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The Key to Anchor Lake ✓ by lydiahephzibah
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DOUBLE WATTY AWARD WINNER - mystery/thriller AND biggest twist! After her mother's death, Blaire Bloxham moves in with an aunt she never knew she had, and discovers the dark history of her new town. Armed with a mysterious book and a podcast with an enchanting narrator, Blaire's determined to crack the key to Anchor Lake - before it's too late.
Fearless by Reffster
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What if you threw your life away and the world threw it back? If you found yourself in credit to the value of one life? Would you spend that credit on a worthy cause, if fate offered up the chance? **** Alone and a long way from home, Nick's big city adventure is not going at all to plan. With his dreams in ruins and his world crumbling around him, he's struggling to see a way out. Ripped from her everyday life, isolated and imprisoned, Mica's one desperate wish is to escape the urbane monster who sees her as nothing more than a plaything. And for Jaime Salazar, wealth, privilege and power are not enough. At the head of his global crime syndicate, he'll stop at nothing until he has all he wants. Two lost souls, brought together by the strangest of circumstances, find themselves pitted against a crime lord with no mercy in a city that doesn't care. And with so little left to lose, neither will hesitate to risk it all. "Don't say what you're about to say. You can't. Because, right now, if all of this ends, it doesn't matter. But, here's the thing. The instant it starts to matter - it ends. Don't make it matter, Mica." **Please note, as of August 2022, Fearless has been significantly edited, revised and updated.**
THE OMEN GIRL | Wattys 2020 Winner by yuehverse
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[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]
The Watcher by Est2010
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He'll have to break all the rules to keep her, but first she has to break just one and let him in... It's taken four years, but Anna Fray has finally put the past behind her. Mostly. She fills her days working in a bar and her nights watching bad romantic comedies. She's managed to keep her distance from everyone around her by following one simple rule: don't trust anyone. Life is simple. Mundane, but simple. This all starts to change when a boy walks into the bar with a book and a smile. Soon Anna finds herself the centre of his attention, whether she likes it or not. The only problem is that the more time she spends around the boy with the book, the more she notices he's not like everyone else. It's not until one winter's night that she realises just how different he is. In that moment, the world as she knows it, is changed forever. **Updated every Saturday** **Featured on the official WP Paranormal 'Paranormal Paramours' reading list** **Featured on the official WP NARomance 'Love and Faerytales' reading list** ** Featured on the official WP General Fiction 'paranormal' reading list**
I'm Not Dead by dontwalkwiththedead
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When the zombie apocalypse breaks out in New York, a heart-broken Rocco Maneli and his five dysfunctional younger siblings must do whatever it takes to get to Colorado. After an unexpected twist in the game of survival though, they learn there's a lot more to worry about than zombies. Can the Manelis work past their differences and learn to survive together? Or will they let their drama get the best of them and die as an alcoholic, failed musician, nervous nerd, pothead, gamer, and a baby? Survival isn't fair in this new world, especially when the Maneli's are involved. ~ Cover credit @WriterAnimated ~ (c) Copyright 2020 by Ria
The Vampire Always Bites Twice by AHopelessNecromantic
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Criminal necromancer & vampire private eye team up to solve the case of the missing barista. *** When a client drops dead in her fortune telling parlor, 'reformed' necromancer Isla has no choice but to illegally resurrect the poor gal. Your girl's got priors, alright? Hiding a corpse will send Isla back to the slammer. The client's just a Tourist, so Isla is certain nobody will notice. But you know what they say: The only things certain in life are death, taxes, and a handsome vampire poking his fangs where they don't belong. Gregor, a vampire private detective, has been hired to find another vamp's misplaced favorite bloodbag-- I mean, barista. Greg knows the fraudulent and distractingly attractive psychic, Isla, is the key to the barista's whereabouts, but he just can't put his fangs on what it is she's hiding from him. If her little whoopsie is discovered, Isla fears both the otherworldly authorities and an ancient vampire will have her throat. So she does what any girl would do in her situation. She hires Greg to find the risen barista for her first so that she can undo the resurrection. Sparks fly and blood splatters as Greg and Isla investigate Philadelphia's secret paranormal society, throw literal bones at the werewolf mafia, commune with the spirits of dead vampire-brides, dodge arrest by the magic fuzz, and occasionally pop off for late night cheesesteaks. The Vampire Always Bites Twice is the Wattys 2022 Grand Prize Winner! The "Bites Twice" Mysteries 1 - The Vampire Always Bites Twice 1.5 - Doubull Indemnity [revised version coming soon) 2 - Shadow of a Curse (Coming Fall 2025) This book contains explicit sexual content, paranormal violence, animal harm, and gore.
Boot Camp Mentors Profile Guide by BootcampMentors
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Are you interested in joining an established writing community? One that supports writers through mentorships, workshops, and camaraderie to help build your storytelling cred? If your answer is "Yes, please!" this book will give you more details. Learn about the Boot Camp Mentorship Program, discover links to writing resources, and get tips on how to make the most of Wattpad. DISCLAIMER: THE BOOT CAMP MENTORSHIP PROGRAM IS INDEPENDENTLY RUN BY WATTPAD WRITERS.
The Fantasy Writer's Guide by Jules_Haigler
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Writing is a difficult process that no one masters overnight. This go-to guide is set up to help new and experienced writers in the art of fantasy fiction. This guide will include (not in the order presented): - Writing a successful and enticing blurb - Creating that perfect fantasy cover - Coming up with that successful pitch - World Building - Map Making - Types of fantasy - Magic systems - Religion in fantasy - Prologue or not to prologue - Glossary, terminology, and language - Races both Human and Non-human - Beasts and Monsters - Plot Development - Writing advanced story arcs - Cliches, tropes, and the chosen one dynamic - How to connect it all? - Stand alone vs. Duology vs. Trilogy vs. Never Ending Fantasy Madness - Character personalities and types - And much more