TinaBledsoe7

It had been six years since the first case of Naegleria Fowleri was reported in a hospital in Bishop Parish, Louisiana. The second case was reported in Arkansas one month later. By the end of that year, the sickness had completely consumed the entirety of the United States, Mexico, and South America, and had swept over half of Canada.It had been five years since the sickness had mutated and the first corpse had risen. And in the five years since...life on earth had been changed forever. Five years wasn't an incredibly long stretch of time, but it was long enough for nearly an entire hemisphere to be thrown into utter chaos and then complete collapse. Five years was long enough for millions of people to be lost and anything resembling normalcy to be blown on the wind. There was no hope of normal, of safe or secure, when the world had fallen apart and the dead walked the earth...It had been one month since she had been tested for the gene, one month since she had left her family and had been taken to The Sanctuary where the other carriers were kept. She had been attended to by a physician, fed so well it seemed almost shameful, and watched closely for signs that she was nearing her most fertile days. It had been three weeks since she had been permanently marked as a carrier, permanently set apart from the rest of the world.It had been a few hours since she'd been told she was going to meet the young man she was expected to mate with, a few hours since she had been taken to the house where she would live out her life, which would probably be spent birthing children, who would grow up to birth children, who would grow up to birth children...…

TinaBledsoe7

Someone in Port Angeles is killing Darksiders and leaving the bodies lying right out in plain sight. And that is a no-no. If a human were to discover one of the bodies, all the Darksiders would be exposed and that would mean a whole heap of trouble that no one, Darksider or human, would be ready for.Enter Bethalie Sanderson.Bethalie Sanderson happens to be the Ward of Port Angeles, which means that putting down Darksiders who choose to break the laws is her job. However, after she's forced to put down a Darksider who wasn't on her hit list, she finds herself in a bit more trouble than she's prepared for. And some of that trouble comes in the form of Noah Grey, the handsome Vampire who takes it upon himself to try and protect her from his family, who want to avenge the untimely death of their daughter .Of course, dodging a vengeful Vampire's attempts to snuff her out isn't her only problem. She has been ordered to hunt down the person responsible for the Darksider killings and bring them to justice. And in a city the size of Port Angeles, hunting a nameless, faceless being that happens to be strong enough to kill and drain Vampires isn't going to be an easy feat. But, this is her job and she has no choice. Hopefully, she can stay alive long enough to find the culprit and punish him properly.With any luck, she'll come out of the situation the same person as when she went into it. Although, she deeper into the killings she delves, the more she fears her life just might be changed forever...…

TinaBledsoe7

Clydie Weston's life was forever changed on that stormy summer night, two years ago. That night, her troubled sister had decided to do the unthinkable and in an effort to escape her problems, had tried to kill them both. Though somehow Clydie had managed to survive, the ramifications of being spared were even worse than the alternative.Her sister, Sam, had died that summer night, but for Clydie...a piece of Sam had stayed behind. And that piece was haunting her.In an effort to give the family a measure of peace, her parents decide to move and start over in a new town, far away from the old worries, but there is no escape for Clydie because the problem lies in her mind, which is so broken that it can't let her dead sister go.Whether it's the move to a new town or her mind completely turning against her, shortly after stepping foot into her new home, Clydie realizes that not only is Sam still haunting her, but Sam now has some company.As Clydie tries to face the fact that she is slowly losing her grip on reality, a few details come to light that cause her to question everything, including whether or not she's imagining Sam and the others...or whether something even more disturbing and sinister is happening.In either case, she needs to find out the truth before she winds up as nothing more than a haunting memory...just like her sister.…

TinaBledsoe7

Special Detective Tessa Stark is called to the dusty desert town of Santa Maria to investigate the death of a local socialite and very soon finds herself with a sizable list of suspects. Wading through that list is going to be daunting task, especially given that the victim's uncle, a powerful United States Senator, doesn't trust that she can find the killer. But, perhaps even more daunting than solving a case that seems unsolvable, is having to face a piece of her past that she'd been avoiding for the last fifteen years.She can't allow the past to get in the way of her investigation, though. A young woman had been killed and a family had been left grieving, without answers and without justice. And who better to hunt down the killer and help the family begin to heal than the daughter of the infamous Robert Stark. After all, murder was in her DNA.…