Stay-at-home mom Harriet has just about had it. As her husband puts in more and more hours at the office, she's stuck with six-year-old Sam and the looming insanity of the holiday season. Along with the usual event planning panic, fall brings constant reminders of her father's failing health and the limited time they have left together. When her friend and renowned caterer Carol invites her over for a baking session, Harriet jumps at the opportunity to destress and learns Carol's secret ingredient to her stress-free lifestyle: venting her negative emotions into everything she bakes. As Harriet's love for baking warps into an addiction to the comforting warmth of the oven, her new coping mechanism starts to look more and more like a recipe for disaster. Cover by @meha-k

[FEATURED] @SpeculativeFiction [FEATURED] @StoriesUndiscovered • Status: completed • Words give little away, but silence speaks for itself. Even though silence may be the best course of action, sometimes it leaves us oblivious, which can have dire consequences. Sometimes you question what you know: is everything really as it seems? The whole world was like a twisted cage that trapped one within. But Lyra never felt trapped - she was a survivor and a fighter. However, when the world turns against her, leaving her all alone, she swears to make whoever is responsible pay. The people she meets start to disappear, except for Lincoln. She grows suspicious of Lincoln, she feels like he is hiding something and wants to uncover his secret. When the two really start examining the world together, dark secrets unveil and they realise; silence is never an option. The world is only silent when something is hidden within. Awards: ♟Winner of the sunlight awards! ♟2nd place in the sapphire awards! ♟the sweetheart awards people's selection ♟creory awards winner! ♟third place at the teenfic awards ♟second place in the butterfly awards ♟sweethearts awards winner! ♟honourable mention at the shimmer awards ♟third place in the quarantine awards ♟ first place in the AIA awards ♟first place in the Orca awards ♟ first place in the royalty awards ♟pretty in punk honourable mention ♟most creative adventure | pretty in punk ♟the next book 2020 round one qualifier Started: 15/04/2020 Finished: 22/09/2020 Word count [50,000-60,000]

A fallen deity, a phoenix shifter, and a fiery oracle must team up in order to unveil the identity of an ancient figure who is thirsty for power. ***** JADE KAIRI is a deity cast out of the Heavens for being a traitor to the crown and supposedly assassinating her parents. But now, years after her banishment, she is being hunted down by her cousin who secretly works against the Heavens and the newly crowned princess. Thrust back into the cruel world that she fell from, Jade teams up with FELIX, the phoenix shifter with the most beautiful crimson eyes she's ever seen, and SAGA a witty oracle with a fiery attitude. Together, they travel around the realms of Heaven to collect the talismans and unearth the answer to all of their question including the identity of the power-hungry puppeteer who is pulling the strings of the world to its end. [updates weekly] [marked mature for violence and bloodshed] [cover credits to @_Foxicious and @themythicalcommunity]

In a small Arizona town, average teen Ethan Chen is just trying to survive another day of hell, er, high school with his best friend, Tweed, at his side. However, his world is turned upside-down when he learns that their favorite hang-out spot is closing. After Sol Bakery is boarded up, Ethan and Tweed team up to gain the help of the uptight and impossibly bossy student council president to keep the bakery alive. With her, she brings a boy that shakes up Ethan's whole point of view... and soon, he starts questioning everything he once believed, including what love means. With incoming competitors, murder mysteries, and friendship fiascos, can Ethan and his friends save Sol Bakery or will the bakery be lost forever? Copyright ©️ 2020 HurricaneKareena. Exclusively on Wattpad. If you are reading this novel on any other website, you run the risk of malware and viruses. To read the entirety of the book in its full, safe form, read The Donut Shop on Wattpad. #1 in Doughnut Featured on YA's Clueless Reading List First book of the Chen Chronicles *On my fourth draft of this book* *Up until chapter _16_ has been edited*

Nicole, an ambitious but overlooked student at elite private school, Waterbridge Academy, is ready for her junior year to be all kinds of fun. While her focus should be classes and homework, they take second string to Highjinks, the epic prank battle between two student armies, fought over the course of the year. Tension and enthusiasm are running high; winning means bragging rights and not having to forfeit comforts, like the best pizza in town, to the opposition for the next year. As part of the Thunderbird army, Nicole is a recon and stealth specialist. She spends half her time spying and hovering like a fly just outside of the Hellhounds leaders' notice, so she can learn their plans. The other half is spent carrying out clandestine after-curfew pranks at her superior's often short-notice orders. To resident hottie "General" Kellen Fitzpatrick of the Thunderbird army, Nicole is little more than a subling. That is-until the war turns real. When the students of Waterbridge Academy are forced into a battle for their lives, will Nicole be strong enough to lead the charge?

High School senior Marnie Bennett has it all, popularity, money, and a handsome jock at her side. To everyone on the outside she's the "it" girl, but deep down she's screaming for help. Her world shifts when she's paired with punk-rocker Flint Rogers on a writing assignment. To walk in Flint's shoes means that Marnie has to open her heart to someone who isn't in her circle, but the more time they spend together the harder it is for both to admit they were wrong about each other. With a common love for the same music, Marnie and Flint began to create a bond stronger than either of them are ready for. Marnie's life begins to fall apart when a family scandal comes to light and her friends harbor a massive secret. Flint is the only one there to help pick up the broken pieces. She knows he would make her happy, but she struggles with the idea of being with someone who isn't popular. After a tragic accident leaves Flint fighting for his life, Marnie knows if she wants to keep him in her life she has to grow up and learn that life isn't a popularity contest and that we can't help who we love. Can Marnie fix what she broke or will her stubborn ways keep her from the boy she fell in love with?

Pointy ears-check, third-eye induced headaches-check, fighting against a Dark Phoenix Griffin who wants to turn you into the Ultimate Weapon to kill the king... not happening. At eighteen, Sophie Emerson discovers her identity as a Spirit fae at the prestigious Earwyn Academy of Concordia. It is an identity she welcomes. She can do without the skull-splitting headaches induced by learning to control her clairvoyant powers, though. She'll also love it if someone can tell her why she sees herself in a dream surrounded by nine children who are channeling their powers into her to become a monster that will destroy Concordia. When three kids disappeared from the village, Sophie learns that the Dark Griffin abducted six other children two years ago. The dream shows her she is the last piece to become the Dark Griffin's Ultimate Weapon, and he will abduct her next. Sophie needs a plan when she wakes up in a cell with the nine other children. One that will stop herself from becoming this weapon, save the abducted children, and stop an undefeated Griffin. Being magical shouldn't be this stressful! She would have preferred to remain human, thank you very much. (a shout-out to @Novel---worm for the lovely edit on my blurb)

Having a Gift is supposed to be good. But Edileth's feels more like a curse. Vowing to hide her abilities post-catastrophe, she leads a simple, disciplined life as Captain of the Guard in Kerindh. But this is all thrown into chaos when she is summoned by the Ferlian Order to transport an ancient relic for them. Edileth accepts, not knowing that it will lead her to participate in a power struggle much bigger than herself. On her journey, she is aided by a spontaneous elf who tests her patience, a healer who soothes more than physical ailments, an enchanter who is more than he seems, and an elite ranger with all the personality of a rock. Their common goal to prevent Gael-Narenth from falling to Si-ol's tyrannical sorcerer-king brings them together in more ways than one, and Edileth starts to care for her companions. But it is impossible to ignore the war approaching, and Edileth must embrace her scorned gift, or watch her companions perish. ~~~~ Won 2nd place in the Fantasy genre for The Lotus Awards 2020. Adept Pen Semi-finalist Chapters One through Fourteen are more heavily edited. The remaining chapters are still early-draft versions and are quite messy. Thank you for your patience and understanding as I work to polish this story!