WATTYS 2022 SHORTLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE -- SEPTEMBER 2021 EXCLUSIVE CHAPTERS AND WRITER'S REVEAL CONTENT AVAILABLE - NOT A PAID STORY Appearances can be deceiving. What if the Bad Boy wasn't so bad and the good girl wasn't quite so good? Kelly Wankum has an unfortunate last name and even worse luck. By the tender age of twenty-three, she's broken her tailbone, thumb, her nose, hip, and now her rib. It wouldn't be so bad if she could say something funny like, "I broke myself on a stripper pole" or "I was mugged in a Walmart parking lot." That would actually be believable, right? Instead, she breaks her rib reaching for a ball of yarn. Even worse, everyone knows she's so accident prone, she could sneeze and lose a tooth. They'd probably bet on her swallowing it in a pancake. Oh wait, she's done that too. Another trip to the Urgent Care has the doctors shaking their heads, offering to pray for her health while new, sexy Doctor Blake Cole immediately gets off on the wrong foot. Months after their first encounter, Blake and Kelly meet again by chance. After inadvertantly humiliating her, Blake tries to set things straight and make it up to her. The problem is, Blake's lifestyle is painfully different, and Kelly can't help imagining him like every bad boy she's ever read about online. Can Blake convince her to give him a chance and prove he's actually a good guy? **This story is set in the present and the pandemic is part of the narrative.** --Cover by AnnieRosebud-- ©2020, 2022

It was all easy in her mind when she planned about it, but things have habit to not go in the way they were previously planned, with a mission to kill her brother and herself she stood proudly in court room, but fate had something else in her store, her brother died but she didn't, she was saved by the King who was there to took her with him, She was thrusted in a life she never wanted nor planned. Time hold power to heal every kind of wound no matter how big or how small they are, the only difference is sometime it take much more time to heal and sometime it's matter of few days, with each passing day she was feeling more and more alone, the only person she had around her was him, she didn't realise when her heart stopped hating him but at the end she was a mere mistress whose sole purpose was to provide him a heir and get back to her own kingdom and get killed by her own father... Spin off book is "There is no forever" based on Sara and Abhram ∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆ 1. Umm, I personally felt that love progress in the book was bit fast. 2. The book is a rollercoaster ride, and at some chapter you will find male character too good or too bad. 3. The female character is kind of stubborn but forgiving and kind. 4. There is mature scenes in book, so If you are below 18 or uncomfortable with the adult content, do not bother to go ahead. 5. The book doesn't revolve around lead characters only, I have tried to involve each and every character of this book till a certain limit. 6. May be few things frustrate you or make you angry, But I request you all to be polite and think before you make any comment because being a person I have feelings that get hurt easily and I am kind off bitchy person so I retort back rudely, so please place your opinion politely, if you feel that there is too much drama and all just quit reading, do not bother to leave violent and harsh comments. 7. Okay with all this? Go ahead,

"Don't fucking touch her!" "You're never going to let her grow up and take it, will you?"

He killed anyone who disobeyed. Blood would forever stain his hands and soak the ground he walked on. She saved him, staining her clean hands with his blood. He was alive because of her and she would live to regret it. --- "Do you remember, my darling Aster?" "I don't know what you are talking about my Lord." "Look at me," He ordered. I hesitated, but his grip on my sides tightened. Wincing, I brought my gaze up. Scanning his face, I drew in a sharp breath. "You saved my life." highest rankings: blood #1 kings and queens #1

***Sequel to The Choice, Can't be Read as a Standalone*** The competition is over and Amancio has shown his true colours. The Dark Lords have taken over Aridia and half of the nobles- including Princess Barbara have been kidnapped. Along with the fact that Madeline is being held hostage in the palace, forced to pretend to care for Amancio as he parades her around as his new queen. But, The Dark Lords aren't the only rebel group in Aridia, they realize, as many secrets buried under the rug resurface. Madeline and Carlos aren't ready to give up their country just yet. They will go through many challenges, heartbreaks, losses and hardships as they prepare for a civil war, in an attempt to get Aridia back and defeat The Dark Lords once and for all.

**The Season Series Prequel (#0.5)** Isabelle de Haviland is hopelessly in love with Prince Leopold of Germania. Fortunately for her, the dashing foreign prince is her betrothed, thanks to a decade-old marriage treaty signed by her father, the Duke of Kentshire. But Kentshire is a rich and bountiful duchy, with Isabelle as its sole heiress. Whomever she marries will inherit her father's lands, which sit on the hotly contested border between Germania and Pretania. Refusing to be outwitted by his own duke, the King of Pretania summons Isabelle to Highcastle Palace as a debutante for his son, Graham, the temperamental crown prince. Determined to remain loyal to her husband-to-be, Isabelle is forced to navigate the tricky waters of the royal court all while keeping the meddlesome prince at an arm's length. But all is fair in love and war and Prince Graham is not one to lose at either...

[THIS STORY IS FREE WITH EXCLUSIVE BONUS CONTENT] A fake relationship, a diabolical plan and a threat to the human race. The only thing that ties them together is an eighteen year old girl's choice, that could change the course of everything. *** Every year five hundred children are abducted from planet Earth and taken to Pluto to serve as slaves to aliens who are far superior to the human species. When a slave turns eighteen they are allowed to choose their fate for the rest of their lives. They are only given three choices; remain a slave, become a fighter or serve as a Plutonian's lover. For the past eleven years, Aria has spent every second waiting for an opportunity to escape and when she's offered a dangerous but rewarding arrangement by a prominent Plutonian, she is quick to agree. But when the lines between love and hatred blur, will Aria ever be able to escape or will her risky circumstances kill her first? Editor's Picks 2021 *Winner of the Spotlight Awards* *Highest rank so far: #4 in Aliens #1 in dystopian #3 in romance (10/2/21) Cover by @Greenteadragon

"A crown is a great weight to bear. But even greater is the weight of a crown at war." ~ "You are not like other women I have met Amice." He speaks honestly. ~ Every king has his subjects, his council, his advisors... his queen. ~ Based on the film 'The King'. Henry meets a free spirited girl, who teaches him many things. Combat... wisdom... and love. She's not like anything he's ever seen before. And yet, a king has his duties. But what weighs down a soul more, love, or power?

**Only the bonus chapter is paid, the rest of the story is (and will stay) free!!** Libby Marks-Whelan is decidedly not a lady. Kicked out of nearly every finishing school in the country, she's shocked when her demure, straight-laced cousin Ella invites her to the royal court as attendant during her debutante season. What Ella fails to realize, however, is that Libby's brand of mischief is exactly the kind of distraction Prince Andrew is looking for during his inaugural season as an eligible bachelor. Cover designed by Adam Budny

M E R E D I T H is a princess without a country. Her family, formerly the royal family of Borgavia, has been exiled from their home, forced to live under the rule of the Empire of Astoria. A N T O N Y is a prince who doesn't want a crown. Soon to be king of Astoria, he will inherit the empire his family built before him. Though glorious, it has become an empire built on blood. Antony has his work cut out for him to restore trust among the empire's citizens and to rebuild the parts that have fallen to disrepair in the wake of former kings' desires only for conquests. A R E B E L L I O N is rising. In the midst of the gathering tide, Meredith will swallow her pride and go to King's City for a job in the palace, all in the name of supporting her family. N O O N E in the king's palace is aware that their newest servant is more than a servant, and Meredith plans on keeping it that way. H O W E V E R, the best laid plans are often upset. *** copyright sovthampton | micah good all rights reserved; completed 2014 highest: 65 in fantasy Featured by Hidden Gems: Fantasy