On the WATTYS 2017 SHORTLIST and Featured in COSMOPOLITAN!!! A Wattpad featured story with LOTS OF STEAM! A new life, new friendships, new love... and a secret that may destroy all three. Emmie Marsden's past is a closed book locked in a secure vault. Alone in a new town and two months pregnant with the child of a man she wants nothing more to do with, she is attempting to start her life over again. When she meets the handsome owner of a successful robotics company, she decides to embrace her new life by having a one-night stand with him. Recently betrayed by his money-hungry fiancée, Ryker James isn't looking for anything more permanent than Emmie is. They make a deal: Sex without entanglement. This agreement works at first, but as their one-night stand turns into a month of nights, Emmie realizes she wants to tell Ryker the truth; she can't keep her baby a secret forever, after all. Will telling Ryker of her shrouded past destroy the life they'd begun to build together? ***Note: This story will include adults engaging in fun, adult sexy times. Each scene of this nature will be noted so that delicate readers can skip over it and indelicate readers can dive in with gusto. Enjoy!

Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared. There's one rule shared between the island's tribes: don't touch the water. When Cressa-la breaks this law, her world, and body, changes. Sure, change is normal... but when has growing scales ever been normal? • • • Watty Award Winner 2015: Best Use of Visuals • • • Each baby born beneath the waves is killed--with one exception: the one hundred thousandth is spared. Among the spared, magic chooses a rare few, connecting them to the moon or sea. These are the One-Hundreds, mermaids and humans with the power to save the world-or corrupt it. When Cressa-la breaks the first rule of her tribe and touches the water surrounding her island, everything she knows turns on its head. Talking, sinister dolphins, mind control, and a whole world just under the waves await her on her eigteenth birthday... but she never asked for any of this. All she wanted was to become a Tribe Leader and take care of her village. It's amazing how one screw-up can change everything. A relentless darkness reaches for her, wanting her affections for his own twisted purposes. In opposition stands a fractured light, haunted by a painful past where corruption eroded friendship. Unless Cressa-la can bring the darkness to his knees and fight the war raging inside, the world is doomed. • • • Content warning: This story contains themes of depression and violence.

Among a small pod of merpeople in the Gulf of Mexico is a young mermaid named Adonia. Having just turned 18, Adonia will soon be ready to join her sisters in the choosing of a mate, a ritual that occurs once every five years. Like all mermaids she has lived a simple life, forbidden from making contact with the surface world. Jason Stryker is an Olympic swimmer with 9 gold medals to show for his efforts. At 26 years old, he finds himself seeking a way to start a new chapter in his life. Owning beachfront property and dating models should be enough to make him happy, but he finds himself seeking something more. That is until one summer night , when Jason spots the beautiful Adonia watching him from the sparkling waves of the Gulf. *** The woman stopped and looked towards him over her shoulder. She was by no means calm, but her demeanor appeared to lighten up ever so slightly. The faint outline of a smile began to form on her bright pink lips. Then Jason saw it. Emerging from the water to the right of the woman's shoulder was what appeared to be a fish tail. However, it wasn't like any fish tail he'd ever seen. It was large enough to be a dolphin's tail, but it sparkled and had a light blue color, the same color as the woman's eyes. Following it through the water, suddenly Jason realized that it appeared to be attached to the woman's waist. No it can't be he thought to himself. He resolved he had to be dreaming, or maybe hallucinating. For the next minute or so he blinked and squinted, believing that if he just refocused his eyes he'd come back to reality, but as he opened them again, he only saw more clearly what he knew he'd seen before. Is she?......Is she a mermaid?

As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams? ***** Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

"She's startin' to get the best of me while she makes her mind up whether she wants me or Wesley" (Sunset BLVD. por Emblem3) Jennifer Collibre e Wesley Stromberg são melhores amigos desde a infância. No entanto, as coisas vêm mudando entre eles nos últimos meses. A amizade verdadeira entre eles têm evoluído para uma amizade colorida e, confusa, a garota vem percebendo que talvez seus sentimentos não sejam apenas platônicos em relação ao seu amigo. O problema é que ele voltou das férias de verão com um corpo escultural e Pamela Walls, a garota mais bonita do colégio que, além de tudo, era a paixonite de infância dele, pareceu notar a presença do garoto e está disposta a conquistá-lo. Se esse drama pessoal não fosse o suficiente, Jenny também encontra um novo dilema. Drew Chadwick não é a sua pessoa favorita em Sequim, sobretudo porque ele costumava pegar no pé dela quando eram mais novos e fazia da vida dela um inferno. No entanto, ele precisa da ajuda dela para evitar o destino terrível que seu pai parece maquinar para ele. E agora? Jenny deveria deixar as desavenças de lado para ajudá-lo? Para ficar por dentro das novidades e dos novos capítulos, participe do meu grupo no Facebook -> https://www.facebook.com/groups/437584989708253/