✪ 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐲𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 ✪ ★ 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐲𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 ★ ☆ 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 @𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 & @𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥 ☆ A powerful Phoenix trapped inside a teenage girl's body, plus a wanted American werewolf and a group of hunters coming after them... What could possibly go wrong? ***** She is Ember. A closed-off and secluded girl with far too many secrets - one being that she's a supernatural mythical mix of a Phoenix that she is desperately trying to control. As her abilities develop, it feels like she's running out of time to control the Phoenix before the fire breaks loose and hurts someone she loves. He is Theo. Equally secretive yet far better at hiding it, this cocky American showed up from nowhere and now seems to be everywhere. The fact he's a werewolf just complicates things further. Hunters are chasing Theo from America to the UK, under the alleged claim that he brutally murdered his pack - a bloody yet unlikely accusation. As much as Ember wants to help Theo, she's fighting her own battles, and the two have to figure out their on-and-off relationship first. In this deceitful world of supernatural and normal humans, outsiders threaten Ember, Theo and their friends - both old and new. Can this group of supernatural teens be brought together by their desperation? Or will they forever be in conflict? Both Ember and Theo are playing a dangerous game with fire, and it's impossible to know who might get burned. 𝘞𝘈𝘙𝘕𝘐𝘕𝘎: This story contains some mature content; including sexual content, violence and explicit language.

This book follows the lives of Shafilea Ahmed and Banaz Mahmod, two young women from the United Kingdom whose bravery and struggle for personal freedom led to tragedies that changed national understanding of honour based abuse. Through careful factual narrative, the book explores their childhoods, their growing independence, the pressures they endured, the failures that surrounded them, and the lasting influence their stories have had on law, public awareness and protection of victims. Across fifteen detailed chapters, this work examines the world around them, the warning signs that were missed, and the lasting fight for justice that followed. It aims to educate, honour their memory, and give readers a deep and respectful understanding of the truth behind their stories.

🌊 Tomioka Giyuu - The Silent Current Tomioka Giyuu, the Water Hashira, is a man of silence and storms. Calm on the surface, yet carrying the weight of unspoken grief, he moves with the precision of flowing water-graceful, deadly, unstoppable. His blade cuts like a river's current: quiet, inevitable, and merciless. But beneath the stoic exterior lies a haunted soul. Memories of Sabito linger like shadows, fueling his guilt and resolve. In unsent letters only he will ever read, Giyuu confesses the fears he cannot speak aloud-the burden of surviving when others could not. Though distant, he is not heartless. Around those who earn his trust, warmth flickers in subtle ways: a glance, a silent act of protection, the kind of love that is felt more than spoken. Yet his silence builds walls, and breaking through them is no easy task. Darkness stalks him, not only from demons but from within. Visions of death haunt him, whispering temptations of corruption. He walks the razor's edge between humanity and monstrosity, clinging to honor, duty, and the fragile ties that anchor him. Tomioka is a paradox: a warrior and a protector, cold yet compassionate, a man whose greatest battles are not only against demons, but against the currents inside his own heart.

Antique store owner Liz brings home a Victorian taxidermy hound from auction, unwittingly unleashing dark forces on her wife and son. ***** Nat Loman has finally married the love of her life, Liz, and is getting used to her role as stepmother to Liz's 5-year-old son, Liam. The Loman family runs a bustling antique business so they attend a sale where a striking, black taxidermied hound is up for auction. Liz picks it up for the business, but it ends up being stored in their home, where Nat notices strange things occurring. She quickly discovers the past residents had died violently. Then she hears from a friend about the myth of "the devil's dog", a hound that perches in the shadows, tearing families apart from the inside. Soon, people around the Lomans are dying, and Liz is changing, darkening. It's up to Nat to save the woman she loves from the darkness closing in, and to save Liam from danger no matter what she has to sacrifice. [[Winner of the 2018 Wattys "Hidden Gems" category]] [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]