{#1 in teenagers} {#2 in fiction} {#2 in popular} "You better not tell anyone about this." "Aw why not? I'm sure your fandom of desperate girls would love to know that their precious prince charming needs a babysitter." I smile innocently back at his death glare. "I'm serious, nerd. I could make your life hell." ------------------------------------------------------------ Marnie Jones is an ordinary 11th grader. Her only intentions are to get good grades and save money for college with her babysitting job. Everything is going to plan. Until she gets a job babysitting the high school bad boy, Zeke Blakely. The two come from complete different social groups, and Marnie automatically hates Zeke and his big ego and cocky attitude. He's a player. He's dangerous. He's reckless. She's safe with an overthinking problem. As the two are seen hanging around school together, attention gets drawn to Marnie. Which she hates. But she also catches the eye of a handsome jock, too. And why, you ask, does a 17 year old boy need a babysitter? You'll have to read to find out. WARNING: contains vulgar language and mature scenes.

Niccola is a demi-queen undercover in enemy territory. Her little sister went missing seven moons ago, but one lead remains: a picture of a woman's face, drawn by a diviner shortly after the disappearance. Tracking her down has led Niccola to Calis, the realm next door whose border with her own remains closed for a reason. There, the trail goes cold. Until, that is, Niccola runs into a man in the marketplace who bears a family resemblance to the woman she seeks. His name is Isaiah, crown prince of Calis, and he's investigating disappearances, too. They join forces, faking courtship to sneak Niccola into the palace and get Isaiah's wedding-minded mother off his back. It doesn't take long to suspect that a common threat might underpin both their realms' problems. And as Niccola begins to develop real feelings for Isaiah, she's faced with an impossible choice: reveal her secrets and risk breaking his trust, or leave him in order to chase down the woman who stole her sister... a woman whose forbidden magic comes with a cost that could bring both realms to ruin. ❖❖❖ Complete and fully edited. Cover credit goes to @CeeMTaylor. Go check out her books too if you like Dark Fantasy Romance-she writes some pretty incredible stuff! Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

In a realm where nobody knows who to trust, the one constant in Lyrani Esch's life is her job as an agent for the Elven Council of Irylen Secret Intelligence (ECISI). It's easy enough to ignore the rumours about the villainy of the elf king Nash. People call it "The Curse of the Crown", but it's all hearsay. At least until Lyrani is assigned a mission to confront it. Her objectives are simple - get into Vlitavia Palace, gather intelligence on King Nash's operations, kill him and get out. But assignments are never as easy as they sound, and the stars are against Lyrani from the start. The deeper Lyrani delves into Nash's present, the more she learns of her past. With her startling discoveries comes the realisation that she must free Nash from a vicious trap or forfeit the realm and both their lives in the name of the curse. Because destinies entwined are never easily separated. Season 1 of A Sprinkle of Stardust WARNING: This story contains strong language and depictions of sexual assault that may be upsetting for some readers. Reader discretion is advised.

When Robyn gets stranded in the woods one day with none other than her high-school crush, the last thing on her mind is coming face-to-face with who he might be beneath the skin. *** For two years Robyn Hale successfully managed to hide her inexplicable attraction towards the new boy in town. While everyone else could so openly express their fondness for him, Robyn made an effort to keep her head down, study hard and get through the last two years of high school. Only, fate had something else in mind. What started as a harmless school trip soon became the catalyst which turned Robyn's world upside down. She found herself among new friends, new enemies and many, many new encounters with the one boy she tried avoiding since she laid eyes on him. Sucked into the dangerous world of werewolves, witches and magic, Robyn must learn to determine her friends from foes. Because in this world lovers are predestined, family bonds run deep and envy runs even deeper.

When Dallas Cooper stages a fake relationship with her enemy Amara Singh to get revenge on their exes, the last thing she's prepared for is their feud-ridden hatred turning into love. Standalone in the Sunset Scandals series *** Dallas Cooper hates Amara Singh. After their infamous feud over volleyball captain, she'd do anything to avoid her arch-nemesis. So when she's dumped by her first love, only to learn that her ex has moved on with none other than Amara's on-again, off-again ex-girlfriend, things feel like they can't get any worse. Except now Amara and Dallas have something in common. And with little risk and a lot to gain, they agree to a foolproof plan: pretend to be a couple to get revenge. As the unlikely duo spend time together, shocking the whole school with their picture-perfect romance, the line between ruse and real starts to blur. What happens when falling for each other is no longer part of an act? Will Dallas and Amara give in to their undeniable chemistry, or will their hatred-filled past and suspicious exes manage to tear them apart?

SOON TO BE PUBLISHED BY W BY WATTPAD BOOKS! Danny's life gets turned upside down when she receives a mysterious sext from the school's notorious bad boy. ***** Danny Ashmore never imagined starting her senior year off with a broken heart and a pregnant sixteen-year-old sister. As her sister's stomach grows and the possibility of Danny going to college shrinks, she struggles to stay positive. That is, until she accidentally receives a dirty text message from an unknown number and is thrown head first into bad boy Sawyer Armstrong's life. Arrogant and drop-dead gorgeous, Sawyer is the last thing Danny expected, but as an unlikely friendship forms, she realizes he may be the best thing that's happened to her all year. [[Word count: 100,000 - 150,000]] Cover designed by Cil Ojumo Content warning: this story contains themes of teen pregnancy

[Complete. Wattys 2023 Winner] The Redding takes you if it knows your name. That's the rule that's kept Meg alive --- or awake, rather --- since the night the world went to hell. Nobody knows where the red stuff came from, but it acts like water, it's in the water, and it falls as rain every night. The people it captures drop like puppets with their strings cut. They're asleep, not dead, and you can wake them if you say their name again. But then they just try to kill you. Meg and the other survivors she's befriended think they've found a stable equilibrium, six weeks after the catastrophe began. Nicknames become real names, and Meg knows she's getting better at identifying safe houses. Her crush discovers that Morse code, like writing, is a safe way to say a Sleeper's name. It's the night after learning it that Meg wakes up just as the nightly rain is starting. Raindrops, as it turns out, can make dots and dashes, too. The Redding can talk. And it's telling her to run. ❖❖❖ Complete. Wattys 2023 Winner. Featured on: @Wattpad - Embrace the Fear: Horror Stories @WattpadExplorer - Embrace the Fear: Scary Stories @Creators - Scary Stories to Read in the Dark @Wattpad Explorer - From Our Creators @dystopianapocalypse - Featured D&A Stories @Wattpad Explorer - Why Not Buy Some Flowers @Fright - Featured Stories Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

When mafia princess Caterina is thrust into an arranged marriage with the enemy, Lex Valentino, she makes a dangerous plan to take his family down from the inside...But her new fiancé has a revenge plan of his own. Season 1 of The Valentino Brothers *** Mafia princess Caterina Marchetti has worked tirelessly as her father's right hand to become the successor of the family. So when her father gives the title to her useless older brother and plans to marry Caterina off to the enemy, Lex Valentino, she is beyond furious. Caterina knows that the Valentino family was behind her mother's murder, and is convinced her father wants to take down the Valentinos from the inside. She poses as the perfect fiancée and moves to Italy, but secretly makes it her mission to avenge her mother's death. But little does she know, Lex has a revenge plan of his own. Lex has been keeping an eye on the Marchetti family for years and jumps at the chance to get closer to Caterina to avenge his own sister's murder, starting with making Caterina fall head over heels in love with him. As Caterina tries to ignore Lex's advances, and Lex attempts to bury his growing feelings for her, the pair's undeniable chemistry soon lands them in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game caught between lust, love and revenge. WARNING: This story contains mature content including strong language and depictions of violence that may not be suitable for some readers. Reader discretion is advised.

On her twenty-first birthday, Rosemarie (Romy) meets the man who will change her life forever - her one and only mate. As the Alpha from an opposing pack, she must choose between her family, honor and everything she has ever known and a love that could span generations. The only problem is, her mate isn't making her decision any easier by refusing to mate with her and trying everything that he can to stay away.

❝this tree was grown with rotted roots.❞ Nerluce is Darkest Shadow. He is that great and terrible entity, prophesied over a thousand years before, more like a hurricane than a man. His hair falls crooked, poorly cut by his family's blade. His fingers curl like claws, stained black by ash and war. Aristide is the Angel of Death. He is that man-made divinity which no prophecy was able to fortell, a monster made of ice and bone. Frost clings to his lashes as blood clings to his palms. CONTENT WARNINGS (16+) Profanity, violence and gore, alcohol and drug usage, non-explicit sexual content, self-destructive actions and suicidal ideation, minor character death, and morally-questionable people doing morally-questionable things. [[WORD COUNT: IN PROGRESS]] COVER BY APHRODITE270