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Frizzy haired and overweight, sixteen year old Elizabeth Summers hears ghosts. She also reads people's auras and sees when something bad is headed their way. Unfortunately, she can't choose which ghosts visit her psychic hotline or when her paranormal abilities are triggered. Since dealing with otherworldly spirits won't help her gain social acceptance in her high school, she hides her psychic gift. Reluctantly, Elizabeth starts exploring her psychic skills, and Dresden's paranormal activity, when handsome Australian loner, Dylan Grant, asks her to help him find out what happened to his missing sister. As the summer heats up, Dylan begins to see Elizabeth in a different light than the overweight, psychic girl he corralled for her paranormal abilities. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Excerpt from Ghost)"There's a spell on this book." Madame Regina frowns, her brow creasing in concern. "No, not a spell. It's a curse!"Alarmed, I feel the temperature of the room plunge as our breaths collectively plume into the frigid air. The unnatural cold feels as if someone's opened a large freezer door. I can't stop shivering.Madame Regina makes a strangled cry of distress, her voice growing urgent. "Demons are trying to come through. Whatever happens, don't break the circle."Dylan and Jerry look terrified as the delicate tea cup sitting by Jerry's hand starts rattling uncontrollably. Glancing down, I check to see if he's touching the china, but both of his hands are lying flat on the table. Everything's shaking as if we're in a seismic earthquake. "In the name of Christ, I exorcise you from this room!" Madame Regina shouts the command as the feet of the table rises two inches, then crashes back to the floor. Shaking pictures on the wall start rattling, adding to the mayhem.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~My beautiful new cover is by @SashaLeighS. Check out her amazing story, "Casting Power" a Wattpad featured story, #1 in Hex, and chosen for Wattpad's Up and Coming List!…

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When the rogue arm of the CIA tries to kill billionaire RAYMOND SINCLAIR after he double crosses the shadowy organization, he discovers the beautiful and spirited intern he fired, EVELYN SIMMONS, holds the key to saving his life and his Silicon Valley Empire. ****Twenty-four-year-old Evelyn is keeping secrets. She's developed a marketing plan, involving seniors, that will earn financially troubled CENTIEN corporation millions of dollars. Her biggest secret? She has feelings for her handsome boss, the cold-as-ice CEO who just fired her. Thirty-two-year-old Raymond Sinclair has his own troublesome secrets. He's going bankrupt after an elite hacker, SATOSHI NAKAMOTO, betrayed him with the sinister military industrial complex. When the clandestine organization infiltrates his corporation and kidnaps him, the billionaire is forced to accept help from the most unlikely source. The feisty intern he was attracted to but cruelly discarded and her ex-military cohorts who work at a homeless shelter.As the heat turns up, Raymond's frozen heart begins to melt with fiery passion for Evelyn. #intelligent-romcom-action #action-offbeat romance*****Author's note. Story contains Mature Language and Sexual Scenes & References*****My beautiful cover was made by @myie_laura in her Love Graphics Shop.…

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Two dueling tornado chasers compete to impress a famous self-taught scientist and storm-chaser, follow in his footsteps, and become his renowned protege. ***Twenty year old Halle Brennan's obsession with mega storms was born out of intense grief and feelings of powerlessness after her mother, Magenta, died in a sudden tornado. Dissimilarly, her nemesis, James Winter only embraced his famous father's storm chasing legacy out of duty.Despite a shoestring budget and and her youth, Halle exhibits an uncanny ability to track down deadly twisters. With her scientific mind and uncanny intuition, she intimidates James and his wealthy cohorts who rely on technical equipment and an expensive armor-plated all terrain vehicle instead of sheer guts and expertise.As a deadly storm descends on the Oklahoma plains, Halle, James and her best friends Amy and Naseem, are thrown into a monster, rain wrapped tornado that wants to kill everyone in its path. ONC Prompt No. 85"If you do that again, I'll throw you out the freakin window. "What are you doing?""Checking how high the drop is to see if it's worth it."*Cover models are from the movie "Divergent".…

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A cunning Pirate's long-lost treasure. A three hundred-year-old curse. A wicked taste of rum.------When dangerous paranormal activity threatens her life, teen psychic, Lizzy Summers, decides to quit her job with Boston's Chills N' Thrills Ghost Tour franchise. She starts a new life in the Bay Area with her boyfriend, Dylan Grant, working for an eccentric bar owner. After moving into her dream apartment in Boston's eclectic Fort Point neighborhood, Lizzie soon discovers a young man who lived in the waterfront premises has been murdered. The renovated loft is not only haunted; it holds a deadly secret. Not everything's as it seems as the mayor starts buying up surrounding real estate and bodies begin piling up.Lizzie and her friends must solve the murder and the mystery of Blackbeard's treasure, using an antique bell from her grandmother's attic, before they become the next victims.---ONC2023Prompt 30: You purchase a new home and during renovations discover a human skeleton buried within your walls.Prompt 75: You have a family heirloom, it's been passed way long before anyone can remember. You inherited this object and discover its secret. This secret will twist your life and change it forever.[Rated PG13 for language, intimacy.]…

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Welcome to chapter 11 of Bird of Gods, a Writer's Relay project.Schoolteacher Fiona is on a mission for grandpa - find a missing Zimbabwean artefact, the precious soapstone "Bird of the Gods". Conrad - dodgy archaeologist contracted to the stunning influencer Amanda aka #mandalove - has the same job. When Fiona and Conrad's paths cross, what was supposed to be a straightforward quest turns into a crazy race around the world. With antagonists popping up at every corner - from mountain tops to underground settings like Serbian caves, frozen Canadian crypts, and the silver mines of the old West, Fiona and Conrad have to work together to catch their bird. Mutual respect grows into something more intimate. But not everything is quite as it seems, and they had better watch their backs lest they too end up underground, this time permanently.…

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When an arrogant billionaire, RAYMOND SINCLAIR, double-crosses the sinister military industrial complex, he discovers the beautiful intern he recently fired, EVELYN SIMMONS, holds the key to saving his life and his company.*There is an expanded version of this story on my profile that is more polished. 'The Asshole App Expanded Version'.*****Author's note. Story contains Mature Language and Sexual References*****My beautiful cover was made by @myie_laura 's Love Graphics Shop. Featured on the #Badass Reads Badass King's reading listNo. 1 in the Jam-Board 2022 General Fiction Category. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Excerpt from "The Asshole App"-"Baby, I got your text. Now, tell Mama Dee what happened." "My boss, Raymond Sinclair, that's what happened! He's a jackass." Evie gulped air, swallowing bile. "He humiliated me in front of the entire staff this morning." Struggling to breathe, she held her midriff. "I feel as if I've been punched in the stomach.""That asshole!" Deedee's voice was muffled behind the menu as she checked the specials. She lowered the shiny, laminated cardboard. "I told you the man's a soulless billionaire. I don't care how many smart phones or self-driving cars he's sold. Or how hot he looks on the cover of Time. He's an insufferable ass." Suggestively, she laid an exquisitely manicured index finger against her cheek. The jungle-colored nail was painted with tiny, fornicating leopards. "How are you going to get back at him?"…

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In rural Vermont, a gravitational anomaly appears near a remote and deadly gorge mutating five teens into super empaths. ***Internet chatter about the geometric phenomenon attracts five adolescents --Creed, Mallory, Jaxxon, Gemma and Peter-lifelong friends who have been shunned as social outcasts at their high school. Instead of going on a class field trip, they decide to investigate the bizarre physics of the mysterious zone. As they explore the anomaly, the five unskilled empaths are exposed to an unknown force hidden in the ground. They discover alien energy has amplified their crippling empathic traits into genetic superpowers. They form a league and decide to create a community Utopia with their stunning new powers-swearing an oath to do no harm and help others-until one of them goes dark. out·cast/ˈoutˌkast/nouna person who has been rejected by society or a social group.This story is inspired by July's #Justwriteit 10 Chapter Challenge.…

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The year is 2099 and elite Lightworker, Zoe Harper of Gateway Guild, protects New York city's innocent from the growing numbers of undead zombies accidentally created by the Sylex Corporation- until the tables are turned and she's the one being hunted. ***Shield-less and rogue, I'm on the run from a Dark Entity that wants to possess me and feed off my powerful Light energy. I need to find her partner, Evander, who I 'retired' (killed) after he was kidnapped and turned by an insane Nexus-9 Android inhabited by a powerful dark force.I'm running out of time to save him and get off-world before Earth is destroyed by Sylex. That's the Mega Corp's solution to contain the genetically undead they created with their flawed Med Bed technology. The only chance of survival is to find the outcast forbidden mages. The Ancient Ones. They have the long-lost knowledge to save the planet from the undead and overthrow Sylex.My beautiful new cover was made by @waylaidbaby111…

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Recovering from a concussion, New York PI, Miles Goodspeed, investigates a suspicious death on a famous director's Vermont film set aided by his disgruntled sidekick, Jackie Woo, a high stakes card dealer. Once he arrives at the Green Mountain state-he finds his work is cut out for him-dealing with the evasive locals and a churlish movie mogul whose innocence he must prove. ***Famous for its idyllic beauty and delicious soft serve maple creemees, scenic Mapleton, Vermont is the perfect remote location for infamous director, Harry Cullin's, new horror film, 'The Darkness'. The second week of production, an accidental death occurs onset prompting Goodspeed's ex-wife, Matilda, a local podcaster, to call in his investigative skills. Powerful politicians would like to brush the suspicious death under the rug and keep production money flowing into Mapleton, but Matilda smells a story brewing that might catapult her to vlogging fame. Out of his element in the pastoral crime scene, Goodspeed only agrees to take the case due to a financial slump caused by his injury.Housed in a rural cabin near the production set with sporadic Wi-fi and erratic cell service, he soon learns the quirky locals have more up their plaid sleeves than tourist traps, fiery town halls, and cornering the maple cremee market. One of them is a murderer.…

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*Warning-Story contains sexual content, language and graphic images of violence.Dracula's daughter Una Bella Morte is alive and well in modern Italy, but her father's legacy has been nearly been eradicated by the remaining coven's abandonment of Immortal tradition. Without discipline, the interlopers dilute the blood line.With the help of a pure blooded descendent of the Vampiric line of Princess Maria Von Schwarzenberg, she starts to revitalize the Germanic blood line of The House of Dracula.Can Dracula's beautiful daughter reclaim her father's castle and his empire?…

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When Larissa Callay travels back in time from the future 3020 to retrieve an amethyst ring for her client, she encounters Vince Caletti an ex Navy Seal who brokers no love for thieves.In the process of finding and securing the missing ring, Larissa realizes she is no match for the cro magnon male from 2017 who wants more in return from her than the stolen bauble.…

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It's been sixteen years since Princess Diana's horrific car crash under the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, France, but Kash Meswari, a Royal prince of Balari, remembers those early morning hours as if they happened yesterday. Through a drunken conversation with a man who claims to have been Diana's body guard, he learns someone tried to murder The Princess that night, but she didn't die. Although playboy The Prince riddled with drugs and self-loathing, he embarks on a cross continent journey to find the Tiger Princess.…

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In an effort to safe guard his youngest daughter from Bubonic plague scouring the English country side, King Henry VIII sequesters his ten year old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, in the Cotswold village of Bisley in Gloucestershire. When the young princess unexpectedly dies from an unknown fever, panic sweeps through the royal household. Courtiers frantically rush to hide the Princess's death from her father. What ensues is the greatest deception in political history. Replacing the royal dead child with a farm boy from the local village.*This Famous Imposter theory of Queen Elizabeth I being replaced as a young child, sometime between (1543-1544), was first written about by Bram Stoker in 1910.OpenNovella2019 Prompt #1 Body Modification…

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Without warning, everything changes. The rhythmic pounding of the waves cease, while the wind, blowing from the east, switches to a westerly direction. My hair whips back from my face, as if a giant fan's been reversed. Frightened, the gulls drop their mollusks and head inland. Once they're gone, an eerie silence fills the air...until the surf retreats a mile out to sea, with a sickening sucking sound. I'm transfixed by the sight of the marine life, starfish and crabs, thousands of flopping fish, stranded in the slimy sediment. A dark shadow rises above me, blotting out the sun. My knees falter when I see a colossal wave looming behind it. In the distance, a towering tsunami crests, then races towards shore. There's no way to outrun it! Frantically, I search for Ryan. He's swimming frantically, almost reaching the breakers, before he's dragged backwards. Running towards the water I scream, "Keep swimming, Ryan. Get out of the water!" But it's too late, the giant wall of water swallows my brother whole.⚠️ This fictional story contains racial slurs and descriptions of physical abuse.…

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Cassandra Harris is a 24 year old detective helping her mother who's became homeless after picking up one too many sick and ugly homeless dogs.Chris Whitlock, a Surfer dude, lives with his father in a run down trailer in million dollar trailer park, Paradise Cove. He's trying to get back on his feet after his small engine repair business was crushed by regulations banning gasoline. He's always made surf boards as a hobby, transitioning into making it a business. His father meets a narcopathic woman who physically incapacitates him and financially steals his trailer. Chris and Cassie strike up a friendship when she investigates a string of murders related to Paradise Cove.…

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An Inspirational belief system I've come to embrace reading and watching some amazing spiritual, scientific and new age authors and movies over the years.👻 I hope people will comment sharing their own magical experiences helping them discover self empowerment. The ups and the downs, the high and the lows - all of them!It helps me to remember "Life's A Journey, Not A Destination-Aerosmith."…

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Some of the most beautiful people in our culture have been bullied, harassed, or exploited by their peers.#Laterhaters Entry…