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RED | A dark retelling of Red Riding Hood | WATTYS 2021 SHORTLIST by JuneValentine
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In a dark and deep land lives young Marjorie, a woman desperate for something more than her conventional life in her tiny village, Core. She aches for something dangerous, something like the dark forest, Mirkwood, which borders her home. Yet, there is a curse which haunts her people: a Wolf. For the last eighteen years, he takes one innocent life. Fate seems to change at the hands of Vivian, a Wardeness who promises Core a safe passage through Mirkwood. For a moment, Marjorie has everything she has ever wanted: An escape from a fate set in stone... until the Wolf set its dark intentions on her. Now, she is forced to decide: Will she defeat the Wolf or will she willingly be devoured? __________________ The stranger turned to face her. This close, it was easy to see his handsome features. From his high cheekbones to his piercing gray eyes, he was unlike any sully-faced villager. Instead, he wore his beauty with a casual grace, as if he were clueless to the plumpness of his lips or the flat, smooth surface of his chest. "Am I a what?" The man cocked a thick, dark brow up. He pushed his right hand into the pocket of his trousers, but not before Marjorie caught a glimpse of the heavy jewels on his fingers. He drowned in an opulence few villagers could afford. "I take that as a no," she said. "What is your name, stranger?" He looked to her, and then his gaze traveled to where men and women continued to fling themselves around the heat of the bonfire. You don't belong here, she thought.
The Executioners Three by stdennard
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*A Wattpad Editor's Choice* Freddie kissed him again. He groaned and pressed into it. Deepened it immediately, kissing her so hard, she thought he might draw blood. She liked it. But then he was pulling away. Backing away three steps, and freezing, miserable air rushed between them. "You're dangerous." He ran a hand through his hair. A tiny frown knit his brow. "So, so dangerous, Freddie Gellar." -- From New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard comes a story packed with steamy romance, epic best friendship, and a dark mystery that dates back centuries. The Executioners Three is Stranger Things meets the legend of Sleepy Hollow in 1999 on the shores of Lake Michigan. After high school senior Freddie Gellar finds a body in the woods, she sets out to prove it wasn't a suicide like the sheriff ruled. But then more bodies start piling up -- and if that's not creepy enough, supernatural warning signs from the old poem "The Executioners Three" start unfolding too. To complicate things even more, Freddie gets roped into a rivalry between her high school and the local prep school. For twenty years, the two student bodies have pranked each other, and the enmity between them is vicious. Except that over the course of all these back-and-forth pranks, Freddie finds herself falling for the #1 enemy of them all: Theo Porter. New chapters every Wednesday and Friday!
Dissolution by EricaChanWrites
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WATTY'S 2017 NEWCOMER AWARD WINNER: What would you sell yourself for? Madeline knows. She's spent the last eighteen years impatiently waiting for her Auctioning so she can sell herself to MERCE Solutions Limited for a hundred thousand credits. But when the Auctioneer fails to call her and two suits show up at her doorstep, Madeline discovers there are far worse bargains to be made. So when your loved ones are in danger, there's a bounty on your head and your entire city might turn out to be a lie... what would you sell yourself for? "An action-packed cyberpunk thriller in the vein of Phillip K. Dick." ~ KISA WHIPKEY, REUTS PUBLICATIONS "A book that shakes you to the core and makes you take a close look at the world around you." - A DROP OF INK REVIEWS Updated every Wednesday and Saturday (Australian Time). Published under the pen name Lee S. Hawke and available in full on Amazon, iBooks, Kobo and Nook.
The Woodsman by JuneValentine
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❝I know that I belong to you.❞ Pause, gulp, breathe. ❝But you belong to me too.❞ This isn't a story of finding love and falling into it. This is scratching your nails down to the edge of his spine, this is biting his lip and sucking the blood away. It's a shade of red that can't ever be wiped from your ledger. It's the story of Wolff and Woodsman. The homoerotic sub-text of Red Riding Hood (because who else is going to write it. ). Beautiful trailer by @beingellie
Wither by JuneValentine
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"What makes a monster? Is it the blood coursing through his veins or the blood stained on his hands?" When the town of Argent Grove is struck by the strange disappearance of local teenager Ethan Malloup, two siblings find themselves at the heart of the investigation. Rose and Tansy Maverick were the only close confidants of the presumed-dead boy. As they try to maneuver their way through mourning and learning to live without Ethan, they realize something much more menacing than a potential-murderer has made its home in Argent Grove. Hidden behind rusting barb-wired fences and tall pine trees, the private land beside the Mavericks' property conceals legends the citizens of Argent Grove have refused to acknowledge for centuries. Unfortunately for the siblings, the monsters may have already sunk their teeth into the town's heart.
Above by JuneValentine
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Teenager Rose Ramsay is half of an Elysian unit, where two people are paired and raised together as elite soldiers in efforts to help spread the presence of the Republic of Elysium across the universe. The last memory she is sure of is kissing Piper Yaegar's forehead before she went to sleep on the Elysium LoKi, a prestigious military ship in orbit, in 2391. Now, she wakes up in Fenris X's bed, an enemy soldier who is wanted across the galaxy in sight of his nefarious presence in the rebellion against the United Republic of Earth, a movement where all countries come together in peace and unity. Frantic, she's desperate to find the other half of her Elysian unit, Piper, as Rose realizes she has woken up in a galaxy that has grown without her. Although it seems as if she has left the universe for a night, her memory's absence stretches four years. Rose has four days to choose where her loyalty lays, because a bomb with enough potential to wipe off half of life on Earth can only be detonated or neutralized by the teenager. Join Rose as she searches for her Elysian, the truth, and the memories she has lost. Beautiful cover by @-Verdant-
Little Bird by JuneValentine
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"I'm never going to play fair when it comes to you, little bird," he pressed his lips onto her crinkled forehead. "Hide, pretty girl. I'll find you." * Alpha Murdock Boudreaux only possesses one weakness: the young human Dove, his seventeen-year-old daughter; the only surviving blood of her maternal family. Her father minimized her contact with wolves to the few members of their pack. Unfortunately for the both of them, a Wanderer, a lone wolf incompatible with others but still hungry for aggression and territory, finds himself in the middle of Boudreaux's borders and irreversibly enamored with his daughter. Cover by @Inmuses
Silver Lungs by JuneValentine
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"No, you have it wrong," she whispers in a voice light enough to mistake for empty wind; her hands frame either side of his clenching jaw, tightening until they stop trembling. "I am the wolf." * Seventeen year-old Dove Ramsay is doomed, or at least-- that's what every preacher in a thousand mile radius is cramming down every believer's throat. It's end of times, the days are numbered, and the only hope for any of humankind is salvation. The existence of werewolves has become a fact accepted globally, and the fear of them just as obvious. A rag-tag pack manages to pass through Dove's hometown of Thistle, bringing a trail of blood, dirty money, and a new way to pass time in a place where there's nothing to do but wait for another empty weekend. As everyone around the teenager warns her to stay away from the strange Alpha, Dove realizes he's something she's never been able to find in the lonely town. He's a temptation Dove refuses to resist.
Canidae by JuneValentine
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"Don't worry, kid. We're a family here." * Placed in the mountains of Texas, a pack of twenty-four thrives and depends on one another as their domesticated lifestyle intertwines with their own inherent behaviors. Join the Liaison pack and each of their stories as the tight society of the werewolf community brings forward betrayal, loss, new beginnings, and most importantly, love. * (It's basically a verse about 24 of my OCs as werewolves. Don't regret anything. Copious amounts of fluff and probably some tears because that's just who I am.) *This is not adhering to chronological order*