Willow Creek, First Responders Series Book 2 Willow Creek loves three things: community festivals, gossip, and watching Fire Captain Kai Hart and EMT Violet Sinclair try (and fail) not to flirt. They're rivals with matching egos, professional respect, and a standing bet that turns every training into foreplay and every prank into a declaration of war. One disastrous "Station Games" tie, one trophy room door, and one grainy video later, the rumor mill crowns a new champion. Now the town wants answers, Kai wants Violet out of his head and into his bed (again), and Violet wants to keep her career intact while pretending the firefighter who drives her insane isn't also the safest place she's ever landed. From water-balloon wars to accidental sexts, from shower steam to ladder-truck shadows, their not-a-relationship keeps igniting-until a call goes sideways and the sirens won't drown out how much they matter. He says he's not jealous. She says it was just stress relief. Willow Creek says: pull up a chair. Enemies to lovers, first responders, filthy banter, found family, and a town that never misses a beat. Fully Involved is a laugh-out-loud, scorch-the-pages rom-com featuring a mouthy medic, a bossy fire captain, inappropriate wagers, locker-room meddling, and enough heat to melt turnout gear.

| 𝟭𝟲𝘅 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 · [EDITORS' CHOICE -- NOVEMBER 2020] [ONC 2020 Winner] Two strangers on separate trains, divided by uncaring glass. A bond forms between them. But will it hold when their trains are bound for different destinations? Evan's heart has been bleeding since his little family was torn apart by divorce, and his nose runs with a cold. Trying to pick up the pieces of his life, he has changed cities, and he's about to change jobs. And he has run out of tissues. A woman's blue hair catches his eye at a train station. And her smile, fortified by braces, catches his heart. Sitting in her train, Iris revels in her future perfect. Her work is finally getting published and she has found Mr. Right. Nothing could go wrong now. Gazing out of the window, she sees the stranger. He looks miserable and sneezes, but her hands want to tousle his bed hair. A random encounter at a subway station. But both of them are caught in their tracks and when their trains pull apart, they don't expect to meet again. ⭐⭐⭐ This is a slow-burn, peculiar romance; an expanded Open Novella Contest Entry based on Prompt #61 in the Romance section: "After being jilted, you move to the city to hide your embarrassment, lick your wounds, and start afresh." Cover illustrations by @EvelynHail. "Mind the Gap" is ONLY available on Wattpad. If you are reading this anywhere else, it is a plagiarized version that may contain malware. ⭐⭐⭐ 16x featured! 🏆 ONC 2020 Winner! 📘 Featured on: "Editors' Choice" ➡ @WattpadExplorer "Satisfy Your Cravings" ➡ @WattpadExplorer "Purity-Realistic Fiction" ➡ @AvantPop "Love Yourself"➡ @WattpadSpiritual "Head over Heels" ➡ @Romance "Accept Yourself" ➡ @LY "A Little Bit of Everything" ➡ @NARomance "Finding Love" ➡ @generalfiction "Melting Hearts" ➡ @adultfiction "Consequences" ➡ @ChickLit ...

Jasper had no idea when he accepted a Santa position in Deadwood, South Dakota for a month, there was more to why they specifically asked for him. Harmony, a single mother with two small children, lost the spirit of Christmas after her husband lost his life a few days after her daughter was born. Jasper's job is to not only be Santa, but to bring Harmony back into the Christmas spirit, and to allow her children to experience Christmas. Something Harmony has deprived them of since her husband's passing. Harmony isn't looking for love, and neither is Jasper. But will Jasper end up falling for Harmony while he's bringing the Christmas spirit back into her life? And will she, too, fall for Jasper after seeing what kind of person and heart he has? What will happen when Jasper's time is up in Deadwood, and he has to go back home to Tennessee? Credit for cover: selfpubbookcovers.com/RCMatthewsArtist

Willow Creek, First Responders Series Book 1 She's a Time Bomb. And I Lit the Match. **My new laugh-out-loud, romantic, ROMCOM.** Kylie's trouble. She always has been. She's also the only person who's ever made me forget I was supposed to follow the rules. I should keep my distance. She's unpredictable. Sharp-tongued. Way too hot to be trusted. And if she finds out what really happened that summer? Everything between us could explode. But every time she looks at me with those creamy, chocolate-colored eyes-- I wonder if I'd burn for her all over again. *** KYLIE: Community service sucks. Being supervised by Killian Moody? Worse. He's grumpy. Gorgeous. Zero fun. I swear he's made of granite and unresolved issues. But beneath that badge is a man who looks at me like I'm fire and he wants to burn. Too bad I'm starting to want it. KILLIAN: She's a menace. Kylie Everhart walks into every room like she owns it-and then sets it on fire. And maybe that's not just a metaphor. There's a file with her name on it. A date she doesn't remember. And the look in her eyes tells me she's close to finding out everything. I should stay away. But every time she pushes my buttons, I come undone.

Two seats. One train. A love story told in the time between stations. Elodie Cromwell edits other people's happily-ever-afters for a living. On Chicago's 7:12, she meets a quiet artist who sketches what the world almost misses-strangers' small graces, the curve of light on a window, the precise moment Elodie laughs. Tobias Finnegan is all easy smiles and closed sleeves, a thermos that passes for coffee and a sketchbook he never leaves behind. Their ritual begins with paper notes and inside jokes, grows into day trips and a list of "somedays," and-at last-becomes the kind of night that changes the shape of a life. They make one rule: no half-truths about feelings. But everyone gets to keep one secret. When Elodie stumbles on a folder that shouldn't exist, the life they've been drawing together tilts. On the very last page, she learns how love can be both a promise and a benediction-something you keep, even when you have to carry it forward alone. Tender, witty, and devastating in the best way, The Train Sketcher is a slow-burn city romance about ordinary miracles, the courage to say yes, and a final chapter you'll feel long after you close the book.

After an apocalyptic event that thrusts the world into a new ice age, Calestia - a 17-year-old girl with a strong will - must learn to survive on a land infested with gangs, guns, and distrust. ***** Nobody knows what day it is anymore. Nobody knows the month, the day of the week...and the only way to tell time is by the slight change in the color of the sky from grey to black every twenty-four hours. If a day even is twenty-four hours anymore. The planet is dead. The people are dead. Snow falls down upon piles of bodies like the ash of a volcanic eruption. Except, the snow doesn't stop. It never does. It continues to fall and fall until you wonder if it is even possible for another flake to come down and land silently in your hair. But it does. They do. There are few survivors of what the remaining have started to call the end of the world. The Apocalypse. Few who are still brave or scared of death enough to face the torture that is living. I am one of those survivors. Book One of the Snow Series Highest ranking: #3 in Sci-Fi Watty's Shortlisted

WATTYS2024 SHORTLIST | The Ambys 2024 Grand Favourite in Mystery/Thriller | 6 x FEATURED When a brash, rich woman, washes ashore, in a quiet country town, with a knife sticking out of her back, she promises something. A darn good story, and a chance to get out of dodge for the young inspector. But will he solve his first crime, or will he mix business with pleasure and learn to regret the whole thing? *** Devi Dhungel is broken. She's bruised. And she appears to be dead! When she washes ashore on the beach of a secular country town, gossip flutters: 𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝘴𝘩𝘦? 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 Mystery Cove? 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝘦? 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑦? Questions that also plague the lonely-yet-handsome town inspector, Hector Juan Martinez. For a man who's been searching for a little oomph in his life, Devi Dhugel brings it in spades. For him, solving the biggest crime to land on his lap could secure a promotion, or at least get him a transfer out of boreville. It's a doable task for the kind-hearted cop if only the victim of the attempted murder would stop lying about being some hotshot author he's never heard of and tell him the real story. Or he may be tempted to get rid of her himself, damn the promotion! This is Murder on the Orient Express, without the murder, of course. And only one man can solve it. Hector Martinez. But first, he's got to figure out what he's doing. *** Genre: COSY MYSTERY X ROMANCE Wordcount: 124K This is a first draft, so may contain errors/typos which will be fixed in edit rounds. Featured on: @Ambassadors - Diverse Fiction (Dec 2024) @action - Thriller (July 2024) @Humor - DiverseLit Humor (July 2024) @AmbassadorsIN - Diwali Reading (Oct, 2023) @WattpadAsianFiction - Hidden in the Sta

A misguidedly idealistic high school student founds a club to teach his classmates philosophy; when it becomes a cult, he must change course before the whole school drinks the Kool-Aid. Frank can think of no better way to prove his classmates have no moral compass than to write a manifesto satirically arguing for the virtues of selfishness; when this attempt at shining a light on his classmates' behavior is taken at face value, he creates a club to spread his teachings, hoping his ironies will be more obvious on a grander scale. The authoritarian rule of law he establishes meets little resistance from his club members, even as he wonders privately when they'll have enough and choose a more virtuous path. While Frank earnestly seeks to help his classmates, his methodology proves misguided in practice, and Frank must find where to draw the line before he permanently ruins his beloved high school. But then again, being a cult leader is too much fun to pass up... You Must Remember This adapts the foundation of Catch-22 in a high school setting, applying the same notion of dystopian bureaucracy to lampoon Silicon Valley's competitive spirit and, in these politically charged times, comment on the fragility of our own democracy. CW: minor character death (non-graphic), dark psychological themes (e.g. gaslighting), authoritarian regimes (including references to communism and Nazism) "Amazing, terrible, bourgeois horror" "At first I thought the story was about silicone implants" "I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves the classic American English course reading list or just wants to read something that will make them think."

MISTAKES WERE MADE. FRIENDSHIPS WERE DESTROYED. BUT NOW HE'S THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD HELP HER. Cassalyn Diao has made a dangerous, faceless enemy, and the only people in the world who could help her are the same ones she had abandoned six years ago. But she doesn't have a choice. Her sister is missing, her family doesn't care, and her adversary is too much for even her to take down alone. Marcus, Earl of Farnsworth, had lost his heart to the dark-haired spy years ago and still hadn't gotten it back. When she arrives at his doorstep half-dead and bleeding, he decides that he'd do anything to return her back into his arms. Whatever it takes. But they'll have to outwit their lethal opponent first, and as the clock ticks forward and the people closest to them are thrust into jeopardy, Marcus and Cassalyn find themselves in danger of losing much more than just their hearts in this game of cat-and-mouse. (Book One of The Sable Sisters Duology) Winner of the 2021 Wattys, Fantasy & Most Engaging World Wattpad Editor's Choice Formerly a Wattpad Original novel

And there she was, in the flesh. Her hair still dyed blonde, but curly again like when I saw her for the first time. She looked tired, cynical. Bored. And a little sad. I recognised these emotions instantly as it was the same way I'd been feeling for too long now. However, she was also still utterly beautiful and completely perfect, and the love I'd always harboured for her rushed back like a burst dam. Let's face it, it had never really went away. The dam may as well have even held back by some dubious duct tape. It had been leaking for years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ He pretty much fell in love at first sight when he was 14 years old. 20 years later he's having to face the girl he fell for again . . . And he's not really coping well with it. You hopefully already know how it ends . . . But here's the chance to see Ryan's version of events. ❤️ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***This novella is Ryan's side of the main relationship in "No Reservations". It therefore serves as a companion to the main book and would be best enjoyed as dessert after you've binged on the main. 😉***