Author: The TWD Team

Ghosts, they’re EVERYWHERE!

You’re just lucky enough not to see them. Or, maybe you can and are like Mattie here, whose just about had enough of it all! A girl needs her privacy and, with this freakish curse-slash-power – take it as you see it – Mattie is unable even to take a shower without a pair of ringed, deathly eyes staring at her through the steam in the mirror. It’s poppy-cocks, I say!

She could stand it if it was just the sight, even if their heads are hanging at freakish angles and half battered in. It’s not pretty. The problem is that they always want something and don’t seem to understand the word no. She’s tried the subtle approach, silently blowing them off. She’s screamed, kicked and shouted but an angry ghost is comparable to a pampered two year old, when they don’t get their way. Chaotic. Except, these snotty two year olds happen to possess some dangerous paranormal abilities. Add in the height of it when they are incensed and the threat’s stamped a little more than dangerous.

But, maybe, just maybe she can use her abilities for good…

This series holds a special place in my heart and not merely because it will draw you in. Apryl Baker was the very first author whose signature I requested on Authorgraph and I am no light reader by any stretch of the imagination. Thank you Apryl for taking the time to connect with one of your fans. May your imagination ever-provide and days be bright and joyous.

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by The TWD Team

Yes, you can get paid for drug trials. What’s the worst that can happen? This!

So, I was recently looking at that FluCamp Quarantine Facility in London (Update: I actually registered with them) where participants could be compensated thousands of pounds to receive a diluted flu virus or placebo. This, with the aim of evaluating the efficacy of new vaccines and medications.

DISCLAIMER: Please note that I am not endorsing or deterring from participation in medical trials. Suitability varies from person to person and anyone considering one should review the information provided by the researchers and healthcare professionals involved.

But what prompted my investigation into compensated clinical trials, you ask? Despite coming from a healthcare background and knowing the importance of prevention and therapeutic advancements, it was this book that actually opened my eyes to their existence, early on in my life. And while I don’t expect my own clinical trial to result in demonic possession anytime soon (i.e. ever), the start of my journey is too entertaining not to mention.

When Kassidy Bell signs up for a Cruor Pharma drug trial, she leaves with a little more than the extra cash she expected. And I’m not talking simple rashes or stomach-roiling nausea. Now that the V20 is inside of her, she can practically feel her demons itching to get out.

Following a timely escape, Kassidy and her fellow participants find themselves in the same impossible situation and must discover a way to reverse the possession before they are consumed entirely.

Will Kassidy survive the consequences of her decision to consent? (More to the point, will I?) The answer to the first is written here.

by The TWD Team

She’s SO Unfeeling!

No, really. She’s immune to pain, completely, and we can say that from experience. Over the years, Ollie’s been stabbed, tortured, bitten by otherworldly aswangs and had her rather less-than-fair share of broken bones. Yup, we feel her pain… nonexistent.

And President Bogrov seems determined to add to this list, pushing her to the forefront of the endless war that’s been going on, on earth, despite Ollie’s ignorance of the word aswang up until the night they’d met.

She might not feel pain but she’s still mortal. She can die! There’s a reason that pain exists. But, Ollie agrees anyway. She’s got nowhere else to go, no hopes or loved ones. She’s alone in a world that exploits her condition and the president is offering her a home, a place to call her own, food and shelter, friends… Did I mention her chosen mentor has the deepest, fiercest eyes Ollie has ever encountered, not that she’s had cause to look into many’s so consciously. It’s his she can’t seem to get away from.

He, on the other hand, can’t get away soon enough. It’s clear that he doesn’t want her around, he certainly makes no secret of it.

But, then, since when has Ollie ever taken orders? Besides, what once felt like a curse, now appears her greatest strength. Too many lives have been lost in the war against the bloodthirsty aswangs and Ollie’s condition makes her the perfect soldier, to tip the scales. No, she’s staying. Her only uncertainty is her abnormal connection to the aswangs, which allows her to communicate with the beasts.

Think you have what it takes to survive Fear University? Enrolment starts here. Audio-recorded lectures available here.

by The TWD Team

Damsel in Distress? No, Thank You.

Sloane doesn’t need anyone getting in the way of finding her brother. Sloane doesn’t need anyone, period. But, her sister needs her, depends on her even and she’ll be damned before she lets her down. If only that stupid oaf of an alien prince would let her alone, she might actually be able to recover the position of the rift that brought her to this icy planet and return to her people, where her sister awaits.

When the earth becomes uninhabitable through manmade destruction – no surprise there – fleets are sent into space to explore a new land they might relocate to and save the human race. Only, a rift links this particular world to another, where the powerful man-eating draki would vanquish and exploit humans, in a second.

Will Sloane be one of them? Find out here.

by The TWD Team

Tired of Cliches?

Let’s not lie; we all love a good one but some days we’re looking for something just that little bit… different. And, if different’s what you’re looking for, then you’ve come to the right place.

Poor Allen is overworked. Building a successful firm, he’s clawed himself from the hood into a fancy new suit, cosy uptown house and car. Well, with the help of his wife’s money, of course, but that’s beside the point. One might be hasty in thinking Allen’s using his wife and he is, because it’s one of the things Allen does best, we witness throughout the story. But, he loves her, always has and so they’re going through some domestic difficulties right now – notably the fact that he just followed his wife up to a secluded hiking trail and killed a man who tried to rape her, while she waited for her more-than-likely lover – but, so what? They got through their domestic difficulties all these years and they’ll get through it this time.

What’s this you say? The dead man’s brother insists on filling his shoes, every Tuesday night, not least of all his wife’s bed! Not if he has anything to say about it. Except, he has less say than he’d like.

Under the threat of informing the police of his crime, Allen is left to devising a way to get rid of the man, without losing everything he’s worked so hard to achieve. The problem? The damned truck driver is always one step ahead of them! Just who is this man and why exactly is he so fixated on his wife?!

But, as I was saying, Allen has solved issues with difficult clients, before. How different could this be?

The author of the series, Mike Wells, is renowned for writing un-put-down-ables and I’ll attest to this being another of his successes. I’ve never read anything like it and, with my reading apps alone logging more than several years, that’s saying something.

I devoured the books, one after another. I just had to know how the story would play out because, for once, I was absolutely clueless and I have to say that the suspense reigned until the very end, which did – by no means – disappoint.

The best way I can describe the events is ‘absurd’ but ‘in the best of ways’ and you don’t hear those two phrases coupled together very often. 

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by The TWD Team