When aspiring Alpha, Kyle Woodson, learns that she has to train under her brooding hot enemy, Jackson Harlowe, she'll stop at nothing to prove she belongs at Alpha Academy, even when all signs point to her being his Luna. *** Kyle Woodson has only ever wanted one thing her entire life and that is to become an Alpha. She arrives at Alpha Academy, where any Alpha worth their fur graduates. Once there, she's assigned to Jackson Harlowe's pack unit, the son of her father's enemy. There isn't much she can do about it, even if their fathers have been in a territory war for twenty years. Kyle makes up her mind to bite her tail and count the days. But training to be an Alpha is much harder than she realized. This year, the dean creates a competition between the units. Jackson knows that if he wants to win, he'll have to train Kyle himself, so they work out a deal. But a growing anti-female Alpha movement starts spreading on campus, forcing Jackson to protect Kyle. And things take a turn when Kyle finally undergoes full werewolf maturity--luminesence. Now all she can seem to do is obsess over Jackson. The harder they deny their bond, the closer they become. Can she turn her back on everything she's worked so hard for? And what will her father do once he learns she is falling for the enemy?

She has no magic in a world that worships it. He has power and chooses restraint. And somehow, they always meet when something is about to go wrong. Detailed Description: In a realm where magic defines worth, Valerie Elower has none - no power, no protection, and no place in a world ruled by those who command the elements. When she breaks rules she was never meant to survive, Valerie is pulled into a web of secrets, betrayals, and choices that demand more than magic ever could. He is powerful. Controlled. A man bound by loyalty, restraint, and a darkness he refuses to unleash. Not her savior; but the shadow that could swallow her whole. As loyalties fracture and danger starts wearing familiar faces, Valerie is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: that she was never powerless - only unfinished. She was never meant to matter. But she may be the one thing this world cannot afford to lose.

For over four centuries, the citizens of Barrian have lived under the safety of a glass dome, shielded from a world covered in chemical spills and haunted by the predators born from its decay. ​The only thing keeping the walls from failing is the Undertaking - a dangerous expedition held every few years where five citizens are Voted to step into the toxic air and reinforce the protective shields. ​Lyra Cresswell knows the cost of the badlands outside Barrian all too well. She's already lost her sister to them, and she's spent years praying that the man she loves wont be next. But, when the names are called, it's Lyra who is handed the death sentence. Forced beyond the glass, Lyra discovers that the monsters aren't the only thing evolving in the ruins. As the shields flicker and the truth about Barrian's foundation begins to crack, she realizes the greatest danger isn't what's lurking in the badlands - it may be what's waiting in the only home she's ever known. Love is weakness, trust is fatal, and Barrian may be hiding the worst monsters of all.

What happens when Death falls in love with the paramour he is gifted? Cursed to kill everyone he touches, beastly Lord Damien Casteel lives in anger and loneliness. During a rare game of poker, he wins the final hand against a petty criminal named Luca. The prize is a pouch of twelve precious gemstones. But Luca is determined to get the stones back, no matter what. Breaking into Damien's mansion to exchange the real gems for fakes, he is captured and threatened with death. Begging for his life, he strikes a deal: his freedom in exchange for his adopted son, Jemison, who will serve the lord as his paramour for twelve days; one day for each stone. Although he is reluctant to let anyone into his life, Damien is desperate to keep Jem away from Luca's abuse, so he agrees. What he does not expect is to fall for the tormented young man. Prompt used is number 46. We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than you. (Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid) My writing is AI-free. Any emdashes are here because I LIKE them. The poetic purply prose is here because I LIKE it. Computers don't write my stuff. The Muse inside my head who keeps me up till 3 AM and wants to drive me bonkers, does. Warning for: spicy situations, alcohol, some swearing, blood, abuse, and typical Christine darkness. There's no graphic sa, torture, gore, or animal abuse.

Jareth Coppersmith and Pol Flynt have one thing in common. They kill for a living. One works for GAME, the powerful Guild of Airship Mechanics and Engineers and the other, for the Royal Spymaster. But what happens when they are unknowingly sent on the same secret mission? At best they are rivals, at worst, mortal enemies. SciFi / Thriller/ Steampunk/ LGBT

Edmund comes to the remote village of Black Thickett to escape the life grief has carved out of him. He wants silence. Distance. A place where memories can't follow. But Black Thickett is wrong in quiet, unsettling ways. The broken road becomes perfectly smooth the moment he crosses the boundary. The cottages are too neat, too deliberate. And on a noticeboard full of dry flyers, only one poster is wet. A missing boy, smiling as if he doesn't know he's lost. The villagers won't talk about the disappearances. The forest at the edge of the village seems to breathe, and the deeper Edmund goes, the calmer he feels... dangerously calm. The forest can quiet his pain. It can ease his grief. It can make him forget. But not everything that heals you wants you to survive. Welcome to Black Thickett, where you'll find my entry into the ONC 2026.

A mother's secret. A daughter's quest for the truth. A terrifying gift waiting to be born... As the ten-year anniversary of her mother's mysterious death approaches, seventeen-year-old Elora Farrow is plagued by unsettling dreams, visions, and bouts of fever. She tries to ignore them, until a nightmare follows her out of sleep, causing her to unleash a dormant power she never knew she possessed. Pushed into a world of darkness, danger, and lies, Elora must unravel the puzzle of her mother's past and discover who she is destined to become - before the fateful blood moon rises.

Sara Gaspard swore she'd do anything to find those responsible for her sister's death, but teaming up with the Sin of Pride is more than she bargained for. ***** Desperate and dying, Sara Gaspard promises her soul to the Sin of Pride if he'll find the madmen responsible for ruining her life, but they soon discover her wish is more complicated than expected. Together, Sara and Pride delve into a twisted world of insidious plots, occult fanaticism, and paranormal disaster as they search for answers and struggle to survive. As the danger in the city of Verweald rises, Sara and Pride must find the cult before the newest threat haunting the city's bloody streets claims them both. [[Book 1, the Bereft Series]] [[Writer's Debut Watty Award Winner]] [[Readers Choice Award]] [[Original Draft]]

With betrayal comes great responsibility and Mercy Evans knows all about responsibility. ⋅•⋅⊰∙∘☽༓☾∘∙⊱⋅•⋅ Blackmail is a sinister thing. As Mercy Evans knows all too well, it can ruin your life. When an ominous letter is placed in her hands seconds before she takes the stand to exonerate her partner and best friend, Isaac Cunningham, from a life imprisoned, she does the only thing she knows how. She lies. For the sake of her withering mother, for the lives of everyone connected to the trial, and for Isaac himself, Mercy recants her witness testimony and leaves him without an alibi. But the truth has a way of surfacing even in the darkest of times and Mercy is brought into the station when new evidence unearths a twisted web of deceit so sinister, only she can make sense of it. Her, and of course, Isaac who's year in a cell has only birthed resentment. Together, they are forced into a parallel dimension where they must relive the chain of events creating a chasm between them, and only together can they return. Will they make a breakthrough... or break each other? | An Open Novella Contest Entry |