Sylvia Casas is a med student with a reputation for being brilliant, terrifyingly focused, and emotionally unavailable on purpose. Love, in her experience, is just another way to get hurt--ask her late adoptive father, ALS, and a lifetime of regret she refuses to unpack. Matthew Ellis is hockey's golden boy: fast on the ice, faster with a smile, and dangerously good at getting under people's skin. His problem? A controlling, alcoholic mother who treats his future--and his love life--like it's hers to script. When a gas leak throws them together, Sylvia reads him like a diagnosis. Matthew reads her like a challenge. And somehow, between sarcastic remarks, heated glances, and way too much proximity, they start to blur the line between "absolutely not" and "what if?" But with toxic parents tightening their grip and hockey rivals circling the ice like trouble on skates, falling in love might be the dumbest--and most irresistible--play they could make. NOTE: One thing is sure. Either Matthew scores into your heart, or Sylvia diagnoses you with a dangerous case of reading addiction. 😉 WHAT-TO-EXPECT CHECKLIST: ✅ Slow-burn sports romance + sex scenes ✅ Enemies to lovers (red flag to green flag male character) ✅ Double POV style ✅ Adult issues: pain, use of alcohol, manipulative tendencies, sociopathic behaviors, illnesses and wounds, mention of suicide, mild violence, possibly cruel pranks ✅ Endless teasing sass + some humor ✅ Happy ending! YAY!

THE AMBYS 2024 SCI-FI FAVORITE | Failure doesn't kill dreams. Self-doubt does. - Aunt Naomi 🌟 🌟 🌟 In a future plagued by cybernetic beasts known as phoenixes, Sky Falcon, a geeky teen with big dreams, yearns to join the prestigious Elite Academy, where students learn to defeat those monsters. However, his hopes are shattered when he fails the admission test, leaving him an outcast among his friends, his community, and even his own mother, the Head of the Elite. Determined to prove his worth, Sky sets out to bring down a Sonic Echo Ranger, believing it will restore his credibility. But his journey takes an unexpected turn when he discovers a conspiracy surrounding the weaponisation of phoenixes against Anti-Ageing Inc., a powerful drug corporation. Amidst the chaos, Sky forms a deep bond with Haywire, the Sonic Echo Ranger he tried to kill - a friendship which defies societal norms. Together, they will risk everything to uncover the truth behind it all. As Sky searches for answers and battles for acceptance, he realises the price of approval might be higher than he imagined. Will their friendship offer a glimmer of hope in a world of prejudice? Will Sky become a game changer as he uncovers the secrets that threaten his world, or will he succumb to the weight of his failures? 🌟 🌟 🌟 "How To Train Your Dragon" meets "Horizon: Zero Dawn" meets... my dog. 🌟 An Action-based Sci-fi story about friendship with sprinkles of Romance. 🔥 Ethical issues regarding anti-ageing techniques and drugs. ✅ A WattpadCreators WIP. 😁 Updates every Thursday. Featured by @WackyWriter's official profile in their "Our Judges' Favourites" reading list in August 2023 [MATURE due to swearing, violence, and ethical issues. No sex scenes.]

| WATTYS 2022 SHORTLIST + AMBYS 2023 SCI-FI WINNER | UNEDITED | Digital, anthropomorphic beings live in our laptops, smartphones, and other devices, but humans aren't aware of their existence despite being their creators. Shannon Wise, search engine in Browser City, has to fight off Pitt and Nekari, malware and spyware that have come to her city hoping to infect it and obtain the User's credentials and sensitive data. She will have to do it with the help of Ajax Eagleye, a recently installed, stern antimalware and adblocker that gets easily pissed off, in order to save her city. A know-it-all search engine. An angry rookie with an ego problem. A clueless User. A foul Hacker. Many innocent, digital lives at stake. All of them pieces in the Developer's chess game. Will Shannon and Ajax be able to defend Browser City, and thus save the Operative System and the sensitive data stored there, without the User's help? 🏍 💻 🏍 💻 🏍 💻 "Tron: Uprising" meets "ReBoot". A digital Science-Fiction & Action story, with a sprinkle of Romance! (Is IT fiction a thing? :D) · DIGITAL CITIES SERIES · BOOK 1 · FEATURED BY the official ambassadors' reading lists: @WATTPADESL "Artificial and Advanced Society" in 2022 @ScienceFiction "Parallel Worlds" in 2022 @StoriesUndiscovered "Into the Abyss" in 2022 @BadassReads "The Daredevils" in 2023 @NA "Can you see further? Science Fiction + Fantasy" in 2023 @StoriesUndiscovered "Tales of Adventure" in 2023 and Featured in Wattpad's home page in "Outer Space Champs" and "Unlock Science Fiction" reading lists in 2023! MATURE due to swearing, violence, and other adult subject matters. Protected by CopyrightIndex.com: CI-381914640