Antagonists to Lovers | Forbidden Romance | Julie Stevens just wants a simple life, but the brooding, intensely handsome and mysterious fighter named Joey Ryder, turns her entire world upside down. It doesn't help that she's had a crush on him-through the TV screen-for years...but he doesn't know that. Yet. FEATURED @StoriesUndiscovered for the month of July 2022 FEATURED @Romance on Wattpad ... Sports therapist, Julie Stevens, reconsiders her taste in men when a brooding, legendary MMA fighter walks into her small-town gym. The fighter needs a team to prepare him for the brutal, winner-takes-all Warlord tournament. Meeting him person, she learns that he's crass, difficult, and even hostile... But she can't turn him away, as this is the break that the gym needs. Not only does she have to deal with the fact that Ryder was her celebrity crush for many years, but she also can't catch a break with the grumpy fighter. Every encounter seems to go wrong... and then, one day, it doesn't. Ryder's walls peel back, piece by piece, until the complicated warrior reveals a man who loves hard, and unequivocally. But Julie signed a contract with the gym's main coach stating that she'll never cross that line. They both know it, but they can't stop throwing looks as strong as his punches. Will Julie risk losing the gym that she holds up in her brother's honor? What will she think when secrets are dragged out of Ryder's shadows that he'd much rather keep hidden? ... Friendly for all readers who enjoy a steamy, tension filled romance with drops of humor. Knowledge and/or interest in MMA not required. ... AWARDS: 🥇1ST PLACE The Carnival Awards -- Romance 2020 🥇1ST PLACE in Boba Awards - Romance 2022 🥉3rd Place ROMANCE Besties Award 2020 🏆Best Cover for Carnival Awards 2020

Natalie Choi has always had a reputation for having a heart of gold and going out of her way to be there for her friends. Between that, trying to get her degree in civil engineering, being vice-captain of UBC's women's soccer team and working at her Dad's garage, she's on the path to burning herself out. Joshua Zaki, playmaker of UBC's men's soccer team, has high hopes for his junior year. But when a traumatic event completely upends his life, he's left with only Natalie to turn to. Fighting in Josh's corner isn't exactly easy for Nat and as she supports him, she struggles to balance the other parts of her life. The longer it goes on, the more her feelings for Josh grow, but is that something either of them are ready for?

Vivian works hard and plays even harder, but her senior year is derailed when the varsity linebacker moves in. ⋆☆⋆ Controlled chaos. Vivian Sok lives by it. Living a sworn single era, Vivian balances her hectic life with a strict set of rules. Getting into Med school comes first. Vodka comes a close second. Screw the patriarchy at every opportunity. And never, ever, fall in love again. When college linebacker Jamie Tanner moves into a new hall of residence, he starts breaking Vivian's rules one by one. Theirs is a friendship with dangerous levels of fire. (And maybe something more.) ⋆☆⋆ [ @Romance's College Romance List August 2025 ] [ Winner of @ContemporaryLit's Spring Write-Off Challenge 2021 ] [ Halston University #2. Stand-alone. Completed. Word Count: 80K - 90K ]

COMPLETED. A university student. A professional hockey player. They've proved they can be friends. Can they be more? Although they're both in their early twenties and living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, their lives couldn't be more different. Camille Riccardi is a university student who doesn't feel like she has her life together quite just yet. A scary thought, considering she's graduating in a few months. Taylor Hudson, on the other hand, is exactly where he wants to be in life. Drafted first overall in the spring, he's set to begin his first National Hockey League season with the Winnipeg Storm. When they meet through mutual friends, they realize that they may have things in common, after all. They realize that maybe they could be friends. Maybe they could be even more. But it's not nearly as simple as it all sounds. This is their story. Cover designed on Canva with photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash.

A genius analyst has to leave her desk behind and team up with the sour Agency hothead to track down her missing partner. ----- Quinn O'Reilly doesn't belong in the field. She's better off as the brilliant intelligence analyst behind some of the Agency's biggest arrests, and more than comfortable surrounded by her screens. Special Agent Cameron Kent, Agent Quinn's primary partner, is the pro carrying out the plans formulated with Quinn's brainpower. She's the closest thing to family Quinn's ever had. She's also missing, having dropped off the map in the middle of an undercover operation. There is no one better suited to find Cam than Quinn. There is no one better suited than Gavin Locke, agency hothead, to protect her in the meantime. With clues left all around the world, this unlikely pair will have to pick up the pace to find Cam in time - and avoid killing each other in the process. It's time for Special Agent O'Reilly to step forward - and into the field. ----- standalone, 150k words completed

LOUD MOUTH | Calliope Adams had a loud mouth. At least, that's what everyone told her when she was younger. No matter where she was, she was that kid―the one who never shut their mouth and talked about anything they could think of. And as she got older, she used this voice for good . . and a little bit of evil. She was well-liked by most of the school's population, but she had to be if she was going to get elected class president for the fourth year in a row. Of course, there was a select few who found her unbearably annoying―the ones who dubbed her 'Loud Mouth Adams' in the first place. She had had a small few of sorta half-friends throughout the years, but they were only friends with her to be friends with her. But the sorta maybe half-friends? They always left when they realized Calliope wasn't all she was said to be. The real question was, who did they think she was? An Incredibly Interesting and Very Social Perfect Girl? Well, that was a big freaking no. She was just a Kind of Interesting and Not Really Social Not Perfect but Still Very Loud Girl. Turned out, that wasn't what they wanted. She didn't really try to be a socialite, but she liked that everyone thought she was. She just couldn't get close enough for them to see the truth. Anyway, she tried not to interact with those social ladder-climbing people, instead choosing to hang out with the people she knew she could trust. Which, for the last decade, had been one person: Peter Parker. The Not-So-Loud Mouth. He wasn't the type to enjoy pep rallies or run for class president, but he was smarter than 99.9% of the school and he made Calliope smile. He was something she could rely on when everything else fell to disaster. And he was the last one she would think would become a superhero. HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 in theamazingspiderman #2 in spiderman [The Amazing Spider-Man-The Amazing Spider-Man 2] [Previous Title: FAKE SOCIALITE] [Book One of the Loud Mouth Series] ©FLXRENCEPUGH

Eighteen-year-old Nat falls for five different boys during her first month at college, but never openly admits her crushes - until one night she drunk texts all five of them. She finds her freshman year turned upside down as she navigates the world of first love. ***** Nat keeps a list of all her crushes' pros and cons on her phone - the most logical thing to do for her list-making, highly organized brain. The lists were never meant to be shared, but when Ty, the school's star hockey player, dares Nat to tell the boys how she feels, how could she back down from a drunken dare? The sober light of morning leaves Nat questioning her sanity when she sees three messages awaiting her response: the hot guy she met at a concert, the kind guy from orientation week, and the perfect guy from lit class. Now, Nat must confront her feelings for these boys face-to-face, or her chance at love will pass her by. In this story of firsts, what happens when Nat just presses send? Book One of the Just Press Send series. [[word count: 90,000 - 100,000]] Cover designed by Cil Ojumo

Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction? ****** Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything. [[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]

"You do realize that I'm supposed to tell you when you're throwing yourself into a dangerous situation and that doing this will probably get you killed, right?" "I don't need you to take care of me, Sage." "Says the werewolf that fell into the floor." Sage Connelly was notoriously known for the fire that killed her entire family when she was only ten years old. Granted, that name held importance for an entire year before people eventually forgot about the Connelly's and the other family involved in the fire, the Hale's. Nearly six years later, when the little girl is not so little anymore, Sage comes back with more than just a leather jacket hanging on her shoulders. She comes back with a personality distinctly different from what her old friends remembered, not only stunning Jackson Whittemore into silence but efficiently taking away Scott McCall and Stiles Stilinski's ability to talk about the dead body found in the woods the night before. Even more, the bite on Scott's body that held an importance only two people in town could help him with: Sage, to her dismay, was one of them. When Derek Hale calls upon her help, giving her the title of Scott McCall's personal babysitter, she's inevitably forced to tag along with the boy's trusty side-kick. The introverted and overly, well, intimidating qualities that the blonde had lead Stiles Stilinski into an unfathomable struggle of convincing himself that Sage Connelly was just a crush, and that Lydia Martin would forever be the one holding his heart. That lasted as long as the one-way conversation the boy had with the strawberry blonde in the middle of a hospital. His downward spiral leads him directly into the arms of a stubborn, damn blonde that was confident she didn't need a boy in her life that was still tripping over an elementary school crush. [Season One & Two of Teen Wolf] IN THE SLOW PROCESS OF EDITING. SEQUEL IS NOW PUBLISHED, 'STILL' © Copyright 2016 | vividparacosm Cover: @amberIes