[COMPLETED] [2025 Wattys Honorable Mention] Danny's neighbor should be illegal. There's no way someone should be that attractive. They've lived next door to each other for over a year. As a skinny, clumsy, sweater-loving, Modern Poetry professor, Danny never believed someone like him could catch the eye of someone as perfect as Brett. But when Danny (accidentally) RSVPs to a destination wedding he never wanted to attend, he realizes he's in a bind-he needs a plus-one. And somehow, Brett becomes his unexpected solution. Brett's MMA career was on the brink of greatness until an injury stopped him cold. Now, trying to reclaim his spot in the octagon and live up to heavy expectations, the last thing Brett expected was to build a friendship with the neighbor he's been crushing on. However, Danny is undeniably gorgeous and way out of his league, so he needs to maintain realistic expectations. But, when Danny needs a date for a destination wedding, Brett's first instinct is to offer his help. Being his fake boyfriend would not be a hardship. A romantic beach, a fake relationship, and one bed... what could go wrong? Genre: Contemporary Romance / Fake Relationship / Friends to Love / HEA Guaranteed / Dual POV There will be mature scenes between two men that I will mark accordingly. These scenes are intended for mature audiences. This is a spin-off of the worlds of King of Hawkings/Death & Tequila and A New Song/Beats of the Heart, but it is a stand-alone novel, so reading the other novels is unnecessary. However, some old characters will appear, so you may enjoy it more with the full background.

Submission to the "What In The Wattpad" contest. Who needs a leopard for protection when you have a rabbit? Beast Tamer Lydia knows one of her companions is a lethal predator - and the other just pretends to be harmless. This is just a sample chapter. Full series being planned for 2027 release.

On the run, Willow stumbles into a bandit ambush and is rescued by a lone traveler. He reluctantly agrees to help protect her on the forest paths if she can guide him to his destination. His distant demeanor suddenly changes after she returns his cloak, not realizing he is a selkie, nor aware that if someone returns a selkie's cloak, the selkie falls in love with them. As they travel, she discovers that he's everything she ever wanted in a husband, but learns that it comes at a cost - and that cost is his freedom. Note: If you're looking for a typical lore-based selkie story, I'm afraid you won't find it here. But if you're looking for a hopeful selkie and an uninformed human, then you have come to the right place. ONC 2025 awards: Ambassador's pick award, Round 2 winner, and Short List award. Based on the Open Novella Contest prompt #110: "20 days of freedom." Cover was made with incredible patience by: SayWatt74 (Cardin Watts)

Falling in love with his polar opposite wasn't something Ian had planned. In fact, the only plan he'd had was to try and save enough money to be able to afford one meal a day on top of his rising rent. Yet somehow, he ended up stumbling across an ad for a video game while browsing online, and in it was one of their more popular streamers. Though, honestly, the guy hadn't looked all that great, and his hair seemed to need a good scrub, along with his wrinkled clothing, but for some reason, he hadn't been able to look away... even as the ad replayed itself over and over and over again.

Stand-Alone story. Being a freshman at the same college as his big brother was a dream that Sailor never thought would come true, but now that he was finally there, things weren't turning out quite the way he thought they would. While he'd intended to spend most of his time with his brother since it was his last year, being a senior, he constantly found himself wandering away, subconsciously pulled in a completely different direction...

After he has been abandoned by his parents at only eight years old, Teddy was found by a mysterious man and brought into Cambodda, one of the biggest mafias into the shifters' world. Now at fourteen years old, shifting for the first time and realizing his inner animal is a bear, the boy is forced into training to become a bodyguard...and no mere bodyguard, the one supposed to protect the new leader of the Cambodda clan... Sirius Yahontov. Shifters don't find their inner animals until they reach the age of fourteen. Being adopted by the leader of Cambodda clan when he was only seven, Sirius has never known what kind of shifters his parents were and what his animal was supposed to be. So when he finds out he is a Neko, it's plain obvious he is going to be ashamed, terrified and enraged. Especially when he finds out the boy he used to bully has a bear as an inner animal. So what better way of venting his frustration than starting to make Teddy's life a living hell? No weakling is supposed to have such a powerful inner animal anyways. Sirius will make sure to show Teddy who the dominant really is.