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The Famoux by famouxx
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Leaving behind everything she's ever known, Emilee enters a world of high glamour and even higher stakes. The new freedom that comes with being a part of the Famoux is intoxicating, but behind the perfect image lies an ugly truth - being popular is a matter of life or death. ***** Out of the wreckage of environmental collapse, the country of Delicatum emerged. Its most popular celebrities are the Famoux, uniquely beautiful stars of a reality TV show called the Fishbowl. In a world still recovering from catastrophe, they provide a 24/7 distraction. Sixteen-year-old Emilee Laurence is obsessed with the Famoux - they provide a refuge from her troubled home life and the bullies at school. When she receives an unimaginable offer to become a member herself, she takes it. But soon she realizes that fame can be deadly... Content and trigger warning: This story depicts mental health issues and contains scenes of violence. [[word count: 350,000-400,000 words]]
The Slut's Guide to Chess by cosmic-creepers
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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]
Westwood School by linden-beechwood
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Rowen Ashworth and his three closest friends practically run their elite British boarding school. There, the richest of the rich send their children to get the best education and to make good connections. They expect their senior year to be no different from the rest, full of them breaking hearts, throwing parties and playing in their band. On a bar crawl in Nashville, these boys stumble upon Magnolia, singing her heart out. This honky-tonk angel enchants the boys and leads them around for quite the night. Never would they of guessed to see this girl again, let alone at Westwood high. Magnolia Harris, or Nola for short, is content in her life in Nashville. But for her father's job, they need to move to London. There she enrolls in the best school her family can find, money not being any bit of an issue. She does not expect what she finds at all. Will she come to love Westwood or will westwood come to love her? #1 in country #1 in songwriting
The Elites by -effervescence_
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After flying overseas to enroll in a prestigious boarding school, Blake Graham assumes that she can finally catch a break. Instead, she encounters the boy who she fought with almost every day as a child. After moving back to England, then over to Cambridge Academy, Clark Ellington assumes that he can relax throughout high school before being thrown into the toxic world of the one percent. Instead, he bumps into the one girl that seems to always get on his nerves.
The Price of Gold | Fortune's Fool #1 by KiwiAndKoalas
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❝ The question is, are you worth your weight in gold? ❞ Reputation is a sacred sheet of parchment at Forteux Academy. Handled carefully, it can become a bill of gold leading one to a life of riches. Yet a mere foot in the wrong direction can tear its dainty form until the misstepped individual goes tumbling down the very social hierarchy they were once so eager to ascend. When a mistake left behind from the crowned Queen's darkest night rocks up in the form of a handsome newcomer, Louisa Darling is more desperate than ever to keep everything under covers in her elite circle. The taste of jealousy, bitterness, hate and love is beyond dangerous in a world where everyone is used to getting what they want. And with one desperate to hide a secret that the other is determined to seek, things are bound to get damn complicated. [ e x t e n d e d s y n o p s i s i n s i d e ] | #1 in richkids | 260620 | | #1 in drunk | 260820 | | #1 in privateschool | 241020 | | #2 in whatshot | 260620 | | #2 in prestigious | 301120 | | #2 in trending | 010920 | | #2 in popular | 190920 | | #4 in elites | 260620 | | #4 in gold | 240120 | | #15 in money | 201120 | | #49 in romance | 260820 | •--- ♛ ♕ ♛ ---• The Price of Gold, Book One of Fortune's Fool Trilogy, KiwiAndKoalas, All rights reserved ©
The Jealousy Game {Completed} by xXForever_LoveXx
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Roll up, roll up. Need to make your ex realise that letting you go was the worst mistake they ever made? Need to make your enemy realise that you are, in fact, desirable? Or maybe your crush needs that little extra push that makes him realise that you’re everything they ever wanted. Well, then I have the perfect game for you. It will make your boyfriend/enemy/crush realise how much they want you. And, most of the time, it all works out for you. It’s simple: You pretend to be with someone; be the perfect doting couple, and make everyone in a ten-mile radius want to throw up at the sight of your PDAs. Then, voila, he realises just how perfect you really are. But what could this wonderful game possibly be called? I’m sure you guessed it, but if you’re not-so-bright, here’s the name: The Jealousy Game ~SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE LYING, CHEATING, BETRAYING, PAIN, AND FALLING IN LOVE WITH YOUR PRETEND BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND. THIS IS IN NO WAY THE GAME’S FAULT: THIS ONE’S ALL ON YOU ~ All Marley Adams wants it to get back at her ex-boyfriend for dumping her for another girl. Desperate and completely out of options, she enlists the help of her ex-childhood best friend, Noah Fordman. What follows is a riveting game of lies, secrets, deception and revelations. But just how hard must you play…. To beat the Jealousy Game. || Book Two of the Pranking the Bad Boy Series || Trailer: IAmChasingMavericks
She's Bad News by Bright_as_night
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When Corinna Evans' mother is sent to prison, Corinna has nowhere else to go so she moves back in with her father and his family. Determined to make it through these last few months of school, she only wants to keep a low profile and get by but someone keeps getting in her way. Tyler Flynn has been best friends with Corinna's brother forever and she's never liked him. What happens when her feelings start to change? And will her family ever forgive her for her past?
Breakaway: A Hockey Romance by averykwrites
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Ryan wasn't expecting to end up with the captain of the hockey team as a roommate, and she certainly didn't expect the initial sexual tension between them to blossom into love. ***** In desperate need of a place to stay, Ryan Winters doesn't see an issue with rooming with the captain of the hockey team, Ethan Russell. After all, she's focused on her studies, getting over an ex, and honestly, not that into athletes. Though the more time she spends getting to know her new roommate, the more it becomes apparent that Ethan is the exact type of guy she could fall for. When lines begin to blur and drama from the past threatens to tear them apart, can the two of them find a way to keep both their friendship-and their relationship-from crumbling to pieces? [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by April Alforque
F.A.I.T.H. by JoPRBooks
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"I was broken. Nothing, no one could fix me. Until you came into my life again. I wish I had gone with you that day instead of him. Because, now I can't imagine how I spent the previous years of my life without you by my side. You are my savior. You showed me that its okay to be broken and you showed me that I wasn't alone. You were with me. i love you for that. But I hate that I love you. I was never good with love. I'm scared that one day I'll wake up without you by my side. One day you will realize that you are better off without me and I don't want that day to come. Not now, not ever. I love you too much to let you go. I finally have a place in this world and that is next to you. You once said, 'Our mistakes compliment each other.' Truer words than these were never said before. We are both broken and incomplete but together, we're whole and we're fixed. We might be too bad for the others, but we are good for each other. They say all good things come to an end, but I'm bad and so are you. Together, we are horrible. But that just means that we're inevitable. You are mine and I promise to forever be yours." Recap by WeLiveOnlyOne *** WATCH THE TRAILER! Humor #1 / Teen Fiction #1 / Romance #4
Not so Shakespeare by Obsession101
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Caternia Vastola is the daughter of Mario Vastola, he's the leader of the Vastola Mafia. From before she can even remember, The Vastola's have been long time enemies of another Mafia, the Morello's. There's been years of blood shed, and finally they are ready to call a truce. However only if Caternia agrees to marry Bruno Morello's son, Antonio Morello.