Madness is a state of frenzied or chaotic activity, and that is what you will find inside the pages of ‘As Mad as a Hatter’. Walk the path of Lady Death, feel the power of freedom, fall in love, and fear the dark corners of the room with these twelve short stories and six poems from Catherine Stovall.
Watch as Lady Death journeys through the frozen world of an ice storm in a small town, feel the power of freedom with a scorned woman and her revenge. Drift Back Home and discover hope in an unexpected place. Walk the paths of her memory and comes to peace with the ghosts of the past. Find fear behind the door of Room Number Four. Be reminded that love can be eternal. Sweet Sally Slasher will teach you to fear the innocent, for they know not what they do. Learn that revenge is a fine art. Discover what waits on the banks of the river. See what happens when you play with magic and get exactly what you wish for. And read along as Ruby Brandon rocks the courtroom with her confessions.
Twelve short stories and four poems by Catherine Stovall lead you down a path twice as twisted as you’ve seen before. Take your chance with the fairies in “We Danced,” hike across post-apocalyptic America in “No Tomorrow,” unwrap an unlikely Christmas present in “A New Tradition,” fall apart in “Broken,” visit the Blackmaster’s Carnival in “I Am Freak,” and experience the oddities of love in “Godspeed,” “Lonesome Rider,” and “Lorelei.” Plus experience so much more. How twisted can one mind be?
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Caroline Adams wanted nothing more than to be a famous author–selling millions of books and reigning as queen of the best seller’s list– and she swore she’d pay any price to get there. However, when a strange figure granted her heart’s wish, Caroline made a bargain she couldn’t keep.
Twenty years later, out of time and out of luck, Caroline must face her biggest fear and hold up her end of the deal, but the price is steep.
In the beginning there were demons, shadows, and prophecies fulfilled. Before Iyzebel Daeva became a demon consort, before she fell in love with an angel, before she battled demon born mobsters, she had a story to tell. Step into Izzy’s human world, but be cautioned, this tale is not for the weak at heart. Sometimes, in the darkness, there are things waiting for the most innocent souls. Things which seek out the goodness in its victims because it is the most precious thing they can destroy. Bonus: Chapter One of Iyzebel: Book One of the Voices of Hell Series.
Iyzebel Daeva was only a child when Ashur, a Fallen Angel, destroyed her world. Left to rot in an asylum, she gave up any hope for humanity and began to hate everything in the world. So, when Ashur returned to claim her soul, she relinquished everything to become a halfling. Her only goal became to destroy the world with a culling of human souls greater than any other. However, one human man stands in her way.
Rafael Denat was a young, attractive, and tortured artist on the verge of recognition and living a lonely life until his nightmares of a beautiful woman began to take over his life and paintings. Driven to the edge of madness, Raf is stunned to learn the woman from his dreams is real when Iyzebel Daeva saunters into his life. However, love doesn’t seem to be on the agenda as he is dragged into a world far worse than even he could imagine, and something primal is awakened inside of his human body.
Ordered by Ashur to seduce Rafael and bring him over to the Fallen’s side, Izzy becomes engorged in a romance she never wanted nor expected. Caught in a world of mobsters, demons, and Angels, Iyzebel must make a choice to exact her revenge on humans and stay loyal to the Voices of Hell or to give herself up completely to the Archangel who might slay them all.
After three hundred years of being a Time Keeper, Amara had seen human tragedy that would destroy anyone with real emotion. Luckily for her, Keepers didn’t have such things. Instead, they had the Keeper’s Laws. Wind the clocks, never reset the clocks, and never interfere or the human will die, and the Keeper will face an eternity of torment deep in the bowels of Sheol. But when humanity finds its way into her heart, Amara breaks all the rules.
In the ticking of a clock’s secondhand, Amara makes a choice to save her current wards, Anthony and Desiree, from meeting their heartbreaking fate. On the run, the trio seeks out a half-blood human from Amara’s past. With Marcus’s help, Amara is determined to find a way to reset the teenager’s destinies and save them all.
Forced to battle wicked spirit guards and their demon dogs, rattlesnake charming zealots, a Reaper born of chaos, and hell-bent Keepers turned to murderous and power-hungry fiends, the group traverses into a world where even their allies present danger and even souls without destinies have a purpose.
Wren City is an unusual place full of trouble, magic, miracles, and revolutionary divide. Adventure into this world of airships and automatons to meet the characters who live, love, and fight for what they cannot live without.
- Meet Briar, Max, and the gang as they wage a revolution in this two part story of Wren City’s darker times.
- Join Addie and Alex as they dive into the seedier side of Wren to rescue a girl from the clutches of evil.
- Fly alongside Luna as she braves the human atrocities of Wren City to bring back the stars.
- Allow Danni to take you on her personal journey through hell to find herself once more.
- Then traverse Wren’s deepest secrets with Madame Odessa Olivia Simmons on a mission that will shake your soul as she does the devil’s bidding in Poison.
Bishop Tawdry is a man with many problems. He lost his best friend in the Afghanistan War, his fiancé to another man, and his boring life in New Orleans to a voodoo witch named Toma Catorie. He even sacrificed his humanity to save a policewoman after his ex framed him for kidnapping and suspected murder.
Now, all Bishop wants to do is hide from the world and himself in the bayou with his new-found werewolf pack, but crazy exes are never that easy to get rid of.
When Angela Cooper, the woman he saved, returns to the Crescent City bearing the marks of a curse, werewolves and voodoo gods go to war in the bayou. Bishop must face his demons to put a stop to Toma’s tricks once and for all, but no battle is free from casualties, and the lwa thirst for blood.
Twenty-six-year-old Elizabeth Anne Castle can’t imagine anything more terrible than ending her whirlwind romance with the man of her dreams. But she’s proven wrong when she wakes up as a living dead girl—shattering all hope of a normal life. And, worse than any heartbreak, Liz is being hunted by a Reaper.
Determined not to let a little thing like death ruin her life, Liz tries to keep up with her day-to-day world and figure out what the hell happened to her. But when the stress of dealing with her life and limbs literally falling apart overwhelms her, Liz finally confides in her best friend Nicky. Together, they team up with a witch named Kaleos and the local coven on a deep dive into the strange and mystical. But for every answer they uncover, new questions arise, and danger lurks around every corner.
Proving old habits die hard, Liz falls into a hesitant new relationship with a man whose hidden secrets could steer her afterlife right into a head-on collision with fate. Out of time and out of luck, Liz must navigate the harsh truths about life, death, and the afterlife when she discovers life doesn’t end after death.
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Twenty-six-year-old Elizabeth Anne Castle can’t imagine anything more terrible than ending her whirlwind romance with the man of her dreams. The sex is great and her future seems certain. But she’s proven wrong when she wakes up as a living dead girl—shattering all hope of a normal life. And, worse than any heartbreak, Liz is being hunted by a Reaper.
Determined not to let a little thing like death ruin her life, Liz tries to keep up with her day-to-day world and figure out what the hell happened to her. But when the stress of dealing with her life and limbs literally falling apart overwhelms her, Liz finally confides in her best friend Nicky. Together, they team up with a sexy witch named Kaleos and the local coven on a deep dive into the strange and mystical. But for every answer they uncover, new questions arise, and danger lurks around every corner.
Proving old habits die hard, Liz falls into a hesitant new relationship with a man whose hidden secrets could steer her afterlife right into a head-on collision with fate. Out of time and out of luck, Liz must navigate the harsh truths about life, death, and the afterlife when she discovers life doesn’t end after death.
Welcome to Dead City X. Where nothing is forever, but it definitely feels that way.
Two hundred years after the fall of the long-lived Shikratee and their brutal reign, magic is outlawed, and its remnants are feared across the land of Kivara. But old powers and new love stir when a wounded stranger, Cash Carron, appears on Gia Bellafonte’s doorstep seeking the witch’s healing gift.
Triggered by a night of passion, an ancient curse ignites to bind Gia and Cash with a spell as powerful as it is perilous. When a Shikratee hunter discovers Gia and she reveals her magic to the village, she and Cash must flee into the forest with her faithful and sarcastic familiar in tow. Every step forward deepens their magical connection, and the bonds tighten their grip.
As the Shikratee rise once more, the spirits of Kivara speak, sending Gia, her familiar Leloni, and Cash on an epic journey to join forces with a band of unlikely allies and create a new era. Together, the Seven must unite the short-lived races, defy the weight of history, battle impossible odds, and confront a prophecy that could destroy their world.
On the hottest October night that anyone in St. Martin’s Parish can remember, Georgia Lancaster finds herself still feeling scorned by her ex and overheated to the point of exasperation until a mystery lover comes to ask her for one thing. Is it just the heat, or has the forlorn ghost of a madman returned with the storm that is rocking the small parish?
In this twisted omnibus about a girl, a boy, and the devil himself, thirteen lives are lived, twelve deaths are mourned, and only one last chance remains. Nineteen-year-old Vega Williams struggles against the pull and promise of death as her protector and guardian, Zane Allistor, strains against the chains of Hell. After they are cursed by the greater demon, Eurynome, to live, love, and die by their own demons, the star-crossed lovers fight for love and life as the body count climbs and Vega falls into the warped seduction of Eurynome’s tricks. There’s only a small ring of hope keeping an eternity of torment at bay, and to save each other, they must discover that love can survive anything…even death.
Shut Up and Edit is an entertaining, yet practical, guide for new and experienced authors who want to better their writing and revision skills through self-editing. In this book, the staff of CLS Editing lead the user through the keys to self-editing success, creating the right environment, completing content and line edits, choosing and using automatic editing and audio software, preparing a manuscript for submission, and selecting professional editing services.
Anecdotes, detailed examples, worksheets, diagrams, and easy to remember tips accompany CLS Editing’s forty-three point Quick Edit List to help the user quickly identify and correct some of the most common errors made in fiction manuscripts such as tense, point of view, punctuation, and style issues.
Though this manual cannot replace a professional editor, it will help authors develop better proofreading and writing habits by offering easy to understand tips, tricks, and lessons on how to create a cleaner, more powerful manuscript.
