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The Peach Pits by KorrynAnderson
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Mae is sick and tired of being poor. She's even more tired of supporting her entire family with her low-wage waitressing job. Her dreams of college- and her savings- are crushed when her aunt unexpectedly gets sick. When a mysterious new busboy offers to help improve her situation, Mae enters a world of theft, crime, and lies that's anything but peachy.
A Thousand Burning Masks by seventhstar
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CHINESE ARYA STARK meets THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. *A Wattpad Featured story* When everyone wears a mask, who do you trust? In the unforgiving empire of Erden where the Imperials reign supreme, Sarna is a slave. After escaping the brothel where a man burned half her face, she is determined to lead a new life by joining Zichuan Theater as a performer. When an assassination attempt on the crown prince casts suspicion on Zichuan Theater, the fragile foundations of that new life begin to crumble. Incarcerated with a death sentence in line, she is offered a dangerous deal: the crown prince's head in exchange for Zichuan Theater's freedom. To save her theater, Sarna journeys to learn the dark art of Facechanging from a forgotten god, hides herself behind borrowed beauty, and uses her new identity to infiltrate the Jade Palace. But no godly transaction comes without a price. Not only does she find herself trapped not only in a web of court intrigue, but in a battle for control of her body and her life. As time ticks down for her theater, she must decide between her heart and her freedom, or risk losing everything she has ever loved and worked for - including her identity. Highest ranking: #54 in Fantasy (14/2/18) Cover trailer by @Abyss-of-Crazy
Plague Saint [NOW A PUBLISHED BOOK] by auroraanorth
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[PREVIEW ONLY] No one knows the real identity of the hospital's Plague Saint is sixteen-year-old Winter Pierce. No one knows she's a fraud. And no one knows she's a killer. While floods and heat waves devastate the southern lands, the northern cities face blizzards and plagues. Up until two weeks ago, the Plague Saint of Devil's Pass was a real doctor. But when Winter learned he was only saving the rich and planned to let her mother die, she confronted him. And killed him. The death was an accident, but taking his place to save lives was a choice. Then, Winter's forced to kill again to save her brother. Her double life, already doomed to fail, is complicated further when her assistant insists on tracking down the murderer. Attempting to cover her tracks leaves Winter tangled in a political web. All the while, people are getting sicker, and trying to find the cure leads her to an enemy far smarter and more dangerous than she is. Powerful people want to see Winter fail. There's more to the plagues than meets the eye. Winter is rapidly running out of time, but she's determined to save her brother from death and her city from corruption. And she'll kill anyone who gets in her way.
T.M.I. by Wimbug
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When Adrienne's app TMI is a resounding success, she can't wait to reveal the dirty secrets of the glamorous "it" crowd of her prestigious school, but soon, lines begin to blur and she might find herself being the one who falls. *** Adrienne's plans have come to fruition. Her app, TMI, has taken Petraka Academy by storm, with its promise to reveal and confirm the juiciest gossip. It is also endorsed by the shiny "it" crowd who can't wait to ridicule the fallen. But they have no clue that Adrienne is coming for them, ready to push them off their pedestals one by one. Because she knows something no one else would believe. She knows that top-of-the-food chain Rosie Geld killed Audrey Hart. And once the truth hits TMI, everyone will know, and the guilty will finally pay. [[Watty Award winner in Mystery/Thriller]] Content warning: This story contains themes of bullying, sexual assault, eating disorders, drug use, abuse, violence and suicide. *** Cover designed by Holly Thurston
Prism Book 1 (Complete) by prism_morgan
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Prism: League of Light (Book 1 of 3) Featured- Wattpad Editor's Pick List (Nov/Dec 2020) BLURBS: "I read your book and I just wanted to say it's so Good!!! That's like the best thing I've read in a while. I am totally hooked. It's so good I am officially out if compliments at this point." -@int.rovert20 on Instagram "I read your book and I was so hooked with it...I was new to wattpad and searched for free books to read when I encountered your book! I found the description very intriguing so I started reading it and I simply got addicted to it! I binge read it for two straight days..." -@bia_dam on Instagram "...I looovee Prism!!! I started it last night and I refused to put my phone down until this morning!" -@jachi23 on Wattpad "It's so gooddddddd. Amazing... " -@_the_bookist_bookworm_ on Instagram "Hey author. Just wanted to let you know that Ive read your books and im in love with it..." -@jae-san on Wattpad STORY SYNOPSIS: Iris Jacobs, a high school loner, discovers she has superhuman abilities based on light. With new powers come new problems the size of an alien planet. Not to mention, a love triangle. * * * SUMMARY: The day after Iris Jacobs attempts to commit suicide, her high school principal calls her into the office. Instead of assigning her to attend in-school therapy, the principal blackmails Iris to enlist in a top-secret government program that may lead to her certain death anyway. As Iris discovers secrets about the agency and its leader, Director Callahan, she is faced with a force much scarier than government conspiracy: love. Two of the recruits, Gladden and Jesse, pursue Iris' heart while she fights her own social anxiety to just find the right words to say. But does it even matter who she chooses if they are all going to end up as Idex prey?
Elise Runs and Dorothy Falls by HeyMysty
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On the run in a strange world after pirates kill her parents, Elise plows into Dorothy Blainwick, a young and powerful witch with a monster inside her. Like fire and water, the two have to learn to get along as they try to escape the law, ancient magic, and their own prejudices. However, there's something that neither one accounts for. While Elise runs and runs, Dorothy falls, in love. ~ ~ *Wattpad Featured, July 2017* *Wattpad Editors' Pick, December 2020* High Ranks: #3 Steampunk, #6 Epic Fantasy, #5 Transgender, #4 Witch
Wonder Made by OctaviaLocke
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The Fourth wall breaking of DEADPOOL meets JANE AUSTEN meets MAGICAL WEIRDNESS When a mysterious new boy comes to town, seventeen-year-old odd ball, Peneloper Auttsley, must confront the secrets of her past in order to save her present. ***** At seventeen, Peneloper Auttsley has finally come to terms with her lot in life: she's weird, fatherless, hard to get to know and forever bored. Not to mention, her memories from her childhood are a little fuzzy. But once a new boy rolls into town on the back of a storm, tells her she's magical and that something wicked is out to get her, well, Peneloper's life is about to get even weirder, if that's at all possible. Cue the Phil Collins' soundtrack (Mr. Collins named Wizard Tunes Magazine's top musician of all time) because things are about to get magical, lyrical...and absurd. ☆Being Peneloper is a coming of age story with a hint of good humor, a heap of self-awareness, a smattering of romance, and several cases of mild dehydration.☆ Chapter Breaks © 2020 Avadel Ink