When the arrogant stranger Bess is forced to marry unexpectedly becomes a duke, she'll find herself at odds with her growing feelings as he hunts for a killer. ***** Sharp-tongued Elizabeth 'Bess' Jones is perfectly content living on her lonesome in a tiny village south of Derbyshire. She works as a nurse, owns a small home, and finds the label of 'spinster' an agreeable trade for her independence. But when her entire life is uprooted in an instant, she only has one person to blame: her new husband, Emmett Wilde, who was caught in a compromising situation with her. And now, despite his promise to fake a death certificate after their wedding--to free her of any duty to him or their marriage bed--he sends for her in the dead of night with startling news: his father has been murdered, and he is now the Duke of Ascot with a wife he can no longer deny... [[Word Count: 60,000-70,000 words]] [[Cover designed by Ren Tachibana]]

After escaping a stalled elevator into a zombie apocalypse, Emily must learn how to trust people again or risk losing everything in this terrifying world. ***** For Emily, every day of the last two years have been a blur. She keeps her head down, takes her college courses online, and only goes out to work at her mandatory internship. But all that changes on the day the office elevator breaks down, leaving her trapped when the screams begin. And when the doors finally open, revealing a dystopian world ruined by bloody teeth and disease, Emily is launched into a terrifying run for her life, caught between the strangers she's not sure she can trust and the man-eating monsters that hunger for her flesh. Now she must learn not only how to survive in this new and dangerous world, but also how to overcome her own inner demons before they cost her something more precious than her life. [[Wattys' Shortlist]] [[Promoted by AMC]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: The story contains some gore, violence, strong language, and dark themes. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Lily Rose Miller has always been beautiful. Her tan skin that was littered with the lightest freckles and her hazel eyes could make anyone fall over in desire and jealousy. The only flaw she had was the bruise that laid on her neck. She had no remembrance of what it was or how it got there. Until the night he came for her.

Jessica Matthews is a young college student, about to start her final year at Mizzou. After a night out with her friends before senior year starts, they are assaulted on their way back to their car, with tragic results. After the death of her best friend, she starts having strange and terrifying things happen to her. After a particularly bad event, she meets three insanely gorgeous FBI agents, but not is all as it seems with the group. Dane Richardson, Samuel Thompson, and Leo Saunders are part of the Supernatural Division of The Academy. Even most of The Academy don't know about them. It's their job to take care of the things that go bump in the night, when a case pops up in their own back yard. After meeting Jessica, it's hard for the guys to stay focused on the case, and they need to be, as it's something they've never come across before. Will the guys be able to put their feelings aside long enough to save Jessica, and kill this demon?

Ciara "CiCi" Brown she had everything from loving parents to the greatest friend she has ever had and not to mention a state championship for fighting under her belt,But thanks to a car crash killing her mom and dad she is stripped of her loving parents.Ciara has no other relatives so after her parents death she is going to be place in foster care,but at the last moment a friend of the family suddenly calls and says she can come live with him and his sons. Ciara now has to leave her best friend and her home town to live with him,his wife and 7 sons! Ciara now has to face new challenges and obstacles dealing with this sudden change in direction in her life.

❝ Your love for someone can make you loathe yourself ❞ "Why are you late?" I asked him. He dropped his coat on the couch and seemed tired. "I had some important works to complete, " he avoided my eyes, making it less obvious. My gaze stopped on his neck, there was a fresh hickey. I felt a strong pain in my heart as if someone stabbed me right there. ••• AU | Park Jimin HIGHEST RANKING: #2 IN FANFICTION 18th June 2018 Started: 29th September 2017 Ended: 6th February 2018 Copyright© 2017-18 onemonsoon Rewritten version - ongoing

Tessa Romano has no idea what she's getting into. Her agenda for her senior year is to stay low and unnoticed until graduation. If she could do it the past four years of her High School career, she sure as hell can endure one more year of staying out of the way. No drama, no tears and definitely NO BOYS! Her plan was going great until she caught the attention of the three most popular guys in the school. Who brought all the drama, all the tears and definitely brought the worst type of trouble into her quiet calm life. This is the type of nightmare Tessa was always afraid of. Although this time, she'll never be able to wake up from this.

Santana Miller is a dork, nerd and a geek and she likes it just the way it is. Her life would have been perfect until a drastic change of fate arrives. Her mom re-married. Now she has to live with her new family, her new father who looks like George Clooney and his son who has a perfect face that she had ever seen. That is not enough though, they have this friend Craig who has good looks too... and it turns out that Craig is Brian's half brother. But the thing is, Santana hates Beautiful men. They make her sick, dizzy, sometimes they make her vomit and worst, faint. How can she live her life now that she has to live with not just one but two beautiful men?

Lisa and her boss, Alessandro, agree to spite their exes by pretending to date, but things begin to backfire when fake feelings become real along the way. ***** For two years, Lisa Brooks worked as a secretary to the powerful self-made billionaire, Alessandro Russo. He hardly noticed her, and to him, she was nothing more than a co-worker who wore conservative clothes, a tight bun, and followed his orders. But when Lisa's heart gets broken by her first love and Alessandro starts to lose his willpower to avoid Gretchen (his ex-girlfriend and now-client's wife), they decide to help each other out by fake dating. I mean, how hard can it be to not fall in love? [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Santoro

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