FEATURED ON OFFICIAL @Creators READING LIST: FEATURED FANTASY STORIES 𝘈𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘦-𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘺. 𝘈 𝘵𝘺𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯. 𝘈 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳. Xanthiene Vivenca's life drones on in a cycle of finding her next meal, ensuring the house won't collapse, and surviving until the next day. Then, a boy with cloud-white hair ruins it all by crashing through her roof, along with a set of problems tying her to the fate of the island. With the Human Queen terrorizing the kingdom, friends to save after falling victim to a wicked system, and a power she could barely understand, let alone control, Xanthy finds herself working with complete strangers to bring down a regime. Secrets unfold. Certain truths are revealed. A war beneath the island's surface finally bares its fangs. Now, Xanthy has to save her friends and herself before it's too late. FIRST BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES OF FANTASILIA SERIES ˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°•˜"°•.˜"°• © 2018 (First Edition) © 2021 (Second Edition) [90,000 - 95,000 words] [Cover by JN Ignacio; Text & Graphics by @Exequinne]

Annabel Stewart has always lived with shadows. Raised by her grandfather after the mysterious death of her parents, she has carried a loneliness she can't name and a hunger for connection that her art has never been able to fill. On the night of her long-awaited gallery debut, her world unravels. Her work is torn apart by critics, and the boyfriend she thought she could lean on betrays her in the cruelest way. Broken and adrift, Annabel retreats to Scotland, where she unexpectedly inherits her family's ancestral cottage. But the cottage is no ordinary home. Standing at the edge of the wildwood, it hums with forgotten magic and whispers of a legacy long buried. As Annabel digs through her mother's old journals, she discovers that her bloodline once stood at the heart of a fragile peace, three powerful witches who balanced the realm of mortals and fae. A balance shattered the night her family was murdered. Among the ruins of that lost world, Annabel encounters Nick, a gruff fae whose piercing blue eyes and guarded heart conceal secrets of his own. Drawn to him against her better judgment, she begins to sense that their fates are tangled far more deeply than she realizes. But in the shadows, an old enemy stirs. The Loom trembles, the Courts are restless, and the veil between realms grows thin. Annabel must choose: embrace the legacy that terrifies her or watch both worlds collapse into ruin.

FAKE ENEMIES TO REAL LOVERS X SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE X REALITY COOKING SHOW When Layla, a transgender woman and a human-shaped bundle of anxiety gets into Kitchen Kingdom, a failing cooking reality show, the last person she thinks she'll see is her long lost first love. Dylan Bodega, an effortlessly cool butch lesbian can't even recognize Layla after twenty years and two puberties. Once she does, the women hatch a plan to pretend to be bitter enemies in the show for the ratings while teaching each other everything they know about cooking. Falling in love was never part of the plan.

𝘢 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘴𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘧𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘺 When a sentient shooting star crash lands into Carolina Callista's gardens claiming that a great danger is coming, she doesn't quite know what to think. Especially not when the star -- who answers to the name Whimsy -- is unlike any moonchild she has ever met before. Soon enough, Caroline is utterly transfixed. But it'll take more than the pair's growing connection to save the moonchildren from what's to come. Which just begs the question: what sort of magic does it take to banish monsters born from nightmares? DISCLAIMER: 100% of this work belongs to duckywritez. This story is entirely original and human made. Absolutely no AI was used in any part of the creative process.

Everything in young Lord Rivien's life is as precise as the sweep of his sword. It has to be: with a dead princess for a mother, an absentee general for a father, and a nursemaid peddling dangerous fairytales to his siblings, precision is the only tool he has to keep his family in order. No matter if it hurts them in the short term. It's the only way to protect them. But when a passionate, poetry-tongued girl invades his dreams and begs him to save her from the monsters hunting her, he'll find himself far from order and even farther from his family. Whatever it takes to get back, he'll do. He'll cast any spell, cut through any monster, spill any blood -- no matter how much that cold determination scares the girl he came to rescue. But if he's not careful, he'll find the most dangerous monsters aren't the ones he can cut through. _______________________ Cover © 2026 Avadel Ink Authorized solely on wattpad.com/avadel Updates Mondays & Fridays

[Set in Eilos, the world of 'Echoes of the Reach', and can be read standalone.] Where ripples of the past lead, the tidal waves of history soon follow. Jaster Brand is an artificing prodigy. From enchanted tools to automaton companions to his own right arm, his passion for arcane engineering has carried him to the Malkest Throne's biggest cities in search of work. Working with his fellow travelling apprentice, the rookie hunter Astrid Forrester, they scrape up enough money to support themselves and their families. On Jaster's latest visit home, however, something changes. The road to Flatsands transforms into a sunken cove, a seabound scape of sand and shells cut off from the wider world. Worse still, the village itself is abandoned, its residents vanished and their homes claimed by an insidious dark coral. Mysteries rise at every turn, yet none more startling than the sudden reappearance of Calypso, Jaster's one-time imaginary friend pulled back by forces unknown. Stranded together in a drowning village, the three must race to find the missing villagers, undo the curse that has befallen Flatsands, and face the ancient threat that stirs beneath the blackened waves. *** Cover and chapter-end banner skilfully crafted by the wizard of legend @-DeeIsDead- (thank you so much again, Dee!)

At nineteen, Felix Morel's life is already crumbling. Between the music classes he clings to in pursuit of his dream and two jobs to support his cancer-stricken mother, every day feels like a battle he's barely surviving. Elias Gray, twenty-six, has never known struggle. The spoiled son of a powerful politician, his world is privilege, recklessness, and indulgence-until one night, when he crashes into Felix's world. Literally. Their lives collide in the most twisted way, leaving Felix scarred with trauma he can't outrun and Elias burdened with a guilt he can't escape. But in the wreckage, something unexpected sparks. What begins as a strategy, a reckless game Elias convinces himself he can control, soon grows into something more-something fragile, dangerous, and undeniable. As secrets unravel and the weight of the past presses closer, one question remains: When love is born from ruin... can it survive the truth? ⚠️ Content Warning! This book explores trauma, PTSD, and the difficult ways people struggle to cope with both physical and emotional scars.

☆ SLOW BURN • DARK ROMANCE ☆ 〜 They burned her kingdom to ash. Now she sleeps beneath the roof of its conqueror. Clarice, last princess of Sahradyn, was meant to die with her family. Instead, she was spared, dragged across enemy lines and locked in a tower by the man who shattered her world. King Caelen of Velmoras is cold, calculating, and ruthless. He offers her only one choice: become his concubine, or rot in the tower. Yet even as Clarice plots her survival, something stirs between them. A pull. A thread. The old texts call it the soul-thread: a bond said to bind enemies as often as lovers, rare and perilous, long dismissed as myth. But Clarice feels it now, in every glance, every silence, every clash of wills with the man she should hate above all others. As war brews on the borders and kingdoms begin to fracture, Clarice must decide whether the thread binding her to Caelen is a curse to be severed, or a weapon powerful enough to change the fate of empires.

Two rivals. One legendary blade. A bond that will save them or destroy everything. Kael Ashford has spent eighteen years preparing to be chosen; Kira Carver never thought the blade would pick someone like her. But when the Obsidian Blade chooses them both, they're forced into a partnership neither of them wanted. Their emotions bleed through whether they like it or not, every feeling, every fear, and every truth they're desperate to keep buried. And they only have twelve weeks to figure out how to work together before a catastrophic Fracture tears their world apart. Fire and Ice don't mix. But they're about to find out what happens when they try.

When betrayal fractures the kingdom of Averon, Prince Cassian escapes into exile with only one loyal protector at his side. Rowan was raised as the sworn blade of the Crown. He knows the prince is the only man capable of saving their broken homeland. As they rebuild power in the shadows, they build an army unlike any the world has seen. They will restore the throne. They will end division. They will avenge the betrayal. But when unity replaces doubt, Rowan must confront a terrible truth: A kingdom without division may no longer be a kingdom of men. ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── DISCLAIMERS ✎ a work of fiction (historical, psychological) ✎ this book might have dark/mature themes that could be upsetting for some readers. please proceed with caution ✎ characters and plot are all a product of imagination. resemblance to real life people, dead or alive, is entirely coincidental ✎ technically not proofread ✎ personal work (this is an entry for the Open Novella contest) ✎ PLAGIARISM IS CRIME