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A journey through time.

A scarlet letter.

A soul crushing betrayal.

RONE Award Winner for Best YA Paranormal Work of 2012 for Embrace, a Gryphon Series Novel

Young Adult and Teen Reader voted Author of the Year 2012

Turning Pages Magazine Winner for Best YA book of 2013 & Best Teen Book of 2013

Stacey Rourke lives in Michigan with her husband, two beautiful daughters, and two giant, dogs. She loves to travel, has an unhealthy shoe addiction and considers herself blessed to make a career out of talking to the imaginary people that live in her head. Mark your calendars! Her latest literary adventure, Crane, will release May 26, 2014. She is currently hard at work on the continuations of this thrilling Legends Saga, as well as other literary projects.

A journey through time.

A scarlet letter.

A soul crushing betrayal.

RONE Award Winner for Best YA Paranormal Work of 2012 for Embrace, a Gryphon Series Novel

Young Adult and Teen Reader voted Author of the Year 2012

Turning Pages Magazine Winner for Best YA book of 2013 & Best Teen Book of 2013

Stacey Rourke lives in Michigan with her husband, two beautiful daughters, and two giant, dogs. She loves to travel, has an unhealthy shoe addiction and considers herself blessed to make a career out of talking to the imaginary people that live in her head. Mark your calendars! Her latest literary adventure, Crane, will release May 26, 2014. She is currently hard at work on the continuations of this thrilling Legends Saga, as well as other literary projects.

Cover reveal - Riven has fought for a hard-won peace in her world, and has come to shaky terms with who and what she is—a human with cyborg DNA. Now that the rightful ruler of Neospes has been reinstated...

Riven has fought for a hard-won peace in her world, and has come to shaky terms with who and what she is—a human with cyborg DNA. Now that the rightful ruler of Neospes has been reinstated, Riven is on the hunt for her father in the Otherworld to bring him to justice for his crimes against her people.

But when she receives an unwelcome visit from two former allies, she knows that trouble is brewing once again in Neospes. The army has been decimated and there are precious few left to fight this mysterious new threat.

To muster a first line of defense, her people need help from the one person Riven loathes most—her father. But what he wants in return is her complete surrender.

And now Riven must choose: save Neospes or save herself.

" When a fast-paced plot and in-depth character development happen together seamlessly, it's a gem of a book." - Goodreads, Page Morgan

Seventeen Magazine Summer Club author Amalie Howard grew up on a small Caribbean island where she spent most of her childhood with her nose buried in a book or being a tomboy running around barefoot, shimmying up mango trees and dreaming of adventure. 22 countries, surfing with sharks and several tattoos later, she has traded in bungee jumping in China for writing the adventures she imagines instead. She isn’t entirely convinced which takes more guts. She currently resides in New York with her husband and three children.

She is the author of The Aquarathi series from Harlequin TEEN (Waterfell and Oceanborn), The Almost Girl from Strange Chemistry, Alpha Goddess from Sky Pony Press, and Bloodspell from Langdon Street Press. She is represented by the Liza Royce Agency. Visit her at :

With the first installment of The Vampire and the Hunter Trilogy, Martin Lastrapes has created a vampire tale that is scary, funny, thrilling, and satisfying to the very last drop.

Adam and Jesus (the vampire and the hunter) have an innate antagonism, which is only heightened once they discover they’re competing for the affections of the same girl. Olivia (the girl) is an aspiring author struggling to write a vampire novel. What none of them yet know is there’s a menacing force looming that will change the course of their lives forever. 

With the first installment of The Vampire and the Hunter Trilogy, Martin Lastrapes has created a vampire tale that is scary, funny, thrilling, and satisfying to the very last drop.

Before I began writing The Vampire, the Hunter, and the Girl—which would ultimately become Book One of The Vampire and the Hunter Trilogy—I knew I wanted to create a vampire story that had essentially never been told before. I wanted to write something original, something fresh. One of my concerns was that, in all honesty, I’ve not read a lot of vampire literature. I read Bram Stoker’s Dracula a few years ago and recently I’ve been reading a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic books, but other than that I can't really think of much else. That said, I love vampire stories and the majority of my engagement with vampire stories comes from television and film. 

When I officially sat down to begin The Vampire, the Hunter, and the Girl, the vampire craze was arguably at its peak, culminating with the huge success of the Twilight series (both in book form and the film adaptations). I wasn’t writing to satisfy a trend, though—I genuinely love vampire stories and I have an affinity for vampire mythology, so my inspiration came from a strong creative urge to engage in the genre. 

That said, my instinct was there would be a lot of other authors writing vampire stories with the intention of capitalizing on the trend, regurgitating what they had already seen rather than looking for a fresh take. While I can make sense of why another author might do that, it’s not something I want to do myself. It's simply not in my DNA. I'm completely consumed with writing stories that have never been written before—or at the very least engaging in traditional genres, like vampires, from my own unique point of view. 

The challenge is finding a balance between honoring the genre while also intertwining my own unique takes. I was very conscious of wanting to pay tribute to the tradition of vampire mythology, so I wanted to write a book where vampire fans would recognize the traditional strands of the mythology while also enjoying some new and interesting twists. That said, I wasn't interested in creating twists or changes to the mythology just for the sake of making my story different. I wanted my story to be unique, but I also wanted it to feel organic. 

For me, making any story original—whether it’s a vampire story or anything else—is simply a matter of clearing my mind of all the anxieties of expectation and second-guessing, all the worries of what readers will think and what critics will say, pushing everything else out of the way and tapping into my imagination in the purest and most encumbered manner possible. I must trust that my point of view is profoundly unique, just as it is with every single other person whoever has ever attempted to write a novel. Being unique isn’t about making an effort to be different, it’s about making an effort to be yourself. 

You—the very person reading this article right now—are unique, because you are the only you that has ever existed in the entire history of the world. Nobody has ever been inside of your head, nobody has ever seen the exact things you have seen, nobody has ever experienced the exact combination of experiences you've enjoyed, hated, embraced, rejected, and loved. Nobody has the same parents as you, the same family, the same friends, the same enemies, the same mentors, antagonists, and flings. Nobody has worked the same jobs, read the same books, watched the same movies, ridden the same bikes, trekked the same roads, feared the same fears, or enjoyed the same joys. The collective experiences of your life—from your point of view—are what make you unique. 

The same goes for me, so when I sit down to write my goal always is to strip away everything—all the insecurity, all the stress, all the expectations—and tap into my imagination, expressing it on the page, letting it reflect my unique point of view in its purest most unencumbered form. From that place, I will create the characters I enjoy visiting, getting to know them, letting them interact, placing them in scenarios and settings I find interesting, engaging with problems I find challenging. 

That’s exactly what I did when I took my shot at writing a fresh and unique vampire tale—and the result was The Vampire, the Hunter, and the Girl. Whether or not I succeeded in writing a novel that is entertaining and engaging is not for me to decide, but I can promise you it’s unique, because I wrote and I’m the only me who’s ever existed in the whole history of the world. 

MARTIN LASTRAPES won the GRAND PRIZE at the 2012 PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL for his debut novel INSIDE THE OUTSIDE.

He grew up in the Inland Empire, has a Bachelor’s Degree in English and a Master’s Degree in Composition from Cal State San Bernardino, watches his favorite movies over and over again, learned many a lesson from professional wrestling, wonders if he’ll ever be famous enough to be on “Dancing With the Stars,” thinks good stand-up comedy is rare and under appreciated, is scared of Vladimir Putin, wonders if it’s too late to learn how to play the guitar, gets depressed when he hears the theme song from “M*A*S*H,” wonders why Teen Wolf never made it to the NBA, and wants Morgan Freeman to narrate his life.

He is also the host of THE MARTIN LASTRAPES SHOW PODCAST HOUR. Subscribe on iTunes or listen on the official website MartinLastrapesShow. New episodes every week.

Morrigan is beyond death, trapped in a hellish nightmare from which only the Artist can save her. The Fiend is behind enemy lines learning to reap what he has sown. The Artist reaches deep into his past to find a reason for the strange woman he now must rescue from the vile Dark Man.

Morrigan is beyond death, trapped in a hellish nightmare from which only the Artist can save her. The Fiend is behind enemy lines learning to reap what he has sown. The Artist reaches deep into his past to find a reason for the strange woman he now must rescue from the vile Dark Man. The Winged Man is forced to wait while all of the elements he needs to start war with hell itself fall into place. Will he fight alone or will his shattered family unite with him?

Wide green eyes sparkle with tears. Filth and blood cover the skin around them. The once beautiful and now sallow face they belong to grinds against thick gore. A sigh escapes past the bleeding cracks of Morrigan's lips and her features relax. Seconds later, she screams and spit slithers out of her mouth to collect with the excretions and slime surrounding her. 

As the brutal pain once again subsides for a moment, Morrigan feels as if she is dancing in a ballroom with a small child in her arms. The sensation is very real and for the briefest of moments, Morrigan is away from this awful place with its endless, undulating blackness. The terrible trauma of her death immediately follows this dream, as it always does. She lies there weaving in and out of bliss and horror in a prison of which she is unaware. She has no concept of time. Day and night do not exist here. She has no idea that countless others are trapped in the darkness that surrounds her. They too are reliving the last moments of their lives over and over. 

Death snatched Morrigan from life and put her in this place nearly a year earlier. Before death dared to rip her away from life, Morrigan was happy. It was a feeling with which she was relatively unfamiliar. Being pregnant and in love helped her find her place in the world just before her existence became one of unknowing torment.