[Soon by WATTPAD BOOKS] In the prestigious race of stars, Sozo must hide the truth of who she is or pay with her life, but her blossoming relationship with the most talented competitor threatens everything she's worked for. ***** Every ten years, the lucky chosen bond with stars and race to win a wish. Any wish. Sozo is one of the lucky chosen, but she has a secret: as an Omen -- cursed beings that can transform into monsters -- she's forbidden from competing. Discovery would mean her death. Can she hope to keep her identity a secret, let alone win the race, especially as the talented and sunny Naqi enters the picture? When Sozo is given an ultimatum, she has to choose: betray her Omen people, or betray the people who are slowly, surely, becoming like a family to her. --- WATTYS AWARD 2020 "Bar none, this was [Senior Editorial Specialist] Amanda's absolute favourite read from the Wattys this year. It makes you cry, just from pure, uncontainable joy, and the ending kept us reading until nearly 6am. Everything about this story is beautiful. We were astounded that anyone could create something so magnificent and moving and magical. This level of storytelling mastery will never not blow us away." [Word Count: 70,500]

"Sink or swim, Riley," my father once said to me. Rays of sun battered the pier deck, gliding over the water's surface like hundreds of shimmering snakes. His words were delivered moments before I found myself hurtling towards the subtle waves at his hand. I drowned that day. Twice. The day he died was not a day I mourned, nor was it one I celebrated. The lessons he taught me are etched so deeply into the back of my brain that I can't fill the holes they burned. He taught me to survive and he taught me how to hate. He told me that love did not exist, and that expression of emotions should be punishable. He asked me to be perfect and he beat his expectations into me. My father threw me into the deep end and I've been struggling to keep my head above the surface ever since. I don't know how much longer I can struggle against the current. The waves keep breaking over my head, hurling me further and further back towards the place I've tried so hard to claw myself out of. I'm drowning again, and the water is turning dark. I can't reach the lifelines at the surface. But I'm not the only one sinking, this time. I was taught to survive at any cost, even if that means letting someone else drown. My father said, "If you drown, you weren't built to survive." He only knew how to save himself. He didn't believe in mercy. The most important lesson I ever learnt from my father was that I could never let myself turn into him. He built me to survive and yet I'm drowning. Maybe he was wrong when he told me that you can't teach someone to swim when you're sinking.

Casey Anderson isn't expecting much from her Mark - but when her soulmate turns out to be Prince August, the boy next in line for the throne, everything changes. ******** In a world much like our own, Casey Anderson is trying to navigate her senior year after the "Rift" - the event that changed the laws of physics and sent magic spiralling into the world and everyday life. A year after Soulmarks appeared and it was no longer unusual to see objects floating or for a tank of gas to last twice as long, Casey is approaching her 18th birthday - the date when Marks appear. She's not expecting much from it. After all, what are the chances that she'll actually find her soulmate? But when her Mark manifests, and she does, in fact, find her soulmate, everything changes. And she means everything. His Royal Highness, Crown Prince August of England, has way more on his plate than some soulmark that may or may not manifest on his eighteenth birthday. But when his Mark comes during a press conference, captured on-screen for the entire world, his whole life changes. Facing obsessive fans, endless fakes, and a world seemingly in love with the idea of a modern Cinderella, August's lost. He has the metaphorical glass slipper. Now he just needs to find the girl. But when his soulmate contacts him, not only is she not from his parent's list of acceptable girls, she's not even in the same country. Desperate to get a hold of the narrative, his parents agree to give him and the mystery girl a chance, flying her to England and dumping her - and him - into an even crazier press storm. With the entire world watching, Casey and August have to find a way to navigate their newfound world if they ever want a chance at happiness.

Adeline Stargate is more than happy to immerse herself in her senior year of high school with her new group of friends and her childhood-best-friend-turned-boyfriend, Jax Inkrose. No more toxic friends. No more gaslighting. No more manipulation. And no more hate letters. At least not with her current friends. When Adeline's former "friends" decide they don't want her out of their lives quite yet, she finds herself spiraling into the emotional turmoil of the past three years. Jax wants nothing more than to make all Adeline's problems go away, but when the problems become more intense and Adeline falls back on bad habits, he's forced to think about what a true friend would do. More importantly, he's forced to come to terms with whether he's a true friend himself.

No, no, no. no! This can't be true what in the devil's name? Why am I seeing Jaro Briggs? After 20 fucking years. Did I lose my mind? "What are you doing here?" I asked scared, tense, humiliated and feeling every fucking feeling. "I might ask you the same." He said with a smirk. Damn him how in the world is he still managing to look that hot. He hasn't changed much except aged a bit yet looking lesser than his age. "This is my house for goddamn sake," I yelled. "I thought this was Mr Holder pipes house." "I am his wife. Which makes this house also mine!" "So you are a married woman with kids ? How riveting yet dumbfounding". He said. Is he complimenting me or commenting on me? "What did think I would be? A pole dancer?" I sighed. "More or less. Yet you have remained that beast always devouring anything that gets in its way." He accused. How dare he talk to me in this way, in my very own house. "It's been almost 20 years, Jaro don't act like you still know me!" I called out. "Is it so? Then why do I see you staring at my pants ?" He said with that damn smirk again. Why in the hell he showed out of nowhere and tormenting me? What he and I had is in past. Water under the bridge. "Don't tell me you still expect me to do all the things we did as teenagers." He said calmly. ************************ Michelle is an ordinary vet doctor, with a lovable husband, charismatic daughter and stupendous son. However, her routine life takes a turn with an abrupt encounter with her long-lost past boyfriend. Things get more hideous when they should share the neighbourhood. Even more complicated when her daughter Lana is strangely attracted to him. Does fate have its twisted way of unravelling her past with her family? However, her past isn't exactly water under the bridge. *Cover photo, not mine. Credit to the owners* *mature content*