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When The Rain Falls by Spruce_Goose
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**2023 Amby's Top Pick in Historical Fiction!** Born with a silver spoon and an oh-so-kind heart, Nathaniel Thorpe has always looked after the underdogs. When a riding lesson with his sister leads to a strange encounter with a dishevelled girl, his protective instinct for the stray only grows stronger. However, when no one dares believe the young master, and his parents are more than half convinced that it's all in his head, Nathaniel sets out on his own to prove that the girl really exists and to offer the help he knows she needs. With everyone working against him, Nathaniel must figure out a way to save the girl who might be impossible for him to save.
Matthew and the Chimney Sweeps: Book One (Completed, Editing) by matthewchimneysweeps
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2021 and 2022 Editor's Picks Cover by : @Guinealove2005 Matthew, an orphaned safe-cracking wiz of a boy, is being held prisoner in an old folk's home where he is forced to counterfeit money. However, on a stormy night, Matthew is rescued by a crime-fighting troupe of child chimney sweeps and is swept away to the big city of Spring Heights to live on a half-sunken boat. In the city, Matthew is introduced to other orphaned children who live on the streets, cleans chimneys with his new family, flees for his life across rooftops, rescues other children and tries to find out the whereabouts of a mean woman connected to his incarceration at the old folk's home. He also races carts down a hill, a popular pastime of the street children of Spring Heights, where not dying or getting injured is a good outcome. ***Official Wattpad Reading Lists featured in: Superhero -- February reading list Adventure -- Middle-grade reading list Undiscovered Stories -- Thrill Seekers reading list Wattpad Urban -- Urban Fantasy reading list Children's Fiction -- Age 10 - 12 English Crime -- Kicking Ass &Taking Names Fantasy -- Middle Grade and Children's Fantasy Fantasy -- Featured Fantasy Stories Action -- Adventure in Action General Fiction -- Live Life While You Can Superhero -- No Power, No Problem
Loathing Persuasion | (Regency Romance Novella) by readpamelaisla
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Mr. Hardy has been subjugated to his decadent father's desires all his life, shadows taunting his every breath. Shattered time after time, with his cousin and best friend as sole companion, he survives. They enjoy great incomes, raised to excel in society. Summer welcomes them for a rest and they decide to spend the season in Bath. Though their original purpose is altered as the Barnes family enters the picture. From their first meeting, Jane Barnes, eldest and only daughter, considers Mr. Hardy the most stoic and discourteous man. Nevertheless, destiny entangles their threads in an uneven path. A classic regency romance novella where two people learn to grow together and become a greater version of themselves. ═ ≪ °❈° ≫ ════ ≪ °❈° ≫ ════ ≪ °❈° ≫ ═ To all of us who watched "Pride and Prejudice" (2005) way too many times. ═ ≪ °❈° ≫ ════ ≪ °❈° ≫ ════ ≪ °❈° ≫ ═ You can buy the full ebook (kobo + apple books) & print (lulu) ♡ Link in bio. ═ ≪ °❈° ≫ ════ ≪ °❈° ≫ ════ ≪ °❈° ≫ ═ Cover by Giuliana Guerrero
DOGWOOD ✔︎ by elle-blair
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Thirteen-year-old Ginna's only connection to her long-dead mother is the dogwood in her backyard. The tree radiates a warm sort of buzz which might possibly be magic. Or is it a trick of her imagination? That's the agonizing question that earned her the label, "weirdo who talks to trees." And it's the reason Ginna is struggling with her plan to make one real friend. After an embarrassing attempt ends with Ginna kicking a soccer ball at a classmate's face, she retreats to the comfort of her tree-shaped companion to ask for help-and something strange happens. Ginna goes from mostly ignored to ridiculously popular overnight, and she's having conversations with someone or some thing inside her head. The source, an opinionated tree spirit named Dogwood, claims she accidentally stepped into Ginna's body. But now that the spirit has access to Ginna's thoughts and memories, she's in no hurry to go back where she belongs. Until Ginna figures out that Dogwood is hiding information about her mom. Now it's Ginna who doesn't want to let go. She has so many questions-but there's no time to wait for the stubborn spirit to answer. Ginna's body is becoming dangerously depleted and can no longer sustain Dogwood's energy. She'll have to find the courage to stand on her own before possession burnout destroys them both.
Catching Rainbows by FairlyLocalTreehouse
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Luna falls for Chloe at first sight . . . literally, off a ladder. And it's the beginning of a beautiful friendship, after Luna gets past the fact that Chloe doesn't seem to be single. They soon discover all the things they have in common, their time spent together a much-needed solace to both girls, and the feelings they develop for each other are undeniable. It quickly becomes evident however that all is not as it seems; Chloe is in fact trapped in her farce of a relationship, and Luna vows to help her new friend escape the toxic situation and find her way back to herself.
Free Indeed by haappyheart
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Along with her sister Margaret, Ava was sent to an abbey as a child and forbidden to leave. Yet as the Reformation sweeps the country, she grows restless. The sisters join a daring plot to escape the convent, risking their lives for the chance to follow God as they choose. As Ava seeks freedom, she finds love - both Divine and human.
bedlam; bellatrix lestrange  by nyxmph_
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they had me committed for insanity and deluded fantasies _ POETRY BOOK COVER BY @-TOMMYSVLOGGUN- rankings : #9 in poetrycollection #7 in freeverse #5 in bellatrixlestrange #4 in darkpoetry #1 in insaneasylum © nyxmph_ 2021
A Spark Of Hope  by MasterofMad_ness
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Watty's Shortlist 2023 "I have been waiting a long time to meet you." ________________ When two warring kingdoms hear of a magical object that will end the conflict once and for all, two rival heirs embark on a quest to retrieve it and bring their kingdom glory. With beasts and trials in their path, Aila and Kaiden realise that they stand a better chance of surviving the treacherous journey if they undertake it together. However, when unknown feelings arise and friend cannot be distinguished from foe, they both quickly realise that this quest will reveal more than they were initially prepared for. ________________ Book 1 in the Firecatcher Series. The credits for this incredible cover go to @-DeeIsDead- ! I can't thank you enough for the time you spent on this and for making it absolutely perfect! ❤🤩
The Scourge - Pirates & Privateers by CaptEdEdge
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SHORTLISTED FOR WATTYS 2022 What should have been an easy payday for a band of British privateers turns into a desperate fight for survival when they find a young woman in the wreck of a schooner. Life is unforgiving for any privateering ship fighting in the Queen Anne's War, but of all the leaky tubs on the Caribbean sea, the brigantine ship, Scourge, and her crew have been dealt a pretty rotten hand. None more-so than her newest member, Martin Hamish, a deckhand looked down upon by his captain and fellow shipmates, but eager to please nonetheless. Down on their luck and desperate for their next prize, the crew's prayers are answered when a burning ship, bursting with unclaimed loot, crashes into the shore nearby. However, their dreams of a free payday are quickly soured when they discover an enigmatic noblewoman in the wreck with a proposition that may well change their fortunes, or end them all together. [Story complete at 88,000 words - next novel in the works] WARNING: Contains violence, gore, threat, alcohol references & scurvy dogs
The Great Ellini (Book One of The Powder Trail) by obliviablack
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Eleven years later, in the city of Oxford, he met her again for the first time... In 1870, Jack Cade is admitted to the new-breed stronghold of Pandemonium, a colony of people just like him: descendants of the vanished demon race, all of them extraordinary in little ways, and deranged in much bigger ones. There, he falls in love with Ellini Syal, a shy, insular woman who spends most of her time scampering barefoot over the Edinburgh rooftops. In 1881, he meets her again, but has no idea who she is. All he knows is that there are dark, horribly suggestive gaps in his memory, and that Ellini is running from something she refuses to talk about. Can he work out who she is and what she's done in time to save her from the creatures pursuing her? Can he save himself from the amnesia and the creeping indifference that are eating him up piece by piece? Or is amnesia preferable to the kind of memories he will have to unearth? The Great Ellini is the first book in the epic historical-fantasy-romance The Powder Trail, a series where the past and the present meet, part, and reunite with explosive consequences. AWARDS (for full list see Author Notes): 1st Place - Paranormal (The Misfit Awards 2022) 1st Place - Fantasy (Clouded Ink Awards 2022) 1st Place - Fantasy (The Pink Cloud Awards 2023) FEATURES (for full list see Author Notes): StoriesUndiscovered - Into the Abyss (01/10/2022) StudsandVixens - On-going Beaut (27/09/2022) WattpadDarkFantasy - A Kingdom in Shadows (11/09/2022) Lowfantasy - A History Unlikely (05/12/2022) Rankings: #1 Oxford (23/09/2022) #1 victoriangothic (09/09/2022) #1 darkfantasyromance (09/09/2022) #2 wellwritten (24/10/2022) #9 historicalfantasy (15/09/2022) #14 gothic (31/10/2022) #20 mysteryromance (24/10/2022) Cover and graphics by the amazing @AnnamitaMuscaria