📖 Title: Crimson Debts Genre: Mafia BL / Dark Romance / Enemies-to-Lovers / Forced Proximity The Characters Kaelen "Kae" Thorne (The Enforcer/Heir): Cold, ruthless, and meticulously organized. He's the feared second-in-command and heir to one of the city's most powerful crime families. He values loyalty and payment above all else. He has a piercing gaze that rarely shows emotion but can cut through anyone. He's known for getting what he wants, one way or another. Julian "Jules" Vane (The Reluctant Pawn): Bright, artistic, and fiercely independent, but burdened by his family's struggles. He works hard, trying to keep his father's small, struggling art gallery afloat. He's sharp-tongued and doesn't back down easily, even when facing a terrifying figure like Kaelen. The Core Plot Julian's father, desperate to save his failing gallery, makes a fatal mistake: he borrows a substantial sum from the Thorne syndicate, believing he can pay it back quickly. When the deadline arrives, the gallery is still bleeding money, and his father is nowhere near repayment. Kaelen, known for his unyielding pursuit of debts, personally arrives to collect. Julian, trying to protect his ailing father from the syndicate's brutal methods, steps forward and offers himself. He makes a desperate deal: he will work off his father's debt, whatever it takes, for as long as it takes. Kaelen, intrigued by Julian's courage and perhaps a flicker of something in his defiant eyes, agrees. But his terms are harsh: Julian will become his personal assistant/manservant, bound to his side, privy to the syndicate's dark operations, and under Kaelen's absolute control until the debt is paid.

Krist needs a date. Urgently. His ex is getting married, and there's no way he's showing up alone looking like a tragic footnote in someone else's love story. Desperate times call for cold, aloof, emotionally constipated alphas. Enter Singto-his terrifyingly stoic senior with a secret soft spot and a killer jawline. Singto agrees to be his fake boyfriend under one condition: Krist has to help convince his traditional parents that they're madly in love, too. Easy, right? Except nothing is easy when: - Singto makes a relationship rulebook with twelve clauses - Krist's scent (which usually smells like "fresh air and mild chaos") starts reacting to Singto's presence - Singto is suspiciously good at acting like he's head over heels - And Krist can't tell if this is still fake... or if Singto never planned for it to be One fake date. Two nosy families. A dozen mixed signals. In the game of pretending, someone's bound to catch real feelings.

I was just a Korean person but when I knew about the who made me a princess book I was shocked I felt bad for the second male lead and just fainted when I said I wanted to be at the book. When I opened my eyes I was the 2nd Protagonist of the story! My plan was to seduce the second male lead. But I failed as I died from getting misunderstanding. Now I had my third life, I thought of having freedom but I failed once again. I was forced to get married with a curse! How do I even break the curse?! I'm Doomed!

[Completed] Corrine Adara has a secret so vital that if anyone were to find out, her and her entire family would be executed immediately. As a result, she lives in hiding among her family until one fateful night, she meets the Mad Prince of Daemons. Nikolas Veil is known as the Mad Prince for good reason. One could say he holds two spirits in his body; their personalities so different that they go by different names. Niko is responsible, sweet, and gentlemanly. Kol is violent, devious, and dangerous. Neither can agree on a single thing until they meet Corrine. When Corrine's secret is revealed to the Prince of the Daemons, she's certain her and her family will be executed. Instead, in a surprising turn of events, Prince Nikolas demands her to marry him. And Corrine, unfortunately, has no choice but to accept. Excerpt: "Look at me," He growled, releasing his grip to grasp my face in his claws dangerously. He forcefully turned me to face him, but I just as firmly held my eyes closed tight. "Let me go," I demanded breathlessly. "Look at me or I'll rip your eyes out right now," Kol demanded in turn. His grip tightened and his other hand lifted, reaching with those sharp claws no doubt to pluck my eyes from my skull. My eyes flew open and I gasped in panic, looking at those hovering fingertips. He froze above me, stunned. Tears stung at my eyes as I realized they were fully bright, molten gold before a Daemon; meaning I was doomed regardless. Daemons had wiped out all Seraph already. They wouldn't allow me to live and they would punish my father for hiding me. "Don't hurt my family," I pleaded abruptly, a sob escaping my throat as I began to tremble under him. "You can hide your eyes?" Kol asked with great interest. I choked on a response, but nodded quickly in fear. "Don't rip my eyes out," I requested tearfully. "I would never."

When the strongest mafia organization in Endouva crumbles from within, who would expect their most skilled assassin, Loralie Asterra to end up in the mysterious island of Arkaris as a nanny for a three-year-old girl named Mimi Catapult? Loralie finds out that something bad is swirling within the borders. She uncovers Arkaris' hidden secrets, all while protecting a tiny prince and a child who refuses to leave her side. Doing so, Loralie realizes that she has no choice but to piece her gang back together to break the Curse of Arkaris.

Complete. ONC 2021 entry. ONC Longlist and a Round II Ambassador's Pick! Exclusive to Wattpad. Ulthar is a cozy, sleepy town in the Dreamlands, close to the River Skai. It is a cobblestoned, gable-roofed town of pumpkin patches and a sizable population of cats. The only law is that you must never harm a cat, but the town is quiet and peaceful. Cats, humans, fish-people, and cosmic horrors live in unity. And really, the horrors are quite pleasant. Fourteen-year-old Eileen, who escaped the waking world, helps out at the chocolate shop and lives with her inventive adoptive mother, Cecilia Haunt. Besides the occasional cat, zoog, or animate pumpkin snatching the wares away, all is well. That is, until a mysterious eye statue appears in Ulthar. Every night, it moves to a different location. It's the sign of the Great Ones, who long ago left the dark palace of Kadath and went to the sunset city. Listless and hurt over the past, and desperate for an adventure to give herself a purpose, Eileen asserts that this is her chance to make a name for herself at the risk of her own safety and identity. Over the Garden Wall + H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.

In a war over the food court, an eager barista battles the confident competitor--and her own heart. *** Young barista Cora Chun takes pride in being a Cool Bean, even after years without a promotion. So when Farron Kam, the younger assistant manager of the competing smoothie shop, flaunts her hatred for her job, Cora is determined to crush her to a pulp. What she doesn't expect is for Farron to take her up on the challenge. With that declaration of war, the two begin a battle over the food court: who can serve the most customers, who can close up the fastest, who can grab the last loaf of bread at the supermarket... But as the rivalry begins to blend with romance, Cora has to decide if she is fighting a battle over beverages, or one over her own heart. *** Cover by the great @KateNotGreat! NOW SERVING: ✓ Sapphic workplace rivals-to-lovers ✓ Genderfluid love interest (with a cool tattoo) (and a motorcycle) ✓ First love and found family ✓ Opposites attract with a height difference ✓ PUNS GALORE FEATURED: ★ The Wattys 2025 Shortlist ★ @Wattpad Community Pride Recs, Love Games ★ @FreeTheLGBT Pride Awards 2024 - Second Place ★ @Ambassadors Ambassador Reads, @ChickLit Serialized Spotlight, @ContemporaryLit, @lgbtq Word Count: +90k Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romcom, Comedy, New Adult Narrative: Third Person Limited, Past Tense ☆ This story is only available on Wattpad by @laurendoubleu

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[Book One in a three-part series] At the age of twenty-six, Slater still hasn't met his mate and the pack elders are running out of patience. They want him to either take a mate or step down as alpha. To keep the pack out of the hands of his younger brother, Slater agrees to find a mate. However, when his pack rescues a group of wolves from a werewolf fighting ring, he meets his mate - an omega whose been held captive since he was fifteen. Timid and quiet was what Slater was expecting when he first met the wolf, but it becomes clear to him that omega or not, his mate still has a lot of fight left in him and is going to make his used-to-be simple life much more complicated. #3 in New Adult

BOOK ONE!! Her voice was quiet, yet she answered with a bold sound as if to convince herself, as well as me. "I believe the love will come in time." My heart was beating hard and loud. I took a few deep breaths in an effort to slow it lest the Princess would hear. "And if it does not?" My question seemed to float in the air. No answer was given for quite a while, although her crystal eyes did not stray from mine. There were some footsteps moving in the hallway as the guards changed. The stained glass window creaked from the blowing wind outside. Rain began to patter. "Then my father was right," she all but whispered. "I must marry for the Evergreen Kingdom first." Updated WEEKLY This story is completed and has 29 chapters in total Guard of the Evergreen Queen is book two in the series! Written by an interactive author