Wattys 2022 Shortlist Nominee Inspired by the delightful Curse of Strahd campaign! Darius Starbán, disgraced King of Starkovia, joins up with Demon-Spawn Inquisitor Urien, his ex-boyfriend and wealthy aristocrat Yra, and new friend Astrid as they tromp across the countryside fixing Darius' 400-year-old messes and finding a cure for Darius' vampirism. Based roughly off a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

[2022 WATTYS WINNER] | Tracey Higgenbottom, Mr. Porter's witty assistant, finds herself at a dead-end when constables dismiss a case of his possible kidnapping. With the unexpected help of a spunky adventurer, a chimney sweep boy and his sister, and a reluctant records keeper, she suddenly finds herself on the hunt for Mr. Porter herself. When she starts searching too deeply, however, matters complicate beyond her expectations. A steampunk adventure for all to enjoy! ***This is a late (but not final) draft!*** (Plagium || Plah-gee-um: The crime of kidnapping a child) ⭐Plagium has won a Watty in the "Mystery & Thriller" category AND The 2022 WWS Animation Prize! ⭐ NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! Coming out July 7th wherever books are sold online. Link in author bio. :) (Relaunched February 2021) Alt. Title: A Curious Case of Plagium HIGHEST RANKINGS: #1 Middle grade, #1 Mystery adventure, #3 Family friendly, #3 steampunk, #1 cozy mystery, #5 cozy 9x READING LIST FEATURES: 🔹WATTPAD - Editors' Choice (October 2023) 🔹WATTPAD EXPLORER - Editors' Choice (October 2023) 🔹TEEN FICTION - Teen Featured (October 2023) 🔹MYSTERY - Featured Mystery/Thriller Stories (October 2023) 🔹WATTPAD PUNKFICTION - Punkfiction Favorites (October 2023) 🔹WATTPAD FRIENDS AND FAMILY - Certified Bonds | Wattpad Picks (October 2023) 🔹WATTPAD - Dangerous Worlds (October 2023) 🔹WATTPAD EXPLORER - Dangerous Worlds (October 2023) 🔹ADVENTURE - Featured Stories (October 2023) 🔹EDITOR'S PICK (July 2023) ***PLAGIUM is the first book in The Keepers Series.*** KEEPERS SERIES ORDER: 1-Plagium 2-Annulet

Magic or family? The choice will change her life forever. *** Lillith Hemlock is the last in a long line of Hemlock witches, but her parents renounced magic as evil before she was born. After witch hunters burn down their house, Lilly's family moves in with her grandparents--practicing witches living in a town of magical creatures. Lilly falls in love with magic but fears practicing it will make her parents hate her. Before she can decide between magic and family, she's swept up into a conflict between Kyton--a fairy boy striving to save his dying father--and the vicious dragon who holds the cure. While fighting alongside Kyton, Lilly discovers frightening secrets from her past, a dark bloodlust that could destroy her budding romance with Kyton, and a hidden enemy working right under their nose. Can Lilly control her beastly instincts to save Kyton's father, or will she become the monster she most fears? She doesn't know, and she's afraid the answer will come too late. *completed*

A completed story! Wraith Walker is a dark folkloric romantasy about a legendary assassin who already has her happily-ever-after and must hunt the Continent's only divine prophet. Blending mythic worldbuilding, political intrigue, and an established romantic partnership, it subverts the genre's popular power arc by focusing on a competent, adult heroine who already holds legend, but is learning what it costs to keep it. Tamsin Caraxis is already famous. Her happy ending has been won. She is the legendary Godslayer and commands the Wraith Walkers-six elite witches trained to hunt threats in the Kingdom. She is married to the Witch King of Tyanth and together they have clawed and killed their way to peace for their people. That peace depends on the Seer. The Seer is the sole mortal conduit to the Gods, and whoever controls them controls fate itself. When another kingdom claims to have found a child with Second Sight, Tamsin is forced into an uneasy alliance. As rival powers close in and ancient forces stir, the hunt turns lethal, exposing the cost of religious authority and the danger of treating divine favor as a political tool. When Tamsin finally captures the girl, the truth is worse than failure. The child is not what the world believes her to be, and powerful factions benefit from that lie remaining intact. To protect her kingdom, her marriage, and the fragile balance of the world, Tamsin must choose between imprisoning a child, defying the Gods, or honoring a bargain made in desperation that will demand far more than blood. And the Gods are watching... ***** Are you tired of reading fantasy novels in which the very boring, very young human girl catches the eye of an irresistible five-hundred year old fae male? Truthfully, I am not but have written a book which subverts this trope anyway. This is a mature, spicy story for all of us tired of the FMC acting like a teenager. Genre: High Fantasy, Romantasy

When Cal bought the Old Gamblers mine she was not expecting the events that came...She wanted to be an archeologist and exploring the mine was the first step to that. Instead, Cal found herself playing a twisted game of find the object with rude (and cute) Time jumpers. Cal finds herself surrounded by a mystery and distracted by the constant threat on her life, trying to save the future, and having to say goodbye to her family. This journey with Cal is the ultimate tale of the chaos of Time Travel, come with Cal as it invades her life. Just remember, the story isn't what it seems to be, Cal is more involved in time travel then you think. This is book 1 in the time Jumper Series... Book 2 is "Timeline"

People feel that the Silverheel sisters are peculiar. The Silverheel sisters know they are peculiar. They never fit in - not in school, not in the neighborhood, not even in the city. It is not just their appearance, it isn't just their heritage... it runs deeper, underneath their skins, inside their marrows. This is more; an icy fire in their hearts and a malicious itch in their minds. The private joke between the two sisters circles around how they are "not of this world," but they didn't anticipate it to be truer than they could ever have thought. What starts out as another normal day in the woods behind their house, ends with their lives upended. Everything now is a test of their bond, their resolve, and the lengths they are willing to go to for the sake of their family...

[AMBYS WINNER 2024] Eccentric, troubled and undesirable, the Hargreaves twins Noah and Luna are often referred to as a curse upon mankind by the society of South Kerilia. And society is right. *** Luna Hargreaves is as unapproachable as they come, armed with poor manners, an uncanny interest in the occult and a fearsome bodyguard. All of them necessary according to her as she struggles to fend off the endless amounts of otherworldly horrors following her every footstep, as well as the threat of an unwanted fiancé. Ghostly adventures and unfortunate engagements are one thing, but when Luna and her brother's previously unknown origins begin unravelling in front of them, they soon find themselves with more knowledge than they would've preferred, and their identities crumbling before their eyes. Despite their best efforts to deny the fate designed for them and go about their lives, past drama creeps ever closer, and when a dire situation threatens the safety of their loved ones the twins come to realize they may need to embrace their nature in order to fight it.

→ finished ← Claustrophobic and agoraphobic, Alaska Gouramie doesn't leave the house much. She whiles her days away nurturing her goldfish, Gordon. Her life is passing her by. Elver Harrison James is scared of fish. He won't go near the pond at the bottom of his garden. He will do anything to stay away from those water-loving freaks. Alaska's mother forces her to leave the house. It's just a trip to the park, no big deal. Until Alaska falls in the pond. And Elver is the only one around. Teen Fiction #118

COMPLETED: 2019 Watty Award Winner in Fantasy Every night she plays...and every night they come... Lira is a violinist by nature and a performer by imprisonment. Stolen as a child by a malevolent wraith and trapped in the Spirit World, Lira now spends her days playing the very music that seduced her in the first place. She sees no escape from her existence under the sorceress Bebinn, until one day her music lures Owen who, at age 16, is supposed to be too old to succumb to its spell. Imprisoned alongside Lira and desperate to find a way back home, Owen vows to find a way to free them both. The only problem: no one has ever escaped Bebinn and the Spirit World alive. 1st Place Winner in Fantasy for the Undiscovered Writer Awards! 1st Place in Fantasy for the Hidden Author Awards! 1st Place in Fantasy for the Hot Dog Awards! Winner of @EventualElites "Hypnotized and Hooked" Award! 3rd Place in Fantasy for the Book Center's Summer Awards! Cover by: @Baneen121

{WATTPAD FEATURED STORY, NOVEMBER 2017} Welcome to the Grove. Two years after a devastating sickness swept the planet, the surviving human population barricaded itself into walled cities, shutting off the outside. While these self-preserving men and women tried to repopulate the lost Earth, the remaining scraps of society, the children orphaned by disease, were thrust into the wilderness. This is the Grove. My people, my tribe. When the world denied us salvation, we banded together with only one common goal: survive. We call ourselves the Ravens. Welcome to the wild. MAY BE TRIGGERING IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19. PLEASE PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING/QUARANTINE //cover by @sophgray