**Completed** Alia de Luca wants revenge. When her best friend is murdered, she swears to find and get even with the people who are responsible. For her plan, she needs access to the most powerful peers in the kingdom. Luckily she has a powerful and mysterious ally, who secures her a place at The Royal Academy. It is where she meets Prince Nathaniel, he is being hunted by a group of rebels, who want his head and a group of girls, who want his crown. Alia is hunting him too, for her revenge. Someone should have told her, when you walk the path of revenge, you must dig two graves. ******* Highest Ranking #71 Fantasy 26/01/17

Hannah Taylors finally gives in to her desperation and does one of the stupidest things a girl can do to grab her unapproachable long-time crush Jonah Gibbs' attention: spill soda on his white shirt and leave a motherfrigging red blotch on it. Accidentally... on purpose.

Is it an invasion if they're already here? Six months have passed and Iris and Jonas have reached a conclusion about their future, one that will leave many unhappy. Left alone in the Society by Jonas, Iris finds herself "blackmailed" by Colton when she stumbles in on him. Dying inside, Colton is fed up with being melodramatic. His cousins have had enough. He's the Beta, and it's kind of difficult to intimidate peasants when he's bemoaning his fate in life. When an accidental photo of Vienna with the Prince and Princess of France appears in a newspaper, Colton is determined to have Vienna back, traitor or not. His family's not in charge of him. The Society isn't either. And if they are, he really doesn't care anymore. When Iris (and Bently) discover Colton's plan, Colton forces them to come with him to France so they don't divulge his future whereabouts before he can depart. Once there, Iris finds Erik in a worse state than when she last saw him, while Colton and Vienna. . . well who knows if they'll ever actually get back together. They've got about as many problems as Iris and Erik. Every moment Iris is in France she grows more anxious that Jonas will find out where she is, but when dead bodies start showing up with Expiration Dates tattooed on them, the monarchy forces the Beta to take action, sweeping Iris into a dangerous invasion for Earth amidst the glittering, bewitching lifestyle of the French court. Highest ranking: #6 in Scifi

⭐ FEATURED ⭐ 02/16/2018 Longlisted, Wattys 2018 ✅ COMPLETE Jocasta's nineteen years of peaceful existence in a little village of the Kingdom of Ontur blew up in pieces without much warning: Grandmother had a secret, an old pact with a mysterious man-a pact that, apparently, Jo and her new tagalongs - a flamboyant mage, a goofball knight pledge and a young alchemist-now had to take care of, thanks to the untimely death of the King of Ontur. A quest to find an ancient place, concealing an artifact of unmeasurable power and rumored to be deadly. And posthaste, before it falls into the wrong hands. That's something all grandmothers ask of their granddaughters sometime in their lifetime, right? And all that was at stake was the stability of the kingdom: no pressure. Set in a world where magic is vital, where mages are as equally feared and shunned as they're needed. A temporarily Kingless kingdom where vultures wait for the perfect time to take a plunge. A world where secrets and lies are as abundant, dangerous and necessary as magic. But something else brews in the Kingdom of Ontur: something bigger than Jocasta and her Grandmother's secrets. ⭐ 1st place in Fantasy, The Crystal Crown Awards 2017 || Highest ranking : #46 in Fantasy 03/04/2018 #writteninaction you can read a review here: https://www.wattpad.com/471550430-island-of-lost-toys-reviews-great-reads-for-the

Genevieve Glass is a shoemaker. In her small village, she hides an unknown talent behind the face of Madame Claudia's Shoe Emporium. Genevieve's employer hates her, and treats her like a workhorse, but the job is all she has to support herself. But when a request is hand delivered to Genny, the only one left at the shop one night, her life has a chance to change for the better. This request is for the fair Princess Selena, who needs the best set of shoes for an upcoming ball. Seeing her chance to find a better future, Genevieve works in secret for weeks to make the best pair of shoes in the whole kingdom. But when she goes to deliver the shoes, she finds more at the Palace than just an just an employer. In a debacle over glass shoes, Genny heads to the ball to talk to the Princess herself. After some confusion, they become fast friends. Putting a twist on the classic Cinderella tale, Genevieve puts her career, her reputation, and most of all- her heart -on the line. Everything rests upon a pair of shoes.

Every culture has its own version of Cinderella, whether it features glass slippers and fairy godmothers, or enchanted trees and magic fish, the love story endures and goodness is always rewarded. But in this story, Ella has been replaced by Elliot and her beloved prince is a princess severely lacking in charm. Elliot's step-father expects him to work from dawn until dusk, leaving him no time to miss the life of happiness and comfort he once knew. When the rest of his family are invited to a series of balls, held in honour of the Princess Charmaine's return from school, Elliot longs for a night off and the opportunity to reconnect with his childhood friend. But his step-father is busy plotting how his own son can win Charmaine's heart and doesn't want Elliot getting in the way. They will soon discover that Charmaine won't be easily charmed. She doesn't need a husband to rule by her side and she's going to use these balls to prove it. That is, until a friend from her past reappears and she discovers that falling in love doesn't have to mean losing control. Princess Charming is a gender-reversal retelling of Cinderella and a companion story to Mirrored Snow.

When Thea Meyers was only three years old, The Fall tore apart the place that was once called America. The government shut itself off from the world, leaving all of the citizens lost, confused, and afraid. The world became one where only the strongest survive. And those who are trying to help aren't always the heroes. When Thea is "adopted" from a girls' home and taken to a secret facility, she becomes part of a war, a pawn in a game against time to see who will reunite the world or destroy it. Science has found a way to change someone's DNA and transform them into any type of creature imaginable, but only the strongest can survive the procedure. If Thea dies, nothing would change. If she lives, she could save the world. »» Full disclosure, this story has not been updated in a very long time. Sorry.

In November 1839, the final debate on the future of Upper Canada (later Ontario) and Lower Canada (later Quebec) is taking place in the Assembly. Marc Edwards is writing pamphlets for Robert Baldwin and supporters of Lord Durham's recommendations for the way they are to be governed. When a sleazy blackmailer preys on elite members of the Shakespeare Club, it skews the delicate negotiations calling for responsible government independence from the British and the union of the two provinces. Marc's former deputy, Cobb, goes underground posing as a budding actor. Marc, now a barrister, must save a dear friend from the gallows. Don Gutteridge is the author of more than 40 books: fiction, poetry and scholarly works, including the Marc Edwards mystery series. He taught in the Faculty of Education at Western University for 25 years in the Department of English Methods. He is currently professor Emeritus, and lives in London, Ontario. BevEditions: https://beveditions.com/authors/don-gutteridge/ Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/dongutteridge Kindle: https://www.amazon.ca/Desperate-Acts-Marc-Edwards-Mystery-ebook/dp/B00TSVH7ZI Kobo: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-ca/search?query=Don%20Gutteridge&fcsearchfield=Author

Alexis Brinley went missing when she was 11 years old. Everyone thought she was dead, but what happens when she shows up on the first day of Summer break? What happens when her old best friend Nick Fields sees her for the first time in five years? Find out in After Five Years.

His eyes meet mine, flashing a dark green, before he turns to look outside the track, staring at the clouds. "Hey, look at that! It's a snake." Chase exclaims, pointing at a lengthy cloud before turning to face me casually, keeping the cloud within his sight. I look, fast but casual, and see exactly what he's talking about. Less than seventy feet away, a man is is crouching in the bushes with full camouflage. He's holding a gun. A gun that is pointed straight at Lanie. After becoming an orphan at the age of eight, Julianne Richards is forcibly recruited for the Secret Agency of Spies Society or SASS,a secret agency for spies and guardians for those in danger. Now at the age of sixteen, Julianne is assigned to Lanie, a popular senior with a big threat against her. Julianne is to shadow her every move, but will it be enough to keep her out of trouble? And how can Julianne conquer high school and become Lanie's guardian angel when Lanie sees her as a clingy underclassman?