WATTYS 2022 SHORTLIST EDITOR'S CHOICE -- SEPTEMBER 2021 EXCLUSIVE CHAPTERS AND WRITER'S REVEAL CONTENT AVAILABLE - NOT A PAID STORY Appearances can be deceiving. What if the Bad Boy wasn't so bad and the good girl wasn't quite so good? Kelly Wankum has an unfortunate last name and even worse luck. By the tender age of twenty-three, she's broken her tailbone, thumb, her nose, hip, and now her rib. It wouldn't be so bad if she could say something funny like, "I broke myself on a stripper pole" or "I was mugged in a Walmart parking lot." That would actually be believable, right? Instead, she breaks her rib reaching for a ball of yarn. Even worse, everyone knows she's so accident prone, she could sneeze and lose a tooth. They'd probably bet on her swallowing it in a pancake. Oh wait, she's done that too. Another trip to the Urgent Care has the doctors shaking their heads, offering to pray for her health while new, sexy Doctor Blake Cole immediately gets off on the wrong foot. Months after their first encounter, Blake and Kelly meet again by chance. After inadvertantly humiliating her, Blake tries to set things straight and make it up to her. The problem is, Blake's lifestyle is painfully different, and Kelly can't help imagining him like every bad boy she's ever read about online. Can Blake convince her to give him a chance and prove he's actually a good guy? **This story is set in the present and the pandemic is part of the narrative.** --Cover by AnnieRosebud-- ©2020, 2022

Down-on-her-luck Aubrey gets the job offer of a lifetime, with one catch: her ex-husband is her new boss. *** Aubrey Whitlock's life is turned upside down after her divorce, leaving her an unemployed, broke, and single 29-year-old. A chance meeting with her ex throws her for a loop again when he makes her an offer: come work with him as his assistant. Now a self-made billionaire, Bryce Roberts is just as infuriating-and good-looking-as he was the first time around. Their marriage was disastrous, but their chemistry is stronger than ever. Will they ever mend their relationship, or will it be nothing more than a heated game of seduction? And what will happen when Bryce discovers the secrets Aubrey has been keeping from him after all this time?

COMPLETE BUT NEEDS EDITING *Not Edited* Secrets. Heartache. Pain. Angel knew these things, Personally. When Angel is forced back to Ashford little did she know how her life would be flipped once again. 5 years. 5 years for the wounds to heal, to move on and try and find some semblance of happiness. But something was always missing. Answers. 5 years ago Ink pushed away the light of his life. It was the biggest mistake he ever made. Angel in name and body. Without her he became lost feeling empty but after 5 years Angel isn't the girl she once was. She is stronger, braver and threatened by noone. No longer a victim, she survived and thrived. And now he has to prove to her everything he did was a mistake to protect her. She is his. He is hers. But can years of heartache be pushed aside for the sake of the child who has his eyes. But not everything is as it seems.

Cassandra Rivers is the daughter of the Alpha of the Blue Moon Pack. On the night of the Moon dance Cassandra is dragged along by her brother , who is to become the next Alpha of the Blue Moon Pack, and her best friend fletcher. Cassandra had always been against meeting her mate after watching her father suffer in silence for years after losing his mate in a rogue attack. She wasn't expecting to meet her mate, let alone two of them. ========================================================= Josiah and Jeremiah are the Stone Alphas of the West. After taking over the pack from their father they had spent years without their mate. Never having the time to attend the triannual Moon Dance they were going to settle for their strongest female warrior Madison, but after being convinced to attend by their sister Lily, they decide to attend where they find their feisty and stubborn mate. WILL CONTAIN: sexual content, violence, death, possible sexual assault

Carly was such a c#ck tease with her sexy curves, and sassy mouth. I should've known better than to kiss her, let alone want more. I mean come on' she was my best friends daughter and hardly legal age. Still she tempted me for far to long making my curiosity turn into obsession. Now I'm going to claim her as my own, and no one not even her father is going to keep us a part. -This book contains and older alpha male, with a hard on for a sassy young virgin. Contain's elements of instalove, and as always a HEA that will melt your heart.-

A new job in a small and quiet town should be a piece of cake, but when mechanic Athena Summers meets her new boss, Jett Carson, her life becomes anything but easy. As the feelings between her and Jett grow, the lines between boss and employee blur, but the mysterious, brooding and incredibly sexy man she falls for, has a dark past. One that is about to find him once more, and it's about to get dangerous for both of them, with not just their love, but their lives on the line.

Celeste's dad & Liam's mom were only married for 6 months- 12 years ago. Now they've found their way back into each other's lives in more than one way, & neither of them can deny their attraction. Celeste Thompson is a college drop-out working multiple jobs to pay off debts collected from school and her father's hospital bills. One of those jobs is as a phone sex operator- and even though she's a 27 year-old virgin, she's pretty good at it. She's become desensitized to the whole thing, but one night she takes a call from a man named Alex whose dark voice and dirty words push all the right buttons. Liam Whiscombe runs his own company with his best friend Travis, and living as a rich bachelor works well for him. Witnessing his mother's many failed attempts at marriage, he'd rather just not bother with it. The loneliness only gets to him every now and then... Which is probably why he ended up calling that phone sex number and talking to Cassandra, a woman whose voice made him want something he never had. When Liam's mother asks him to hire the daughter of a man she was married to 12 years ago as a favor, he reluctantly agrees. Celeste takes a job offer out of nowhere even though it means working with her ex-stepbrother, because she needs the money. How many days at work, and how many late-night phone calls, will it take for them to realize just who they really are?

Ember thought she was just an average teenage werewolf living a pretty average life with her 3 possesive brothers; Jacob, Tyler and Max. Her parents were Luna and Alpha of The MoonStone pack, the third biggest pack in the UK. After Ember's mother died of a vicious Rouge attack her dad went into deep depression, abandoning the pack and his children to hunt down the rouges that killed his mate, nobody has seen or heard from him since. Ember and her brothers were exiled from the pack due to the hatred towards their father and sent to The Blood Moon Pack, a close ally of their parents. But little did she know, that on their first week in a completely new pack would she meet her mate.

Life is about to make a sudden turn for Cori. A twenty two year old woman with no experience is about to be claimed by not one but two very possessive men. Russell Brown and his stepson Jax run the local garage of a small sleepy town. Russ was widowed three years earlier while Jax liked to play the field. What happens when the new school teacher moves in next door and both of them are left panting to know her more? ©2015 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. EXTREME ADULT CONTENT AND LANGUAGE. MATURE READERS ONLY

Olivia and Mason are long-time friends who live together in the Rocky Mountains. They come across a man one day who desperately needs their help- and they need him more than they know. (MMF) Even though Olivia and Mason are compatible in nearly every way that matters, the one time they tried to be in a relationship neither of them were completely happy. Despite that, they've escaped to the mountains together and are content with being friends who sometimes get a little frisky. One day on a hike they stumble across a man who is beaten and near death. They nurse him back to health, and despite his amnesia and slowly healing blindness, they both find a connection with him that they've been missing. Will they find something in him that fills the gaps in their relationship? Will the realization of who he really is be the thing that tears them apart? (MMF)