(rivals to lovers, small town, sports) [WATTYS 2024 GRAND PRIZE WINNER] (Season 3 coming soon) After a devastating Olympic loss puts her career in a downward spiral, an aging skier returns to her laid-back mountain hometown to rediscover her love of her sport and instead finds herself falling for a rival athlete. *** A year away from what might be her last chance to win Olympic gold, twenty-seven-year-old alpine skier Juniper James shocks everyone by announcing she won't race this year. Returning to her mountain hometown hoping to rediscover the spark that once drove her to World Cup glory, she instead crosses paths with the rival who shut her out of the podium at the last Olympics. For Summer Li, nothing is more important than skiing. At twenty years old, she has already won Olympic silver, but an accident has left her desperate to get back on her skis before the world learns the extent of her injury. She came to Crystal Peaks to lay low while she recovers. The last thing she needs is the woman she once idolized hanging around asking questions. Both struggling with career lows, Juniper and Summer have more in common than they think. Even as they push each other, sparks begin to fly, but Juniper blames Summer for her slump, and Summer isn't going to let a relationship distract from her recovery. And only one of them can win the gold medal. This inconvenient attraction seems on a course for disaster from the start. But these are women who face the impossible every day, and there's a magic in the mountains that can thaw even the coldest hearts. *** Cleat Cute meets Delilah Green Doesn't Care. *** Season One complete at 90k words. Season Two complete at 90k words. Season Three coming soon!

"She was born soft and sacred and powerful enough to ruin everything. The sweetest girl alive is the most dangerous creature on campus." Yn always knew she was different. She just thought it meant she was too sensitive, too gentle, too connected to animals and the earth beneath her feet. Her parents kept her homeschooled most of her life, scared the world would hurt a girl as pure as her. They were right. When Yn finally begged her way into high school, the bullying hit hard. Jealous girls spread rumors, boys obsessed over her, and the more she shined, the more they wanted to break her. Until one night after swim practice, they drowned her as a joke. She woke up to an empty pool... and a school ripped apart like a storm swallowed it whole. She survived. Others didn't. And she still has no idea the destruction came from her. A month later, her parents died in a fire set by someone who wanted her family gone. Heartbroken and alone, Yn follows their will and enrolls in Rosewood Academy, the elite college they saved for her to attend. She just wants peace. A normal life. A fresh start. Instead, she accidentally walks in on three powerful мσηѕтєя fraternity leaders mid-feed and mid-тняυѕт, draining a girl's life and ρℓєαѕʊʀɛ at the same time. They planned on keeping Yn as their next ᴛᴏʏ... Until their professor intervened. He smelled what she truly is. An Elemorai. A unicorn hybrid. The rarest, purest, most powerful being in existence, and the ultimate meal for creatures like them. Now the ℓυѕт ᴅємσηs stalks her with feral hunger. And the professor watches her with a fear he refuses to explain. Yn still has no idea the force inside her can level worlds... or that someone out there is already hunting her for it. Soft, innocent, ethereal, and completely lethal. (Inspired by my favorite dark romance novel Forged in вℓσσ∂ by Sadie Kincaid)

Every few millennia, a child is born. Some say they're marked with a curse. Others claim they possess the power of the ages. But this millennia had two and no one saw it coming. Meet Ophelia Hart and her twin sister Odette Hart. Lovers of classic literature, music, and unicorns. Two orphans with nobody in their corner-no family, no friends. But it's their loneliness that fuels their life's ambition to become a social worker and teacher, helping the forgotten children just like them. For two foster kids with only slightly above-average grades, it feels like a pipe dream. Except it seems that someone is looking out for Ophelia and Odette after all. When an unexpected opportunity to attend Montridge University arises, they think their lives are finally taking a turn for the better. Too bad they caught the attention of the three ruthless, arrogant commanders of the Ruby Dragon Society. Three of the most feared and powerful vampires on campus. But Ophelia and Odette don't believe in vampires. Or in witches, or magic, or ancient prophecies. Until they have no choice, little do they know, they are about to have their whole worlds turned upside down. Because there is something about Ophelia and Odette Hart. Something that captures not only the attention of the Ruby Dragon commanders, but also their powerful, enigmatic sire-Professor Alexandros Drakos. With no idea of the power running through their veins, Ophelia and Odette must learn to trust the very men whom all others fear. And they need to do it fast, for there are darker forces at work than those at Montridge University. Forces that were long ago Forged in Blood. (I do not own any of the original characters or the book. I only loved the book so much that I decided to write a fanfiction about it. All the credit goes to Sadie Kincaid and her amazing works of art)

***************** Lucy is a celestial mage in a guild called Fairy Tail. They use magic in jobs and get paid in return, but Lucy isn't getting any jobs without Natsu and Happy (her job partners and best friends) being lazy. Coincidently (and so cliche) she meets a student from Anime High and his extreme case of Ego makes Lucy feel inferior, Lucy being Lucy: She decides to join Anime High and prove to him that she's not a 'typical stupid mage'. So she drags along her beloved friends from Fairy Tail and they discover drama, tales, fights, adventures, friendship and love. Being mages in an ordinary school it takes them time to adjust. How will they last?! *********** [Note from future me: I wrote this when I was 13/14 so...you have been warned]