Books with author Pauline Creeden

Human life has value.The poor living in the gutter are as valuable as the rich living in a manor.The scoundrel is no less valuable than the saint.Because of this, every life a reaper takes must be redeemed.Raven has lived by this first tenet since she was trained by her father to become a reaper. But since his death, she’s been spending years redeeming the lives she’s taken. By her count, she’s even and it’s time for that life to end. If she settles down and becomes a wife, she might just feel human again. But on the way to the life she thinks she wants, the baron of New Haven asks her to complete a task which she cannot ignore… Just when Raven decides to give up on her life as an assassin, she’s pulled right back in.The Chronicles of Steele: Raven is a steampunk-inspired fantasy set in an alternate universe.

A wounded and rejected mermaid. A boy with a volatile past. A love that could cross boundaries.Mermaid life has never been easy for Verona. Her scars give evidence of her abuse. When her day of reckoning arrives, she is determined to endure exile. According to her father’s experience, exile is better than becoming a land-walker and risking her life among the humans. However, when she saves the life of a drowning human boy, she inadvertently sets off a chain of events which force her to choose a path: stay with the humans she has become attached to or return home to a life of scorn. A savage hunter draws closer, threatening even the humans. Her only hope is to keep everyone safe until the next full moon, but those around her devise their own plans.If you love mermaid tales or paranormal romance, buy this coming-of-age story of shifters, first love, and learning what it means to be human, now!

Red Ryder has been going to Wonderland Guardian Academy since middle school, but she still doesn't belong. At 16 years old, she doesn't have any magical talents to speak of, and the rest of her peers know it. She may as well be a typical, mundane human, and the witch sisters make her school life miserable. How is she supposed to help humanity as a guardian when she may as well be one of them? But Red is a wolf tracker. Though she doesn't come into her powers until the death of the current wolf tracker in her family, her grandmother. Her blood carries the wolfsbane gene, the only thing that helps humans build a resistance to the Lycan virus. Her family has been donating blood for ages in the hopes of keeping the virus at bay.When her grandmother becomes too sick to do her job, the werewolf community wonders why their judge has gone on hiatus. And one pack alpha decides it's time to get rid of the line of wolf trackers once and for all.

NOTE: This is a standalone novella - none of the books in the series need to be read in a particular order.Belle Parisi didn't know she was a shifter until she was twelve years old—the same day that her mother died. Since then, her father sent her to Wonderland Guardian Academy in Virginia to protect her from the same people who hunted her mother. Shifters become the animal that most reflects their inner being, and for her and her mother, a tiger was found at their core. Now at seventeen, she's more than ready to graduate and get on with her life, and maybe return home to the small town in Italy. But when she's caught shifting off school grounds, she's given a task instead of a punishment. Another shifter has been discovered hiding out not too far away in the Appalachian Mountains—a dragon shifter. Belle's not sure exactly what kind of personality brought out the dragon in the man she's hunting, but it couldn't be good...

Stay for love or return to the sea?When Verona choses to stay on land to be with the one she loves, she has no idea how much her life is about to change. It’s the full moon and another of the Mer is coming ashore. She never imagined Bailey would come after her…Logan’s suffering big changes of his own. His grandmother is hospitalized with a terminal illness. The woman he loves is something he never would have thought possible… a mermaid. But he has new competition for her feelings in the form of a merman. And there’s another, bigger problem surfacing. His body is undergoing changes he can barely comprehend. Now, he can’t get the witch’s voice out of his head.Another full moon approaches… And the witch wants to take lives, break hearts, and enslave Logan. Will they be able to stop the witch, or will it mean Verona will have to give up everything she loves and return to the sea?

No one writes mermaids like USA Today Bestselling Author, Pauline Creeden.★★★★★ "I've never read a book with such an Interesting combination of mermaid lore and dystopian hunger games like competition. Absolutely unique and VERY well written." ★★★★★ "...this story is right up there with The Hunger games. But from the Mer world. This is definitely a must read."Among mermaids and humans, cruelty has many faces. One secret Adelaide has kept for as long as she can remember—her love for Jonas. She is the daughter of the clan’s elder; he is a bottom feeder. As Mer, they can never be together. But as humans, it might be possible.When Jonas’s reckoning comes, he must go to land during the cycle of the full moon. But when the next cycle comes around, he doesn’t return. Fearing what might have become of him, Adelaide follows and gains legs for herself. But living life as a human is much more difficult than she imagined. And finding Jonas is just as hard. To follow him to the underwater city, she must endure the Initiate’s Trial. Her strength and resolve will be tested, if she wants to find Jonas and survive. Adelaide must prove she’s more than just a mermaid princess.

The mermaid tales series tells the story of Verona - an outcast to her mermaid clan who works to do whatever she can to survive without going to shore, until... she accidentally does. On land, she finds danger, heartbreak, adventure, and love... but will she have a happily ever after? Find out by reading the complete story.Over 600 pages of captivating underwater and beach side stories await you in this complete series. Be sure to get your copy today!

Mermaids can be cruel creatures.Verona is a bottom feeder. She is the one mer in her clan who is considered the ugliest and least intelligent. Growing up with the constant bullying and abuse wasn’t the worst of what her kind had in store for her. At seventeen years old, she must now endure “The Reckoning.”The scales will measure her worth to her clan. Will she endure thirty days as a land-walker to gather information and knowledge to appease her clan and return a valued member? Will she wait three years, until she is twenty, and find a mer of her kind to accept her and marry her? Or will she suffer exile for the rest of her life?***This is the prequel novella to the novel "Salt" which is set for release on August 8. Pre-order your copy today and get a FREE Coloring Book - subscribe to the author's newsletter for more information (Link in the back of this book)

Wonderland Guardian Academy is an elite academy for people with supernatural abilities. These are the tales of four of their top students:Red the Wolf TrackerBelle the Beast TamerAlice the Vampire SlayerSnow the AssassinLooking for a new, modern twist on an old fairy tale? With almost 400 pages of captivating fiction, you’ll see old friends in a way you've never seen them before! Order this collection of Urban Fantasy Fairy Tales from USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author, Pauline Creeden TODAY!

Mermaids can be cruel creatures.I couldn’t stop them from hurting her, but I couldn’t let them destroy her, no matter what they did to me. The moment I heard the bottom feeder had been chosen for the reckoning, my heart sank. Had I been discovered for what I truly was? Years of pretending I was just like everyone else could all have been for naught. But then I heard it was Verona, and my blood ran cold.Why was I surprised?I shouldn’t have been. I’d stood by and watched her ridiculed since we were younglings. I was never as brave or as unselfish as she was. But today, I would be.

NOTE: This is a standalone novella - none of the other books in the series need to be read in a particular order.My name is Alice, and I'm a vampire slayer...At least I should be, but there's been a treaty with the vampires that has been in place before I was even born. So instead, I'm useless. So useless, my parents won't return my calls or messages. Nothing in my world moves me. Even though they train me for the job I'm supposed to carry out as slayer, what's the use? I'm in a constant state of boredom. Until I see my silver-white haired geometry teacher sneaking around campus... after talking about slayers.I'm curious...To a fault. So, I follow him to a place I'd never seen before, and the sights are confusing, impossible, and totally mad. Then on top of it, I smell vampires for the first time in my life. And I start to wonder if I should give in to my slayer instincts, or if doing so will break the treaty and start a war.

First Place Winner of 2014 Gold Award Readers Favorite YA HorrorFirst Place Winner of 2013 Dante Rosetti Award in YA FictionWhat if the Biblical End Times unfolded in a way no one told you about and the rapture didn't happen before the tribulation began..."Makes you afraid of the end times again." - D. M. Dutcher for Sword Cross Rocket"Sanctuary crosses boundaries and borders and incorporates elements of all kinds of action and intrigue, from thriller-like adventure to a post-apocalyptic tale of life after aliens invade. Thus it will delight readers seeking something truly different, while disappointing those who anticipated a shallow, one-dimensional subject and story line." - Midwest Book ReviewLeft Behind for the Hunger Games generationIn a heart-racing thriller described as Falling Skies meet The Walking Dead, Jennie struggles to find a safe place for what’s left of her family. But it seems as though there is no place sacred, no place secure. First the aliens attacked the sun, making it dimmer, weaker, and half what it used to be. Then they attacked the water supply, killing one-third of Earth’s population with a bitter contaminate. And when they unleash a new terror on humankind, the victims will wish for death, but will not find it…When the world shatters to pieces around her, will Jennie find the strength she needs to keep going?