Aria DeLang is cursed with three things: Sasquatch height, crippling social anxiety, and an Honorary Dick. That means Aria's love life is as non-existent as James Harden's defense. The first two she was born with, the third was an unintentional gift from the illustrious Dark Lord of Hoops-otherwise known as Roscoe Tate. He's sickeningly handsome, the most talented athlete of their generation, and Aria's sworn enemy since the sixth grade. The hate is mutual, but when their shared love for the game brings them back together, sparks fly, and tensions soar-only this time, the tension feels different. Aria is going to break her curse or die trying, even if that means making a deal with the devil. Despite her reservations, things were actually going quite well until Roscoe crashed her all-girls pool party. Suddenly, every other dude sees what he's known all along-that Aria DeLang is bangable. Unfortunately, he's all but pushed her into the arms of his best friend. Now Roscoe must decide what he's willing to risk for love. The curse started with a kiss, can it end with one? [This is Book 1 in the Alley-Oops Series.] Highest Rankings: #1 in Funny Romance #1 in Banter #1 Teen Romcom #1 in Ballers #1 in Basketball Romance #1 in Glowup #2 in Enemies to Lovers #2 in He Falls Harder #3 in Athlete #3 in Girl Next Door #3 in Broody #6 in Jock #7 in Hip Hop #13 in Witty #25 in Cocky

WATTYS2024 SHORTLIST | The Ambys 2024 Grand Favourite in Mystery/Thriller | 6 x FEATURED When a brash, rich woman, washes ashore, in a quiet country town, with a knife sticking out of her back, she promises something. A darn good story, and a chance to get out of dodge for the young inspector. But will he solve his first crime, or will he mix business with pleasure and learn to regret the whole thing? *** Devi Dhungel is broken. She's bruised. And she appears to be dead! When she washes ashore on the beach of a secular country town, gossip flutters: 𝑊ℎ𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝘴𝘩𝘦? 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 Mystery Cove? 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑡 ℎ𝑒𝑟𝘦? 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑦? Questions that also plague the lonely-yet-handsome town inspector, Hector Juan Martinez. For a man who's been searching for a little oomph in his life, Devi Dhugel brings it in spades. For him, solving the biggest crime to land on his lap could secure a promotion, or at least get him a transfer out of boreville. It's a doable task for the kind-hearted cop if only the victim of the attempted murder would stop lying about being some hotshot author he's never heard of and tell him the real story. Or he may be tempted to get rid of her himself, damn the promotion! This is Murder on the Orient Express, without the murder, of course. And only one man can solve it. Hector Martinez. But first, he's got to figure out what he's doing. *** Genre: COSY MYSTERY X ROMANCE Wordcount: 124K This is a first draft, so may contain errors/typos which will be fixed in edit rounds. Featured on: @Ambassadors - Diverse Fiction (Dec 2024) @action - Thriller (July 2024) @Humor - DiverseLit Humor (July 2024) @AmbassadorsIN - Diwali Reading (Oct, 2023) @WattpadAsianFiction - Hidden in the Sta

Fated for heartbreak or lucky in love? -- Juliana Guo's carefully planned life has gone off the rails. Her once promising legal career is dead, her chances for love lie in tatters around her, and her painstakingly penned magnum opus - an investigative nonfiction book about the Japanese mafia - has been stolen by a homeless man and destroyed in a dumpster fire. Literally. So when she receives the news that her no-nonsense, straitlaced immigrant mother has sold all their worldly possessions to purchase a quaint Alaskan lodge retreat and invited the entire family to winter there for the Lunar New Year, Juliana sees no better option than to pack up her life and travel across the country. But little does she know that her mother has invited another guest: Elliot Chan, the annoyingly handsome son of a family friend and Juliana's most hated academic and professional rival - and what's more, her mother has a matchmaking scheme in mind. With no future prospects and no way home, Juliana is forced to stay at the retreat where she discovers that there is a strange magic swirling in the quiet, whimsical northern town - and that there might be more between her and Elliot than she realized. No matter what happens, Juliana will find out that her idea of a perfect-not-so-perfect life might look very different than she could have ever imagined... -- A cozy and comedic Lunar New Year holiday read, filled with wintry romance, magic, and just a little bit of luck. ;) My entry for the Open Novella Contest!

PUBLISHING OCTOBER 2025 * * * * * With senior year well underway, Cali's plan to get into Fenton University's elusive Masters of Nursing program is set into motion. The competition is stiff, but she has a sure-fire way to get her where she wants to go. That is, until Cali's success lies in the prized member of the boxing team-Lincoln Pierce. Now tasked with tutoring the brooding fighter to secure a letter of reference from her professor, Cali launches herself at the opportunity. But she soon realizes that Lincoln is a hell of a lot more than she bargained for. Lincoln Pierce has no idea what he's doing or where he's going. One thing is for sure-he wants nothing to do with tutoring and even less to do with Cali, especially when her determination soon threatens to expose secrets he's purposefully left in the dark. But with his grades slipping, there's more than just Lincoln's full-ride scholarship on the line. Lincoln must accept Cali's help or lose everything he's fought for. And as it turns out, she may end up getting more than a little extra credit. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Copyright of Luisa Dituri © All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. ONLY AVAILABLE ON REAM!

[Featured on Wattpad Official Romance's Reading List!] Marzia Castille has always had dreams. When she was 3, she wanted to be a pop star. When she was 5, she was sure there was a career that meant she could build Lego for a living (spoiler alert; there isn't one). When she was 8, she wanted to be an astronaut. Unlike most girls, funnily enough, she never wanted to be a princess. Which kinda sucked, because she was one. Now that she's 17, she's the furthest thing from a princess imaginable. She's just a normal teenager with an annoying arch-enemy, a myriad of homework that she has no plans of completing, and jeans that she wears in place of school trousers (which she'll deny if you ever challenge her on it). Being the Oxford English Dictionary definition of 'not princess' and hiding in her shitty flat in London, is the only thing keeping her from an early grave. Someone out there wants her blood, but no one can quite tell her who, or why. But when a newspaper article hits her right between the eyes, and throws everything into permanent turmoil, she has to cut through her fear, and face the life she left behind. Armed with her best friend Emilio, and a sarcastic attitude that never seems to falter, she's pushed into a constant battle of love, heartbreak, impossible responsibility and determination, that all culminate in the never-ending whirlwind that throws her about. Oh, and let's not forget complete and utter confusion and hunger about 90% of the time too.

True love always finds a way... but at what cost? After injuries sustained from a serious car accident, Zachary Mazur no longer remembers the soul-searing love he once shared with the girl of his dreams, Caterina Donati. Still, the heart wants what it wants. As Zac falls head over heels in love with Cate once again, painful memories resurface and threaten the young lovers' hard won reunion. Will Zac and Cate be able to find happiness at last? Or will the dark secrets from their past tear them apart? "Gilded Hearts" is the second book in my "Gilded" series. It's recommended for new readers to start with the first book, "Gilded Cage," before reading this one.

A high school locker. A ladder. A Christmas tree. Six bowling pins stacked back to back. Geum Jaesan is taller than all of these things. 190 cm boy? Good. 190 cm girl? Awkward, abnormal; often mortifying with regular breaks for ill-fitting clothes and general lack of male interest. ━━ Hedonistic fun. General apathy. A tall girl obsessed with volleyball. Hak Tae-geun is interested in all of these things. Born on the same date of the same year, Tae-geun and Jaesan have been friends since forever. That is if "friends" mean one side constantly ignoring the other ... while the other thinks love is sticking gum in someone's hair. It's a grudging, almost spite-filled acquaintance, and both of them have never been able to stay on the same court. Literally and figuratively. Until someone has the bright idea to put them on the same team. Sometimes all it takes to start a fire is a little bit of friction ... ✒ 27.12.2022 (start) ✒ (end)

Three days, two perfect strangers and one missing cat. To Nora and Ali, it's their situation but to anyone else who knows the pair, it's a recipe for disaster. *** Nora and Ali do not know one another. In fact, their exchanges had been minimal until one day Ali entered the local halal chicken takeaway, demanding Nora's attention. And her help. Billy the Cat is missing, and Nora was the last person to have seen him, having welcomed him to the local pet shop hotel. Only, what Ali does not know is that Billy isn't missing, he has been sold. Having lost her job as a result of the situation, Nora chooses to take advantage, and offers Ali her assistance. Only, she doesn't have any knowledge or expertise on the matter, and really, just wants to put this situation behind her. Forced on a journey to Scotland, Ali and Nora have no choice but to work together to find Billy...and quite possibly steal him back. With clashing personalities and three days on the road, will these two strangers be able to find Billy? And along the way, perhaps even find themselves?

When eighteen-year-old Cassie learns her local gym is struggling, she must find a way to save it while staying away from the womanizing boxer determined to get under her skin. **** After learning her boxing gym is on the brink of closure, hot-headed Cassie is determined to save it, even if it means fighting dirty with the new and exclusive gym next door. But it's not long before she finds herself drawn to the ring, as well as to Nico, the handsome, cocky boxer who's training to be a coach - if only he can avoid distractions. And headstrong Cassie...she's the biggest distraction of all. *This is a spin-off in the Gaslight series but can be read as a standalone*

|||2021 WATTYS SHORTLIST||| Not everyone's high school experience involves hot romance, parties and big plans for the future. Some kids are shy. Some kids are socially awkward. Some kids have heavy burdens placed on them by their families or their religions. This is the tale of two of those kids. In her senior year, Sabrina Himmelschein feels like she has no privacy and no life of her own. She lives in one of San Francisco's iconic Postcard Row houses, in an Orthodox Jewish family with high standards and expectations. At a speech tournament she meets Neil Cannon, who lives up north among the vineyards of Sonoma County, where his parents happily work in the wine industry, despite being teetotaling Mormons. They form a bond, but reluctantly break it; the religious and cultural gulfs between them are too wide to bridge. Four years later, their dreams of changing the world reduced to retail jobs selling socks and cologne, they unexpectedly meet again. After the families and faiths they've depended on their whole lives have let them down in a dramatic way, Neil and Sabrina struggle with an important question: should they feel guilty about being happy to be back together?