When eighteen years old Elis moves to spend the summer back in her hometown to face long hidden woes, she meets a sixteen years old girl called Gray, who makes her uncover a whole new old apart from her grief. *** The lake house didn't exactly hold many good memories for Elis, so she greatly despised that her parents decided to spend the summer back at the place in which her brother died three years prior. Her solution was to lock herself up in her childhood bedroom for the duration of their stay, just so that she could avoid walking around the house filled with nothing but her brother's memories -- ones that three years of not coming back failed to erase. What Elis didn't expect to unstable her solution were the new possibilities that came with Gray, the ginger girl who looked to teach Elis that everything would be okay. × Completed ✔️ × A story of two girls falling in love somewhere in the midst of summer.

21 year old Josephine Fiori has two major problems in her life- her older sister, April, has gone missing without a trace. And she is hopelessly in love with her best friend- Ava. As Josephine tries to navigate love and finding her sister, life proves to be harder than she ever thought. Will it be worth it in the end?

"Those around you are not afraid of loving, so why are you? Why do you deny yourself the opportunity to love? To love without fear, without shame and with all of your heart. Let hateful words make your skin thicker, don't allow their opinions and beliefs to change who you are. Love her, him, love both or neither, love whoever but accept yourself as you are. Don't be afraid. There's no shame in loving." Nina Da Sousa is on a journey to find herself, to accept herself and to learn how to love and to communicate.

||WATTY'S SHORTLIST 2023|| [LGBTQ+ New Adult Fiction] When Mia Cunningham leaves her hometown in coastal Maine at 11 years old after her mother's death, her best friend, Leila Sutherland, gifts Mia a seashell "so she can hear the ocean and remember her home." Over a decade later, the two young women are beginning to navigate their post-grad lives. Leila has remained in Maine, afraid to branch out of her comfort zone, and Mia, after spending her college years in New York and unsure of her future, returns to the only place she ever felt home--Kenneburk, Maine. After a fateful meeting between the young women, Leila and Mia slowly begin to rekindle the friendship that had once been long forgotten. Their friendship is immediately tested, however, as Leila begins to develops familiar feelings and Mia, unsure of where she belongs, cannot help but wonder the direction her life is calling her towards. Will their friendship survive these new trials of adulthood, or should it have ended permanently the day that Mia left 12 years prior? Find out in "Can You Hear the Ocean?" (Published: 2021)

"It always started small, gradually growing and increasing with every second that past. I could always feel it, the numbness that shifts slowly to a pain stacking feeling that shook my body to the bones. Sometimes it came in the form of chest pain; other times, it came in sweats, and if it increased to fast, it came in the form of every muscle in my body tensing up, leaving me completely paralyzed. That was when I got scared the most, knowing I was playing a game that could end in only two ways. In a strange turn of events, though, I always found myself chasing that feeling as if it helped rekindled the small emblem of fire burning within me. It kept me feeling alive and that was a chase I didn't want to give up." At the age of 18, Riley Kidd knew she was an adrenaline junkie, and becoming a stunt double allowed her to chase the high she seemed to always want to feel. Now after years, It was still a feeling like no other, or so she thought. That all changed when she found herself looking into identical blue eyes, that would lead her crossing path with a single mother named Hailey Hunter. If Riley could retell her story, from the beginning of meeting Hailey, she would say, "It all stemmed from meeting that wild child."

It's been Four years since Skai Mitchell ran away from home, leaving the girl she loved and the nightmarish childhood past behind. Skai's new life consists of multiple unreliable part-time jobs, and a handful of casual one-night stands, but when Skai stumbles across a book written by a familiar name, she makes a decision that will change her life forever.

Skai was the kind of person that did reckless things just to be able to say that she had done them. I was the kind of person who liked to stay at home, and just read about people like Skai. Adventure, recklessness, it was never really my thing. But, Skai was different, and I was intrigued. I never really understood how much I had been missing until I met her. This is a story about my newfound, crazy, reckless, life. And a story about the girl that dragged me through it.

Time didn't matter to her. She got up when the sun did and tried to sleep when the sun went down. because of this seemingly endlessness, she's forgotten her name, she's forgotten her family and she's forgotten everything she use to be. Now she was nothing. Living on the streets of a town begging for money and food from travellers that didn't know who she was, unlike the rest of the town that thought of her as something unnatural even though she doesn't know why. Constantly abused by the townspeople who don't understand her, she is left to die in an alleyway after a horrible run in with three drunk men. She was expecting to die and have her corpse eaten by rats and other vermin. What she didn't expect was to be saved by a woman that was everything but human. "Do you want to live?" This woman asked and when she looked into herself she knew the answer, it came easy through her busted lips. "Yes." From that day on she became something else, something not human, something extraordinary and from that day forth she will serve this woman who saved her life and maybe one day remember her name or be given one by her new Mistress. Maybe one day she'll remember who she was and maybe she'll even find the one person that completes her soul. From that day forth she became a Nightwalker. Completed. This is a lesbian story and contains mature actions between females. There will be warnings at the beginning of the chapter if you do not wish to read such content.