You Had Me at Hello ✔️

On the subway at midnight, there's a girl with an empty notebook and a boy with a face worth drawing. Commissioned entry by Hulu. Alex Light © All Rights Reserved 2019

(RIVALS) The Upside of Falling ✔️

|| Available in book stores!! || watty award 2017 winner! || Becca's life takes a thrilling turn when she pretends to date Brett Wells, the most popular boy in school. Becca Hart is determined to coast her way through her senior year at Eastwood High School. Counting down the days until graduation had become her cru...

How to Love ✔️

| published! under the new title MEET ME IN THE MIDDLE | Eden knows she can't love Truman, the boy with the angelic smile and devilish eyes. Why? He's her best friend Katie's older brother, who she strictly promised she'd stay away from. But when a tragic accident strikes, Truman and Eden find their way back to one an...

Dancing With The Devil || COMPLETED ✓

Indian FMC X British MC She fell for the boy who's actually villain of the story

The Cell Phone Swap

Keeley accidentally swaps cell phones with a rivaling high school's star quarterback. Unable to switch back until a week later, she must interact with the arrogant boy, passing along texts and voicemails. As she gets to know him better, she realizes there's more to him than sexual innuendos and egotistical comments. B...

Foolish Friendship | ✔

[ unedited; completed ] Sometimes, we feel like we want to be someone else and do not notice how lucky we already are. ***** Being someone who is hardly noticed at school, Roselynn Jiminez-Cruz wants to change that, even if it is not possible...

Holding On To Happy | ✔

Mia Perkins life is a wreck. Her friends aren't speaking to her, her dad and his new wife are having a baby and she's positive her mom hates her. Then there's Calvin Benton, her new neighbor who is a little too honest for her liking. But maybe honesty is just what she needs. *** This is an unedited first draft and my...

What You're Not | ✔

[Now free to read!!] When she moves to a new town, all Loren wants is a fresh start. But things get complicated when she falls for Miles, the cute boy who wants to know her secret. ***** When Loren Reed moves to Westbrook all she wants is to put her...

Where There's Light | ✔

Jade Harris needs money for college. Nolan Chambers needs a ticket out of Bellcreek. The unlikely pair come together to fool their classmates into thinking they're a love sick couple to obtain the grand prize for prom king and queen-a college scholarship and a trip to Europe. It'd be easy if everyone didn't think Jade...

Half Baked Hearts | ✔

When her favorite bakery is at risk of being shut down, Charm Cunningham takes it upon herself to save it with the help of the bakery's newest (and annoyingly cute) employee. [watty's shortlist 2022]

It Could Be More | ✔

Harlow Spencer is not just Grayson's little sister. After years of dealing with her overprotective brother, Harlow is finally free to live the life she wants once he leaves for college. Or so she thinks. Enter Corey Michaels, her brother's best friend. She's afraid he's going to be Grayson 2.0, but the more time she s...

The 12th Kiss

"Cinderella had till midnight, I have twelve kisses to win back my prince's heart," John wants Metilda to end their marriage.He believes that he has fallen in love with another woman. Metilda agrees but she has one condition. John must kiss her every afternoon in-front of their son for twelve da...

In 27 Days (Watty Award Winner 2012)

Hadley Jamison doesn't know what to think when she hears that her classmate, Archer Morales, committed suicide. She didn't exactly know him, but that doesn't stop her from feeling like there was something she could have done to help him. So to Hadley's surprise, on the very night of Archer's funeral, she has a r...

The Boy Who Lost His Sight

[SAMPLE ONLY. PUBLISHED IN OCTOBER 2016] - LINK TO PURCHASE E-BOOK ON MY MESSAGE BOARD! "Why are you being nice to me? I'm a freak, I'm blind," Riley had once asked her, but Ellie could never answer that question, and she would never be able to. Ellie Burke is just this simple town girl, who will never look at the wr...

Smile | ✓

All she wanted him to do was smile. A love story.

the boy on the bridge ✔️

"Are you going to jump off the bridge now or not?" "Are you going to stop me if I said yes?" "Of course not," "Then, what would you do?" "Probably count you off," "Wow," "Do you want me to count?" "No," "Why not?" "Because I'm not going to jump off the flippin' bridge!" *** Joshua Goldmann was seemingly the perfe...

Slow Suicide

"He was a smoker. She asked him why. He said it was his slow suicide." - REVIEWS: "Slow Suicide is one of the best books that I've read. A beautiful story of two strangers that befriend each other and it soon became love. Shows that you can brighten someone's day with just a simple greeting or maybe getting to know t...

All For You | ✓

「 desi romance novella x arranged marriage 」 ▬▬ Arya knew she was going to be married to a stranger and expected to make family with him. She isn't hesitant about it nor is she reluctant to the idea. After all, it led to her meeting with her soulmate by luck. ▬▬ total wordcount : 8.5k words © adelaide 2024.

Crush Culture | ✓

「 dialogue story / epistolary x highschool jock-nerd」 ▬▬ In which Zara, the school's shrew & nerd, accidentally texts the school's popular football team captain, Sahil, thinking it is her friend's new number. It just so happens that she was complaining about him...to him. ▬▬ culture series # 1 total wordcount : 5.3k ©...

The King's Gambit | ✓

「 desi university romance novella x chess lovers 」 ▬▬ Vikram is a proficient chess player who is fully aware of all the chess moves required to win over his opponent. Trisha finds herself entrapped from the beginning; from the gambit. ▬▬ pulan uni novellas # 1 current wordcount : 11k words © adelaide 2024

1.1 | Midnight Trains

In which Keerthy takes the midnight train from work and finds herself running into a certain policeman.

1.2 | Firecracker

[ a desi dialogue story ] when a feisty entrepreneur texts the wrong number and the funny engineer can't help but fall for her.

2.2 | Karthik and Anjali

In which Anjali moves to Misayur, a small town in Western Tamilnadu to live with her grandmother and ends up running into her childhood crush Karthik, who is not the unserious boy she knew him as anymore.

2.1 | Vishal and Layla

Vishal and Layla - two notoriously competitive all-rounders, never shy to play dirty when it comes to winning. It's all grades and glares between them until one day, it's more.

1.1 | Milkshakes For Sale

In which Sitara orders a milkshake in the middle of the night and Shaurya delivers it to her. ~ a novella [25,000 - 30,000 words]

Talk of the Town

[ a desi best friends to enemies to lovers story ] Miraya lands the envied opportunity to do a feature story for the popular magazine MIRROR. When she realises the celebrity she has to work with is the one who ruined what could've been the best years of her life, things don't seem very enviable. Shray Nivas is the ho...

Two Tickets, Please

[a desi bus romance] Vijay and Nila have only one thing in common - they take the same bus at the same time everyday. What if this mere commonality steers their life into a whirlpool of uninvited feelings, wholesome conversations and unexpected connections, taking them on a ride they don't recall buying tickets for?

Texting Him. | COMPLETED ✔️

❝what was your first clue?❞ * Copyright © 2017 -#1 under the tag 'dialogue' 22/11/18

Falling For Mr. Sundae | ✔

[watty's longlist 2018] Elisa Robinson has only one thing on her Summer to-do list: Go to Jamaica with her best friend. But after an ignorant tweet sent in the heat of the moment, her parents threaten to make her get a job so she could see life through a different set of eyes. Elisa was against the idea until she real...

Foolish Summer | ✔

Waverly Davidson would rather be lost in a book than helping her mom plan weddings all summer. Stephen Davis would cut off his right arm if it would get him away from his mom and future stepfather. When their paths cross at a festival there's an undeniable instant attraction between them, but none if it matters when W...