| ᴏɴᴄ 2024 ʜᴏɴᴏᴜʀᴀʀʏ ᴍᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴ | ᴏɴᴄ 2024 ꜱʜᴏʀᴛʟɪꜱᴛᴇʀ | ᴏɴᴄ 2024 ᴀᴍʙᴀꜱꜱᴀᴅᴏʀ ᴘɪᴄᴋ | x6 ꜰᴇᴀᴛᴜʀᴇᴅ | ❝ ᴀ ꜱᴡᴇᴇᴛ ᴛʀᴇᴀᴛ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ʙᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴇᴍɪꜱᴇ. ❞ Deathly Delights is a bakery specialised in the art to kill. Poisoned filled muffins, venom coated pastries, cakes decorated with toxins - if you can name it, Taerane Aviris can make...
[ONC '24 SHORTLISTER] When a group of assassins is onto her irritating escort, a happy-go-lucky bodyguard must ensure they survive their trip before his escort's past demons catch up to them. * * * No one expected easygoing Aspen Mendoza to be accepted into Interpol as a field agent, but she couldn't be any more ex...
Kindness is magic, or so they say. Gabriella has always done her best to turn the other cheek. Even when her family pushes that cheek into the mud she finds ways to forgive and forget. She's got plans to leva one day anyway so what's a few bad days? A chance meeting and a dance at a ball escalates her timeline and she...
Death is no mystery to Peggy after living as a vampire for over half a century. That doesn't mean the death of her best friend isn't devastating. Add to that the threat of someone going after that friend's great granddaughter, Maya, and suddenly death has a new fear to it. She'll have to push the boundaries of life it...
Torn between following a family tradition of being a bounty hunter-one that he's not particularly fond of-and following his dreams of being a private detective, Niel has always struggled to land himself a job and put the food on his table. Few people were willing to hire an untraditional bounty hunter like him, so whe...
Nineteen-year-old Lily Rhodes thought she knew all there was to know about Jacob Turner. The son of a Lord, he's always been known for his rakish ways and outlandish behaviour that makes him the topic of gossip amongst the servants. When Jacob suddenly returns home from London, Lily quickly realises that the stories s...
Jade is on the run. To escape her old coven, she pretends to be normal. Just some run-off-the-mill witch. Certainly not someone powerful and especially not a life weaver. Taking on the position of the town witch in a seemingly idyllic, quiet, and desolate town seemed like the perfect plan to lay low for a while until...
Seventeen-year-old Daisy Rios is the heiress to the throne of The Mystic Kingdom but due to her Earthling origins, she must prove that she is worthy to become the current Queen's successor. For that very reason, a test is set in place to prove that she's a true fairy. Assigned to help a chosen candidate find their tru...
Confined to the family's estate since birth, three sisters have never seen the outside world. Taught they are unable to leave home due to their long hair, Lexi, Lulu, and Fia secretly envy their volatile father and narcissistic mother whose short locks allow them to come and go whenever they wish. Raised believing the...
Fated for heartbreak or lucky in love? -- Juliana Guo's carefully planned life has gone off the rails. Her once promising legal career is dead, her chances for love lie in tatters around her, and her painstakingly penned magnum opus - an investigative nonfiction book about the Japanese mafia - has been stolen by a hom...
The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever. - Carroll Bryant Cordelia Marsden thought she had it all until she met Dimitri. Only then did she realize he was the piece of the puzzle she didn't know had been missing. There was something different about him though... something off. Like he poss...
[ONC 2024 Shortlister] When turning back isn't an option, what does it take to delve into the unknown? After a troubled upbringing in the foster care system, Gemma Haywood is used to switching homes. Her latest destination is Milnhome, the rural town where her runaway brother Jacob has resurfaced after five years of s...
When the towns local Witch goes missing, her two familiars set out to find her. Matias only really likes one person, his witch, Eve. So when she goes missing one day he's determined to find her. Even if that means putting up with the annoying crow of hers. But there's only one problem, Matias has no clue where to star...
Every step away from home is a chance for an adventure and Darcy is on her first one. She's been dreaming of finding her father for as long as she can remember. He's out there and she's got a list of clues and a crappy map, but it'll do. Less than a day into her travel she's accosted by a mango throwing thief and land...
𝐎𝐍𝐂 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 - When Eventyr spirals into war, three young foxes from its divided kingdoms must discover themselves and their united purpose if they wish to save their home from being destroyed. -❈- A reluctant heir. A living mistake. A misguided ambition. One knows nothing but violence, one knows...
SEQUEL TO ROYALLY BUMPED || After a whirlwind of a year, Mila Abbott is finally enjoying her life as a princess and mother. As wife to the new first in line to the British throne, Mila is adjusting to juggling royal work and being a mother, and the papers following her every move. With the royal family finally in a pe...
In a twisted game of truth and lies, Yuki Kobayashi schemes to win the heart of her academic rival, Rhett Tudor, and the college scholarship with it. But if he sees through her deception, it's game over. *** Yuki Kobayashi is the pretty, popular girl...
ONC 2024: In college, it was a case of wrong place/wrong time. Eight years later, they have a second chance. But will they take the leap? ___ Prompt 14: "My muse, believe me, waiting for you has been a form of freedom." ___ Excerpt: "Don't look back." Ian stares at me through the screen with his dark, intense gaze. "...