****2025 Pride Awards Shortlisted!!**** When Miles's long-time hater wants help experimenting with "playing for the other team" on the DL, Miles is surprisingly here for it. The problem? Miles's best friend is definitely not. ___ Miles Green has been out of the closet since sixth grade, and hasn't really thought twice about it. He's popular and gets invited to every party, so practically no one bothers him. Except for James, who goes out of his way to show how much he despises Miles's existence. So imagine Miles's surprise when James kisses him. Or when James says it wasn't a drunken mistake but an experiment in his sexuality - a dilemma that James needs Miles's help with. As Miles and James grow closer, it sparks jealousy in Miles's best friend, catching Miles off-guard. Why would Harlow be jealous, especially when there was nothing but friendship between them? It was all platonic. Right? ___ AMAZING cover by @-DeeIsDead-

This story will become free on OCTOBER 13 and will subsequently be removed from wattpad) Claire must deceive a vampire prince while resisting her desire for him. *** Nothing in my life has ever been easy. Including the mission my family has sent me on. My sister and I have traveled to the vampire stronghold to convince Prince Bastien of House Allard to take me as his next sanguine partner-the woman he'd feed from-in order to spy on the monarchy. I hate his kind. I find the prince irritating and smug. But I'd do anything to protect my family, which means I have to get close to him. With my family's lives on the line, I'll do whatever it takes. Even if that means letting this monster bite me.

Rescued from a blind date from hell, a career woman's one night stand with her would be savior has unforeseen consequences. **** Up and coming New York apartment manager, Vanessa Torres' life is going perfectly according to her five year plan. Well, everything except in the love department, but that will come later. On cloud nine from her recent promotion, she agrees to go on a blind date arranged by her friend. Little does she know her squeaky clean life is about to turn upside down, following a one night stand with a handsome stranger, who saves her from the disastrous set-up. Reputable, lease up closer, Gabriel Tate, loves to live life by the game of chance, with no long term plans in mind. Blessed with Adonis-like looks and a charming personality he's used to getting what he wants when he wants until one flip of a coin changes his life forever. Their lives become entangled in a heated competition to fulfill rental contracts for their respective employers, not to mention running in the same social circles within the apartment industry. They soon realize change and compromise are necessary not only within their careers but also life and neither expected to find love during the chaotic and dysfunctional rivalry. Open Novella Contest 2023 Prompts: #5 Flip a coin and make a life choice with it. Two choices, one coin, and no turning back. Do you dare? #25 "If he smiled at you, he'll break your heart. If she winked at you, she'll rip you apart. #39 On a blind date with a complete mismatch, you're increasingly uncomfortable , but too polite to leave. Then an attractive stranger comes over and gives you an out. © 2023 LJRae

Max has spent the past several thousand lifetimes as a Reaper among humans and, despite the pleasures of a tidy country home with a well-dusted library and a finely tuned Harley, he's starting to get bored. His best friend gives him some advice: "Drink some scotch. Bed a woman. Join a rock band. Get it out of your system, and get back to your dutiful service." Max tried, but he ended up getting drunk, marrying the girl in Vegas, and accidentally triggering a chain of events that could end with the destruction of the human race. Now he needs to make things right again but the Reaper quickly learns that the magic of being human comes with one grim reality.

Two households both alike in dignity. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers are ripped from mortal life. 'Tis not the tale of Romeo and Juliet I tell to thee. For another pair of hearts weigh equally as heavy in strife and sorrow, if not more. One, determined to protect his fair cousin and House Capulet, the other, swept away by princely duty yet bound by friendship with House Montague. In the space betwixt, they meet where none exist but them. Where none know the love they bear for one another. Alas, love alone cannot save them. Mayhaps the mischievous sprite and fairy Queen who opened their hearts upon a Midsummer's night can. Yet Death lurks. And her song beckons more than one ill-fated heart.

Ostracized and coping with the loss of her hearing, shifter Rowan is an outsider in her own pack, blamed for the death of their leader's heir. But when a chance encounter with mysterious Alpha Casimir of the Ironmoon pack reveals they're mates, Rowan finds herself drawn into a world of secrets, danger, and maybe even love. Season 1 of Heart of Iron *** Rowan's best friend is dead and it's all her fault. Trapped in a cruel pack who can't let her forget it, she's lived years as an outcast, grieving his loss and learning to live with a hearing impairment from the attack. Until the day she accidentally finds herself crossing territory lines and comes face-to-face with Casimir Thorn, the infamous alpha of Ironmoon - and her mate. Casimir is impossible to resist, and life in his pack gives Rowan the second chance she's been waiting for, even if she has to literally fight to earn her place among them. But as a new future with her mate opens up, Rowan learns she isn't the only one haunted by the past. Is the strength of their bond enough to survive the storm coming their way?