The vision always came with the same crushing clarity: a sky torn open, fire raining down, and the earth trembling as oceans rose to swallow cities whole. For years, Mara thought she was meant to stop it. It was her burden, her divine punishment, to bear the sight of humanity's end and avert it. But that night, something changed. In the heart of the vision, where the chaos spiraled outward, she saw herself-arms raised, eyes alight with power she didn't yet understand. She wasn't a savior; She was the spark. And as much as she wanted to be horrified, a quiet part of her wondered what it would feel like to finally let it burn.

[Wattys 2022 Winner!] Vanessa Brooks, an anxious and cynical seventeen year-old, discovers she can travel to the summer of 1953 through the run-down community pool in her rural Michigan town and risks her future as she falls for a boy who lives in the past. ****** On the last day of junior year, Vanessa Brooks joins her friends for a traditional jump into the city pool to celebrate the beginning of summer and the last year they plan to spend in Palmer, Michigan; a dead-end riverside town with an eerily abandoned historic main street and decaying Victorian mansions. But when she resurfaces her classmates have been replaced by girls in retro swimsuits and bathing caps and guys in thigh-baring briefs with cigarettes tucked behind their ears. When Pete Harrison, an unfamiliar face who seems somewhat familiar with hers, offers a dizzy and confused Vanessa a towel and a ride home, she discovers her house and family missing. She has somehow slipped into 1953, the year her grandparents graduated high school. Using the pool and vivid imaginings of her grandfather's memories, Vanessa continues to escape to 1953- and to Pete, who, despite his unaffected kindness and optimism, has a mysterious bad reputation around town. But as she dives deeper into the summer her grandparents fell in love, she finds herself unable to return to the present without venturing even further into the past to correct a mistake that threatens her family and future. *Content Warning: this story contains scenes of near drowning and other perils on the sea, swearing, smoking and alcohol use* This story is complete at ~90,000 words. Wattys Winner 2022- Catchiest Hook and Wild Card Shortlisted Wattys 2021 Featured on @WattpadTimeTravel Featured on @WattpadHistoricalRomance Featured on @TeenFiction Editor's choice list, December 2022, May 2023 Cover by @eva3382

Mazie has fallen in love. Okay, maybe it's with the ghost of a boy from school she hates, but love conquers all, right? ***** Soon after sixteen-year-old Mazie moves to the town of Dorn, she becomes haunted by the ghost of a teenage boy. The ghost doesn't remember anything, so Mazie calls him Jack. Until then, she never knew that ghosts could tap dance, nor that it was possible to fall in love with one! But then Mazie meets Blake, a mean, popular boy at her new high school - and she realizes that Blake is Jack's living counterpart. This means Blake is in grave danger, and only Mazie can help him, but saving this unpleasant boy might kill her ghostly love forever... [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]]

Status: COMPLETE. UNEDITED VERSION (𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗸𝗶𝘁𝘁) ~ "Given the option, would you go out with me a second time?" ~ He fell in love with her at first sight... And was determined to win her heart through every battle. ᪥᪥᪥ Self-reliant Gabriella Keller has never had a dependable man in her life. Her experience with the opposite sex has been disappointing, to say the least. It's no wonder why she's become skeptical about the male race while secretly still hoping to find the love of her life, the evidently extinct noble knight. But fate has an unexpected way of guiding the hand of love and Gabriella might find romance bumping into her in the unlikeliest of ways. Question is, is this damsel ready for a knight unlike any other? ♡♡♡ Straightforward millionaire Brandon Whiteley has seen it all... The women with curves, the jewel encrusted blondes and brunettes, the 'marry for money' types... What he sought might be rarer than a pearl in the artic - and that was a woman the world would be put to shame by. But angels do exist and he might stumble into one when he least expected it. Question is, can he recognize an angel in disguise? ᪥᪥᪥ Rated PG 16 (95k words) FEATURED IN WATTPAD'S @ContemporaryLit Contemporary Romance READING LIST✨ Reviews ★ From Inkitt: Rebeckah Larson May 15, 2023 Loved it "One of the best rom coms I've read so far. Definitely recommend to anyone and everyone!!!!!" Overall Rating ★★★★★ Plot★★★★★ Writing Style★★★★★ Grammar & Punctuation★★★★★ monicamcurry Apr 12, 2023 21st Century Knight "I loved this story, the author's writing style, the plot and the characters. Amazing interaction between the main two characters. It was interesting, exciting and enjoyable. Thank you author for a great and wonderful read. " Overall Rating★★★★★ Plot★★★★★ Writing Style★★★★★ Grammar & Punc

| a true story about a boy who hides his pain behind his smile and a girl determined to see it | - FREE story with paid Exclusive Chapters and Writer Reveals - Twice Featured - Taylor Ming is trying to cope with the aftermath of her twin brother's suicide, and her depressed mother and avoidant father aren't really helping. With one of her friends' self-harming while another deals with a chronically ill boyfriend, being diagnosed with Diabetes and forced to use insulin thrice a day is Taylor's worst nightmare. When she catches the school's golden boy Shane Gray popping pills in a bathroom, then, Taylor is sure she's in a living hell. Is he depressed? Is he using drugs? She's afraid of losing more people and strikes a deal with Shane. He'll tell her if he ever has the urge to hurt himself and she'll keep his secret. What neither of them knows, however, is that he's already hurting himself without knowing it. And Shane's life is falling apart quicker than Taylor's. Because life isn't black and white and, sometimes, seeing gray can make all the difference. Warning: The story talks about suicide, self-harm, drug use, and mental health problems which may be triggering for some readers.