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Shadow Of The Past Trilogy ∞ THE DISPLACED by kemorgan65
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Three Fates, Two Earths, One Chosen... After a cataclysmic event hurls three women to another Earth, they find themselves separated, stranded thousands of years in the past... in 1979. The same night an unknown object plunges into a lake, something ― or someone ― leads Danny McGahn to a mysterious girl with amnesia. Whether it was Divine Intervention or the Voice of Fate, he soon learns that being a good Samaritan has its consequences, turning his heart and life upside down. Despite the warning signs, Danny finds himself determined to help her, in any way he can, to remember who she is. Meanwhile, Lora believes she is the sole survivor and falls into a life of crime. Haunted by memories of the disaster, she tries to forget who she is. Neither girl is aware of the great lengths Selina goes through to fulfill her mission of selecting The One, and to protect them from the government's Black Ops task force hunting them. The three are aliens on American soil. But are they a threat to National Security or the first signs of a greater threat ― to this Earth? ❝This epic tale not only spans the far reaches of time but burrows deep inside all of us, exposing the love and pain behind the choices that lay out the destiny we share.❞ (@TimothyMarsh) ➖ A self-contained trilogy: 1 ∞ The Displaced ✓ ❝One Disaster ∞ Two Earths ∞ Three Survivors❞ 2 ∞ The Chaos [PG-15] ✓ ❝Three Survivors ∞ Two Huntsmen ∞ One Chosen❞ 3 ∞ The Ascent ✍ ❝One Chosen ∞ Two Missions ∞ Three Fates❞ ➖ **A WP Featured Novel** @FarFlungDreams ❝A true Sci-fi gem. This is some scintillating sci-fi.❞ @Sceritz ❝Great, natural, easy to read narrative voice...Very nice read.❞ @Just_Tassy ❝The overall cohesiveness of the storyline is absolutely fantastic!❞ ➖ PG-13 cursing. Mature from Part 2 (violence & intimacy noted in chapter)
Fig by kario12
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The Eastern territory of Falu has finally been conquered. The minds of the people, warped. They live in luxury and seek passion. They murder innocence but encourage ignorance. Self-fulfillment is what they fight for, freedom is what they teach, deceit is how they succeed. It's a world of beauty and flawless art, but beneath the surface beats the heart of power and corruption. They will stop at nothing. Fig isn't special. She doesn't possess hidden power or astounding wisdom. Yet, she's everything they are not. Pure. Simple. Noble. She knows nothing of the darkness pumping through the veins of the planet she inhabits. But despite this, she holds the key to its survival. When her mind is awakened to the truth, she will have to decide who can be trusted and who must be destroyed. --- Massive thanks to @jgfairytales and @swpoet for putting so much time into helping me with editing and critiquing. You guys are amazing!!! I'm sending some fierce cyber hugs your way. :D
Mother's Hand by Tim
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Blade Runner meets Orwell's 1984 in Mother's Hand. Set in a crumbling dystopian future, Earth is ruled by the all-seeing and unforgiving Mother. Kal dutifully donates his body to the military for four years while his consciousness is stored. He will wake up with no memories of the things his body has done in war. Six years later, Kal wakes screaming a name he doesn't know. As he tries to reconnect with his former life he soon realizes that Mother is not finished with him yet. As Kal fights to avoid capture he begins to peel back the lies that surround Mother's system and must discover the truth about his past before it's too late.
Espresso Love (A Dystopian Japan Novel) #Wattys2014 by takatsu
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In Tokyo, where the System siphons thought, emotions & memories, a literature student meets a strange psychic girl and they embark on an escape from mindless agents, dream worlds and reality itself, in a soul-searching journey for love, for identity and what it means to be human. But all that remains is a peculiar coffee shop order. The novel examines the human condition, perception, socio-political systems, capitalism and consumer culture, incorporating paranoiac conspiracy theories, surreal cosmic visions, circular symbolism and shifting parallel worlds, with profound discussions of coffee, art, literature and music. [Dystopia, Magical Realism, Philosophy, Literary] #1 Sci-Fi, Spiritual; #Wattys2014 Award Winner; Featured on Wattpad, IndieReader, @DIGonUSA "Struck me to the very core of my being." "Very interesting concept of reality... Thought provoking.." "I have been turned to a whole new way of thinking because of you." "Like a seven course meal full of spice and illumination... One does not listen to a classical piece to get to its ending. No. It is the ride, the moment by moment...a genuine Masamune among stories." "It was both personable and philosophical. A rare breed of good story and thought provoking ideas... A virtual standing ovation would not be enough to encapsulate the absolute awe I have of you." "It's not a regular thing to find a piece of work that oozes sophistication and embodies literature and art." "The world Takatsu has created opens to the deeper awareness of another, the draw of another." - Mary L Tabor, Wattpad author, essayist, professor "Offers acute, almost painful observations of the minutiae of life, if life took place in a Murakami snow-globe." - IndieReader Insiders "Vapoury style that seems to hover off world at times...haunting and strange (which is good)...You're on to something different, striking." - B.W. Powe, York University English Professor, award-winning author, poet, philosopher http://EspressoLove.tk
Porcelain Skin (NOW ON AMAZON KU) by kario12
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"When I tell you that he hates me, you'll probably assume it's because he's a jerk...but you'd be wrong. He's not a jerk. I am." --- Several years ago tragedy struck Emma's home, leaving her broken... like a cup with cracks spiraling and slithering around the edges. Slowly, bitterness crept in like tar, hardening between each fracture to resemble a deceitful wholeness. She became a monster, and targeted her venom on the sweetest person she could find: Trinity Nixon. Too bad the boy Emma longed for was Trinity's brother. Now, as Emma fights to win the heart of the boy who despises her, she's forced to hide her demons. She paints her fragile cup in pinks, yellows, and oranges - all the colors of the sun. She paints on a smile, and an unusual sense of humor, so that the world will view her as bright and cheerful, when in reality she's breaking. But she's completely unprepared for the acidic truth that melts away the tar, demolishing her shell, and awakening the Emma White buried deep inside. --- Book 1 in The Dismantled Pride series *Story was previously titled "Faking It"
Cataindar by Tim
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#1 for a month on the Fantasy-Action Hotlist. Wattys2015 Winner. Fourteen-year-old Luisa is focused on staying under the radar at her rough London school, relieved that the summer holidays are soon to begin. Exploring the ruin of an abbey at night, Luisa falls into the underground land of Cataindar. The catains are a cat-like race, possessing powers and magic that most humans could only dream of. They have been expecting her. As the catain abbot guides Luisa through their world, Luisa finds out that things in Cataindar are not quite as they seem. Old secrets are discovered, new loyalties are forged and a dark truth puts Luisa's life in terrible danger. Cataindar is the first in a planned series involving talking cats, giant rats and an ancient power that will change the world as we know it forever.
Bliss by Califia
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Caia and Mireille were twin sisters. Yet that's where the harmony stopped and their scandalous behavior began. The two beautiful girls, living on their family's historical winery in California, would see their lives forever change at the age of nineteen. It was a remarkable twist of fate that their useless uncle, Joachim, would win the California State Lottery and leave them each 50 million dollars. But how would this affect their hatred and competition with each other? What impact would it have on the men they would choose? And how they would spend their enormous fortunes along paths of vengeful Bliss? Caia and Mireille were each a beautiful clone of the other. Yet their entire futures would have but one goal--merely to feed their obsessive efforts to out-do the other in jaw-dropping and shocking ways. Wealth would have no boundaries, nor would the beguiling of each other's lovers be off limits to their hatred and revenge. The twins' rivalry had become epic among the young, rich and famous of Santa Barbara County-but their misuse of love, sex and beauty would eventually shock the world.