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Alternate-Universe

2013

Ties That Bind (Ties That Bind, #1-14)


Keira Marcos - 2013
    Grief and anger pushed him and made him even more ambitious in his career. Taking Dr. Rodney McKay into his life and his bed was supposed to be a political maneuver– but then he met the man and everything he thought he wanted changed in an instant.Dr. Rodney McKay has spent a year alone after divorcing his Domme and cutting her collar off in public. He doesn’t know if he’s ready for a new Dom but he does know he wants Atlantis and Colonel John Sheppard’s collar is his path to the city of the Ancients. Then the Marine put his hands on him and Rodney realizes that he’s already half way to risking his heart again.Neither man was prepared for the explosive combination of their sexual dynamic and the intense emotional connection that would burn between them like an inferno.Warnings: Graphic sex, anal play, BDSM, violence, and exhibitionismSeries Word Count: 369,027 complete

Tangled Destinies (Tangled Destinies, #1-10)


Keira Marcos - 2013
    The consequences of this change the dynamics of his family and sets him on the path that will lead him directly to James Kirk.01. Genesis (22,600 words)Spock convinces his father that his mother’s happiness is the most important consideration and the family moves to Earth where they meet Captain Christopher Pike and his adopted son, James Tiberius Kirk.02. Taken (20,600 words)Jim and Spock attend a physics conference at the Vulcan Embassy, Jim’s grandmother tries to get him to agree to an arranged marriage, and the boys develop a mutual dislike for the mall.03. Chaos (18,700 words)Spock and Jim meld for the first time, Jim gets unwelcome news from Betazed, and Captain Pike reaches a difficult decision.04. Eternal (5,100 words)Spock and Jim take Amanda out for the day to celebrate Mother’s Day.05. Affinity (20,200 words)The House of Surak and the First House of Betazed gather for the bonding of Jim and Spock.06. Envy (19,900 words)Spock and Jim adjust to their new bond while adults in their lives shift around them in response to the change in their relationship.07. Justice (9,500 words)Jim must testify in Federation Court in the trial of Delis Brise.08. Havoc (9,700 words)A traumatic and life altering event changes everything for Spock’s family.09. Forsaken (27,386 words)Sarek takes his family back to Vulcan for the formal adoption of T’Mara.10. Covet (14, 168 words)Jim faces his past and someone he thought he’d already lost.Total Word Count: 167,854 complete

Refuge: Night of the Blood Sky


Jeremy Bishop - 2013
    Her biggest concern is the rowdy summertime revelers making their way up from Massachusetts and New York. With most of the town’s residents in neighboring Ashland, for the Fourth of July fireworks show, Refuge is quiet. That is, until the Baptist Church’s bell starts ringing—on its own.The bell chimes faster and faster, reaching a frenetic pace, as though rung by the Devil himself. But the bell is just the beginning. The air shimmers. The night-time sky fills with a burning red aurora. The moon, previously a crescent, is now full. And just hours after dusk, the sun returns to the sky, revealing an endless desert where there was once a mountainous pine forest.Rule must guide the confused and frightened residents of Refuge through the first terrifying hours of acclimating to this horrifying new environment, while protecting them from inhuman dangers both inside and outside of the town’s newly clean-cut borders.In a world gone haywire, only one thing is certain, no one in Refuge will ever forget the night of the blood sky.REFUGE is a serialized novel, co-authored by #1 Amazon.com horror author, Jeremy Bishop, and five other authors, including Amazon.com bestsellers Kane Gilmour and David McAfee, USA Today bestseller, Robert Swartwood, and newcomer Daniel Boucher. The novel will be released in five parts, every two weeks starting November 12, 2013, but it will also be available as one complete novel as soon as the fifth episode is released. So read along as they appear or hold out for the completed novel. Either way, you're in for a creepy ride.

O Come, All Ye Horsemen (And Angels)


Larissa Ione - 2013
    Free from the author's website

Shadows of the Midnight Sun


Graham Brown - 2013
     In the dark corners of the world, a battle rages for the souls of the damned. They're known as The Fallen, souls afflicted with a curse that leaves them empty, violent, but immortal. The church calls them demons, vampires or the Nosferatu. For centuries a holy order known as The Righteous Fire has sought to destroy them, all the while hiding a secret that connects them, the church, to the beginning of the Nosferatu scourge. But as the events of an ancient prophecy begin to unfold, time may be running out for both groups, as the path ahead may bring forgiveness or destruction to one and all. While investigating a string of disappearances connected to her husband's murder, FBI agent Kate Pfeiffer is drawn into this world. She begins to uncover the truth and is faced with a reality she won't believe. Soon she's caught in a clash two thousand years in the making. On one side, the Righteous Fire, on the other, those who dominate the world of the Fallen. Her only hope to survive may rest with Christian Hanover, a jaded warrior and lost soul, who's been searching for the truth about himself and his destiny for more than a thousand years. From an ancient Roman battlefield to the streets of New York. From Cologne Germany, to New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana, time is running out as the fight against evil rages in the Shadows. Shadows of the Midnight Sun is a supernatural thriller and the first book of the Shadows trilogy.

Out of the Deep (Out of the Deep, #1)


riseofthefallenone - 2013
    Stay in the deep.It is the first thing hatchlings are taught the moment their fans unfurl and they can swim without their parents to buoy them along. It is the first rule, the first law. It is the beginning of every boogey-monster bedtime story told when they settle against the cliffs to sleep.Castiel should have listened better.Fanart: http://riseofthefallenone.tumblr.com/...Cover by thelittlearchangelthatcouldWords:488608 complete

Carry On


TamrynEradani - 2013
    Luckily, he knows a guy.Words: 148,087 (complete)Art by artsyunderstudyhttps://web.archive.org/web/201309110...

Leo Inter Serpentes: First Year


Aeternum - 2013
    Fandom: Harry Potter--------------------------------------------------Harry Potter fan-fiction: A retelling of the original series, but this time our hero wears green and silver, not red and gold.

Josh of the Damned: The Complete Collection


Andrea Speed - 2013
    Waiting on zombies, demons, and other things that go bump in the night might scare some, but they're actually more polite than the stoners, and Josh welcomes the break in the monotony-especially when he acquires himself a sexy new boyfriend with a deadly secret. Will Josh survive this retail nightmare? It's a Big Gulp of a chance, but between the hazard pay and the hottie with a sweet tooth for Josh's candy, it's a chance he's willing to take.Included in this collection: Pretty Monsters Peek-a-Boo Triple Feature #1 Triple Feature #2: The Final Checkout

The Ballad of the Invisible Boy


Dollylux - 2013
    This is a love letter for the slow burn, for Led Zeppelin, for the 90s. This is the first of three sets of stories about how Sam and Dean didn’t fall in love. They never had to. It was always there, this desperation between them, like a real, breathing thing. When they came together, it was inevitable. As sure as continents colliding, as the phases of the moon and the life and death of stars. This isn’t a love story, but it’s a story of love.Words:57448 Complete - Free DownloadArtwork by scarletscarlet

The Dulwich Horror of 1927


David Hambling - 2013
    To William Blake and his friends, the mystery of an underground chamber where no chamber should exist is an adventure to punctuate their round of champagne picnics and cocktail parties. But something dark and alien is seeping into this bright world, and shadows from the distant past are rising over Blake's glittering future. The church's congregation are being preyed on, body and soul. A deserted house reveals a disturbing secret. An unnatural and insatiable creature is lurking, madness is afoot...and a whirlwind of chaos and destruction is about to be unleashed from another dimensionBlake and his resourceful friends know archaeology, photography, esoteric lore and even non-Euclidean geometry. But can they even begin to understand the eldritch evil they are facing in time? Can they solve the riddle that lies behind the words Cthulu Fthagn before they are picked off one by one?An HP Lovecraft-inspired novella of madness and chaos to appeal to anyone familiar with the Cthulhu Mythos, and is sure to delight new readers and seasoned fans of the Call of Cthulhu alike.

The Breath of All Things


KismetJeska - 2013
    A year and a half later, Dean is in a wheelchair and lives in a care home in Kansas, where he spends his days waiting to die. It's only when Castiel Novak starts volunteering at the care home that Dean starts to wonder if a changed life always equals a ruined one.Artpost: http://ifyouask.livejournal.com/803.htmlWords:65404 complete

Gunpoint


Felisblanco - 2013
    Along with his memory, his voice and every emotion that wasn’t fear, hatred or anger. Question is, can Jared help him get any of it back? And more importantly, does Jensen really want him to?Words:137419 Complete Art by winchestergirl

Practicing Liars


Lomonaaeren - 2013
    Harry found out that he was Snape's son two years ago, and he's carefully concealed it. But now Snape is his Defense teacher, and Draco Malfoy is up to something, and Dumbledore is dying, and the final battle is coming up, and everything is getting very, very complicated.Words: 206306 complete

Hilda - Magic on the Rocks


Paul Kater - 2013
    Hilda and William receive a visitor with a peculiar message. Things in the land of the magicals are going very wrong as wizards and witches start to have problems. One thing leads to another, and through all of this the magical heroes are facing snow and ice, which doesn't make things much easier. Fortunately they don't have to face these challenges alone.

Warrior Unleashed


Lindsay Avalon - 2013
    Be sure to read Breaking the Nexus before this! Look for Waking the Phoenix, the highly anticipated sequel to Breaking the Nexus, coming soon! ***Nothing is more dangerous than a warrior unleashed.When Sentinels begin dying under mysterious circumstances, the deaths are believed to be unrelated. Only one man sees the truth: an unknown enemy is targeting the elite group of warriors and no one is safe. As a panther Chimerae, Achaius Rilke recognizes the signs of an unpredictable predator. The only person he can trust is Saia Makan, the tempestuous Sorceri who has driven him crazy for years. But when the killer has set his sights on Saia, Achaius faces the hunt of his life.

The Story of You and Me


the_diggler - 2013
    The house looks a lot like Bobby’s, and Sam lives there too… He just can’t remember how they got from angels falling in the sky – to comfortable domesticity. While there is much in the journal Dean doesn’t remember, there is much of their story he’s always known. And as he settles into the routine of his new life and relationship with Castiel, it quickly becomes something he doesn’t know how to live without.Artpost: http://justdepends.livejournal.com/21...Words:54935 complete

The Danish Scheme


Herb Sakalaucks - 2013
    In addition to a new version of this story, which had previously been published in the Grantville Gazette, Eric Flint has added a short story which provides a view of the same events from Magdeburg. What does the Stearns administration make of all this? A worthy addition to the 1632 series, the first of a series of new books published under the imprint of the "Ring of Fire Press." to make available stories and information which there simply isn't time for in Baen's publishing schedule. These stories were simply too long to be included in any of the paper anthologies published by Baen Books. At the same time, we felt it would be useful (and hopefully popular) to put them together in unitary volumes so that people who want to re-read them, or read them for the first time, don't have to hunt for them scattered over a number of separate issues of the magazine.

The Madness of Angels


ayalesca - 2013
    In which John Watson is a war sorcerer recently invalided home from Afghanistan. In London he meets Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most irritating urban sorcerer and only consulting detective. There, John finds himself and Sherlock suddenly under attack by a mysterious and malevolent power—and drawn into a mystery that may tear London apart. A fusion with the Matthew Swift series by Kate Griffin, but no prior knowledge is needed.

Brother's Blood (Brother's Blood, #1)


diana_lucifera - 2013
    (Pilot AU)http://diana-lucifera.livejournal.com...Words:107899 complete

Macavity


LadyRa - 2013
    Once word gets out about Tony, there's an alphabet war going on for his talents that puts him and everyone he loves at risk.Words: 72846 complete

Night Music


Rose Streif - 2013
    "A Mass for Arrah" - When a clockmaker's automaton begins to malfunction, a New Orleans anomalyst and her wolfen partner must decode its enigmatic message in relation to a recent murder."Pretty Polly" - While researching a case of bigamy for a direct superior, a young police secretary uncovers something far more sinister. "The Wolves of Draper Hollow" - Having left his home on the tundra, a White Wolf settles in the heat-drenched forests of the lower Midwest. What he is doing there is anyone's guess, but a daughter of the Yellowwood Clan is about to find out.