When aspiring writer Nella has a wild night, her hook-up with the sexy and tattooed Baz turns into a wild goose chase when she realizes she lent her only handwritten copy of her first novel to him - and it's gone missing. ****** Grad student Nella has always been overly cautious, but after meeting the charismatic tattoo artist Baz, she can't resist hopping into bed with him for a night of passion. The next morning, she's shocked to remember she loaned him the manuscript of her first novel, forcing them to reconnect so she can get it back. There's just one problem: Baz tells her the manuscript has gone missing. Forced to team up with Baz to investigate who took it, she soon finds herself catching feels instead of culprits. Can Nella trust the mysterious Baz, who remains guarded about his past? Will they be able to recover what was lost, and turn their tension into something more? Or is she living in a fantasy just as magical as her manuscript? 2021 Wattys Winner--Romance Content warning: This story contains mature sexual content and themes of alcohol abuse and emotionally manipulative relationships.

Marilyn, a 20 year old human trafficking victim, suffering from PTSD. Her life is on the edge of getting back on track, until she comes face to face with the person that started her hell. *main purpose of this story is to spread awareness* *updates once a week* PG-15 | TRIGGER WARNING | MYSTERY | CRIME | FICTION

Lee Capren's life is perfectly ordinary, thank you very much... right up until she's spirited away by faeries and forced to serve them as a portrait artist. She escapes with the help of Nasser, a human boy whose magic has always been more of a curse than a gift. But what felt like a night in Faerie spanned years in the human world, and Lee returns only to find that her old life is gone. Now living above a shop that caters to the city's beguiling magical crowd, Lee doesn't think her life can get more complicated. Then again, she never expected clashes with Filo, her prickly new roommate and unwilling magic tutor, her growing feelings for Nasser-or the cunning faerie bent on dragging her back to the world she just escaped.

"He looked like an angel. Not like those people who call their lovers angel because they wanna be sweet, but in a way where if I met God today, Ryder, holy and good, would be standing right there. By God's right-hand side, obliged to give me a tender kiss. It's quite funny though, Ryder can never be holy." Aiko, the second child, has sealed the most important deal of her life. To be the next heir of the Rockefeller empire, Aiko has to complete the ten difficult tasks her brother, the supposed-heir, wrote on a leather-bound notebook and return it to him with proof before her graduation. Including a task of making a certain rich boy fall deeply in love with her. In Venisde Academy, she was a girl with a bleeding crevice tucked in her mind to which all hope for some sort of blithe burned to ice. But she could thank it, she would've been much more timid, if not for Zachary Vildan, until the boy left without a word one morning. Unmistakably, wordlessly, severing all ties with the girl. Every single thing was checked off on her list, yet for the past 2 years, she's been stuck on the tenth. 10) Make Ryder Peterson fall for you. It was the most difficult one of all, and approaching her senior year, she has lost all hope of Ryder ever falling for her. Just as she was about to give up on an empire that she once dreamed she would have in her hands, one night of chaos filled with mafias, blades, and four of the most powerful rich boys of Venisde Academy promising a contract with her would make her lost dreams reappear and tumble back onto her fast as she could ever imagine it to be. [If you like angst, and the joy and rebellion of shipping the protagonist with other main characters, then this book is meant for you.] tags: dark academia, rich boys, mafia, billionaires, bad boy, highschool, teen, elite, private school, friendship contracts, deals, heartbreak, jealousy, yearning, diversity The entirety of the language in this book is in English.

An 18 year old girl who's moved to a house that her dad had gotten for her, unexpectedly discovered vampires are real and are living in the same house. Are vampires actually nice and friendly ones or are they just a bunch of blood sucking creeps like the stories in books? And what does her necklace has to do with the vampire legend of Queen White? Find out in this story full of probably action, some romance and mysteries. {COMPLETED} *book cover background is obtained off Pinterest, I do not own the image*

My name is Kaitlin Reid. I'm simple-minded, boring, and a little less than capable of dealing with stressful situations. When I witnessed my best friend being murdered, I did all that I knew how to do, and I called the cops. They captured the murderer and put him in prison, and for a while, I felt safe. I had the cops on my side and just enough strength left in me to try to get my life back in order. But of course, as the story goes, that illusion of 'safety' was short-handed. The murderer escaped a high security prison. I know I am the top of his hit list. And I'm not sure when he will find me, or how he will do it, but he is after me. And my limited time is running out.

UNDER HEAVY HEAVY EDITING!!!! Warning! This is my first book! And in the beginning, it didn't really have a plot to it, but over the chapters, the plot is more clear. So, read at your own risk! Max Beverly is a new student at Blue Lake High School. She's fearless, ruthless. But is a total softy on the inside. Max has secrets very few people know of. But what happens when four of the most popular boys in the school become friends with the new girl? But, they aren't just any boys, they're the bad boys of the school. But, the thing is, they aren't really bad boys, they're all just pranksters. Max, strangely has a bucket list. That she has to finish before she turns seventeen. When the boys find out about it, they're all more than welcome to help her to finish it before the time comes. But what happens when one of the boys finds out about her secrets? Will he run away? Will he stay? Does one of the boys fall for the girl prankster? Read to find out more about Max's adventure.

Harper Green, a suicidal girl who's been bullied her whole life because of her appearance and weight. Zach Fraser, the school's new impulsive quarterback and the number one rule breaker badboy. What if fate managed to intertwine them in an unexpected circumstance?

"So you're saying that if I kissed you right now, you wouldn't feel anything?" He asked, taking slow, purposeful steps closer to me, but I couldn't go farther back as I felt an obstruction behind me, a desk. "Uh...totally," I cussed myself for stuttering. "Okay then, let's test that theory, shall we?" And his lips landed on mine. Sam and Ryan had been best friends when they were little and couldn't do without each other. They pinky swore they would never leave each other, but then Sam moved, breaking that promise. And now she's back, and Ryan isn't entirely happy to see her. Bookcover by @userpewpew

Description: Wake up visit hell (school), get bullied, get beat up, go home, get slapped, be abused, do all the housework, eat secretly, do homework, shower, then sleep. My life schedule, compare that to yours, I bet our lives are different don't you? I lived with my parents till they disappeared. My whole life changed that day, when the bad boy adopted me, my bully adopted me. Who else sees the problem? This is my life and my name is Harper Valery Smith.