Masquerade Awards 2026 - Entries (Category: Best Overall Story)
7 stories
Blue Hyacinth  by Storywriter142
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He spent years waiting for revenge. Mustafa had only one goal-to destroy the man who ruined his family. And the perfect way to do it was through his enemy's daughter. But everything changes the moment he sees Nazli. Kind-hearted, innocent, and completely unaware of the danger surrounding her, she is the last person he expected to fall for. Now Mustafa is trapped between revenge and love. Will he choose the hatred that shaped his life, or the girl who stole his heart? A story of love, betrayal, family secrets, and a romance that was never meant to happen. ✨ Enemies to Lovers 💔 Betrayal & Heartbreak 🔥 Possessive Hero 🌹 Strong Heroine ⚔ Family Rivalry ❤️ Slow Burn Romance 🥀 Revenge, Secrets & Second Chances "Don't follow me again." And for the first time in his life, Mustafa Karasan was terrified... not of losing power, but of losing her.
Velvet Guns ✔️ by anOverthinkingDevil
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Abhiraj Chowdhury was a monster, a criminal before he was given lifetime imprisonment for killing a police officer. Six years earlier, he was a man feared by politicians, criminals, and entire cities. A man whose name carried the weight of violence, power, and bloodshed. Six years earlier, he was just a man who fell in love with the wrong woman at the wrong time. Tara Ahuja was uniform, justice, and everything his dark world was not. Loving her was a challenge. Keeping her safe was impossible. What begins as an unlikely romance soon spirals into a story of attraction, loyalty, ambition, betrayal, and the choices that shape who we become. As old wounds deepen and new enemies emerge, Abhiraj is forced to confront a possibility that sounded too raw and vulnerable to even hope for. _______ ⚠️ 𝙏𝒉𝙞𝒔 𝒊𝙨 𝙖 𝙉𝑶𝙉-𝘾𝑳𝙄𝑪𝙃𝑬 𝒎𝙖𝒇𝙞𝒂 𝒓𝙤𝒎𝙖𝒏𝙘𝒆. 𝙉𝒐 𝒔𝙢𝒖𝙩. 𝑵𝙤 𝙤𝒃𝙨𝒆𝙨𝒔𝙞𝒐𝙣. 𝑵𝙤 𝙘𝒉𝙖𝒔𝙞𝒏𝙜 𝙖𝒏𝙙 𝙢𝒊𝙣𝒅 𝒈𝙖𝒎𝙚𝒔. 𝙉𝒐 𝒓𝙚𝒅-𝒇𝙡𝒂𝙜𝒔-𝒑𝙧𝒆𝙨𝒆𝙣𝒕𝙚𝒅-𝒂𝙨-𝙝𝒐𝙩𝒏𝙚𝒔𝙨 ✨ 𝑰𝙣𝒔𝙩𝒆𝙖𝒅, 𝙑𝒆𝙡𝒗𝙚𝒕 𝑮𝙪𝒏𝙨 𝙞𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝙝𝒂𝙧𝒂𝙘𝒕𝙚𝒓-𝒅𝙧𝒊𝙫𝒆𝙣 𝙨𝒕𝙤𝒓𝙮 𝙖𝒃𝙤𝒖𝙩 𝙛𝒍𝙖𝒘𝙚𝒅 𝒑𝙚𝒐𝙥𝒍𝙚, 𝒄𝙤𝒎𝙥𝒍𝙞𝒄𝙖𝒕𝙚𝒅 𝒓𝙚𝒍𝙖𝒕𝙞𝒐𝙣𝒔𝙝𝒊𝙥𝒔, 𝙢𝒐𝙧𝒂𝙡 𝙜𝒓𝙚𝒚 𝒄𝙝𝒐𝙞𝒄𝙚𝒔, 𝙖𝒏𝙙 𝙖 𝙡𝒐𝙫𝒆 𝒕𝙝𝒂𝙩 𝙧𝒆𝙛𝒖𝙨𝒆𝙨 𝙩𝒐 𝒇𝙞𝒕 𝒊𝙣𝒔𝙞𝒅𝙚 𝙛𝒂𝙢𝒊𝙡𝒊𝙖𝒓 𝒕𝙧𝒐𝙥𝒆𝙨.
BerkVille: Act 3 by mssanadara
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Summer sinks into a dark void and out of it emerges the haunting masked stalker "Masquerade". Threats, blissful taunting videos displayed on various screens and the everlasting feeling of being watched. Us five, Dustin, Carson, Beth, Mandy and I, Toy, have to now face our biggest threats: the embodiment of ourselves. Taking our identities and faces, Masquerade's puppets confuse the clueless, rewrite our stories, take advantage of situations and loved ones, flipping the script. Everyone's a suspect and friends turn into foes. Lies and unspoken past secrets toss over the tides and Masquerade becomes our real life boogieman. At the front of the case is Mandy coming off solving the puzzle from summer with a false piece. She's dedicated to figuring out who's behind the mask and their motivations. Seemingly, the only path to do so is through those behind our clay face molds. But that'll prove to be challenging as we try to preserve ourselves, lives and reputation participating in Masquerade's series of twisted childlike games. In the background, a family traced with secrets brings a new level of mystery to BerkVille. And soon we start to consider the possibility of everything being connected somehow. With all this, we try to balance our day to day lives of new romances, angels, competition, being outed and its consequences, family strife, and new endeavors. Have you gotten your dress and mask for the masquerade ball?
Ancilla (BDSM) (18+) by SeraDrake
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She had it all - riches, a college honors program scholarship, a girlfriend - until her conservative, hyper-religious parents discovered the sapphistry and forced her to choose between conversion therapy and disownment. That choice marked the end of her academic career and everything she thought she knew. Now, three years later, she is starting her life over and meets a shy public librarian in a bookstore. He has been waiting his whole life for her. What unfolds between the two lovers feels almost like magic. Given that he is about to become her tutor in the magickal and erotic arts, perhaps that should come as no surprise. But at what cost? The mysterious older man may be everything she has ever longed for, yet she may be forced to choose between her developing identity and the most profound love she has ever known. Ancilla is a study of hunger. It is a dark, philosophical tale exploring forbidden passion, power, devotion, trauma, sacrifice, and the complicated path toward becoming oneself. The conservative early 1990's in northeast Ohio's Rust Belt sets the stage for a slow-burning, forbidden love. Surrender... ════════════════════════════════════ "Magic and philosophy sandwiched in between some of the hottest scenes I've read in recent years... Loved it!" - Hannah Gonzalez, Reedsy Discovery "Love is brutal, bloody, and ecstatic in this passionate romance... BDSM aficionados will love it... A richly imagined, lurid love story that's not for the faint of heart. (Our verdict: Get it!)" - Kirkus Reviews 🏆 Since its self-published launch in January 2024, Ancilla has won 100+ awards on Wattpad and multiple off-site indie literary awards, including a Passionate Plume and finalist status for a Hawthorne Prize. It has been featured in Wattpad's AfterDark, Romance, LGBTQ, and Ambassadors profile booklists.
School for Shifters by SoulboundNovel
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An Omega should never have been chosen as Luna. Especially not at the School for Shifters, where monsters rule, power decides everything, and weakness gets torn apart. Cybele arrives at the academy expecting humiliation, survival, and nothing more. Instead, the ancient Stones choose her, throwing her into the center of a savage political war she was never meant to survive. Now every faction wants something from her. The wolves want her obedient. The fae want to bind her. And one dragon watches her like she is something rare enough to keep. In a school where desire, dominance, and power are always tangled together, Cybele will have to decide whether she will remain prey... or become something far more dangerous. A dark paranormal academy romance with enemies-to-lovers tension, possessive heroes, brutal pack politics, forbidden attraction, and a heroine forced to rise. #werewolf #omegaverse #shifterromance #dragonromance #darkromance #fantasyromance #luna #alpha #academy
Glitter & Gore by ImaniBakers
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Keisha Harrison has waited two years for the one night that could make her whole world feel real-tickets to see her favorite K-pop group. At seventeen, she's finally in the front row of her dream... until her parents insist she bring her older brother, Marco Harrison, twenty-three, along for the ride. Marco expects chaos. Keisha expects music. No one expected what happened.
Love In The Low-Tech by _starliteee
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What will be your reaction if you found out that you have teleported into the 60s and got stuck in an arrange marriage? Scary right? no smartphones and AI technologies it will be a tough situation for a present day person. . Accidentally slipping back to the sixties is bad enough, but being forced to marry a stern, old-school traditionalist should be the final straw. Instead, she's completely whipped from the first look-and lucky for her, this strict man can't seem to say "no" to his chaotic, futuristic wife. Join in the journey of "NAINA PUROHIT" our protagonist and how she navigate her life in a completely different time period and that to stuck with a stranger in the name of husband Updates - every Friday BEST RANKS: #2 in arrangedlove → 27-06-26