Samantha's life had never been easy. Her abusive father was the only family she had left. Her mom had died when Sam was just a kid, and when she was eight, Sam had been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. The healthcare costs enraged her father and made a tough situation that much more difficult. Until one night, Sam has had enough of the abuse and runs out into a rainstorm to escape her father's wrath. Scaling a fence in the ravine, Sam lands in the backyard of a large house. As she gets caught between the owner of the house catching her in his yard, and the screaming monster in the woods, Sam's life is about to change.

"You don't even know what you're getting yourself into." "I do, I get it. I'm helping you and I don't care how much you push me away." "It's scary, Eleanor. These people don't care who they hurt. They don't care that you're young, they don't care that you've got your whole life ahead of you, they don't give a shit about you, love. They just care about pain, blood, revenge, and hurting me; especially anybody fighting for me." "I said, I don't care." ----------------------------- Eleanor can't live like this anymore. Same town all of her life, same people, same routine. She has to change. She had never felt love when she lived in Montana, not by her friends, not by her family. She never knew what it was like to love somebody, until she met Derek. They have a strange love. He's way older than she is, and at first, he's controlling, obsessive, and hides things from her. He says he cares, but does he show it? But soon, he can't hide things anymore. She figures out some of his dirtiest, and darkest secrets. Their romance begins when she realizes they have more in common than she thinks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Derek, I can help you. I think you're underestimating what I'm capable of."

a retelling of the tale of persephone and hades --- highest rankings - #1 in greek, god, greek mythology, hades, hecate, olympus --- ❝she wore silk dresses and flower crowns, she was soft and she was loved and then she was stolen, this is the story they tell, they don't speak of her rages, where she would pull rain from the clouds and the flowers turned black beneath her feet, they don't speak of how she laughed when icarus fell from the sky in golden plume they do not speak of how she grew flowers because she liked watching them fade and die and they do not speak of how she pounded at the gates of hell until they opened and how she let the pomegranate juice drip from her smiling lips and how even hades trembles under her gaze❞ --- word count: 37 431

SOMEONE'S BEEN PASSING ON GOVERNMENT INTEL TO THE ENEMY, AND THEY NEED TO BE STOPPED FAST. And hence, Cirinique Diao, spy and debutante has been put on the case. With her fellow students at Lady Kuroki's School for Girls, they head to their native Sai with a top Arecian agent in tow. But this mole is elusive and skilled, leaving behind webs and webs of lies for them to untangle, and Ciri is left unsure what to do. Laurence Dumont is equally perplexed. But when the body count starts adding up and the Bone Court of Sai becomes as treacherous and dangerous as the rumours claim, they'll have to pool together everything they have to prevent a global crisis that would change the world as they know it. (book #2 of 2 in the sable sisters duology, can be read as standalone)

When Franny learns why former popular boy Tyler fell from grace, she gets thrown head-first into his dangerous world but also closer to his timid heart. ***** Eighteen-year-old Tyler Madden used to have everything. He was captain of the football team, popular, high achiever, and was set to have a successful career. But when a secret too hard to handle comes to light, he turns to underground fighting to deal with the pain. Now, he's in too deep. And when Francesca Howard befriends him at school in the hopes of figuring out what went wrong, she unknowingly gets pulled into the criminal world he's now stuck in. As the two find comfort in each other, they find themselves faced with their impending future and trying to get Tyler out alive. Content/Trigger Warning: this story contains scenes pertaining to drug use, substance abuse, and violence. [#1 in teen fiction, romance and action]

He was hopeless. With nothing left to live for, Arthur was ready to end it all. That is, until she saved him.

Wang Li Xun, the Crown Prince, goes out hunting for the Celestial Flower to save his mother from a terminal illness. When he nearly dies from the attack of a mythical beast, he is saved by a mysterious boy who lives in the mountains. To repay his kindness, Li Xun offers the boy a place to stay in his royal palace and employs him to be his personal bodyguard. But little does he know that he has brought home a girl instead. Completed: 4/2/2020 (Word count: 60,000 - 70,000) Highest rankings: #1 in Historical Fiction #1 in Romance #5 in Diverse Lit Featured on Wattpad || Community Curator: @KateLorraine - May 2022 Featured on Wattpad || Lunar New Year - February 2022 Featured on WattpadAsianFantasy || Asian Fantasy Recommendations - September 2021 Featured on Wattpad || Stories of Trailblazing Asian Characters - May 2021 ========================================== Copyright © 2019-2023 by Kim_Knights

All small towns have their quirks. The town of Nowhere, for example, has an overabundance of ghosts. Wyatt Best has lost his money, his father, and his last sweater vest. He is only sad about losing one of those things. When he's sent to live with his estranged uncle in Nowhere, Wyatt is immediately fascinated by its magic. He then meets the Penny family. The three Penny sisters, who were each born on the same day exactly a year apart, have the ability to commune with the ghosts in Nowhere and act as a bridge between the land of the living and that of the dead. Just as Wyatt begins to adjust to his new life in this strange town, a forest appears. And the ghosts it has trapped inside have secrets to tell.

There's more out there than you think. Ashley Cartwright works on a secluded island for her father as a secretary. The lab her father works at it planning on discovering something big, something Ashley doesn't find out about until it's too late. They aren't the only secluded island, and there is another species no one has ever known about until one of them is captured and brought in. Subject Zero. Cover by blck_n_whte (EDITING) #1 in Science fiction 8-2-18 #15 in Romance 1-4-19