{ Hard Fantasy | UPDATING EVERY 2 DAYS } - - - Oldemeir is a weary land, and its fragile stability shatters when draconian King Korrin is abducted. His bodyguard Valye has dedicated her life to protecting him, but as she chases the kidnapper's trail she struggles between upholding her oath against his sins, her conscience & the kingdom's welfare, and her haunted past. A struggle against self, time, and treachery, where every moment counts and every decision could come with a lifetime of... REGRET. * * * * * * * Author's Note * * * * * * * 'Regret' comes after a long personal hiatus from writing, and I'm excited how my style may have changed! Have thoughts or opinions? let me know! all banter is welcome. Bookcover & inserts illustrated by yours truly. Enjoy~ Love, Lockheart

* 4 Sample Chapters * Inquisitive heir, Charlie Fine's obsession with the truth makes him an excellent fraud investigator, but there's one mystery he's never been able to solve: the identity of the girl who gave him the greatest kiss of his life during a high school game of 7 Minutes In Heaven. Twenty years of experiments attempting to recreate the chemistry of that kiss have gotten him nowhere but frustrated and he's about to resign himself to a life without relationship fireworks when an invitation to his high school reunion steels his resolve to get answers once and for all. Accompanied by his binge-drinking best buddy, Martin, he heads home to grill his lovely suspects only to find his skills better put to use in solving the disappearance of an old friend's father and the sabotaging of a maple farm. Thwarted by a shady detective, distracted by a former classmate's troubled sister, will Charlie be able to find out who done it and who done it best? Will the same suspect hold the answers to both mysteries and will her identity be that of the dream girl he let get away? Who kissed Charlie Fine? You could skip to the end, but you'd miss more bear attacks, booby traps, pickled cabbage, flying cardboard, dry lightning, ghost parrots, creepy crawlers, maple syrup and tea cozies than in any cozy mystery about smooching you've ever read! Please know this story contains mild cursing and three F bombs - one of which is totally necessary. *Cover art uses "On-De-Fence" by Gil Elvgren which is to the best of my knowledge in the public domain. *No part of this story may be reproduced or used in any manner without express written permission by the author. © All Rights Reserved

One soul. Two lives. One destiny. ***** Torn apart by the gods, twin sisters, Sheala and Cassandra, are each anointed by the Fates to end the war raging upon Geiha. The sisters, one of the light and one of the dark, find themselves on the opposite sides of the conflict between the remnants of the ancient Kingdom of Hitithe and the evil empire of a vampiric Blood Lord. Their separate paths set them on a course where facing their destiny means ultimately facing each other. While one runs from this inevitability, the other has embraced it. And the fate of the world will depend upon which one shall ultimately claim it. Cover designed by Ray Gardener

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Part of a continuing Anthology In the kingdom of Therea, a criminal is given two options: Hang by the noose until death, or take the Slayer's Pact. Most are apt to choose the noose, for the Pact is known far and wide to be a fate worse then death. Harken chose the latter. The Haunt Slayer is a short story of a man seeking redemption. A wandering Revenant displaced in time. A ghost of the past.

COMPLETED: 2019 Watty Award Winner in Fantasy Every night she plays...and every night they come... Lira is a violinist by nature and a performer by imprisonment. Stolen as a child by a malevolent wraith and trapped in the Spirit World, Lira now spends her days playing the very music that seduced her in the first place. She sees no escape from her existence under the sorceress Bebinn, until one day her music lures Owen who, at age 16, is supposed to be too old to succumb to its spell. Imprisoned alongside Lira and desperate to find a way back home, Owen vows to find a way to free them both. The only problem: no one has ever escaped Bebinn and the Spirit World alive. 1st Place Winner in Fantasy for the Undiscovered Writer Awards! 1st Place in Fantasy for the Hidden Author Awards! 1st Place in Fantasy for the Hot Dog Awards! Winner of @EventualElites "Hypnotized and Hooked" Award! 3rd Place in Fantasy for the Book Center's Summer Awards! Cover by: @Baneen121

WHAT IF YOU COULD WRITE MR. RIGHT? → Ravenna White is a two-bit paranormal romance writer, but her terrible novels aren't the only fiction she's dreamed up. In reality, she's Edwina 'Eddie' Higgins, a part-time leasing agent, full-time burnout. But when she meets musician West Pearce, Eddie learns that sometimes truth is a lot stranger than fiction.

The countdown to Halloween is on, and it's time to get spooky! Read No Evil is a great collection of original short stories put together for you by our Wattpad Originals writers. We'll be releasing new stories daily all the way until Halloween. Grab the potion of your choice (a cauldron sized coffee perhaps?), set the lights for maximum fright, and jump into these spine-tingling short stories.

After Laurel's suicide, her oldest friends gather to fulfill her final request: Scatter her ashes at her family's remote old cabin, and drink to her memory. But as the night wears on, old grudges and dark secrets begin to emerge. And when one of the mourners is found murdered, the others are left reeling with the horrifying truth: Someone among them is a killer...and there's more to the story of Laurel's death than meets the eye. Content warning for suicide, murder and mentions of sexual violence.