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Glass Eye: Confessions of a Fake Psychic Detective by BenSobieck
BenSobieck
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Season 1 of Confessions of a Fake Psychic Detective * Her psychic powers are fake, but the kidnapped girl she must find is real. * Zandra is an infamous "psychic" who grifts the gullible residents of her small Wisconsin town using her wits, not anything supernatural. Her skills are put to the ultimate test when the police tap her to help find a kidnapped girl. But there's a catch. The girl's father apparently got away with murdering Zandra's husband years ago. Can Zandra put aside her grudge for the sake of a missing child? Or is this the perfect opportunity for revenge? Also available on YONDER, the next-generation reading app from the Wattpad family. Prequel to the 2016 Wattys winner, "Black Eye" (Featured by @TheGirlOnTheTrain)
All It Stands For by BETS5Y
BETS5Y
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After her mother's unexpected passing, Gemma is sent to live with a group of strange men who don't seem overly fond of her being there. Their secrets, their strange rules and behaviour make Gemma want to run; to hide, to go back in time to when everything felt safe again. But life doesn't always play the way's expected, and Gemma's life of before can only stay as that: in the past. Top Rankings: 6/11/2025: #1 in grief 6/12/2025: #1 in youngest 7/1/2026: #1 in friendship 9/1/2026: #2 in siblings 13/1/2026: #1 in mystery 1/2/2026: #2 in selectivemutism 13/2/2026: #1 in bullying 1/3/2026: #1 in oregon
𝗔𝗠𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗡𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗥 by clairebiggs
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For Joey Lynch, the world was never anything but a rotten, cruel battlefield. Born on a holiday meant for light, he was instead forged in the darkness of an abusive legacy, forced to become a protector before he was even a boy. He is a creature of trauma and raw survival, forever battling the seductive, drowning pull of addiction that promises a final escape. But there has always been a light in the dark for him. Just a singular, defiant spark: Estella, his sister's best friend. She is a magnificent anomaly, a walking, breathing sunbeam in his grime-coated life. Her hair is a shock of bright, liquid silver, catching the light like spilled moonlight, framing a face that is dizzyingly, charmingly cute. Her eyes, wide and unnerving, are the colour of molten silver.When she stares up at Joey, meeting his trauma-hardened gaze with her impossible luminosity and a cheeky, uncompromising grin, he knows: she is trouble. The necessary kind. He has lost everything: his peace, his innocence, his stability. But she is the one thing that can never slip away. Not when he snarls and retreats like a cornered animal; she simply stares, her bright eyes unsettlingly steady, and deploys that silly, confident grin. God, he is putty in her hands. The temptation between them is a physical, humming wire, stretched taut for years. But when they finally give in-when the shadow reaches for the light, and the light does not pull away-things dare to take a turn for the worse. As Joey fights his darkest demons, trying to fend off his violent father and the relentless grip of addiction, he discovers that the girl who glows has been quietly burning, too. They need to decide if this fierce, hard-won love can genuinely tame all the anger and war within them... ... and if a single, silver light is truly the answer to all the world's rot.
Nichts ist so, wie es scheint by AnabethMay
AnabethMay
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Ein Mord ist in dem kleinen, eigentlich ruhigen, Städtchen Millbrook geschehen und sorgt für Aufruhr. Außgerechnet die reiche Bürgermeisterin Veronica Callahan wurde ermordet. Jeder könnte der Mörder sein. Was hat das alles zu bedeuten und wer steckt dahinter? Die NYPD-Ermittlerin Meghan Doyle und ihr Team überehmen den Fall, um den Sheriff der Kleinstadt bei der Suche nach der Wahrheit zu unterstützen. Plötzlich nimmt der Fall jedoch eine ungeahnte und grausige Wendung, die wohl keiner von ihnen erwartet hätte, denn... Nichts ist so, wie es scheint. 》Ich dachte wirklich, ich könnte ihm vertrauen, doch er hat uns alle getäuscht.《 ☆2 Platz Platin Award 2021☆ ☆3 Platz Seelenaward 2021☆ #12 in Thriller | Oktober 2023 #17 in Mystery | Oktober 2023 #41 in Krimi | Juni 2023
When the Bayou Sleeps by autumm_moth
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Priest Nathanael Auguste arrives in the town of Belleau somewhere in Louisiana, sent by the church to investigate a strange and unsettling occult murder of one fisherman. But Belleau is no ordinary town each week it ends in a festival where someone dies during the week. Stalked by the enigmatic and charming Lenore Boudreaux, Nathanael finds himself guided and at the same time tested through the town's dark mysterys. Each death reveals a reflection of human frailty, forcing him to confront sins buried within his own heart. To survive the loop, he must face and accept his fears, and reckon with the darkness he never knew he carried. WIP!!! 🖤 ℑ𝔫𝔰𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔟𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔡𝔢𝔳𝔦𝔩 𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔦𝔡𝔢𝔰 𝔦𝔫 𝔩𝔬𝔲𝔦𝔰𝔦𝔞𝔫𝔞, ℭ𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔩𝔢𝔳𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔞 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔦𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔩 - 𝔞 𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔠-𝔯𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔥𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔬𝔯 𝔫𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔩
Hit Rewind by violadavis
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Time heals all wounds. When you have the power to rewind it, you begin to wonder whether it's too much responsibility for one person to hold. ***** Sometimes, walking away is the scariest, yet the bravest thing one can do. Iris Fox would know; after returning to the coastal town of Emelle Bay, Oregon, and finding her life in shambles, it's hard to ignore the voice in the back of her head that beckons her to stay. Days turn into weeks, which turn into months, and Iris finds herself drawn to the heartbreaking reminders of how it all went wrong. Echoes of unfinished business and painful memories wash up, awakening the dormant power to rewind time, and Iris realizes she has a choice to make--she can either use her power to try and fix what has been stolen from her, rewriting her past, present, and future, or she can tuck the past where it belongs. Either way, there's only one conclusion. All actions have consequences. ***** Open Novella Contest -- prompts 24, 33, & 54 [[OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 ROUND 1 AMBASSADORS' PICK, LONGLISTER & SHORTLISTER]] [[THE AMBYS 2025 AMBASSADOR'S PICK IN CONTEMPORARY NOVELLA]] © 2024 caterina george // all rights reserved
Deceiving the Duke of Kerrington by AuthorGinnyHartman
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Hope Hillburn was born to a life of servitude and never once questioned her role in society. As a lady's maid to Noelle Parrish, she had everything she wanted out of life; a secure and honorable post, a decent room to call her own, and ample time to write fantastical tales of winsome creatures while her mistress, Lady Noelle, attended the various society events offered by the ton. Lady Noelle Parrish knew that her father was anxious to see her wed but she never imagined he'd go behind her back and arrange for her to marry against her will, to a duke with a questionable reputation no less. Disheartened by the prospect of marrying a man she's never met and the possibility of foregoing a lifetime of love, Noelle makes the impulsive decision to flee England with an American gentleman she's only just met. There's only one problem... Lady Noelle's father, the Earl of Brattondale, would never permit her to marry an untitled American, nor was he willing to go back on his word to the duke. In her desperation, Lady Noelle convinces Hope to take her place after noticing an uncanny resemblance between them both. Against her own better judgment, Hope agrees to take Noelle's place when she realizes there's no other way for Noelle to flee to America without causing her family disgrace. Thrown into a life she has only ever viewed from the outside, Hope must convince everyone that she is a lady lest her farce be discovered. She is confident that she can handle society's strict rules of propriety but she soon learns that guarding her heart from falling in love with an incredibly handsome, self assured duke with a penchant for snarling isn't going to be quite as easy.