{18+} 🏆 WATTYS 2023 SHORTLISTED ROMANCE Zemira Ford knows a thing or two about paparazzi and being under the limelight. What she does not know is how to use it to save her father's failing business. Not until a certain media mogul proposes an engagement of convenience. She will do anything to protect her parent's legacy, even if it means sacrificing her happiness and entering into a loveless marriage. Sgt. Leonardo Brenton believes love only happens once and everyone should get their chance. When his younger brother decides to marry a stranger for her business, he finds it difficult to reason - especially since hiding the truth about their steamy encounter. With lies being exposed and threatening families' reputations, Leo and Zemira find themselves working together. When old wounds are bled open and secrets spill, ripping them apart and putting their love to the test, Leo and Zemira must decide. Is it worth opening one's heart to love someone, and be saved in the process? Or love, like all things perfect, only happen once. Book 1 of the Redeemed by a Soldier series. 🏅Awards~🏆AMBYS 2022 WINNER - New Adult 🏆 Contemporarylit Ambassadors shortlist - The Fall Awards 🏅Shortlisted in the NA Romance awards. Featured~ ✨ Romance ✨ Profile Mental Health ✨ NA ✨ Contemporarylit ✨ WattpadSpiritual ✨ Dangerous love ✨ Wattpad ESL ✨ Action ✨ Wattpad Military Fiction ✨ Stories Undiscovered - March 2022 ✨ Bullying Prevention ✨ Chicklit India ✨ Come and sit with us ✨ LY ✨ Wattpad After Dark ✨ Wattpad Romance India ✨ Wattpad Literary Fiction ✨ NA Romance ✨ Wattpad Fusion ✨ Wattpad Multicultural ✨ Humor ✨ FreetheLGBTQ ✨ Badass Reads ✨ Wattpad Series ✨ Newly Written Books ✨ Books Got Talent ✨ New Adult reads The story contains PTSD and assault references. Reader's discretion advised.

An older man, a broken heart, and a world of temptation. Chaise Da Silva thought she had the perfect college life until she walked in on her best friend and boyfriend going at it the day before summer vacation began. Heartbroken, she returned home to figure out what she wanted to do with the rest of her life, only to find that her father was out of the country and had left the house in the care of his criminally hot best friend. Grayson Reed is twice her age, devastatingly handsome, and completely off-limits. Stuck together for the summer, Chaise and Grayson try to deny their growing attraction but are thrown together at every turn. Although she only wanted to feel desired after being cruelly cast aside, the fires of passion ignited between them show no signs of being extinguished. Unless, of course, her father finds out... CONTENT WARNING (CW): This story may include scenes or depictions of- - Age Gap - Explicit Sexual Content - Violence - Sexual Trauma (Attempted Sexual assault) NOTE - a glitch may show these chapters in the wrong order, please check the side bar for chapter titles.

*Rated Mature for Language* Sunny skies, luxurious hotel rooms, and nice beaches. Welcome to Florida. College student Lily is in for the time of her life on summer vacation - but falling in love is supposed to be out of the picture. *** For Lily Maywatcher, life is about completing college and fulfilling her dreams. But when her cousin, Dinah, suggests going on a trip to Florida, Lily is in for a major turn. Sawyer Montgomery, a musician and Dinah's brother's friend, is a complete heartthrob. Lily and Sawyer begin spending time together, but is it meant to be? Or will it be a disaster? [[word count: 50,000 - 60,000 words]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Loved this book so much. Couldn't put it down while reading. Thanks for writing a great book to read." -Conversegirl1234 Ranked #1 in New Adult on Nov. 30th 2020 out of 23.7k. Copyright ©2020 Ashley Forester

Cathellyn Anders is born in the Outlands during a night of winter- a birth that is rare in her land, doomed to be a peasant ever since she stepped into the world. Though the fate was inevitable, she fought and manage to gain knowledge of hunting from her father who she loves to death. At the age of twelve, she was a fierce hunter, providing food for her family and keeping them alive. Also, at that age, she was already fatherless. Great grief struck her as her father was taken and executed by the Valarians, the nobles that lay comfortably in their gold-riched land of Valaria. Three years later, Cathellyn grows cold and alone in the forest. Her days becomes still and unmoving, falling in a routine of; hunt, kill, provide. Hunt, kill, provide. Hunt, kill, provide.Until one day, she met someone that she thought she would never meet in the forest. Valarians were normally stoic, nose-high-in-the-air kind of people and uncaring of the people of the Outlands. But this one is... different. She decided she would take her chances with Ethan, the prince of Valaria. In the Outlands, the flame of hatred towards the nobles have been bigger than ever. Curses are being shout out and blood threatens to spill. It doesn't help that Cathellyn's twin sister has a strange habit that she doesn't knows about. In her life, friends are made and lost like the wind in the forest. But this 'friend', she wants to keep.

Love and the scales of justice hang in the balance when Maren finds out that Caleb, her new beau, is defending the person out to kill her. ***** 25-year-old Maren Cole has never felt more different. As a person with Autism in a fast-paced city－trying to survive day by day is an uphill battle. Forget about dating. Forget about marriage. Maren's goal is to keep everything in her carefully constructed world in check. When she meets the arrogant, hotshot lawyer, Caleb Allan, the last thing they both expect is to get lost in each other. And soon, feelings the two can't contain begin to take the lead. Maren, however, is the only witness to a crime that could wreck the course of Caleb's career. Will Caleb choose the career he's worked so hard to achieve over this unexplainable and undeniable pull on his heart? Is love really worth it after all? [[Winner of Watty's 2019 in Romance]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Bandy

When an off-duty police officer paraglides into her remote English home the day before New Year's Eve, wrecking part of her property and endangering her livelihood, Hettie Sampson can't believe her bad luck. The last thing she needs is a cop hanging around, snooping into her business-even if he does have a body built for sin and a smile to die for. All Nate Taylor wanted was a brief, adrenaline-fuelled escape from the memories of his failed relationship and now he's in a quandary-fix his mistake and risk getting stranded or ignore his conscience and leave the fiery-spirited owner of the property in a mess. When a snowstorm hits and they're trapped together, it's only a matter of time before Nate discovers the guilty secret that Hettie's been keeping, finding himself pulled deeper into her life than he ever could have imagined. The question is, can they keep their hearts on ice amidst the heat of their connection? Or will they lose their cool and fall headlong in love?

This story will become free again on 3 March 2025. It will be removed from Wattpad at some point in the not too distant future. Jessica "Ike" Wordsworth can dive into books, but she isn't prepared for a monster - and a ruthless murderer killing her tourists. Ike is fighting the aftermath of a nasty divorce that left her husband in custody of her homesitting business - and her beloved cats. With nothing but a turquoise construction trailer to call her home, Ike invests her last quid and becomes partner in a tour company specialising in bespoke trips for book-lovers. When the guide hired to take on the first tour drops out at the last minute, Ike has to take over and steer her guests towards the cradle of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". All to soon she realises there truly are monsters on the loose, one of them a ruthless killer who's targetting her tourists. To unearth the truth, Ike will have to cooperate with her moronic partner, Gary Sands, 13th Baron of Nettlehole and founder of LiteraTours. When they don't succeed in stopping the killer, she realises she'll have to take the plunge and draw on some rather unusual skills her family has been hiding from the world . . . "Frankenstein's Guide" is the first instalment in the "LiteraTours Cozy Mystery series". [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by Ren T

FBI agent Jack Rhodes and Doctor V.C. Coldwater team up to solve a murder involving treason, secret government research, and the Uzbekistani black market. ***** Commander Jack Rhodes was kicked out of the Navy SEALs after a mission went wrong, but he continues to serve the public as an agent of the FBI. After a woman is murdered, he's forced to team up with the unconventional and flagrantly disrespectful Doctor V.C. Coldwater. What looks like a simple case turns out to extend deep into government research, nuclear fission, and the global criminal underworld. Jack's forced to rely on a woman he thought he'd despise, because in a case this complicated, she's the only person he can trust. [[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]

Meredith Townsend is a wedding planner who loves to give other people their very own slice of "Happily Ever After". Married to the man of her dreams, with plans to buy a house and start their own family, and with a best friend who keeps her in a steady supply of freshly-baked cakes, life is perfect. But, as a handsome stranger will explain to her, all marriages end in tears, one way or another. For Meredith, they're tears of grief, when she becomes a widow at the age of thirty-two. Smothered by overbearing parents and a close-knit group of friends who try to wrap her up in cotton wool, Meredith struggles to cope with life after Rhys. She can't eat, she can't smile, and she can't bear being surrounded by excitable brides. She's drowning, and she needs someone to save her. Jude Jackson is going through a messy divorce. He's a cynical wedding photographer who catches Meredith's grief on camera. A virtual stranger, he sees her tears as inevitable, but beautiful. Their instant chemistry could be just the lifeline Meredith needs. But how soon is "too soon" to start dating again? For Meredith and for Jude? Does she really want this serious, complicated man in her life, or is she just desperate not to be alone?

❝BUILD AN EMPIRE AND BURN IT TO THE GROUND.❞ The evening prior to the spring equinox, soothsayer and witch, Maarit Pheraios, has an earth-shattering vision regarding the future of Bonvalet. The prophecy speaks of the Infernal Prince, who takes the throne after the death of the king. It is only when King Tevenot is murdered the following day that Maarit comprehends the urgency of the situation. Relying on her prophecy for truth, she notifies as many villagers as she possibly can about the peril that awaits them in the near future. However, when he learns of the warnings she has been giving, Maarit finds herself imprisoned by the Infernal Prince himself. © Copyright 2017 by Lily White. All rights reserved. Featured on October 11, 2017.