*Highest Rank #1 in Historical Fiction* Shy and awkward Elizabeth Montgomery doesn't think she'll ever find love. As her family's former plantation struggles in Reconstruction era Virginia, she's afraid she'll find herself either betrothed to the wrong man through an arranged marriage, or a spinster living with her widowed father. However, Elizabeth's sister Amelia is vibrant and charming, and sure to secure a valuable match. When two wealthy, eligible bachelors come to her family's plantation home for a visit, Elizabeth finds that she has to depend on her faith more than ever. Edward Stanton is a cocky bank owner's son, and his father, Charles, is pressuring him to take a wealthy wife to create a banking empire. As Edward resists his father's demands, the stakes become higher and higher, pointing to evidence that Charles has underlying motives for forcing a particular match on Edward. Will an unexpected love emerge from so much greed and manipulation? *Completed May 2015*

It's 1939, and the world is at the precipice of war. But life for one young man in rural America couldn't be better. Jonathon Blackwell is the eldest son of the most powerful family in town and heir to Blackwell Iron and Mining. Unlike many who struggled to survive the final years of the Great Depression, he has everything he could ever want - except the one thing he desires most. Sheltered by class, privilege, and living inside a locked iron fence meant to protect him, no one could ever imagine anything terrible could happen to him, but dark times are coming. Fate is about to play it's cruel hand, and when it's all over, the world, the country, and young Jonathon will be changed forever. The much anticipated prequel to the 2014 Watty award winning and Wattpad featured story, The Boy in the Woods! This is Jonathon's story, and it just may break your heart... Best Ranking: Historical Fiction #4 Note: Even though this story takes place before events in The Boy in the Woods, it's intended to be read AFTER because it wraps up the last of the mysteries of that story. A gentle warning - many spoilers and much confusion lie ahead if you decide to start with this one. :)

A newly expanded and professionally edited version of the Boy in the Woods is now available for sale as an ebook and paperback! Buy it at Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and many other online outlets. Winner of the 2014 Wattys Talk of the Town award. After a devastating accident takes Jess's parents, a cold and controlling uncle is the only family she has left. Ripping away everything she's ever known, he takes her far from her home in the big city to live on the rural family estate. With a spoiled and stuck up older cousin the only other young person in the home, Jess struggles to adjust to her new life of loneliness and quiet isolation. While exploring the woods surrounding her home one day, she stumbles upon a mysterious boy. Desperate for a friend, she's instantly drawn to him, but he's deeply distrustful and wants nothing to do with her. Sneaking away to see him, she works hard to break through his walls and slowly gains his trust. As time passes, their bond grows from forbidden friendship into something more, but the threat they'll be caught looms closer. How far will Jess have to go to protect the boy she's fallen in love with? Or will her uncle find out about them before she can escape his control? The Boy in the Woods is a mysterious and poignant coming of age novel set in the late 1950's, with the same classic feel as A Little Princess and The Secret Garden. As one of the top ten most read historical fiction stories on the popular reading website Wattpad.com, it's already loved by tens of thousands of readers. This compelling story is twice the length of the average young adult novel, and is appropriate for ages 14 to adult. By the same author as Wattys finalists Stolen Hearts and Love You Forever! Best Ranking: Historical Fiction #1 General Fiction #3 Warning: This story contains occasional language and mild violence.

Verity Baker has spent her life cleaning up after her father's mistakes. But one day, he goes too far and sells her, for one night only, to a local lord to pay his debts. What kind of man would buy a woman? What kind of woman would agree to be bought? COMPLETED

"Look at me properly and try to remember." He implored her, his silvery eyes boring into hers. Maya raised her nervous eyes to meet his. Searching her head, she tried to remember where she may have met this man before. As she stared at him, a sense of familiarity began to settle. Those eyes... she'd seen them before. Where has she seen them? One by one, the images came. The pictures from a time she had forgotten. She had helped someone with eyes just like this. Still in his embrace, a daunting realisation began to set in. She'd met this man before. Long before he even dreamed of being a king... **************** A tyrant king conquers a kingdom so he can get married to her forgotten princess. People expect a marriage filled with strife and everything but none of that happens. Instead he treats her right, worships her and kisses the very ground she walks on. Why is that? People wonder. The reason is quite simple. Years ago, the same princess had saved his life from the bitter hands of death when he was betrayed by his half brother, the crown prince of Madonia. Highest ranking. 1 in forgotten Princess 10/10/2022 1 in Royaltycore 30/10/2022 1 in Historical 13/11/2022 1 in Historicalromance 18/11/2022 1 in dreamlandbooks 20/11/2022 3 in Royalty 18/11/2022 3 in Slow burn 7/1/2023 2 in Steamy 17/1/2023 1 in loveatfirstsight 23/3/2023 1 in possessive 2/2/2023 1 in Tyrant 3/3/2023 23 in love (out of 2.32million stories!)

NATASHA BLACKMORE is terrified and elated. Not only does she have newborns to deal with and friends to worry about, but she also has to keep her throne away from power-hungry courtiers. Fortunately, she has help from her husband... CONNOR WHITE thought life was settled when he married the queen two years ago. Now he's learning that life is just getting started, and when his cousin asks him for an heir to the White family estate, he has no idea what to do... VICTORIA RUTHERFORD has just gotten engaged. Unfortunately, she's also just lost her brother. As she is forced to navigate her romantic and familial relationships, will she finally learn what love really is?

THIS IS THE SEQUEL TO "OF MARRIAGE AND MURDER" NATASHA BLACKMORE: A year later, she's a mother. It doesn't mean she's any sweeter, or any more affectionate, however - only that she has more people to care for, and even more to lose. And even though the murderer has been discovered and put away, new enemies are springing up in Arlean court - enemies that could bring worse consequences than death... CONNOR WHITE: He didn't expect to be a father so soon, but his child is not a burden to him. And even if it were, it would be one he refuses to run from. Although his Royal in-laws suddenly coming back from the dead certainly present a challenge... Not to mention the rivals surrounding the throne on all sides, waiting to take them down. VICTORIA RUTHERFORD is still healing emotionally from the wounds inflicted on her a year ago by a murderer and criminal. Ergo, new love is the last thing on her mind. But will it find her all the same... and will he truly care for her, or is he using her for darker purposes? MATTHEW BLACKMORE: sank on a ship and disappeared forever. Or did he? {#104 in Historical Fiction on 01/14/2019}

*WATTYS 2018 SHORTLISTED* *FEATURED ON WATTPAD JANUARY 2018* NATASHA BLACKMORE is barely hanging onto her crown after all five of her suitors have been murdered, making her the prime suspect. Determined to stay on the Arlean throne, she coaxes (or rather, forces) one unsuspecting duke into marriage. After all, he was out of the country for all the killings, so he can't be the murderer, right? That duke is CONNOR WHITE, who wanted to live as low-profile a life as possible for a noble, even moving to a foreign country to teach school. But when his father dies, he's called back home. In Arles, however, all he finds are betrayals, family secrets, and a completely unwanted marriage. Because he's already got a girl... VICTORIA RUTHERFORD has just moved back from Xianggang to Arlea, only to discover the schoolteacher she was courting is actually a duke, who has just married the queen. To enact her revenge, she joins a rebel group determined to take down the monarchy, but ends up in way over her head. Whoever the killer is, this murderer either wants a crown or a heart. And he's closer than it seems to both.... one m a r r i a g e | two e n e m i e s | six m u r d e r s | will love or hatred ensue? {#178 IN HISTORICAL FICTION ON 05/23/2017} [#1 in #asiansinlit on 03/01/2019] SEQUEL: OF HEIRS AND HAVOC

1898, HONG KONG. ELIZABETH LEE: Born in Hong Kong as the only daughter of an extremely wealthy man and his concubine, Elizabeth is disposable. A pawn to be bought, sold, and traded - specifically, for the drug, opium, the business in which her father has made a fortune. Now, to cement their ties to power, she must marry... WILLIAM FAIRFAX: Always in search of adventure, his next great escapade will be to marry and move to Britain's newest colony: Hong Kong, where his father will become governor. The fourth son to an elite British family, he has just been bartered away - for a lifetime's supply of a ridiculously expensive luxury good, tea. But more than tea begins to brew as they try to uncover the shady business deals between both of their families and possibly find love... CONTAINS: DRUG USE AND RACISM. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK! 3RD PLACD IN THE GLOSSY AWARDS {#421 in HISTORICAL FICTION ON 4/7/2019} [#2 in #19thCentury] [#1 in #WattMulticultural] [#4 in #asiansinlit]

When Rosalie Winthrop, an earl's daughter, writes letters to her future husband, she doesn't expect him to be a penniless orphan. *** Sheltered by her father, Lord Samuel Winthrop, in Grenledge Manor all her life, twelve-year-old Rosalie longs to travel the world or at least go to London more than once a year. But when she finally leaves England for a trip to colonial Hong Kong with her father, she meets and befriends Maximilian Walker, a street urchin who's on the run from a troubled past. The two become fast friends, but they are torn away from each other by cruel fate. Soon, they learn that more than an ocean voyage has drawn them together--it's also their intertwined family histories. Neither of their backgrounds is what they appear. Will Rosalie ever meet Maximilian again--or her future husband? And what happens if the two are one and the same? Content warning: This story contains themes of child abuse, racism, implied sexual harassment, and mentions of drug use. This story is now available on YONDER, your next-generation reading app from the Wattpad family. Join me on YONDER today! Find it now in your app store. 2021 WATTYS WINNER 1ST PLACE WINNER OF WALK BY FAITH AWARDS 2021 Check out the lovely trailer made by @kirstyt97