The Eye of the Storm by messytessa

A permanent supernatural cyclone rages across the mystical country of Thrace. The only inhabitants are those of the royal family who once ruled and they survive only by staying within the eye of the storm. Aella is the daughter of King Thaumas and Queen Electra, and was born after the storm ravaged Thrace. Aella knows the storm didn't always exist. But who hated her family enough to curse them? And can Aella stop it before time runs out?

The Face Thief by hiraethia

''You don't want to be going that way, my dear,'' the voice cooed from everywhere at once. ''Ancient things that feast on flesh have made their home their and just now, girls are melting away like snow.''

Kovya Karazamova, the storyteller's daughter, has many names. Soldier. Rezerikoi. Tretyak. Heretic. But there is one that they are afraid to say, one that they whisper in the dark with shivering tongues and trembling limbs. There is a creature who wears the skin of a girl, who plucks faces from the minds of people and spins shadows into things, with freed fingers and a scorned heart. The Face Thief, they call her. And even the trees scream of her sins.

Of Mist and Madness by Mystique_ballerina

A canvas, that's how I see it

The world

Crimson paint plasters its edges with lush greenery being set aflame by men of fire.

And at it's center stands a girl with a violin in hand. No weapon at her disposal and no one to rescue her.

Screams of the desperate engulfed her as gun fire from the heavens pounds against the canvases surface.

Ears ringing

Heart pounding

She knew

This was no canvas, this was war

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Talented violinist, Valerie Rivington, has been taken from her small poverty stricken village in southern North America to a foreign city forged by magic and hatred. Now forced to be a musician for a mysterious ruler called The Whicker, she is faced with choices and challenges she never dreamed she would have to make. Valerie must decide is it all in love or war?

A Sea of Painted Blood by kayeroze

There are many sides to the same story, each filled with different truths.

Two places, two histories, two stories. Aridi, the land of mystics and sand, has just been wrought with pain and blood. The Shahanshah al Magi has fallen to the hands of one of their own for reasons only known to himself. The only one left to possibly save the Aridians, has fled to another nation where secrets and lies run through their veins - Imperia.

With tensions running high and various factions breaking, all it takes is one accident to set off a war. Through the eyes of Kitora, Akamuran, Azurine, Jahari, Wyntr, Solaris, Wyvern, and Adriatic, there is no single truth, but many, that set motion to an event that forever changed Aridi's and Imperia's history.

Of Thorns and Teeth by Ange_Ackerman

In an era where the drums of war echo over the Northern plains, when the arrival of the next Copper Moon brings about whispers of a shadowy threat, Nell Yngram is only concerned with struggling to make ends meet.

Earning a living as a Lampgirl, and having serviced the Moreighs for the last couple of years, she yet dreams of being assigned to the family's ancestral home at Ashenlight. Despite talk of dark secrets plaguing the Samarna Palace, Nell only seeks to earn a good enough sum with which to send back to her family and allow her to return to them.

At present, however, such a wish seems impossible.

Yet when the former Baron passes away under unforseen circumstances, and his exiled son returns with a foreign bride-to-be, it seems that things certainly are about to change...

A story about intertwining lives and internal struggles, dark magic in a rapidly-changing society, and the acceptance of Fate.

Black Heart by soniasee

Thousands of years ago, an ancient evil destroyed the entire civilization of Bellovia.

In a fight to defend his people, the fourth King of Thorp trapped the evil in the heart of the most powerful Bellovian sorcerer, banishing the remnants of Bellovian magic. For centuries, the Thorps kept the Blackheart away from malevolent hands.

.....until the King of Desolan commanded his son, Lysandr, to steal the Blackheart from the Thorps for his own selfish purposes.

Elena of Thorp is the keeper of the Blackheart. When Lysandr creeps in the Royal Cellar one night, she patiently awaits him for a fight ...except that a third person makes their way in. In the middle of the fight, both Lysandr and Elena are incapacitated by Bellovian magic, a magic that has been extinct for thousands of years - or so they thought.

With the Blackheart at large and the revival of the only magic that can release its powerful evil, Elena and Lysandr must put aside their differences to save their kingdoms from extinction.

Will they silence the ancient evil or will they be silenced forever?

Guardians of Odris by Whitewolf2901

To eyes of a stranger, Ashley Swift will seem like a teenage loner at school. Plain. Average. Normal. But if you look closer, you'll find the pain in the flicker of her eyes, what was left after the deaths of both her parents. Hunting seems like the only thing that keeps her mind off of her troubles, and also the company of her best friend and Blur...her wolf companion.

In another world, someone else is also suffering. Zacharias Salazar is more than just a troubled teenager with death haunting him. He works for his father, the lunatic king who, in anger, had killed his own wife. As if his father's threats and abusive habits were not enough, there's no one in the dark, foreboding kingdom he can trust other than himself...but there are also reasons to doubt even himself.

What do they have in common? They don't really belong.

Opportunities are suddenly presented to both of them for a chance to find a place in where they can truly find who they are, and where they belong. But as they try to find out more about their past and trying to fit in, war starts brewing. The deep ties between the evil king and the king of Light aren't easily forgotten, and in this case: someone wants vengeance, to destroy the kingdom of Light once and for all and regain what was lost. But what if...the scheme goes beyond revenge? What if this plot drags in everyone that doesn't even concern the history between the two old enemies?

Follow Ashley and Zacharias on the journey of finding the place where they truly belong and saving the realm of Odris...before it is too late.

Heir of Beasts by swpoet

When we were children they whispered about beasts that hid amongst the shifting dunes, dark things with sharp teeth and loud howls and an insatiable thirst. Animals that gutted their prey and left intestines rotting in the sun and bones sprawled out across dried riverbeds. We listened with attention rapt, and shivered despite the searing desert heat.

But I'm not a child anymore, and I know better. The sand dusted coyotes, the sleepy vipers... they're just animals, dumb and slow. I've met the real beast of the dunes, and he's nothing like they say. He wears the skin of a man, and the silks of a noble, and spins lies with a silver tongue sharp enough to make the earth bleed...

And he holds my life in his blood-stained hands.

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The feast begins at sunset. At midnight, populists insurgents take control of the government. By sunrise, Shikkah's royal family is steeped in its own blood.

Only three survive. The matriarch, the heir, and the guardian. One sails on a fast ship, knocking on foreign doors in an attempt to raise an army. One flees abroad to seek refuge with a mercurial foreign ambassador. And one remains trapped inside the palace, at the mercy of a madman with cruel grey eyes.

The capitol is in chaos. There's a gallows in the town square reserved for loyalists. No foreign government is willing to intervene. Only one thing remains certain: the revolution has begun.

Secrets of the Gods by WickedLovely13

There is nothing one can do to escape the inevitable. Even if what is to come might just destroy you. There are simply things in this world that cannot be explained using words known to man. And, while you can change parts of your life, Fate remains the same.

Adaline Grey thought she was your average, normal, everyday teenager, but when she drives her car off a bridge-and survives- her body begins to exhibit strange things. Her dreams begin to become reality, her hearing is abnormally acute, and everything in this world seems more vibrant. Yet, she cannot fathom why.

Danger looms in the darkest of places, and with power there are those who seek to steal it. Adaline must decide whether to look to the one person she hates most in the world, or to stay helpless to the new world around her.

Daughters of Ehyanite by ElimaWatters

When nineteen-year-old Olive Lenathyr, socialite and daughter of an esteemed Lord, finds herself gagged and bound on a cargo ship headed for the East Kingdom, she is grief-stricken over the loss of her family and destruction of her city. As she navigates through unknown lands, she must learn to survive as her past threatens to debilitate her. Along the way, she forms an uneasy alliance with the Sereins, power-wielding immortals, on her quest to uncover the truth about her heritage and stop the wicked Empress from destroying the realm of humans.

Across the sea twenty-three-year-old Sirena Harlow, self-proclaimed Queen of the Underworld, struggles to restore her ruined city in the wake of Bartonfield's Black Massacre. As her harlots are forced to once again return to a life of poverty and squabble, Sirena must navigate the hierarchy of politics and intrigue in her return to power and ultimately cement her position in the dangerous web of good versus evil.