"Sometimes, what's best for us can break us," he whispered under the moonlight beam as tears began to well up in his eyes. * * * A vicious threat chases her down and an admirer beyond the shadows is willing to protect her. The detective and the assassin team up together to catch the culprit behind every sabotage. However, as they fight all kinds of trouble, Kei and Aiya find out that not everything they've been told and what they know are true. They struggle to uncover the past, redeem themselves, and wish for a miracle to happen. In a world of degrading love and corrupted cities, their partnership is the only thing that makes them invincible. But as much as it is known, they must not be seen together. Or the worst will come to hunt them down. ~ Achievements ~ 🥉 - The Rosette Awards || Romance 🥈 - The Bloodstone Awards || Romance 🥇 - Arcana Book Awards || Mystery/Thriller

| 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐲𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 | What do you do when everyone seems to want you dead? Kill them first, of course. Minerva Pyroline, assassin by night and heir to an empire by day, has one goal: Survive. No matter the obstacles. No matter the cost. But with political tensions on the rise, strange feelings for a secretive enemy prince, and destructive capabilities hidden within Minerva herself, the goal is nearly impossible to attain. In fighting fire with fire, killing to not be killed, she's tipped the scales of justice too far. Blood cannot be shed without a price. The goddess of retribution is coming to collect. When Minerva finds herself on the receiving end of the blade, she must answer its whispered question: Do you deserve mercy? ✧ 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬 ✧ 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 ✧ 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧 ✧ ─────────────────────────────────── 𝐀𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐲 @𝐡𝐞𝐱_𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 Completed: 8-15-2022 Word Count: 100,000 - 110,000

❦ WINNER OF THE RIVETING WRITING CONTEST ❦ OLIVER IS DYING With only months left to live at just seventeen, Oliver spends his remaining days of endless tests and debilitating drugs in the St. Andrews paediatrics ward planning his impending funeral. Despite all but giving up, he has only one wish-to spend his last day on Earth with the love of his life on a hillside in Tuscany. There's just one problem: Oliver has yet to meet that love of his life. Until he meets Nicholas, a walking riddle wrapped in an enigma Oliver is desperate to solve. NICHOLAS IS LOST After avoiding visiting his sister since she moved to St. Andrews six months earlier and trying to deal with the messiness of his personal life, Nicholas is adrift in the ocean called life. A loner with no direction, he feels like no one in the world understands him. Until he meets Oliver, who seems to be more than just a diagnosis. A WALK TO REMEMBER meets WHAT IF IT'S US, UNSTEADY is the raw, tragic, and beautiful love story between a dying soul hoping to achieve his final wish and a lonely traveller searching for purpose. ❦ Gorgeous cover by the always amazing @keevs- ❦ © Copyright 2019. All rights reserved. All content is the property of Laura Edwards.

When Caroline returns home to find both her crush and the bad boy next door want to be with her, she's determined to keep her secrets from ruining everything. ***** Caroline Rogers is back. Having left behind her life to attend a prestigious musical academy the last three years, Caroline returns a whole new person, determined not to be weighed down by the scars of bullying that plagued her before. Her best friend and life-long crush is there to welcome her back, and he might finally return feelings for her. If only she could trust him again after what happened in their past. And when one of her former bullies, captivating bad boy Kieran, starts trying to connect with her in the wake of betrayal, Caroline is left confused over who she can really trust in this town, and how far gone she is from her past. Content and/or Trigger Warning: Not suitable for readers under the age of 13. There will be some mature language and sexual themes present. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Everyone knew Clara was in love with Griffin, the most popular and perfect kid at school - so no one understands why her older sister, Emily, murdered him. ***** Golden boy Griffin Tomlin is found dead, floating in his pool, the morning after his family's Labor Day party. Clara Portfield's older sister, Emily, is arrested for his murder. No one knows why she killed him - except for Clara. The mystery is uncovered in dual timelines: In the present, Clara, burdened by a heavy secret, struggles with the aftermath of the murder. And In a series of flashbacks, the events that brought Clara, Emily and Griffin together are revealed: a crush, an obsession and a shocking twist. (𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬) 𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐄𝐗𝐔𝐀𝐋 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐓

I never met anyone like Kaye, so remote, distant, broken. And yet something pulls me towards him. Do you know what I mean? Like a moth towards the light. And just like a moth, that keeps crashing into the lamp like an idiot, I also just keep getting hurt over and over. The best case scenario would be that I get out of this situation with a broken wing, ... and in the worst case, well, I won't even survive this. But the whole thing got an element of the ridiculous to it if you consider, I wouldn't even mind either outcome if it was for him... ( -Chiantey ) ▷This story is the tale about different hardships in matters of love, bullying, friendship and sexuality of teenage kids living in Bradford. They are all somehow in some way linked to each other, ...just without knowing it yet. This is the first book of a series and in this particular one we are looking into the life of a seventeen-year-old girl named Chiantey, her college time in the UK, the struggle of growing up and finding herself and where she belongs, and of course her very first love Kaye...which turns out more complicated than what she ever anticipated her first love to be.◁ - Themes: Love, mental health, teen-drama, sexuality, friendship, college. - /Possible/ Trigger warning: violence, bullying, substance, suicide

Throughout her years in high school, Maggie Carter could've successfully avoided every toxic aspect that surrounded Henderson High, down to the teachers and most especially the students. So close to leaving the wreckage that is her past that kept haunting her and to finally graduate without trouble getting in the way, she was ready to walk away from her high-school experience with a clean image. But trouble doesn't always come in the form of circumstances but instead people. Enters Evan Williams, the notorious socialite of Henderson High who tarnishes her last remaining days in senior year by flipping her entire world upside down. For better and for worse. As he then brings hell into her world by disrupting the normalcy of what her high-school life used to be, having the perfect boyfriend and the perfect group of friends, through an arrangement she just knows she'll never be able to escape no matter how hard she tries.

When Helena finds a phone on the night train, she decides to text the first number in the list of contacts in order to figure out who it belongs to. ***** Helena Santos hasn't had the easiest life. At twenty-one, she's the legal guardian of her teenage sister, in the final year of her nursing degree, and working night shifts at her small-town's local bar. And things get a lot more complicated when she finds a phone on the train home and decides to text the first number in the list of contacts, in hopes of tracking down its owner. That contact? Adam Bauer; the charismatic, sweet, and refreshingly honest older brother of the person who lost their phone. As the two continue talking, they can't ignore the chemistry and growing feelings between them, but life is never that simple. To make things work, Helena and Adam need to juggle a troubled sister, a meddlesome ex-boyfriend, and one fat lawsuit - all intent on keeping them apart. [[word count: 40,000-50,000 words]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story contains swearing, mature themes, and sexual content.

player (n) : a male who is skilled at seducing women and is only interested in sex. Santana Marie Klaus has always had a crush on her best friend, Daemon Matthews ever since he saved her from a big bully making fun of her pigtails. A crush that has remained unknown to Daemon for just as long. A crush that has crushed her ever since Daemon started his player ways, changing girls like they were dirty clothes. Desperate to end her unknown crush, Santana enlists the help of Jesse Archer, the new kid in town to make Daemon jealous by being her fake boyfriend. In exchange Jesse gets free entertainment watching the clichéd plot unfolds in front of him. What happens when Daemon reacts to this ploy? And what happens when Jesse gets more involved in the drama that is Santana? And what goes wrong when you enlist a player's help to make another player jealous? One word. Everything. [UNEDITED] COMPLETED : 16 OCT 2015 * Highest Ranking #1 Teen Fiction ** 1 Million Reads : 14 March 2017 *** 2 Million Reads : 14 March 2018 **** 3 Million Reads : 5 July 2018 ***** 4 Million Reads : 21 Aug 2018

#1 in Teen Fiction, Action, & New Adult ❤︎ ❝Sometimes falling for the enemy is inevitable❞ ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ After being betrayed by her only friend, Anastasia Martinez Stone gets thrown into a dangerous world full of fighting, racing, drugs, pain, and death. The Royal Reapers is the strongest gang in The Underworld, a place only known in the world of the gangs, and it's her families business that she stayed away from. Now Ana has joined in and she's not there to play games. Two years later, after the death of her older brother, she returns to the chaotic town that once destroyed her. Ana's plan was to finish senior year at the school that caused her so many problems, without drawing too much attention to herself so that she can keep both of her lives separate... For her own safety. Nobody is going to know the real her, because she's going to have to disguise herself as the girl she used to be. What happens when she crosses paths with the deadliest street fighter in town, Ryder Grimaldi... Who just so happens to be her fathers worst enemy, the leader of the second strongest gang, The Bronze Demons? Anastasia's life isn't easy, especially since there's someone who wants her. The infamous Rueben Slade, ex-member of The Royal Reapers and now, leader of the third strongest gang, The Crimson Ghosts. He's always wanted Anastasia all to himself and he's willing to do anything to have her, even if that means drugging her into believing she's his. You better buckle up and get ready for the romance, drama, heartbreak, and pain because it's heading your way! Only this time, it's going to be way more intense than the original book. Keep reading to follow Anastasia on her journey to fight for love... ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ You can read the COMPLETED original version in another book on my profile! Votes are inaccurate because not all chapters are published!!