In 1915 an unsuspecting passenger ship sails through treacherous waters toward a doom that was ordered from the highest authorities. For Jacob Blankfield, a thirteen-year-old boy dependent on leg braces and crutches, coming of age will come early, aboard a ship on its final voyage across the Atlantic, amidst explosions and torpedoes, battling forces unleashed by Great Powers in a Great War. After witnessing a murder, Jacob is thrust into the center of a conspiracy that threatens his own life and that of two thousand passengers. Forming alliances with friends and enemies, he digs to uncover the expansive details of a plot and the coconspirators before it is too late, standing in the way of secret plans and nefarious men, ultimately pushed to overcome his fear and handicaps to take matters into his own hands. As the ship approaches its destiny, Jacob closes in on a final duel of arms against an experienced and sinister opponent, learning that even his friends can be enemies. An introduction to arms, action and courage that promise to change his life forever and permanently forge his character, for better or for worse.

After a near death experience, 16-year old Makiko Lombardi's celebrity father comes to Tokyo, but Makiko hasn't met him for almost seven years. To please her mother, Makiko refuses to see him. Ashamed about not speaking her mind, Makiko admires Cynthia, an old friend who helps teenage runaways exploited by Yakuza gangsters. When Yakuza follow them, both girls assume Cynthia's in danger, but someone powerful has a problem with Makiko's father and sees Makiko as a pawn. Meanwhile, neither girl believes rumors that a demon stalks and kills runaways. Until something sinister kills Yakuza outside Makiko's house, and a survivor warns her that the demon "likes" her. *** A first boyfriend. Yakuza with unknown plans. A killer demon who "likes" her. What's a quiet girl to do? Added to @AmbassadorsJP 's Kowai: Eerie Reads list - Sept. 2023 Featured on @StoriesUndiscovered Plain Janes? Not These Ladies - May 2022 Added to @Paranormal 's Paranormal Paramours list - April 2022 Notable Rankings: #1 meet-cute (March 14, 2022) #4 yakuza (July 14, 2022)

Alpha of the Nightingale City Wolfpack, Faang Syaoran, meets an exotic dancer, one night, at a highly lucrative club. In a surprising turn of events, his wolf spirit, the one living deep inside of him, falls madly in love with the dancer at first sight. It doesn't take long before Faang finds himself alone with the woman, being enticed by her dainty laces and salacious curves. Despite himself, he finds the willpower to hold back, and abstain from sex. There is something in her stare that doesn't sit right with him... Something his wolf is determined to eradicate by any means necessary. So, what happens now? ***Original Story, all rights are reserved to the Author (AKA Me)*** Caution. Contents hot. Hope you enjoy!

You Rehearsed Your Love on Me is a quiet, emotional story about unspoken love, emotional dependency, and the thin line between expression and illusion-where even rehearsed feelings can begin to feel heartbreakingly real.

In a city where power moves quietly and truth disappears, Detective Sixto Moreno takes on cases already buried. A string of murders leaves nothing behind. No evidence. No answers. Only absence. Every lead he follows vanishes. Someone is not just hiding the truth. They are controlling it. Then Claudia Mirage disappears. A woman from a powerful family. Untouchable. Until she is gone without a trace. When Detective Sixto finds her, she is not afraid. She gives him a choice. "Tell them I'm dead." As the cases begin to connect, Detective Sixto is pulled into a world where silence means survival and truth comes at a cost paid by someone else. In this city, justice is not broken. It is allowed. And some truths are meant to stay buried. Achievements : #1 in Case Category 5/1/2026

In a war-torn world where magic defines worth, Adeola's gift has always made her an outsider. When she crosses into a realm where magic is controlled instead of free, she becomes something far more dangerous than powerless-unclassifiable. As reality fractures through trials of reflection, memory, and truth, she is forced to question everything she knows about power, identity, and belonging. Because sometimes the most dangerous thing you can be... is something the world doesn't understand.

A vampire heiress on the brink of losing her immortality is assigned a bodyguard who is secretly the Lycan King sworn to destroy her, but when an ancient bond marks them as fated mates, their forbidden connection threatens to burn their worlds to the ground. ──── ✦ ──── Anna Sumeros is a vampire heiress and the youngest of three. Expected to outlive her immortal brothers, both over a hundred years old, she is the final heir to the North American Vampire Syndicate. She is untouchable and unkillable. Until the day she realizes... she's not. Something in her blood is changing. And if her enemies find out, it won't just cost her life. It will bring down the empire she was born to inherit. Idrien Shaw is a ghost. A sharpshooter with a perfect record, a charismatic presence, and eyes that miss nothing. Former special ops. He doesn't ask questions. He doesn't miss. That is exactly why he is hired to be Anna's bodyguard. But Idrien Shaw isn't real. His true name is Idrien Mansa Virel, future King of the European Lycan Syndicate, her family's greatest enemy. He is the one man capable of destroying everything she is. But somewhere between protection and proximity, they fall for each other and are bound for life by an ancient Lycan bond. And when the truth comes out, she must choose: him... or everything she was born to be. Lovers. Enemies. Predators. Fated. Bound for life.

A common roadside diner, an eclectic cast, and an existential crisis leads to an examination of life and death, and what they mean. What lays beyond life? Perhaps it is a window to lost souls. Runner-up Best Short Story, Petals & Pages Awards. https://www.wattpad.com/1619795689-petals-pages-awards-2026-%F0%9F%8C%B7%F0%9F%93%96%E2%9C%A8official-results/comment/1619795689_58c238409b83bbe5317b0ff1ce3fdd58_1775392095_76fa8a91c7

In a world where supernatural powers have been extinguished, monsters never disappear... they just change their masks. And when an ordinary human finds himself confronted by a being said to be the last living monster, Sebastian's voice whispers: Isn't everything we call a monster a distorted reflection of ourselves? Only then does the question remain... Who really is the monster?

A young female college student at an end of term beach party in a small community s found murdered. A young man with a mental illness is convicted of the crime but the girl's uncle is not satisfied with the findings and sets out to learn the truth himself.