LadyInTower

A family lost and a son alone. A boy's life at its end and beginning. An adventure filled with fantastical terrors, where a child becomes a monster, and a monster becomes a legend.***These were the ominous words the ghost Marmy Jo spoke when foretelling Josiah's future: "Got a world of pain comin' your way, boy-and fast! But, if you make it, you'll come out a stronger beast than many."When a wolf attack leaves Josiah mortally wounded, his sister Credence is forced to abandon him to find help. Where she went, he cannot say, for the last thing he remembers is hearing his heart stop. Josiah, the boy who died, wakes to find the world much changed. Deep within, a horror howls, threatening to tear from his bones at any moment. With his sister gone, Josiah is alone for the first time in his life, and must learn how to survive in the dark, dark woods. But how can an eight-year-old defend against devious spiders, cruel kings, and bloodthirsty titans? And how long can Josiah refuse the call of darkness before he's pulled down a path of chaos and blood? 📚 Book Three of the "Bedtime Story" Series 📚Content Warning: This story contains violence including death of children, mild language, alcohol and tobacco use.…

LadyInTower

A pair of siblings on a dangerous journey. A vicious spirit quickly drawing near. A bedtime story filled with peril and magic, loss and self discovery, set within a dark, fantastical forest. Growing up with frightening tales of the woods around them, Credence and her younger brother Josiah never imagined they would venture far from home. After a sudden tragedy reveals a dark family secret, the children are forced into the strange and deadly forest alone, with nothing but a map and a book of spells to guide them. While seeking the purple house of their aunt, who will either protect or curse them depending on her mood, the siblings must contend with a host of wild and wicked creatures, from bog women to ghostly jesters, cannibal twins and rude pumpkins. Credence and Josiah must keep their hearts strong and their wits quick, lest they fall to any one of a thousand dangers lurking within the trees, or worst of all, into the clutches of the Collector, a malevolent spirit with a connection to their parents, feared above all in the woods-who's developed an obsession with finding them. 📚 Book One of the "Bedtime Story" Series 📚✨WATTYS 2021 FANTASY WINNER✨Content Warning: This story contains violence and mild language.This story is now available on YONDER, your next-generation reading app from the Wattpad family! Join me on YONDER today! Find it now in your app store.…

LadyInTower

||Wattys 2022 Shortlist||"You've got several lines of destiny in you...whether you use your power for good or wicked is still blank." After narrowly escaping the Collector, Credence finds herself at the mercy of aunt Lilith, a hateful witch who eagerly waits for the chance to steal her niece's heart. Locked within Lilith's ghastly home is a key to Credence's destiny: The truth of the vow made on her life before she was born. A witch with secrets isn't the worst the woods have to offer, and Credence will be forced to brave peril unlike any she's faced before: The towns, where humans revel in cruel and gruesome sport;The school, where the handsome Headmaster is more than he appears to be;The Collector's world, where dusk is perpetual, and the line between hero and monster becomes blurred. Will Credence survive to become a woman capable of handling the dangers of the world? Or will the wickedness in her bloodline transform her into a creature more terrifying than the Collector itself? 📚 Book Two of the "Bedtime Story" series 📚⚠ Content Warnings: Violence including death of children and a scene of self-harm, language, alcohol use, non-explicit mature situations including a scene of attempted assault ⚠…

LadyInTower

You died ten seconds before I got to you. I'm taking those ten seconds back.…