It's Halloween night in a quiet little town, and the party at the old mansion promises fun, chaos... and secrets. But when screams pierce the night, the celebration turns deadly. Two people are found dead, and the police already have their eyes on six guests in particular. As the mansion is locked down, each of the six is questioned. Everyone has a story, anyone could be hiding something. Jealousy, obsession, past grudges... nothing is off the table. The suspects: the host, the best friend, the ex, the outsider, the athlete, and the younger brother-all have motives, all have secrets. The answers aren't clear, and the tension is rising. With every chapter, you'll uncover clues, witness the suspects' truths, and feel the suspense mounting. Who do you think did it?

To be Marked is to be claimed. To be claimed is to no longer belong to yourself. ➵ ────୨ৎ──── In a world where human lives mean nothing, every choice leads to death, sooner or later. When Xyrena Draven turns eighteen, she has only three options: Enter the academy, receive a Mark from the gods and survive long enough to reach the fourth year to train as a dragon rider, join the military, or spend her life as a slave with no future. Like most people, she chooses the most dangerous path. The Mark she receives is not a gift, but a forbidden curse. Its power slowly destroys her body and makes her a target for those in power. While being hunted, Xyrena is tied to Kaelen Rodrigues, the Crown Prince who should be her enemy and the only person who can either save her or destroy her. As a revolution begins to rise, the world demands one final decision. Who deserves to live and who must be sacrificed for real change to happen? ➵ ────୨ৎ──── highest rank #1 kaelen #1 epicfantasy #1 marked #1 academy #1 blood #1 fiction #1 fantasy

"What am I worth without my sight?" When 18-year-old Richard John Ryder loses his vision in his final year of high school, his future fractures. With the help of his childhood best friend, Maya Patel (who is hard of hearing) Richard learns to redefine independence on his own terms. ~a bittersweet, slow burn romance~ This mixed media book contains webcomic chapters as well as written parts. It explores numerous themes like self-acceptance, identity, disability, and mental health + FIRST DRAFT + WEEKLY UPDATES

Magic is forbidden. Love is dangerous. Prophecy is absolute. Alex Corvus was born with a secret he cannot reveal-magic in a world that burns those who wield it. Hidden away in the quiet edges of Ravenwood, he lives between shadows and silence, watched over by his frail mother and the two friends who know the truth: Johnny, the reckless heir to a noble house, and Lyra, his sister, a scholar who believes in reason over faith. When Alex accepts an apprenticeship under the mysterious Lord Arnaut, his life changes forever. Arnaut is brilliant, unsettling, and far too kind to be trusted. Yet in his dark halls, Alex finds more than mentorship-he finds belonging... and something dangerously close to love. But the past never stays buried. The old servant, Dot, knows what Alex truly is-and what he will become. The Goddess whispers to him in dreams, guiding his hand toward a destiny written long before his birth. Bloodlines are not forgotten. Curses do not die. As the kingdom fractures and magic stirs beneath the throne, Alex's power grows-and so does something else, something alive within him, a secret too sacred to name. By moonlight, a prophecy awakens. By dawn, a king will burn. Author's Note: This is the Beta Version of The Fire Beneath the Throne. Chapters will be updated and refined over time. Thank you for reading early and sharing your feedback!

THE OFFICE meets THE ZONE OF INTEREST - a darkly funny, unsettling novel about ambition, order, and the seductions of excellence. Berlin, 1935. Eva Albrecht is too smart for every room she enters. She watches men take credit for her work, watches incompetence promoted over her capability, until she meets someone who actually sees what she can do. Adolf Eichmann is a man without confidence or direction-pale, narrow-shouldered, the kind of man people look through rather than at. Every failure has taught him to disappear. But through Eva's gaze, he realizes the man he could become, if he can only believe in himself. Together they'll build something unprecedented: an assembly line where every improvement means more suffering-and they will learn what it means to be essential to someone, even when what you're essential for is unforgivable. Equal parts satire and elegy, The Banality of Eva asks what happens when the habits that make us good workers make us evil people. Ambrose Ilya Slopovich was born in 1971 to a Ukrainian-Jewish father who fled Odessa and a lapsed Episcopalian mother from rural Virginia. After practicing administrative law in Washington, D.C., he left legal practice to study the politics and literature of Weimar Germany. He is the author of several works of literary and cultural criticism, including The Arithmetic of Irony: Robert Musil and the Failure of Rational Man, World as Footnote: Egon Friedell and the Comic History of Catastrophe, and Secondhand Symbols: Language and Power in Post-Soviet Fiction. His first novel, Bureaucratic Sublime, appeared in 2020. Slopovich divides his time between Arlington, Virginia and Poland, where he teaches American and comparative literature at Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

"Sooner or later, you'll fall for me, too." Theodore bursts into laughter. "I don't know where your confidence is coming from." Jacob chuckles and says, "I just know." And then it catches Theodore off guard when Jacob adds, "We should be making out right now." Theodore swallows and looks him in the eye. "We should." "And I should be undressing you at this very moment," he continues, "We could stay up all night with our hands on each other and just... forget everything." ****** Meet Jacob and Theodore, the polar opposites within a tight-knit circle of the most esteemed members of society. Jacob, reserved and hard to read, isn't exactly Theodore's biggest fan-unlike everyone else, who's head over heels for the golden boy. However, as they navigate their way through law school, they trip over a connection that sparks a lowkey romance, catching both of them by surprise. Content warning: Physical assault, homophobia, mental health, strong language, sexual content Started: September 21, 2023 Ended: January 9, 2024 Revised: June 1, 2025 - June 28, 2025

When Christmas comes to the sleepy town of Hillbury, so does a love letter for Holly Ambrose - a love letter from a secret admirer. Amidst the yuletide balls and Christmas cheer of Victorian England, Holly vows to uncover the source of the letter, but will the self-avowed intellectual fall in love in the process? This Yuletide novella is twelve chapters long, with a chapter posted each day until Christmas beginning on Sunday the 14th. It's just a little christmas present to all my wonderful Wattpad friends.

AUTHOR NOTE: this is my first Wattpad fanfiction, and my native language isn't English, so forgive any spelling mistakes or bad writing. Cover is not mine. BOOK NOTE: the countryhumans in this AU have wings and special abilities (for example mind reading or future telling) DESCRIPTION: After Russia's horrible past, he thought he could never feel joy or love ever again. He figured he was wrong when he met America, the exact person in his life he never knew he needed. Will Russia open up to him and have his happy ever after, or will he get backstabbed and left broken hearted, again? WARNING: - not historically accurate - swear words - PTSD/trauma - LGBTQ+ - violence / blood / gore -suicidal thoughts - enslavement - torture DOES NOT CONTAIN SMUT BUT ISN'T MENT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN'S / SENSITIVE PEOPLE'S EYES AS THIS STORY CONTAINS LOTS OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF VIOLENCE! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK

General Sevei is of the firm opinion that Nobles are shady and Alchemists even shadier. Noble Alchemists are the absolute worst. He is not looking forward to partnering with one to guard the border. Upon their introduction, though, it would seem they have already met... under very intimate circumstances. Oh...,**** Set in the same world as Salvage, but we're going back in time for some Medieval sword and sorcery! This wholesome, happy-endings-all-around, smutty queer fantasy romance features an M/M main couple along with a host of supporting characters bringing some trans rep, some pan rep, some sex worker positivity, and even a straight ally who tries his darndest, bless his little puppy heart. Plenty of fluff, plenty of sexy times, a few funny bits, and our gang do all make it through the Horrors - but there is a war on, so there's also plenty of angst and a bit of bloody violence along the way. CW: Violence, violent death (no main characters), homophobic society, internalized homophobia and closeting, internalized transphobia (supporting character), war veteran ptsd, slavery (supporting character - no abuse of this character is depicted and sentiments are anti-slavery), strong language, detailed sexual content (all consensual), discussion of sex work.

Thaddaeus is a killer. A skilled hitman and negotiator, working under the small but notoriously known organized criminal syndicate, Enigma. Thaddaeus is also tired. Bored of his work and its repetitive and bloody nature. But one thing that the gangster looks forward to; is getting absolved of his sins via the priests of St. Clementia's Chapel. It's his safe haven and a place to make peace with his crimes and with himself. However, when his usual priest is out sick, Thaddaeus finds himself having to find absolution from a young volunteer priest with a voice that makes the gangster want to sin both in and out of the church. **Man x Man story**