Seventeen-year-old April Parker wakes up in an underground facility, a shock bracelet on her wrist and a five-day countdown on the clock. Dozens of other teens share her inexplicable fate, but their unseen captors never intervene no matter how brutal conditions become. When the ruthless - and unnervingly magnetic - Marcus seizes control, April's trauma-forged instinct is to lay low. But protecting her friends drives her to bargain with the boy she should fear most - a boy whose reality fractures with every tick. Then the countdown ends, and the real terror begins. Powers ignite. Alliances shatter. And predators are born. And with a saboteur among them determined to keep the doors closed forever, escaping what comes next may be the only way to survive it.

BORGATA - BOOK 2 ***NOTE: This is Book 2 of the Vendetta series. I recommend that you read Omertà before this book so that you have a gist of what's going on. However, this is a prequel, meaning this story happened before Omertà, and CAN be read on its own! :) ** Samantha finds herself imprisoned in a world of illegal trade and criminal activity, where she must face the consequences of her actions and repay her father's debt. She also will try to resist a mob boss, who understands her on a much deeper level than her heart can allow.

Malaysia Daniella Pierce is a 22 year old black woman. This woman is a savage foreal foreal. She's the Four S's Sweet, Smart, Sexy, and Sassy with just a sprinkle of innocence and hard working. She's a lover by nature hustler at heart. By day she's a waitress and by night she's a stripper. She hustles to be able to make it out the hood in the broken down apartment she's been living in for the past three years. Malaysia has always been poor and lived in the hood with no family and hardly any friends she doesn't want the hood to become who she is but who she was. Alessandro Joseph Moretti is a 25 year old Mafia King. Yup I know I know you're thinking how is he a 25 yr old Mafia King well it comes down to 3 things. Family~ his family has been in the business for almost 60 years controlling families in America and Europe . Respect~ he handles all business and gets it done anyone who got in his way is dead by now. who's worked with him couldn't say a word he keeps all deals. Whether it getting your money, shipping guns drugs,women he's got it handled. Fear~ and I'm not talking like fear of heights type of Fear I'm talking bout that bone chilling hair raising heart pounding fear. Yeah he's that dude. EXCLUDING THE FACT THIS MAN IS A COP. Yes you read that right. Like who going to snitch on a cop. Almost his whole family is apart of this precinct they so the do the typical cop but mostly make sure to cover up any traces and evidence of the mafia. This man has ALMOST it all The House, obviously the Money, the Cars, the Women throwing themselves at him left and right but he doesn't have love. He's had one real relationship once upon a time but his ex left his heart cold broken, beaten,stabbed. Like damn you'd be cold to if someone ruined you like that too. Let's see what happens when these two meet. This book will have sexual content in it I will mark it for you. And if you don't like the idea of a interracial couples then please keep going. Thank you.

The world of fantasy and the world of people is separated by a thin line. Those who look for it and those who believe, will most certainly find it. But it is one thing to discover, and another to be born. Adira is living proof. After her life took an unexpected turn she set out to find her origin, and why she was the only one of her kind. The only girl with wings.

After falling in love with a younger and much less successful man, can Yiwen convince herself and her parents to accept him into their wealthy family? ***** When Yiwen Wang suddenly finds herself 30 and single, she lets her well-meaning best friend talk her into a blind date with the handsome Zi'an Li. And not only is he plucked straight out of a movie screen, his witty banter over dinner also convinces Yiwen he's exactly the type to make her toes curl. Yet, by some wicked twist of fate, he's five years younger than her and has no house, car, or stable, high-paying job. So how is she ever going to convince herself and her parents that he's the right choice? Especially when her new, attractive boss makes it very clear that he's interested in her? [[1st Place, Flower Awards, Chicklit Category]] [[1st Place, The Golden Awards, Chicklit Category]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

❝I'm afraid I'm about as cool as a rubber duck...❞ ❝ So ridiculously cool then?❞ ▬▬▬▬ Quinton Granger was very much like his younger sister, Hermione Jean Granger, well known for his studious nature among peers. However, there was a significant difference between the two, unlike Hermione, Quinton didn't possess magic. He was a muggle. Arthur Weasley has always been fascinated by muggles and their lifestyle, so when he meets Quinton one year as the older brother drops Hermione off at King's Cross, the two strike up a conversation about the function of a rubber duck. The two became fast friends and Quinton becomes a regular at the Burrow whenever his sister is invited over. Ginny is trying to come to terms with her feelings over the Boy-Who-Lived, who doesn't pay her any sort of mind outside of being Ron's little sister. Hermione gives her the advice not to pine over Harry, that she should look at other boys, although when Hermione suggested it, she wasn't exactly suggesting her older brother. It started off as letters between the two while Ginny is at school and becomes something each time the two see each other again. Plot credits go to the amazing Pseudonymphadora ❤ [CREDIT TO JANICE SUNG FOR COVER ART] [WATTYS 2018 LONGLIST]