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Unhealthy Coping Mechanism by sandydragon1
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Stay-at-home mom Harriet has just about had it. As her husband puts in more and more hours at the office, she's stuck with six-year-old Sam and the looming insanity of the holiday season. Along with the usual event planning panic, fall brings constant reminders of her father's failing health and the limited time they have left together. When her friend and renowned caterer Carol invites her over for a baking session, Harriet jumps at the opportunity to destress and learns Carol's secret ingredient to her stress-free lifestyle: venting her negative emotions into everything she bakes. As Harriet's love for baking warps into an addiction to the comforting warmth of the oven, her new coping mechanism starts to look more and more like a recipe for disaster. Cover by @meha-k
Beneath The Surface ✔ by djwinn
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Norman Patterson believes that the world is against him. Why wouldn't he, when his brother's demeaning and abusive comments keep him awake at night, ravaging his mind? With his unique, hardly appropriate survival skills and damaged self-esteem, the largely self-absorbed, sometimes clueless man, sets on a mission to prove to the world that he can find love, no matter the cost. It appears there's no one more suitable for the job than the woman he simply cannot stop thinking about. NB 'Beneath The Surface' explores the effects of child abuse and neglect, sexual abuse, and low self-worth. While I might throw in some form of humor to lighten the mood, none of these issues should be taken lightly. 🚫 Trigger warning; Some scenes portray abuse, violence, and self-harm. ❗❗❗ If you are not comfortable with dark themes or have any triggers at all, please do not read this story!
I'll Wait For You  by volleyball238
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Savannah Price has moved on after he...walks out on her. She gets her life together even after the horrible event that brings her the joy of a little baby girl. Almost a year and a half later the one that she called her lover comes back into town. Colton Young comes home after fighting for his country. He's home on leave but only for the summer. He finds out that the girl he had left a year and a half ago is still in town. Savannah has to live with what happened but Colton has to live with what he did to her that brought the mess to her. Will Savannah be able to let him into her heart again? Or will everything they have die out like the summer does...
Cowgirls Don't Cry by roansNropes
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#1 in Cowgirl #1 in Rodeo #1 in Cowboy Luke Anderson is a good ol' country boy, but also a professional bull rider. His life is devoted to the PBR lifestyle, but he also helps his mom at the family ranch. Jamie Jackson is a sweet, but kickass country girl, and one of the top five barrel racers in the world and she's living life to the fullest. Their epic love story is something everyone should have, even with the bumps in the road. They say love always finds its way back to each other.
Redneck Romeo [Completed] by BoOk_DrEaMeR
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(Excerpt) I looked up into his gorgeous, honey-colored eyes and felt my heart begin to thrum with the love that was trying to over take me. His eyes were piercing and seemed to hold some unknown emotion that he was having a hard time controlling. The wind whispered against my bare legs and shoulders and I instantly regretted the tank top, blue jean shorts, and cowboy boots. I shivered unconsciously and he looked at me with concerned eyes. Without speaking, he slipped off his plaid button-up shirt and slipped it onto my shoulders. My cheeks instantly flushed a bright red. “How do you do it?” he asked me in wonder. “Do what?” I asked, confused. “Steal away my attention even with this captivating view surrounding me,” he frowned. My cheeks flushed even redder, “You are so cheesy and romantic, you know it? You’re like my own personal redneck Romeo.” “If I’m a redneck Romeo, then you are definitely my tan-legged Juliet,” he smirked and I knew that I was done for.
He's a country boy by sissygoose14
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Carly and Taylor have been best friends since they were very little. Carly Taylor do everything together, that how Carly meets Jesse. Jesse might not be the one height be just another guy way out of her league. But when trouble begins to surface, Jesse is the only one who can help her.
Southern Boy Charm | ✓ by NicoleSmithWanabeeMe
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Southern boys are supposed to be charming, right? Wrong. Because when Leighton moves onto her family friend's farm for the summer, she finds that their son, Nick, is anything but charming. Instead, he's one of the rudest people she's ever met, and makes it his life's mission to let her know just how much he hates her. But they're stuck there for the summer, and while the farm is bigger than her home in the city, it's not big enough. Forced into being together, his resolve begins to crack, and sparks begin to fly. Through it all, she realizes that maybe, just maybe, his southern charm is there after all.
All I Have by MaggieFinnegan
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[Featured on Wattpad Official Romance's Reading List!] Marzia Castille has always had dreams. When she was 3, she wanted to be a pop star. When she was 5, she was sure there was a career that meant she could build Lego for a living (spoiler alert; there isn't one). When she was 8, she wanted to be an astronaut. Unlike most girls, funnily enough, she never wanted to be a princess. Which kinda sucked, because she was one. Now that she's 17, she's the furthest thing from a princess imaginable. She's just a normal teenager with an annoying arch-enemy, a myriad of homework that she has no plans of completing, and jeans that she wears in place of school trousers (which she'll deny if you ever challenge her on it). Being the Oxford English Dictionary definition of 'not princess' and hiding in her shitty flat in London, is the only thing keeping her from an early grave. Someone out there wants her blood, but no one can quite tell her who, or why. But when a newspaper article hits her right between the eyes, and throws everything into permanent turmoil, she has to cut through her fear, and face the life she left behind. Armed with her best friend Emilio, and a sarcastic attitude that never seems to falter, she's pushed into a constant battle of love, heartbreak, impossible responsibility and determination, that all culminate in the never-ending whirlwind that throws her about. Oh, and let's not forget complete and utter confusion and hunger about 90% of the time too.
You're Not Enough by therealejking
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The first installment of the "Enough Series" follows Jayda King a seventeen year old girl with a broken soul. She returns home from spending six months in a mental health facility because of a failed suicide attempt. The facility helped none, she still wants to die. What do you do when you have nothing to live for? What do you do when life doesn't accept you nor does death will to take your life? What do you do when your destiny is set, but an unexpected someone comes and changes your destined life? Are you ready for the journey? I hope you are, once you start there's no going back. Everything you once knew or thought you knew will be be questioned. ​ It's a story we have all heard before, passed on though the centuries, but rewritten in different ways. I can assure you this isn't what you think. This is a story of demons, darkness, and anguish. *If you are dealing with depression or suicidal thoughts please do not read this book alone. Read it in an open area! PLEASE! If you find yourself wanting to do what is in the book please don't, reach out to me we can talk or talk to your parents, counselors or call the suicide hotline. ******* Hands down the BEST BOOK ON WATTPAD!!!! - @jimmy34567 I really love this book! You are an amazing author, I read that someone pm'ed you that they thought this would be boy and good girl but it actually isn't and this is real life, the real world. And you said that was what you wanted your book to be like, you accomplished it! I really love this book and it is real life, the way I like to read books. Happy writing! - @That_Bitch2020 Why is this book relating to so damn much!!!😭😭 -@beyonceslefttity Ms.author I think I say this for everyone thank you for being so determined to write this book for us- @cjcycjvjjv Rankings #1 blackstoriesmatter (3/1/2021) #1 mentalhealth (4/9/2021) #3 Depression (3/1/2021) #3 teenromance (5/17/2021) #8 badboy (5/20/2021) #24 Romance (3/1/202
Float by ToastedBagels
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It started on Wattpad but now is EVERYWHERE! With a bestselling book by WWBG, a captivating Webcomic on Webtoon, and a film adaptation by Wattpad WEBTOON studios, you can read, scroll, or watch - there's an experience for everyone to dive into Waverly and Blake's journey. ***** In order to fit in during her summer visit to a beachside town, Waverly must take swimming lessons from Blake, the moody (but gorgeous) lifeguard next door. ***** Seventeen-year-old Waverly Lyons is from Alaska. She doesn't do sun. But after her divorced parents can't agree on who gets to have her for the summer, Waverly gets shipped off to Holden, Florida, to spend a couple months with her aunt, Rachel. There's one minor hiccup: Blake Hamilton, Rachel's seventeen-year-old neighbor. He's athletic, outgoing, arrogant, tan, and pretty much Waverly's exact opposite. She's eager to avoid him at all costs, hoping to fit in with the other kids in Holden without drawing too much attention to herself. But when Blake discovers that Waverly has been hiding the rather embarrassing secret that she can't swim, he does the unthinkable: He offers to teach her. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]