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A Reputation Reclaimed by Demri_Hess
A Reputation Reclaimed
Demri_Hess
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Duty and Reputation before Love and Passion. Lowen Roskelley, the sixth Duke of Carrivick, seeks the perfect bride to complement his prestigious title. But an infuriating encounter with a notorious vixen leaves him questioning his carefully laid plans. Love and Passion before Duty and Reputation. Miss Helena Hargreaves, the product of a love match, dreams of a husband who embodies her romantic ideals. After a chance encounter with a self-righteous duke threatens to ruin both their reputations, they decide to marry out of necessity. Though neither is the partner they envisioned, both are determined to shape their marriage to their desires. Lowen wants a dutiful bride to grace his title, while Helena yearns for an attentive husband. But as their marriage reaches a crossroads, they must decide whether they can find common ground perhaps even love if their union will crumble before their eyes. Content Warning: Verbal/emotional abuse, minor detail of a physical assault against the heroine (before meeting the hero), and dubious consent in a later chapter. Please take care of yourself and your well-being, and skip if this is too much to handle. Other than that, please enjoy and any feedback is welcome :) I should mention.
An Impossible Deception by Spiszy
An Impossible Deception
Spiszy
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FOR FANS OF BRIDGERTON. To save her family's reputation, Isabella must impersonate her twin sister to deceive her sister's husband in a scheme that depends on her not falling for him. ****** Identical twins Isabella and Arabella Garvey have nothing in common except their looks: where Arabella is a confident socialite, Isabella hides from society, ruined by scandal. But when Arabella runs away with a secret lover to escape her loveless marriage, Isabella must impersonate her sister in order to save her family's reputation. The only problem? In order to outfox Arabella's cruel and clever husband, Isabella must start living with him, and it doesn't take long for her to discover a passionate and respectful man under his icy exterior. But is she willing to destroy her sister's reputation in order to be with the man she loves? [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]
Freeing Lilia by SaoiMarie
Freeing Lilia
SaoiMarie
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She goes by many names. But there is only one name she wants to hide. A name being whispered throughout the land. Rumors are spreading of a warrior who has tamed a dragon. The First Dragon Rider. As a woman used to betrayal and pain, Lilia finds her home in the company of the vicious Rainer Thieves. The pain that haunts her is secondary as her life is filled with the danger of her job, and shared with the dragon bound to her soul. Then, war threatens to up-heave Lilia's life as forces that she cannot control collide and she finds herself separated from the dragon she is bound too and forced to join a strange group of the King's soldiers, where their leaders claims her as his Fate has taken hold of her life and the journey is unforgettable. ** This is the story of Lilia Merek, the first RIder. The story is a stand alone book to my Rider's Series and can be read without reading that series.**
The Taint of Wolves by SaoiMarie
The Taint of Wolves
SaoiMarie
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Nova, a former prisoner of an anti-lupine cult, must team up with the creatures she was taught to fear to save her beloved country from war. -------------------------------------------------------- Lycans and humans live alongside each other. Peace hangs by a thread. At every corner, a new threat seeks to break the Peace Accords that keep the land from falling into war. The Ravi have emerged as a fanatical organisation whose sole-purpose is the eradication of the lupine race. Their secret weapon - the Omega. A human bitten by Lycan. A girl tainted by the bond of the wolf. For the past eight years, Nova has found herself the subject of cruel and inhumane experiments. She rules the patients of the asylum with tooth and claw but evil cannot be contained forever. Freedom beckons and Nova escapes into a world totally changed. With the Ravi hunting her, only one wolf can keep her hidden. Her long-lost mate.
Bound to the Alpha by RhodaSLyons
Bound to the Alpha
RhodaSLyons
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An arranged mating. Two enemy Packs. A killer on the loose. Angelina Montgomery has lived the life of a lone wolf for more than five years. Exiled from her Pack, Angelina has created a life among the non-shifters- a people she considered more friend than foe. When she receives a call, Angelina must return to the place she once called home. Her baby sister is missing, and all clues point to the Silver Dawn Pack. Mason Ward has had his hands tied since he came into Authority as the Alpha of the Silver Dawn Pack. After serving in the Armed Legions for more than a decade, Mason has settled into a life more on the quiet side. He had known that his mating would be a cold arrangement, one not chosen by the hands of Fates. He had no choice but to surrender. His hands were tied, and there was nothing he could do about it. WARNING MATURE LANGUAGE SEXUAL CONTENT VIOLENCE
Bayou by Wendizzy
Bayou
Wendizzy
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(This story will be free on October 4th!) Determined to protect her family from a government set on exterminating them, Willow flees the city into a chemical swamp full of mutated wildlife. Season 1 of Toxic Nature ****** The world has changed, and so has Willow. A government formed by good intentions and a dying planet is killing everyone. The criteria needed to stay alive gets more stringent every day, and Willow barters her soul to keep the ones she loves safe. But when two children are sentenced to die, she risks it all to save them. Willow and her family make the deadly decision to run to the one place the officials won't follow. The bayou. Deemed uninhabitable after the dumping of mysterious, neon-green chemicals, Willow has no idea if they're running toward salvation or a slow, painful death. But just like the rest of the world, the swamp has changed. When fish have fangs, alligators talk, and a wild man named Croc maneuvers like a beast, Willow will learn what it truly means to be human. Toxic Nature Book 1 This story is now available on YONDER, your next-generation reading app from the Wattpad family. Join me on YONDER today! Find it now in your app store. Wattpad Featured Editor's Picks! Highest Ranking #1 in Paranormal. #9 in Romance. #2 in Dystopian.
Robbing the Alpha by Wendizzy
Robbing the Alpha
Wendizzy
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As Brooke prepares to gain Luna status by marrying her pack's Alpha, she learns she's fated to Huck, leader of the valley wolves. Now she must do everything in her power to forget him, bond with her betrothed, and secure her family's future... but the tension between them is impossible to ignore. Season 1 of Robbing the Alpha *** Bury your wolf. Lie when you must. Don't let them see you slip. Destined to be luna since before her birth, Brooke's whole life has been dedicated to one purpose-securing her family's bloodline. But when the day finally arrives to join Alpha Titan atop the mountain, they're intercepted by a pack of thieving valley wolves. Fated mates are rare, and being fated to a valley wolf would ruin her forever, but the second she locks eyes with the brutally handsome Huck, Brooke's wolf claws to be released. She has no choice but to reject him. He's dirty, scarred, and everything she was taught to loathe, but she soon learns nothing is as it seems. Shadows fill the castle, someone wants her dead, and Huck is like a ghost who won't stop haunting. Can Brooke assume her role and preserve her family, or is her destiny much larger than she realized?
Whiskey and Wine by SophieShambles
Whiskey and Wine
SophieShambles
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Ally Anderson has the best life a girl could ask for. Good friends, a close family and her dream course. Everything's perfect-until it isn't. After disaster strikes the Anderson family, she can either fall behind or get with the picture. Getting with the picture comes with more drawbacks than it does perks. As the new legal guardian of her two younger sisters and the face behind her family's pub, her old carefree life seems like nothing but a fever dream. Roman Ledger has the whole world at his feet. As the recently crowned CEO of Ledger Industries, Roman must step into the esteemed boots of his Father and prove his worth to his company. Eager to impress, Roman's expansion plans are fast underway. With only one building left to buy out at urban sprawl's centre, Roman will stop at nothing to get the final piece: a family-owned pub, the Crystal Cavalry. After one night off the wagon lands Ally in billionaire Roman's bed, Ally recognises her sweet lover Roman as the same capitalist scumbag out to steal her bar. Attraction fizzles into hate and hate spirals into lust. Drawing the lines between business and pleasure is almost impossible when your enemy is already your lover.
Special Agent | ✓ by earlyatdusk
Special Agent | ✓
earlyatdusk
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A genius analyst has to leave her desk behind and team up with the sour Agency hothead to track down her missing partner. ----- Quinn O'Reilly doesn't belong in the field. She's better off as the brilliant intelligence analyst behind some of the Agency's biggest arrests, and more than comfortable surrounded by her screens. Special Agent Cameron Kent, Agent Quinn's primary partner, is the pro carrying out the plans formulated with Quinn's brainpower. She's the closest thing to family Quinn's ever had. She's also missing, having dropped off the map in the middle of an undercover operation. There is no one better suited to find Cam than Quinn. There is no one better suited than Gavin Locke, agency hothead, to protect her in the meantime. With clues left all around the world, this unlikely pair will have to pick up the pace to find Cam in time - and avoid killing each other in the process. It's time for Special Agent O'Reilly to step forward - and into the field. ----- standalone, 150k words completed