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Escape From Norriswood by inkblotsam
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"Naughty girls can make a lot of money," Bobby had said again. Click. "And we're going to make you a lot of money. Enough to pay your way through college." He brought the Polaroid down from his eye. "Now let's get some shots of you in the bedroom." When Tara steals her father's car and asks Rosalyn to help her getaway, Rosalyn assumes that Tara is just looking for an escape from quiet, boring Norriswood. However, three days of driving later, Rosalyn realizes that something urgent must have pushed Tara away from their hometown. As Rosalyn unravels Tara's turbulent secret life as an online model, a life she was coerced into her by her boyfriend, Bobby, Tara discovers that the two friends are on a path to an ever stranger, and darker world. A literary thriller, Escape From Norriswood, will keep you turning pages, while satisfying your inner thirst for strong language, and quality writing. **Some scenes of nudity/sexuality. * Thanks to @michaelmonn for designing the cover!
The Craving - Marooned by RainerSalt
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[Complete] After a plane crash, Megan is marooned with a group of survivors on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. They find a dead man's body, and the next day it's gone. And then someone of their group disappears, too. They realize that there's something with them. Something that might be lethal. ---- Not having much to head home for, Megan doesn't care when her plane takes off with a delay of several hours. She is bored, and the strange, dark man at her side isn't much of a talker--yet their conversation gets interesting once the plane's engines stop working. ---- #3 "Best Book Overall" in the New Beginnings Writer Awards 2019 A thriller/adventure story, with elements of mystery, and some surprises. ---- Cover by Narcisse Navarre @inksorcery
Hearts of Stone by Wimbug
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[FREE STORY with exclusive chapters] Tragedy has struck the kingdom of Iride. The crown prince has disappeared and rumors claim pirates have taken him. But, even if the news is tragic, Kat Devieux has other, much more urgent things on her plate. Her financial troubles and the unrealistic expectations of her father has her family on the brink of starvation and her only way out seems to be marriage to a man who sees her as nothing more than a pretty face. When in order to save her father, she becomes the unwilling prisoner of a cursed beast, the running of the kingdom becomes even less important to her. Until she finds herself entangled in rogue politics and magic use. Because the Beast is guilty of more than misuse of magic in a kingdom that has expressly forbidden it. He holds a secret that could be the undoing of the entire country. And for Kat, knowledge opens a door to a life where she is so much more than just another bystander. A life she never thought could be. 🥀 Book 1 of the Fairy's Gambit series *Beauty and the Beast retelling* Fantastic cover by @pennywithaney
Survival Zone by Sylver-frost
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Following a devastating crash, a group of teenagers find themselves forced to survive on a tropical island. Cade and his friends are on an ecology school trip, flying from Los Angeles to Hawai'i, when the plane suffers a loss of power, and all of its instruments fail. The airplane falls to an island of dazzling blue water, golden sand, and steaming, vibrant jungles - killing half the class and all of the flight attendants, pilots, and teachers. Now the teenagers must survive in this dangerous and terrifying habitat. Strangely mutated creatures prowl the beaches and jungles, conflict grows between the surviving kids, and the dark secrets of the island's past begin to resurface. And beyond the terrors of this exotic landscape, there is a question that haunts Cade to his core. Is there a reason why they are here? Dangers rise from the deaths, death looms above all, and war threatens the survivors. Who will die? Who will live? Who will survive in the Survival Zone?
Secrets of Arden (On Hold)  by Readylindy
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"Tauriel..Tauriel", the sing song voice of the strange girl calls out to her. Starting a journey leading to love, lust, hate, fear and self discovery. Who's "normal"? Is there even such a word in Sombre Foreit? She's certainly going to find out
beach bums (completed) by everettstillwell
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A sex worker moves from motel to motel, trying to keep her Zen intact. A young japanese psychotic launches into her next mission. An OG Crip stumbles upon a murder of a slick smooth talking fence. A drunk gay Latino enforcer stumbles through the gutter of Skid Row. And then there's... A broke millennial who gets hooked up by elite and secretive Mackerel Foundation For Meaningless Redundancy with a temporary gig observing these 5 people in and around Skid Row. He's outfitted with futuristic surveillance equipment which makes him invisible, and allows intimate access into his subject's day to day lives. The gig will conclude with him writing a blog detailing his observations, with the understanding that this document will be destroyed as soon as he publishes it, and never read by another person. It's not his story. Who's story is it? If a story is written intending not to be read, is it even a story?
What You Thought Was love, When You First Started To See  by 11redcouches
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He stares at walls and he stares at me I think he thinks I'm a wall
Immortal Mistakes by elleseescience
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This is what Chloe remembers. She isn't sure if this is what happened but she's given up trying to work that out. It doesn't matter after all. If this is what she remembers, this is what happened. When her best friend Henry's brain explodes inside her 3D printing machine, Chloe is arrested and forced to become fertile and pregnant, like a dirty, old-fashioned mortal. As her memories shift and change and she finds herself in two places at once, she tries to hold on to what is real: she loves Henry; she wants to live and the baby inside her may be the key to it all.
Color by thomaseng
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The Wattys 2018 Shortlist 1st Place Wattpad's The Historical Award 2019 During World War I, a black baseball player gets a second chance to play ball on an all-white steel mill baseball team, an action that shocks and divides an entire town. Targeted by opponents, his own team, and a ruthless gang, Henry Louis finds himself facing levels of anger and racism that threaten both his baseball career and his life. When Henry meets Sarah, a free-spirited girl with the dream of becoming a great writer, things get even more complicated as they fall in love. Sarah ignites Henry's heart to keep fighting for his right play the game he loves. But by refusing to back down, Henry will pay the greatest price. And in his suffering, Henry Louis will unite a town torn apart by prejudice and war ... not because of the color of his skin but because of the color of his dreams.