Reasons My Standards Are Higher
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The Slut's Guide to Chess by cosmic-creepers
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Blackwell Boarding School is swarmed with cameras that prey on the students in order to film for the reality TV show that shows an exclusive inside to an elite school. Zora McQueen avoids the glistening TV screen when her nudes are spread around campus, instead taking comfort with the only other person who keeps secrets from the public. Alluring mystery and dubbed slut, Eliott Hearse. Except now, Eliott is missing and no one has the faintest idea where she could've gone. Taking matters into her own hands, Zora believes that the answers may lie in Eliott's favourite game: chess. Partnering with the school's best chess club player, Arwyn Truong, Zora learns that not everything is as it seems and that perhaps the old school holds far more secrets than they'd care to admit. Some secrets hitting dangerously close to home. In order to see things for what they are and find her friend, Zora must escape the gossip and cameras that follow her closely and embrace the title she adorns. The only way to do that? Follow the Slut's Guide to Chess. [2022 Watty's Shortlist] [Featured on Wattpad Editors' Picks, April 2021 + 2023]
Bonds Built (Completed) by WrittenbyJanae
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Jessica Brown is a twenty-five year old surgical technician, newly heartbroken and dragged out to get out of her feelings. In the mist she meets Major League Baseball player, Mateo Santos. The two find themselves in a situation they never imagined being in after a night out changes their connection to each other like the never imagined. But it doesn't just change their lives but those around them, forever. Some bonds will be broken, some bonds will be built. How strong is your bond?
Work For It by leilaburnesbooks
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[SAMPLE - NOW PUBLISHED] Selene Haddad works for the hottest fiction app on the market, tasked with writing romance all day. It's a dream job, minus one little aspect of it: having to work alongside Daniel Santiago, the infuriatingly attractive man who screwed her out of a massive payday. She may have written it a thousand times, but Selene is quick to learn that even in real life there truly is a thin line between love and hate.
Mr and Mrs Accidental  by DamnThatSass
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The Mathematician (Book 1) by TheBibicalSinner
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"I could tutor you, but I don't think you'd be able to concentrate." • • • When Cassandra Berry gets offered a shitload of money and a place at any college of her choice, just to con a man and getting pregnant with a said man, the answer seems pretty straight forward; Yes. - But Harry Xavier Devon is no mere fool. With two millennium prizes on his back and renowned around the world as the next Newton within mathematics, Harry easily sees through his brother's ploy to have a woman seduce him and get her pregnant when he himself can't have children. His brother in desperate need of an heir for his business empire, but Harry has no intentions of playing the scapegoat. Flipping the play against his brother, he pays Cassandra double the money to continue lying to his brother that they *are* having sex. He thinks he's gotten his revenge when it suddenly appears he's gotten more than he bargained for. Cassandra is no shy woman, or as previously thought, just a money-grabbing whore. Stuck in the same house together for a whole summer could prove to teach the mathematician that some things can *never* be calculated... - Especially when dealing with a (horny) woman.
I do and I do by Mercy198
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A simple orphaned school teacher with a heart of gold meets a strange and helpless woman who has lost all memories of who she was. He takes her home and eventually marries her. However, their matrimonial bliss is cut short when the truth about her past is revealed. * * * Adedayo Michael is an orphan who works as a school teacher. He is known for being cool-headed but sometimes he is too soft-hearted for his own good. One day, he comes across a strange and helpless-looking young woman and immediately feels drawn to her. He can't walk away, especially after finding out that she has lost all memory of who she is. Adedayo does something that many Nigerians might consider foolish - he brings her home with him. Despite several attempts to uncover her true identity, he was unable to find any information about her. As time passed, he found himself becoming more and more entwined with her life. When friends, co-workers, and members of their church began to question their relationship, Adedayo decided to make her his wife in order to provide a label for their cohabitation. Although he told himself that this was the only reason, he knew deep down that his feelings for her went beyond convenience. If only loving her was enough to make her his for eternity, but it wasn't. Now, Adedayo is about to learn the hard truth as their marital bliss is disrupted. *** If you enjoyed my story 'When The Sun Sets In The East', click 'read' and save it to your library.
When It Comes To Us (BWWM) ✓ by wambuimuiruriii
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"You and I, we're one too many worlds apart It really shouldn't work but it does And side by side, we're different but somehow the same It really shouldn't work but it does It really shouldn't work but it does When it comes to us." •• Two strangers meet unexpectedly. Ones a quiet girl, hoping to be alone, but not lonely for the night. Another, a edgy bad boy trying to find a break from his busy life of class and work. They both decide to be spontaneous for the remaining hours of the night they have left together. Adventure ensues. -------------------------------------- This is now published and on Kindle! Go ahead and check out the edited version and help support my struggling ass.
Turn The Paige✔ by Evergreen_Ebony
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When a fun-loving beauty with brains and a stone cold hardliner are forced to work together...the situation will be volatile. Paige Adesanya is a free-spirited, first year Pharmacy student at Landmark University, England. Adulting is tougher than she expected and the pressures of campus life leave her feeling overwhelmed. Her life turns upside down when a brilliant PhD finalist, enigmatic Australian, Brian Rochester is assigned to supervise her for a departmental project. He does not tolerate her indiscipline and they clash. Chaos and wild adventures ensue in the course of their collaboration. With high tension and a research deadline, will their chaotic combination be constructive or toxic? ⭐WATTPAD FEATURED (by Community Curator AngeltheAuthor) ⭐ONC 2021 SHORTLISTER AND AMBASSADORS PICK Featured @Wattpad @NewlyWrittenBooks @Ambassadors 'Best Teen Fiction' reading list @NARomance @NA @YARomance @WattpadESL @WattCliches @StoriesUndiscovered @AmbassadorsNG @TeenFiction @AmbassadorsAF @AmbassadorsUK @Humor 🎖1st in the Young Adult category of the 2021 Coral Awards ~~~~~~~ BASED ON ONC ENGLISH PROMPT 83 "This assignment requires us to behave like adults. I have never been this stressed." [First draft] Highest ranking: #1 in Multicultural romance #1 in Telemundo #1 in 9ja #1 in Positivity #1 in Australian #1 in short and sweet #3 in Excellent Cover design: @Evergreen_Ebony Banners: @WrennaStone
In Your Arms by DoctorRockhard
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#1 in paranormalromance 02/06/19 #1 in aliens 02/27/2019 #2 in paranormal 07/10/2019 #2 in horror 07/18/2019 #7 in apocalypse 12/24/2021 **COMPLETED** 🌙 { "What are you?" Farrah asked in a low voice, still clutching the outfit close to her body. Isen tapped a long nail against his hard jaw, trying to figure out an appropriate response to her question. He eventually shrugged, shaking his head like it wasn't important. "I have been here ever since the Purification." He glanced up at the starry sky, "Things are much more different down here..."} xxx No human expected their demise would arrive from the heavens, disguised in a bright, foreign blue light that instantly killed billions. Farrah is a survivor, and as far as she knows, the only one. All she has left is a small house in the town of Windsburg- an isolated, quiet area with food to provide for a whole community. But every place has its demons. When the sun sets, an unknown entity lurks through the town, only to leave and repeat the same process the next night. Farrah has managed to avoid confronting the creature, but an unexpected turn of events forces her to be outside at the wrong time- an action that would result in her making contact with a fearful, yet unusually friendly monster...
The Persistence of Memory by ScarletteDrake
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A married writer begins a passionate and destructive affair with a tortured artist, not knowing he has loved her since they met thirteen years ago. ***** Eloise Airens sat as a model for an art class thirteen years ago, where a damaged young artist, Aidan Foley, fell in love with her. For him, she was everything. For her, he was just a face in the crowd. But thirteen years later, Eloise's marriage is struggling and she ends up at Aidan's latest art show in New York. He's immediately drawn to her as he's never gotten over his obsession, and she's drawn to him because despite his pretentious art, only he can make her feel truly alive. Despite trying to save her marriage and stay true to her values, Eloise can't escape the pull of the talented, brooding, yet tortured Aidan Foley. Will she stay with the world she knows, or risk everything? And more importantly, will she do so before Aidan tells her about their strange past? [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]