Alessia has never spoken a single word in her life. Stolen as a child by a ruthless gang, she grew up in captivity, taught to believe that pain was a lesson and obedience was survival. Forced to work as a servant, she endured years of mistreatment, never questioning the twisted reality forced upon her. Despite the cruelty, she remains kind, her innocence untainted-but dangerously unaware of the true depths of evil in the world. Until the night she escaped. Lost in the dark streets of Naples, she collided into Matteo De Luca, the cold and merciless head of the most powerful mafia family. Matteo is a man feared by all, a king in the underworld where blood and loyalty rule. He has no patience for weakness. No room for softness in his life. But when he sees the mute, trembling girl looking up at him with wide, trusting eyes, completely unaware of who he is, something inside him snaps. She doesn't fear him. She doesn't know he's a monster. And for the first time in his life, Matteo feels the dangerous urge to protect instead of destruction.

Ariana Feilman an FBI special agent was just assigned a new case to protect a billionaire. She doesn't know why her boss - Jack Penn - gave her the job for a rank lower than hers, but she's sure he has a reason. She can't wait to find out what the not-so-secretive job is all about. Jace Black recently found out his step-brother's not-so-secretive plan of getting rid of him to have their father's company. He told the one person he could trust, Jack Penn, Director of the FBI, and his best friend. Now Jack has assigned his best agent to protect him. How would Jace feel when he realizes who Jack has assigned to protect him? Will Ariana still protect him when she finds out the truth? Will they part ways unattached after her job is done?

After the murderous death of her parents, Hazel Daniels has been set on autopilot; living her life as silently and painlessly as possible. Rarely leaving her house and patiently awaiting to plan her parents' funeral, all Hazel wants to do is wait for all the chaos around her to disappear. That is, until her autopilot is jolted off by a man; Nathan Summers, a detective who has been given the task to put the Daniels murder case to rest. Pushing aside her anxiety and doubts, Hazel breaks every routine she's ever known and throws it away for the chance to help solve the mystery of who murdered her parents and finally, maybe, feel normal again. And our entire story begins with a simple cup of coffee. ✦ rankings ✦ #13 in hipster #22 in coffeeshop #154 in mystery #447 in murder - competed ✧ aug. 26, 2016

For Chrissie Hill, turning thirty is enough of a nightmare. But to hit the big 30...and wake up married? To a man she'd never met or seen before that morning when she finds him on her couch. Race insists they have been married for two years...and he has the proof, but can she make herself believe him? Suffering from an unusual bout of amnesia, Chrissie slowly comes to accept this man in her life -- and the life she didn't know she lived. Love, marriage and happiness had never been sweeter for two people. However, true love doesn't just drop out of her dreams onto her couch...she must go a little crazy first.

Allie Winters is the CEO of one of the most profitable fashion lines in the world. But with that comes its own Gucci-level baggage. Between work, fashion shows, and sleep, she has little to no time for romance. Until she starts to get mysterious love letters. --- Teaming up with her incredibly attractive driver, Tate Dalton, who irritates her to infuriating heights, she tries to piece together the clues that will lead her to love. But when someone leaves a bloody message at her fashion show, love is the last thing she can afford to think about. ---------------------------------------------------- ▪️FEATURED on @Wattpad's Homepage "Work Days, Billionaire Nights" Reading List! ▪️FEATURED on @WattpadExplorer "Work Days, Billionaire Nights" Reading List! ▪️FEATURED on @StoriesUndiscovered's "Plain Janes? Not These Ladies" Reading List! ▪️FEATURED on @GirlBossINC's "Badass Babes" Reading List! ▪️FEATURED on @NewAdultReads Reading List! --- Copyright- @AuthorCassidyKate Cover created using CANVA PRO Started- 08/13/2021 Highest Ranks: ❊#1 in Crush - 04/03/2023 ❊#16 in Love Story - 04/21/2024 ❊#3 in New Adult - 03/30/2022 ❊#3 in Chick Lit - 03/30/2022 ❊#15 in Humor - 03/30/2022 ❊#6 in Driver - 11/09/2021 ❊#2 in Fashion - 07/30/2022 ❊#28 in Secret - 10/20/2022 ❊#61 in Life - 10/20/2022 ❊#86 in Comedy - 11/27/2023 ❊#116 in Relationship - 07/30/2022 ❊#823 in Love Story - 01/11/2022 ❊#377 in CEO - 03/30/2022 ❊#402 in Betrayal - 07/30/2022 If you are reading this story on any platform other than Wattpad, you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack.

With the help of a smooth-talking cowboy, a broken ballerina battles physical and emotional trauma to get back to the barre, and maybe find love in the process. No more daily routines. No more barre warm-ups. And no more ballet. After a devastating injury, Adeline Vaughn's career is over. Having no other choice, she uproots her life and moves to Kentucky to live with her aunt. But the welcome party that greets her is not what Adeline expects- nor the spark that ignites between her and a certain cowboy. As she rebuilds her life, Adeline struggles with her compulsive tendencies and deeper wounds she isn't ready to confront, that is until Quinn Daniels with his slow smiles and southern charm steps in. Adeline soon finds herself the subject of this blue-eyed charmer's desires, but can he connect with Adeline as she fights to break the chains of her past? Flashbacks. War. And loss. Life on the ranch is busy for Quinn Daniels but no matter how much he puts on his plate, his past comes back to haunt him. He has a sister and friends who support him, but it isn't until a darlin' ballerina sashays into his life that Quinn sees the peace he needs so desperately. But Adeline Vaughn is not like any woman he has ever tried to lasso before. It will take all his southern charm and a huge amount of patience to claim the timid ballerina's heart. But will she want him when she learns about the hidden demons he battles? A shy ballerina's life shattered in an instant. A rugged cowboy haunted by his past. Will the two be the answer to each other's pain? * # 1 in Chicklit 5/22/21 # 1 in Ballerina 5/31/22 # 1 in Horses 5/22/21 # 1 in ContemporaryRomance 5/29/21 # 1 in Ranch 5/29/21 # 1 in OCD 5/29/21 # 1 in Country 6/3/21 # 1 in Ballet 6/20/21 # 1 in Cowboy 6/25/21 # 1 in PTSD 6/26/21 # 1 in Injury 8/2/21 #11 in Love 1/25/22

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

A genius analyst has to leave her desk behind and team up with the sour Agency hothead to track down her missing partner. ----- Quinn O'Reilly doesn't belong in the field. She's better off as the brilliant intelligence analyst behind some of the Agency's biggest arrests, and more than comfortable surrounded by her screens. Special Agent Cameron Kent, Agent Quinn's primary partner, is the pro carrying out the plans formulated with Quinn's brainpower. She's the closest thing to family Quinn's ever had. She's also missing, having dropped off the map in the middle of an undercover operation. There is no one better suited to find Cam than Quinn. There is no one better suited than Gavin Locke, agency hothead, to protect her in the meantime. With clues left all around the world, this unlikely pair will have to pick up the pace to find Cam in time - and avoid killing each other in the process. It's time for Special Agent O'Reilly to step forward - and into the field. ----- standalone, 150k words completed

Kill the man who deserves to die and you have eradicated the weed by its root. That was easier Done than Said for Delilah Eves. However, death of Benedict Ainsworth_ a culpably aristocratic lord of London led Delilah back North, to Yorkshire, Yorkton_ not only her hometown but also a place where the Duke of Yorkton becomes her next objective of intents. Lots of Cadavers, odd medical practices, an old acquaintance, mystery and malignity, a castle and another, death and decadence and the ever haunting moors_ Delilah Eves is pulled into a whirlwind of all things dark and all things savage. The only trouble is, the said duke is a sweet, unassuming man, unlike anything he was rumoured to be and there is no denying the undercurrent of attraction between the two. Delilah must decide what to believe.

She has it all except his heart. She had done both amazing and ridiculous things but was still treated as a wallflower. She's been a good wife. But now, she can no longer be. __________________ Natalia Zimmer had been married to Devon Yushkova for years. In those season, she told herself being a good wife was enough. Then everything shifted. Her buttons were pushed at every corner, letting her heart be broken beyond repair. Suddenly, a domineering man, whom she didn't imagine, crossed her path. A stranger who finally saw her. New revelations. New life. Second chance. _________________ **SLOW BURN and roller-coaster plot** **This is my original story. ***I do not own all the pictures that were attached to this book. Cover photo design idea from @ImReginaOscura [[Free on WATTPAD only]] Highest Rank Attained (2021): #1 Rebel - Sep to Nov 2021, July-Aug 2022 #1 Royal - July-Aug 2022 #1 Intrigue - Nov, Dec, Feb, May, Aug 2022 #1 Heartbreak - Sep 2021 - Jan 2022 #16 Romance - Oct 2021 #1 GeneralFiction - Oct, Nov, Dec, May 2022 #1 Divorce - Oct, Nov, Dec #1 Millionaire - Sep, Dec #1 Husband - Nov #1 Wife - Oct, Nov #1 Drama - Oct #1 StrongFemaleLead - Oct, Nov #1 Revenge - Sep, Oct, Nov #1 President - Oct, Nov #1 Slowburn - Sep #1 DramaRomance - Sep, Oct, Nov #1 Random stories - Sep 2021 - Jan 2022 #1 DominantMale - Sep, Oct Started on August 27, 2021 Completed on October 11, 2021 Around 72,332 words