[Wattpad Featured Story: Fantasy Hidden Gems] When we were children they whispered about beasts that hid amongst the shifting dunes, dark things with sharp teeth and loud howls and an insatiable thirst. Animals that gutted their prey and left intestines rotting in the sun and bones sprawled out across dried riverbeds. We listened with rapt attention and shivered despite the searing desert heat. But I'm not a child anymore, and I know better. The sand-dusted coyotes, the sleepy vipers-they're just animals, dumb and slow. I've met the real beast of the dunes, and he's nothing like they say. He wears the skin of a man, and the silks of a noble, and spins lies with a silver tongue sharp enough to make the earth bleed... And he holds my life in his blood-stained hands.

Sometimes, I wondered if there was ever a time when I hadn't cared about others' opinions, either the subtle ones that I'd heard through hushed whispers... or the harsher ones I'd fabricated within my own mind. If there was a way to appease the vicious hounding of my own worries as they nipped at my heels, it felt far beyond my reach. I longed for the peace of hearing something unpleasant and allowing it to rush through me without it tearing me apart. --- Bennett Oden had long ago grown accustomed to the numbing coldness of reality. He led a miserable existence at the hands of his father, but starving was all he knew. He understood how to navigate it... and how to survive on having just enough. On being just enough. Then, he crashed into Mason Locke-warmth incarnate. [Book 1 of The Rapture Series. Stand-Alone.)

Born a slave, made an heiress, Annabelle must battle a society unwilling to accept her and a love that threatens to ruin her in order to keep her freedom. ***** Born a slave, Annabelle soon finds that fate has other plans when she's purchased by a man named Elijah Finley, who not only rescues her from an abusive master, but also gives her her freedom. However, her new life comes at the cost of another: Elijah has made Annabelle the heiress to his estate, in spite of having a son. So Henry Finley, unwilling to accept his father's will, is determined to regain his rightful fortune at any cost -- even if that means seducing his father's former slave... Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story contains some racist and sexist language that reflects the historical time period when it's set. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]

[ROUGH DRAFT] [BOOK 2] After losing everything, Cassius had begun to spiral down into a sort of depression that would not go away no matter the comfort. As his heart came closer and closer to closing, new ones began to open and unfold. It sparked the beginning of great loves, past heartbreak, and the strong bond that ties hearts together. As they all gathered, through the ruins of peace, they realized there was salvation in honor if one was willing to pay the price. What that price would entail would make all the difference, however.

I just smirked at the way they all looked down on me. The way they all try to trip me down and glare like they can kill me with one look. I could easily laugh their stupidity and small minds as I make it through the day the way I've always done it. By myself. With no friends. No family. I don't cry myself to sleep hoping that my prince will come and save me... I don't beg those dimwitted jocks to stop giving me a hard time whenever they get the chance. I don't try to fit in when the person I'll hurt the most is myself by lying. I don't wish that my dead parents will come back when I know they won't. I don't do this because I, Carter Summers, am a strong willed person that knows the sad fact that this.... This... is my reality..... When Carter gets a small request from a teacher for his creative way of writing. He temporarily joins the newspaper club to gain extra credit to assure his scholarship. His job is to answer questions from the entire Newton High's students and give them advice. But since the entire population hates him for being homosexual, he does this in secret by answering within the papers, and goes by the name of... Reality. ***Cover by RougeHopes*** #19 in Teen Fiction

*Wattpad Featured Story* While forbidden fruit is said to be sweeter...it usually is. Elliot Monroe always found herself tangled when it comes to love and relationships. Hunter Graham is no exception. He is her secret. And it's beautiful

Carter is a disabled 19 years old ex football player. After an accident one year ago, he was cursed to a lifetime in a wheelchair. Ryder is an antisocial 18 years old jock. He became the quarterback of the football team after his biggest rival, Carter Matvey, changed schools for a totally unknown reason. What happens when Carter's father employs the jock to be the boy's caregiver? Are the two quarterbacks able to go a few quarters back and score points into this crazy match of love? What about the fact that under his impenetrable shell of muscles Ryder hides a very soft core? After Carter breaks his walls will he transform into puddle? Follow their juicy trip of love and hate and you'll find out . "Ryder? I think Rider suits you better... in like... Cart Rider " Best rankings: •1 in mxm •1 in bxm •2 in lgbt •14 boyxboy •7 gay ✇W̳A̳R̳N̳I̳N̳G̳_1✇ тнιѕ вooĸ can ιndυce ғeelιngѕ oғ dιѕrυpтιon and anхιeтy ғor нoмopнoвeѕ. ιт conтaιnѕ gay relaтed тнeмeѕ. ✇W̳A̳R̳N̳I̳N̳G̳_2✇ тнιѕ вooĸ can caυѕe angѕт and dιѕappoιnтмenт тo тнe people deѕιroυѕ oғ ѕad endιngѕ. All мy worĸѕ нave нappy endιngѕ. Thís вσσk αlsσ íncludєs smut! σur gαч sσuls cαn't lívє wíthσut smut!

"They may have wings, but they're no angels." With tattooed wings, and a previous one-way ticket out of hell, half-angel Azaziel 'Zane' Amante is too bad for heaven, and too good for hell. But when he crosses the path of University student Nadia Ramerezatha, Azaziel realises that she might finally be his becoming, and vows to make her life a living nightmare. After all, hell has been calling, and nobody can resist the devil once he's come knocking. A Wattpad Featured Story: From Our Stars [ WARNING: mature content, violence and strong language ] [ #69 in paranormal ]

Creatures of the Night is now published as a Wattpad Book! As a Wattpad reader, you can access both the Original Edition and Books Edition upon purchase. Milena, an obedient teenager, has to team up with the supernatural creatures she was taught to fear in order to escape the people she once loved. ***** In a world where humans must hide underground to stay safe from the creatures who roam the night, Milena's life as an outcast is hardly worth noticing. But on the day her village is attacked and her life is spared by the mysterious Elias, Milena is forced to throw everything she thought she knew about her world out the window. Because while Elias looks just as human as she is, he's actually the leader of a pack of wolf shifters, and the bond she feels with him compels her to start asking questions about the things she's been told about the creatures of the night. Because if her village was willing to lie about something like this, what other secrets might they be keeping from her?

This new organisation, The Gay Project, has come up with a way to prove to people that being gay is not a choice. They picked eight straight different men from different part of the world and took them to an island they own. Of course, the men don't know this but we do. So for survival before help comes, they will be given tasks and be living off the rewards. At first it would be simple because we are giving them time to form a bond before things start to get steamy and very gay. The Gay Project will prove to you audience that in good times and bad, love always finds a way to bring two people together. But will it be able to bring at least two straight men or make all of them gay? I mean, it is a gay project. [May contain scenes with Strong language, Violence and Mature Content. Viewers discretion is advised]