[2025 Wattys Shortlist] After getting cut off by her wealthy, business-obsessed parents, Emily Grayson finds herself broke, stranded in a small town, and working at a boba café, something she never imagined in her wildest dreams. Her first days on the job are a disaster, her patience (and Jake Sherlind's) running thinner than the tapioca pearls she keeps burning. Jake, the charming yet hardworking guy with big dreams, has no patience for entitled rich girls who don't know how to hold a job. But when Emily starts proving him wrong, their tension brews into something neither of them expected. Between spilled drinks, late-night confessions, and an orange stray cat that won't leave the back door, Emily begins to wonder... maybe losing everything was exactly what she needed to find herself. A small-town rom-com about growth, second chances, and love that's better steeped with time.

"The hour has come round at last, and the rough beast slouches towards Corban to be born." In those first nights, when man crawled out of caves to see daylight, the planet Corban was awake and ready for their arrival. Over the course of the last 11,000 years, Corban has been ransacked, pillaged, destroyed and exploited by religious fanatics and corrupt Empires. The planet, covered in 90% toxic tuorium filled water, is notorious for its most awaited attraction, the Fourth Temple. And Corbanians tremble as stories of the Dakshun, the destroyer- proliferate through their ranks. Some say his name is Krish, son of Vinyaracail Nelson, and others yet differ.

Victoria White and Amari Ettsin go to Ravenshire Aacedmy, a prestigious boarding private school in New York City. They both live very different lives, almost complete opposites. Amari is always pining after love, chasing it and wanting nothing more, and for Victoria, it always seems like love is chasing her when she wants nothing to do with it. These two strangers get a room together, and slowly become inseparable best friends.

In every century, a mortal is chosen to inherit the power of the Ashborn, which is a strong elemental spirit tied by blood by the ruling empire. In this century, the Ashborn chooses Kaelra, an unranked soldier from the outer provinces, instead of a highborn candidate. Her unwanted gifts incite riots, betrayal and a manhunt. She is assigned an reluctant "handler" who goes by the name Commander Thorne, the empire's most feared enforcer and also the prince's bastard half-brother. Cold, calculating, and utterly loyal to the crown, Thorne considers Kaelra a threat to be eliminated... until her power starts saving more lives than his sword ever could.

When med school student, Anna, gets a job at the school library, she never expected to go on the journey she now finds herself in. During work one day, she meets the dark and mysterious Damien, a man with secrets to hide and a dark past. Anna now has to make her decision, will she let herself fall in love with this mysterious creature, or will she try her hardest to stay away from him?