Wattys 2022 Shortlist Nominee Inspired by the delightful Curse of Strahd campaign! Darius Starbán, disgraced King of Starkovia, joins up with Demon-Spawn Inquisitor Urien, his ex-boyfriend and wealthy aristocrat Yra, and new friend Astrid as they tromp across the countryside fixing Darius' 400-year-old messes and finding a cure for Darius' vampirism. Based roughly off a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

Wang Li Xun, the Crown Prince, goes out hunting for the Celestial Flower to save his mother from a terminal illness. When he nearly dies from the attack of a mythical beast, he is saved by a mysterious boy who lives in the mountains. To repay his kindness, Li Xun offers the boy a place to stay in his royal palace and employs him to be his personal bodyguard. But little does he know that he has brought home a girl instead. Completed: 4/2/2020 (Word count: 60,000 - 70,000) Highest rankings: #1 in Historical Fiction #1 in Romance #5 in Diverse Lit Featured on Wattpad || Community Curator: @KateLorraine - May 2022 Featured on Wattpad || Lunar New Year - February 2022 Featured on WattpadAsianFantasy || Asian Fantasy Recommendations - September 2021 Featured on Wattpad || Stories of Trailblazing Asian Characters - May 2021 ========================================== Copyright © 2019-2023 by Kim_Knights

When a knight-in-training sets out on a dragonquest to win the hand of a fair princess, he expects to return in time for a pavilion wedding in the fall. But after fifty years of tracking his quarry across godforsaken hinterlands, he is starting to wonder if he has the stamina to finish the job.

Ilha's marriage to the crown prince of the newly-formed Eight Banner Nation gives her people strength against their enemies, the Chakhar Gols, a warring sister-tribe. Yet when the Chakhar leader dies at her hand, Ilha finds not peace but further turmoil, and she must ask herself how far she is willing to go to attain peace for herself, her family, and her peoples. For the Eight Banner Nation has enemies of its own: an Empire with gunpowder and necromancers at their disposal. And just when her husband's victory seems assured, the gods have another fate in mind for Ilha, Queen of the Eight Banners. - - A new adult, history-inspired literary fantasy with fox and dog spirits, political maneuverings and action sequences aplenty. - - -

His secret online gaming partner is actually his high school crush, but is she also a murderer? Nerdy Caleb thinks he's the luckiest boy on earth when he learns that his online gaming partner was actually the prettiest girl in school all along. Caleb thinks he's even more lucky when she tells him she's recently single. Just when Caleb thinks he can't get any luckier, one night he finds her ex-boyfriend hung dead in her basement. Faced with the choice of turning her into the police or having a date for Friday night, what Caleb decides to do next is sure to surprise everyone. CTRL FREAK is the classic tale of boy meets girl. Girl turns out to be a serial killer. Boy decides that's not an absolute dealbreaker. CTRL FREAK is a YA/NA Thriller that dares to explore your wildest fantasies. It's cute and rom-com-y at times, yet also dark and devastatingly hopeless at others. It's action scenes are horrific and iconically brutal. But at its heart, it's about illuminating the struggles that many teens in this era face. It's a whimsical nightmare about depression, the pressure to live up to high expectations, toxic families, true friendships, and idealized romantic relationships. In this story, the gamer gets the girl. The girl gets the fairy tale. And the fairy tale gets a crazy, bloody makeover. 🏆Awards: 🏅Wattpad Featured Story ⭐️#thepurpleappleawards Winner ⭐️Wattpad #Oscars Award First Place Mystery/Thriller ⭐️Blue Rose Award for First Place Mystery/Thriller ⭐️ Best Friendship Runner-up in The Discourse Awards ⭐️Blue Award for First Place Mystery/Thriller ⭐️ Moonlight Award for First Place Mystery/Thriller ⭐️Season Star Award Runner-up Mystery/Thriller ⭐️Season Star Award for Best Plot ⭐️Lucent Award Winner ⭐️Fallen Angel Award for Third Place in Teen Fiction ⭐️ SkullCandy Award for Best Horror ⭐️ TickTock Award for Best Mystery/Thriller ⭐️ Writing Wars Award for Best Dialogue

Marvela the kitten used to be a humble witch's familiar. However, one night a terrible fate befalls her beloved witch and Marvela finds herself bestowed with remarkable powers. ✨✨✨ After inexplicably becoming a full-fledged witch, former witch's familiar Marvela must find a way to control her newfound magical abilities and defeat the evil sorceress that destroyed her witch and vies to do the same to all other witches that hide in the town of Vigilance on Halloween night. Can Marvela thwart a plot for the control of all magic? Or is the world of witchcraft simply no place for a tiny kitten? ✨✨✨ [[2021 Wattys Winner in the Paranormal Category]] [[2021 Wattys Best Cover Shortlist]] [[2022 The Amby Awards Winner in the Paranormal Category]] Cover art drawn by the amazing illustratorium.sara on Instagram (It was a commission).

★ NOW PUBLISHED! ★ Hookup Culture Noun The idea that casual sexual encounters are the best or only way to engage sexually in college, a set of practices that facilitate casual sexual encounters, and an organizational structure that supports them (Lisa Wade, American Hookup 2017). As a sociology major researching nightclubs, Laney Emerson finds hookup culture to be just another socially constructed phenomenon that is worth questioning, analyzing, and concluding about. As a twenty-something college student, Laney also finds herself immersed in the culture of hooking up, in which physically getting naked is often easier than admitting how you feel. © 2020 ℓαℓαℓαℓαwriting |ORIGINALLY A Short Story One-Shot (Walk of Shame) that received an HONORABLE MENTION in Romance Contest #12: Songspiration| *This story contains explicit language and implied sexual content*