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Born into slavery, Lena Wells escapes in search of freedom-but instead finds a Union camp overflowing with runaways, soldiers, and the man whose gaze she can't seem to forget. What begins as stolen glances soon becomes forbidden touches and passionate, secret kisses. But war has a way of claiming everything, and when Julian is called back to his regiment, Lena is forced to let him go. Four years later, Lena has built a fragile new life in Philadelphia-a seamstress by day and a devoted mother by night, determined to protect the child who carries the face of the man she lost. Julian Dennis, wounded and discharged, is living in the same city rebuilding a life that no longer feels like his own. When a chance assignment brings Lena into his home that he shares with his mother-who has hired her to sew a few dresses-the past collides violently with the present. One look at Lena's little girl sends Julian spiraling. She looks like him. She acts like him. And the timing is undeniable. Yet Lena insists the child isn't his. Now Julian is torn between hope and heartache, while Lena clings to the truth she's carried alone for years. As long-buried emotions resurface and new wounds open, both must confront not only the ghosts of the war, but the powerful forces of society, race, loyalty, and love that threaten to keep them apart. Because sometimes the war doesn't end on the battlefield- Sometimes it finds you again, exactly where you're trying to start over.

Selena is the 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍. The villain destined to lose her football-star boyfriend to the shy, innocent nerd. Everyone watches in silent awe as he replaces her in the name of love. It was the perfect fairytale ending, just like the movies... But not for long. Because this breakup awakens admirers long held back. Particularly one who's made her his quiet obsession: Noel Casper. The neglected genius assigned to be her tutor. What begins as study sessions develops into a friendship neither of them expected. Behind closed doors, Selena cooks for him, upgrades his wardrobe, and supports his dreams. But to the outside world, he's just a boy being used by the mean girl, especially when they see him carrying her books, tying her shoes, and driving her all around. What they don't know, is that Noel has been watching her for years. And the more Selena takes care of him, the more he becomes 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅. When his research catapults him to international success, the world suddenly notices the boy they once overlooked. Now Selena's ex is begging for a second chance, and the rival who started this all is determined to "rescue" Noel. But Noel doesn't want to be saved. He only wants one person. Selena. And he will do whatever it takes to ensure she never leaves his side. ─ ⊹ ⊱ ⊰ ⊹ ─ 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑺𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝑩𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑩𝒆𝒆 𝒙 𝑸𝒖𝒊𝒆𝒕 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒖𝒔 𝚃𝚘𝚙 𝚁𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜: #1 𝚘𝚋𝚜𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚍 #1 𝚟𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚒𝚗ess #2 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 #2 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜 [Originally written 2019. Went on hiatus, then finished in 2026.]

Emma and Vivian spend their summer at a new camp to help out a friend, only to discover that it's a dating camp and they both have to pretend to be single! ***** Emma and Vivian, having spent their first year of college living together, agree to spend their summer at Gwen Black's latest camp. Unfortunately, due to a misunderstanding (and Gwen's aggressive advertising), the entire camp is using Emma as a mascot because she's "single". Emma and Vivian decide to let the situation play out to help Gwen, finding a new thrill in keeping their love secret. Soon, though, things get out of hand as they start making each other jealous, and someone online is working to destroy their relationship (and the entire camp)! Can Emma save the camp, her reputation, and the only relationship that's ever mattered to her? (Sequel to Camp Mapplewood: original version.) [[word count: 40,000-50,000 words]]

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION When her initiation into her college's History Club goes awry, Sol has to come face to face with Ethan-the cute guy whose house she just broke into. ***** Soledad Gutierrez, or Sol to her friends, decides to join the History Club at her Community college. However, this club is not like other clubs: they have an initiation process and a slew of other 'extracurricular activities.' In order to join the club, Sol must break into the oldest house in her small Californian town and steal one of their forks. The club members provide all the materials to break in; she just needs to take the utensil, take a selfie in the kitchen, and get out undetected-with the fork, of course. The problem is: Ethan Winston spots Sol in his grandparent's house, and he's determined to uncover the reason behind the break-in. However, both he and Sol are thrown for a loop when feelings begin to develop between them. And as Ethan becomes suspicious of the History Club, he and Sol get tangled in an adventure none of them were expecting. [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] [[Wattys 2019 Winner for Young Adult + Being Published by Wattpad Books in Fall 2020]]

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. It only takes one moment to change your life forever . . . After her mother's deportation last year, all Soledad "Sol" Gutierrez wants is for her life to go back to normal. Everything's changed-new apartment, new school, new family dynamic-and Sol desperately wants to fit in. When she joins her community college's history club, it comes with an odd initiation process: break into Westray's oldest house and steal . . . a fork? There's just one problem: while the owners of the house aren't home, their grandson Ethan is, and when he catches Sol with her hand in the kitchen drawer, she barely escapes with the fork intact. This one chance encounter irrevocably alters her life, and Sol soon learns that sometimes fitting in isn't as important as being yourself-even if that's the hardest thing she's ever had to do.

***THIS STORY WILL BECOME FREE ON JULY 15t!*** Kelsey Harris, a young chef moving to LA, struggles with work, the glamour of the hollywood scene, and a new romance with mega-celebrity Ethan Glenn. ***** Kelsey Harris is heading to LA to begin her new career as a sous chef, and she's excited to work under a prestigious mentor and feed fabulous celebrities. She also meets Ethan Glenn, a movie star with doubts about his career, on the plane. But when she settles in, she learns that her new job is more intense than she expected, and her roommate is acting strange. When they happen to be on the same movie set, Ethan and Kelsey begin to grow close, though their friendship is immediately put under scrutiny by friends and the media. A romance begins, but the delicate facade of Hollywood is slipping, and Kelsey has to decide if she wants to escape the photographers and screaming fans, or if she wants to be with Ethan and put up with the consequences. [[Wattys 2018 Shortlist]] [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]

The Many Dates of Indigo is now published as a Paperback, and E-book with W by Wattpad Books! As a Wattpad reader, you can access both the Wattpad Original Edition and Wattpad Books Published Edition here upon purchase. Thank you so much for your support! ***** As Indigo Clark nears her 30th birthday, new male suitors vie for her attention. The trick is to pick the right one... ***** Indigo Clark, a successful businesswoman approaching her 30th birthday can't seem to shake the questions, "Where's your ring?", "When will you get married?", "Are you going to have children?" Tired of the nosiness and the pressure, Indigo sets out to experiment in her dating life. What an adventure she's in for! You have Tate, her gorgeous and loyal best friend, who she has a past with...but they don't talk about it. Then there's Nathan. He seems perfect on paper but is hiding a serious part of his life from her. Owen is a dashing gentleman until he isn't. And Diego, oh Diego, he's a hotshot lawyer used to getting what he wants but Indigo also knows what she wants and isn't going to let him off the hook easily. She is fierce and smart, and yes, it's raining men but Indigo isn't afraid to hold an umbrella... [Highest Ranking: #8 in ChickLit] (Featured) [ Winner of the Genre Awards for ChickLit *First Book* ] [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by Eva I (@evadrawssometimes)

Mira finds herself stuck in the city of love with Jake, the playboy athlete she can't stand. What she doesn't expect is for major sparks to fly on their 24-hour adventure. But can this newly-found love last beyond the magic of Paris? ***** 24 Hours in Paris is now published as a Paperback & E-book by W by Wattpad Books As a Wattpad reader, you can now access both the Original Edition and the W by Wattpad Books Published Edition here upon purchase (PS: a review on Amazon (and also Goodreads) would be very much appreciated, to help get this POC rom com in front of more readers! All the review page links are on my Wattpad profile page :-) ) In the new Published Edition of the book, the characters of Mira and Jake will be older and wiser co-workers in the corporate world, who miss their flight and get stuck spending an extra 24 hours in Paris. They'll start off annoyed with each other, but you know how the story goes... "Adorably sweet and a brilliant read! It made me feel like I was roaming the streets of Paris without having to leave my couch." - Grace @HQ ***** On the last day of their class's college trip to Paris, Mira and Jake get tangled up in a debacle that causes them to miss their flight home to New York. Which means they're stuck in Paris until the next available flight that's 24 hours away! Mira is witty and a lover of art history and good cheese. Jake, on the other hand, is your All-American frat boy with a killer smile. Translation: they can't stand each other. As they visit places they could never have imagined, Mira and Jake go from mortal enemies to star-crossed lovers with sizzling chemistry. But can their spark last without Paris' cheese and charm to keep it going? [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]] Cover designed by Ray Gardener

Two weeks before Christmas, Clementine Popplewell finds a man in her bed! To think of it, a random stranger would be almost better than John Holyoake, whose guts she hates because he destroyed the life and the career of her former literary agent slash her ex. And now she's stuck in self-isolation with him for a fortnight because he had the audacity to invade her household having arrived straight from the airport!

After moving to London with her best friend, the last thing Elle expects is to fall for a celebrity - though it may be more trouble than it's worth. ***** Elle Robinson never thought the man she's loved for nearly her entire existence would leave her, but when he does, she sees no other alternative than to run away to London. It wasn't the best laid plan for someone who typically thinks through every little detail, but when she meets screen and stage actor Jude Anderson, who never fails to bring a blush to her cheeks, she believes her life is finally on the right track again - new love included. But no romance is complete without a little drama, anxiety, and miscommunication - leaving Elle to learn how to take her life into her own hands and separate fact from fiction when her relationship hits the public eye. Someone Else is the first book in a trilogy following Elle and Jude's love story. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by Moe Sangster

Free to read! 19-year-old Jane, newly-single, moves to London to work for her friend, Kitty. But Kitty is hiding something about the café - and about Jane and Kitty's past. ***** If you looked at her Instagram, you'd think Jane had the perfect life. But a family tragedy and a big break up shatters that illusion, prompting Jane to drop out of university and move to London. She gets a room above a bookstore and a job as a barista, thanks to her childhood friend Kitty. Struggling with feelings of loneliness among the happy staff, Jane feels further ostracized when Kitty refuses to discuss Matt, who used to live in the bedroom Jane took over and who left under mysterious circumstances. As Jane struggles to find herself, and get the attention of the cute bartender, Harper, she discovers that the Brew Books café is brewing with dark secrets. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

Dear Someday, I hope it's exactly as pretty as the picture. That's what eleven-year-old Elena wrote on the back of a postcard, tucked into a shoebox marked SOMEDAY, certain that one day she'd see every place she'd only ever traced with a pencil. Then her father's business collapsed, an aunt arranged a lunch, and Elena said yes to a marriage she never chose - sensible, comfortable, and quietly suffocating. Two years later, she finds a hotel confirmation email with her husband's name on it, and someone else's. She doesn't file for divorce. Not yet. Instead, she takes the money he never once asked her opinion about, and the shoebox she never stopped filling, and she goes - Paris, Rome, a mountain in Nepal, a language she was supposed to already know, a road trip across a country she didn't grow up in but somehow still belongs to. Along the way she learns to build a perfume from nothing, argue in three languages, forgive her own reflection, and let herself be loved by people who never once asked her to be smaller. Dear Someday is a story about what happens when a woman stops waiting for her life to start and starts building it herself - one stamp, one heartbreak, one impossibly good bowl of noodles at a time. Someday is a place. Go there yourself.

After months of facing one rejection after another, Atarah finally lands a job as an R&D assistant at one of Jamaica's most prominent tech companies, Palmertrix. As they prepare to launch their biggest project yet, she is required to sign a one-year agreement and NDA, which indicates that she won't be able to leave or disclose details until it's completed. She initially feels uneasy about the terms, but considering how hard things have been for her, she doesn't question it and reluctantly agrees. That is, until she meets her new boss, Daniel. An 'old course mate' she publicly rejected and humiliated in front of many. How does she cope?

Fiona Bartley has never had the luxury of being anything but perfect. With a fashion mogul for a mother and a family name everyone recognizes, her life has always belonged to someone else. Carlos Garcia has never cared about fitting in. He's the black sheep, the family disappointment, and the one person who refuses to play by the rules. She is everything he's spent his life trying to escape. He is everything she's been taught to stay away from. In a world where reputation is gold and wealth is currency, what happens when a simple arrangement becomes something neither of them can handle?

Carefree and easygoing Ardeep became serious and distant after discovering his father's affair and second family. Now, his beloved grandfather's demise was the last thing he wanted on earth, let alone handling the vast business empire entirely on his own while supporting a grieving mother. Life simply wasn't fair, was it ? ~ ​Mira Sareen. A chirpy, intelligent, and confident girl who loved to dream and worked tirelessly to fulfill them. Blessed with a loving family, good friends, and a fresh degree as a topper in hand, she had nothing to complain about. ​Life couldn't get any better, could it ? ​That is, until her dream job landed her right in the territory of the ruthless, grieving Raichand heir who lived by one rule : never lose control. ~ ​Ardeep never meant to look twice at his sharp-witted new advisor. But Mira's presence was a breath-stealing temptation he couldn't fight, and her light was something his dark world desperately needed. He knew he should push her away... but his possessive instincts had other plans. ​He told himself she was just an employee. His heart knew she was already... MINE. ~ Started : September 13, 2026 #2 possessivehero - 17/9/26 #3 bossxemployee - 14/9/26 #4 harshadchopda - 14/9/26

They were childhood sweethearts who believed love would be enough, until it wasn't. When things got serious, he walked away. Years later, she's rebuilt her life: married, a mother, and finally at peace...or so she thinks. Now he's back; a smoking hot and famous actor. A business deal forces them into each other's orbit, reopening wounds the small town never forgot. As whispers turn into scandals and tragedy strikes, she finds herself leaning on the very man who once broke her. Torn between the past that still aches and the future she chose, she must decide whether love is about unfinished feelings - or staying when it matters most.

Sink est un frère patché, un hacker expérimenté. À ses yeux, son rôle est essentiel. Mais humainement, s'est-il jamais senti à sa place ? Alors que la défense des White Ash MC devient une priorité, le mystère qui l'entoure ne fait que s'épaissir. S'encrer, ne pas crier. S'ancrer, choisir de rester.

In the quiet Montana town of Clearwater, rookie cop Ella Carter lands her first major case-a violent bar robbery that seems anything but random. As she delves deeper, she uncovers more than just clues: a local deputy with hidden motives, a town teetering on corruption, and Trent Calhoun, a rugged loner tied to the shadows of the crime. Torn between loyalty to her badge and the truths that could unravel everything, Ella must face a dangerous question-how far will she go when the lines between justice and betrayal blur?

when royalty meets politics. Angel Randhawa(18), a crowned princess of (Patiala, Punjab), elder daughter of the crowned King, enteres into the Chandigarh University as a first-year student of BBA. She wants to live freely and enjoy her life. Amaninder Sandhu(21), son of a business tycoon and nephew of the CM of Punjab, he is the President of Chandigarh University and 1st year student of masters. He is deeply interested in the politics snd wants to become a CM of Punjab. What happens when the two different personalities collide. Royal x Politician Junior x Senior Sunshine x Grumpy Butterfly x Bomb Rich x Rich Jatt x Jatt College romance Slow burn Possessiveness Updates⚠️- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday

This should have been the best day of his life. Instead, Gideon Pierce has never felt more depressed. No pride. No joy. Just a hollow, gnawing emptiness he can't outrun. The promotion to CEO of CE Incorporation was everything he worked for - power, prestige, proof that he had won in life. So he does what everyone does. He celebrates, burries the void in alcohol, boosts his ego by buying a fancy car. For a moment he feels larger than life. Until one reckless decision shatters everything he built. A drunk drive. A moment of arrogance. A silent challenge to death itself. A violent crash with dire consequences. Gideon crawls from the wreckage, furious at the inconvenience and the ruin of his shiny new toy. After a good night sleep, he's convinced he's escaped with nothing but a drenched suit and the threat of pneumonia as his first day as CEO. But something happened in that riverbank. Something unseen. Something patient. His world begins to shift. Reality slips at the edges. And he slowly realizes something happened in those murky water. What do you do when you lose control over your own existence? And how do you take it back when the cost is your soul? Regrets of a Dead CEO is a haunting psychological descent into guilt, consequence, and the thin line between redemption and damnation - where facing your demons may be the only way to survive them... or the final step toward becoming one.