In a world ruled by men, one woman makes a stand. When her father and brother die in the Napoleonic Wars, Corinna Wolverstoke of Penninghall and her mother Liz are thrown at the mercy of the merciless man who takes over the title. Corinna has to steal to stave off genteel starvation, but she does it with style: She d...
1st Place Winner of the Historical Gothic Romance Contest Entry - Oct. 2022 Clara Fears is eager for the return of her husband, William, master of the Levi Woodbury. His time at sea comes to an end each October and throughout the month Clara waits on bated breath. Though this time, something doesn't quite feel right. ...
When Celia Barnes starts a new job at a cottage hospital in the middle of rural Yorkshire, she thinks she may at last have escaped her shadowed past. But not all her troubles are over. Doctor Fane, the chief surgeon at the hospital, takes an instant dislike to Celia. Was it something she said, or has he somehow discov...
How long is a lifetime? To Luc, it is eternal. Endless and excruciatingly meaningless. His existence on Earth serves as a punishment for the sins he has committed. Immortality is his shackle. It would forever be that way if Luc didn't stumble upon Aida, a young girl who is kidnapped from her motherland and sold as a...
Lieutenant Marlowe Hughes was meant to be convalescing at his family's country home after his return from the Spanish front when a chance encounter with the high-spirited Lady Arabella Balfrey left him reeling. Marlowe is immediately infatuated with Arabella, who is beautiful and captivating, and who also happens to b...
In the late nineties asexuality is all but ignored as an orientation. Jess doesn't understand her complex array of emotions or why she finds it so hard to relate to her fellow classmates. Catholic high schools and churches simply don't address the issue, and the internet is still nascent. Jess can't tell anyone the t...
Bianca Daleman only has two rules. First, never lose control. And second, never marry anyone until she is certain it won't end in divorce. While in Vegas for her best friend's bachelorette party, Bianca discovers her ex-boyfriend is engaged to a supermodel. Thrown back into the heartbreak of his leaving her, she br...
☆ 2022 ᴡᴀᴛᴛʏꜱ ᴡɪɴɴᴇʀ!! ☆ "Hell is empty and all the devils are here." On the cusp of the 20th century, blue blood heiress Lucy Penn has lost everything: her betrothed, her family and home, and even her ability to walk in the sunlight. As she struggles to acclimate to her new nocturnal existence, she makes the acquaint...
*Completed* 19-year-old Akwasi Appiah has spent his entire life struggling in a small fishing town on the coast of Ghana. But all that comes to a surprising end when he's offered a scholarship to study in one of the best private universities in the country. Penfield University is home to The Sharks, and being a passi...
England 1694, Constantine Every is the daughter of infamous pirate captain Henry Every, the richest and most elusive pirate alive. Until one day, she suddenly wakes to become a hostage of her father's greatest enemy and Devil of the Atlantic, Captain Thomas Tew. While Tew hunts for her father and his hoard of riches...
Stede and Ed spend a moment alone while the crew enjoys shore leave. They talk of odysseys. ---- Follow me for more OFMD fic. I don't see myself stopping anytime soon! The Captains' Bed, (StedexEd): https://www.wattpad.com/story/306594912-the-captains%27-bed-our-flag-means-death-edxstede OR check out my ongoing (frequ...
2022 Watty Winner || At the age of ten, Sanford Crow discovers the worst secret of all--his father is a serial killer. It was the year 1969. Sanford's dream was to grow up to be a detective. Putting his intuitions to the test, he conducts an investigation into his father. The discovery he makes brings his whole world...
**A clockpunk Cinderella Story** Margot, a disinherited viscountess, works as a servant for her widowed step-mother and her step-sister. With nothing but her late father's glass bead necklace for comfort, Margot dreams of a life free from servitude. A visit from Chiara, a mysterious and beautiful guardswoman, thrusts...
**AMBYS 2022 WINNER** He'll never play piano again. That's what virtuoso pianist Zephyr has vowed to himself after escaping Sigma, the sprawling criminal organisation that once held him--and still holds his friends--captive in California's mega-city capital, Maria. After being forced to entertain Sigma's clients with...
The retelling of a classic tale with a slight twist. A golden crossover between Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella. A prince who turned into a beast due to his narcissistic nature and cruel behaviour. The curse bestowed upon him by the witch, would only be lifted once he learns to love. But, who would love an u...
The year is 1942 and Europe is at the height of World War Two. Mila Goldstein, a Dutch Jew living in occupied Holland, has signed on as an informant for the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). However, days before her assignment, a wounded German soldier turns up on her doorstep. Will her decision to save a lif...
Haunted secrets, damsels in distress (who rescue themselves), and forbidden romances... Hailey unwillingly accompanies her parents on a family vacation to New Orleans, right in the middle of a hot and humid summer. This is a trip she desperately wants to avoid. However, her attitude changes when, on a picnic stop to...
Thomas Wright a young teenager starts his Diary in July 1858 America. Northern Kentucky, Mason county near the Town of Dover and Lees Creak. across the Ohio River the town of Ripley Ohio. Hot bed of Abolitionist movement. between befriending a slave and living on a Tobacco Plantation, his Poppy a Slave Chaser. Young T...
When the sun goes down, the gravestone statues in Willow Hills Cemetery come to life--including Gretta. As a granite guardian of the dead, it's her job to make sure her charge--the snarky, hot-headed, lesbian spirit Quinn Rivera--crosses over and finds spiritual peace. But that's a little hard to do when Quinn's twin...
As a little girl I loved Indiana Jones, not Harrison Ford, no, Indy. I dreamed about one day exploring ancient temples just like him. Now, as an adult, many say I am a real life Indiana Jones. I'm an archaeologist with a masters degree in Cultural Heritage who works in museums and goes to excavations. I've seen the t...
{ONC2021 2nd Place Overall, Round Two Ambassador Picks & Shortlist} When Max O'Brien receives an almond with a skull painted on it, he initially plays it off as a prank. But, after his wife leaves town, he begins discovering more of the nuts hidden around the house. More disturbing than that is that some unseen intrud...
Emma, in order to get a job as a columnist at a newspaper office, digs up a year old murder to solve it. She didn't see the twist coming at the end, and neither will you. Completed. Vote, comment and add to your libraries. Thank you.
Madelyn "Lyn" Creeke and her grandmother were the last of their family. At least, that's what Lyn's grandmother always led her to believe. Lyn had never heard of or seen pictures of Georgina Creeke, a great aunt that had been living a few hours away for most of Lyn's life. So it came as a surprise when Lyn got word...
1334, Toulouse, Kingdom of France. Orphaned as a young child, Catherine Vimont dreams of nothing but the adventure and romance described in songs and stories. Confined to the walls of her manor, she resigns herself to the dull life of a laundress, guarding her dreams in secret and pining after her young master. When...
Rose Gilmartin leaves her home in London behind to work at her uncle's inn on the lonely Yorkshire moors. Homesick at first, she befriends her cousin Bess and young Dominic Monaghan, and meets Bess' lover, highwayman Arthur Langley. But when redcoats turn up in the district, things quickly become dangerous. Can Rose p...
A century-old murder mystery A dangerous ghost An amateur historian... What binds them together? Cora Tozzi is a retired businesswoman who, after nursing her mother through her final illness, wishes only for a peaceful orderly world in her suburban Chicago home. When an angry spirit begins to leave cryptic messages o...
Gideon Montclair, Viscount Chesterton returns from war to find his inheritance squandered. All he has left are the entailed lands and an impoverished title. He suspects his father's man-of-affairs of incompetence at best, outright theft at worst. When he returns to the family estate he discovers a woman residing in hi...
Scarred and broken from a disastrous marriage, Laura Maidstone vows never to love again. And it's not love, when she seduces Richard Armiger, Lord Albroke, on her library room floor. It's only desire. And anger. And loneliness. Which, as she discovers, can be quite as dangerous... COMPLETED
Buccaneer Charlotte Rose captains the lesbian crew of The Salty Bitch with first-mate Elizabeth at her side by day, and in her bunk at night. Charlotte is of the firm opinion that the only thing men are good for is shark bait. Every time her lady-loving pirates raid a ship or town, they free any enslaved women and for...
