Sixteen-year-old Catalina Halloway thought her story ended the night she jumped from that bridge. Instead, she wakes three months earlier-alive, unbroken, and trapped in a world she'd left behind long ago. Her suicide note has vanished. Her family remembers nothing. And yet Catalina knows one thing for certain: if she does nothing, her path will lead back to the same inevitable end. Determined to rewrite the ending, Catalina digs into the lies surrounding her quaint little town and all its people. Logan, the boy who ruined her. Grayson, the one who let it all happen. And the ghosts from her past- those who never really left. But the more Catalina tries to alter the story, the more the story seems to alter her. Each choice she makes leads her down another path, unraveling not just the town's secrets but the thing she fears most. The monster in her mind. Because Catalina is learning the hardest truth of all-sometimes you're not the hero of the story. Sometimes you're the villain. i didn't have it in myself to go with grace, and so the battleships will sink beneath the waves

----14+---- Ivy Müller is a normal high school senior with a normal crush on a normal boy. Ash Holloway. Her best friend, sweet, funny and hot, the man of her dreams. But throw in friendship issues, college locations, and her insufferable rival, Cole Callahan-Prescott, life suddenly isn't that easy anymore... This is neither a novel, nor a short story. You could consider it a novellette, with the finished product estimated to have 7-10 chapters.

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Nandini Varma owns the only bookstore in town and is content with hiding her awkward self behind bestsellers. What she doesn't know is that her favorite author has moved near her, and that perhaps she could finally have a love story of her own, even if it's an awkward one. ***** Ryan Callahan wants to move on from his writing career and just work for the police. It's hard though, when the town's book lady happens to be a huge fan of his. She's smart, funny, beautiful, and kind - a lethal combination. He wants to get to know her more, but something seems to be holding her back. Who is this mysterious woman that Ryan can't stop thinking about? Content/trigger warning: This story contains themes of sexism and verbal abuse. [[word count: 70,000 - 80,000]] Cover designed by Joe Resch

The Queen of Hearts meets the gilded world of Marie Antoinette. A princess with a holy Gift. A kingdom hiding a dangerous secret. And a marriage meant to bring peace to a land with a violent history of war. Eighteen-year-old Ophelia Rosiers is a princess of Rosailles, and also the heir to a holy Gift that determined the fate of her queendom centuries ago. But now with her Gift locked away, she can only hear the whispers of the Angels her people revere. As a result, her sister has been named next in line, and she is being sent to their enemy nation, Garnette, in order to marry their Crown Prince and hopefully lead their countries into an era of much needed peace. Only when she arrives, she quickly starts to suspect her betrothed is not who she dreamed him to be. Stuck in a palace surrounded by gossiping courtiers and enemies at every turn, Ophelia's friends are few. Especially when one of her handmaidens turns out to have secrets of her own, turning what Ophelia has always believed about her destiny upside down. Desperate for a distraction, she finds company with Prince Pierre-her betrothed's younger brother-who has motives of his own. When betrayal lands Ophelia as Garnette's prisoner, she realizes her whole life she has been dictated by other people's lies. With peace shattered for good and Ophelia's fate left in her own hands, she does the one thing she has left-she takes back control, even if it means turning into the very monster her enemies make her out to be. Bisexual MC. Book 1 in The Blood of the Angels series