{WATTYS 2020 WINNER} {FEATURED BOOK} Paris, 1663. 500 girls selected by King Louis XIV embark on a journey across the seas from their homeland. Each is given a dowry, and the expectation that they are to marry a French settler, in order to increase the population of New France. They are the historic Daughters of the King, or "les filles du roi." Eighteen-year-old Celeste Dubois is a free-spirited, educated and headstrong girl. She comes from a wealthy Parisian family that has squandered their money and is subsequently forced to journey to New France. However, Celeste doesn't plan on marrying a complete stranger. She hopes to use the dowry and the free voyage as a way to escape the poverty and social ranks of Paris. Matters are complicated when against her will, she falls in love. Romantic, kind and stunningly beautiful Lorraine Leblanc is a girl from a large family with children to spare. Unlike Celeste, she happily dreams of the day she will meet her future husband in New France. When she marries a mysterious widower with two young children of his own and still reeling after his broken heart, she realizes that married life isn't all she had hoped it would be, and begins to question her new husband's complicated past. - Wattpad Picks Blast to the Future Past list 2018 - The 50 Best Wattpad Stories of 2018/19 by Design Wizard - 2018 Youngblood Awards Winner (Romance) - 2018 True North Awards 2nd place for Historical Fiction and 2nd place Truly Canadian special category award - Featured by Wattpad Historical Fiction profile under Kings, Courtships and Empires, Young Adult Fiction profile under Love, Actually and Romance profile under Time will Tell *Please be aware that since this book covers the colonial period, it does contain sensitive themes of racism and violence that readers will find disturbing. There are resources at the back of the book that prompt further learning in the Historical Notes section.*

Highest rank[#1 in Billionaire] [#1 in youngadult] [#1 in NewAdult] [#1 in Fiction] STARTED:10th January 2019 FINISHED: 11th August 2019 When Chloe followed her big sister to her sister's best friend's wedding, she didn't expect the groom to stop his vows and proclaim her as the love of his life and mother of his unborn child. She was seeing him for the first time and was still a virgin to be carrying his child. What was supposed to be a happy event turned out to be her worse nightmare. All it took was one lie for her family to toss her out of their lives and her boyfriend to break her heart and dump her.

* 4 Sample Chapters * Inquisitive heir, Charlie Fine's obsession with the truth makes him an excellent fraud investigator, but there's one mystery he's never been able to solve: the identity of the girl who gave him the greatest kiss of his life during a high school game of 7 Minutes In Heaven. Twenty years of experiments attempting to recreate the chemistry of that kiss have gotten him nowhere but frustrated and he's about to resign himself to a life without relationship fireworks when an invitation to his high school reunion steels his resolve to get answers once and for all. Accompanied by his binge-drinking best buddy, Martin, he heads home to grill his lovely suspects only to find his skills better put to use in solving the disappearance of an old friend's father and the sabotaging of a maple farm. Thwarted by a shady detective, distracted by a former classmate's troubled sister, will Charlie be able to find out who done it and who done it best? Will the same suspect hold the answers to both mysteries and will her identity be that of the dream girl he let get away? Who kissed Charlie Fine? You could skip to the end, but you'd miss more bear attacks, booby traps, pickled cabbage, flying cardboard, dry lightning, ghost parrots, creepy crawlers, maple syrup and tea cozies than in any cozy mystery about smooching you've ever read! Please know this story contains mild cursing and three F bombs - one of which is totally necessary. *Cover art uses "On-De-Fence" by Gil Elvgren which is to the best of my knowledge in the public domain. *No part of this story may be reproduced or used in any manner without express written permission by the author. © All Rights Reserved

Scarlett and Nate are the epitome of "right person, wrong time", and two years after their one night together, Scarlett sees him interviewing for his album about the night they met in order to find her, and she finds herself taking the chance she didn't two years ago. ***** When Scarlett's dad dies during her senior year of college, all she wants is to be someone else for one night. When she meets a mysterious boy, that seems entirely possible. They both agree that for the next few hours, they're 'Quinn' and 'Mason'. But to truly let go and not worry about their futures, they vow to never see each other again. Two years later, Scarlett owns a bakery in New York City and is living her dream. But despite all of this, she's never been able to let 'Mason' go, and a part of her regrets their vow to never see each other again. So, when she sees 'Mason', who turns out to be the up-and-coming singer Nate Cameron, on her television interviewing for his debut album "Quinn", with songs about the night they met, she knows she has to take the chance she didn't take two years ago. Watty's Romance Winner 2021 Being published by W by Wattpad Books Book One of the "Just For" Series. Approximately 80k words

"Earth has been different for awhile, but I don't think we've ever had a beautiful, muscular alien dude falling from the sky. It's not really something you see everyday" ✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱✱ The year is 2033. Men are almost extinct after the war, leaving few woman to scavenge what's left of planet earth. Posy has been alone for a few years. She tries to survive in a world where it's every girl for herself, until one fateful day when she finds an extra tall, buff alien man in the woods. An alien man who has never met a female in his life. * Just for fun - Lots of fluff * Highest rankings- #2 in Romance - 9/28/19 #1 in Alien - 8/12/19 #1 in Post-apocalyptic- 7/29/19 #5 in Invasion - 8/4/19 #47 in Human - 8/2/19

Elizabeth Bell can't escape her past. No matter what she does: changing her name or her looks. It's her handsome ex-husbands face on a magazine that haunts her every day. The nightmares of her past continue to torment her, and it gets worse when she comes face to face with the devil himself. -------------------- "You don't have a girlfriend right now." "That's right," Blake said sounding bored. "Everyone is wondering if that's because you aren't over your ex-wife, Elizabeth Bell." When he said that I froze. The last thing I wanted from this interview was for him to bring up my past life. Although I changed my name to Rose Matthews, I still freeze every time someone mentions that name. I try so hard to forget my past before I was Rose but when you have so many people constantly bringing it up you can't escape it. Blake's answer brought me back to the present. "No! Honestly, I was glad to be out of that marriage. It was a burden, constantly having to be married to her. I don't have a girlfriend because I want to be able to enjoy the single life for a while. Since I was tied to someone for so long, I just want to have some freedom in my life." He said honestly. I felt France and Jay each grab my hand. I felt my heart break again. I didn't think that was possible. My heart is already broken into a million pieces and somehow he was able to break it even more... ---------------------- Can Elizabeth and Blake learn to love each other again? Or will their past catch up to them?

❝Wäre das hier eine Schneekugel wäre ich froh, bis in alle Ewigkeit seine Hand halten zu können und wäre das hier ein Polaroid würde die Unterschrift lauten „Zerbrochene Herzen in Zeitlupe"❞ Grace und Casper treffen sich, als beide am Tiefpunkt ihres bisherigen Lebens angekommen sind. Grace hat gezwungenermaßen ihre Alkoholprobleme überwunden und erkannt, dass sie immer an die falschen Leute zu geraten scheint, Casper ist auf Grund einer Querschnittlähmung an seinen Rollstuhl gefesselt und kämpft mit manischen Depressionen, die ihn immer wieder zu übermannen drohen. Eine Beziehung aus Freundschaft, Liebe, Abscheu und Faszination entsteht - die erste Beziehung, die Graces Herz schneller schlagen lässt und ihr gleichzeitig unglaubliche Angst macht. -Cover by @aqeless- [https://www.wattpad.com/196816630-coverbook-mauerblumen-grazine]

»Apollo war der gefallene Engel in unserer Geschichte. Seine Unschuld und Schönheit, alles ausgenutzt, bis er fiel, tief und schnell. Und der Aufprall würde hart sein.« ©rapuenzel; 2019 [muss und wird überarbeitet, aber ich bin sehr faul]

Wie Zimt und Zucker ❝ Für das engelsgleiche Mädchen, welches ihr Lachen verlor. ❞ Lorena Campbell wollte schon immer Gutes tun. Ihre Berufswünsche waren nie außergewöhnlich, für sie war von klein auf schon klar, dass sie anderen Menschen helfen möchte. Kaum verwunderlich, dass sie ihre Ausbildung zur Kinderkrankenschwester erfolgreich abgeschlossen hat und in ihrem Traumberuf im Kinderhospiz tätig ist. Trotz ihren wohlhabenden Eltern legt sie viel Wert auf Eigenständigkeit. Doch dann begegnet sie Nathaniel. Nathaniel Mitchell legt keinen großen Wert auf Geld. Er hat es, denn er ist reich und das strahlt auch sein Charakter aus. Er konnte sich bis jetzt alles kaufen, was er wollte. Das Geld schmiss er zum Fenster raus, als wären es einfache Kieselsteine. Doch als er auf Lorena trifft, merkt er, dass er sich weder Gesundheit noch Liebe kaufen kann. Und das sein ganzes Geld ihn weder glücklich macht, noch seine kranke Schwester heilen kann. ➵ Alle Rechte an der Story liegen bei mir, beautynthewords (Pseudonym) © Das wunderschöne Cover von @wunschdenker

❝Alles, was uns bleibt, sind die Scherben unserer schmerzvollen Erinnerungen, Isaac.❞ Als Cinderella ihren Prinz Charming um Mitternacht verließ, fand er sie dank einer ihrer gläsernen Schuhe wieder. Als Vanda ihren Freund, Isaac, um Mitternacht verließ, fand er nur ihre Abschiedsbriefe vor. © glueckschmerz - Oktober 2018