Of Virtue and Damnation
A journey into a breaking mind.
One man trying to do the right thing no matter what the consequences. Abbé Jérôme Dubois, a Xianic priest in his early twenties, finds a job at a chateau where he is to give help and support to the dying Marchioness. He meets a sweet servant girl, Charlotte, and he worries for her safety. Nothing is the same again after he meets the Marchioness' husband, Lucien Beaumont, a handsome but cruel man. The young priest is determined to protect Charlotte even if it means risking his own safety! But can he manage the impossible and out trick the evil Lucien? Lucien has a hold over the priest and as hard as he tries, he just can't seem to escape.
And as ghosts of his past begin to emerge his hopes begin to fade.
THE LOSS OF SOME DETAIL
The Story
Forget all you know, for all you know might well be false. That is how is often seems to asylum worker James Grey as he tends to the patients abandoned to Oculus Mentis, an austere asylum lost to the world. His day to day quite literally forgettable. Until now. Slowly the world around him starts to change. Plagued by lucid dreams, a haunting drawing and visions of a pleading female he feels his mind is dissolving. Aided by the enigmatic Silas and silent Marianne he seeks to solve the mysteries that are tormenting him.
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THE VERITABLE THRILL OF EXACTITUDE
The Story
A tardy vengeance means you share the tyrants’ guilt.
The veil between worlds has been torn. The land is rife with death. The work of a man who desires only perfection. His son is pulled between loyalty to his father and the logic of his veil dwelling guard, Kenway. Choices and reality become vital as danger grows and even Kenway is conflicted between his heart and his duty.
Thou shall not kill...unless one is undesirable.
A CEMETERY OF DOLLS
...I lived in a cemetery of dolls.
An island lost to time and tales. A draw to the curious.
But when Stephen dares the shores he finds himself in a situation he could never have imagined. One of living dolls who seek freedom and their creator who has cheated death by replacing his dying organs in his search for answers never to be found and trapped in his own mechanical world.
Stephen seeks to help both, if survival allows, but will his help bring more despair?
The Forgotten God
The sands and stories of Egypt always enthralled Isaac. Unable to travel and explore, the job at a museum was the best he could hope for.
Yet the land of the Gods is soon to become far more real when an ancient relic is broken, releasing a vengeful deity.
Furious at the past that spurned him, he craves destruction, even if it means his own.
But is everything all it seems? There is always a deeper reason, and their fates may be linked far more closely than he believes.
Annie Angel
For those in need, she gave her all...
Angelie Fairfax grew up in a world of privilege, private tutors, music, dance, and the unspoken but certain assurance that her future would be one of comfort. But each trip to London with her father stripped away the illusion, revealing streets filled with hunger, suffering, and lives deemed unworthy. She was never meant to belong to that world, yet it called to her in ways she couldn't ignore.
When she gets a diagnosis of an incurable heart disease, Angelie refuses to let the countdown to the end of her life run out in silence. She boldly chooses to walk away from wealth, trading luxury for the cold streets of London's slums. Taking work in a brothel, Angelie gathers lost children into her arms, offering them what little resources and time she has left.
The more she gives, the more the world pushes back. Desperation is a currency in these streets, and hope is a fleeting thing. Yet hope is exactly what Angelie becomes. She meets Baden Wilson, a mill owner's son who should have turned a blind eye but instead finds himself drawn to her fight. As he unravels his father's sins, Angelie's quiet rebellion awakens something in him, a need to right what has been wronged.
Angelie's heart is failing, but before it does, she has one last dream: to give the children she's saved a voice, to prove that even those the world discards can shine.
If only she can live long enough to fulfill the promise.
