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What was supposed to be a dream vacation turns into a nightmare. A group of elite high school students embarks on a luxury cruise for their graduation trip, unaware that a deadly virus has been secretly transported on board. When the infection breaks out, the ship becomes a floating graveyard-trapped in the middle of the ocean with no way to escape. As the virus spreads, turning students and crew into bloodthirsty monsters, [Female Lead], a fearless scholarship student, finds herself leading a fight for survival. She clashes with [Male Lead], a wealthy and strategic student hiding a shocking secret. Meanwhile, power-hungry survivors form factions, making the humans just as dangerous as the infected. With the ship slowly sinking and the infected evolving, the survivors must uncover the truth behind the virus-before the ocean swallows them all. Will they find a way to escape, or will they become part of the deadly dawn?

It started with nothing more than a news story, but for Kelly Hunter, this story will become a reality. No one ever believes they will be abducted. Everyone says it won't happen to them. Nothing could prepare Kelly for the nightmares to come. From terror to heartache to the most unexpected betrayal, Kelly must try to find a way out of her own personal Hell. It's a race against the clock for Kelly's father, a local police officer, as he desperately tries to find his daughter, not knowing the unpredictable actions of the kidnapper. Will Kelly's father be able to save Kelly in time, or will she forever be kidnapped?

They say the end of the world started in a military lab. Some poor bastard who'd agreed to take part in one of those experiments-for-cash programs, signing his body and blood away, all the in the name of science, just so he could afford to buy food for his kids. 'They were all meant to be given placebos', they said. Except he wasn't given a placebo. He was given something else, something terrible, whether on purpose or by accident, I guess we'll never know, but what I do know is that it never started with him. It started with her. With Alice. My Alice.

In a world where darkness reigns, Lorelai Steele is a force to be reckoned with. Born into a family plagued by mental health struggles and raised by a mother battling her own demons, Lorelai learned the art of survival at a young age. Plagued with cyclothymia and fueled by anger at the world's injustices, Lorelai conceives a daring plan - to form a vigilante group and right the wrongs of society. Assembling a team of allies named "The Serpentine," they embark on missions to challenge the corrupt and keep the unrepresented safe. The police have tried and failed to find the Black Mamba and bring her to justice. They bring in the FBI, hoping their top Special Agent Anthony Davis can catch their vigilante. Anthony has spent his entire career searching for the Black Mamba and the Black Mamba has spent her entire career dodging him. Neither of them knows they're playing cat and mouse with the person lying in bed beside them.

Since her father's sinister murder three years ago, Charley Green's life has never been the same. She finds her family shattered and frozen in the tragedy that derailed their lives that fateful Christmas morning, in which her father's lifeless body was discovered mutilated and gunned down in a motel. Desperate for closure, Charley decides she is done waiting for outside forces to grant her salvation. As her father's old friends re-enter her life, she finds that what lies beneath their smiling faces may be more ominous than what she anticipated. With each layer that is peeled back, their intentions become more questionable, their relationship with her father more sinister. As Charley soon begins to realize, sometimes the darkest truths lie beneath the honeyed masks of those closest to you. Those truths are best left buried. [THIS STORY IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING EDITED]

Kelly King, a disgraced ex FBI agent now working as a bounty hunter for organized crime. Sonny Moretti, a world class assassin who always completes a job. Kelly is tasked to find Sonny when the killer for hire refuses to terminate her target. As the women face off they become embroiled in the horrific world of human trafficking. Now united, they take on the Russian mafia and bring justice for the victims. Both women are broken and lonely and when they meet sparks fly. Will they survive long enough to explore their feelings for each other?

She's fearless, independent, and lives life on her own terms. A high-powered agent with a past filled with secrets, she's not looking for love-especially not the kind that ties her down. But she's never been afraid to flirt with danger... or with the men she meets along the way. He's everything she's never wanted-steady, professional, and bound by rules. As an FBI agent, he's used to following orders. But there's something about her-the way she challenges him, pushes his buttons, and makes him question everything he thought he knew about relationships. What begins as an unspoken agreement quickly turns into something neither of them expected. In a world where trust is a luxury, and betrayal lurks at every corner, they must decide if they can let go of their own rules-or if they'll be caught in a dangerous game neither is prepared to win. Dark secrets. Flirtatious encounters. Forbidden desires. And a love that could shatter everything..

There is no true winner. Only fear. Only cowardice. And only one way out. -------- Chess, the ancestor's game. Which of them thought it would be a good idea to model society off its pieces, Jake would never know. If he had a time machine, he'd use it to throw every chessboard into a fire. Because now the world was ruined and no matter how many rebellions he led, nothing worked. So he quit. But a determined young woman set on finding the mysterious killer within the Rebellion isn't about to let him. Do they hate each other? Yes. Will she give up on him? Not a chance. word count: 100K status: pre-written, edited, beta-read and completed update schedule: daily

Blair Evermore: a simple kid with a complicated life. With a brother that would do anything for her and two FBI agents for parents, she doesn't have the safest life. She was never the first to volunteer her parents for career day, and "bring your child to work" was a foreign concept. But she liked it that way. She didn't know any different. Blair was content with the way things were, because even though they were distant, she always knew her parents loved her. But all that changed on her nineth birthday. That's when she experienced the hardest year anyone could imagine. One month that felt like a lifetime. A week full of tears and sorrow. And one day that changed her life forever. October 27th, the day her parents died. Killed during a last-minute undercover job, Amanda and Bryan Evermore were prepared for the inevitable. That didn't make it any easier for their children though. Grayson and Blair's whole world turned upside down. Neither of them knew what to do, but they coped the best they could. Now, seven years later, Grayson is missing. Without any leads or witnesses, the FBI is having trouble finding him. That was until Blair got involved. With a letter from her parent's murderers, another from Grayson's potential kidnappers, and a whole lot of will power, she leads her new-found FBI buddies through riddles, secrets, and puzzles, gathering as much information as they can to get justice for her family. She knew exactly what she was going to do once they found the people who destroyed her all those years ago. She would make them pay. But sometimes what we plan doesn't always work out quite right. Started:1/1/2023 Finished: 9/26/2024 © 2023 Taylor Sassone Cover by my amazing sister @owlhootsburger13