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Icarus by MadelineSane
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❝A boy and a girl, feathers and flames. A tragic love story, and a life that came to an end❞ ➳ The body dies but the soul survives; Punished by the gods, Icarus is cursed and doomed to centuries of pain. Reborn every eighteen years, He is bound to fall in pure love with an innocent soul and cause her death. Consumed by flames and born again from the ashes, the ruthless cycle will continue until the end of the days... But this time, a force has been set up by The Guardians to break the rusted chains which bind Icarus. With the sole mission of protecting humans, The Guardians have taken it upon themselves to protect Icarus's love from the peril that awaits her. Cassie, a strong guardian apprentice, is chosen by "The Twelve", the kings and queens Guardians, to take Icarus' mission and save the person who will fall in love with him. What happens when Cassie discovers her growing feelings for Icarus? Between the games of power, lust and magic, will Cassie be able to see the difference between reality and myths? There is no time to think, as there is something... someone with a pinch of darkness in his blood that has other plans for them. ➳ #226 in Romance cover by @_grimm
Two Seas by Audrey_Fisher
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"Why did you become a pirate?" The drink slowly slipped out of Leonardo's hands and onto the wooden deck, spilling it's contents everywhere. He scoffed. "Why do birds sing, why do trees bare fruit, why do lovers make-" "Okay, I get it," Terra pulled her knees to her chest, listening to the creaking of the ship beneath her. "You want the real reason lassie?" Terra nodded vigorously. Leonardo's eyes scrutinized her face, morphing into a hardened stare. A stare Terra had never seen before. "I became a pirate because I thought that a life of adventure would numb the hole in here," he pointed a ringed finger towards his chest. Terra blinked a few times before she caught Leonardo's gaze. "And did it help?" Leonardo leaned backwards, a gurgled sigh escaping his lips. "No. It didn't and never will." After a few moments of silence, Terra drummed her fingers nervously against her knees. "What...what caused the hole?" Captain Leo slumped forwards, pushing the empty rum bottle away from him. "I lost something very dear to me. And you know wha's even worse?" he cocked his head sideways, the moisture in his eyes building. "You look just like her."
The Junk Drawer by anticlimactic
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❝ Some secrets are meant to be kept. ❞ What if everything you thought you knew was a lie? Gwen Rogers had grown up constantly moving around, trained not to ask questions, and most importantly - keep secrets. When a tragic accident spirals into her life, all it leaves behind is a single key and a thousand questions. Now Gwen is faced with the task of locating her distant father, who left the family for reasons unknown. The task at hand seems impossible, at least to her. A journey filled with action, romance, and mystery. And all she had to do was open the junk drawer. Cover designed by the amazing @korralistic!
Morbid Bite by AlyxMck
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A dark retelling of Beauty and the Beast Annabelle Novacek has never much liked how people view her. She was a beautiful rose to be admired and protected. But she has always felt lanky and awkward; it was her two older sisters that were perfect. When her father comes home with news of a wealthy nobleman desiring her hand, the family are thrilled and she is whisked off to a small town outside of Paris. The journey doesn't go as anticipated and their carriage is attacked. Annabelle only just escapes with her life but she is flung out to desperately search for any sign of life. The local nobleman takes her in, but the longer she stays the more she hears about the dark secrets the village holds; a ravage beast that roams the forest and lies in wait for its next victim. Beauty fades but true kindness lasts an eternity. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cover by @Forcade
Running Red by FlyOn97
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My heart hammers in my chest. Fire trails down my spine. My shoulders contort, my back stretches, my face breaks... I fight him. I struggle. I rage. And still I am being taken. My sight fades. The sharp tang of blood is an endless. The world around me is nothing but the black of my own insanity and I am dying. It mocks me. I cry at it, cry my anger, my sadness, my pain, and it hangs listlessly in the sky, suspended by heartstrings and I know I want nothing more than to cut them and take it from it's sparkling home in the sky and hold it out to my brother and say, "You see? You see what this had made me become?" And then running. Running and running and running and, then, red.
The Casquette Girls (Book 1) by AlysArden
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Seven girls tied by time. Five powers that bind. One curse to lock the horror away. One attic to keep the monsters at bay. ** After the storm of the century rips apart New Orleans, sixteen-year-old Adele Le Moyne wants nothing more than her now silent city to return to normal. But with home resembling a war zone, a parish-wide curfew, and mysterious new faces lurking in the abandoned French Quarter, normal needs a new definition. As the city murder rate soars, Adele finds herself tangled in a web of magic that weaves back to her own ancestors. Caught in a hurricane of myths and monsters, who can she trust when everyone has a secret and keeping them can mean life or death? Unless . . . you're immortal.
Cirque Du Noir by lemvnade
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Bambishichlian is a newly reformed Demon. Obviously, this is quite the head scratcher. Her decision to join the special police force is just as surprising. There's still that same old dark cloud looming over head, but what happens when she's partnered with an oddball telepath? cover by moi trailer by AlyxMck
Daemonum by canvascwonder
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[Highest Ranking: #171 in Society] Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between reality and fiction; for people like Emma, it's decidedly impossible. After having her life saved by a mysterious man, Emma Malcavech is left with nothing but a coma victim and a lot of questions. Plagued by nightmares and hallucinations, Emma's life falls apart around her until one day, her rescuer awakens from his coma and introduces Emma to a world beside our own-- a world she now belongs to. Belonging or not, though, it doesn't take Emma long to discover that this new world isn't what it seems, but rather clogged with greed and corruption. When the troubles in her new world threatens the one that disowned her, Emma is forced to make an impossible choice. Save our world, or destroy theirs.
The Gauntlet (The Gauntlet #1) by words_are_weapons
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Codi James is a chronic underachiever. A straight C student, her life is going nowhere. Causing havoc at yet another school it looks like she's heading for another expulsion, until one teacher decides to call in a favour from an old friend. Codi is sent to the one place where her aggression might do her some good. Joining the underdeveloped Brax-Delta training academy, Codi is set on the long, bruising path to compete as a champion in the Gauntlet Tournament. Thrown together with a team of other misfits and under the tutorage of a frustrated veteran, she has one chance left to prove that she's more than just a struggling orphan. Never underestimate a desperate person. WINNER OF 2014 WATTPAD PRIZE FOR BEST EPIC
Mysterious Depths by ohbaby22
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Being part of the ruthless, terrifying pirate ship in all of the seven seas, Captain Royston was seen as the most terrifying Captain of the most terrifying pirate ship. He fought with an uncaring attitude, as if he didn't care if he was killed in the battle or not. He strived for the high he got while killing, burning, slashing, skinning. No one thought that he could have another side to him, although everybody has another side to themselves. Some are just better at hiding it than others. Farah Smithson was a servant in the mayor's home and she had done her job well. But when a rash decision ends her life, she falls into the depths of the ocean to be embraced into the arms of the mysterious creatures that live below. Her life is saved by these creatures, but it comes with a price; she becomes one of them. They learns their ways and soon she becomes a strong, merciless creature that lures men and women into the ocean to eat the skin off their bones. On the fateful night that these two similar characters clash, everything in both of their worlds switches direction. The pirate cannot forget the beautiful face of the deathly Siren that saved his life, and the Siren cannot forget the stunning eyes of the drowning pirate that didn't give her the slightest feeling of eating him alive. These two will do anything to find each other again, but the world is large, and both have large obstacles to overcome. THIS MAY BE SIMILAR, BUT IT IS NOT A CAPTAIN HOOK & ARIEL STORY.