"Where Every Word Beats with Emotion." ─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: .𓆩♥︎𓆪 . :☆ﾟ. ─── Your draft isn't just a collection of chapters-it's a living, breathing pulse. You've poured late nights, quiet tears, and endless heart into your characters. But in a sea of millions of stories, getting noticed shouldn't feel like a lottery. Welcome to The Ink & Heartbeat Awards, a sanctuary created specifically to celebrate the art of deep, emotional storytelling. Whether you write heart-wrenching angst, slow-burn tension, comforting found-family sagas, or tear-jerking drama, your craft deserves genuine recognition, real reader feedback, and a platform that sees your true talent. 📌 Status: ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS (Slots limited!)

Hayley is a paediatric registrar specialising in cardiology, a hopeless workaholic, and-after nearly two years of being chronically single-perfectly content with her unfulfilling love life. Her best friend (and cousin), Becca, disagrees. Determined to find Hayley someone special before she leaves the country, Becca takes matters into her own hands and sets up one last blind date. Aksel is a professional footballer returning to England, ready to step into the striker position currently held by his childhood best friend, Theo. That is, when Theo leaves for Argentina after marrying Becca. Yes, their best friends are moving across the world together, leaving Hayley and Aksel to figure out what comes next. For Hayley, their first meeting is just another stupid blind date Becca forced her into. For Aksel? Their first meeting happened fifteen years ago. ⚠️ If you are reading this story anywhere other than Wattpad, it has been stolen. These unauthorized sites may put you at risk of malware. Please read the story safely on Wattpad: Katka_Mutton Life Could Be This

Welcome to The Reader Choices Hidden Crown Awards! There are so many amazing books on Wattpad that deserve more love and attention, but sadly, a lot of them stay hidden. Some stories have thousands or even millions of reads, while other incredible stories are still waiting for the right readers to find them. That is why I created these awards. The Reader Choices Hidden Crown Awards is all about finding those hidden gems, supporting writers, discovering new stories and giving authors a chance to have their work recognised. This isn't about how many followers you have. It isn't about how many reads your book has. And you definitely don't have to be a massive Wattpad author to enter. Your story could have 50 reads, 500 reads or 50,000 reads. What matters is the story you've created and the effort you've put into it. There will be different categories, rounds, shortlists and eventually our winners who will take home their Hidden Crown! 👑 Readers will also have the chance to discover books they may have never found before and support authors throughout the awards. Please remember that everyone who enters has put time, effort and love into their stories. Be kind, support each other and don't bring other writers down because this is supposed to be fun. You might enter thinking your story doesn't have a chance... But maybe your book is exactly the hidden gem we've been looking for. 👀👑 More stories. More voices. More recognition. Welcome to The Reader Choices Hidden Crown Awards. Your crown might be closer than you think. 👑✨

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｡⚓︎ - In the lonely village of Eidolon Cove, the ocean is feared and worshipped. Every full moon, lanterns are sent into the water and during every generation, one person is chosen to be given to the sea as 'Beloved'. When Elias arrives looking for the truth behind the strange drowning of his sister, he finds Cael - a quiet and mysterious boy washed up near the cliffs. Elias begins to care for him and slowly, the two grow close. But the sea is waking up and terrible things begin to happen. People hear songs in their sleep, flowers grow from dead bodies and the village starts to fall apart. As the ocean rises and the curse grows stronger, Elias must make the hardest choice of his life. He can let the sea take or he can step into the water and face whatever waits beneath it. ⋆˚࿔

What happens when the boy who chose you as his target ends up being the one you cannot unlove? Nelliel Watkins arrives at university with one simple wish: to exist quietly, to study, and to go unnoticed. But from the very first morning, Élian Blackwood makes that impossible. Charming, devastatingly handsome, and dangerously calculated, he sets his sights on her - not out of love, but out of a wound so old and so deep that he has confused revenge with survival. What follows is a story of manipulation and heartbreak, of a girl who learns to fall apart and then, slowly and painfully, learns to put herself back together. Of a boy who set out to destroy someone and ended up destroying his own carefully built walls instead. Of families long separated finally finding their way back to each other, and of two people who were never supposed to love each other - and did anyway. Dark, emotional, and deeply human, this is a story about what it means to be seen. About bodies we are taught to be ashamed of and hearts we are taught to protect. About forgiveness that is never easy and love that refuses to be reasonable. Because sometimes, the gaze that changes everything belongs to the very last person you expected.

Travis came to Forest Hill carrying more than a guitar and a lifetime of memories. He came with grief. In the quiet woods outside Timber Creek, he hopes to escape the ghosts of his past and find a reason to keep moving forward. Instead, he finds something-or someone-that makes him question everything he thought he knew about love, loss, and death. But Travis isn't the only one carrying ghosts. A grieving family struggles with wounds that never healed. A small-town sheriff tries to protect people from things he doesn't understand. An old woodsman carries stories nobody wants to believe. A group of young ghost hunters arrives looking for proof that the dead are real-only to discover that some truths are better left buried. At the center of it all is Genevieve. Beautiful. Mysterious. As Travis becomes drawn to her, their connection begins to blur the line between romance and obsession, memory and reality, life and death. The closer he gets to the truth, the more he realizes that Forest Hill isn't simply haunted. It remembers.

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The last leaf has fallen, all the hopes and dreams of the innocent scattered by the unstoppable malevolent force of fate, where can you find comfort when a chill settles over the land to grip you in it's icy grasp

🔥Winner: Most Original Concept, FLARE Mini Awards. After seven years trapped in the mind of a wolf, alchemist Declan Laroux returns to the decaying Louisiana town of Vieux Marais to find his ancestral home under a supernatural siege. To stop a coven of vampires from turning the town into a necropolis, Declan must forge a volatile alliance with savage werewolves and a broken brotherhood of swamp hunters. As the bayou's "temporal bubble" begins to sever the town from the rest of the world, the alchemist must discover if he is the region's savior or its doom. Expect a present-day supernatural noir set within the suffocating atmosphere of the Louisiana bayou, where ancient magic and modern legal tactics collide. The story centers on a world where the boundaries of reality are fraying, and the living dead are as dangerous for their political power as they are for their bloodlust. Trigger warnings Language Blood Graphic Violence.