Antagonists to Lovers | Forbidden Romance | Julie Stevens just wants a simple life, but the brooding, intensely handsome and mysterious fighter named Joey Ryder, turns her entire world upside down. It doesn't help that she's had a crush on him-through the TV screen-for years...but he doesn't know that. Yet. FEATURED @StoriesUndiscovered for the month of July 2022 FEATURED @Romance on Wattpad ... Sports therapist, Julie Stevens, reconsiders her taste in men when a brooding, legendary MMA fighter walks into her small-town gym. The fighter needs a team to prepare him for the brutal, winner-takes-all Warlord tournament. Meeting him person, she learns that he's crass, difficult, and even hostile... But she can't turn him away, as this is the break that the gym needs. Not only does she have to deal with the fact that Ryder was her celebrity crush for many years, but she also can't catch a break with the grumpy fighter. Every encounter seems to go wrong... and then, one day, it doesn't. Ryder's walls peel back, piece by piece, until the complicated warrior reveals a man who loves hard, and unequivocally. But Julie signed a contract with the gym's main coach stating that she'll never cross that line. They both know it, but they can't stop throwing looks as strong as his punches. Will Julie risk losing the gym that she holds up in her brother's honor? What will she think when secrets are dragged out of Ryder's shadows that he'd much rather keep hidden? ... Friendly for all readers who enjoy a steamy, tension filled romance with drops of humor. Knowledge and/or interest in MMA not required. ... AWARDS: 🥇1ST PLACE The Carnival Awards -- Romance 2020 🥇1ST PLACE in Boba Awards - Romance 2022 🥉3rd Place ROMANCE Besties Award 2020 🏆Best Cover for Carnival Awards 2020

Tae Shin is a simple boy with simple dreams, who likes to hide his half-forgotten past into the shadows of his low self-esteem. Kim JaeHwan is a sole heir to a gigantic multi-billion conglomerate, who likes to reminisce the ghosts of his happy childhood a little more than what is healthy. Their childhood friendship was one that could be described by a pretty montage. Flashes of memories stuck in rose gold resin and sparkles. They held hands wherever they went, until life snatched Shin away and made him a shattered mess of the human he was. Only JaeHwan remembers the pretty parts; Shin is left with hollow nightmares of his childhood abuse and a crippling case of amnesia. When fate places them together once again, in the elite school of Royal Boys High, JaeHwan's memories blur and fuse with his fantasies. Where he dreams of loving his lost childhood friend once again. Shin would remember him, wouldn't he? Cover and story art by myself. |Featured on: @FreetheLGBT : Coming of Age @YARomance Reading List: Semesters of Love @TeenFiction Reading List: The Full Spectrum (Diverse Lit.) @WattCliche Reading List: Beating Hearts @AmbassadorsIN Reading List: Teen Fiction|

Shanice Wilson, born and raised in Harlem, moves to Atlanta for her new job. The company sets her up in a lovely cul-de-sac in an almost deserted part of the suburbs. Nate Dylan is the president of the Dead-Eye Angels MC. He rides with his buddies, takes care of them and their families, and doesn't have any problem getting a lady to warm his bed. But things turn upside down when a loudmouth, rude New Yorker moves next door. Nate is all about Southern hospitality, but Shanice isn't falling for his charms. A tit-for-tat battle starts between the two, and things go too far. This is the first book in the Dead-Eye Angels MC series. ***Book contains language and content that may be triggering and/or offensive to some.*** The story contains information and discussions of but not limited to childbirth, infant loss, miscarriage, traumatic health care experiences, racial discrimination, domestic violence, police violence, death and dying, mental illness and mental health crisis, sexual assault, and incarceration, which some readers may find triggering. ***Awards*** 🏆 Best Protagonist (Shanice) (1st place - The Cobalt Valentine's Special Award) 🏆 Best Romance (2nd place - The Temeraire Awards) 🏆 Best Short Story (3rd place - The Petrichor Awards) 🏆 Best Short Story (3rd place - The Winterspell Awards) ***Featured on*** @WattpadESL | Words Of Affectionate | Romance & ChickLit @WattpadMulticultural | Chiclit and Mature content @WattpadShortStory | Love Diaries @StoriesUndiscovered | Lunch Hour Shorts [Short Story <1 hour] @GirlBossINC | Badass Babes @AdultFiction | Melting Hearts and Featured Adultfiction Stories

The Noire family curse is out for blood. Zenetra Noire must remain vigilant, especially after joining the Constabulary Force as a cadet-in-training. A distress call radioed in by celebrated explorer Scarlett Burn changes everything. The search and rescue operation over the Ghost Sea puts the team in peril and though led by a powerful alchemic inspector, someone on the airship harbors ulterior motives. To survive, Zenetra relies on haunting childhood stories from her missing sister, but there's no guarantee that her alchemic education is going to solve the secrets of a lost city and the strange, magical phenomenon that encircles it. *SLOWBURN* - *DEEP WORLDBUILDING*

What do you do when you find out the guy you're dating's a vampire? For Peyton Jennings, the answer is obvious. After catching Henry with his teeth buried in someone's neck, all she wants is to put an end to him. The only question is how. Enter two strange men, who claim to be part of an elite organization that hunts mythical creatures. They've been tracking Henry for months, unable to get close, and Peyton could just be the key to taking him down for good. It seems like the perfect solution. But, Peyton's assistance comes with a heavy price - she wants to be a Hunter, just like them. When you throw in a shady deal with their leader, a green-eyed Hunter that's a little too charming for his own good and years-worth of training crammed into one week, it's clear that she's bitten off more than she can chew. Faced with an impossible task and the possibility that she might die, she's too stubborn to back down. After all, as they say 'when life hands you a vampire boyfriend, it's time to make better decisions'. Or something along those lines. [Featured on Wattpad's official Paranormal and Humor pages]

When Teal helps an injured soldier by hand-delivering a scroll to the Emperor, he is offered a place in the Emperor's harem. Teal is of Lombock descent however, a cannibalistic race of beings who were believed to have died out. Having grown up on the outskirts of the Empire, Teal finds adjusting to life as the Emperor's concubine difficult, especially when he starts to fall for the Emperor's number one concubine instead. As he begins to learn about his origins, he also stumbles on old dark secrets; traitorous spies, unfinished disputes, and old enemies from neighboring kingdoms hide in plain sight within the palace walls, all threatening to ignite Teal's true identity and with it, cause the return of a race of beings who once controlled the world with horrific consequences. The only way out? A possible alliance with a defiant and strong-willed princess and a group of magical assassins who wish to control the world as they see fit. (Contains mature content) This story was inspired while reading the book "Emperor Dowager Cixi" by Jung Chang. Quite a bit of Ancient Roman politics also inspired/influenced me. Word Length: approx. 176,000 Art work for cover purchased from Canstock: by 'AtelierSommerland'

After a painful loss, the last thing Katherine expects to do is fall in love. ***** Katherine's life is a wreck. Not only has her best friend ditched her for yet another new boyfriend, her beloved grandmother died on New Year's Eve leaving a void of goodness in her life that Katherine's not sure how to fill. While overwhelmed with sadness and self-doubt, Katherine unexpectedly finds new love, both for Toronto's underground music scene and for her would-be saviour: a straight edge, loud mouth misfit named Marie. As Katherine seeks comfort in jagged guitars, mind-reading poets and honest conversations, she struggles to figure out not only what she and Marie might mean to each other, but also what it truly means to be good. • Finalist for the inaugural Speaker's Young Authors Award • Selected for the American Library Association's Rainbow List "Set on Toronto streets in the year 2000, Sutherland's first novel keeps the story fresh. A bit like Weetzie Bat with the wings ripped off." - The Globe and Mail "When We Were Good doesn't eschew teenage romance and bildungsroman narratives, but instead employs them through the lens of queerness and mental health, transforming them into something new and gleaming and important. " - Weird Canada

*COMPLETE* Iris - a girl with a broken heart and a lot of pain from past events - is moving back to Virginia for her senior year of high school. She just wants to push through and get into college, graduate and get out on her own. But when she meets a guy who has his own secrets, her plan for the year gets thrown off track. *COMPLETE*

🔱 BROKEN 🔱 A feeling of hopelessness, loneliness and despair. A feeling that leaves a person empty, blank and stone cold because of it. Usually accompanied by a lack of self worth. Cause: Trauma, depression or loss of a loved one. Sometimes all of them. Can also be a side effect of bottled up feelings, waiting to burst at any moment. Treatment: The greatest cure for of al. A cure so hard-so rare, yet beautiful-to find, let alone acquire. Once it is in your grasp however, nothing can come between it and the person who craves it. Love. 🔱🔱🔱 Ashley Crowther has had it all. She's been all. She knows nothing but joy, laughter and how to have a good time. Get under her skin however, and she might just bite. You might just see a side of her that she's so expertly great at keeping at bay. But how long? How long will it take for her true self to finally burst free? 🔱🔱🔱 Eros Huxley is broken. To a point where he cant be put back together, to a point where he couldn't care less about anything. He's been the boy your parents warned you to never play with, the boy who never smiles, the boy covered in bruises and the boy who always looks down. The black sheep of not just his family, but of a whole town. All these before he was even 12 years old. What about when he gets older? 🔱🔱🔱 With every light, there is a darkness, waiting for its moment to come. With every right, there is a wrong. With every joy, there is a sorrow. Nothing can truly be itself, without having an opposite side to it. One cannot exist without the other. With sadness always watching from the corner, growing and growing, bigger and stronger, for its moment to arrive; to surface. No one is ever truly free from it. ©

Most humans are born with one of the nine types of magic. However less than a handful of them are born with no magic at all. When Racheal; who is one of those few people finds a baby abandoned near the enchanted spring, she assumes that they were alike and the child had no magic either. That single encounter paves the way for a new life for both of them; the one who stood at the peak and the bottom of the barrel.