THANK YOU, Wattpad, for the HQ Love Watty Award! Concept: A mysterious young woman flees from her troubled past only to discover it is impossible to escape THE SECRET that haunts her. *PLEASE NOTE: This story was originally inspired by the movie "Sleeping With the Enemy". * * * * * "I would never, Steven," she promised, turning away from him in an attempt to protect herself. "I know you wouldn't," he screamed. Cupping her chin in his hand, he forced her to look at him. "Because I would kill you." His words hung heavy in the air. Sarah's heart sank into her stomach. No matter how many times she'd heard the menacing phrase, she could never get used to it. It had the same affect on her as the first time he'd thrown the ugly words in her face. The familiar sting of bile rose in her throat, and she knew she would deplete the contents of her stomach once she was locked in the safety of their master bath. 'If I make it through this time,' she agonized. Her biggest fear was that one day he would really lose his temper with her. Who knew what would happen then? *This story is an unedited first draft. Top Ranks: Action #1, Mystery and Thriller #1 *This story contains scenes of abuse and may be disturbing to some readers. While the characters are fictional, domestic violence is a serious issue that many people across the world face. If you or someone you know is the victim of abuse, please seek help immediately. Notice: This document is not authorized for upload or use with artificial intelligence systems or platforms. Any attempt to upload, analyze, or process this content using AI technology is strictly prohibited.

Just when she thought she was safe . . . Now that she has a loving, devoted family by her side, Talia Wilson finally feels happy and secure. What she doesn't realize is that someone from the past is out to get her. Someone who knows about her secrets and the deceitful game she played. And this someone is even crazier than the last . . . Welcome to 'Secrets and Lies', a sequel to Watty Award winning story 'The Secret'! *This story is an unedited first draft. Highest rank: #1 in Mystery and Thriller *This story contains scenes of abuse and may be disturbing to some readers. While the characters are fictional, domestic violence is a serious issue that many people across the world face. If you or someone you know is the victim of abuse, please seek help immediately. Notice: This document is not authorized for upload or use with artificial intelligence systems or platforms. Any attempt to upload, analyze, or process this content using AI technology is strictly prohibited.

Book Three of the award-winning Undone Realms Series! Clara and Nolan have been living happily together in their hotel-sized pocket realm for almost a year. But is everything truly all right now? Clara has her doubts. Something seems...off to her. This feeling only intensifies when a stranger shows up at the hotel. He can't see them, but he seems to know they're there. The day Nolan split himself in two, he leaves the hotel with a goal in mind and an empty place in his heart. It doesn't take long for all of his plans to be tossed to the wind. Rather than the Canadian border, he finds himself crossing into an entirely new universe where he unwittingly becomes part of a multiverse rescue mission. Avie is in exile. From her daughter. From Marcella. With Oliver and her family gone, Avie is forced to live out years in a world that has grown increasingly hostile to everything she holds dear. Her only desire is to survive long enough to be able to return to her daughter. But when a dangerous man shows interest in her, she fears all of her efforts will end with a noose around her neck. Interconnected stories in multiple realities; escapes, rescues, murder-all converging in a climax that may save one world while destroying another. Welcome to the conclusion of the Fold Series!

2014 WATTY WINNER!! (Collector's Dream Award for being one of the most want-to-read stories of 2014!). A Wattpad Featured story, and a Summer 2015 #WattpadBlockParty featured book! Undone Realms series: bk. 1 Out of countless realms in the multiverse, Clara is trapped in one that won't let her breathe. Her life consists of a hotel in a tiny pocket universe overlapping our own. Population: one. She doesn't know how she came to be there, how she can exist without breathing, or why she can see into the breathing world, but no one can see into hers. Nolan doesn't know any more about parallel worlds or pocket universes than Clara does. Running away from his abusive father, he finds work at the hotel. Depressed, Nolan wants to disappear as much as Clara wishes to be seen. There is little hope that they'll share anything beyond a palpable loneliness until the morning the barrier separating their planes of existence is breached and for the first time, Clara's unseen world is made visible. As Nolan is slowly drawn into Clara's breathless reality, he must decide whether the love of one person is worth crossing into a world that may never let him back into his own.

A Wattpad Featured story! (Note: UNHEEDED is the second story in the Undone Realms Series. However, this story can be read first as it has a stand-alone storyline.) Meet new characters...explore the Dual Realms...discover how Clara became unseen. When the impossible is made possible, Avie, the stepdaughter of a realm worker, finds herself transported to an apple orchard on a world that is not her own. There she stumbles upon Oliver, a migrant laborer who assumes Avie is from the city. Only years later when Avie is able to return to Oliver's realm does he realize she's learned to stepped through the Fold separating their dual realities. Oliver can't stop thinking about Avie or the world she comes from. Together they carry out a plan to bring him through the Fold so that they can be together. But this plan is not without serious risks. In Avie's world, people from other realities are not welcome. While the threat of persecution threatens them from the outside, an internal struggle grows within Oliver as well. When this struggle intensifies, the two must decide whether sanity and freedom are too high a price to pay in order to be together.

Inheriting a bride and losing his father might not have been the best reasons for moving across the country, but when Eiren arrives at his betrothed's family castle, the prospect of being married becomes far less concerning than simply not going insane... or getting himself killed. • • • Called to the home of his betrothed at the Kelfordshire Estate, Eiren Adair is suddenly pulled from a life of comfort far, far away from his father and any marriage obligations. Now in want for comfort and luxury, he finds himself trapped in wait for his impending marriage to the Lord Van Wyk's daughter in a season of perpetual rain and snow. Surrounded by a hostile family and haunted by the terrifying statues scattered around the estate - modeled after the dead wives of the Lord Van Wyk by the famed sculptor Severin Quilby - Eiren must come to terms with his own desire to live and escape, before he becomes another tragedy of Kelfordshire Castle. • • • ▪️ 2020 Wattys Horror Winner ▪️ 1st Place Horror 2021 Punk Rock Awards ▪️ Content Warning: Contains some vulgar language and mild violence

When Isabelle Donovan disappears without a trace, her case eerily resembles another woman's unexplained vanishing just a year before-raising chilling questions about what truly links these two mysteries. Isabelle Donovan doesn't show up to work, which causes immediate concern. Known for her impeccable attendance, Isabelle would never miss a day without notice. The police launch a swift investigation, with initial suspicion falling on her estranged husband, Scott Donovan, from whom she separated six months earlier. Scott claims ignorance regarding Isabelle's disappearance, but his alibi begins to unravel when her best friend comes forward with unsettling new information. A year earlier, another young woman vanished under eerily similar circumstances. Though her body was never recovered, police remained convinced her husband was responsible-despite lacking proof. As the search for Isabelle intensifies, troubling questions emerge. What truly led to the end of Isabelle's marriage? Is Scott harboring secrets, or is he a scapegoat for a deeper mystery? And could Isabelle's case be linked to the earlier disappearance? If so, does that clear Scott-or deepen his guilt? In this story, innocence is elusive and every character harbors secrets. Because here, nobody is innocent.

Somewhere in the murky future, the city-state of New Hollywood stands like a jewel by the ocean. It is one of the few remaining strongholds of civilization. It is an idyllic land where people live prosperously and free of crime. It is a place where celebrities walk among its populous like demigods. And the only thing threatening its peace is the shadowy Pan Global Alliance. An ultra-militaristic coalition of rival city-states, the PGA launch covert terror attacks against the New Hollywood government and its citizens. Luckily, the city's leaders - the Executives - are there to ensure the safety of this island of tranquility. At least this is how it all seems to Owen Stewart before a chance encounter reveals the truth to him and changes his life for ever. Onetime star reporter, now fugitive from justice, Owen must fight for his life and rebuild his identity, as all the forces of the city are turned against him. And somehow, he has to expose the truth to the rest of the populous or die in the attempt. I Was Owen Stewart is the first story of The Times of New Hollywood, a series of interlaced tales exploring the canals and waterways of the great future metropolis.