Joy. Meaning? A great pleasure or happiness. For Joy DeVries, her great pleasure comes hand-wrapped with secrets and murder. Joy DeVries grew up a childhood star, and it came with as much baggage and scars as one would imagine. Nowadays, she's known as Joy Daisy, a kids show TV legend, and that's all she'd prefer people to see. If they look any closer, they might get a glimpse of the lust-driven, alcohol-consuming, unhinged woman she really is. However, Detective Colin Rooker is determined to get to know the woman behind the make-up and frills. He's taken with her, and she's intrigued by him. The only catch to this whirlwind romance? Detective Rooker is chasing a serial killer. And she's closer than he thinks. *** February 2021 Wattpad Editor's Pick! Open Novella Contest III Accolades: *Chosen as an Ambassador's Pick in Round 1!* *Round Two Winner!* Round 1 Milestone: Chapter three Round 2 Milestone: Chapter eleven Round 3 Milestone: Chapter twenty-one *** My entry for the Open Novella Contest III. Prompt #4. Because sometimes when I set out to write a nice fluffy contemporary romance... this happens. CONTENT WARNING: Mature rating for sexual situations, drug use, violence, murder, death, gore... **BLANKET TRIGGER WARNING** If you're offended or triggered by anything, ever, then you probably shouldn't be reading this.

Daphne Rhodes would tell anyone: being 'the one' sucks. At least, she would if there was anyone left to tell. She's the one who'd survived. The one with the magic immune system that saved her. The only one left on this whole miserable planet. Daphne spends her days alone and craving answers as to why it had to be her. Why did she have to watch everyone she'd ever known and loved die a horrific death? On her mother's deathbed, Daphne learns long-hidden family secrets that send her on a quest across Canada to not only discover where she came from, why she survived, and who she is...but what she is, as well. Volume 1 of the Bloodlines Series, available on all major retailers and Radish fiction!

*Available in full on Radish or Patreon!* *Iris Trovao is my wide publishing romance pen name* She's a grouchy loner. He's a hardworking traveler. Fate, it seems, has a sense of humour. When a mysterious traveler turns up at Lilian's doorstep, she thinks that he's just another person trying to take something from her. It turns out Davien has a lot to give. But as he gets more and more enmeshed in the danger that surrounds her, the fear that something horrible will happen to him becomes more real. With the Sheriff breathing down her neck, wild gangs attacking, and the looming ghost of her father ripe in her memories, Lilian knows that her life is no place for anyone she cares about. Now that she's had a taste of happiness, she has to choose between selfishness or giving up the ones she loves forever. Rated Mature for violence, coarse language, and a little bit of steam (because you know I can't resist).

Beauty youtuber and Instagram influencer Molly Mydphat has to save her dying brand. Once the It Girl for instagram and Tik Tok fame, her platforms have been dying ever since a poorly-judged photo shoot got her into political controversy. Now, she needs something to change her image and get people talking about her again. She starts her gore glamour series: a series of photoshoots in decrepit and abandoned places and her follower count starts soaring again. But in an abandoned asylum in the middle of nowhere, Molly's camera crew start to act strange. They insist that she is a patient in the asylum and needs to receive her "treatments." Trapped in a labyrinth-like asylum with her sense of reality fading each day, Molly fights to escape her captors. But she may not be able to escape the surreal nightmare of her own mind.