"I wonder what hurts the most? Losing your child to suicide or to murder." - Doctor Roe - For Theodora Wallace battling St. Kathrine Academy - the disclosed private campus for politician children - something she is not. Hustling through struggles with her unique family structure and abiding by the rules of life, have her keeping tabs in her marvelous brain for days. However, life is no straight path as she becomes lead witness to a suicide on her nights watching the local beach and it doesn't make it easier when the fancied Marlowe Richard - the charming lad of the academy is the one at fault. Therapy can't even seem to tame her thoughts as she yet again gets tangled with mental health and instead of just thinking about Marlowe, begins to intertwine herself with Maxwell, his twin brother. Now, the pressing issue isn't just why Marlowe killed himself right in front of her eyes but rather what led up to that - and most importantly how much can be deceived by the public eye when drugs, unlawful practices of medicine, mental illnesses, unregistered guns and a whole brotherhood history is brought to the surface. Wondering why Marlowe killed himself won't be the only thing flashing news headlines when a massacre is coming slow and silent to everyone Marlowe threw his fated red string at. - Trigger Warning: This Is A Severely Somber And Slowburn Book. Please Read With Ease. *Priority*

Blackwell Boarding School is swarmed with cameras that prey on the students in order to film for the reality TV show that shows an exclusive inside to an elite school. Zora McQueen avoids the glistening TV screen when her nudes are spread around campus, instead taking comfort with the only other person who keeps secrets from the public. Alluring mystery and dubbed slut, Eliott Hearse. Except now, Eliott is missing and no one has the faintest idea where she could've gone. Taking matters into her own hands, Zora believes that the answers may lie in Eliott's favourite game: chess. Partnering with the school's best chess club player, Arwyn Truong, Zora learns that not everything is as it seems and that perhaps the old school holds far more secrets than they'd care to admit. Some secrets hitting dangerously close to home. In order to see things for what they are and find her friend, Zora must escape the gossip and cameras that follow her closely and embrace the title she adorns. The only way to do that? Follow the Slut's Guide to Chess. [2022 Watty's Shortlist] [Featured on Wattpad Editors' Picks, April 2021 + 2023]

YOUNG GODS, driven to insanity. © sensationale [7.29.17]PO54

❝ Things are only as beautiful as you make them, Charlie. Including murder. ❞ It's the opening night of Burton Abbey's production of Romeo and Juliet and all is going smoothly - that is until the climactic death scene. Romeo takes a big gulp of the poison to be with his lover, except it really is poison and Elijah, who plays Romeo, is now dead. Charlie Monet, in charge of props, is the first suspect but soon the suspicion around her turns to worry as it seems she's the next target. Khaleel Rahim, an aspiring writer, is dying for a mystery to solve at his new school. When he sees Charlie sneaking around at night he thinks he's finally found something worth writing about. After discovering Charlie's ability to see visions of the past, Khaleel decides that they're the perfect pair to solve the mystery. With threatening notes, a quiet library and poison disguised as props; somebody in the school is blurring the lines between theatre and reality and the fast friends are about to discover that there's more to boarding school than just silly rumours. [2022 Watty's Shortlist]