For sixteen years, Ethan Carter believed he was nothing more than an ordinary boy. After the death of his mother, he is forced to live with the father who abandoned them before he was born. Damian Ashford is the heir to the Circle, an ancient magical bloodline whose members have lived in secret for centuries. Years ago, Damian was deceived into believing Ethan's human mother had betrayed him, driving her away while she was pregnant. By the time he uncovered the truth, she was gone forever. Now, Ethan finds himself surrounded by a family determined to make up for the years they lost. His grandparents, aunt, uncle, and cousins welcome him without hesitation, but Ethan refuses to see them as his own. To him, they are strangers connected only by blood. As Ethan is introduced to the hidden world of magic, he discovers that the Ashfords have powerful enemies. For generations, the rival Blackwood family has coveted the Ashfords' legendary Fire Magic-the rarest and most powerful elemental gift in existence. After years of forbidden experimentation, they have finally found a way to drain a Fire mage's power, creating an endless source of magical energy. Their next target is Ethan's cousin, one of the few living Fire mages. But the Blackwoods never expected Ethan. When he awakens an ability unlike any ever recorded-the power to temporarily mimic the magic of anyone he touches-he becomes both the Ashfords' greatest hope and the Blackwoods' greatest prize. As old lies come to light and a war between bloodlines begins, Ethan must decide whether to walk away from the family he never wanted... or fight to protect the people who accepted him long before he accepted them. In a world where magic is inherited by blood, the boy with no magic of his own may be the one destined to change everything.

"I was trapped under the surface, fighting to swim up...up...up. But some force, far stronger than me, was holding me down. My lungs were burning. My head was pounding. Darkness covered my eyes. I started screaming underwater, my last gulps of oxygen leaving my body, just like my hope of survival. And then, an explosion of white light hit me. I thought I was dying. Isn't this the logic turn of events? But I didn't die that night. I became something far worse than oblivion. Something that could outrun death for eternity". @All rights reserved. UNEDITED. (mostly)

A Good Girl's Guide To Being Naughty • • • Ivy Collins is a normal 21 y/o woman. Except for the fact she's a virgin ... or at least she was until she had sex with her university rivals hockey captain. After a quick (devastatingly quick) night with the man and being called a lousy lay, Ivy made a promise to herself that she wouldn't do it again ... sex that is. Who needs sex when all it brought was insecurities and more, and it wasn't even that good to begin with. Enter Asher Hudson, Ice Hockey captain, her brothers best friend and her best friends brother - triple trifecta of why she shouldn't get involved with him. But when he overhears a conversation Ivy has with her best friend, he gives her an offer she can't refuse. Well, she can, and she should, but why would she want to? Three months, she helps him with his grades, and he'll help her with her sex life. Only one rule, don't fall in love. Easy, right? He'll teach her everything she wants to know, and show her that sex can be fun, you just have to know how to do it right. And Ivy should refuse, after all he's the Ice Hockey captain, her brother's best friend and her best friend's brother - but what's the fun in that. Ivy knows she should say no, but she won't. And she won't fall in love, she can't. ••• Completed • First Draft - Edited. Watty2025 winner #1 in #Romance #1 in #Brotherbestfriend #2 in #bestfriendsbrother #2 in #icehockey

She was supposed to leave him behind. Instead, he followed her home - with a grin and a proposition she can't seem to refuse. • • • Leon Collins has an uncanny resemblance to temptation - and Charlotte Hudson knows better than to touch it twice. As maid of honour to her best friend and sister-in-law-to-be, Charlotte's only job is to keep the wedding week flawless. But that's easier said than done when the best man is Leon: her brother's best friend, her best friend's brother, and the one mistake she swore she'd never make again. They danced too close once - too drunk, too messy, too young - but there's always consequences to dancing with temptation and Charlotte has paid the price. One she promises herself she won't ever revisit. But now they're walking down the aisle together, tension simmering under every glance, every brush of skin, every drunken confession that never should've left her lips. When the week ends, Charlotte thinks she's leaving the past - her young and stupid mistakes - and him behind for good. She's wrong. Because Leon Collins just got traded to her new team. Now he's in her office, in her space, and in her head - all charm, smirks, and a proposition that shouldn't sound as tempting as it does. One rule. No feelings. Just a physical arrangement to burn off the heat neither of them can seem to ignore. But desire this dangerous doesn't play by the rules. And the closer Charlotte gets to Leon, the more her carefully built walls begin to crack. She promised herself she'd never fall for him again. But Leon Collins has always been the one risk she can't resist.

[ROMEO x JULIET | ENEMIES TO LOVERS AU] After centuries, the feud between the Montagues and Capulets is coming to an end. A marriage between the two children of the families will unite and merge two of the biggest conglomerates the world had ever seen. All thanks to true love. There's only one problem. Romeo and Juliet hate each other. Rivals from a young age, neither remembers why their antagonism actually started, but neither seems eager to end it. Juliet finds Romeo an insufferable jerk and a playboy to boot. Romeo thinks Juliet has the biggest stick up her ass. Spending more than five minutes together seems like cruel and unusual torture to both. To make matters worse, Juliet's parents decided it would be a great idea for her to spend two weeks of summer vacation traveling with the Montagues. A nightmare situation, considering they needed to keep their pretend-love going or risk both of their families' mutual destruction. They would have to put on the best performance of their lives, because obviously, there could never be real love between them. After all, love is fleeting, but hate? Hate is eternal.

Feelings weren't supposed to be part of the deal. An unemployed chef. An uptight business man. A destination wedding A contract What could go wrong? Jodie Taylor lives for three things : silky purées, her selfie with Christy Tania and her hate for Jackson Kensington. After being fired from her dream job thanks to Jackson Kensington, Jodie will do anything to take revenge on him. When her efforts land her in jail and Jackson's path, she finds herself agreeing to a proposal she never expected. If you are reading this book on any other site other than Wattpad, you are at risk of a malware attack. Report the website or read it where it's safe on wattpad @shasha_zw

Noah has hated Carlo Sanders ever since he waltzed into her school taken her position that she'd worked her entire highschool life for. Now the two must work together to on a project that could change everything. The more time they spend together, Noah realises that beneath Carlo's unbearable exterior-is a really likeable person. Some one even worth playing for keeps.

{🏅2026 Wattys shortlist } Ayzel, a girl unjustly exiled to Earth, has to scheme and fight her way back, to return to a world ruled by light, darkness, and hatred, in her lifelong quest for justice, revenge, and, most importantly, power. Ayzel is in exile. Caged among humans, she has found a way to survive in their strange world. Locking the memories of her old life away, so she can fight to stay alive in this one. That is, until the prince from the realm of night comes to remind her of her heritage. Ayzel has to find her path away from imprisonment and back to Armonya, the land that shunned her for her powerlessness. Betrayed, wounded, barely hanging on to her sanity, but never broken. Will claiming her destiny really be as easy as she thinks, or is her return only the beginning? When there's no one left to trust, and new enemies surface, how can Ayzel keep on surviving? Prince Kieran has spent all his life training for an inevitable war. Following all of his father's orders like any soldier would. With the power of the God of Darkness in his hands, not many see him as a boy, but as their last shred of hope. That is, until his orders are to bring home a girl from the enemy kingdom, a girl he tells himself not to care for. Kieran must do everything in his power to make Ayzel trust him, not realizing he is losing his heart in the process. But does he know all of her? And when the cursed truth rears its head, could he ever hate her? And worse, can he hurt her enough to make her hate him? Can they handle the consequences of keeping each other alive? As war threatens to rage upon them, will Ayzel, Kieran and their few honest friends truly prove themselves powerful enough to save their world? To save one another? And what will the cost be?