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Trapeze by leigh_
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WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION After a devastating accident, trapeze artist Corey Ryder gets stuck living a normal teenage life and attempts to reconnect with the mother she barely knows. ***** As a trapeze artist, Corey Ryder is used to flying high above the rest of the world, but when a tragic accident destroys the only home she's ever known, everything comes crumbling down around her. Forced to stay in the small town of Sherwood, California, she must face the realities of being a normal teenage girl. Attending high school, making friends, and falling in love for the first time are just the beginning, because being back in California means facing a large part of her past she's been trying hard to forget-her mom. Content and/or Trigger Warning: this story contains mentions of child/domestic abuse
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
The Lost Archive by SeanMorganthau
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In turn of the century Italy, two brothers find a lost Legion lair with the confession of the last man to rule all of Rome. In modern day California, two students at UCLA discover a puzzle on a forgotten artifact. This will lead them across the globe and into danger many times, but they will find a secret that is worth killing for, a secret even the Nazis tried to uncover...
The Earl of Brass (IMD #1) by writershabitarium
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Wattpad Prize Winner 2014 for Best Imaginative Story! NOW AVAILABLE ON AMAZON, BARNES AND NOBLE, THE BOOK DEPOSITORY, iTUNES AND SMASHWORDS IN PAPERBACK AND EBOOK! When Eilian Sorrell, a promising archaeologist and the eldest son of the Earl of Dorset, loses his arm in a dirigible crash, he fears he will face a bleak future among London's aristocracy. On a quest for normalcy, Lord Sorrell commissions a prosthetic arm but finds the craftsman is not what he seems. After the death of her brother, Hadley Fenice takes over his prosthesis business but knows it will be an uphill battle as women are discouraged from doing man’s work. In return for building Lord Sorrell an automaton arm, he offers her a chance at freedom by following him to the Negev Desert under the guise of a man. But what lies beneath the desert is more precious than potshards or bones. As they venture deeper, they discover a society where the path of life is not governed by gain but by passion. When imperialistic invaders come in search of a new colony to pillage, Eilian and Hadley are forced to defend their fleeting glimpse of paradise. The Ingenious Mechanical Devices Series: The Earl of Brass The Winter Garden All the works that are posted under my screen name are mine exclusively and cannot be reproduced, altered, or used in any manner without my permission.
It's Not Over. by KaylaNicoleB
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When Audrey Silkson becomes the only child. She surrounds herself with a group of close friends, who plan and commit murders for their own pleasure. In this vivid, suspenseful thriller, Audrey comes to the conclusion that being connected with murderers is where she belongs. As Audrey becomes a killer like the rest, everything suddenly starts going downhill. When a person she thought she successfully murdered, ends up still being alive, Revenge is being looked for and people get betrayed, they then realize it is not just one person that they are going up against. As they become on a hit list they start to notice that this isn't just a game. As people die, screams roar out, and people struggle for survival. More complications occur and they start to become aware that...the game is far yet from being over.