NA Romance Challenge 2023 Top Picks
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Eight Count ✔️ by EverythingsNothing
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| 2x featured | When an up-and-coming dancer moves to Hollywood, she has plans of fame and fortune, but a one-minute encounter with her ex-lover and friend not only threatens her plans but makes her heart freestyle again. - - - After trudging through and failing in the murky freelancing waters of her hometown in central Texas, 22-year-old dancer, Dawn Bronagh, moves to L.A. with her mind set on reshaping her life. The first step: perform live with the internationally renowned Marlin Breen Dance Company. Confident that there is no chance of failure, Dawn feels nothing can hinder her success. But on the day of her big performance, a phantom of her past throws a monkey wrench into her perfected plans. Reignited anger mixed with free-ranging fear and pulls at her heartstrings doesn't help Dawn find a remedy to this ex-lover-induced problem, and she's running out of time. With only eight hours on the clock, Dawn is determined to find an answer before any possible failure comes to a close, but the answer may not be the one she was looking for. Completed: September 22, 2023 Word Count: 16,000 - 17,000
To Soar With Wings of Light by The_Musician
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Valerio Shihab expects his third year at university to be stressful. Not only because he's finally getting a chance to dive deep into his major-concentrated courses; but also because it's his first year back at school after taking some time off. He knows things will be different since the life he lived before taking a break is nothing like the one he's living now. Coming to grips with a bad breakup and in desperate need to have some form of control back, the plan for the next couple of months is to focus on school work and nothing else. But as quickly as Valerio chooses to isolate himself with his studies, in comes a new transfer student who changes everything with a simple, "Mind if I sit here?". --- [For NA Romance Writing Challenge 2023] **Update: Top Pick for NA Romance Writing Challenge 2023!
Under the Sugar Maple Tree by SaintlyScarlet
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"A Journey for happiness only to discover dreams can be prophetic in the most unexpected way." *** Annie Miller has always imagined her happiness lies under a Sugar Maple tree in Autumn as its leaves change colors. This is why when a chance to leave her small southern town and head north arises, she takes it. Unexpected challenges arise, though, when she meets a surly professor who doesn't understand why anyone would want to sit around and, "watch leaves on a tree die." Can the sassy and spirited Annie melt this professor's heart with the fire of an amber leaf? Or will a string of events lead him to cool more than ever before? *** *This book also contains some mature language and subjects that individuals may find triggering.
Soft Peaches  by lovelylebo
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Peaches lost her parents a year ago but the feeling of grievance still haunts her every time the lights go off . She decided to quit her job and recover in peace . It was never easy dealing with customers when some of them reminded her of what she had lost . She's been living in the comforts of her home until something unexpected happened . She will find herself in a rollercoaster of two men who claim to want to be with her . This is a story about Peaches and how she found herself trapped in between two hot men from the next door houses . How will her story unfold ?