Beyond the known and what our simple senses can divine, there lies another world. It is a world where the forced of magic have been at war for millennia. Our world is the prize… and the battleground. Fighting for Mortals, for our very world and survival, are the Four: the mighty High Lords of the Fae; Light, Life, Darkness, and even Death.

Against them are all the powers of evil and destruction arrayed. Light and Darkness have been reborn into Mortal form, awaiting the day when they will Awaken to their true forms, while Life and Death battle to keep them from the hands of those who would use them to destroy all mankind. They have left the ancient Faery homeland of Alesya to be the Guardians of ours.

Step into the epic battle between good and evil… into the Shards of Alesya

Visit the Shards of Alesya website for more information about this modern faerytale series.

Amrin Knight is a is girl with a secret; her adopted parents don’t know that she’s a vampire! For the last seven years they have loved and cared for her, accepting her into their hearts as if she were their own. When they finally conceive a child of their own, just as she begins to feel the first pangs of her changing anatomy, she knows she has to do something… and fast.

For Amrin, however, things are becoming anything but simple. The ghosts of her past are coming back to haunt her.She doesn’t know who to trust, and the only people she can count on, her parents, can never know what she is or where she has gone. Now, she has to discover the truth about herself, before she becomes a tool in the hand of her enemies, bend on destroying everything she ever loved.

There are some secrets from which there are no escape… and a fate that balances on a blade’s edge

Visit the Occam’s Mirror website for more information about this young adult vampire series.

The historic collage town of Ann Arbor has had its share of darkness, but the recent string of gruesome murders is enough to draw the attention of even the most hardened academic. For Elayna Viskya, aspiring professor of theological anthropology, the deaths so close on the heals of the death of her aunt hit a little close to home. When she finds herself being followed by a mysterious foreigner, she can’t help but worry that the seemingly unconnected occurrences are anything but.

Draw into a war between Immortals, and faced with the existence of the impossible, Elayna is forced to reconcile what she has always believed as fact with the horror that swirls all around her. A simple package from her dead aunt is the key to her darkest nightmare…

And her only hope… is a man who claims to be a vampire.

Visit the The House of Midnight website for more information about this adult vampire suspense series.

Welcome to Shadows' Nocturne, home of the collected literary works of C.J. O’Shea. Some of the works you shall find are dark as midnight’s soul, some light and full of hope. There are tales of love, and of vilest hate. Most of all, there are stories to inspire, told in what I hope is a unique voice. I thank you, good traveler, for stopping a bit to wile away your time in my night shrouded home.

I will leave you with this little thought to ponder; listen to the songs the shadows whisper in the deep, secret parts of the night, for one never knows what epic might lie therein.



Tuesday, July 28, 2009 ¤ 11:22pm EST

So, I cannot begin to express how happy I am that I sorted the IE/FF alignment issue I was having. It was killing me. >.< All happy and living in harmony now, though, so I am a happy, happy girl. I have been adding pages to the Shadows' Nocturn page, as well as finished the matching redesign for the Shards of Alesya site. It took me forever to get the image of Rain right, but it's well worth it, I think.

My real hope is to have this SN shell done and on line by the end of next week. I got the forum created, but I still have a lot of work left to do on it before it'll be ready for members. I'm still pissed the old one got deleted without so much as a word from my host, but there's nothing I can do about it. *sigh* It was a good 3 years there. Now, it's time to move on to bigger and better things!



Friday, July 24, 2009 ¤ 11:00pm EST

Holy smokes, it's an honest to goodness update. I know... I'm kind of scared too! >.< As you can see, There's a prettiful new layout. The idea is for all of the projects in the Shadows' Nocturne portal to match mostly, save for the headers and particular project spacific elements. I'm still trying to decide if I will make each site a different color. For now, I need to focus on adding the content that I want here as it is. THEN I'll work on getting the other projects in line.

For now, I'm happy that I got this far. I had to learn MS Visual Web Developer, which was a challenge for me. I am a stick in the mud who usually writes everything by hand in notepad. So, keep your eyes peeled for more content to come!