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The Siren's Curse | PJM  ✓ by Hoseokiiss
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"Are you sure it's just empathy? Are you sure you're not feeling... attracted to me?" There was a shift in his voice as it became more silky, pleasing to listen to. I could feel my muscles relax in response to the soothing sound. "Don't you feel the need to get closer to me? To touch me?" he continued, his eyes darkening wickedly. • • • Jimin is a siren, a once-human creature that is cursed to roam the lonely sea for eternity to pay for his past sins. That is, until he gets captured by the pirate captain Min Yoongi and his crew. When Jimin sets his eyes on Katherine, he knows he has a chance of breaking the curse. All he has to do is get close to her, but Yoongi will not let that happen so easily. As Jimin slowly becomes more human, his ability to love also returns, and his newfound feelings may get in the way of his plans. ➺ Romance ➺ Fantasy ➺ Siren au ➺ Pirate au ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ACHIEVEMENTS: • A Wattpad Kpop Featured Story • • Winner of The Bangtan Writers Awards 2019 • • Winner of The BTS Airplane pt.2 Awards 2019 • • Winner of The Insomnia BTS Awards 2019 • HIGHEST RANKS: ⤷01 in bts ⤷01 in parkjimin ⤷01 in pirates ⤷01 in btsjimin ⤷01 in pjm ⤷01 in yoongi ⤷04 in jimin ⤷02 in hoseok word count: 165,000 COPYRIGHT © Hoseokiiss ** NOTE: though all comments still exist, many older ones are no longer in-line with paragraphs due to some editing **
A is For Arson: A Langley & Porter Mystery (FIRST FIVE CHAPTERS) by ANHorton1227
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Alexander Langley wasn't looking for trouble but Charlotte Porter found him anyway. Only, this new partnership has them in over their heads and way before their time. 2020 WATTYS WINNER in MYSTERY The life of a poor merchant's daughter in Victorian Era London is quite boring. Charlotte Porter, it seems, is the exception. Desperate for a source of income once her father's gambling debts have drained their funds and placed them in the sights of some of London's most notorious criminals, Charlotte is in search of salvation. It comes in the form of handsome detective Alexander Langley, a curious gentleman with a strange connection to Scotland Yard and an even stranger connection to the American West. Charlotte soon finds herself swept into his world of investigation and intrigue. When a case of art theft turns into murder and she and Alexander are thrown into the seedy underbelly of the London elite, Charlotte realizes that the work isn't the only thing she's become attached to. But now, her father's powerful creditors are ready to close the books on them, and Charlotte must find a way to keep them out of the red because this time it won't be written in ink. Book 1 of the Langley & Porter Series *Featured on: The Wattpad Stars For Fans of Bridgerton List Wattpad's Strong Female Leads List @HistoricalFiction 's The Gothic List EDITOR'S PICK April 2021 Content warning: This story contains violence. **This is only the first five chapters. The rest of the book is available on Amazon for purchase and via KU.**
The Fires Beneath the Sea (A Novel) by lydiamillet
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Cara’s mother has disappeared. Her father isn’t talking about it. Her big brother Max is hiding behind his iPod, and her genius little brother Jackson is busy studying the creatures he collects from the beach. But when a watery specter begins to haunt the family’s Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize that their scientist mother may not be who they thought she was—and that the world has much stranger, much older inhabitants than they had imagined. With help from Cara’s best friend Hayley, the three embark on a quest that will lead them from the Cape’s hidden, ancient places to a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. They’re soon on the front lines of an ancient battle between good and evil, with the terrifying “pouring man” close on their heels. One chapter will be posted Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays until all 10 chapters are up. These will be followed by the second book in the series, The Shimmers in the Night. A Junior Library Guild Pick; Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011; Selected for the ABC Best Books for Children Catalog; Locus Notable Books.
The Secret Garden (1911) by strawberrycheese08
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Selfish and spoilt Mary was sent to Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden, a change comes over her life. *This story belongs to Frances Hodgson Burnett. I don't own anything.