An exploration of the self that comes into play on the not-so-sunny shore of Ocean Beach.

❝You have exactly one year to kill me and not a single day more.❞ ❝And what happens if I don't murder you exactly as you demand, princess?❞ ❝I'll demand a full refund. Customer dissatisfaction guaranteed.❞ melanie enderby can't bear the thought of ending her life. so she hires an internet assassin to do it for her. then the universe brings her phillip knox, a quirky photographer who wears rose-tinted sunglasses and somehow talks her out of it. melanie doesn't want to love him. knox knows he shouldn't crave her. but they're drawn together for reasons they can't explain. because knox is a sweet mystery, a loveable conundrum, and quite possibly... her soulmate? unfortunately, melanie's already married to her first soulmate. and now that she's changed her mind about dying, she can't seem to get a hold of her assassin. an assassin who just might be the man she fell in love with. it's a race against time. hop in. [zoom] Kay Elle © All Rights Reserved

The story of your sexual capitulation told by the bloodthirsty supervillain who discovered your secret identity, ruined every chance of you maintaining a normal functioning relationship, and is kinda-sorta (without a doubt, definitely) obsessed with you. ***** Your name is Hector Jean-Baptiste. By day you're an upstanding college student: rugby star, stellar Haitian son, autism activist. By night you're Makeshift, an electrokinetic powerhouse hailed as the greatest superhero of our generation. Keeping your beloved alter ego a secret shouldn't be an issue, but recently your sadistic archnemesis, Vortex, can't seem to grasp the importance of personal space... Basically, the deadliest villain in the world disguises himself as a charming barista intending to seduce, corrupt, and destroy America's favorite poster boy (AKA You) only to fall dangerously in love with the kind-hearted man (Also You) behind the mask instead. Whoops? ★ Featured during #CelebrateBlackStories, #BlackPride2021, and #WrittenwithPride2021 ★ Wattpad Certified Fresh Read CONTENT WARNING: This story contains strong language, mild violence, sensual themes, and mentions of racism and homophobia.

Sistine is losing her friends, her energy, her will to keep going in a world that screws her over constantly. It's becoming too much until an astrology fascinated, wild, beautiful girl enters her life and flips it upside down, and together they begin a journey to capture nature's greatest gifts in a work of art just for them. (Song lyric on cover picture is from "Fall Together" by Temper Trap!) (And the cover art is by me.)

BLACK AVENUE, EASTERN AMERIKA Everything's the same. But just a little bit different. Magic. Love. Entropy. All lawless. All wild. In 1876 a talented matchmaker is kidnapped and trapped inside an ancient genie lamp, forced to coerce beautiful women into sleeping with their unsavory captor. In 1954 a closeted professor is tangled in a violent conflict when he accidentally falls for the one soul he can't have: an androgynous D'Jinn stripped of their wings. In 2022 an overachieving college student discovers he's been crowned King of the Damned and stubbornly denies the title. But his new daemon servant won't leave him the hell alone. And Remi? Well, Remi just wants to see the World's Biggest Cowboy boot with her brother without losing a(nother) leg. This is fury. This is life. This is Hellacious. Where everything's different. But more of the same. //Highest Rank #616 Fantasy//

A reclusive crown prince appoints a common thief as his bodyguard, plunging them both into deadly intrigue, court scandal, and most dangerous of all: love ***** Blue Sanlanh was a common thief rotting in a dungeon until Prince Camleang Bo takes a shine to her-and appoints her as his personal bodyguard. Blue has no use for royals, but she does have use for their money. But she quickly realizes that the most dangerous aspect of the Anachakar Court isn't the assassination attempts, vicious gossip, jousting tournaments, or masquerade balls... ... it's Prince Bo, because his threat isn't to her life--it's to her heart. ★ 2017 Watty Awards Shortlist ★ 1st Place Romance Winner of Wattpad Oscar Awards CONTENT WARNING: This story contains strong language, period-typical violence, sexually explicit scenes, and discussions of abuse.