[Wattys Shortlist - 2025] Hiral Kashyap is a homemaker - conventional and burning, fragile yet unflinching, just another woman smiling through the burns and life. Riddhan Nanda is a dangerous man, a widower - the prime suspect in his wife's murder. A lawyer by profession, he has always straddled the blurred line between power and lies. Bitter by nature and trapped in the chains of patriarchy, he speaks louder than his beliefs. When destiny strikes, secrets unfold, hope shatters, and hearts wither. Twisted and unhinged, Riddhan desires her for a motive, and he won't stop until she gives in. Timid and scared, Hiral picks up the battle, for she is done being treated as dirt and a burden. Passion sparks while enmity intensifies, as they are forced to wrestle for control over their lives, future, past, and present. Join Hiral as she embarks on her journey to find peace and discovers that courage is beyond defeat and love is beyond heart. Flowers are beyond fragrance while life is nothing without a start.

TweetyWolf (n): someone who pretends to be someone else on TweetyGram to scam others out of their money. *** When 22-year-old aspiring crime journalist Lindsey Darling signs up for the popular social media app TweetyGram, she has only one goal in mind: find a fresh, crime-related story to report. An unexpected reunion with her childhood friends leads her to the hunt for the mysterious Malibu Wolf, who has been scamming die-hard fans of the hit TV show Malibu, 90265. But what begins as a routine investigation quickly turns into a wild-goose chase for perfection, and the more time Lindsey spends on TweetyGram, the more chaotic her life becomes. Soon, she finds herself posing as her annoyingly handsome neighbor's fake girlfriend, pretending to be a member of the Maccheronian royal family, and babysitting an influencer cat. Oh, and then there's that green-eyed monster in her head. With the stakes getting higher and higher, can Lindsey catch the Malibu Wolf and survive the cutthroat world of social media? *** ❤ The Ambys 2024 Favorite - Humor

When Sinead O'Reilly agrees to be her childhood best friends Maid of Honour, she's immediately filled with dread. Sinead hates weddings. She's never told anyone that before , until she meets a handsome stranger in the airport. Safe in the knowledge she'll never see the handsome stranger again, Sinead is floored when he shows up in Dublin as the best man. Even more so when the stranger devises a plan to help keep her away from her cheating ex... but Sinead isn't sure that plan will hold up, and she worried about what will happen when it all falls apart. - ONC PROMPT 51. The problem with red flags is that I'm attracted to them

[2025 Wattys Shortlist] After getting cut off by her wealthy, business-obsessed parents, Emily Grayson finds herself broke, stranded in a small town, and working at a boba café, something she never imagined in her wildest dreams. Her first days on the job are a disaster, her patience (and Jake Sherlind's) running thinner than the tapioca pearls she keeps burning. Jake, the charming yet hardworking guy with big dreams, has no patience for entitled rich girls who don't know how to hold a job. But when Emily starts proving him wrong, their tension brews into something neither of them expected. Between spilled drinks, late-night confessions, and an orange stray cat that won't leave the back door, Emily begins to wonder... maybe losing everything was exactly what she needed to find herself. A small-town rom-com about growth, second chances, and love that's better steeped with time.