This book explores the slow, ordinary harm of psychological control: the rewriting of events, the punishments disguised as "lessons," the way a child learns to doubt their own mind. The story follows this pattern across a lifetime: it starts in childhood, tightens in adolescence, and leaves its mark well into adulthood. Told through lived scenes and the narcissistic parent's own justifications, "A House That Only Echoes Me" shows the inside of a dynamic most people only recognize in hindsight. For readers of dark psychological realism, family trauma and stories that stay with you long after the last page.

Astrid had only one goal in life- To escape! Her tragic town, cursed highschool and boring life to make millions, if not billions in future. Her plan was simple be sweet and serve sweet! But when her bestie Mel landed in the wrong place at the wrong time, the pandora box opened and out came her secrets. Can she stuff them back in the past and survive or will her hidden life finally change her destiny?

Phoebe Miller is the "nerdy" farm girl who finally lands a prom date with her longtime crush, Ryker Blackwood. The night is ruined when she overhears him mocking her as a "charity case." Heartbroken but done being the victim, Phoebe spends her final summer in Texas transforming into a woman who no longer needs him. Now, Ryker is the one watching from the sidelines as the girl he dismissed becomes the only one he can't have.

Born into slavery, Lena Wells escapes in search of freedom-but instead finds a Union camp overflowing with runaways, soldiers, and the man whose gaze she can't seem to forget. What begins as stolen glances soon becomes forbidden touches and passionate, secret kisses. But war has a way of claiming everything, and when Julian is called back to his regiment, Lena is forced to let him go. Four years later, Lena has built a fragile new life in Philadelphia-a seamstress by day and a devoted mother by night, determined to protect the child who carries the face of the man she lost. Julian Dennis, wounded and discharged, is living in the same city rebuilding a life that no longer feels like his own. When a chance assignment brings Lena into his home that he shares with his mother-who has hired her to sew a few dresses-the past collides violently with the present. One look at Lena's little girl sends Julian spiraling. She looks like him. She acts like him. And the timing is undeniable. Yet Lena insists the child isn't his. Now Julian is torn between hope and heartache, while Lena clings to the truth she's carried alone for years. As long-buried emotions resurface and new wounds open, both must confront not only the ghosts of the war, but the powerful forces of society, race, loyalty, and love that threaten to keep them apart. Because sometimes the war doesn't end on the battlefield- Sometimes it finds you again, exactly where you're trying to start over.

Deonte Taylor thought he understood the shape of his life. Thought there were rules about consequences and limits to what could be taken. This place disagrees. Removed from everything familiar and surrounded by men who say very little, he begins to question not just how he arrived here. Waiting, it seems, is part of the punishment.

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Two hundred years in the future, everyone lives in Antarctica, which has been divided into the 7 kingdoms of Amity, Aliah, Esandor, Amarllia, Beneva, Belossa and Kultealias. With wars raging, there's only one safe place: a school where legendary soldiers go. But as Ella, Zara, Sam, and Charlie leave their families behind, they arrive invited to join. They quickly realise that the school is both magical and evil as they manipulate the students to become their soldiers in the continent's civil wars. Additionally, they face a monster called a Bon-crocker, which takes over people's minds after they die. It appears almost unchanged, with the only visible change being that their eyes become mindlight black in the dark. Meanwhile, Maxie and Reece are fighting to join them as they run from the kings and queens who wish them dead by joining the school. As their siblings are dragged into the fight, they work together to free everyone. Ella Stark is a shy girl who appears to have no magical powers, unlike her classmates. Samatha Williams has the unique power to shift, which she uses when escaping, but she comes back for everyone cause she can't leave her friends behind. Maxie and Reece are two immortal teenagers who, despite their looks, have already escaped from the school. Years later, they are being hunted down, so they are forced to return to where they find things are worse than before. Zara Larson knew what the school was like when she arrived, so she already had plans on how to use her magical powers of communication to escape. However, Charlie Smith's power of sleep gets in her way.

When Hillary Nathan's dark past is revealed. She realizes she must leave her life in England behind. Bittersweet memories of the one she once loved who brought a storm of chaos that nearly destroyed her life begin to flood her consciousness as she prepares to flee her home in Kent. As she begins to flee England, she experiences flashes from the past. The bloody murder. The girl she once loved more than life itself. All of it. For the first time, Hillary Nathan is finally forced to face what happened all of those years ago as a grown woman, and she learns to let go of the memories of a young Juliet Hulme that have haunted her for forty years. A story of love, obsession, and bloodshed inspired by the 1954 murder of Honorah Mary Parker in Christchurch, New Zealand.

✦ 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦 ✦ | 【 잉크워즈 어워드 】 "𝑰𝒏𝒌 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒏. 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅. 𝑶𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒗𝒆." Welcome to the arena of words, a survival show where ✦ every chapter cuts like a blade ✦ and ✦ every vote strikes like thunder. This is no ordinary Wattpad award - it is a war of imagination, a contest of fire, wit, and endurance. Plot twists aren't just surprises - they are 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙨. Characters aren't just creations - they are 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙨. Readers aren't just witnesses - they are the ones who 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙩𝙚. Do you have the 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲, the 𝗴𝗿𝗶𝘁, and the pen 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗽 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 to 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵? Step into ✦ 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗗𝗦 ✦ - where legends are written in battle, and only one story will claim the crown, only a few will have the 'Laureate' title and many more to come. Step in. If you dare. ʜᴏꜱᴛ: ¢нєℓѕєα ѕ.

One reckless morning changed everything. For Jaehyun, it was the moment he finally slowed down. For Claire, it was the moment she let someone in again. What began as a near accident became the start of something real, unexpected, tender, and true. "𝑫𝒊𝒅 𝒘𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔?" They both said at the same time and bursted into laughter. Oh yeah, They did just crash in to each other.