WATTYS 2023 SHORTLIST Sarah Kennedy's life has fallen to pieces. Her family is broken, she's growing apart from her only friend, and it's been a while since she's stopped dreaming about anything better. She embarks on a trip to Latin America, joining a retreat she hopes will mend her dwindling friendship and escape he...
On New Year's Day, a witch, Jacinta, wakes up...to realize that her New Year's spell has gone terribly wrong. She's dead, now a ghost. And only the demon who she's had an one-night-stand with, Raj, can help bring her back to life. *** A darkly comedic short story for the Romance New Year's Fiesta 2023 contest! The pr...
Tomorrow was supposed to bring graduation. Instead, it brought war. On the eve thereof, Oakland Tech's class of 2019 finds itself on the top floor of a San Francisco luxury high rise in an illicit party involving the most unlikely guests: a tech billionaire's son, a police chief's two daughters, a mute renegade, and...
[[Newly revised chapters dropping weekly]] "𝐇𝐞'𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐨 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝-𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐚𝐝𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞." Emilia Gillen longs to feel a sense of permanence after a lifetime of moving from one foster home to the next. She prefers to keep her...
Figure skating is the most alluring and impenetrable of all sports. When the skaters are on the ice, every twitch of a muscle and every slip of a skate blade is palpable to the world. If skaters are perfect, they become world champions. But if they fall, if they fail a triple toe loop or a lutz, the dejection is their...
**Weekly Updates!** After a disastrous date, Rebecca crosses paths with Marco, a recently heartbroken stranger. What starts as a boozy night of shared misery quickly spirals into chaos when they become entangled in a murder attempt. Marco, the heir to a notorious crime family, pleads with Rebecca to forget everythin...
💎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...
Hilltop House always remembered its first, how closely it watched them, how much they meant to it . . . and what it did to them. But Hilltop House has yet to find another like its first, until 𝘴𝘩𝘦 moves in. Cora is angry, and weird, and entirely unsuspecting. Her mother hides secrets, just as her grandmother did, a...
Highest Rankings! #1 cosmopolitan #3 european #3 demise #5 sinful #6 eerie #13 immigrant #25 german #25 liars #28 bloodlines #28 intimate #42 asylum #72 elite #77 wealth #112 smalltowns ༺༻༺༻༺༻ 🥇 Gloria Regali A...
A neglected housecat runs away from his family and is tempted by the alluring world of the ferals, who steal from the human society that cared for him. 🏆AWARDS 1st Place - The Future Banned Writer Awards 2023, Fantasy (Score: 58/60) 1st Place - The Sapphire Awards 2023, Action/Adventure (Score: 96/100) 1st Place - B...
In a valley, dark forces and unnatural forces lay deep within the land, buried deep for centuries. The inhabits finally decide to start digging to uncover these magical properties in an effort to be relevant to the rest of the world. Only if they would have known what their research would unearth. In the aftermath, tw...