026 by AliKatMeow
AliKatMeow
  • WpView
    Reads 527
  • WpVote
    Votes 92
  • WpPart
    Parts 7
(Nocturnal Law Series) One fatal night changes everything. Vampire detective Percy Ashmidia hunts down the worst supernatural criminals in all of Sanguine City, but he's chasing ghosts trying to figure out the identity of their latest killer. A fresh lead has him eager to uncover their identity, only to find himself fallen for a sinister trap that nearly costs his own sorry fangs. Injured, he stumbles into a witch-run clinic just before the sun rises and encounters a very exhausted, handsome witch doctor who doesn't have the heart to turn him away.
The Coffin of Nicolae [ONC2026] by karinberry
karinberry
  • WpView
    Reads 791
  • WpVote
    Votes 94
  • WpPart
    Parts 9
In a ghost town where cornfields outnumber people, Lieutenant Gianna Park arrests the new guy, Nicolae Badea, for biting her on her first date. When bodies begin to surface-young men found mummified, bitten, and strangled-Gianna suspects the man she once handcuffed. Yet, the evidence refuses to align. The wounds are wrong. The hunger is deliberate. Eighteen years ago, a boy was killed and forgotten. Now the dead are coming back the same way. As Gianna uncovers a hidden world of vampires who police their own kind, she learns that monsters are not defined by blood but by what they choose to feed on. Nicolae Badea claims it was not desire on his part, but restraint. He survives by restraint, faith, and silence. The killer survives by power. Only one of them hunts humans. The Coffin of Nicolae is a gothic crime novel about addiction, romance, and the violence we excuse when it wears a human face-asking what justice means when the law has no language for the truth. And what waits inside Nicolae's coffin. *** Content Warning: This novel includes strong, explicit language and depictions of violence, sexual scenes that some readers may find offensive.