[WATTY'S SHORTLIST 2021 & 2022] "I love every part of you. Not because of who you were before, but because of who you are now, in spite of all the bullshit this universe has sent your way." Jasmine Ali is broken. After watching her best friend die, she walks through life with a strained smile and heavy heart, trying her best to seem like everything is okay. All that matters is getting through her daily routine. But when Jace Wilson appears with a limp and a frown, her mask begins to slip. And Jasmine begins to learn that nothing is ever truly broken.

follow as friday goes through a world of shit with her friends right by her side. hearts get broken, phones are stolen and graphic images are shared, people get shot and there's so much tears. the theme is forgiveness and friendship, with a dash of love. the world is ugly, but with the right people by your side, it can be okay. *purposely in common letters. - cover by @rosenoirwrites ! ❤️

❝ Writing two best-selling books, easy, confronting my feelings..not so easy❞ Before, Florence Clarke loved someone who was cruelly taken away from her, but life went on and she learnt that it should not only go on, but become better, writing and the love of her family and friends helped her to heal wounds that she thought were eternal. Now, Florence has published her second book and has her life back under her own control, she no longer lives in the past and has learnt that sometimes loving someone means letting them go, but with a possible new fiancée, a sick goddaughter and the twin of her lost love Chase sending her mixed messages is everything as clear cut as it seems? Can the past every truly leave her? And can she learn to love again? Cover by @quirksofchloe ⇥HVLlf3fE⇤

❝ I'm scared, scared I'll go back to being broken now that he isn't here to fix me anymore❞ Before, Florence Clarke was hospitalised for having anorexia, she was put on The List at Phillipson High and named the Fat Girl, at first Oakwood Clinic seemed like hell but then Chase Roberts entered her life and made it seem worth living, Florence began to recover... Now, Florence is a bestselling author struggling to come to terms with the loss of Chase and the fact that he has a twin brother Cole, recently released from prison for crimes she doesn't know about, a twin brother that she must now save from himself But can the past every truly leave her? And can she learn to love again? Cover by @quirksofchloe

(Book 3 of 3 in the Weakness Series) Jamie and Lachlan have never had a simple relationship. One moment they're at each others throats and the next they're struggling to keep it platonic. All because they want to protect one another from the skeletons banging to get out of the closet. That was until everything they've been desperate to keep hidden is exposed with a bounty forcing them to run. Is the truth going to tear them apart or finally bring them together?

A thirty-seven-year-old woman who never breaks the rules finds herself facing unexpected consequences after a one night stand with a younger man. * * * ☆ FEATURED ON @WattpadStars reading list (stars did NaNo), @Romance (Romance spotlight: Featured stories), @AmbassadorsNG reading list, @Wattpad reading lists (escape through stories) (strong female leads), @WattpadExplorer reading lists (#CelebrateBlackStories), (Black girl magic) (April, Editor's pick) and @ContemporaryLit reading lists (Hot picks) (contemporary romance) (celebrate women's history month)☆ Genevieve Ukaji is a successful banker still single at thirty-seven-years-old. Her mother continues to remind her to find a husband. Her colleagues gossip about her behind her back, and to make matters worse, she wakes up one morning in a stranger's bed. Regardless, she decided to push the experience to the back of her mind until the stranger unexpectedly walks into her parents' home, and she realises the big age difference between them. Genevieve is too ashamed and embarrassed of herself. She wants nothing to do with him, but it's not the same for the cute stranger. He tries his hardest to bring her out of her shell. Amidst all this, Genevieve finds out she's expecting. For the first time in her life, she would have to decide if this glimmer of happiness is enough to face the fear of what others might say about her. THIS WAS A NaNoWriMo2020 PROJECT. THIS BOOK IS COMPLETE Started: 06/11/20 Completed: 29/11/20 Edited with the help of @SabaUmmeSalma

"If love could talk, hearts would never break." In which murder is mistaken for mercy, and love is mistaken for lies. #1 - madlove / psychopath #3 - insanity

"Life is a game and everyone's playing it. Some more serious than others. It's just a constant game of people playing each other, and if you're unlucky, you get eliminated." Two psychopaths are playing to win. #1 - deranged / insanity

"Love me like you want to break me." Is it really love if it isn't cruel? #1 - deranged #3 - madlove

|FEATURED ON ROMANCE AND WATTPAD OFFICAL READING LIST| Seventeen-year-old Adelaide (Addy) Badmus has grown up with the colour of her skin being her sole identity in her racially biased small-town. Armed with her ambitious and carefully laid plans, she's mere months away from walking away and leaving behind the constraints Warshaw had imposed on her. But when a boy with eyes she wants to get lost in and a smile that never fails to call forth her own, threatens to upend her carefully laid plans, Adelaide is forced reconcile with the fact that the town she's been so eager to escape might have found the final clause to keep her home. romance: young love wattpad: community curator Copyright © 2020 by minnietheailen.