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The Palmer Pool by AnnaWestley
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[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 But when she resurfaces her classmates have been replaced by girls in retro swimsuits and bathing caps and guys in thigh-baring briefs with cigarettes tucked behind their ears.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
your best american girl ✓ by whereagardenwas
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Leighanna Chua has always struggled to fit in. Left feeling disconnected between her suburban community and her own identity, she's determined to prove that she belongs. But when Hunter D'Medici, a boy who embodies the very essence of privilege, offers her a proposal of a lifetime, Leighanna puts aside her morals and accepts. *** 4 years ago, Hunter's sister, Kassie, disappeared without a trace. Left determined and without closure, Hunter enlists Leighanna, a girl as smart as she is insecure, to help him find his sister--dead or alive. cover by @mjwritesx
Blend by addison_sweet
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✨A WATTYS 2022 PARANORMAL & "BEST CHARACTERS" WINNER✨ A college basketball star risks everything to prove his innocence with a girl who can communicate with ghosts. *** Ace Jones isn't certain about a lot of things in life, but basketball has always come easy. This is until he finds himself as the prime suspect of a murder he knows he didn't commit. Lucky for him, Devyn Brooks knows he didn't commit it either. But not because she witnessed it--she simply sees the victim as plain as day and even endures her incessant talking. Though Devyn usually does everything in her power to hide her supernatural ability, she'll have to start embracing it in order to save Ace from a common fate. And Ace will discover a deeper part of his identity that challenges his notions of the world. Will they be able to solve a case that America is so eager to pin on another Black man? ✨| FEATURED ON WATTPAD READING LISTS | ✨ 💕 Wattpad Editor's Choice Dec. 2022 💕 @StoriesUndiscovered, Thrills N Spills 2022 @SpeculativeFiction, The Crypt 2022 ⛈ A Stormy Nights Challenge Participant 2022 ⛈
The Heartbreak Hypothesis by danielletalbury
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[2022 Wattys Winner] When love cynic Madison Watson starts university, she vows to follow three simple rules. One: Work out at least twice a week. Two: Get an internship. Three: Stay away from men. But after a chance encounter with three guys in the dorm halls, Madi's enlisted to transform a shy and love-sick hopeless case into the perfect boyfriend. Unbeknownst to her optimistic accomplices, she's out to prove a hypothesis of her own - love is a construct, and heartbreak is inevitable. ♡ A college story about first love and first heartbreak, reflecting on the ins and outs of dating in the age of technology. Achievements: 2022 WATTY WINNER (New Adult and W by Wattpad Books Award) Featured on Editors' Picks by @wattpadexplorer (Apr 21) #1 in The Siren Awards 2020 (user run) #1 in The Creator's Choice Awards 2020 (user run) Best Protagonist in The Creator's Choice Awards 2020 (user run) Ranks: #2 collegestudent (Sep 20) #1 contemporary romance (Feb 21) #3 newadult (Feb 21) #1 collegestories (Feb 21)
Two Weeks to Fall in Love by katfeatherly
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[WATTY WINNER - NOW PUBLISHED ✨ Find it on Amazon and in local bookstores!] Noah Archer dates girls for two weeks and then moves on-but none of his exes seem to mind. Skyler Fox can't figure it out. When her best friend becomes Noah's latest "victim," Sky decides it's time to expose him. Her plan? Be the next girl he dates. Charming and confident, Noah accepts Sky's unexpected dating proposal. Beneath his reputation, Noah is searching for something real, driven by a secret. Each short-lived relationship is his way of chasing a connection before it's too late. Sky sets out to expose Noah, but the closer she gets, the more she starts to question her motives... and her heart. As their two weeks unfold and Noah's secrets begin to surface, Sky is forced to confront the one question she never expected: can she be the one to break his two-week streak? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For fans of contemporary, humorous, clean teen romance by Beth Reekles, Sarah Dessen, and Jenny Han comes a debut YA novel about uncovering secrets, challenging first impressions, and discovering that love-and people-are far more complicated than they seem.
Quill of Thieves by HeyLookTheSnitch
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||2022 WATTYS WINNER|| A scholar boy who denies the existence of elemental magic. A hidden princess who can control all seven elements. A mystical quill capable of rewriting both of their destinies. In the realm of Rainier where magic should no longer exist, eighteen-year-old Sebastian d'Aximos, a nobody scholar from an insignificant fishing village, finds himself accused by the Salvera Crown for using forgotten elemental magic to murder his own mother. There exists one problem with the Crown's theory, however; magic resides only in the Scribal legends about the Authors of Old, a rare race of humans who controlled the seven elements by weaving elemental threads into storybooks called Monvertas. But the Monvertas are myths; they have never been real. Yet, when Sebastian's soul cries out to the hidden heir of Rainier's Crown, Astrid Salvera, his beliefs in logic and facts are challenged. Because Astrid controls the seven elements, and she and her mother have worked to release magic back to their kingdom since it had been stolen by the enemy lands of Soleita two decades previously. Together, Sebastian and Astrid must work to find a mystical, hidden artifact: the Black Quill. A tool used by the original Author to unlock the Monverta and release its magical secrets. A tool that could redeem the realms of their world and reinstate magic. Ancient myths, prophecies of saviours and villains, and deadly trials by elements awaken to meet both Sebastian and Astrid as they work to unveil the secrets hidden from Rainier and learn the dark truths of each other. **Book 2 OUT NOW!**
Plagium (Keepers Book 1) by HaileyMorrisonBooks
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[2022 WATTYS WINNER] | Tracey Higgenbottom, Mr. Porter's witty assistant, finds herself at a dead-end when constables dismiss a case of his possible kidnapping. With the unexpected help of a spunky adventurer, a chimney sweep boy and his sister, and a reluctant records keeper, she suddenly finds herself on the hunt for Mr. Porter herself. When she starts searching too deeply, however, matters complicate beyond her expectations. A steampunk adventure for all to enjoy! ***This is a late (but not final) draft!*** (Plagium || Plah-gee-um: The crime of kidnapping a child) ⭐Plagium has won a Watty in the "Mystery & Thriller" category AND The 2022 WWS Animation Prize! ⭐ NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! Coming out July 7th wherever books are sold online. Link in author bio. :) (Relaunched February 2021) Alt. Title: A Curious Case of Plagium HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 Middle grade, #1 Mystery adventure, #3 Family friendly, #3 steampunk, #1 cozy mystery, #5 cozy 9x READING LIST FEATURES: 🔹WATTPAD - Editors' Choice (October 2023) 🔹WATTPAD EXPLORER - Editors' Choice (October 2023) 🔹TEEN FICTION - Teen Featured (October 2023) 🔹MYSTERY - Featured Mystery/Thriller Stories (October 2023) 🔹WATTPAD PUNKFICTION - Punkfiction Favorites (October 2023) 🔹WATTPAD FRIENDS AND FAMILY - Certified Bonds | Wattpad Picks (October 2023) 🔹WATTPAD - Dangerous Worlds (October 2023) 🔹WATTPAD EXPLORER - Dangerous Worlds (October 2023) 🔹ADVENTURE - Featured Stories (October 2023) 🔹EDITOR'S PICK (July 2023) ***PLAGIUM is the first book in The Keepers Series.*** KEEPERS SERIES ORDER: 1-Plagium 2-Annulet