AN ONC 2020 ENTRY- SHORTLISTED A Wattpad Romance, Stories Undiscovered, General Fiction, Cupid and AmbassadorsUK featured story. Art in the cover by @CutoutsCo on Etsy. ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ "Dear Miss Clara Abbott, I am delighted to inform you that you have been engaged. I wish you the best of luck with your new husband. Yours, Aphrodite." When Clara was just fifteen, she vowed to the sky that she would never fall in love. For ten years, she told herself that she was happy alone; that stubborn streak inside of her never letting her believe otherwise. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, for Clara, Aphrodite and her gummy bears saw through her façade, and decided to give her a little nudge to help her make a different sort of vow... "I want to allow myself to feel everything, but there is something in me that feels like it is physically stopping me from doing that." ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ • @newlywrittenbooks featured • @WattOriginals featured • ONC Shortlisted • Second Place- Psychological Novel Reads Contest 2020 • Honourable Mention - Romance Reads Contest 2021 • Second Place - The Creative Awards (Fifth Edition) • Third Place - The Gen Z Awards 2020 • Honourable Mention - The Ace Awards Supreme • Fifth Place - The Belle Amè Awards 2020 Highest ranking: #8 / 195K in Story [20/7/20] #2 / 69. 4K in Book [5/7/20] #751 / 2M in Love [24/6/20] #1 / 11.1K in Letter [20/7/20] #5 / 3K Novella [22/6/20] #1 / 626 in Opennovellacontest [26/5/20] ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ [Yours, Aphrodite, written by TinyAsianEmpress. © All rights reserved] This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner without the permission of the author.]

Melissa Crawford thinks she's just a regular teenage girl. She goes to school. She has friends, boy problems, homework...you know, the typical teenage angst. But she couldn't be more wrong, for Melissa Crawford is not a mortal. Her adoptive mortal mother refused to give her up and hired a witch to erase the enchanting Faery child's memory, not realizing that things aren't that simple. You see, when she was a little girl, Melissa promised herself forever to her Leannan Sidhe (mate), a Fae Prince, and a promise to Fae is sacred. When the Fae Prince comes back to claim what's his, nothing will get in his way. "Mortals are so arrogant. So utterly narcissistic to think that they are the only intelligence in this world, to believe their realm is the only realm, their way is the only way. "Many of you believe us fairies only exist in little kids' fairy tales. We are so much more than that. We exist, living in the Realm just a blink away from yours. A few wrong turns in the park or the forest and you're there. We sometimes walk among you, and you're not even aware of it. Believe me, we exist. Across the globe, your kind calls us and our realm by different names...but as William Shakespeare once said- a rose by any other name..."