[Wattys 2022 Winner!] Vanessa Brooks, an anxious and cynical seventeen year-old, discovers she can travel to the summer of 1953 through the run-down community pool in her rural Michigan town and risks her future as she falls for a boy who lives in the past. ****** On the last day of junior year, Vanessa Brooks joins her friends for a traditional jump into the city pool to celebrate the beginning of summer and the last year they plan to spend in Palmer, Michigan; a dead-end riverside town with an eerily abandoned historic main street and decaying Victorian mansions. But when she resurfaces her classmates have been replaced by girls in retro swimsuits and bathing caps and guys in thigh-baring briefs with cigarettes tucked behind their ears. When Pete Harrison, an unfamiliar face who seems somewhat familiar with hers, offers a dizzy and confused Vanessa a towel and a ride home, she discovers her house and family missing. She has somehow slipped into 1953, the year her grandparents graduated high school. Using the pool and vivid imaginings of her grandfather's memories, Vanessa continues to escape to 1953- and to Pete, who, despite his unaffected kindness and optimism, has a mysterious bad reputation around town. But as she dives deeper into the summer her grandparents fell in love, she finds herself unable to return to the present without venturing even further into the past to correct a mistake that threatens her family and future. *Content Warning: this story contains scenes of near drowning and other perils on the sea, swearing, smoking and alcohol use* This story is complete at ~90,000 words. Wattys Winner 2022- Catchiest Hook and Wild Card Shortlisted Wattys 2021 Featured on @WattpadTimeTravel Featured on @WattpadHistoricalRomance Featured on @TeenFiction Editor's choice list, December 2022, May 2023 Cover by @eva3382

A terrible one night stand producing a pregnancy leaves twenty year old Jaya Avery scared and confused. She decides to not alert her family and get in her car and drive. She keeps driving until she reaches a small town where everyone knows everyone. What happens when that certain loner boy takes sudden interest in the pregnant girl? Read and find out. Cover made by @phoebe-rosee

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Born and raised in a small southern town, Lacey Madison is damaged goods, and has been that way for years now. With an older sister gone eleven months out of the year and two parents constantly at each other's throats, she's struggling just to stay afloat. But there's one thing she's learned, despite this mess she's in: commitment will suck you in, chew you up, and spit you out before you know it. Which is why Lacey avoids it at all costs. But when her sister makes one of her surprise visits home with a guest in tow and the tension between her parents heats up to new extremes, Lacey begins to break, keeping secrets from her best friend in the process. And a certain boy may hold the key to unraveling her completely. But how many lies and secrets can one girl live before things get out of control? And just how far can she be broken before she's finally had enough? --- Warning: Contains mild language / sexual content. --- Copyright: Backwoods Backwards, including all chapters, prologues, epilogues, and associated content, is COPYRIGHTED. All rights reserved by the owner and creator of this work, Tiffany / -tigerlily, and any unauthorized copying, broadcasting, manipulation, distribution, or selling of this work constitutes as an infringement. Any infringement of copyright is punishable by law.

Nicole Miller's boyfriend of three years, Austin Adams, promised her that he would make it back just in time for her high school graduation right before he left to join the army service. Now, almost a year later, graduation has rolled around and Nicole can't wait to see the one person she's missed the most. Except, he doesn't make it. He never even makes it home. Forced to come to terms with the tragedy that has suddenly taken root in her life, Nicole finds herself hitting rock bottom. She can't even fathom that Austin is gone and isn't coming back. Now, Nicole and his best friend Ross Smith turn to each other in order to grieve and move on with their lives. But what's the point in moving forward if it feels like you're going back? --- Copyright: Moving Forward, including all chapters, prologues, epilogues, and associated content, is COPYRIGHTED. All rights reserved by the owner and creator of this work, Tiffany / -tigerlily, and any unauthorized copying, broadcasting, manipulation, distribution, or selling of this work constitutes as an infringement. Any infringement of copyright is punishable by law.

Everyone said it was an accident, but I know it was a murder. Police may have shut the case file but I would keep searching for the culprit. There's no stopping until justice is served. Curious to know who was murdered? It was a girl named Maira, who is none other than ME. Yes! It's Me👻 I may have died but my ghost won't rest until it haunts down my murderer. Read this story if you want to become my partner as we search for the murderer and reveal the mystery behind my death. Mature because it contains topics like domestic violence, caste discrimination, bullying, etc. ~~~•~~~ This story is only published on Wattpad app. If you are reading this from any other site then please beware of the possible malware risk. ~~~•~~~ Awards: 🥇 Winner in The lilies awards- Mystery Genre. 🥇First place- The Dreamer Awards 2021 🥇First place- Blossom Awards 2023 -Mystery. 🥈 Second place in The Debutante Awards 2022- Mystery Genre.

Book 1 of New beginning series. ||Featured|| ~Wattpad Teen fiction reading list. ~ AmbassadorIN reading list. Trisha's life takes a new turn when she has to move in with her estranged aunt after the death of her whole family due to an unexpected fire. Trisha has always lived in a city, that's all she has ever known; What will happen when she has to leave her city life and move in with her aunt who resides in a small town? Dive into the story to know about the changes Trisha has to face and about the new relations she welcomes in her life. A new place, new bonds, new friendships, new family and of course NEW BEGINNINGS. ~~~•~~~ Awards: 🥇First place in General fiction Genre- The Golden writers Awards 🥇First Place in Teen fiction- The Meteorite Awards. 🥇First place in Best First Chapter- Happy Awards. 🥇First place in Young Adult- The fast food awards 2021. 🥇First place in Teen fiction- Daydream Awards. 🥈Second place in Teen fiction/Humor Genre- The Rosette Awards 2021 🥈Second place in Young Adult- Lucky Charm Awards 🏆Honourable Mention in Teen fiction: The Guilded Raven Awards. 🥈Second place in Teen fiction: The spotlight awards. 🥉Third Place in Young adult- Magical Grand Awards 🥉Third Place in Teen fiction- Sunflower Awards. 🥉Third place in Teen fiction Genre- Enchanted Awards 2020. 🥉Third place in Teen fiction - The Peerless Introvert Awards. ~~~•~~~ Cover credits: by @kencanorofficial

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Bliss has always been different. Because of a condition called CIPA, she’s never felt pain–no headaches, no cramps, no charlie horses. She also can’t sweat, cry or even play sports without endangering her life. And the worst part? She knows she has an expiration date, and it is probably fairly soon -- most people like her don't live past the age of 18. So, what's a girl to do? Well, if you're Bliss, you give the world the finger and decide to live life on your own terms. For her, this means training with her top-secret government agent mom in the art of hand-to-hand combat, and convincing her mad scientist dad to invent a special suit that will let her seek out the world's dangers without overheating and biting the big one. She is determined to take the world on, fighting the “bad guys” and leaving her mark during the short time she has. But when an old friend from CIPA camp asks her to help track down others like them who've suddenly disappeared under mysterious circumstances, her reckless lifestyle is put to the ultimate test. Especially when the junior government agent-in-training her mom assigns to help them with the case turns out to be totally hot--and totally into her. Torn between her feelings of anger toward the life she's been dealt and the one she could have if she just let others in, Bliss takes off on a mission that might just be her last.