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A Grace of Crowns | ☑ Queenkiller, Kingmaker #1 by AM-Prabeswar
AM-Prabeswar
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❖ QUEENKILLER, KINGMAKER Book 1 ❖ Feudal Southeast-Asia filled with magic, daemons, and a royal conspiracy. This is Isla's quest for the truth, and her slow spiral into becoming her very own worst nightmare. When the gods ascended thousands of years ago, they left behind the divine gift of theurgy. Its powers still echo amongst men, but run fiercer yet in the blood of kings and queens. And one of them will stop at nothing before Isla is dead. A betrayal lures her out of refuge and into her journey home, where she must unmask her enemies before they unmask her. The theurgy that she has had to keep hidden for many years can be her greatest ally or her most lethal foil. Only her wits can guide her through the dangerous politics of the Surikh court. But amidst the plots and schemes bubbling around her, she uncovers something far more sinister than the identity of her enemies. Something that can change her entire life; indeed, entire kingdoms. ↝ this work contains violence, profanity, and sexual references ↜ ↝ Winner of Wattys 2016 HQ Love Award ↝ Winner of FANTASCI's first season Chosen One awards ↝ Winner of The Cryptic Awards 2018 ↝ Featured in Fantasy as of 18-01-2017 ↝ Wattpad Editor's Pick January 2021
Shatter Like Glass-Cinderella Retold by AlcinaMystic
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*Featured* She was the most beautiful girl at the ball-and the most dangerous. After the murder of the Viridian prince at his engagement ball sparks a bloody revolution, pirate Ashen of Azure must decide where her loyalties lie. Will she condemn the royalty who drove her family from their home, or will she defend the innocents caught in the crossfire? A High fantasy retelling of Cinderella with a pirate twist, Shatter Like Glass is a story of family, loyalty, and good old-fashioned sword fights. -Rivals Saga Book One- The stunningly gorgeous and perfect cover is work of @italychick . Check out her other graphics here: https://www.wattpad.com/293677615-graphics-by-nora-details-form
Ink Stained by azurehyn
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❝The world is a madhouse, and all the people in it are delusional and blind.❞ Pai Momozono can see 'monsters' of long-forgotten folklore. As she watches the shaky balance of the status quo that keeps two halves of one world crumble, she has to uncover the secrets of years she can't remember to find out which world she belongs to. All while one who doesn't have all the strings plays puppet master from the shadows. × TL;DR - identity crisis. Dark Fantasy | Romance | New Adult | Action | Horror | Diverse Lit | Japanese folklore Longer summary is inside. Season 1-3 complete, finale season coming soon. Pretty long chapters (don't @ me, you have been warned). My love of Japanese culture inspired this. This is realistically written, not an anime pass-off. THIS IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON WATTPAD. IF YOU'RE READING THIS ELSEWHERE, PLEASE REPORT IT.
Epiphany: Reminiscence by SerenadeOfDeath
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The present and the past are tied together within a single soul belonging to a witch of noble heritage, but unaware of her own title as she grew up thinking herself to be nothing more than a human. It was only the demon prince that knew her old soul who brought her illumination, awakening inside her feelings that weren't entirely hers, but a being's more ancient and much more feared. As Seraphine is revived within Lucia, the one with whom she shares body and soul, and is crowned in the name of the Beast with the sole purpose of fulfilling her own promise made long ago with the goddess of witches, Ethan also takes on the name of the Beast, but in order to gain power and fulfill his own ambitions, one of which is rewritting the tragic story between him and the high witch as he tries to stop history from repeating itself. But the Beast rose up from the sea of souls, made up of Seven Crowned Kings and ten domain-less kings that bear the names of blashpemy. Because everything with a beginning must have an end, they kept on existing, eager to fulfill the oldest promise of the world. While both Hell and Heaven split up and join the final war caused by the Beast, the Seven Kings each understand more about the atonement and punishments that fell onto them for sins that weren't theirs.
A Bag of Nails by Sam_McGregor
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The first time I saw Adam Davis, he was at the casino. The second time he was dead. I have all the luck at making friends. It's a gift. I don't do murder cases. There's a more than even chance that you'll end up with an empty wallet and a bullet in your back. Adam was someone else's dirty business, and I didn't want to get pulled into it, but sometimes you don't get a choice... Author's note: This was a short story I submitted for a detective fiction competition in 2013.