WATTYS 2023 SHORTLIST Sarah Kennedy's life has fallen to pieces. Her family is broken, she's growing apart from her only friend, and it's been a while since she's stopped dreaming about anything better. She embarks on a trip to Latin America, joining a retreat she hopes will mend her dwindling friendship and escape her miserable day-to-day life. Bad turns to worse, and her hopes are shattered when she is kidnapped by a cartel. While her life is miraculously spared, she's kept captive by a daunting and narcissistic drug lord, Pablo. As his obsession with her grows, so do his favors and promises. Sarah soon finds herself in a gilded cage, living a life more lavish than anything she's ever imagined. But all that glitters isn't gold, and this luxury has a price. If Sarah wants to escape the violent, treacherous, and cocaine-fueled world of cartels, she'll have to fight the demons that keep her captive, as well as the monsters in her head, armed with nothing but a dry sense of humor and a fragile strength. But as she and Pablo both know- it's a long journey home when you don't have any home to go to. _____________________ DTOD is marked as mature for strong language, drug use, violence (and also dark humor) and the occasional steam/smut. Trigger warnings are included before sensitive or explicit scenes. _____________________ "Drugs, Treasons and Other Demons, a niche erotica for people who like men who keep their socks on." "A book that will make you cry whenever you hear a Pitbull song." "By the time I finished reading this whole book, I could have read the entire Hunger Games saga. But I would have had a lot less fun." "I went to read a few chapters of this book one night, and all of a sudden a whole weekend went by on me."

Six years ago, Nicole Ross left town with a packed car and a broken heart. The night before she left, she and Jon Bernthal had one last explosive fight. At twenty-two, Jon dropped to one knee and asked her to stay-to marry him. And even though every part of Nicole screamed yes, she told him no and walked away. Now she's twenty-six, back in the hometown she swore she'd escaped for good. And Jon? He's twenty-eight, still stubborn, still impossible to ignore-and now he's the county sheriff. Nicole came home determined not to fall back into old habits. Unfortunately, falling in love with Jon Bernthal has always been her worst one.

（Ｂｏｏｋ Ｏｎｅ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ Ｆｅｒａｌｓ Ｓｅｒｉｅｓ） Season 1-Season2 The world is decaying as the last light of humanity struggles to flicker in the darkness. Survivors learn to either band together or risk losing everything they've worked for, everything they've fought to build, gone in the blink of an eye. Elizabeth Warren thought everything she loved was almost all gone. Only her sister remains, and she'll fight till her death to ensure no harms come to either of them. Even if it means lying. Even if it means killing. Until she meets Rick Grimes. And from then, Liz knows everything will change.

"I know you're strong and smart and you deserve to live. I know Maiya would want you to live. And I know if you stay here, if you give up, I will never forgive myself." Fresh sobs tore through me. "I can't do this without her-" "Yes you can." His thumbs brushed away my tears. "Yes you can. And I'm gonna help you. But you gotta come with me. Right now." "Thirty seconds!" "Shane, you have to go-please just leave me-" "Not without you." His voice was raw. "Never without you. Now you can walk, or I swear to God I will carry you outta here. Your choice." _________________________________________ What if Shane had someone who saw the good in him before the darkness took over? What if he had a reason to fight his demons instead of giving in to them? Lila Monroe enters Shane's life at his lowest point and changes everything. _________________________________________ Shane Walsh, but if he was a decent human being. (Lmao) There will be smut, so 18+ but not too much so there will just be warnings beforehand. CONTENT WARNINGS: Violence, death, grief, depression, eventual mature content

{COMPLETE} SEQUEL OUT NOW! Jessica Dixon was living an ordinary post-college life, spending her days with her best friend-none other than Glenn Rhee. But when the world fell apart, everything changed. After surviving the chaos, she finds her way to a camp where she's reunited with Glenn and her siblings. As they fight to stay alive in a world gone mad, Jessica grows close to their leader, Shane Walsh. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩? 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞? Season 1x01 - Season 9x05 Started : 11-23-20 Finished : 5-25-22 "𝓘𝓽𝓼 𝓪𝓼 𝓲𝓯 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓑𝓾𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓽 𝓟𝓻𝓸𝓸𝓯 𝓲𝓷 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓻𝓵𝓭 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽'𝓼 𝓼𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓵𝔂 𝓭𝔂𝓲𝓷𝓰" Top Ranks #1 - thewalkingdead 1/5/21 #1 - twdlovestory 8/11/22 #1 - judithgrimes 2/4/22 #1 - glennrhee 11/13/23 #1 -shane walsh - 11/30/24 #1 - twdfanfic - 1/21/25 #1 - maggiegreene 1/30/25 #1 - zombies 3/18/25 #1 - jonbernthal- 9/24/25 #1 - ninadobrev 10/29/25 #1 - shane 6/4/26 #3 - twd 7/26/26 #1 - twdfamily 9/7/26 I Do Not Own The Walking Dead Or Any of its Characters. I Do Own My Oc.

rick grimes × oc × shane walsh psychological thriller, love triangle, complex relationships... ❝ gentlemen galloping after a fox: the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." ― A Woman Of No Importance, Oscar Wilde... or: IN WHICH... A girl of divinity and ruin, Evadne Marroway, stumbles into the orbit of two men-Rick Grimes, the good cop clinging to morality, and Shane Walsh, the bad cop burning in chaos. Amidst the collapse of the world, love becomes its own apocalypse-blurring the line between devotion and destruction, faith and survival.

𝐜𝐚 • 𝐥𝐚𝐦 • 𝐢 • 𝐭𝐲 𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴; 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭, 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐡 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭. 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐞. THE WALKING DEAD. season one - season two. book one of five. i do not own the walking dead or it's plot. all rights go to robert kirkman and amc. aiden walsh, her plot, and most of her lines all belong to me please don't steal. started: august 5, 2019 finished: october 2, 2019 started editing: february 16, 2021 finished editing: june 29, 2021 started rewriting: july 28, 2022 finished rewriting: march 19, 2025

Eva thought escaping her abusive past would be the hardest thing she'd ever do until the world ended. Haunted by trauma and struggling to trust, she finds herself unexpectedly thrown into Rick Grimes' survivor group, where danger lurks around every tree... and inside every person. Shane Walsh is a man on the edge, torn between who he was before the fall and who he has to become now. When he sees the fire in Eva's eyes, he recognizes something no one else does: the will to survive, even when it hurts. As the undead close in and loyalties fracture, Shane takes a risk teaching Eva to fight, to shoot, to reclaim her power. But not everyone agrees she belongs. And when the camp is overrun, Eva must confront her deepest fears in the most brutal way proving not only to the group, but to herself, that she's not a burden... she's a fighter. In a world drowning in blood and silence, sometimes love doesn't arrive with a kiss. Sometimes, it comes with a bullet. So who's afraid of little old me? * I DO NOT OWN THESE CHARACTERS, ONLY EVA SINCLAIR, ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE WALKING DEAD* This is going to be a super long book, as this is re-writing the walking dead as if Shane never died. I want him to be there for the different things that happen and see how he would react.

At thirty-six, he's a lethal ghost who views her strictly as an assignment. At twenty-one, she's a reckless scientist who refuses to be told when to breathe. He's supposed to keep her safe and keep his distance. Instead, she's ruining his detachment, and he's realizing some lines are meant to be broken.

Sloane was supposed to be off limits. Frank was the extra seat around the dinner table, the guy who was now part of the furniture. Her dad's best friend. After being stood up on a date, Sloane finds herself blurring lines between her and Frank that she once respected. One drink becomes a conversation. A conversation becomes a look neither of them can ignore. Frank knows how wrong it is. Sloane knows she should walk away. But sometimes the things you shouldn't have, are the things you want the most. It's wrong. Complicated. And somehow, it feels so right. TW: lots of tension and angst, heavy on the smut! swearing, alcohol, violence, cheating mentioned, age gap, sexual activity