🗝️Detektiv Ryker Viltarin muss düstere Geheimnisse lüften, ehe er nicht nur sein Herz sondern auch sein Leben verliert.🗝️ You're on your own, far from home The wind is blowing in the top of the pines A gloomy sky where the sun never shines Deep in the woods, where the night is so cold You're lost, far from home Will you survive this horror? -Mustasch- Ryker Viltarin, ehemaliger Soldat und nun Privatdetektiv, wird von einem alten Kameraden um Hilfe gebeten: Er soll dessen Ex-Frau finden, die das gemeinsame Kind wegen der bevorstehenden Scheidung entführt hat. Das klingt zunächst nach einem leichten Fall. Die Suche nach den Gesuchten führt den Ermittler in das verschlafene Städtchen Silvershore am Everbreeze Lake in Kanada. Als der Ermittler in die kleine Pension Pineview Cottage einzieht, ist er überzeugt, eine skrupellose Kindesentführerin gefunden zu haben. Doch warum ändert sich dieser Eindruck immer mehr, je näher er Eve kommt? Warum wirft jeder Schritt in Richtung Wahrheit mehr Fragen als Antworten auf? Und welche Bedeutung hat der mysteriöse Schlüssel, der eines Tages in Evelyns Besitz gelangt? 🗝️ "Taking You Home" ist ein romantisches und packendes Mystery-Drama über Liebe, Selbstwahrnehmung und die Schatten der Vergangenheit, welche es zu überwinden gilt, um am Ende die wahre Bedeutung von Glück zu verstehen. 🗝️ *** 1. Platz Sunrise Award- Romantik Cover by Thinkerling

Attend opera concerts. Run a few errands. Enjoy a luxury apartment, wardrobe, and car, all expenses paid. Sounds like a dream job, right? There's only one catch. After nights of haunting musical messages and retrieving strange, pulsing items for her eccentric employer, Cleo unravels a conspiracy she definitely isn't getting paid enough to be involved in. As time goes on, she glimpses a fantastical realm of individuals that prefer to keep their powers a secret, and will do anything to remain unseen. Once unveiled, there is no going back to blissful ignorance. It all started with a paycheck. But in the end, Cleo may be the one paying - with her life. ~ cover by Laine from @avadel sticker by @SuVida777 *ONC 2024 Honorable Mention and Shortlister *Open Door Awards 2024 New Adult Winner *8CC participant January-February 2024 Completed Word Count: 31,180 Featured: @mystery 100. In a concert hall filled with hundreds of people, only you are hearing different lyrics to what everyone is singing. 27. Sometimes love is what drives you to take your next breath. Other times, it's revenge.

Elyminai are rampant in Cyber City 354431. They hold no formal ties to any of the three gangs controlling the city, though they'll steal or kill for anyone for the right price. After her sister, Stellae, signed on to a CryoFuture project, testing the latest developments in prolonging human life, Sol assumed the alias Aurablade. While many Elyminai capture and sell the final breaths of their victims on the black market, Sol collects them for herself, using them to visit the underworld, where her sister's consciousness is supposed to dwell while she's in a state of suspended animation. Except after two years, Sol still has not found Stellae. Sol suspects there's more to The CryoFuture's project then they have revealed to the public. And she is determined to unmask it at all costs. Pronunciation: Elyminai: Elim-in-eye Sol: Soul Stellae: Stell-ay #ONC2024 61. Your new car just might be the doorway to the underworld, and it needs more than gas to run. ONC 2024 Shortlister Cover by @thatwomanlywoman321 Sticker by @SuVida777 Featured: @action & @sciencefiction

Time heals all wounds. When you have the power to rewind it, you begin to wonder whether it's too much responsibility for one person to hold. ***** Sometimes, walking away is the scariest, yet the bravest thing one can do. Iris Fox would know; after returning to the coastal town of Emelle Bay, Oregon, and finding her life in shambles, it's hard to ignore the voice in the back of her head that beckons her to stay. Days turn into weeks, which turn into months, and Iris finds herself drawn to the heartbreaking reminders of how it all went wrong. Echoes of unfinished business and painful memories wash up, awakening the dormant power to rewind time, and Iris realizes she has a choice to make--she can either use her power to try and fix what has been stolen from her, rewriting her past, present, and future, or she can tuck the past where it belongs. Either way, there's only one conclusion. All actions have consequences. ***** Open Novella Contest -- prompts 24, 33, & 54 [[OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 ROUND 1 AMBASSADORS' PICK, LONGLISTER & SHORTLISTER]] © 2024 caterina george // all rights reserved

After getting in a car accident a young reserved plant enthusiast must embrace reality in order to make amends with family and be there when his loved ones need him before it's too late. - - - When reserved and plant obsessed 14-year-old Oren Spalding flies down to Georgia to see his other dad for the holiday season, he could have never predicted the trouble that ensues. Still not certain he wants to see the other half of his old parental body, he goes anyway, scarcely embracing the experience. Everything changes when the renuinted family gets into a car accident. He finds his brother hanging to life by a thread and his head spinning like never before, literally. As Oren navigates this alien situation, tensions between he and his dad come to a crescendo. Forgotten words are remembered. Untold knowledge is revealed. He wants to pretend this is all a dream, but he can't deny the truth, of what was said, what was done, and what he can't change. He needs to accept the reality as it is, but life might not wait for him to catch up. ONC 2024 entry Main prompt: #1 - Sometimes words speak louder than actions. Completed: April 26, 2024 Word Count: 20,000 - 25,000 Cover credits to the lovely @BlueStarrySky1 💜

Cursed with the touch of death, Amera faces a lifelong battle for normalcy. Among her myriad of challenges, she oversees her family's bar, positioned at the cross roads of life and death. Her world rips at the seams, quite literally, when a witch walks in, ultimately needing her help. Her eyes are opened to the reality that the stories and myths of old are all but too true: witches, demons, gods and goddesses... They are all real. When she discovers the truth of what she really is, she begins to wonder, could her curse be a blessing? Her touch brings death, but what happens if she touches the dead? YA Low Fantasy/Romance An ONC 2024 entry. Prompts used: 7 and 73. THIS WILL NOW BE COMPLETED AS A NOVEL. Started: 19th Feb, 2024 Completed: Exclusively on Wattpad.

🏆 WINNER (2ND PLACE) - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 🏆 A misfit of an aristocratic family must find out who is behind the murder at his university before he is disowned and falls victim to the murderer. ⋯⋯⋯ Arlo Crowhaven, a student of the prestigious Lyllan University of Magic, is poised to uphold his family's elite status. That is, until a classmate is murdered, and all of the clues point to him. With little time to clear his name, he must take the investigation into his hands, find the killer, and stop an even bigger secret from leaking out. After all, while Arlo likes keeping his hands clean, he may be entangled in a scheme even his family is not privy to. Now, Arlo must pull all the strings he can to foil the murderer's plan and save his skin. From the award-winning author of 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘋𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥 comes a story of privilege, wealth, and the divide between the elite and the common. Ideals are a salvation for many, but in the quest for freedom and power, sometimes, they are the first to go. AN INSTALLMENT OF THE LYLLAN UNIVERSITY OF MAGIC AND MISFITS SERIES ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2024 (First Edition) [20,000 - 30,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby] 🏆 SHORTLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 🏆 ROUND 1 WINNER - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024

🏆 HONORABLE MENTION - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 🏆 A witch has to pretend to be the wife of the Prince of the Dead in exchange for resurrecting her lover. ⋯⋯⋯ Mavyn of Krauss has everything under control until her rich and influential fiancé keels over and abandons her. Now with no place in society as a witch, she moves to the next best option―summon an immortal from the Land of the Dead and strike a deal to resurrect him. Enter Valen Nox, a prince of the Underworld, bringing along an irresistible deal to the table. She will have a chance to comb through the Underworld's domains for her fiancé in exchange for being Valen's date for his sister's wedding. But when the truth comes out with the promise of a conspiracy, Mavyn is thrust into the wicked world of the Kathari, the Underworld's immortal rulers, and their schemes for dominion. Now, she must play by their rules while crafting deadly plans of her own―plans that may endanger more than what Valen bargained for. After all, the most logical thing to do in a court deep in chaos is to use it to one's advantage. From the award-winning author of 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘕𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘋𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘌𝘯𝘥 comes a tale of the deadly and the wicked, set in a world where life and death are not so simple, and there may be more to lose at the edge of the void than at the end of memory. AN INSTALLMENT OF THE WICKED DEATH SELECTIONS. ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2024 (First Edition) [22,000 - 27,000 words] [All graphics are made by @sardonictabby] 🏆 SHORTLIST - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 🏆 R1 AMBASSADOR PICK - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024

What hurts more than getting betrayed in love? getting betrayed twice.... ... Heath was a tyrant. Not a born one but made one. The day he was forced by his father to kill his cheating and abusive mother as an 8-year-old child, his future was set on the stone. His father told him to not fall in love, but he did... not once but twice. ... The result... He looked at the man kneeled before him with swords over his neck, despite that his back was still straight. He sneered, Fine if this man doesn't love him then he will make sure that he would not leave him, not even in his dreams. No matter the cost. ... Heath Cadell Landry was the Emperor of Credia Empire who was known for being cut-sleeve. An Emperor famous for his cruelty, but also famous for dismembering his own fiancée. and keeping his loyal knight as his concubine. *My original story ~ cover is made by @Immortal_Scorpion