"There is a whole other world under the lake" Or at least, that's what Claire's grandmother always said. Claire always assumed she meant the fishes. Claire's mother always assumed Grandma Jo had gone off the deep end. (Pun intended.) Claire may have agreed, if Grandma Jo's favourite saying hadn't been in their family for generations. All it took was a long walk of a nonexistent pier for Claire to realise that perhaps, Grandma Jo wasn't so crazy after all. All it took was three seconds for her to realise she had no idea how to explain to anyone back home what really lies under. Or how to get back, for that matter. Too bad everyone back home thinks she drowned. _________________ Started: 11th July, 2016 Next update: when TULOHM is complete - sorry! Completed: N/A

Eighteen-year-old Nat falls for five different boys during her first month at college, but never openly admits her crushes - until one night she drunk texts all five of them. She finds her freshman year turned upside down as she navigates the world of first love. ***** Nat keeps a list of all her crushes' pros and cons on her phone - the most logical thing to do for her list-making, highly organized brain. The lists were never meant to be shared, but when Ty, the school's star hockey player, dares Nat to tell the boys how she feels, how could she back down from a drunken dare? The sober light of morning leaves Nat questioning her sanity when she sees three messages awaiting her response: the hot guy she met at a concert, the kind guy from orientation week, and the perfect guy from lit class. Now, Nat must confront her feelings for these boys face-to-face, or her chance at love will pass her by. In this story of firsts, what happens when Nat just presses send? Book One of the Just Press Send series. [[word count: 90,000 - 100,000]] Cover designed by Cil Ojumo

|FEATURED ON ROMANCE AND WATTPAD OFFICAL READING LIST| Seventeen-year-old Adelaide (Addy) Badmus has grown up with the colour of her skin being her sole identity in her racially biased small-town. Armed with her ambitious and carefully laid plans, she's mere months away from walking away and leaving behind the constraints Warshaw had imposed on her. But when a boy with eyes she wants to get lost in and a smile that never fails to call forth her own, threatens to upend her carefully laid plans, Adelaide is forced reconcile with the fact that the town she's been so eager to escape might have found the final clause to keep her home. romance: young love wattpad: community curator Copyright © 2020 by minnietheailen.

What happens when you've planned this perfect Christmas and never knew a new piece would have to be added? What happens when the Christmas comes with something or someone? A childhood enemy Eighteen year old Eboseremen Irabor was given the opportunity to plan the perfect Christmas for her family but she knew it was bound to go one way with the arrival of someone whom she never planned for, Jagajaga. © Emmanuella Omonigho, 2018

[EXCERPT] ⭐ PUBLISHED BY PABPUB, JANUARY 2021 ⭐PHOENIX QUILL 2020 FIRST RUNNER UP ⭐FEATURED ON AMBASSADORSNG & NA READING LIST A young music star meets a girl in the cold waters of their school lagoon and helps her overcome her dark present. But they both soon find out his past and present are almost unredeemable. ****** The thing about life is that it thrives on the unexpected. Kiishi, a rising superstar who'd rather be anything but himself. Fumnanya, a girl who wants to disappear into a shell where the world wouldn't hurt her anymore. Two paths cross on a starry night on the edge of the water. What happens when two broken people keep interacting? Will they heal and complete each other or will their ripped edges injure beyond repair? WARNING: DESCRIPTION OF HARD DRUG ABUSE AND SELF HARM

The death of her father forced Callie to live with her estranged uncle-the strict, ambitious, and authoritative Luke Mercer. It never crossed her mind that living with him would make her life surrounded by hot and cold situations-not only came from Uncle Luke, but also from his trusted assistant, Grant Olivier. And it all became worse when Uncle Luke's girlfriend and rival businessman were found dead in the woods near their house just days apart, and he was accused of killing them. At first, Callie thought it was just a misunderstanding. But when she discovered a secret about her uncle, she started to wonder: am I safe here? Copyright © 2014 by Widya Nurul

Adele knows she witnessed a murder - what she doesn't know is just how personal it is. ***** A girl was brutally murdered in the basement of a sorority house in spring 2011. Adele Theroux thinks she saw the killer - and the killer definitely saw her. What she doesn't know is why this all happened and who this guy is. As she tries to solve the mystery from a distance while in witness protection, the connections keep getting weirder and more personal. Might she be able to relate to the killer in a way that no one else can? And what does that mean about her own psyche? *2019 Watty Award for Mystery/Thriller* [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]] Cover designed by April Alforque

WATTY'S 2019 MYSTERY/THRILLER NOVEL WINNER - Twenty-third century Cascade. A city divided. A city traumatised by its past. The wealthy elite live in luxury, safe in their high towers. In the city below, the streets are ruled by the "Wolfpack": the ruthless street gang that rose to dominance in the wake of the Red Night Riot. Cybernetic surgeon Blair Sandburg could have been one of the elite but, pulled into the Wolfpack through some bad choices, he now sees no way out of the criminal underworld. Jim Ellison is a man with a mission and a secret he must keep at all costs. His quest leads him to risk a journey through the depths of the Wolfpack's territory to Sandburg's door, beginning an adventure that will change both lives forever. Content warning: This story contains some mature themes such as sexual content and violence, reader discretion is advised. :)

[ORIGINAL DRAFT SAMPLE] She is twenty-nine when the FBI comes for her, but Catherine Themis was only seventeen, grieving and naive and angry, the first time she wiped someone else's blood from her fingers and felt the snake rise in her chest. She was seventeen when she stepped into the dark and never looked back. ***** By day, Catherine Themis is an unassuming civilian administrator for the Dedwich Police Department, but by night, she is a notorious vigilante known as The Hangman. Struggling with her violent urges and the psychological cost of her actions, Catherine becomes the target of an obsessive serial killer and a relentless FBI agent, and as the hunt for the Hangman intensifies, Catherine must decide which life she wishes to live and what she values more: vengeance or her fading humanity? A psychological thriller in the vein of MINDHUNTER and HANNIBAL, SERPENT HEART is a deep-dive into the life and history of a conflicted vigilante forced to confront her inner demons and evade a national manhunt. Catherine questions the efficacy of her own convictions as the FBI closes in and a vindictive murderer puts her family, love, and identity in jeopardy. With everything on the line and time running out, who will Catherine Themis become? --- [[AVAILABLE ON AMAZON]] [[REMOVED 24 DEC 2021]] [[2019 Watty Winner - Mystery & Thriller]]

When the war started. We helped. We fought. Soon the humans were gone. Wiped out by us. But not before making a weapon that doomed us long after they disappeared. They invented 'Pithrax'. It killed most of us. The few that survived were hunted down, taken control of, passed around like property. Now we run, hiding in the shadows, the idea of getting caught is our own real nightmare. They took my Mum. They stole my sister. Now I run alone. I am Cecil. And I'm the last female. ****************** *WARNING: this story is based on a very animalistic future. The characters in this book are more wolf than human and act as such. This is an EROTIC SHIFTER WHY CHOOSE NOVEL. So it has; mature, sexual, dark elementals and language*