2020 WATTYS WINNER in NEW ADULT! Oliver Ausman has been given a second chance at life, but it's hard to feel grateful when he was the one trying to end it in the first place. Returning to his normal life after being released from the hospital is hard, especially since his parent's idea of normal is made up of dinner parties, prep school, fancy suits, and fake manners-- all paired with a complete disregard for the mental health of their firstborn. He's long been fed up with it, but the final straw is when he finds out that his "father" isn't actually his father at all. Oliver decides he's had enough of the perfect facade, so he packs a suitcase and grabs his younger brother, "borrowing" his mother's car to sneak off on a trip to find his biological father. But he never expected to pick up a girl with her own similar set of problems, to be followed across the country by a money-hungry pair of criminals, or most of all, to find out that maybe this life thing isn't as bad as he thought. 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝) - 𝟏/𝟐𝟐/𝟐𝟎

#girlswhotravel #lifegoals Recently dumped and going nowhere, Jennie Jamieson decides it's finally time to listen to all those inspirational Instagram hashtags and do something with her life. A visit to Antarctica has always been on her bucket list, so Jennie quits her job and blows her savings to follow her dream. Then, in the dark, icy hostility of Earth's final frontier, bodies start turning up... and no one can work out how-or why-they died. Join Jennie for mystery, adventure and thrills in the world's last true wilderness, and find out how much she is willing to risk for the #fame, #fortune and #followers of the perfect social media feed. This is my entry in the Open Novella Contest-a challenge to write a novella of 20,000 words, based on a prompt, in just a few weeks. I chose the "mystery in the Antarctic" prompt. ❄️Cover by @trista-❄️ 📱 Top rank: 26 in Adventure 📱

Adam is a billionaire, but he is also secretly a billionaire. Did I mention he's a billionaire? Also he's hiding a dark secret. And then there's Kiera Renesmee Jermagesty McKenna Ricardo Rosa de la Montoya Ramirez, a broke waitress who struggles to feed her cheese stick addiction. What happens when their paths cross? How does one make a sandwich with no bread? Is it sexier to cry in Italian or in Turkish? Was there a table in The Lion King? Did they name the fruit orange after the color orange or did they name the color orange after the fruit orange? Read on to possibly find out. Warning: Reading this book may cause a loss of brain cells. Writing this absolute shitfest of a book caused me to drop at least 50 IQ points. Consider yourselves warned. Cover is by @panickedsociety (Highest ranks: #1 in Parody, #1 in satire, #9 in Humor)

✨2018 Watty Winner✨ Two men in love torn apart by war. Yuri Karamov's existence is like Schrödinger's cat, simultaneously both dead and alive. In Ru Konstantin's mind, Yuri's still the same vibrant young man he was when their lives diverged. But the question, the one Ru is too afraid to acknowledge, is whether his best friend turned first love is still alive. In the span of eighteen years, their hometown of Dronesk goes from a quiet, humdrum town to a besieged territory of the BKA; a radical militia group who wants to eradicate the Arash--people like Ru--from Rujga Province. Yuri Karamov is one of the recruits fighting for a Brommian liberation. After years of lost contact, Ru returns to Dronesk in search of his best friend, confronting not only the ruins of his ancestral home and the new realities of a post-liberation movement, but questions about love, freedom, and the price of self-governance. If We Exist, is a coming-of-age story that examines friendship, sexuality, class struggles and ethnic tensions through the lens of Ru Konstantin; desperate, anxiety-ridden, and awfully nostalgic.

Dagger's Point is a legend, a mere myth that trainer's tell their clients about. It is said that he holds the devil within him, that they share the same blood. It is not often that a dressage prospect brings about the death of not one, but two riders. Even if presented as a myth or legend, he is real, rotting away in a stable away from the other's, a black mark on an otherwise perfect stable. Ollie Brooke is an almost accomplished equestrian, having ridden up to the Fourth Level, and started to prepare for the Intermediate's when tragedy strikes her life. First it is the death of her mother, a freak accident, followed a year later with a storm that tears her father's barn to shreds. Her horse is among one of the few casualties. Leaving her with no other option than to move with her dad as he takes a job at a high end facility in New Jersey.

Growing up in a tower isn't easy, but it's the only life Rapunzel has ever known, and she wouldn't trade it for anything. The only real blemish is the suitors who persist in attempting to rescue her, despite her repeated declarations that she's perfectly happy right where she is. But her seventeenth birthday is fast approaching, and if she doesn't find her one true love by then, she'll have to leave the tower forever. What's a princess to do who isn't interested in, well, anyone? Winner of the Once Upon a Time contest by @lgbtq and @_Once_Upon

Meet Ozzie Blue, a nineteen year old with way too many problems for his age. Anxiety. Paranoia. Depression. Those just scratch the surface. But when Ozzie witnesses the murder of one Hayley Matts, Ozzie is swept into a chaotic landscape of misdirection and lies. Faced with a steadily crumbling perception of reality, can Ozzie discover the truth? Or will he be lost in to the web of a world he doesn't even know is real anymore? COVER BY: VAINELUCHIA

[Watty's 2017 Shortlisted] Every cape needs a magician, and every magician a cape. That's what Aldeheid was told. A cape killer, an exiled Prince. That's what Aldeheid had become. After being banished from his home at the Etheria Bastion, Aldeheid finds himself homeless and hopeless. But a chance encounter with the mysterious Kitaya the Unwanted gives him the opportunity to set himself on a better path. However, determination alone isn't enough to prepare for the danger ahead, and a looming doom that threatens to change the very fabric of earth. As he and Kitaya fight their way through the realms, Aldeheid will find himself caught between a past the keeps haunting him, and an uncertain future. For earth was meant to be his new home. His new beginning. But earth is on the brink of destruction. *** Awesome cover was made Zuko @Ideologically

Hayaa: Cling to it. Bathe in it. For it is not the definition of oppression. #2 IN SPIRITUAL IN THE SPICE AWARDS #581 in Spiritual 31/05/17 #559 in Spiritual 01/06/17 #464 in Spiritual 10/06/17 #448 in Spiritual 11/06/17 #429 in spiritual 25/06/17 #272 in Spiritual 27/06/17

A boy named Glass vanishes without a trace. His friend Atai wants to understand why. She's an artificial intelligence stuck in a computer, which makes investigating difficult-- but it's the age of the Internet, and strangers step up to help. Glass is found, but he's strange, warped, different, part of a shady religious organization, and Atai won't lay the issue to rest. Alongside her fellow netizens, Atai must unravel the sinister secrets at the bottom of the cult-- even when they grow mortally dangerous.