THE FAE ARE STEALING HEARTS [Wattpad Picks: Editors' Choice] Many moons ago, a deal was struck with the fae by a young woman who wished to save her lover's life. Years later, Adalyn is called upon to repay the debt and tumbles into a realm entirely apart from her own. Lost within a sinister fae city, sh...
[-Vincitore Wattys 2018-] Cosa succede se gli esperimenti di un malvagio stregone costringono la Morte a fare gli straordinari? Accompagnare anime nell'Aldilà è un lavoro più stressante di quanto si possa immaginare, e se le ferie non sono previste dal contratto non resta che una soluzione...
I'm sorry I can't save you from our imminent societal collapse. ------ The students at Mikael-Nilssen are destined for greatness. Journalists, judges, politicians, and entertainers--this is where most of them originate if they've grown up on Sweden's west coast. Amala Luponi, a twenty-six-year-old aspiring film direc...
Portland, Maine in the mid '90. Just because you're young and broke and living in a marginal city just off the edge of nowhere doesn't mean you're missing out on sex, drugs, serial killers, insanity, death, grunge, and Winona Ryder. But what about growing up? What the fuck's up with that?
A soothsayer peaks through space and time to answer the question: is Frans Dahl dying or already dead? ---- Yashar Alizadeh wears many identities in the world. A professional dancer. A gay man. A perpetual expat. An adoptee. Most acutely, around Frans Dahl, he feels like his grandmother's charge. His grandmother--the...
«Il mondo non è rotondo, è una piramide, e alla base ci siamo noi. Divise e manifestanti che si ammazzano a vicenda, mentre il vertice si gode lo spettacolo dall'alto.» «E chi è il vertice, Levriè?» A Roma c'è un detto che recita: "il più pulito c'ha la rogna". Tito - incosciente, avventato, cinico - non fa eccezione.
A hidden tower. A trapped servant. An evil enchantress. Sound familiar? In a bygone world of steam and airships, Alek builds singing automatons for the villainous Lady Elise, hoping that one day he can buy his freedom. Everything changes when a healer's apprentice happens upon the tower. With Felix's help, Alek learns...
Tre ragazzi morbosamente attratti da un anonimo cimitero. Una entità enigmatica. E un ragazzo in tempesta ormonale.
Anni '40. Quando iniziano a giungere voci riguardanti una rivolta in Polonia sul punto di scoppiare, un gruppo della Resistenza ungherese dovrà decidere se unirsi a loro e lasciare il proprio Paese per partire verso Varsavia. • Completa •
In the slums of East London, two children faced the struggle of survival in an orphanage during the Great Depression. Only their unexplainable abilities could keep them from disease and death. When a strange young man came knocking at Wool's Orphanage in 1936, offering the young girl a place at Durmstrang Institute o...
The Marauders are starting their fifth year at Hogwarts; Remus is starting with a massive scar across his face - a byproduct of the increasing severity of his furry little problem, which is a definite cause for concern despite his insistence that it it's fine. Sirius is starting with the memories of a certain mornin...
[BOOK ONE OF THE NEW GODS DUOLOGY] '"I won't!" The scream ripped from her throat and she spun, a trail of fire following at her feet. The grass smouldered around her as her eyes blazed. "He got what he deserved." "Then you are against us..."' Shea is a new goddess, with a terrible secret. When she is captured by an e...
Cynth Abdullah. A girl of action. A girl with a plan. She knows what she wants and fights to get it. But after fighting to revive her school's newspaper, she must recruit a staff of unlikely girls to help her run the chronicle. And soon it isn't just about the newspaper anymore. The girls lead lives of their own and...
"Café Vanellas sits in the middle of a bustling side street just off downtown Montréal, and here's an interesting factoid: it's staffed entirely by elves. " ===== In a world populated by humans, elves, satyrs, dragons, and the spirits of other clans long past, Toriv Vanellas is just a 30-something Montréal city elf tr...
- Storia selezionata per la "Rosa dei candidati" Wattys2018 - Edith Roman ormai è una donna adulta, il collegio che l'ha ospitata sin da quando era una bambina presto non potrà più garantirne la protezione e il sostentamento. È tempo che trovi il suo posto nel mondo. Ma come può sopravvivere una donna sola, senza fa...
" Sulla strada, pregai per tutto il tempo di non incrociare nessuno. Schiacciai forte l'acceleratore, e fu l'auto a cambiare le cose. Il ruggito del motore prende il posto di tutto, semplicemente, succede. La campagna non c'è più, non c'è più nemmeno la strada e sento i timori sciogliersi come neve. Ci siamo soltanto...
"She was the girl who longed for the freedom of the dragon, and he was the dragon who longed to be a man." A heroine reclaiming her fate. A dragon with a secret. A prince on a quest. Olivia flees to the forest seeking freedom from her family's demands. She finds refuge in a cave, only to discover it is a dragon's lair...
[dal testo: ] ❝ Non mi sono mai sentito così libero nel vedere della carta sfuggirmi dalle mani. ❞ La mia raccolta di storie che non racconta nulla di rilevante. Ogni storia è una minuscola scintilla smarrita nel buio. ©mr_spazzola
There is no night in the Everburning City. There can never be. ***** For four hundred years the Everburning City has withstood the advance of the life-strangling fog known as the Gloam. Its walls have held back five invasions, but on the eve of the...
There is no night in the Everburning City. There can never be. Fourteen people lie dead on the platform of Billows Station, killed by fire and rage. And as the perpetrator hides within the millions of people who inhabit the City, the task of finding this murder falls to Inspector Samuel B Fraser. Aided by a grateful...
There is no night in the Everburning City. There can never be. Malice hides behind tragedy, as a conspiracy begins to gather steam. Natalia Casper, reporter for the Tributary, risks more than her reputation as she finds herself chasing plots that reach from High Central to the furthest walls. Adrian Keates, fleeing...
All of her life, Maria Alvarez has been sure of three things. 1.) The Lord God will protect and guide her thought all of the trials of life. 2.) Vampires are soulless husks of their former selves, little more than animated bodies feeding off the living. 3.) It's her job as a servant of God to rid...
Uziversitari. Romanzo d'amore, di studi e di pallottole mai sparate. Christian, un venticinquenne insicuro e nevrotico, condivide con altri quattro universitari un appartamento in una cittadina di provincia del nord Italia. S'illude di essere a un passo dalla laurea, ma non ha fatto i conti con i meccanismi perversi d...
The first novella in a brand new zombie trilogy. Once bitten, the virus spreads throughout the human body. It shuts down organs, kills nerve impulses and even reprograms the way we think. The virus becomes us. But the process takes eight hours. If you only had eight hours left to live, what would you do? For Chris...
