❝ Things are only as beautiful as you make them, Charlie. Including murder. ❞ It's the opening night of Burton Abbey's production of Romeo and Juliet and all is going smoothly - that is until the climactic death scene. Romeo takes a big gulp of the poison to be with his lover, except it really is poison and Elijah, who plays Romeo, is now dead. Charlie Monet, in charge of props, is the first suspect but soon the suspicion around her turns to worry as it seems she's the next target. Khaleel Rahim, an aspiring writer, is dying for a mystery to solve at his new school. When he sees Charlie sneaking around at night he thinks he's finally found something worth writing about. After discovering Charlie's ability to see visions of the past, Khaleel decides that they're the perfect pair to solve the mystery. With threatening notes, a quiet library and poison disguised as props; somebody in the school is blurring the lines between theatre and reality and the fast friends are about to discover that there's more to boarding school than just silly rumours. [2022 Watty's Shortlist]

These are all true murder cases! None of it is fake and I did my research before writing these. SOME MIGHT BE GRAPHIC PICTURES ARE INCLUDING Started: : 2/2/22 Ended: 2/25/22

A scandal changed her. Revenge made her. When Ivy returns to her hometown after a scandal pushed her out, she hopes life will go back to normal. But after her ex-best friend's mysterious disappearance is all too quickly ruled an accidental death, she finds an appetite for taking matters into her own hands. And revenge. Ivy Annesley returned to her hometown with hopes of going back to the way things were. But that scandal three years ago changed everything. Her closest confidants are ignoring her and something strange is going on with her ex-best friend, Bridgette, who mysteriously disappears at a party. Through a scandal, a social media war, a mysterious disappearance, and a murder, Ivy has to reckon with the person she's become and the Ivy that everyone else sees. For better or worse, she has to find out what happened to Bridgette. She comes to realize that when you point the finger at someone else, four more point back at you.

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION Griffin Tomlin is dead. And Clara's sister killed him . . . Four months after the murder, the entire town of Shiloh is still in shock. For Clara Porterfield, the normal world has crumbled around her in a million chaotic pieces. Now Clara lives in a new reality, where her sister awaits trial for murder, her mother obsessively digs in a dead, frozen garden, and her father lives and breathes denial. At school, Clara is haunted by her classmates' morbid curiosity-and all of the unspoken questions they won't ask. But none of them knows what she knows . . . Now Clara's sister wants something from her-the one thing in all of this that Clara isn't ready to face: the truth about what really happened that night. Because this story didn't die with Griffin Tomlin. There's another story that needs to be told. And sometimes, the lies we're told are nowhere near as deadly as the lies we tell ourselves . . .