An acclaimed, award-winning thriller, published and translated around the world, now freely available on Wattpad. Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to spend months backpacking through some of the world's most challenging terrain. While hiking in the Himalayas, Paul gets more of a rush than he bargained for when he finds the body of a murdered hiker - mutilated in a way he has witnessed once before, in Africa, years ago and thousands of miles away. The police in Nepal, anxious to quell a scandal, close the case and declare the victim a suicide. Only Paul is left to search for answers. He reaches out to his farflung tribe of fellow backpackers for help, and his discoveries lead him to a terrible conclusion: a killer is stalking the international backpacker trail, preying on victims in wild places far beyond the reach of any authorities. A killer whom Paul may already know. Finding the murderer becomes an obsession that leads Paul from Himalayan peaks, through the jungles of Indonesia, across the bleak Sahara desert -- and into some of the darkest places imaginable... Dark Places won the 2005 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Reviews "You're hooked ... the characters are delightfully delineated ... beautifully controlled ... Evans contrives to slip the necessary specialist net-head detail into the plot without being boring or patronising. He can also pin down a character with a few details deftly brushed in ... A pacy thriller for the 21st century." - The Times "Anyone would enjoy Evans' clever, relentlessly absorbing debut thriller that becomes a lot more than just another serial-killer mystery." - The Ottawa Citizen "In this haunting suspense debut, Evans takes the reader on a page-turning adventure across five continents ... (a) spooky, inventive tale." - Publishers Weekly

Two runaway children steal a baby and attempt to raise it themselves in the world's most haunted hotel. To Ben and Sophie the abandoned hotel seems like the perfect place to hide. No adult will ever find them there. Within its walls they can be whatever they imagine: the world's youngest hoteliers, husband and wife - even parents. Then guests start arriving: the Ape and its master, the Egyptian man and his young daughter, and of course, Death. As Ben and Sophie slowly unravel the hotel's secrets, they realise they could become Death's next victims. They must find a way to warn him. If only they could talk to ghosts. Hotel Ambrose is an urban fantasy novel set in the 1980s. It will appeal to fans of Stranger Things and Stephen King.

• Book 1 • While hunting for his missing friend, Elijah stumbles upon a fiery journalist, who so happens to be looking for the same people as him: the doctors who experimented on him when he was a child. But when the two are forced to go on the run together, Elijah's healing wounds are opened, and he realizes that Lyca Corp. took more than his childhood. ⊳⊱ ♕ ⊰⊲ The moment Elijah escaped from the lab where he unwillingly spent the past thirteen years of his life, he planned to live up to his promise: he'd find Haru, the only thing that kept him sane growing up. But with no idea where Lyca Corp. transferred him, Elijah hunts down the former doctors who made his life hell in search of answers. After chasing his next lead, however, Elijah accidentally rescues Zoe, a journalist locked in his target's trunk. He has no choice but to bring her and her roommate, Jake, along with him as he flees the city to avoid capture. But as he continues his search, Elijah struggles with the scars Lyca Corp. burned into him. He has no idea who or what he is; he doesn't understand the power raging inside his bodyーthe power Lyca Corp. desperately tried to pry from him. Why does he have an insatiable bloodlust? What does the whispering voice inside his head want? And why does he feel as though a huge part of him has been torn away? ❅ LGBTQ characters ❅ Dystopian Urban Fantasy ❅ Supernatural World Conspiracy ❅ Word Count: 137,000 ─────────────────────────────────── ✵ Numenverse year: 1335 **April 2024 Editor's Pick **#3 in Werewolf 5/4/2024 **#1 in GayRomance 5/4/2024 **#12 in Werewolf 31/5/2025 2023-2025 © Tate Csernis | | Series is exclusive to Wattpad

Story Snippet: He fidgeted with his fingers. "But I-I do not... w-want to do s-such things with y-you." General Haoran banged his hand on the wall with churning fury. Did this guy actually think that he wanted to do those things with him? The nerve! General Haoran had never felt the urge to beat someone up this badly. "Listen here, you.. you..." No, he was an honorable man; he couldn't just call anybody a piece of shit just because he hated them. "The day this honorable body of mine touches a single strand of hair on your body, willingly with carnal intentions, is the day I shall cut off a part of my body and wash your feet by my honorable self and drink that water!" ******************* They had been enemies forever - both the Empire of Blazing Sun and the Empire of Silver Mountain. Both these Empires battled and toiled in the shackles of hatred for decades. And then, they battled some more. And then some more. Until they decided they really couldn't anymore and decided to marry off two sorry individuals as a treatise of peace. General Haoran of the Blazing Sun army was a man who knew not love or romance. He knew the art of war mongering and battle strategy but didn't know what to do when women threw themselves at him. He had wanted to live and die as a soldier on the battlefield, alone and unmarried. Until his Emperor decided to get him married to a Mosquito. One could love their enemy. And one could love even a mosquito. But if the said mosquito was from Silver Mountain? Definitely not. Between hatred and affection, loyalty and betrayal will General Haoran's long frozen heart learn of love? ******************** NOT A TRANSLATION. ORIGINAL STORY. COMPLETED✅.

They couldn't be more different. Ridley is a knight in shining white armor, so perfect in every way that it makes people hardly able to stand him. Prince Vandel on the other hand (aka the evil demon prince of darkness) is the sworn enemy of the kingdom, obsessed with gaining power and wearing beautiful clothes. The two young men are right out of a fairytale, practically made to be archenemies...but what if they ended up falling in love instead?

This is only a sample. The book has left Wattpad. *** The first human Royal Consort, Lucius Rosenfield, thought he had found his happily ever after with his husband, The Vampire King Dorian. However, his happiness only lasted for several months. After Lucius's treacherous secret mission is exposed by an enemy, the Royal Consort falls from grace, loses his husband's love and respect, and is imprisoned for a year. At court, Everyone speculates on when King Doiran will divorce and execute him. Just when Lucius thinks things can't possibly get worse, fate mocks him once more. He wakes up one day to find himself branded as a slave. Stripped of royal privileges, he begins to witness the true horror and cruelty of a world where humans are dominated and used as livestock. With help from a werewolf friend, Lucius narrowly escaped a fate worse than death and left Eternia. But as someone who has been "defiled" by vampires, he finds no welcome, consolation, or even safety back home, either. Will he ever see Dorian again? Will Dorian ever forgive his betrayal? And can love prevail in a world filled with hatred, pain and remorse, when another war looms between humanity and vampires? ******** Book 2 of The Toxic Consort Series

This is only a sample. The book has left Wattpad. *** Lucius thought his life was over when his parents married him to the notorious vampire crown prince Dorian. Worst of all, they married him under his twin brother's name so their more precious son wouldn't be defiled. Being the second choice his whole life, Lucius accepted his fate to protect his brother, his family and his country. He had to navigate his way through the vampire court full of predators and deadly schemes, play dangerous games with powerful enemies and walk on the edge of killing or being killed. However, he didn't prepare for falling in love helplessly with his enigmatic husband. ****** Book one of the Toxic Consort Series

Yeosang stopped to believe in love and joined the mafia as his last solution. He lost himself completely and became ruthless until he met Jongho, who gave him back his faith in life • Mafia / Crime • Story 2/4 • Includes members of other groups 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙡𝙨 𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚!

Link to original story: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1837793/1/Black-Truth And, with bated breath, Draco traced the silver line down one more step in the family tree. Draco Lucius Malfoy... the third full blooded Veriae in the Malfoy family... and future life mate of Harry Potter. HD SLASH No HBP

[A psychological thriller] When you can't even pay for a bottle of water, you might want a friend like Casper. This may be hard considering he's the God-given prophet of Seabrook high; the type of kid who offers existential philosophies on a Monday and spews poetry the next. Friends are a select few for Casper, and Holden doesn't have the right kind of luck for a golden ticket. But he isn't worried. After all, to win the heart of a prophet, all you need is intelligence. And intelligence is all he's got. Cover credit: Photo by Martin Stranka. Design by toska_. Trailer Credit: Clips from Xavier Dolan films. Made by me.