Everyone can read minds except for Ethan Langdon. And Ethan Langdon has the dumbest (and cutest!) thoughts Lukas Hoffmann has ever heard. ____ Lukas Hoffman's life in Brambleburg is about as boring as you'd expect for a town where everyone can read minds. He's used to his routine of dusting the LPs at the record store where he works and helping out his grandma around the house. Nothing in Brambleburg changes. No one in Brambleburg changes. Until Ethan Langdon stumbles in with the soggy remnants of a paper map, asking for the quickest route to Berlin. Ethan, it turns out, doesn't have telepathy, and as aggravatingly inane as his thoughts are, Lukas hasn't felt the excitement of meeting a stranger since.... well, ever. And the more Lukas listens, the more he starts enjoying Ethan's cute thoughts about life, the universe, and Lukas's dimples. ____ Might bring to mind: "Cherry Magic" but set in a fictive European town where everyone except the love interest can read minds. ____ Cover by @mygoodbones ____ Written for the Open Novella Contest 2024 using prompts 8, 75, 82, and 85. 8. You start singing along to a movie soundtrack late at night forgetting that your window is open. Someone from the outside starts singing with you. 75. You awake in the middle of the night to a voice saying loudly "May the force be with you..." 82. You wake up on a seemingly ordinary day to discover that your thoughts are not private. There is someone else in your head with you. 85. "If you do that again, I'll throw you out that freaking window. What are you doing?" "Checking how high the drop is to see if it's worth it."

Mira's life is falling apart. As if her worsening disability wasn't bad enough, the unraveling of her support system has her realizing that a life of independence may be too far from reach. When her mother is injured, Mira takes a job offer from tech mogul Ezra Agent, who she happened to get stuck in an elevator with once. Ezra is distant, wealthy, and blunt, but his disabled sister is his utmost priority. Hiring Mira to be Aceline's friend is supposed to be a temporary, mutually beneficial affair, if only feelings didn't get involved. Mira can't trust herself to be in a relationship. Ezra is married to his job. But the heart has never cared for barriers. When a situation threatens Ezra's life in the United States, can he and Mira make their relationship work? ---- AMAZING COVER by @AnnamitaMuscaria

Meera Rajput knows what she needs in life, and a boyfriend isn't one of them. Between struggling to pay rent and reining her sex-crazed little sister, Meera doesn't need any more complications in her life. So when her visiting cousin, Riya, suggests that a chance interview with billionaire Ezra Agent can lead to something more, Meera pays no heed to her teasing, knowing that her relationship with Ezra will never pass professional lines. She can blush and dream about it all she wants, but there's no way that her dream will ever be a reality... Or so she thinks. When a chance interaction at her graduation brings Meera to the realization that Ezra is undoubtedly interested in her, she's not sure what to think. He's rich, handsome, and the kindest man that she's ever met, but falling in love with Ezra brings back Meera's physical insecurities, as well as other issues. Without Riya's support, Meera finds herself getting strangled with the daily tasks of a new graduate. Add in a new family member, a lawsuit, and a death, can Meera lift her head and face the new challenges? Or will she hide from them, just as she's always had, and lose the one good thing that's ever happened to her? 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 • Abelism • Grief/Loss • Teenage Pregnancy • Explicit Sex • Violence GORGEOUS COVER BY: @sulkytae WORD COUNT: [110k - 130k] currently Featured on @newlywrittenbooks Roses Are Red: 12/30/22 Featured on @Project_Athena Women's Fiction Delights: 11/5/23 Featured on @AstaniaCommunity Love is Love: 11/14/23 Featured on @beauty Empowerment: 1/3/24 Featured on @chicklit High Drama: 10/18/25 ---- 1st Place in the Literary Book Awards 1st Place in The Writer's Book Awards Grand Winner of the NanoWatt Awards 2023 Honorable Mention in the @romance 2024 awards

[completed] With his finals only six months away and his goal to complete thousand practice papers, remained unaccomplished, the last thing Yohan wanted to come his way was a distraction. A distraction that would make him feel guilty for doing something he was not responsible of and feel sorry for someone, he had not even spoken to in person! When her online class got bothered by constantly incoming messages, Anuthi decided to leave a message in a public WhatsApp group asking them to stop bothering her. And the last thing she wanted from that was to get cyberbullied. At first she did not care much about it! The upcoming exam was depressing her enough and she did not want anything else to worry her at the moment. But once she got to know the person that bullied her, her teenage heart was crushed in to pieces! It was her old crush with whom she lost ties with! Who knew such a nice boy could be that nasty! Feelings kept at bay and her suspicious mind awake, will Anuthi open her heart towards her crush that crushed her? Even if she did would Yohan accept her? Open Novella contest round 1 qualifier! Rankings ~ #8 in onc2021 #25 in firsts #1 in econ #1 in supporter

This is love story about childhood friends who fell in love in their Adult lives and decided to go on a road trip to bring back memories and spend more time together.

This is a story that follows two childhood friends - Lily and Mason. Due to some misinterpreted words and doubts, their friendship now hangs on loose threads. As they live their high school lives, meeting friends and foe, what will the future lie in stall for them? Will their stupid hearts lead them to heartbreak, help them form lifelong connections, or will it even restore their friendship? Well, only time will tell.

𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐀 - Intricate and witty, her life has twisted upside down after her father's past scarred his family. At the young age of twenty, Violet is informed that eight years ago, she was promised to marry a Mafia Don's son by her father, in exchange for ten million dollars. 𝐃𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐂 𝐃 '𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋𝐎 - A name that lingers of blood and lust, was also a ruthless killer and the new Don of the Italian Mafia. In order to have no distractions, his father has forced him to marry the daughter of a millionaire law firm owner. What happens when two fiery personalities collide? Will they be able to avoid the instant attraction that they feel? Or will they give into each other? Breaking the one and only rule of the marriage that they both so desperately despised; no sexual interactions. ______ #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 ______ 𝐃𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 - to all of those who long to be someone's first choice, this one's for you.