Young maidens are being raped and murdered in Amaife. The killer always leaves behind a souvenir: A torn piece of 'okrika' clothe. The once peaceful community is thrown into chaos; the masses are provoked, the elders are clueless, families are scared and the gods of the land seem powerless to stop the murders. A young team arrives from the city for a week long crusade and the young evangelists meet the village in a state of emergency. The leader, a young pastor named Osi meets Amara, a beautiful, intelligent girl and they develop feelings for each other as they try to solve the crime(s) The killer is a member of the community; very intelligent, cunning and dangerous but who? Who could be behind such gruesome acts? Surely not a man but a devil. And beautiful Amara is his next target.....

Lincoln Nash has it all - except someone to share it with. Content with his bachelor life, he sabotages his mother's matchmaking efforts until a mix-up with CEO Sienna Stone puts his company and future at risk of being destroyed. Standalone in the A Billionaire's Mistake series ****** Lincoln Nash, a twenty-eight-year-old billionaire, has the entire world at his fingertips, minus someone to share it with. Perfectly content in being a bachelor, finding a woman to spend his life with has been the last priority on his agenda. His mother, however, has an entirely different outlook on his future and has been adamant about finding him the perfect wife. To keep her off his back, Lincoln agrees to go on a date once every two weeks with a woman of her choosing. Lincoln is impeccable at purposely tanking every single one in order to maintain his bachelor lifestyle until he mistakes one of his mother's blind dates for a meeting with the youngest CEO of Stone Media Entertainment, Sienna Stone. She runs the largest marketing firm on the East Coast, and with Lincoln's company on the rocks, he knows she's his only shot at salvaging any chance at keeping the business his father worked so tirelessly to build. Pushing his pride aside, Lincoln attempts to get in Sienna's good graces after their awful first encounter, and through their banter and business deals, Lincoln comes to realize that maybe his future isn't as written in stone as he thought it was. Content warning: This story contains mature sexual content and themes of sexual assault, violence, and explicit language. *EDITOR'S CHOICE PICK DEC 2022, FEB, JUNE, AUGUST, & OCT 2023

Stanford Sisters - Part 2 Cassandra Stanford, or Cassie as she was known to her close friends and family, was, at the grand age of seventeen, in love with the handsome Major Ellington. He had arrived on her doorstep, of her family home, looking every inch the storybook hero; tall dark and incredibly attractive. But, he was far from the heroic figure she had been dreaming about for all those years. Manipulated, by the handsome Major, into the life of a courtesan, could Cassie escape from the life that had been so cruelly thrust upon her, or would she be trapped forever?

Banished for five years, Lady Belinda Carrington returns to Willowfair, claiming to know things one would find impossible to believe. With her tainted reputation, can Belinda make Town Guard McKenzie Haverston help her in her pursuit of the truth? *** After her banishment five years ago, Belinda Carrington returns with secrets and tales too impossible to believe. But something in her lies makes McKenzie Haverston desperate for the truth... When Belinda shows up in McKenzie's home asking for protection in return for important information on a case he's working on, he rejects her. But when he learns where she had been banished after her great scandal five years ago, he finds himself striking a deal with the woman-he protects her, she gives him answers. The question now is: how true is her tale? She was once considered the fairest of them all, but one scandal later, she has become the most reviled. And she is also being hunted. If Belinda wants to stay alive, she has to start trusting McKenzie Haverston, a task she finds to be surprisingly easy to do. However, as the truth of the past begins to resurface, and the secrets of her scandal is revealed, Belinda is confronted by her own demons, causing her to doubt her own reality. Trigger warnings: abuse, violence, mental trauma, sexual assault, mental health illness

James Richardson, Earl of Winchester, has returned home to London, after seven years of sailing as a privateer. His travels have been cut short by the death of his father, making him the new Earl. But in order to keep the title , James must marry within a month . This is the task set by his father, stemming from his dislike for his only child. But after meeting the hordes of simpering debutantes, he believes the task in front of him to be impossible. But he didn't count on meeting Olivia Wynter....... Olivia , the daughter of the Duke of Ashforth, is no blushing debutante. At the age of twenty-two, she is still unmarried , but not for lack of suitors. The truth is that Olivia is fed up of the dandies and rakehells who are after her , trying to impress her with their titles and wealth, when all she wants is a man who will match her in wits and should even be a bit dangerous. But when she meets James, can she break through his shell to reach the man underneath? Read on to discover how a passionate lady reaches into the unsuspecting heart of a fearless pirate....

When I first arrived in South Korea and was introduced to Korean dramas, books and was taught how to read, I could not understand why people would argue over little things such as being late for what they would call a date. I did not ge why there were wives who would fault their husbands for getting the wrong thing off the grocery list, or why would husbands risk losing what they had by cheating or infidelity. I did not get all of this, because I was brought up in a nation with no choice. Not that I knew it back then. After all, our nation was made to believe that we were the most prosperous of nations, who had the best leader in the world. He was revered, and so was his father and grandfather, like gods in our eyes. They still are. People that do not get the upbringing I did in my land do not understand how it is like to live not knowing where your next meal would come from, to know only the edicts and commands of one person. To know that whatever you speak, think, say, right or even suggest, may be held against you. That it may mean your death sentence. I appreciate everything I have today, because I know what it is like to be told that you have everything, when in actual fact you have naught. Let me tell you how it is like, so you'll understand why my husband and I never fight. Because we have greater demons to fight, then to argue amongst ourselves. Because we know that despite all of the little nuances which may irritate and annoy each other, we have fought together to get the greatest gift we could ever have gotten - the freedom to choose. My name is Song Suu Ji, and let me tell you the story of how we escaped to the sun. ---- DISCLAIMER: **PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION**

Seven years have passed since Regan lost the love of her life. During that time, she found solace raising her three children, sequestering herself in the country and away from the talk and bustle of society. But now her eldest daughter is beginning her own search for a husband, and Regan finds herself drawn back into the public eye after so many - too many - years away. She meets Thomas Cranmer, a young - too young - and handsome gentleman who should have his attentions focused on other women, women lacking the age and grief she earned as a widow and mother. Yet he seeks her out, winning her over with his smiles and wit, reminding her of what it is to be a woman, and a desirable one at that. But when secrets are revealed and her respectability threatened, Regan discovers there is life beyond grief, and that perhaps it is possible to find love a second time...

To save her family from scandal, Emily Collicott must marry. Ruined in her first season in London, she is given no choice but to wed her father's pick for a husband, or be cast out from her home. Emily agrees to marry William Hazlitt, a man she hardly knows. But William remembers her. Growing up as a tenant on her father's estate, he admired her from afar, their lives kept separate first by class, and then by loss. Emily seeks to begin a new life with this quiet man to whom she finds herself wedded. But the scandal she escaped in London soon finds her again, the very man who destroyed her reputation threatening to tear down the happiness she's found with her new husband. To keep from losing everything, she must either make a deal with a devil... or learn how to destroy one.

Formerly known as Kiss the Sky / Cora, a sexual-assault survivor who doesn't trust men, and Pace, the firefighter who rescues her, grapple with the consequences of the attraction between them as strange events threaten their sanity-and their lives. *** Coralina doesn't trust men as far as she can throw them. She also wants to prove she can do things better than them with a new job in construction in the small town of Silver Grove. Silver Grove's hero, Pace, is now a firefighter. He's watched his friends follow their dreams or find their soulmates, unable to achieve the same. His luck changes when Pace rescues Cora from a car accident. Strange, life-threatening events around Cora pull her closer to Pace and together they cause a different kind of accident. Will she learn to trust him or will Cora let the shadows win? Cover designed by Ren T ©2020-present marianna leal / hubrism. This body of work is available exclusively on Wattpad. If you're viewing it on a different website or under a different username, it has been illegally stolen and you may be at risk of malware. Please notify the original author.

Whistleblower is now published as a Paperback, and E-book with W by Wattpad Books. As Wattpad reader you can read the original version and get details for Published book inside. ***** A journalism major gets tangled up with the beloved quarterback of her university's football team when she uncovers a scandal involving his coach. ***** Laurel Cates is a people-watcher. She's determined to get through college without stepping on any toes or causing a scene, and so far, it's going pretty well. But when Laurel uncovers a scandal involving the head coach of Garland University's beloved football team, she knows she has to do the right thing. Even if her classmates don't believe her. Even if her boss tries to fire her from the side job she desperately needs. Even if the heart-of-gold quarterback, Bodie St. James, seems hell-bent on hating her for writing the article that got Coach Vaughn put under criminal investigation (a feat which proves difficult when Laurel and Bodie wind up in the same group for a class project in BIO 108: Human Sexuality). ***** (#9 NewAdult, #3 TeenFiction. The Fiction Awards nominee for Best Romance, Best Diverse, and Best Overall. Reader's Choice Award finalist.) © 2020 Kate Marchant