Making her grand re-entry into Portside, Rhode Island, Belinda Kittridge expected fun, sun, and sugar cookies. Instead, she gets one jilted lover braced for round two, an old rival on the hunt, and the murder of a former classmate and friend. Even worse, Belinda must return to the events surrounding a tragic sailing accident to set things right. But new possibilities emerge in the form of security expert Bennett Tate. Between her connections and his know-how, they're bound to catch the killer - and kick the skeletons out of the closet for good. Other Books Available in This Series: Auf'd (Book Two) Unexpected (A Short Story)

🏆 ONC AFRICA 2021 WINNER (SPOTLIGHT STORY) "Would you sabotage someone's career to protect your own?" Teniola Oyeyinka travels from New York to Nigeria after receiving a call from her estranged, terminally ill father. She is distraught by the experience, but eventually embraces new friends and family and decides not to return to the United States. During work as a columnist at the Continental Herald, Ibadan, Teniola commits an act of treachery to save her job. All hell breaks loose when she faces spiritual repercussions from an Ancient One. Will she be pay the ultimate price for her transgression? Pronunciation of 'JAGUNLABI' : JA (As in 'Jar') GUN ( 'Goon') LA (As in 'Lark') BI ('Bee') Meaning of 'JAGUNLABI': 'We have given birth to a warrior' Note: JAGUNLABI is complete. Part two (IPENIJA) is ongoing in the same book. ~~~~~ ONC AFRICA PROMPT 51 Your job as a gossip reporter is to find dirt on a couple, but you find nothing. To keep your job, you fabricate dirt/gossip that may cost you your life. ⭐WATTPAD FEATURED (by Community Curator LeeLeeKez) 🎖1st in the Paranormal/Horror category of the 2021 Elysium Awards 🎖1st in the Mystery/Thriller category of the 2021 Campfire Awards 🎖1st in the Paranormal category of the 2021 Rose Gold Awards 🎖Winner of the Paranormal category of The Fall Awards (2021) 🎖1st in the Horror/Paranormal category of the Sunflower Awards 4.0 Featured by: @Wattpad @WattDragons @MythandLegend @Fright @Fantasy @PsychologicalNovel @WattpadUrbanFantasy @TheWarriorGoddess @Contemporary Lit @SpeculativeFiction @LowFantasy @StoriesUndiscovered @AmbassadorsNG @YAFantasy @NA Highest ranking #1 in Indigenous #1 in BIPOC #1 in Black protagonist #1 in Project African Girls #1 in African literature #1 in Afrofantasy #1 in undiscoveredstories #1 in celebrate black stories Cover Design by @Evergreen_Ebony Banners by @WrennaStone

Chetachi Brown must adjust to a new life and school. He must also fight the urge to smother the annoying shrimp-of a girl he thinks he might like. Join Chet and a set of highschool characters he meets, as they learn to deal with one another in a time of raging hormones, crass swearing and an unexplainable craving for sugary drinks. -------------------- Updates on Friday's. WARNING: It contains swear words & tons of exaggerated teen drama.

Ari Callahan has no idea how to talk to boys -- or how to talk to anyone for that matter. Enter Zac, the cute new guy in town who won't stop texting her. But is his interest real, or does he have a hidden agenda? ***** Found as a young child washed up on the beach, 17-year-old Ari Callahan has never uttered a word out loud to anyone -- not even her adoptive family. Psychologists have diagnosed her with a condition called selective mutism, but Ari can't help identifying with her namesake character, Ariel, the little mermaid in the fairytale whose voice was stolen by a sea witch. Mermaid-obsession aside, Ari's silence makes socializing tough. She's never had a boyfriend or been asked out on a date. Not until Zac, the confident new arrival in town, asks for her number. But Zac has his own reasons for texting with Ari. He's part of a movement to sabotage the artificial music app called SirenSong, threatening to render human singing obsolete. Zac's collaborators have scoured the globe in search of a singing voice perfect enough to break the SirenSong spell, and their search has led them straight to Ari's beachside town. Will her relationship with Zac help Ari find her voice and unlock the secrets of her origins? Or will he use her and leave her high and dry? Title: Ari and Zac (formerly The Mermaid Hypothesis) Content Warning: This story contains references to selective mutism, suicidal thoughts, and early childhood trauma.

★━━─. ★━━─°° ✫彡 An Anthology of Original Poems ✫彡 ┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ 𝕹𝖊𝖎𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗, 𝖓𝖔𝖗 𝖓𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗, 𝕲𝖔𝖔𝖉𝖇𝖞𝖊. ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛ ✥ Souls don't speak, poetry is their only language ✥ ••★━━─. ★━━─°°. ・゜Rewrite. Major 'DARK' series lover. Dark themed poems. °。

A harmless game of "Twerk or Dare", gets Georgia Gibson, closet-drama-geek, stumbling into the path of Pearce Conway. The infamous know-it-all brainiac in her grade who's seen as irritating to both teachers and students. It'll be no sweat, Georgia's truthfully a pro at putting on an act. The only smidge of an issue; she has a hard time remembering what's for show and what's real. This time, it comes at a bigger cost when her alter ego is falling head over heels for Pearce and doesn't want to quit the 'charade'. Only then do the games truly begin... **completed**

Lily is a laidback slacker with a phobia for commitment...who happens to owe the devil her (nonexistent) firstborn. When the ruler of Hell comes knocking, what choice does she have but to let the devil play matchmaker? *** Lily has never been good at relationships, not that it matters to her. That is until Eve, a seductive woman claiming to be the devil's apprentice, shows up to collect a debt Lily doesn't remember owing: her firstborn child. Without a firstborn to give, and with the threat of eternal damnation at her heels, Lily finds herself on a chaotic matchmaking quest with the devil herself. Eve swears she's only playing matchmaker to collect the debt owed to her, but with each failed set-up, Lily suspects there may be something more to the devil's plan. [[word count: 60,000 - 70,000]] Cover designed by Joe Resch [[Wattys 2020 Winner]] Content warning: this story includes dark humour, mature themes, and scenes of violence and gore

*Wattys 2018 Winner / Hidden Gems* CREATE YOUR OWN MR. RIGHT Weeks before Valentine's, seventeen-year-old Kate Lapuz goes through her first ever breakup, but soon she stumbles upon a mysterious new app called My Dream Boyfriend, an AI chatbot that has the ability to understand human feelings. Casually, she participates in the app's trial run but finds herself immersed in the empathic conversations with her customizable virtual boyfriend, Ecto. In a society both connected and alienated by technology, Kate suspects an actual secret admirer is behind Ecto. Could it be the work of the techie student council president Dion or has Kate really found her soulmate in bits of computer code? She decides to get to the bottom of the cutting-edge app. Her search for Ecto's real identity leads Kate to prom, where absolute knowledge comes with a very steep price.

🍌🍌🍌Think Netflix's SEX EDUCATION, but without the accents, and instead of pictures and sound, I put the words on the screen, and you paint the pictures with your mind.🥒🥒🥒 *** Some guys are showers. Some guys are growers. Then there's Peter. He's got a big secret about a little problem (in his pants). But one day, that secret gets out, and Peter's life is ruined. The guys at his high school mock Peter without mercy. The girls giggle at the idea of dating Peter. But the situation isn't entirely without hope. Peter's best friend Elroy is a wannabe teenage business prodigy who sees Peter's predicament as an opportunity to develop a product that will help him "tap into the bajillion dollar market for addressing male insecurity." Meanwhile, a mysterious art student named Audrey seems to like-like Peter, despite his, ahem, little problem. Which is weird, because the rumor around school is that Audrey is a size queen. Why else would she be collecting so many dick pics? Peter's Little Peter is a story about the truth behind the myths of male sexuality, the awkwardness of teenage romance, surviving high school, and the bumpy road to self-acceptance.

Wattys 2017 winner in The Originals category!!!! This is NOT a romance between the main character and some hunky guy. These are the adventures of vampire Lena as she lives her life from day to day alongside her human flatmate Carmen. Together they encounter human rights activists (not what you think), overly attached exes, vampire geeks, quarrelsome shapeshifters, some really chill people, and a boy band. Let's Go For A Pint is a satire/genre parody revolving around tropes associated with vampire fiction (mostly tv and film portrayals but written works may be alluded) Season 1 is up. While marked as complete, expect ongoing editing and bonus content to appear. Cover made in Canva