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"Ben first found me on the edge of April. I was peering out across the saltwater marsh, wearing my mother's jeans and clutching a funerary urn."***In 2008, after the collapse of the American economy and a subsequent super-flu epidemic, 20 year old Annabeth Kidd is alone as the country crumbles. After she drives north from Portland, Maine, she breaks down on Route 182 and meets Ben, a young man raised by a paranoid, Doom's Day prepper father to anticipate a post-apocalyptic event of this nature. The two of them find an abandoned trailer park called Silver Gardens outside of Bar Harbor and settle there. Their intimate dependence on one another, originally a desperate need for human companionship, blossoms into something deeper than they can name.A myriad of diverse characters are drawn to the haven of Silver Gardens Park. They are just everyday folk wanting to survive the lean years following upheaval and build a foundation for the next generation. Ben and Annabeth become determined to give them that, hoping for a future that they may never see themselves.A story about the first months after the downfall of modern society and the survival of love despite the destruction.…

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Aeschild has lived her whole life in a village not far from the river Isen. As people of Rohan dwelling close to Isengard, they live in dread of attacks by the Uruk Hai of Saruman and the hillmen of Dunland. On a late autumn day in the wood, Aeschild receives a vision of a horse and rider during a spell of sleeping sickness. With omens of doom in the air, it gives her a pinprick of hope in the darkness.Hope that is fulfilled in the figure of Prince Théodred, second marshall of the Riddermark, as he rides to Helm's Deep to fortify it against the enemy with the Muster of the Westfold. As Aeschild's visions become stronger, it appears that her and the prince of Rohan are intertwined in their fates and their individual survival depends entirely on the other.…

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Lucrezia Poole's family has lost everything following a disastrous financial risk gone awry and her father's subsequent death. After authorities label his passing as a suicide, their once well established Bostonite name becomes steeped in failure and scandal. After turning down a proposal of marriage from a much older but wealthy man, Lucrezia's stepmother turns her out on her own. Forced to find a way to fend for herself, Lucrezia applies to a post for a governess position in the Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania at the infamous Winters estate, Wintergrove The Winters family, one of the most prominent in the country and yet the most secretive, has profited from their coal mines for decades. The patriarch of the family, Daniel Winters, is a renowned philanthropist and industrial tycoon of the last century. Now in his nineties, he lives in the sprawling castle with his grandson Theodore and great grandson Danny.Rumors abound in the house of a curse on the women of the family. Daniel Winters' own wife ran mad before throwing herself into a mountain chasm by her home. Theo's wife, Danny's mother, was rumored to have gone insane as well before she died in childbirth. With tensions rising between union strikers at their mines and Daniel Winters trying to wrestle business decisions from his stoic grandson, Lucrezia is plagued by dreams and visions in the echoing home as her attraction to Theo grows.Could the curse on the Winters family already be taking root in her? Or is there something more sinister afoot?…

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The sequel to "The Tie that Binds".When Nancy McCoy dies, she leaves a bloody legacy to her two daughters. Born of different fathers, devilish Linet and enigmatic Rose trust and depend only on one another. As children they are shuffled from the house of one McCoy relation to the next, shunned for Rose's dark skin and Linet's belligerent temper. They find themselves finally under the tyrannical protection of the former patriarch of the family, the broken Randall McCoy.The night his cabin burns to the ground, eighteen year old Linet and seventeen year old Rose are taken in by Cap and Cordelia Hatfield as an act of charity and goodwill for Jim McCoy while he is out west on business. Their presence disturbs the minds of the next generation of Hatfield men, Cap's two sons and Johnse's son, his only living child.Initially, Linet and Rose scheme to pursue their mother's desire of vengeance, something she imparted to them in full. However, the girls begin to see it is better to bury hatred with the long dead. But is it too late to turn their backs on their sins?…

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In 1999, seventeen year old Rowenna Porter and her mother move four hours north into coastal Downeast Maine. Grieving her grandmother's death, both Helena and her mom are looking for a new start in their little house in the small town of Peabody by Abiel Lake. Rowenna loves their new home though it is a little strange with flickering faces reflecting in the window panes and bumps in the night. Though always a believer in the extraordinary, Rowenna isn't concerned, only thrilled. Her interest is peaked when she is told of the tragic history of the camp and the cursed Tanner family that once owned it. The web tangles further when she discovers the strange connection her own family has with the Tanners and their murdered son, Gideon.…

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18 year old Laurel Eayre and her sister Suzy haven't been back to Eayreston, Vermont since their family moved. Following a messy scandal, Laurel's parents send them to live with their grandparents till the storm blows over.Though it's the end of her senior year, Laurel is overwhelmed by seeing her old friends again, especially in light of her politician father's very public downfall. Not only that, she is terrified of running into the boy who was her best friend back in elementary school. She has not spoken to Gilbert Levy in nearly six years, not since the night she turned her back on him and broke his trust. Unfortunately, Gil is also the stage manager of the theater program. After Lauren becomes the assistant director to Eayreston High's production of 'Guys and Dolls', the two are inevitably thrown into each other's company over and over. And he's nothing like the sensitive, quiet boy that she once knew. Snarky with a leather jacket and dry expression, he's not exactly a bad boy, but he isn't all that nice either. Can they both move beyond wounds from the past to find that second chances are indeed possible?…

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The grey-eyed daughter of a great warlord's favorite concubine, Sabriye an-Nafi is the apprentice of the renowned Bone Witch of her father's kingdom on the edge of the Mûmakil jungle. Much to her disgust, the old crone only teaches Sabriye deceit, how to offer fraudulent services in exchange for gold and favors. As a young woman, Sabriye is disillusioned by what she has seen and does not believe in the powers of their revered Dark Lord. Until she receives a vision that could mean the destruction of her people.(My Harad entry for "The Distant Land Awards: A LOTR Writing Contest")…

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September of 2004, in the aftermath of a school shooting, new student Connie Turner avoids the young man who saved her younger brother's life, while battling with a shameful awareness that she is not the same as before the event. Meanwhile, Max Nathan learns to live his life as a media hyped hero only because he was able to stop the shooter by accidentally killing him, a boy who had been his friend since childhood.While recovering from his injuries, Connie's brother Brandon reaches out to the shooter's stepsister, Imana Kelly, attempting to understand why this event occurred in the first place.For the rest of the year, these four students of Cleargate High struggle to accept what has happened in their town, an event that none of them saw coming. However, they begin to see that healing can mean different things to different people.…

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"If they had slipped between dimensions and were now hovering around the late '70s, then what could they do, but wait? Perhaps this place was like an elevator. They were in between floors, merely anticipating the doors to open again. Which they would, hopefully, at some point."At an empty depot in the middle of nowhere, two college kids wait for a Greyhound Bus. But then the clocks stop at 4:00 PM on the dot. The sun hovers above the horizon, suspended in space. August Kamenski and June Wilde soon realize that the suddenly abandoned town is stuck in an inter-dimensional limbo, somewhere around September of 1979. And with a population of only two.A New Adult romance with a twist.…

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Daisy Julian blamed herself for her little brother Johnny's death deep in the forests of Belgium. It was a burden that she was willing to bear. Unbeknownst to her, it was one she shared with Private Edward Heffron from South Philadelphia.Babe Heffron/OC/Joe Toye…

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Lieutenant Buck Compton had a sweetheart back in the States, but amid war drums at the height of the invasion of Hitler's Europe, such details were forgettable to Nurse Lucille Swain after the night they met.…

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1942, German occupied France. After an aiding a Résistance attack on a Nazi supply train, Delphine Rousseau finds a strange pair of children in the winter wood. The twin boys speak no French and do not understand the world they find themselves in. Delphine becomes their surrogate mother and defends them when their worlds collide, ushering in a figure of the boys' nightmares, a flame haired giant with one hand.…

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Livue's father made a terrible mistake. To compare the beauty of his newborn child to that of the jealous and ancient Fae was an insult that could not be ignored by the fair folk. And so, the princess was taken in vengeance, the Fae leaving behind a changeling in Livue's place to trick her parents into believing it was their daughter. Meanwhile, the real Livue would be raised in a house that dwelt between the realms, cared for by Queen Foxfrost of Winter and her sisters of Summer and Autumn.At eighteen, Livue discovers that she is not the only one of mortal blood to be brought into the Fae realms. The half mortal son of the long lost Spring Queen is imprisoned there as well, Gebhardt the Iron Prince, the greatest Fae Killer in the land. He becomes a loathed captive of Foxfrost, the Fae queen who raised Livue as her own.Livue realizes that she must choose between truth and loyalty to set right the wrongs done by her surrogate mother, a fairy she has come to love.A retelling of the tale "Fairer-Than-A-Fairy" from "The Yellow Fairy Book" complied by Andrew Lang.…

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In the spring of 1915, the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat. American passenger Lilla McCarthy was certain she would drown. She did, for all intents and purposes. Except someone was there to revive her, far from the shores of our world. Lilla is mistaken for a Númenórean noble lady and taken to the halls of the High King of the Noldor, Gil-Galad. Unsure how to explain what has happened to her, Lilla plays along with the assumptions made about her identity. However, the keen eyed elvish king suspects there is more to her story than she is saying. Especially as she begins to seek a way back home to our world.…

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Nurse Kathy Rose is running away. She can't bear to live in the same neighborhood on the south side of Boston where she and her husband both grew up. Bill was dead, killed in a German POW camp after the Battle of the Bulge. So she packs up her bags and hops a bus for San Francisco, only to run directly into T-5. Joseph Liebgott, a Jewish paratrooper home fresh of Europe. She quickly becomes the last thing he needs, an Irish Catholic, but the only thing he wants. Only is that enough to heal a broken heart?…

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Young Haleth is thrust into a position of authority as the last of her house and the standing leader of her people after a brutal victory against an orc horde of Morgoth. As the years progress, she continues to be forced to defend her place as chieftain of the Haladin while maintaining a complicated relationship with a brooding Elvish benefactor, Lord Caranthir, one of the seven troublesome sons of the infamous Noldor elf, Fëanor.…

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Amarië found Ingoldo on the hunt, caught in a trap. It would be years before she would understand that she had been the one truly entangled that day, lingering for centuries, waiting for someone who might never return.…

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From "The Sons of Finarfin" Series. Vignettes of the doomed romance of Andreth, the mortal wisewoman of the House of Bëor, and Aegnor, son of Finarfin, the first of the Eldar to ever love a human.…

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The personal account of Colnith, queen and wife to the dead king of the Nandor, the Green-Elves. During her time spent in Menegroth paying homage to Thingol, she is thrown into the company of the spirited Angrod, a prince of the Noldor. At a time of change and conflict among the Eldar, when the diversity of their languages is being threatened, Colnith and Angrod form a complicated friendship, based on both mutual dislike and respect.…

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A dark figure haunts her steps. Even as Luimëníssë settles into her husband's mountainous fortress at the Pass of Aglon, the blank spaces in her memory become more frequent. Frightened by these instances and driven by a coming change in their lives, she seeks the counsel of Queen Melian in Doriath where her brother Vantaro protects the ancient woods as a march warden.Luimëníssë is warned the fragile happiness that she and her husband have cultivated can only last for so long. For the Enemy is gaining strength once again. And an ancient oath sworn across the sea will never release Curufin from it's greedy clutches. Not as long as the silmarils exist. All these images are played back in dreams to Ivy McKee who, in the sweltering summer of 1925 in New York City, has agreed to become an informant against her charismatic employer who is in league with the mob. But there is more at stake than her life. The enigmatic Chauffeur warns her that perhaps her very soul is at risk should she get any closer than necessary to Smith. Ivy soon wonders if she is willing to pay that price.…