Through his obsession, she embraced sin. Yule Trenelle is everything the world expects her to be-graceful, god-fearing, and destined for greatness as the daughter of a rising political star. But when the young CTO of Aegis International, learns her summer fling is her new boss, Yule's dark desires collide with her spotless future, while Zihan Yu proves to be the one sin she cant resist. Prompts Used: 31. Next time, ask yourself if your integrity can withstand the truth. 61. The silence in the room is deafening, as though it has a life of its own. It's time to rewrite the fairy tale, but this time, the ending will be yours, and it wont be happy. 118. Youre feeling trapped in your current relationship and can't shake the urge to break free 127. I've got a long list of ex-lovers; they'll tell you i'm insane

A companion prequel novella for 'To Marry a Dragon'. When a mysterious thief steals a treasure from a reckless prince, his knights spring into action. They're hunting for the precious necklace intended for the prince's bride, but the prince knows better. His heart was stolen, and his heart is priceless. The only way he can recover from this loss is to find his thief before the knights. Only, he can't court the thief and still be the same prince he's always been.

When Darlene Hathaway is discharged from the hospital, the first thing she does is go to her dance studio. Sure, she might not be taking ballet classes anymore, but it's better than being alone. The first person she meets there is Hope McKaye, an up-and-coming comic book illustrator, the only student at her high school to graduate at sixteen...and Darlene's childhood best friend, whom she drifted away from in ninth grade. Hope's happy to see her again, and she's even willing to let her stay at her apartment for as long as she needs, despite Darlene's hesitance about letting her back into her life. But her entire life can't be made up of late night walks on the cold beach and following Hope around her various jobs. Darlene has to come to terms with why she's here--why she's freeloading off of someone who used to be so close to her instead of forging her own way in life---in order to move forward.

✉️ ONC 2025 LONGLISTED ✉️ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❛❛What started under a drizzle turned into a thunderstorm. Prohibiting me from wanting too much, yet wanting it all.❜❜ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A Teen Fiction Novel | Ongoing ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ When September Grahams starts to receive letters from an anonymous person, she's in awe of his cursive, his words, his rhythm. The beautiful poetry she has the chance to read every month makes her heart soar. Her sister's convinced, it's a prank, but September believes otherwise. And, she also hopes the new member of their Literature club is the one who's making these sweet advances, hidden in the folds of those beige envelopes. However, the letters might remain the only good thing in her life as her world seems to shrink and cracks start to show. As buried secrets threaten to awaken, and friends turn to foes, will she find the one person who continues to remain her only source of true happiness? One must turn the page, to learn about all the 10 Letters To September . . . ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❛❛The ink of our souls binds us beyond the pages of time.❜❜ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Started : 01.02.2025 Posted : 07.02.2025 Novella : 27.02.2025 Status : Novel, Ongoing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ © All rights reserved by Rose LeClaire 2025

Mabel's life is falling apart. Between her long-time situationship who wants to be more than friends now, her rapidly deteriorating grades, and a group of friends who've been conveniently excluding her from their plans lately, nothing is going her way, and the pressure keeps building up from all sides. That's when Katie comes along, a brilliant new student who is quickly arranged to be her tutor. She seems like everything Mabel could never be. And yet, she understands her better than anyone ever did before. As the two start spending more time together, and Mabel's life becomes increasingly messier day after day, Katie will add another problem onto Mabel's plate-one that, if not handled properly, could leave a bitter taste in their mouths... and hearts. ~ 🍋 ~ Entry written for Open Novella Contest 2025 Prompts: 126, 118, 134, 69 Genre(s): Contemporary YA Romance PUBLISHED: 2/1/2025 COMPLETED: TBA

| ONC ROUND 1 WINNER | A much-needed, relaxing afternoon listening to music becomes complicated and potentially dangerous when a burnt-out young woman receives unexpected company - two bands from her playlist. Their discomfort at this sudden temporal displacement is nothing compared to what she'll discover. 26-year-old Sadie Matthews is stuck in a less-than-ideal bakery job where the percentage of genuinely decent customers is only marginally greater than her pay - and that excludes tips. Luckily, coming home, putting in her earbuds, and pressing "Shuffle" on her YouTube Music playlist is the ideal cure for such a nasty case of burnout. After all, when it comes to '80s rock n' roll, it's impossible to lose a game of audio roulette. Right? When a freak electromagnetic shockwave unexpectedly ups the ante, Sadie finds herself hosting Mr. Midnight and London Boys Gazing, two glam metal bands from opposite sides of the pond notorious for their unique, fantasy narrative-driven lyrics and legendary feats of onstage - and offstage - prowess. While acclimating to the liminal discomfort of being in the modern-day, they reveal the startling truth about their music that threatens their careers - and lives. Sadie faces the complex challenge of helping the bands return to their time to overthrow the powers that be. This novella blurs the line between time and space and the roles of musician and manager like never before. So, what are you waiting for? A wild, rock n' roll ride awaits! Cover Credit: @thatwomanlywoman321

61). " The silence in the room is deafening, as though it has a life of its own. It's time to rewrite the fairy tale, but this time, the ending will be yours, and it won't be happy." Open Novella Contest 2025 entry ---------- Dorothy Glynth yearned for nothing more than to return home. Was this selfish? Perhaps. But it wasn't her fault she was swept away by a tornado into the strange world of Oz. She did everything in her power to find a way back, never straying from the yellow brick road despite her strong desire to do so. She even defeated the Wicked Witch of the West, though she questioned why someone would melt from water; still, she wasn't one to judge. But it was all a deception-a grand scheme designed to make her the so-called wizard's apprentice. Refusing this fate, Dorothy goes into hiding. Now, with a mysterious masked figure lurking and everyone casting her as the villain, she is determined to forge her own path home. Former allies have turned into enemies, and Dorothy won't hesitate to do whatever it takes-anything-to get back where she truly belongs ---------- temporary cover by @TheWildCyde Copyright © Zaquira.L.C. [SassyReads] 2025. All rights reserved. This story is protected under copyright laws and may not be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without the author's prior written permission. This book will only be on Wattpad.

"I'll be here for you always, as long as you need it. Forever and ever." 🍪🍪🍪 Calista Bellamy thought she'd left her childhood fantasies behind. Living inside her old home wasn't exactly thrilling, but she never expected to stumble across an old keepsake-one that led someone back more than just memories. Her imaginary friend is back. And this time, he's real. Sunny's return feels like stepping into a dream, full of laughter, mischief, and old routines. But as the days pass, Calista starts to remember things she can't explain: fragments of the past slipping through the cracks which led to unanswered questions. Why did Sunny disappear all those years ago? And now that he's here again... how long will he stay before she has to say goodbye? 🍪🍪🍪 PROMPT USED: 105. Your childhood imaginary friend who disappeared years ago returns-only this time they're real.