(rivals to lovers, small town, sports) [WATTYS 2024 GRAND PRIZE WINNER] (Season 3 coming soon) After a devastating Olympic loss puts her career in a downward spiral, an aging skier returns to her laid-back mountain hometown to rediscover her love of her sport and instead finds herself falling for a rival athlete. *** A year away from what might be her last chance to win Olympic gold, twenty-seven-year-old alpine skier Juniper James shocks everyone by announcing she won't race this year. Returning to her mountain hometown hoping to rediscover the spark that once drove her to World Cup glory, she instead crosses paths with the rival who shut her out of the podium at the last Olympics. For Summer Li, nothing is more important than skiing. At twenty years old, she has already won Olympic silver, but an accident has left her desperate to get back on her skis before the world learns the extent of her injury. She came to Crystal Peaks to lay low while she recovers. The last thing she needs is the woman she once idolized hanging around asking questions. Both struggling with career lows, Juniper and Summer have more in common than they think. Even as they push each other, sparks begin to fly, but Juniper blames Summer for her slump, and Summer isn't going to let a relationship distract from her recovery. And only one of them can win the gold medal. This inconvenient attraction seems on a course for disaster from the start. But these are women who face the impossible every day, and there's a magic in the mountains that can thaw even the coldest hearts. *** Cleat Cute meets Delilah Green Doesn't Care. *** Season One complete at 90k words. Season Two complete at 90k words. Season Three coming soon!

The strip of non-tattooed skin fell from his neck down to the fly he unfastened. "Do I scare you?" "No." "I should." . . . After a salacious event makes her want to leave home, Mina takes a traveling nurse position as far away as possible: Tokyo. In a different country with a different name, lies protect her from her past. Placed in an apartment near a Yakuza base, she meets Ryuzo, an alluring and disillusioned member of the criminal organization. As the two grow closer, Ryuzo admits he is trying to free himself of his gang ties. Mina vows to help him, but when she discovers his true identity, she realizes she isn't the only dirty, dirty liar. . . . Content Warning: This story is intended for mature audiences only. This story contains frequent cursing, explicit sexual content, mild violence, and mentions of drug use.

Only Murders in the Building meets The Summer I Turned Pretty... Meet Agatha and Conan. She is named after her grandma's favourite author and has a dark past she's trying to make up for. He is the son of troubled novelist and a dreary present he is trying to escape. Forced to spend their summer at the same rundown lakeside resort, Agatha and Conan end up in the middle of a murder mystery... and each other's business.

Nina felt a pair of eyes watching her. Warm, gilded brown, like the whiskey in her glass. That was how she met Roman Conway for the first time. Three years later, she meets him again, and she is pulled back into a past that cracks the surface of the seemingly perfect life she curated. ***** As Nina Jordan admires New York City from a rooftop, she seems content. She is surrounded by her closest friends, and Cameron - the man she is marrying. But when Nina goes to get a drink at the bar, she bumps into Roman Conway. To Roman, Nina looks different. Her signature curls have been pulled straight, and cut into a blunt bob, and there is a dark melancholy about her. The biggest change he is struck by is that she no longer looks at him the way she used to. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by April Alforque

Spellbound is now published as a Paperback and E-book from W by Wattpad Books! As a Wattpad reader, you can access the Wattpad Original Edition for free at this time and the Wattpad Books Published Edition here upon purchase. ********* Gemma Fox has just inherited a haunted hotel, its two ghostly permanent residents, and a ton of trouble. The Hotel Reynard is the sleepy town of Spelling's chief attraction, and its new owner is a college dropout with commitment issues. Gemma has always loved the stories and history that surround the property--scary tales conjured by the locals to draw in tourists. But when she witnesses the inexplicable, Gemma refuses to consider the paranormal and searches for answers. She just never thought they would come in the form of hot, identical twin brothers living beneath the hotel's bell tower. When the truth begins to unravel, Gemma is forced to consider the possibility that the paranormal does exist, and it's woven into the core of the hotel, starting with Archer and Soren Hyde. Despite her skepticism, she must solve the mystery shrouding her family, hold tight to the hotel she adores, and try to resist the charms of the two mystical men haunting the Reynard. TW/CW: Sexual Content, Language, and Mention of Child Abuse