A fierce warrior seduces a mysterious rebel to protect the king. --- Epsa proudly defends the nation as a member of King Makapu's Royal Guard. When a resistance movement threatens the kingdom from within, Makapu calls on Epsa for a task requiring more than just combat skills. Epsa must seduce Izra, a mysterious and magnetic rebel leader, and extract information to help the Royal Guard smother the rebellion. As she works to gain Izra's trust, Epsa finds herself developing unsettling feelings and reassessing everything she has ever known. Embroiled in a dangerous game of politics, Epsa must decide who to trust. Who to protect. And who must die. Prequel to "The Claimed: A Clash of Copper and Gold" (also works as a stand-alone novel) |2022 Wattys Shortlist| Trigger warning: This story contains descriptions of abuse and references to sexual assault

| 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐲𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 | What do you do when everyone seems to want you dead? Kill them first, of course. Minerva Pyroline, assassin by night and heir to an empire by day, has one goal: Survive. No matter the obstacles. No matter the cost. But with political tensions on the rise, strange feelings for a secretive enemy prince, and destructive capabilities hidden within Minerva herself, the goal is nearly impossible to attain. In fighting fire with fire, killing to not be killed, she's tipped the scales of justice too far. Blood cannot be shed without a price. The goddess of retribution is coming to collect. When Minerva finds herself on the receiving end of the blade, she must answer its whispered question: Do you deserve mercy? ✧ 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬 ✧ 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 ✧ 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧 ✧ ─────────────────────────────────── 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐲 @𝐡𝐞𝐱_𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 Completed: 8-15-2022 Word Count: 100,000 - 110,000

With her father's memory failing and her mother gone, Soraya Thenayu enrolls in distant Darkwood Academy and immediately becomes enemies with the richest kid at school. Between hiding her father's gift of illegally harvested magic, befriending social outcasts, and juggling classes, Soraya's already stressful situation intensifies when an otherworldly foe threatens to possess her. Soraya must choose between keeping her magic a secret or saving herself and her new friends.

| 𝐱𝟕 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 | WRITING ON HOLD HE IS A THREAT, A POWERFUL WEAPON; BUT MOST OF ALL, A KEY TO THE END OF WARS. Solan is unbeknown to his true identity, but when a twist of fate shatters his illusion of a safe world, he is faced with charges for treason against the King. Driven out of his homeland in flames and faced by a rampant beast, he is thrust into a treacherous journey that is far from anything that he has ever known. As Solan is forced to travel across seas, away from an association of assassins breathing down his neck on land, he seeks the safety of a Queen in Oürek; but first, he must prove himself worthy. A holy sword as the only means of protection, a budding romance, and legends about an unknown world - his nightmares might just become more than fables and hearsays. ------------------ 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝟏 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐓𝐅𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐀𝐆𝐀 An ongoing dark fantasy novel on Wattpad filled with assassins, dragons, pirates and magic. Mature rating for violence, language and gore for which chapters are marked. ------------------ Incredible book cover art by @kerozeo ©2021 S.Hughes Published to Wattpad 24.03.21 Currently rewriting offline. If you are reading this on any platform other than Wattpad, you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. Leave the site and be sure to do a full safety scan of your device, and visit @lavendareyes on Wattpad for the safe, original version of this book.

Zora always knew she didn't belong to this world. She didn't even know her real name. She never met her birth parents, having been left in a firehouse as a 6-month-old baby. Zora has bounced from one foster home to the next since she was a troubled child. Bad things, or "accidents" always followed Zora. She always felt like she was one step behind everyone else trying to catch up. Trying to be normal, but Zora is not normal. And never will be. Bryce Cullen is another lost soul in the world. He is also one of a kind. When they first met it was a supernova, two stars coming together in a stellar collision with stellar dynamics. As an evil is looming, threatening to destroy the Earth, can these two outliers save the world with powers neither utterly understand? ~~~~~~~~~~~ Zora could only shiver as: his eyes darken looking at her, becoming more onyx black, and purple bruise-like shadows appear beneath his eyes. Bryce stands at 6'2" and has a thin and lanky but muscular body. Zora felt a tiny piercing pain trying to hit her over and over, but somehow it was blocked. "Where am I?" "Who are you?" Bryce asked sternly, glaring down at Zora. "It's her!" Piper said running onto the field. "That's the girl! She is the girl from my dreams! She is the one to bring Hell Fire!" ~~~~~~~~~~~ Updates every Wednesdays! Participating in: #theseasonalcontest

Did you ever wonder what might be beyond the glass of the mirror you look into every day? When a rift allows a human to enter an undiscovered land through their mirror, they never could have imagined what would be found there.

The Fan is a young city that consists of three races. Humans: possessing no supernatural power, Elementals: able manipulate matter, and Imps: the failed and mutated attempt at a man-made Elemental. Like the Fan that exists in a delicate balance, Lilah's natural born Elemental family is constantly on the brink. With her mother slowly wasting away from an incurable illness for ten years, she lives every day with her like it's the last. In that time, her father, one of the strongest Elementals alive, used his very life-force to keep his wife going.Until one day...he didn't.

Hello, mates! Welcome to the newest addition to the Sugarbabes Account, VIC'S VIEWPOINTS. I asked the other blokes on this account, Jasper (Those Who Struggle) and Noah (Erase and Rewind), how they felt about me putting my oar in the old assessment pond. Both said, and I sort of quote, "That's bloody brilliant!" (I think...) It's our way of randomly saying thank you to our wonderful readers who took the time to read some chapters and comment. We appreciate you! *Cover by Noah Davis

Christiana is currently facing an incredibly hard decision, the most agonizing choice of her young life. Because of laws preventing males from receiving any formal education prior to middle school, she has spent her time in primary school with her womb-mate. Now, however, her Mother has entered her into an intra-familial tournament to determine the Sister most fit to act as security for her elder matBrother. A Brother with whom she has shared a unique, Sister-like bond despite his gender. A Brother who is about to enter junior high school. Will she try her best in the upcoming contest, or will she throw the competition? Will she choose to remain by the side of her Sister or will she choose to guard her closest male relative? Will she decide to become her Brother's Keeper? #1 in hardsciencefiction 3/30/21 #1 in eugenics 3/20/21 #130 (out of 13,200) originalstory 7/7/21 #112 (out of 18,400) sciencefantasy 7/7/21 #198 (out of 39,800) dystopian 7/7/21

Book I in the Izoven Series ___________________________ When 21-year-old Emery Wright's therapist refuses to let her retake the police psych exam, she must face her past and visit her old family home in Bellenau-a town famous for its mystery and secrets. Her investigation leads her to unearth an old family mystery, her duty to protect a gateway to Izoven: The Land of the Eternal. If that wasn't enough, a mysterious boy is hellbent on obtaining the gateway to avenge his father, even if it means destroying Emery in the process. Will Emery be able to protect the key and destroy the prodigal son? Or will her journey lead her down a path of self-destruction?