Asianlead Stories

In which an architect and a cricket star must pretend to date for convoluted PR reasons. Oh, and they're exes. *** When online trolls unfairly target Pari, an up-and-coming Bollywood actress, accusing her of "cheating" on her fiancé, who happens to be the rising star of Indian cricket, Samarth, her elder sister, Suman doesn't hesitate to step in and do everything she can to defend her sister's reputation and career. However, Suman is unprepared for a desperate plan concocted by Pari's PR team, which involves Suman pretending to date the man Pari is accused of cheating with. To make matters worse, Suman's fake boyfriend is the very man she left behind eight years ago.

In which Wesley reads about the life of Lana. © Birdcrowns 2018 Cover by @peachspit 2019

Barlow Sonoda has a knack of finding love for the people around her. But when it comes to finding love for herself. . .not so much. © 2019 Violetta Fae

15 year old Dominic Jong is coming home from school on one crazy Tuesday when he hears his younger sister, Meilin, screaming. Just as he hears a news reporter warning citizens about an apocalypse on the radio, loud groaning comes from his parents rooms. They've caught the infection. -- Dominic and his 11 year old sister are now out in the apocalyptic world. Hungry, alone, scarred... Until they join forces with a group that trains you into a true survivor. The group plans on traveling North where a huge safe haven lies - but after all the gore and horror surrounding him, Dominic doubts he'll make it out alive.

Join Seth Aquino and friends as they struggle through all the obstacles that transitioning from high school to college brings: homesickness, harder classes, crappy cafe food, falling in love with your best friend-- wait, what was that last one? the cover is tentative while i find an artist to commission i promise though tbh i might just keep it since it is VERY telling of this story's quality

When he was young, Thomas was a travel writer and photographer. But in his old age his children pressure him to move to retirement home. He resists until a fateful encounter with one of his fellow residents: a woman who doesn't seem to age and who definitely has a taste for blood.... *Part of why I wrote this story was to write a non traditional vampire story. The leads aren't young, one of the characters is Asian (vampires seem to be very white for the most part), and it's set predominantly in a retirement home. But that said, it's still supposed to be suspenseful and interesting. I hope!*

Uve was born with a unique condition- she goes blind whenever her emotions become too strong. Her doctors and counselors all recommended she take a low stress desk job in order to live a simple life, but she wanted more. Now 24, she is one of the best secret agents on the planet, cold and plain, until Tyler shows up. Can she manage the ebb and flow of her career AND a first love?

"What if my fate was to destroy the world. To burn Ravka to the ground! Will you still see me with so much faith in your eyes?" She pleaded entangled with so much uncertained conflict. "If so then I would rebuild Ravka and everything you destroy! No matter how much chaos you set forth, I will always remake it back to life. Including yourself, Niova" I said, my hands on her cheeks. 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝓷 𝓘 𝓴𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓱𝓮𝓻.

Layla Nghiem is an Asian-American girl who is still trying to find out where she fits in the world of high school. She gets tied up in the dramatic world of popular jock Melbourne Sharmon and goes on a rollercoaster rides of meeting weird guys who end up not caring much for her, going viral with private videos, and STEM camp where she was compelled to believe she had found true love only to find out it was a sham from the start. She ultimately begins to regret, and realizes maybe there is something good about curling up into a ball and ignoring the extroverted world. Book #1

Malaya feels that in order to have a full future, she must find her past. In doing so, she also discovers how love transcends time. *** Soft-hearted Malaya had never really tasted true freedom. She considers herself tied down by her financial instability and needing two jobs just to get by every week. If she didn't have her Aunt Aggie and her son, she would have no one. Family was another matter. Malaya always wished to find her nearest family. With Aunt Aggie's encouragement, she decides to look for them. However, her investigation to track them down is halted when a young man pushed himself into her way and spoke of ridiculous, impossible things. Thomas was tired of being told what to do and what not to do. He was also scared of the burden that was suddenly thrust upon his shoulders because of his older brother's fickleness. Now a runaway, he finds himself a job that didn't make sense but paid handsomely. All he had to do was to look for someone - anyone - that can pretend to be someone else, then he can finally take steps toward being a biologist on his own. But he didn't know that he would find someone who was worth more than his scientific dreams.

Seven strangers from different backgrounds lost their memory and have no idea who they are or where they come from. However, they all have the same golden bracelet with strange foreign inscriptions on it, a bracelet they had worn since they could remember. Kiara Reginald, a normal, 28 year old Black, IT specialist had always felt as though she never belonged. Every night, she has these nightmares of a foreign planet exploding, and people dying. Her boyfriend, Nico Reyes, a 29 year old, Filipino, Psychotherapist, always tried his best to make those nightmares go away but nothing worked. The only thing he could do was to soothe and comfort her as those nightmares pass through. One fateful day, Kiara and Nico decided to head to their local zoo to have "date day", but as soon as they did, Kiara's bracelet started acting oddly and somehow pulled her and six other people together, where they each share a vision. There, these seven strangers: Kiara, Kohana, Jada, Camila, Marquis, Malik, and Heather, learned of who they were and where they came from and what they must do in order to save the planet from an aggressive alien species that seeks to end and win their ongoing war.

Amora Lee Bradshaw has a tendency to fall in love with boys. Well, with the idea of them that is. © 2019 Violetta Fae

Li Xiaoyu is all about control-until Zhang Yichen strolls back into her life like a walking migraine in a suit. First, he's the new hire. Then, her project partner. And somehow... the person she can't stop thinking about. From awkward elevator rides and passive-aggressive sticky notes to surprise sick days and chaotic cooking, Xiaoyu and Yichen's relationship brews slowly-like hotpot, bubbling with tension, laughter, and the kind of love that sneaks up on you when you least expect it. This story is for anyone who believes love can start with a glare, deepen over soup, and settle into something real under a blanket and a forehead patch. Enemies to coworkers. Coworkers to caregivers. Caregivers to something that looks a lot like love. Because sometimes, the real trouble isn't the deadlines or the drama- It's falling for the one person who drives you absolutely insane.

"We all have a hunger" ~ Florence + the Machine Aside from obsessing over the song, Layla Nghiem coined her new era of life as "Hunger". She craves many things in life such as the love life and the college life. She craves being on the top of her class and her lover's eyes. Clearing her name throughout the year and trying to better herself are also goals to complete. Layla is occasionally being badass and fighting alongside her friend, against her frenemy, and with her soul-searching boyfriend. After a period in high school and now, Layla only learned more about herself. Going through a coming-of-age period of her life in a late time, Layla finds that the only person she should worry about is herself. Who could love her at all if she can't love herself? ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜❣️💕💞💓💗💖💘💝 Book #3

~ Ruyi's Book (Book 1) ~ Completed, undergoing editing A young female medic, Ruyi enters the Song palace to protect her brother who has been conscripted for the war against the Qing empire. Set in a fictional world inspired by Ancient China, The Pearls is a series about four young women, Ruyi, Meilin, Jia and Yunmei, whose stories become interconnected despite their different beginnings. They are connected through the tragedy and hardships in their lives. Two empires war against one another. Nation against nation. Man against man. One woman makes it her mission to do good and to save lives. This is Ruyi's story. She is a woman in a man's world, trying to do man's work. Along the way she learns about her inner strength, finds courage in her chosen sisters, and discovers love in the most unlikely of places. All images used are credited to their owners. None of them are my own.

~ Yunmei's Book (Book 2) ~ A stolen princess. A newly-crowned emperor. Born as enemies. They have the power to change the fate of their two countries. Yunmei, the beloved princess of the Song Empire is stolen from her palace and placed in the hands of her greatest enemy, the Qing Emperor. But nothing is as it seems as she tries to play political games to help her people. A new era is coming, and she will play the most important role on the chess board: the Queen. Set in a fictional world inspired by Ancient China, The Pearls is a series about four young women, Ruyi, Yunmei, Jia and Meilin, whose stories become interconnected despite their different beginnings. They are connected through the tragedy and hardships in their lives. This is Yunmei's story. It continues from the aftermath of Ruyi's story (Book 1). All images used are credited to their owners. None of them are my own.

If you like reincarnation stories with hidden tech, emotional slow burns, and system-glitch worldbuilding... You just found your next obsession. --------------------------------------------- Tripwire: Season 1 - Echoes --------------------------------------------- Kat died. She knows it. But instead of staying dead, she wakes up decades earlier- inside her sixteen-year-old body. There's no magic. No mentor. Just fractured memories, a HUD interface she shouldn't have, and a future that's shifting under her feet. New chapters drop every two weeks. Visual + audiobook editions on YouTube. 🔹 #GirlsWhoBuild #MemorySciFi #LightNovelEnergy

"Captain, please reconsider. There's no way I'll be able to work with her. She's reckless, she doesn't follow orders, and she's a danger to the operation. Bounty hunters will sell out anything for the right price. What makes you think we can trust her?" "I'm not asking you to trust her. I'm asking you to trust me." "I do. But I don't need her, Captain, I'm perfectly capable of doing this on my own..." * * * Maize Ember is the most cunning and most feared Bounty Hunter in all of New York City. She's ruthless, but she's the best. She can take down any criminal, she can fight any bad guy, and most importantly, she does not take crap from anyone. Not even Alec West, the top ranked detective in the precinct and her unspoken competitive rival. But when a new case comes to light, and Alec and Maize find themselves going on a high risk mission, together, they can't believe it. With the help of each other they must protect a long ago friend of Alec's, an undercover cop that holds valuable information that could bring down the Crime Syndicate that has been terrorizing the streets for years. Can they put their distasteful feelings towards each other aside for the sake of the mission? Alec doesn't think he can trust anyone. Maize doesn't trust anyone. What will the two do when they realize they stumbled into something much bigger than themselves - and that an old ghost from Maize's past might be back to haunt them both? It all comes down to a game of cat and mouse... Featured on Wattpad reading lists: •Mystery Thriller •Action •General fiction •Dangerous Love #1 mystery-thriller 08-09-20 #1 spy 08-08-20 #4 detective 10-22-20 #1 nypd 03-14-20 #4 fbiagent 07-11-20 #1 hatelove 10-15-20 #11 bounty hunter 01-08-21 #10 hatelove 02-28-21 #10 strongfemalecharacter 06-12-21 Includes: Action/Adventure/Romance/Humour/Mystery/Suspense/And a whole lot of kicking but ;)

A camera with a shattered lens. A broken C string. When Virus 19 broke out all over the world and damned humanity to its end, Daniel Lim and Katelyn Murphy left their bright futures completely up to fate and instead focused on the one thing they both desperately needed: Survival against the zombies, and each other. ----------- Who knew you could fall in love in the mist of a zombie apocalypse? This book was written to prove that anything is possible.