Better Understanding Western Literature and Culture

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The Cellar

For months Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her - and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet. His perfect, pure flowers. His family. But flowers can't survive long cut off from the sun, and time is running out...

Untouched ✔

"Y-you," she stuttered, staring at the handsome man sitting on the sleek black throne, "you're..." He rolled his eyes, waving his hand impatiently and said, "Hades. Come on, say it with me. Ha-des." "Hades," Ariel breathed out, still not believing the sight before her. Every picture she had seen of the gods had no...

Anna Karenina

"Anna Karenina" is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for h...

She's With Me (Book 1, the With Me series)

She's With Me is now published as a Wattpad Book! As a Wattpad reader, you can access both the Original Edition and Books Edition upon purchase. Amelia Collins is in witness protection, starting at a new school in a small town. But when she becomes involved with the most infamous guy at school, she's reminded that she...

𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭

BIG EIGHT SERIES (Book 2: When I return) (Book 3:The Shadows Beneath) (Book 4: When the cold comes) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hiccup Haddock, Flynn Rider and Jack Frost are new students at DreamDisney Academy. They meet Kristoff Bjorman,Merida van Broch, Anna Winters, Punzie Carona and Elsa Winters. But when a late comer arri...

Married to the Prince of Darkness (COMPLETED)

Amelia Hayden is busy senior at college with no time for boys, parties or fun. This all changes one Halloween night after she accidentally finds herself at the center of a cruel prank that sees her being offered up to the local legend, the Prince of Darkness, as his virginal bride. Believing the urban myth to be untru...

Our Tainted Hearts(#1 Confused Cliche Love Series)

Blake and Ray are two different people. Blake is the innocent good girl while Ray is the deadly quiet Bad Boy. The only ties they have together is their best friends who happen to be dating eachother. And Blakes best friend just happens to be her twin sister, Tessa. Tessa is a bad girl, she does what she wants and sh...

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The Duke's Daughter -Wattys2014 Collector's Dream Award Winner-

The Duke of Marlborough has signed betrothal contracts on behalf of his daughter, Lady Arianna Kent. But Arianna is not the type to blindly follow her father's biddings. It is not long before Arianna has different plans for her life and as the wedding date draws near, she sets sail for the colonies. Life isn't as easy...

In 27 Days (Watty Award Winner 2012)

Hadley Jamison doesn't know what to think when she hears that her classmate, Archer Morales, committed suicide. She didn't exactly know him, but that doesn't stop her from feeling like there was something she could have done to help him. So to Hadley's surprise, on the very night of Archer's funeral, she has a r...

The Shy Girl Has a Gun

Faith Mitchell was never confident. She was happy to blend into the background, much to the protest of her friends. At 16, her life was a normal teenage cliche. She was in love with Jace, the obnoxious player who she couldn't have, and her biggest worry was whether or not he would finally come to his senses and see th...

The Good Girl's Bad Boys [Book One of TGGBB Series] (Completed, Editing)

If you're judging this book by its cover and title, you're already proving the point this story wants to make. Try to move past this satirical obstacle in front of you. This is a story about bullying, and like the hundreds of other books on the topic, it will show you the harsh reality of being discriminated, belittle...

Roommates (REWRITING)

CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF BEING REWRITTEN!

100 Voicemails

[You can now purchase 100 Voicemails' paperback on Amazon!] After a car accident, seventeen year old Steve Carlton, goes into a coma. When he does wake up after a few months, he suffers from temporary memory loss. During this time, he starts to go through his messages and voicemails on his cellphone, trying to get a...

My Life with the Walter Boys [Wattpad Version Sample]

NOW PUBLISHED BY SOURCEBOOKS FIRE! Sixteen-year-old Jackie Howard knows nothing about her new guardian Katherine Walter when she moves from New York to Colorado. After discovering that Katherine has twelve boys, Jackie fears that living in the Walter house isn't going to be easy. It's just icing on the cake that the b...

His Unbroken Ties

Ammar Khan wasn't supposed to see her. He didn't mean to see her all those years ago. Yet, he did. Like a moth drawn to flame, Ammar fought against his demons. Resisting the urge, to wish that the beautiful woman he saw five years ago. Would one day be his. Aazeen Shahbaz. A beautiful soft spoken woman, finds her li...

SUCCESS IT IS

♔⚀Some interesting general hacks and facts that I came across and found useful. The collection of ways to improve.⚅♚

Pride and Prejudice (1813)

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...

My Dark Knight

In the era where swords rule, where women consider their modesty their greatest virtue. Where a man would kill to find his wife warming another mans bed, a time when women would consider it the greatest of adultery or fornication to warm a bed other than her husbands. A time when an honorable man guards his gaze, for...

Dreaming Of Spring

For Tristram Deirdre, life wasn't easy. His mother is a raging alcoholic, his father vanished from his life when he was five years old, and a brother he didn't even know existed is out there in the world. Follow Tristram from the start of his second year of high school, and the actions in his life that follow up to an...

Matched for Life - Book #1 (Completed on Ream)

Book 1 in the Matched for Life Series (There are two versions of this story. The First one isn't complete and the 2nd one I'm currently writing and posting on ream) In the year 4028, the person you spent your life with was born especially for you. It wasn't by fate or a higher being. No, by the year 3073, our gene...

My Brother's Best Friend

"So what do we do?" "We can work something out. There's just one problem... We can't let your brother find out." ❁ Available now to order! Link in bio!

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Badboy's hired wife

Meet Vincent Watson, the only heir of Watson Inc. An arrogant playboy that knows how to deal with every girls in their campus. On the other hand, Isabelle Lauren is suffering a problem, she's pennyless. She's still studying because of her scholarship but nobody is supporting her. One day, they will bump to each other...