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It’s Victorian Featured Week on Radish!

Ready to go back in time to when United Kingdom had a long period of peace and prosperity?

Come ooon, don’t be shy!

There you go! Atta, girl!

It was said to be the era of “refined sensibilities.”

It was the century with nonstop flow of ball gowns and tea parties.

It was the time when scandals were nothing but discreet.

Chivalry was also still a thing. *swoon*

Can you imagine falling in love in that era?

Prepare to travel back in time to when ball gowns, tea parties, and scandals were every lady’s favorite past time!

Go ahead and dive in to the past with these featured stories below!

1. Her Majesty's Necromancer by CJArcher

When bodies go missing from the cemetery, Lincoln and the Ministry of Curiosities investigate. But not Charlie. As a housemaid at Lichfield Towers, she doesn't get involved in Ministry business. Instead, she conducts investigations of her own. She searches for details about her real mother, and makes inquiries into Lincoln's background. What she learns has the power to destroy the fragile trust they've built, or bring them closer together. As secrets are revealed, and investigations don't go as planned, Charlie finds her necromancy sucking her into a whirlpool filled with betrayal, lies and danger that could jeopardize her friendships and her home.

2. The Ivanov Diamond by charlottenglish

Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter. Konrad is called to the death scene of a simple baker, and he can’t understand why. According to appearances, Pietr Orlov’s death was a natural one. Except there’s one problem: there’s no sign of his ghost. When two more bodies turn up with missing souls, Konrad knows he’s got a strange case on his hands. But what could possibly connect the deaths of a baker, a manservant and a rich merchant’s wife? With the city police busy with the theft of a great diamond, Konrad must rely on the help of his one true friend to solve the case.

3. The Debt by janekiley13

Imogen O'Boyle is the daughter of a poor, Irish shoemaker. Upon her father's death, she learns that he had made a deal with the current Duke of Suffolk to deal with his debts. Imogen is to marry the next in line, Derek Goddard, the Duke's son in order for her future father-in-law to pay off the dead man's debts. Derek Goddard wants anything but marriage. He is a loyal soldier to the crown, devoted son, and heir to his father's title. The day he learns that he is to marry an Irishwoman, without a dowry, he is up in arms. He wants nothing to do with the Godforsaken woman. Then he meets her, and is completely taken by her, although he would never admit it.

4. The Lost Duke by LMoore

Willful, rich and clever, Lady Catherine Lytton believes she is in full control of her destiny after she inherits a large fortune. However, the return of Adrian Stowe to England will turn her world on its head. He is the last Duke of Halford, and has been missing for years after the gruesome murder of his family; he is also different than any man she has ever met. She does not expect to feel such a strong attraction to him, or to finally lose head and heart to a man with grim secrets. When he leaves for Constantinople on a mysterious quest she must follow, embarking on a journey of growth and change that will lead her to understand the meaning of true love.

5. Silence Breaking by RobThier

Family – the most important thing in the world, right? If it’s your own, maybe. But if it’s the family of the incredibly powerful, incredibly alluring businessman with whom you’ve been conducting a secret office affair, and they don’t yet know about the affair, things are a little bit different. Life is about to get real for Lilly Linton. All those stolen moments behind closed doors, those secret kisses and whispered words are about to catch up with her. As she and her boss, business-magnate Rikkard Ambrose, travel north to his parents’ palatial estate, she is about to discover whether she has the strength to step out of the shadows and change her fate forever.

How does reading stories set during the Victorian era make you feel?

It’s Time Travel Featured Week on Radish!

Who wouldn’t want to have the ability to travel through time?

Looking into the future can help you make the right decisions in the present!

Going back in time will give you the chance to right your past errors!

You might even end up saving a life!

Just ask Superman! He literally flew back in time just to save Lois Lane.

So what are you waiting for?

Choose your time machine!

It can be a car!

It can be a phone-booth!

It can even be a necklace!

If you’re lucky, it will simply be in your genes!

Do not let the fear of causing paradoxes that could destroy whole universe stop you... It is all just for fun, anyway!

After all, time is only an illusion.

But if you really want to be safe, there is another way to time travel...

By reading stories!

Go ahead and check out these featured stories below and travel through different worlds and timelines without leaving your comfy home!

1. Ravensdale by Davrielle

In 2012, Dora Harding finds and purchases a desk in her best friend's New York antique shop. Later that evening, she discovers an old letter in one of the cabinets. She doesn't expect to find something like it, nor does she expect to see that the letter is addressed to her. It's from 1912.

2. The Time Traveller's Choice by sennalily

One moment, Emma Scott is in her college room in 2015, and the next she's in 1921 falling in love with an ex-soldier with a charming smile and a secret... Emma's an old hand at time travel: the first time she was pulled backwards she was ten years old. She can sense the memories that stone, fabric and wood have soaked up: usually she just sees them, but sometimes she ends up living them. She knows the drill: (1) avoid getting pulled backwards in the first place; (2) avoid the object that's pulled you backwards; (3) prevent the memory that imprints on the object, or, if all that fails, (4) wait it out until you're back in the right time. The problem is that the object was an old ring that her Granny Alice bequeathed to her, and Emma last saw it on the finger of her great grandmother, fleeing into a crowded London street. Now Emma is trying to find the ring and go back to her own time, but her great grandmother has vanished, and meanwhile there's Charlie Lawrence who's making Emma wonder if she even wants to go back at all...

3. Athanasius by KMoncho

The Petrakis name is well known around the world. But Athanasius Petrakis isn’t. In the year 2016, his name has been lost through time and he is known only as the banished Petrakis family member. In the year 1104, he is known as The Cursed Prince who has been exiled from and denied his birthright in Greece. He is on a quest for vengeance with his powerful army aboard one of his most prized possessions, his ship The Ariadne. The name was given him in a dream. He returns home from a battle, and while he is speaking to his best friend and right hand man Erastus, a portal of sorts appears in the room. Both men welcome it, seeing it as a new adventure wherever it would lead them. Straight to the year 2016. Ariadne Hertz is the daughter of world famous and legendary inventor, Konrad Hertz. She is a shy girl who is despised by her elder sister Kalliope and overlooked by her mother Eugeneia. Only her brother Sebastian and father give her the time of day. When Konrad tells her and Sebastian that he has a new invention to show them, the last thing they expected was for Konrad to tell them that he’s cracked time travel. He sends them on a trip back to the past as a test, and they’re successful. Except for the woman who travelled back with them. Ariadne didn’t know it then, but the woman would prove to be a miniscule problem in comparison to the Grecian Prince who her brother accidentally sent into her life. Little did she know that she would have to make the toughest decision of her life- live in the present and forget about Athanasius, or return with him to a past life she knows nothing about and help him reclaim what is his?

4. Fumes Variola by jessicaelarsen

To save the future, they must fight something they can’t see or touch. Audrey is a thirty-five-year-old witch who decided to go back in time to change the future and stop her best friend Nova from being possessed by Fumes Variola, a mysterious black smoke that feeds on the negative energy of all life forms, turning them into evil beings. Audrey failed on her first try, and that failure resulted in her death. With the help of her younger self, however, she was able to save Gretchen, Nova's daughter. Now, with the help of Nikephoros, a playful wood sprite, it's up to Gretchen to change the past. But what could she do? Other than making potions, she has no power that will enable her to save or fight her mother.

5. Amendment by HannahMAdams

Josie didn't even want to go to her brother's Civil War reenactment--let alone dress up for it. But going to the bathroom while wearing a hoop skirt is the least of her worries. Somehow, she and Russ get thrown back into time.....which would be cool if it wasn't in 1882, and if they hadn't gotten separated on their trip back........and if Josie hadn't found herself in the middle of a feud. Now, stuck in the Hatfield household, she's got to find a way to get to her missing brother without offending the frightening Devil Anse or his suspicious uncle Jim Vance. She's got five days to stay with the Hatfields before Election Day, an event she's told no one can miss. Maybe, just maybe, she'll be reunited with Russ. And maybe she would've gone home, too, if she hadn't found herself completely swoony over Cap Hatfield.

If you read these on Radish, you are basically going to travel through time by reading stories about time traveling...

It’s Shifters Featured Week on Radish!

Imagine having the ability to change into whatever shape you want.

You can be anything.

You can be anyone.

You will feel invincible.

So what are you waiting for?!

Get ready to shift to your heart’s desire and go on an epic adventure with these featured stories below!

1. Jaguar at the Portal by aimeeeasterling

Ixchel is a lonely veterinarian fleeing from her past. Finn is a were-jaguar hunting for his future. It starts as a classic case of boy-meets-girl, boy-holds-girl-up-at-knife-point, boy-and-girl-fall-in-love. But what should be a honeymoon-like jaunt through the ruins of pre-Columbian Mexico turns into an action-packed chase through moonlit forests and across crumbling pyramids. In the end, each member of the unlikely pair must make a decision that will change their lives forever. And if the two don't learn to work together, they'll soon lose the game that has turned into a struggle for survival.

2. Draykon by charlottenglish

Legends tell of creatures the size of houses, with wings as vast as the sails of great ships. Their scaled hides glittered like caskets of jewels, and from their massive jaws they breathed gouts of pure fire. The draykoni once ruled the skies of the Seven Realms, uncontested and unstoppable — so the stories say. But they are only tales. Aren't they? When Llandry Sanfaer discovers a new type of jewel, her life changes forever. Wonderful and terrible, the gem exerts a strange influence over those who behold it. Soon people are dying for it, and Llandry herself becomes a target. This is only the beginning. What is this starry jewel, that no one can resist? Who is the killer that stalks the night, stealing the gems from their murdered owners? And why does the gem call so powerfully, so irresistibly, to Llandry herself? Llandry's destiny cannot be denied. A shy jeweller is about to learn that sometimes, even the most far-fetched story might prove to be the plain, simple truth.

3. The Slayer Trio by PunkiePie

In the year 3020, the world as we know it now doesn't exist anymore. Instead of humans being the dominate species, we're over run by the monsters; vampires, werewolves, shapeshifters, and hybrids. And the only ones that can protect us are the groups of people known only as 'the slayers'. Slayers are typically witches or warlocks, but some humans have the skills necessary to fight the monsters. Lizzie, Annie, and Kasey are one of the best, and only, human slayer groups out there, and are part of the Colorado Guild, but they each have their flaws. Lizzie is too cold. Annie is too closed off. And Kasey is too naive. They are the only hope for the world to return to what it once was, however, with the human race becoming extinct and rumors of forced breeding going around, it won't be easy for any of them; especially when Annie refuses to believe there is such a thing as a good or decent monster.

4. Thousand-Year Cat by tewaters

Once upon a time, a cat fell in love with an ambitious man.

5. Misplaced by bkbennett

When upperclassman Trey Collins welcomes Nigel to Longwood High School, he senses something eerie about the odd young student. Chilling visions begin to haunt Trey's nights that point to the strange newcomer and dark times ahead. Two dodgy men in sloppy suits arrive in the small midwest town and ask questions about Nigel. Before long, the boy is missing. Trey and his closest friends soon find themselves on a dangerous road in pursuit of Nigel and answers they may not want to uncover.

Are you ready to shift?

It’s Wizards Featured Week on Radish!

Are you prepared to enter the world of magic?

Exactly! Who doesn’t want to be a wizard?

Deep in our hearts, we have been waiting for that particular school letter to arrive since we were eleven years old!

#iykwim

We wish to study magic at a special school for wizards.

We want to fly on a broomstick and zoom in to the moon.

We dream of waving our wands and casting spells.

If you’re powerful enough, you might not even need a wand!

Of course, we have to hide our real powers from our mortal friends. So instead, we subtly let them know of our ‘hobbies’ without actually telling them.

But even if we’re not full-blown wizards who can cast a spell whenever we want to or go to a school where they teach us about magical creatures...

We are still special... because believe it or not, we all have magic inside of us.

So let’s dare to make our own magic with these featured stories below!

1. The Gifted by ciarmichae

Something terrible happened in the World of Magic & everybody's talking about it. A fatal day at the prestigious Academy of Magic & Magical Studies ends with the loss of innocent life and a mystery in need of solving. While the World of Magic attempts to rebuild after the tragedy, many fear that the darkness is not all in the past. And they're right. When a strange tattoo appears on eight seemingly ordinary students, secrets and dark threats decades in the making are brought to light. While they attempt to balance the everyday struggles of high school, these students must discover the truth before it's too late. And what they uncover will change the Three Realms forever.

2. Highfire by AlinaKG

In the kingdom of Highfire, you can pack an entire house into one suitcase, grow a vegetable in a second, and have an intriguing conversation with a tree that is four times your size. If you are Aurelie Dranoir, the chosen heir to the Highfire throne, you might not find all these things as appealing as they sound.

3. Marked By Fortune by anngimpel

Magic levies a steep price on anyone brave enough or stupid enough to dabble in it. Wizards never forgave Ned for not being one of them. They didn’t exactly come out and say his life was expendable, but they didn’t have to. He figured it out fast enough when they conscripted him into their long-running war the second he was old enough to fight. Isolated, different, he puzzled out how his brand of magic worked on his own. When he’s finally, finally sent on a solo mission, he vows to make the most of every single moment of freedom. Fleeing the tide of doom wiping out humanity, Amanda and her family escape to a remote corner of California, where they eke out a hardscrabble existence. With her parents at each other’s throats and her brother mysteriously gone, Amanda runs up against malevolent power beyond her wildest imaginings. Captured by the undead, she’s about to join their ranks when Ned shows up. Attraction ignites—hot, urgent, delicious—but celibacy may well be the price of Ned’s magic, and he can’t risk his power. Or can he? Even though he stands to lose everything, Ned doesn’t hesitate after Tantalus—one of the insidiously beautiful dark gods—kidnaps Amanda. Defying a direct order from his wizard battle lord, he goes after the woman he loves. Even if she can’t ever be his, he’ll be damned if he’ll leave her to the dark god’s whims.

4. Creatures of the Night by StellaPurple

Arsene is not a bad person — but she can't say she's good either. She has to witness a friend's death, reunite with her old teammates and family, and face an engagement that's literally forced on her hand. Magic, chaos and death ensues.

5. Orlind by charlottenglish

War has broken out between the humans of the Seven Realms and the long-lost draykoni race. Llandry’s home city is under attack, its defenders scrambling to find a way to fight the draykon enemy. The outcome of the conflict seems certain – until the draykoni vanish. Where could they have gone, and why? Lady Eva Glostrum is convinced that this means bad news. The Lokant sorcerer Krays is still at large, and his mysterious projects centre on her world – and the draykoni. Could he have something to do with their disappearance? If so, why? And what will it mean for the Seven Realms when the draykoni come back? As Llandry fights to defend her home, Eva sets out in pursuit of Krays. Determined to learn the truth, she’ll go to any lengths to prevent him from damaging the Seven. Her quest will take her right into the heart of Krays’s Library – and there she will uncover another long-kept secret.

Can you feel the magic?

It’s Hollywood Featured week on Radish!

Oh, the glitz and glamour of everything in Hollywood...

Who doesn’t get fascinated by the A-lister life?

Who doesn’t dream of living in La-La Land?

Who doesn’t want to be a part of their world?

You get access to the latest fashion!

You get to have a huge mansion in the Hills!

You can either drive a fancy car or have a limo with a driver... or both.

You get to star in your own movie!

You get invited to red carpet events, too!

You won’t even have to introduce yourself ever again because everywhere you go, people will recognize you!

You have A-lister friends who understands the struggle of being a celebrity!

And of course, the best part...

You get to have your very own Hollywood romance!

Awww, isn’t that the fantasy?

Well, you don’t have to fantasize anymore!

Go check out these featured stories below and live that dream!

1. Glory and Gore by longtimegone

Aspiring starlet, Bella Ford, has finally managed to get her career to take off. It may be heading in a direction she hadn't anticipated, but at least it was moving. Under her label's direction, Bella is forced to become a completely new person. Isabella Crawford was too Taylor Swift, but Bella Ford is exactly the sort of sexy breath of fresh air the industry needs. In order to boost interest, Bella is forced into a relationship with renowned Hollywood Bad Boy, Ace Maddox. The only difference between Ace Maddox and every other young guy in the limelight are the criminal convictions as long as his arm. Not to mention that Yvonne Bradley murder trial. Bella can't help but find herself drawn into the drama surrounding Maddox, and it really doesn't help when he refuses to deny murdering his ex-girlfriend after a drug-fueled night out in L.A. Bella knew her life in the spotlight was going to be different from her one before, but things tend to get crazier the more involved with Maddox she becomes. Bella can't help but wonder if through all the games, Maddox was the one to kill Yvonne or whether it was someone else. But after all, they don't call him Mad Maddox for nothing. Could Bella be following in Yvonne's footsteps? Sometimes, in order to get the glory, there has to be gore.

2. Not Like The Movies by WeMadeYouReadThis

When Zoe Harper met Nash Wilder at the set of her very first sitcom, sparks flew. She was just starting out as an actress and he was someone behind-the-scenes. They became the best of friends and eventually fell in love. They vowed to pursue their dreams together and make a name for themselves in the industry. They believed they got it all figured out. Until Hollywood got in the way. Six years later, their names are amongst the biggest stars in Hollywood. His career is steadily rising and hers has gone into the stratosphere. All these years they managed to steer clear from each other. But fate had other plans. Cast for their first movie team-up, they are forced to face their off-the-charts chemistry and the bittersweet memories of their secret past. The attraction between them is undeniable. But should they trust each other again and aim for that perfect movie ending? Or will they learn that love is not like the movies at all?

3. My Life Uncovered by LynnIsenberg

This is the story of Laura Taylor, a naive and ambitious screenwriter who leaves the Midwest for Hollywood determined to write the Great American Film... but accidentally ends up writing the Great American ADULT Film. Laura Taylor lands in Hollywood determined to make it as an Academy Award winning screenwriter... one day. Her agent Scott Sher of Significant Talent Agency says he just cut a major deal for her. However, not only does she learn this is a lie, but that he has quit and vanished either with the Peace Corps or in a detox cell. When her car breaks down, her mechanic Joseph sees a script and suggests he take it to his cousin at the Accent Film Company--who recognizes her talent and hires her to write "go movie"... Unbeknownst to Laura, she soon discovers she's been hired to write an Adult Movie. Desperate for funds to pay her rent, she accepts and enters the rabbit hole. Under the name of Bella Feega, Laura takes off as a hit writer in the world of porn films... However, Laura’s efforts to hide her money making career from her mainstream attempts prove difficult and futile as her two worlds collide exposing a good girl... 

4. Immortal Glamour: A Gotham Hollywood Story by ColleenGleason

Hollywood, California: The last time DEA Agent Lyla Harris saw Gunnar Malkensen, the super-sexy stuntman/vampire nearly killed her—through no fault of his own. But now she needs his help, and she’s willing to do anything to gain access to him—including taking the place of his weekly call-girl.

5. Forever After by LindaPoitevin

Wedding bells are in the air, but single mom Gwynneth Jacobs and Hollywood mega star Gareth Connor are finding that the road to matrimony is anything but smooth. Each thinks they’re doing what’s best for the other, but with everything from the paparazzi to an overzealous wedding planner getting in their way, they may have lost touch with what exactly that is. With Gwyn developing decidedly cold feet over the whole event, can they reconnect with what’s truly important in time for their upcoming nuptials? Or will they have to face the possibility their lives may just be too different after all?

Are you ready?

Lights, camera, ACTION!