Grand Favorites 2024
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The Edge of No Tomorrow by kae-ruby
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❝When the clock stops ticking, and the only lights remaining are the stars above our heads, humanity will not surrender peacefully.❞ The unpredictable course of a rogue satellite will destroy Nina Hawthorne's city in two weeks. Depressed, she attempts to find somebody more worthy of saving than herself. * Cover by @randompeephere !! *
Ironstorm | Bjorn Ironside | ONC 2023 by BreanneLHeureux
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|2024 AMBY'S GRAND FAVORITE | |ONC 2023 SHORTLISTER| |FEATURED Wattpad Military Fiction| |2x FEATURED Wattpad fanfic | "She wears her strength and darkness equally well. The girl is half goddess and half hell." Legends are made, battles are fought, and the storm is yet to come. After the death of her fellow comrade, Lieutenant Amirah Grey would do anything to have redemption. On the way to Afghanistan, all control is lost, and down the rabbit hole she went. Waking up on the shores of Kattegat is; the last thing she expected, especially when she is locked in the wrong timeline and ready to pull the trigger. It's 845 and a great war wages from the south; The Seige of Paris. Vowing to aid Bjorn Ironside and Ragnar Lothbrok in one of the most brutal battles of history comes at a cost. Amirah must win the Northmen's war in order to return home. Blood is spilt, lives are lost, and hope still remains. ONC 2023 SHORTLISTED FEATURED: Wattpad Military Fiction | November 27, 2023 | |Ancient Battles| 2024 AMBY'S GRAND FAVORITE(S) Gorgeous cover made by: @HayleyLHeureux Content Warnings Inside Started on: February 26, 2023 Ended on: April 29, 2023 at 12:58 AM (Mountain time) Total word count: 29203 ONC 2023 Prompt: #60
THE DRAGON HEALER [COMPLETED] by februalia1
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*UPDATE: The Dragon Healer has been selected to be one of The Ambys 2024 Grand Favorites!! :) :) === Alanna's dreams were quite simple: Finishing her psychology study at the university and continuing to the grad school, and building her own dogwalking small business. That was all. Her life was fine and she worked hard to start achieving her dreams. Until the headache that threatened her life and the murmur that she heard in her head made her question her sanity and her ability to survive them. Her parents revealed a secret about her, and brought her to a snowy kingdom of Alathyr, an enchanted kingdom in another universe. In a kingdom stuck in a prolonged winter because of the dark sorcery of a vengeful witch, Alanna met a group of rebels and their dragons. Tristan, the rebel's leader, kept his own secret, and Alanna realized she had fallen for him and his warm embrace. When the kingdom fell deeper into darkness, Alanna knew she had to fight to survive, and she had to do it with all her memories of what was good in her life. === Note: Please vote/comment/review if you like this story :)!! Thank you :)
The House of Atreus | ONC 2023 Shortlist by amaranthine_dreams
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The House of Atreus bears a curse. One steeped in blood and nourished by decades of violence. Klytemnestra knew this when she married Agamemnon, but being a princess in Sparta doesn't leave you with much choice, though she longs for it. The Fates spin their threads impassively but all Klytemnestra wants, is to be free of the shackles that bound her. Iphigenia has always been the perfect daughter, the perfect princess, beloved by both her people and her father. With Greece on the brink of war, destiny chooses her to fulfil a higher purpose. But she might just have to sacrifice everything. Elektra is sick of being held down by those in power. Despite being a princess, she is living a life in poverty, one she didn't choose. But when her brother returns home after a long absence, she might just take matters into her own hands. *** Three women. Three secrets. Three tangled lives. *** This story is intended for an adult audience and features depictions of violence, murder and sexual encounters as well as mentions of rape, incest, cannibalism, and suicide. Cover design by AnnieRosebud * ONC 2023 Best Cover Award Winner * * Ambys 2024 Grand Favorite *
Night Like That (rewritten) by OreOJunkIe78
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Ivy Ototi has three unchangeable truths: thrifting is the only way to true fashion, you can never have too much to drink and that there is only one woman she would ever love - Chastity Kioko. Only Chastity Kioko does not thrift, drinks in absolute moderation and does not see Ivy as anything but her best friend. That is until they both end up fucking, avoiding the elephant in the room then have to deal with it when Chastity's flat ends up being invaded by a snake(s). Now Ivy has to live with the friend she cannot taste again. She is losing her mind because she has to exercise something called control in regards to the enigma that is Chastity. One that has invaded her completely. One that has her questioning the small touching and the sinful looks. One that's making her wonder; could she have a night like that? * This is the rewritten version of 'Night Like That'. It is a steamy, standalone, black girl romance filled with angst and tortured pleasure. Don't expect cliffhangers and lack of fluff. Do note, however, there will be brief descriptions of homophobic violence.
Entity [The Ambys 2024 Grand Favourite (Sci. Fi.)] by JanGoesWriting
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In the furthest reaches of the Solar System, brave, if foolhardy, people search the Kuiper Belt for resources the inter-planetary colonies and stations desperately need to survive. It requires people with the strength to spend years away from home, or the desire to make enough to live a comfortable life. On her second rotation among the vastness of space, Samantha Porter finds herself and her crew-mates about to embark on a discovery that could shake the very foundations of belief and culture when they uncover something both wondrous and deadly. In a desperate fight for survival, Samantha must find reserves of courage she never knew existed in order to escape the clutches of an entity beyond imagining. A tense sci-fi thriller novella for ONC 2024, based upon Prompt 76 - "Cap? We need you on the bridge now. AI registers an extensive asteroid field and ... oh my god!".
Through the Wormhole by CroodsGirl
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|SERIALIZED STORY · ACTS I AND II · WATTPAD CREATORS PROGRAM · ON BREAK FOR CLAXTON| |AMBYS 2024 GRAND FAVORITE! · 19X FEATURED| Daniel Matton wasn't ready for an adventure, not until 3025 sent him into space on a journey to prehistoric times. The prehistoric animals test his patience, but Dan must endure all the pain and suffering to return home safely. *** Seventeen-year-old Daniel Matton, still grieving after his mother's death five years ago, is given the adventure of a lifetime when he's selected as the Star of 3025's PPMC Project for a journey through a black hole, wormhole, and white hole to prehistoric times. Now, does Dan want to be the Star? Heck no, but he has loved paleontology ever since a bittersweet memory with his mom twelve years earlier. Programmed to resemble Dan's mother's personality, PPMC vows to keep him safe on his journey, but it's difficult when the stubborn teen constantly gets in trouble, not just with himself but also with prehistoric anomalies: volcanic eruptions, eight-foot-long millipedes, terrifying saber-toothed cats, and, above all, disaster. Now nearly trapped in time, Dan and PPMC must work together to escape the geologic time scale before Dan's love for paleontology and the mighty Quetzalcoatlus prevent him from learning how to truly trust PPMC and "let go" of the burden that's weighed him down for five years. A teen, a starship, and Becca... Have you ever wanted to see where life first began? *** *Moral: "Accept where you belong."* JUDGES AND REVIEWERS! The world of Through the Wormhole is enormous, and I cannot touch on every nook and cranny of it in merely five chapters. Please keep that in mind.
Too Young (The Jewel Project #1) by Wimbug
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"Life is a series of choices, kiddo. You either choose to trust me or you don't." Sam Grant had always wanted to become an archaeologist and live a life of adventure. But once he leaves for a study camp in the jungle of Yucatan to get him started on a dream career, he finds that his future job is not a problem. Coming out alive, however, is. Faced with his family's oldest enemy who desperately wants him dead, a secret agency who wants him to work for them and the girl of his dreams, Sam is forced to find balance before he loses his head. Literally. Murder, mysterious team mates, ancient traps and the responsibility of bringing everyone back home safely - Maybe Sam is just too young to deal with everything at once. *** Book 1 of the COMPLETED Jewel Project Series. Highest rank: [#8 in Adventure] Epic cover by @italychick The Undiscover Writer Awards Winner for Best Adventure Rose Award Winner for Best Adventure Crystal Awards Winner for Best Action
A Better Sky Somewhere by cassandrejanvier
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𝑨𝒎𝒃𝒚𝒔 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 2024 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒐 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒕 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓 2024 6× 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒑𝒂𝒅 🝮︎︎︎︎︎︎︎🝮︎︎︎︎︎︎︎🝮︎︎︎︎︎︎︎ Norabel and her mother are forced to move out of their neighborhood due to insecurity caused by gang members expanding their territory in many cities of Haiti. Her mother's colleague has kindly offered them shelter, and Norabel spends most of her days brooding in her bedroom. Leaving her hometown to live with strangers was definitely not how Norabel expected her senior year at university to go. During this stay in her temporary home, Norabel meets Ethan, the son of her mother's colleague. An unlikely friendship begins to bloom between the two of them. Norabel hates this country with a burning passion for what it has put her through, whereas Ethan still finds Haiti beautiful despite the chaos that has set in. After nursing a broken heart, Norabel had closed the door to love for almost a year. However, unexpected feelings start to rise when she begins to spend time with Ethan, and he seems to make it a mission to care for her well-being. Ethan has a secret burden of his own, but he's determined to make Norabel shed her pessimism during the short time they'll be cohabiting. He's an incurable romantic, and Norabel has definitely caught his attention. Can a mutual journey of hope bring them love in a country torn apart by violence? ꨄ︎𝑯𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈ఌ︎ #1 ɪɴ ʜᴀɪᴛɪ 𝙼𝚊𝚢 2023
Parlor Tricks by 0liviaRose436
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Hank was just a teen when his father committed suicide under a cloud of scandal. The disgrace forced him to grow up within the cold shadow of his once-promising life. Twenty years later, Hank is content with the safety of his solitude. Still, Josie arrives knowing more about the secrets of the surrounding society than an outsider should and forces him to face the ghosts of his former life.