❀ FEATURED ON WATTPAD'S EDITORS' PICKS LIST ❀ [The Closer is intended for readers with an appetite for the dark and sexy. Read at your own discretion.] "What about that no fucking colleagues policy, huh? The one you so haughtily rubbed in my face?" The way to wound my heart is through my pride. The bastard knew that. But the look in Hans' eyes told me this wasn't a game to get me all riled up. "If your office ethics involve you getting into Tim's pants, then why don't I get to play too?" His hands flew down to my legs, tickling the bare skin on my legs and shocking me into stillness when I felt him pull up the corners of my dress till they were bunched up at my waist. "You can't," I breathlessly whispered as he forced my legs apart. One hand sauntered up to my neck, resting at my collarbone while the other snaked between my legs, parting my thighs until he had all of me resting at the tip of his fingers. "Is this cause of him," he growled, his finger dipping into my heat just slightly, circling the entrance, "or me?" He sounded so needing, so deprived. It turned me on knowing that I was the one making him feel this way, that despite being the one thrown up against a wall, I had the ultimate power over this man. "It's...It's you." I gulped and met his eyes. "It's all you." ● What happens when an unstoppable, hard-hitting business woman meets an unmovable, chauvinist, and utterly exhausting heir to a multi-million empire? Disaster, of course. For Tris, Hans Castellan proves to be more than a challenge of the heart and of the body. For Hans, Tris Henderson turns out to be a woman worth fighting for, despite a rocky start and more than a few broken hearts. Then again, no one said closing this deal would be easy. ● © Beatrice Manuel, All Rights Reserved

**The No 1 fantasy romance by award-winning novelist and scriptwriter Gytha Lodge, author of The Fragile Tower series** What if you had a power you couldn't control? What if you could make everyone you cared about fall in love with their perfect match, and live happily ever after? And what if the only person it wouldn't work on was you? Helena Morgan is a smart, sarcastic math student in her final year of MIT. She refuses to date, or to even get close to anyone male, and her friendships with her girlfriends have a bad habit of ending after a few months. But Helena isn't the hard person she appears to be. She has a secret; one that has made toughness necessary for her own survival. Helena creates fairytale happy endings, for everyone except herself. Every friend she's ever had has ditched her for their all-consuming new love interest, and the few times she's had boyfriends, they've suddenly found themselves head over heels for someone else... But the devastatingly hot new boy Joseph Moritz doesn't want to take no for an answer. The more Helena pushes him away, the more determined he is that they're meant to be together. She finds herself drawn into his world, one where his younger brother needs his protection from the increasingly bad people he's got involved with, and one where risks are a part of everyday life. She knows she shouldn't let herself get close to him, but something in Helena is aching to stop fighting. Is there a chance she might get to hang on to Joe, or will she lose him? And is it even worth the risk? The Cupid Touch is the gripping new story from Gytha Lodge, award-winning author of The Fragile Tower series. Available exclusively on Wattpad. Cover design: @HopeWinters_

Berkley Roberts is a college student in an abusive relationship until one day BJ pushes her too far. Betrayed by Laura, Dane Knight is a single father, struggling to balance work, women and his troubled son. He desperately needs a full time Nanny on site 24/7 to help him with his troubled 3 year old Ethan. Seeing Ethan struggling and falling behind, Danes mother takes matters into her own hands and hires Berkley to care for her grandson. Considering she is a beautiful brunette with stunning jade eyes instead of the middle aged prude of choice, Cybil hires her under the condition that she not fall prey to Dane and his charms. Soon Berkley finds her heart wrapped around the little finger of a small boy who clings to her to fill the void left by his mother. Dane wants nothing more than for his son to have a mother, someday, but his work is challenging him more and the last thing he has time for is a relationship. Berkley is emotionally scarred and hiding from her past, accepts Danes generosity taking refuge in his home. Battered and broken, can Berkley let her guard down and leave her heart defenseless? Can Dane learn to trust again? Will their 'Love of Ethan' pull them together or are they both too damaged?

IMPORTANT NOTICE: This book will be removed from Wattpad except for some sample chapters on 21st March 2021. When her cheating husband accuses Liza of being a cheater, Liza looses it all. All while knowing her husband's infidelity, the only hope she held onto was that he would come back to her leaving his cheating ways. When he demands for a divorce, she gives in. Distraught by his accusations, she leaves the very home she had spent numerous nights waiting for him to come home. But an unfortunate accident lands her in the hospital. And the only way he would ever know her truth is the box Liza cherishes so much. In the box lie a series of letters she had wrote him. summary @alexa105 Cover Credit @trulyness

Alexandra Rakers was madly in love with Nikolei Machiavelli and was willing to do everything for him. The night before their big wedding, she had to leave Nikolei and the city with a heavy heart in order to save the love of her life from bankruptcy and lose his precious family's business. Little did she know that Nikolei detested her the moment she decided to leave him on their wedding day. By the time she came back to be with her true love, she was met with a cold, ruthless and bitter Nikolei instead of the warm, kind-hearted and loving Nikolei whom she had felt deeply in love with a few years ago. He had made sure that she knew and never forget how he loathed every second she was in his sight. What he didn't know that she was innocent from the beginning and when he realized it, will it be too late to win her back?

For the last fifteen months of marriage with the Italian billionaire Lucca de Antonio; naive, and timid Melissa de Antonio was finally forced to acknowledge the fact that her husband would never come to the terms of loving her. To save her heart from more heart-break, she approaches her ice-cold husband for a divorce settlement and found out Lucca was not about to give her one. To her unfortunate luck; Lissa found out she was pregnant with his child! And Lucca was about to discover the true meaning of finding love.

Sarah Hudson was married and happy but that was until her husband cheated on her. Her husband begged for another chance and promised to be faithful form that moment out. So, she gave him another chance. Unfortunately, she was wrong to even think he'd changed his cheating ways. Deep down inside, she knew he wouldn't change. Cheaters never do. When he confessed once more that he cheated on her for the fifth time, that was all she could take and the last time she was going to agree to stick around. So, she left. Now, three years later, she has the life she should have had from the beginning. She is happy for the first time in a long time. But Sarah knows that when men come walking into your life, you can never stay happy for too long before something happens and your world gets turned upside down. Some for the good, some for the worst.

Rena Blackshear vowed never to come back to Savannah, GA. Her life was spent forgetting everything she loved about it. Especially Blake Glass, her only love. Her perfect world was flipped upside down with one phone call, forcing her to return home. Everything had drastically changed, except her love for Blake. When they reunited sparks flew. But he was engaged.

After escaping her past, Miranda finds herself in coastal Maine, and when she meets Owen, she must help him uncover what truly happened to his now-dead ex. ***** On the run from her abusive ex, Miranda Lewis figures a small town in coastal Maine is just the place for her to lay low. There she befriends Claire, the owner of a local cafe, and her son, Owen. A woodworker and musician, he keeps to himself, especially since the town believes he played a part in the disappearance of the town's pride and joy... a skilled artist and his former girlfriend. As the two begin to grow closer, Miranda agrees to help him uncover the truth behind what really happened, especially now that strange things are occurring again, leading all roads back to Owen. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]] Cover designed by Simone Northey

Mandy Romer is a 27 year old with ambition, drive, and a party lifestyle. Following the break up with her long term boyfriend, she acts out of character and has a one night stand. Mandy winds up pregnant, and with no memory of the man she slept with, she faces single parenthood alone. A chance encounter reunites the two, and Mandy decides to get to know him, before she will allow him into her son's life. Will he be who she expects? Will she tell him the truth? How will she cope with a life so different to the one she had planned out?