Cassandra’s Works In Progress

Sixteen-year-old Briar Matthews learns her parents have kept vital secrets from her. One, they put a memory spell on her to forget about her missing sister. Two, she’s a witch who has been accepted into the prestigious Alder School of Witches. She decides to attend the Alder School to find her sister and bring her home. The school, however, is nothing like she imagined. Briar thinks she is making friends, but then a strange letter gets slipped under her door. A picture of her sister with an x crossed over her face and the words, “you’re next,” scrawled out in red ink. When her best friend goes missing, Briar must piece clues together to find and save her best friend from the dangerous unknown sender.

Ayla Fairfield is just an ordinary human girl who believes that the Fae are the atrocious people who killed her mother and left her with a grieving father. At seventeen, she joins the others for the marking ceremony, where she learns she is not human but a marker of magic with powers not seen before. She decides to join the human/marker army to return to Havail, take the land back from the Fae, and avenge her mother's death; even if that means putting herself or the ones she calls friends in danger. But, sometimes, there are worse things than death.

When Mallory Soren turns eighteen, her guardian grandmother passes, and Mallory is left to fend for herself with her small trust fund and the only thing her mother left for her before she died: a journal. Mallory starts her first college semester and forms a relationship with the woman she’s always dreamt of, but then the voices start. Mallory will do anything to get them to stop, even if that means she has to make a deal with the Devil himself. Now, Mallory has to decide if making a deal with the Devil is worth a price unknown or if she can risk living with the two voices that want her dead.

Katherine (Kat) Daniels, at sixteen, knows very well that high school is not for her. Everything from boy crushes who ignore her, to the bullies that make fun of her, high school is her worst nightmare. One rainy day, Kat makes her way to school; when she hurries past the river’s bridge, Kat notices something strange along the river's edge: a dead body. She knows the river is to never be crossed, but she goes to investigate anyway. Leaning over to see the person’s face, she gets pulled into the River of Styx. Instead of returning to the side of the living, she is forced to join the side of the dead. The only way back is to travel through the forest of bones. But on her journey, Kat discovers aspects of herself that may change everything she thinks she knows. Does she even want to return to the land of the living?

DJ and his friends want more than anything to go on an adventure. On the school playground, they pretend to be pirates and knights, but DJ always gets the first pick, making his brother Felix feel like a nobody. On Halloween night, DJ and Felix dress up in their costumes. DJ’s friends make fun of Felix, so Felix decides to go off on his own adventure down the off-limits street of Dragoon Drive, where the evil Magician is said to live. When Felix doesn’t return home, DJ and his friends are forced to travel down Dragoon Drive to find his brother. What DJ doesn’t know is that sometimes the tall tales are true, and if he doesn’t find Felix soon, his brother will be the Magician’s next victim.

Elina, a witch, and Aurora, a Fae, are sworn enemies. Ever since they were young, their families would constantly be at war with one another. When things get to a breaking point, and war looms over the lands, Elina and Aurora begin to grow close in a way that is forbidden by their families, and soon, their friendship blooms into something more. When Elina is kidnapped by the Fae King for trespassing, Aurora must free her and find a way for Elina and Aurora to be together. Does love survive pride, or does death come before forgiveness?