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When Bishop Butler is accepted into a highly prestigious magical trial in Rome, wherein he will assume the title of a god and train in an ancient museum, the last thing he expects is for his cohort of 13 to drop almost immediately to 12, and then 11, and to keep falling at an alarming rate. While the nature of the trial is vicious, setting all of its contenders against one another, it is quickly obvious that these murders are not part of the game. While Bishop is fighting to win, he is also battling for his own life and working with his peers to get to the bottom of the violence -- not to mention, he is having a hard time not falling in love with each member of his dwindling group, all with their own godly powers and unfair beauty. As the thirteen months of the Trial count down, Bishop begins to realise why his sister, and so many others, have lost their lives before to this game. And that he, with the magic of death at his whims, may not even be able to save himself, let alone those that he's come to love.…

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Two years ago Evie Black fled to the big city for university, hoping to escape the death of her older sister. Now, she is at the top of her class and is an intern at the art gallery she's always adored, living with her best friend and passing each day pretending to hate Percy Vaugn, her lifelong academic rival. But one day, after failing a test, Evie turns to her favourite café for comfort and finds that they have a new part-timer - a tall, handsome part-timer - who seems inexplicably familiar to her. She realises later that she recognises his face from a portrait in her art gallery, but when she shows the portrait to him, they both realise that he hadn't a clue he'd ever been painted. As she and the charming barista, Chester Karim, begin to spend more time together, trying to decipher his history as a muse for this anonymous artist, Evie's own dark history begins to unravel, and she realises its threads may tangle with Chester's more than she wants to admit. Struggling to balance school, work, and a blossoming affection for this not-so-stranger, Evie finds herself back in a place she hasn't touched since she was 15 years old, and it may ruin her as well as all the people she loves.…

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guys please don't read this anymore lmao i write totally differently now💋_________________In a future where humans are genetically modified -- 'altered' -- at the age of sixteen, the world has been, until now, a safe place. Without changing a person's personality, undergoing the Alteration perfects their appearance, IQ, and even their immunity to diseases. No human passes the age of sixteen without being Altered.In the blink of an eye, things change. An ominous message is sent out to all of those below the age of sixteen, providing precise instructions that suggest they flee. Simultaneously, a deadly virus starts to spread all about the world, attacking only the Altered -- every human over the age of sixteen. The virus eats at the modified human brain, and soon the Unaltered begin to realise that the Altered are losing their minds.Home is no longer safe. Friends and family turn on one another, losing control of their own minds and bodies. The Unaltered aren't safe. Even if the virus isn't attacking them, the ones with the virus are.Set on a pristine, futuristic Earth, this is the apocalypse like you've never seen it before.(Rated mature for graphic depictions of violence and mild language.)Banner credit to @itsnothardtodreamx1st Place winner in the 2020 Spring Awards!Runner up in the 2020 Harmony Awards!2nd place in the Belle Amé Awards 2020![This piece was originally for the Open Novella Contest 2020, but has now surpassed the length of a novella and is a novel.]…