**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...
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...
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 s...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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 fa...
Kaitlynn Windford is a fourteen-year-old girl living in the English countryside around the year 1912. Despite her parents being reasonably well-off, Kaitlynn isn't snobby and 'high and mighty' like the girls in her village make her out to be. But all Hell breaks loose when her father loses his job and they have no so...
💎1st place in THE SAPPHIRE AWARDS 2023 - Historical Fiction With her husband's sudden death, Queen Elizabeth of Hungary knows her life and the Kingdom's future is at stake. Pregnant and with the looming threat of invasion, she must contend with the nobles who see their opportunity to obtain power for their own hands...
Throughout 2023, this humble Goose has made the (questionable) decision to try and read one Wattpad story a week! All the stories I read will be documented in this very story with details of every single one as well as my personal thoughts. All of these stories are Goose-Approved! (C)Spruce_Goose
[COMPLETE] Drake Rohan's wife is a real piece of work. He despises everything about her. Everything from the heavily-powdered face, to the overly-red lips, to the shrilly voice she uses to yell the heads off the servants. But this marriage was his mother's last dying wish, and so he is stuck. Painfully stuck. Amelia W...
Willing to risk her life, a seasoned soldier recruits a vengeful goddess to fight a war of the future. *** When UN Army Captain Akira Dunn is sent to investigate an outlandish legend, she doesn't question her orders. Realistically, she knows it's impossible that a goddess lives among them; even less likely is that sai...
This story is my happy place; I do not plan on ever finishing it. It will go on and on like a soapie. Might break it up into volumes later. "Grab a bunch of broken misfits, chuck them in a tribe, add some glitter and loads of weird-as garbage, voila, you've got yourself a fairy tale... kinda... just... you know... min...
*Now published as a full ebook and paperback novel. Buy now on www.authoranhorton.com* How far would you go to keep a promise? When twelve-year-old Oliver Ainsworth promised his life to Avery Hastings, she never believed him. After years apart, through war and tragedy, it seems even more likely that he's forgotten her...
To avoid an unwanted marriage, Lady Cordelia Rowley must run away to the Highlands and disguise herself as a servant until her 21st birthday when she comes of legal age and regains control of her destiny. Captain Lachlan Shawe has found success and wealth in the Royal Navy, but he's made a few enemies too. While dodgi...
Snezhana Chernova, a snowflake which will never melt. Beautiful, yet cold. Born in the southern kingdom, she decides to join the army, to become an unbreakable warrior. Little does she know what her childhood dreams will bring. Leonid Yasniy, a flame which will never die. Born as the crown prince of the northern kingd...
[8X FEATURED] Merlin is the greatest-eleven-year-old nerd the world doesn't know because his name has cursed him--he's all parts nerd and zero parts magic and all he wants is to be cool. When Merlin hacks a new encryption code designed to protect online banks, he receives a full scholarship to Code-X Academy and wins...
Magical stones, crazed wizards, and powerful thieves were all things that Emma Marsh was not expecting when she took on the title of Grand Apprentice. But, with a mystery to solve and her reputation to save, what is a girl to do? ❦❦❦ Eleven-year-old, Emma Marsh has always had her head in the clouds. Dreaming of things...
William Dalton, an aspiring writer, moved from Manchester to London to find inspiration for his first novel. He meets Michael Eaton, a fashion designer who takes pity on him and offers him ways of finding inspiration. Michael offers to take William on a trip to Florence, Italy. Little does William know that this trip...
(COMPLETED) Fawn is fascinated by Christmas: the candlelight, the evergreens, the endless array of sweets ripe for borrowing. Just her luck she's stuck with the one human in England who wants nothing to do with the holidays. Thomas dreads the yuletide season. Too many memories, too much pain. But when he stumbles acro...
"And that's what I shall teach you, ...how to become a great woman." Barcelona, 1848. The Marquesa of the House of Amontoní stands as the last of her name and title. While the woman's renowned beauty makes her desirable, the widow's legendary wealth has made her the most sought-after woman in all of Europe. But within...
#𝟙 𝕚𝕟 𝕃𝕖𝕤𝕓𝕚𝕒𝕟 - 𝔽𝕖𝕓 𝟙𝟚, 𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟛 | « WAM book one » When Sam is attacked by a rogue werewolf, she must do everything in her power to stay alive, survive the transformation, and bring the rogue to justice before she loses everything good in her life. ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ If you ask Sam, she'd say she's a monster...
Osa is nothing like the church-going, humble woman that Kuwin had thought she'd be. After he breaks his vow of celibacy for Osa, Kuwin gets his heart broken and his faith, shaken. Unfortunately for Kuwin, he soon finds out that he must put aside his feelings to work with her if he wants to survive the avalanche of sup...
The namesake of a murderous queen, Princess Isabella is torn between running from the bloody legacy or following the path of a woman who fought all the rules. Devoted to her family, Isabella's father arranges her marriage to a young man far from her home. Though she wants to help her father's ambitions, she knows this...
1334, Toulouse, Kingdom of France. Orphaned as a young child, Catherine Vimont dreams of nothing but the adventure and romance described in songs and stories. Confined to the walls of her manor, she resigns herself to the dull life of a laundress, guarding her dreams in secret and pining after her young master. When...
Diana is a very shy, yet intelligent debutant in 1860's New York. She has spent the last few years of her life focusing on her studies, but is now thrown into the grasps of polite society, where at the season's opening ball, she rekindles her relationship with a man she thought she may never see again. Will their pas...
Keeley has had issues talking to people since the sixth grade. Now a high school senior, Keeley will have to continue her life never speaking again, or she'll have to overcome her anxiety and face meeting people and writing her College acceptance essay. With College, Prom, and the rest of her life not so far in her fu...