Shortlisted for the Open Novella Contest 2019 • Being a Supervillain is tough. Between managing a secret lair and making sure your mom doesn't stop loving you because you keep telling everyone she's dead, it's a really hard business to be good at? Add to that, the fact that somehow you got arrested because your cat sitter didn't take the day off and then you go around expressing your unconditional love for pancakes in a Super holding cell because technically they can't put you in a proper prison and you don't really have a choice because lawyers are expensive? And then, you realise your best friend is plotting go take over your spot as the greatest villain there ever was? Okay, maybe not the greatest, but you do come pretty close to it! To top it off, there's that one Superhero who's just so completely gorgeous, you couldn't imagine any harm coming to them? Because they're just that precious? I guess that makes me a Supervillain with minor time travel superpowers and a huge crush on a not so powerful Superhero? And all you have to do is protect yourself and everyone you love from your ex best friend/sidekick --because let's face it that's the highest level of praise for a wretched traitor here--and you also have to get out of Super Holding somehow? What could go wrong? Right?

Love sees past the differences. It sees past the distance. It feels endless. Loves find us, even beneath our scars. As far as Alien abductions go, this one wasn't that bad. Connie, a loner from the UK is taken in the middle of the night, in the midst of a drunken pity party on a dark country road. Tequila is the only reason she agreed to go. Now, as she hurtles through the galaxy, a willing subject of an Alien experiment in Human Emotions, she finds herself making friends she never thought could exist. Falling for a man she only ever dreamt of being real. Raylon hides his scars behind a mask from everyone, except his brother, the ruler of the Five Kingdoms. Protective of his family and the new heir to the throne, Raylon will do everything he can to make sure he does not become the next in line for the throne. When a mysterious woman, from a distant land, defies all the laws of conduct with a royal, he finds himself fighting between loyalty to his King, Duty to protect his family, and a love so powerful, it consumes him.

Marilyn Cassel has been lost since she was abused by her last boyfriend. It seems like everything is falling apart, her mom is sick with cancer and doesn't have long to live, her dad died when she was 16 in the war and now the only person she has left is her brother who is leaving to go to war. Everyone she has ever loved is slipping through her fingers. But now she is 24 she is a grown women with a good life, and after six years with her brother serving in the military he comes home for 12 months and he brings along a friend, Anthony Jamison who just might be the one to help her put everything back together.

The second I saw him I just knew my world was going to be turned upside-down. There was no way I was making it out of this bar without him by my side. But, he surprised me by not being a like every other guy I have ever met. His sky blue eyes pulled me in, that lip ring he's always messing with made my insides squeeze. When I found out what his career was I was crushed. Where does this leave me? I've seen my fair share of everything being an SEAL, the best sniper in at least the US. Now I'm an undercover Hitman working for a backdoor of the government. Nobody knows my name. I don't have room for distractions. One distraction, people die. Her candy apple green eyes were unlike any thing I have ever seen, and that's saying a lot. The things this woman did to me with just one look made me want to walk away from the one thing I loved the most. Worst thing, I can't tell her anything about the strides I've made in my career, yet she's the only one I want to know everything. That makes any chance of us dangerous.

Normally, when you find a man alone in a cell in the deepest parts of the castle, you leave and don't look back. This is especially true when the man is a known criminal and incredibly dangerous. So why does Adren keep going back? This is a bxb story and there is an age difference. Don't read if you're not comfortable.

PREQUEL | BL Alone in his huge room, no people roaming in the dark alley, not enough good guards guarding their manor. Soon to be Duke, Lord Idris Gastrell was left alone that night. His father took almost all the guards from their household for a trip to Mermolt's Palace of the East. Feeling safe and secure, he decided to take a bath, sleep in the tub later and let the lonely night past, not knowing that on that night he'd seen a thief, holding the most precious and valuable thing for him- his mother's very last gift for him, the heirloom necklace! Unraveling the thief's identity was a big challenge for him, but his world will turn upside down after their head butler hires a new helper for their household. Solving the case while day dreaming about their mysterious helper will unravel the biggest plot twist of his life, making him ask, "Who is the real Royal Thief?" Written in English.