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Buried Secrets by BritCYancey
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After a failed bank robbery in Bodie, California, Helena Barnett awakens buried alive without any memory of who she is or how she got there. Haunted by the traumatic death of his mother when he was a teenager and his fiancé just three years ago, resurrectionist Oren Douglas keeps himself on the move to avoid the chance of forming emotional attachments. But his carefully structured life is derailed when he and his cousin, Casper, dig up their third and final corpse of the night in the Bodie Cemetery-only to discover she's still living. After a doctor reveals Helena's shocking identity and past, Oren feels an overwhelming sense of responsibility to protect her. He invites her to live with him and his cousin in Sacramento and gives her a new name, hoping she can start a happier life. But as Oren's web of lies unravels, they learn that some of Helena's buried secrets are deadlier than others. Together, they must fight not only for their chance at true love but also for their survival.
Guarding His Queen by wonderstruckagain
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The last thing Queen Zara needs after her disastrous coronation is to be tied down to the arrogant Canadian agent who saved her life. ~~~~~ Zara inherits the crown in her early twenties when her elderly father passes away. She is convinced that, though she is young, she will make a fine queen, capable and strong. Beside her is the fiancé that her father hand selected for her before he died and her life couldn't be more planned out and organized. That is until shots are fired at her during her coronation. Luckily, a Canadian agent on vacation saves the day. Jasper Kingsley is Zara's ultimate challenge: hot-headed, riddled with secrets and scars, and so damn attractive. Content warning: This story contains mature sexual content, drug use, and themes of death and violence.
Quid Pro Quo by SouthPawStance
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Satchmo Turner is a failed private detective from the rusting heart of the Black Country who is reeling from the loss of his sister and fiancee. He's going nowhere at work, and treading water in life, until he picks up a simple missing person case and stumbles into something much bigger. Satchmo soon finds himself in over his head and embroiled a hunt for ancient treasure, unrequited love, violence and murder in a quiet English village stocked with a cast of characters he could never have imagined. Praise for Quid Pro Quo from Wattpadders: "Damn you for writing such a good book. I'm dead serious when I say you should look to get it published." "Overall, I think it's a great book and something I'd expect to see on a shelf in a bookstore somewhere." "I read another chapter and devoured the whole damn thing over an afternoon." "All-in-all the book was thoroughly enjoyable and very professionally written. Definitely better than almost everything else that I have encountered on Wattpad... it was a compelling read." "Your style of storytelling is lovely to read. I'm trying desperately to convince my husband to sign up to Wattpad so he can read it too."
A Brilliant Plan by alexames
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Just a regular job.... Get in, crack the safe, fetch the diamonds. That's what hobby cat burglar and acclaimed jewelry maker Calendar Moonstone has aimed for. Instead she finds a dead body, meets a handsome Detective, has a nosey insurance investigator on her tracks and manages a complicated boyfriend situation. And must solve a century old jewelry mystery!
A Girl, a Murder, and Twelve Dreadful Children by NerissaMcC
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Dani O'Shannon has only one goal in life: she's going to write a book on Magical History. The twelve children who've invaded her home have other ideas. Then a girl is murdered, and the children decide to become detectives. What could possibly go wrong? Credit to @AFleetingDream_91 for making the cover.
Carnival House [COMPLETED✔️2015] by robyncfrances
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*UNEDITED* highest rank||#75 in Horror It's Halloween and four friends have wandered into the woods to see if the legend of The Carnival is true or not. For years, people have been reporting creepy carnival music coming from the woods and the teens want to see if they can get some answers to what is really happening. They are not expecting anything to happen, but are shocked when they come across a house deep into the woods, and inside are carnival themed rooms. From endless hallways and stairways leading no where, the teens are stuck and cannot get out. Will the teens ever escape, or will they be forced to stay in Carnival House forever? *i don't own image on cover*
Nocturnal [COMPLETED✔️2018] by robyncfrances
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When Nyx Forbes moves into a new home with her antique dealer parents and little brother, she hopes that the change will heal her crumbling family and finally bring some structure to her life. Before long, though, strange happenings occur, and Nyx finds herself falling into a dark hole that she thinks is madness. Nyx then meets Jonah Frost- social outcast and collector of all things creepy. Feeling like an outcast herself, Nyx feels a connection to Jonah and the two begin an unusual friendship. The two begin their own investigation on the house to try and better understand the happenings, but they aren't aware of just how strange their findings will be. From disappearances, to hidden rooms and a strange book, Nyx soon realises that maybe she isn't crazy after all. . . *i don't own image on cover*
The Time Traveller's Ball (The Erik Midgard Case Files Volume 1) by kdnorwich1
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How do you solve a murder when every single suspect has a time machine? Time-travelling police officer Erik Midgard has a problem. He has seen his own future. His fate is set. There is no way out. There is nothing he can do to escape it. He is going to die. But in the meantime, he has a murder to solve. On the moons of Mars, 900 years into the future, the wealthiest men and women in the solar system are arriving for the biggest night in the social calendar. The invitations are exclusively for people rich enough to own their own time machines. It is meant to be the greatest party in history. No one is supposed to die there. But when the guest of honour is found dead after the last dance, Erik and his partner Mirabi find themselves facing the greatest challenge of their careers. Trapped in a luxurious mansion and surrounded by millionaires, lovers, enemies, assassins, terrorists, robot doubles, hidden grudges, secret agendas and a criminal genius plotting his masterpiece, Erik and Mirabi must solve the case before its consequences can explode across the solar system. But as they sift through the evidence and the details of the crime start to appear, Erik finds himself beginning to wonder. Is his destiny truly written in stone? Or could there be a way for him to change it? A Wattpad Featured Book Selected by the BBC for their official Doctor Who reading list.