A young woman and a cop find themselves in over their heads as they try to protect their new love in a world filled with violence and murder. *** Violet Lee seems to be living everyone else's dream. As the only daughter of one of the country's most affluent and prominent households, she is cherished and well protected by her kin. Little do they know, she longs to escape the gilded prison that her sheltered life is and become her own person. Police Superintendent Kai Wu has been living in a void after his lover's murder seven years ago. Wanting to escape the haunting memory, he buries himself in his work, cracking the toughest of criminal cases. What happens when destiny takes over, connecting a magical red thread between these two strangers? Meanwhile, in the criminal underworld, a new phantom by the name of Zagan has risen to claim the throne... *** Read this gorgeous, whirlwind romance with a tinge of crime/mystery guaranteed to tug at your heartstrings. *** Achievements: ▪︎ 1st place winner Romance, Hot Chocolate Awards 2021. ▪︎ Honorable mention Romantic Dreams Awards 2021. *** ▪︎Status: Ongoing. ▪︎Updated weekly on Friday, 3 PM CET/GMT+1/UTC+1 Copyright © 2021 Cantiara All Rights Reserved.

Eden's got a crush on her neighbor, Jasper, who lives in the apartment across the hall. The problem? He already has a girlfriend who's a beautiful model. That is, until the day she turns up dead. Eden finds herself caught up in the drama and meets four additional romanceable characters as she figures out what happened to Jasper's late girlfriend, Sophia. Looking into a dead girl's past may turn out to be more complex and dangerous than Eden could've ever imagined, but Jasper stands to pay a steep price if she fails... ~~~This story features choices that allow the reader to choose which character they would like to get to know better, and will one day be a visual novel~~~ 1st Place in The Strawberry Milkshake Awards ~ Mystery/Thriller 1st Place in the Opulence Writer's Awards ~ Mystery/Thriller 2nd Place in The Chocolate Heart Awards ~ Horror/Mystery 3rd Place in The Banana Awards ~ Mystery/Thriller Runner-up in The Fast Foods Awards ~ Romance Top Rankings: 2nd in #investigate 6th in #reporter 7th in #user 10th in #visual 10th in #dreamlandbooks

| 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 | Akanksha, a forensic expert and her husband Vihaan, a CBI officer must work together through the gulf in their marriage to catch a serial killer threatening to expose their secrets. ════ ⋆★⋆ ════ When Akanksha returns to Jaipur for her best friend's wedding, she anticipates nothing out of the ordinary. The pre-wedding rituals remind her bitterly of her dream to marry for love and she dreads returning home to the brewing argument with her husband of seven years, Vihaan. But when a series of murders come knocking at Akanksha's door, she realises she cannot solve it alone. After avoiding each other like plague for years, she and Vihaan must put aside their differences and learn to work together to capture this serial killer. However, the nightmares of Akanksha's past are difficult to deny. Will the hunt for the murderer bring her and Vihaan closer together or are the secrets in their relationship too deep to ever find peace? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Trigger/Content Warning: Elements of PTSD, anxiety, violence, abuse, death, mental health issues, mention of sexual abuse and rape, and other triggering issues. Please read only if you're comfortable reading these themes and the story is marked to be MATURE. ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Featured By @Romance, @dangerouslove, @WattpadRomanceIN, @ContemporaryLit, @generalfiction, @WattpadChicklitIN and @MysteryThrillerIN | This amazing cover is made by @NattKuznetsov © akiimarvelous 2020 Exclusively On Wattpad

When an influencer meets (and falls for) a social media skeptic, she has to decide whether to keep her masks on ― or finally show the world her real self. ⋆☆⋆ Krista Ming has perfected the art of duality. She's a bookish introvert by day and a nebulous mix of Instagram influencer and model and club promoter by night. Juggling Pre-Medical school, two jobs, and her family's high expectations with her cool grace, sharp humour and compassion, everyone loves Krista. Except Quentin Cheng. He hates social media influencers. Krista plots and plans to change his mind, but how much can she do before she loses sight of herself? ⋆☆⋆ [ @WattpadExplorer's Editor's Pick List October 2021 ] [ @Wattpad's College Romances List September 2022 ] [ @Wattpad's Campus Life, Campus Love List August 2023 ] [ Halston University #3. Stand-alone. Completed. Word Count: 90K - 100K ]

Loving yourself is hard. Trying to find love in a family who objectified you? Seems like work. But try finding love in someone as a hopeless romantic too. • • • Smart, nerdy, pretty, and kind are all the words she's gotten used to. Being a Junior in college, Evangeline Collins has learned that the kindest of words are said by the evilest of beings. Not only that but living in a family where expectations are through the roof helped her grow a thick skin. However, just when she began succumbing to her hopeless life, she meets a worse type of being. Matteo Cadwell. A senior, living like the devil as she kindly called him. It was inevitable that they didn't get along. Until they gave it a shot. When Matteo saw the kind of life Evie was living, his eyes opened wide for him to see everything. In an attempt to just see the good in her he saw something so much more - he saw the good in him. Helping raise each other, love each other, these two fight to the end. They fight until they freed themselves from the cruel chains of their lives. Previously known as "The Mind Of A Hopeless Romantic" [ FEATURED WATTPADROMANCE NOVEL ] ©AsteriaLauder2020 Started: July 24, 2020

in which Dylan Xiao leaves tapes with songs for his best friend, Jane Rose, hoping the songs tell her what he couldn't.

No longer in control, her hands instinctively gripped the fabric of her seat, her shoulder blades hit the back of her seat, and her eyes opened again as she felt the bus start to move. It was an escape, but she was fearful. // the unknowns ; extended summary inside ; copyright © junxluna 2021 #8 in asiansinlit [14 jan 21] #15 in diveristy [14 jan 21] #66 in talkthepoc [13 jan 21]

A tale of love, loss, and new beginnings. Hareem wants to start over, Momin is stuck in the past. Can a newly wedded couple learn to love and accept one another while also dealing with an uncertain future and a haunting past? Trigger warning: ptsd, suicide, death. Copyrighted © Saroosh M.

Paying an homage to the classic, Pride and Prejudice, this story begins in Seattle, Washington with Emma Lee. She's working as a line chef in a restaurant, hoping to open her own kitchen one day. When she tags along with a friend to a boat party for the elite, she happens to meet a modern Mr. Darcy, who also frustrates and challenges her beyond any other person she's ever met. She assumes that they'll never have to cross paths again, but it seems that fate has other ideas for the two of them. *** Will try and upload chapters at least once a week! If I have extra time, I'll try and do twice a week :)

Everyone knows those Christmas romances where they pretend to be a couple for the holidays and end up falling in love before Christmas Eve, right? Well, at least every hopeless romantic does. Penelope knows these movies by heart, watching them every cold December night as she hopelessly waits for Aden, her irresistible colleague, to get the hint and see her as more than a friend. But this year, she won't wait for Santa to bring her the perfect romance. She is determined to take matters into her own hands and get the love story she's been waiting for too long. She has the perfect plan for it: she will ask Aden to be her fake boyfriend for the holidays. If it works in the movies, why wouldn't it work in real life, especially when they have already so much in common? She has everything planned to make him fall in love before Christmas day, well, everything except a little detail... a pair of green eyes and a devious smirk that have driven her up the wall her whole childhood: Theone, her brother's best friend. He's back for the holidays, and she knows the moment he passes the door that it means nothing but trouble. What she doesn't suspect, though, is that he could mess her perfect Christmas romance the only way she would have never thought of... Join Penelope in her journey to find love, where there are gonna be all these classic Christmas romances must-haves: romantic ice-skating, cookies made with love, mistletoe kisses, adorable little kids, snow... yet maybe not as you imagine. Featured in Wattpad Chicklit's Four Seasons Reading List Featured in Wattpad Stories Undiscovered's Plain Janes? Not these ladies... Reading List