Fame launched them to the top of the Hollywood hierarchy, but life in the fast lane may come with deadly consequences. * * * In the high profile world of today's hottest young celebrities, five close friends struggle to find balance between their demanding careers and over-privileged lifestyles. When they unknowingly become targets of a photographer's psychotic obsession, they learn that life in the FAST LANE may come with deadly consequences. Cover art by Love Overdose Graphics on the @GrimTragedies profile-thank you! *This story is an unedited Just Write It/NaNoWriMo first draft from several years ago. Read at your own risk. LOL WHAT READERS ARE SAYING: "This has been an amazing thing to read - I've never seen anything like it before. It really gives you an insight to how the glamorous life of fame really isn't as glamorous as people may think." "Your writing never gets old and the twists are breathtaking! I'm glad I found your stories and this story in particular. The Fast Lane is extraordinary." "I loved this story so much - deserves to have like 10000x more reads on it." "I so love this story, a million thumps up to the author. Think there should also be a movie." Notice: This document is not authorized for upload or use with artificial intelligence systems or platforms. Any attempt to upload, analyze, or process this content using AI technology is strictly prohibited.

Bethany Bridges leaves the town she grew up in Washington to pursue her dreams of becoming an architect in the big city of Seattle. An internship position opens up at a new company which could be a big break for her. A college drop out and with little money saved up? This could be a chance of a lifetime. Leaving behind her mother and younger brother, she sets off in a new city with new people. Most specifically, Caleb Wilkes, the head architect of the company. Working for his friend, Caleb moves to America to help jumpstart the new company his friend had expanded into the states from England. He starts a new life in Seattle hoping to change his status of being a bachelor at twenty-eight. He's hoping that maybe American women can give him what he's looking for. Especially that new, beautiful intern at the company. Caleb will do whatever it takes to get to know her. **Spin-off to Bound! If you're planning on reading Bound, read that first for this story may spoil certain parts :) But if you don't have any plans on reading Bound, go ahead and just read this one!** [Highest Rankings: #24 in General Fiction; #63 in Romance]

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Seven letters, seven confessions, seven clues. Elliot Parker has what he needs to find out who killed his best friend... But is he hunting down the killer? Or is the killer hunting him? ***** When Colton Crest returns, unharmed, to his small town after mysteriously disappearing for two months, his best friend Elliot Parker breathes a sigh of relief. But days later, on the night before graduation, Elliot finds Colton in the lake. Dead. And on the day of his funeral, Elliot finds a letter in his jacket pocket with four words that send him spiralling: I killed Colton Crest. There are six more letters to find, six more confessions about Colton, six more clues to uncover why he was murdered. Elliot has no choice but to play this sick scavenger hunt, and with each new revelation, he begins to question whether he really knew Colton - or anyone else in that little town of dark secrets. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

In high school, a group of notorious friends buried a secret and promised to take that secret to their graves, they part ways never to see each other again. Five years later they are all brought back together, they're lured to a campsite by a mysterious person in a yellow hoodie and there they receive a message - one only they can understand. Someone knows what happened on the night of August 15th and that person has vowed to make their lives miserable. Together, they need to find out who that person is so that their secret can never come to the surface. When one of them gets hurt, everyone is a suspect. They can't trust each other and they certainly can't trust anyone around them.

Lucia always thought that she could hear the wind calling her name and there's a man in the shadow staring at her no matter where she go. It all started when she dream about a wounded man in front of the forest or what she thought it just a dream, only to realize that the place in her dream is real when she visit her grandmother's hometown. Is that mean the wounded man is also real or only in her dream?

It's Hailee Windor's 18th birthday. Part of a shooting, she dies on the evening of one of the biggest days of her life thus far. What she doesn't know when she wishes for one more chance to tell her best friend, Brent, that she loves him, is that she will have to wake up tomorrow. And it will be June 6th once again. And so will the next day. And the next day. And every single day after that. She loves Brent. But when Alex comes along, it all changes. Will her best friend win the battle for her heart, or will this handsome stranger steal victory from him? What would you do if you had one more day? Would you laugh louder, play longer, love deeper? Would you regret anything you did? Chose the last thing you say to someone wisely. Because you never know when it will truly be the last word. The day you die is one you never remember. But what if you were forced to never forget? Forced to have to relive every second of it for the rest of your life? Hailee made a wish that forced that burden on her, but could she be choosing her own self destruction by not saying three simple words? Her story is truly one you will never forget...

A tale in which a thief with a double life grudgingly becomes a hero. ➳ Liana Mason has a life anyone would envy. Nobody suspects that the once orphaned girl grew up to be the city's notorious vigilante. She has been fine walking on the edge of morality for much of her life, but when an assassin arrives in her city she's forced to play a role she never imagined she'd choose: hero. A Robin Hood retelling. Trigger Warning: This contains themes that may be triggering for some readers (violence, sexual assault, etc). Cover designed by Ray Gardener

Ariel Fontansia is ten pounds away from total relapse. Since the previous summer, she has been stuck in a vicious cycle of calories, pounds, and inches. Redemption, Maine, isn't another escape -- it's a dead end. With no one to keep her disorder in check and hallucinations of a dead cousin driving her insane, she falls into an isolation that could prove detrimental. Standing in her way is a black-eyed boy with an anger complex: Price Olsen, who wants her to see more than the bad side of his grief. With an absentee father and a mute little sister, he recognizes the signs of someone on the edge. He wants to save Ariel, but up until this point, he's had a nasty penchant for ruining relationships. When her best friend overdoses, Ariel is forced to face the deterioration of her own mind and body. Price, frustrated by his inability to help her, fights the anger that threatens to take an ugly twist. As their fragile friendship teeters, another bruised, broken teenager chasing reconciliation stumbles through their lives. Yet she isn't just another damsel; this girl has a history in Redemption that involves the death of Ariel's cousin. Peaceful lives unraveling, all three discover that Redemption is harboring a secret with dangerous consequences. Now, they will be forced to face their past - and their present - to determine the course of their future. But how far are they willing to go for redemption?

Just when she thought she was safe . . . Now that she has a loving, devoted family by her side, Talia Wilson finally feels happy and secure. What she doesn't realize is that someone from the past is out to get her. Someone who knows about her secrets and the deceitful game she played. And this someone is even crazier than the last . . . Welcome to 'Secrets and Lies', a sequel to Watty Award winning story 'The Secret'! *This story is an unedited first draft. Highest rank: #1 in Mystery and Thriller *This story contains scenes of abuse and may be disturbing to some readers. While the characters are fictional, domestic violence is a serious issue that many people across the world face. If you or someone you know is the victim of abuse, please seek help immediately. Notice: This document is not authorized for upload or use with artificial intelligence systems or platforms. Any attempt to upload, analyze, or process this content using AI technology is strictly prohibited.

With a brutal, faceless killer walking freely on the streets of Freetown, everyone's instinct is to run and hide. Seventeen-year-old Cassidy Meyer's instincts however, immediately urge her to run toward the direction of danger in an attempt to unmask the killer's identity, thereby satisfying her life-long obsession for crime-solving. Her obsession with the case starts to create a wedge between her and her loved ones, and it starts to put everyone's life in danger. The only way to salvage her friendship and save everyone's life is to finish what she started; to find the killer before he can claim another life. #8 in Mystery/Thriller. (Highest ranking so far.)