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 homeless man and destroyed in a dumpster fire. Literally. So when she receives the news that her no-nonsense, straitlaced immigrant mother has sold all their worldly possessions to purchase a quaint Alaskan lodge retreat and invited the entire family to winter there for the Lunar New Year, Juliana sees no better option than to pack up her life and travel across the country. But little does she know that her mother has invited another guest: Elliot Chan, the annoyingly handsome son of a family friend and Juliana's most hated academic and professional rival - and what's more, her mother has a matchmaking scheme in mind. With no future prospects and no way home, Juliana is forced to stay at the retreat where she discovers that there is a strange magic swirling in the quiet, whimsical northern town - and that there might be more between her and Elliot than she realized. No matter what happens, Juliana will find out that her idea of a perfect-not-so-perfect life might look very different than she could have ever imagined... -- A cozy and comedic Lunar New Year holiday read, filled with wintry romance, magic, and just a little bit of luck. ;) My entry for the Open Novella Contest!

Zoe, a high school sophomore, has learned the hard way she wants nothing to do with dangerous love and alphaholes. Cruz is her safest bet for a prom date--a top athlete who has never been noticed in any stereotypical bad boy behavior. She has no clue he's that way for a good reason. Wild partying leads to kissing, kissing leads to passion, and passion can activate his dormant vampiric gene. So, he fixes his classic car, plays ball, and listens to Zen music on the regular. Basically, he'd do anything to avoid falling in love, even with Zoe. Too bad a certain Ancient vampire wants Cruz's unique abilities and she has no scruples about thrusting Zoe and Cruz into dangers far beyond what they have wisely tried to avoid. First published: February 6, 2024

UPDATES ON-HOLD UNTIL AUGUST 2025 ❝𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖?❞ Asael didn't want to marry, let alone be forced into it by his parents, with a woman he didn't know. But to avoid any conflict and continue being the good son in their eyes, he gave in and set up a prayer of adoration to ask for God's blessing on his future. Only for the devil to show up unprompted, irritated, and demanding to be returned to hell. But after pressing close together to hide the supernatural from another human, neither of them could deny the spark that flickered between them under the sheets in the dark of Asael's room. Finding himself stuck with potentially ruining everything between him and his family and the temptation to side with the devil, he might just give in to the latter. After all, with him, there was truth and freedom--the freedom to carve his own future, the freedom to carve a story to be told without any underlying fantasy. Or was there? Sometimes, even with the intrusion of the supernatural, destiny finds a way to emerge as the true story. - NO LONGER FOR ONC Used prompts #88 and some more from the @OpenNovellaContest #ONC2024 Read the first part for information about this and other stuff! UNEDITED | FIRST DRAFT First part posted on Wattpad: 02 | 06 | 24 First chapter posted on Wattpad: 02 | 12 | 24 Last chapter posted on Wattpad: 00 | - | 25 Wordcount per chapter: 1700 ~ 3100 Overall word count: ~ starisredy © All rights reserved Only on W a t t p a d. beaut cover designed by @-DeeIsDead- Featured: @FreeTheLGBT - "ONC2024 #FreeTheLGBT" reading list (march 2024) Highest Rankings: #532 in Paranormal #65 in -romance #576 in dark romance #724 in gay romance #293 in devil #860 in new adult #49 in angels and demons #3 in angel of darkness

THE WORLD IS CORRUPTED. THE WORLD WILL START ANEW. ━━━━ Generations after Adam and Eve, evil runs through the veins of every human being on earth. A great Cleansing is coming, and all life will be wiped out. Na'el doesn't know any of this. Betrothed to the son of a lunatic, the duties of her as a woman pressure her more than any impending apocalypse. But when the rain starts to fall, her life hangs in the balance. Which will destroy her first; love, or the Flood? ━━━━ ROUND TWO WINNER FOR ONC2024 ✨

When Bryony -- herbalist extraordinaire -- goes missing, Bella knows one suspect stands above the rest. The village's aspiring second witch, Daphne, comes from a family that's tried to take Bryony down before, and Daphne seems determined to carry on that legacy. For someone who's always been terrified of Bryony, she's a little too keen on looking into the disappearance. There's just one problem. Bella's insufferable fellow familiar thinks the kid is innocent... and he's been right about worse things before. If Daphne herself is to be believed, clues on the disappearance lead a whole lot closer to home than Bella would like. As the evidence mounts, Bella must choose to either stand by her values and the woman who raised her, or seek what might be a truth she would rather not uncover. Prompt #81: The town's witch has gone missing and no one is looking for her but her two familiars - a crow and a black cat, plus the teen who has always been scared of her. ❖❖❖ Written for Wattpad's 2024 Open Novella Contest. Longlister. Complete. Comments and critiques are both welcome and appreciated. I write characters from many different backgrounds, with many different experiences. If you share those traits and find that I have misrepresented anything, please let me know! I am feedback-friendly and here to learn :)

Inventor Selene Mintz and her partner Arch Kenton are on the cusp of breaking into the upper levels of Inno-Tech with their latest inventions when she is rocked by a devastating betrayal. Unsure who to trust but hellbent on making the person pay, she fights for control of her idea before the materialistic tech company turns it into a sinister capitalistic nightmare capable of destroying the lives of millions. Cover image by Noah Buscher from Unsplash

After a near death experience, James Jones, or Jimmy to his friends, begins to see ghosts. While in surgery, he meets Henry Costa, a renowned ghost buster. Henry is dead, but he's about to become Jimmy's best friend. when he's recovering from his surgery, Jimmy learns his sister has gone missing, and may also be dead. Flying off to America, he sets out to find his sister.

Peaky Blinders meets Bonnie and Clyde. **** Eighteen-year-old Kit Jones has spent his life on the wrong side of the law. Having grown up poor in London's seedy East End, Kit has fought tooth and nail just to survive. Emily Masters cannot say the same. Born to rich parents, she's been handed everything she could ever dream of on a silver plate, but she longs for adventure. When Emily and Kit's lives collide, they find they have more in common than they first thought. Hiding from the police is one thing, but when Emily's parents come looking for her, the two must do whatever they can to avoid being caught. They quickly realise that a life on the run is no life at all, but they may have gone too far to get out. Based on Prompt 14: "My Love, believe me, waiting for you has always been a form of freedom." - Alexandra Vasiliu.

ONC 2024: Prompt #17: Your curse is to love so much and crave love more than life, but never be loved. Those who dare to love you will be subjected to the worst of fates. Fedya Zaravyrzhik is a siren--a cursed one at that. While most sirens are designed to seduce and kill, Fedya is flawed--he loves love. Fedya's cursed to never be loved. After hundreds of years of this, Fedya's used to it despite how much it hurts. When a handsome man named Grant Chavalier steps into the picture, Fedya's deadset on breaking his curse.