Hank was just a teen when his father committed suicide under a cloud of scandal. The disgrace forced him to grow up within the cold shadow of his once-promising life. Twenty years later, Hank is content with the safety of his solitude. Still, Josie arrives knowing more about the secrets of the surrounding society than an outsider should and forces him to face the ghosts of his former life.

What starts out as a typical favor for her best friend turns Maria's world upside down. After escaping an encounter with a serial killer, Maria must piece her life back together. Only now she's captured someone's eye, and he isn't willing to let her go so easily. _________________________ Trigger warning for violence, sexual acts, and coarse language. Rated MATURE. *I do not own any of the photos or videos used. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, events, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.* Completed 5/21/21 _________________________ Highest Ratings: #1 - mature romance #1 - kidnapper #1 - quick pace #4 - female lead #14 - stalker #29 - musician #46 - slow build #64 - serial killer #65 - falling in love #77 - obsessive #79 - trilogy #88 - enemies to lovers #91 - bxg

[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.

Until recently, Sadie Brown thought she had a perfect life, but after a painful breakup sheds light on the illusions of her life, she is forced to question her reality. And to make matters worse, when Sadie bumps into the school's most popular boy, Levi Mason, whom she loathes, she becomes the centre of attention - something she has spent all her life avoiding. As Sadie grows closer to the boy she loathes so much and sparks begin to fly between the two, she discovers that Levi is harbouring a dark secret and that maybe - just maybe - the boy she once thought was heartless, might just have a heart.

An introverted mage. An isolated warrior. Their adventures are epic. Their friendship is legendary.

"Cormac, you need to tell me what's going on." Cyra demands, fixing him with an unwavering stare. Her stomach churns at the terrified look on her brother's face. It was one she had never seen before. "Cyra, I've put us all in danger." -------------------------------- Hundreds of years in the future, all the inhabitants of earth live together in Uniterra. With equal rights for all, society is content. Or are they? Seventeen-year-old Cyra Ocean is forced to venture into the unknown, enlisting the help of unexpected allies to save her older brother from the government's claws. In a system where leaving society is considered treason, she has no choice but to insurgo- to rebel and rise up. Will she succeed? Or will her life be taken before she has the chance to? -------------------------------- weekly chapter updates #featured --------------------------------- Insurgo rankings: #2 climate (22/01/2021) #14 utopia (17/01/2021) #92 technology out of 12.1k stories (24/02/2021)

Anthony felt unavoidably stuck in life. Like he was chained to a black hole that demanded he give up any light. Until one night a 'dead' man appears in his office bloodied and bruised. Could this be what Anthony has been missing?

For Nate, the world was once a nice and friendly place, at least until they came. The Bobbies. No one knows how it started. One day their loved ones turned on them, devouring them like an eight-course meal. The reason for this remains unknown, and now the biggest worry anybody has is surviving. * * * Ten years ago, the Outbreak happened, dooming more than half of the human population to the infection and turned into Bobbies: flesh-eating monsters that most want to see exterminated. Nate is just a survivor in this new crazy world whose only goal is to live to see another day. He doesn't go out of his way to help others, and he isn't a hero. All Nate wants to do is survive in his hideaway and remain hidden from the rest of the world. This all changes when Vanessa comes barging into his life. Now, he has to decide if he should risk himself in order to help Vanessa survive. It won't be easy with all the crazed Bobbies and other creatures of the night that came creeping into light in all the chaos. And the Nightmare Terror Specialized Unit is constantly on their tails and actively hunting all witches down. Will Nate help Vanessa? And if he does, will he succeed in helping them both survive? With everyone against them, only time will tell. Cover by @angoissee Banner by @Bandit26139 If you are viewing this on a site other than Wattpad.com, you risk getting a virus.

❝poisonous fangs can only reap poisonous fruit.❞ Nerluce - named for light - dwells in darkness. It was forged from the shadows of the great beasts, who flash their cruel fangs and crueler insults, who seek to choke the light from his chest with their iron chains, who despise all who are not like them. Disdain for gods and men is made in dim places. Hunger for ruin is cultivated on a starving stomach. Power for destruction is rarely given but when it is, oh, the world will burn. CONTENT WARNINGS (16+) Profanity, violence and gore, alcohol usage, neglect and verbal abuse, self-destructive actions and suicidal ideation, minor character death, and morally-questionable people doing morally-questionable things. [[WORD COUNT: 150,000]] COVER BY APHRODITE270

It's the year 1890. Hannah Maxfield is a teenage daughter of an Appalachian Mountain Healing Woman who wishes to follow in her mother's footsteps of offering her isolated and impoverished community medical care through herbs and untraditional remedies. Edward Nelson is an arrogant new doctor, fresh out of the Philadelphia Medical School, who abides by his Aunt Margaret Thompson's request to come to the Eastern Kentucky settlement and apprentice under her husband, Dr. Henry Thompson. Mrs. Thompson, a former society lady of Philadelphia, herself, secretly hopes Dr. Nelson takes over the practice completely so her husband can retire and rescue her from a state of loneliness. An Appalchian Story pitches the old against the new, unconventional medicine against proven science and the innocent beauty of a country girl against the refined and educated charms of an aristocratic doctor.