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This story will become free again on 3 March 2025. It will be removed from Wattpad at some point in the not too distant future. Jessica "Ike" Wordsworth can dive into books, but she isn't prepared for a monster - and a ruthless murderer killing her tourists. Ike is fighting the aftermath of a nasty divorce that left her husband in custody of her homesitting business - and her beloved cats. With nothing but a turquoise construction trailer to call her home, Ike invests her last quid and becomes partner in a tour company specialising in bespoke trips for book-lovers. When the guide hired to take on the first tour drops out at the last minute, Ike has to take over and steer her guests towards the cradle of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". All to soon she realises there truly are monsters on the loose, one of them a ruthless killer who's targetting her tourists. To unearth the truth, Ike will have to cooperate with her moronic partner, Gary Sands, 13th Baron of Nettlehole and founder of LiteraTours. When they don't succeed in stopping the killer, she realises she'll have to take the plunge and draw on some rather unusual skills her family has been hiding from the world . . . "Frankenstein's Guide" is the first instalment in the "LiteraTours Cozy Mystery series". [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] Cover designed by Ren T

Just a regular job.... Get in, crack the safe, fetch the diamonds. That's what hobby cat burglar and acclaimed jewelry maker Calendar Moonstone has aimed for. Instead she finds a dead body, meets a handsome Detective, has a nosey insurance investigator on her tracks and manages a complicated boyfriend situation. And must solve a century old jewelry mystery!

Alianna Winter is on the run. London is no longer a safe place for her to be. She, Newham, Isabel and Fisher have fled to Hettie's house in the countryside, in a hope that it will buy them more time before Stephenson catches up to them. But when Allie suddenly falls dangerously ill, it seems that nature might beat her potential assassins to it. Or is there something more man-made at work? -The ninth book in the Alianna Winter series. Her earlier cases: 1. Death At Scarlet Leaf 2. The Merryweather Jewel Thefts 3. A House On The Hill 4. Murder Is At Hand 5. The Incident Concerning The Alsatian Dog 6. At The Plaza Majestic 7. Madame Juror 8. A Murder Shall Commence Her later cases: 10.The Final Endgame The Toby Smart Spin-offs: What Makes A Detective What Breaks A Detective

-The first of two spinoff stories from the Alianna Winter Mysteries- Tobias (Toby!) Smart isn't exactly your average fourteen-year-old. To be honest, his seventeen-year-old brother Tarquin Smart, or Quinne as he prefers to be called, isn't exactly average either. Both boys, as well as an unfortunate inbred skill for baking, have more brains and a sharper wit (and in Tarquin's case, a sharper tongue) than most adults they've ever met (other than perhaps their mother). But when a young child from the village is found dead, having been smashed on the head with a mirror, Toby and Tarquin finally get to start putting their skills to good use.

Fashionista Cheline Morgan's life is turned upside down following the discovery of a corpse outside the building where her best friend lives. After coming to terms with the death, Cheline attempts to solve the mysterious circumstances surrounding it, while her best friend appears more guilty by the minute. Will she find the murderer before her BFF ends up in jail or worse...dead? Cover by the incredibly talented @x_Luminous_x.

[ Former Wattpad Picks: Editor's Choice] [2019 ONC Ambassador Pick] [Open Novella Contest Longlist] [Completed] Moriah Hanlon is a new, biracial girl in Pachuck, Oklahoma trying to come to terms with her twin sister's death while also adjusting to her mom's psychotic episodes. When a foreign exchange student goes missing, Moriah discovers unsettling things about Pachuck's dark past. Things like kidnappings, sacrifices, and a weird obsession with hogs. After a secret club leaves letters addressed to her, claiming to "watch her", she fears she'll meet the same fate as the missing foreign exchange student. Now, Moriah has 24 hours to figure out who's behind the kidnappings, or she might be next. Inspired by a writing prompt from The Open Novella Contest, Like Lambs Led gives us a glimpse into an Oklahoma town that's willing to kill for their secrets... 🐺 🐺 🐺 05/26/19 #1 Bingeworthy 02/20/19 #1 Teen Thriller 02/20/19 #12 Open Novella Contest 02/01/19 Featured Wattpad Picks: Editor's Choice 01/16/19 #10 Novella 01/16/19 #6 Identity 01/16/19 #1 Oklahoma

In a world ravaged by war started by a wicked hydreigon, the pokemon have been split into three groups - Outcasts, Heretics and Darkness. Two members of the Outcasts Guild - a meowstic called Cleo and her small dedenne companion Spark - stumble upon an odd discovery. Something that sparks a little hope amongst the Outcasts. The hope that one day, the Darkness just might be defeated and pokemon can live in peace once more. However, this discovery sets two assassins - an androgynous zorua named Harlequin and a joker of a banette named Enigma - after Cleo and her friends. What unfolds next is a roller-coaster of events that throw our heroes right into the epic battle between good and evil. (Nominated for Serebii's Fanfiction Awards 2015 for 'best character development' (tied for second place) and 'best new writer' (first place). Also nominated for 'most dedicated writer', 'best pokemon centric 'fic', 'best new chaptered 'fic' and 'best Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 'fic'. Again in 2016 for 'best character development' (Tied 1st-3rd place), 'best non-human antagonist' (Tied first place), 'best minor character' (Only nomination - first place) and also nominated for 'best non-human character'.

A skilled alien warrior on her first assignment. A brilliant, dying biochemist. An ingenious but despotic genetic invention. Tangled together, intertwined by destiny, spanning a thousand years and connecting two planets. A pretty, decorated young soldier from the planet Vaelteuria is sent to Earth on an urgent, critical quest which holds the key to the survival of their people. But an unexpected obstacle in the person of a genius yet sickly human distracts her from her mission and threatens to bring her to failure. Will she be able to find what she was looking for before time runs out for her planet. . . and for Earth as well? Copyright by mayumicruz50 (formerly TrueBlue90)

She was a poison, one as sweet as honey and as lethal as monkshood. She made love to him while stabbing him in the back.

What happens if Beast boy and Raven were transported through Time after an accident with the Brain and Mallah? Follow them through their adventures and go through time periods as they discover themselves and find their true feelings.

When Amanda was diagnosed with a reproductive disorder that was yet to be researched, she never expected to get pregnant in the strangest way possible carrying the most extraordinary child in her womb. Having an IQ of 290, which was even higher than highest ever recorded, Adam a twenty-year-old is going to set foot into the Savant University of Sciences, the best of its kind in the entire country of Pairan. What's extraordinary about him is his ability to read minds with the only condition needing to be fulfilled is that he have eye contact with them. What will happen when a series of mysteries and the buried past are unmasked to only bring up more secrets. What he doesn't know is, not every secret is a healthy one. This book is being put on hold for a while. The story is being modified and reconstructed.

| Galaxy Book Contest - First Prize in Fantasy | | Golden Weekly Awards Winner | One queen, two kings and a forsaken prince. Clouds of war and the shadows of rebellion darken the reign of the King of Frahadry. But it is his daughter who must pay for mistakes made decades ago by two men who loved the same woman. Princess Charlotte believes it is her duty to give up her happiness and marry the prince of the neighbouring kingdom. But things never seem to go to plan and a chain of events reveal secrets that could spell ruin for the people she has sworn to protect. Her cousin, Lady Rochelle, has her own demons to battle. Hounded by a demanding mother and never quite fitting in at court, she yearns for adventure. But when it comes knocking she might buckle under its strain. Join them as they navigate a sea of lies, secrets and betrayal. They must battle against forces both seen and unseen all the while trying to unravel the mystery of Charlotte's missing brother. Is he truly dead as so many claim? Or is he out there somewhere waiting to play his part in the last epic battle that is bound to break out? ----------- • Awesome cover by @P-Oenothera • Trailer by @hareem atif Updates every Wednesday

When Nyx Forbes moves into a new home with her antique dealer parents and little brother, she hopes that the change will heal her crumbling family and finally bring some structure to her life. Before long, though, strange happenings occur, and Nyx finds herself falling into a dark hole that she thinks is madness. Nyx then meets Jonah Frost- social outcast and collector of all things creepy. Feeling like an outcast herself, Nyx feels a connection to Jonah and the two begin an unusual friendship. The two begin their own investigation on the house to try and better understand the happenings, but they aren't aware of just how strange their findings will be. From disappearances, to hidden rooms and a strange book, Nyx soon realises that maybe she isn't crazy after all. . . *i don't own image on cover*

Sara Kitcher delivers early dismissal passes during period six. And she's good at it - one of the best pass runners Westlands High has ever seen. When she discovers an anomaly in Westland's attendance records, she decides to investigate. Why has nobody, in the entire history of the school, been dismissed from room 277? When Sara's investigation becomes a rescue effort, she must complete the highest-stakes pass-running challenge the world has ever known. Success will rid Westlands of a malevolence that has occupied the school since its first graduation. Failure will bring infinite pain, destruction of her soul, and a difficult lesson in factoring polynomials.

The Terran Empire is in a state of chaos after the successful sack by the Valdi armada. As the Terran fleets struggle to reorganize, First Marshal Scott Pearson led the charge to cut into the enemy flank and stem the tide of reinforcements. With Orion help, he was succeeding, until Captain Traci Ganner interfered--again. But Traci must bring the Terran marshal and the chief Orion councilor together to confront a new Terran threat from the future. Facing daunting new technology, Traci finds herself in the clutches of a new Terran enemy and if they force the location of the rift from her, both the Terrans and Orions will be lost. In the final book of the Traci Ganner trilogy, Traci and her officers must endure their most difficult trials yet that leads Traci to a mystical temple that holds the keys to her very survival.

Every thing good, comes in twos! When you marry your dream spouse, life should be a dream! Right? When Bruce Wayne, billionaire philanthropist, rejects a deal with a crime don, people look for other ways to bend his will. Bruce Wayne's the problem, but why's Catwoman in trouble? Selina Kyle wants nothing more than to have a baby with the love of her life, but when her past catches up to her, will her wishes be left a distant dream? #2 in DCUO!! Thank you! #1 in DCUO 12/26/2020

⊗ Lucy Carlyle has seen it all in the past years within her time at Lockwood & Co, a mirror conjured by a psychopathic genius in which you could see the afterlife, and a malevolent, haunted staircase which could kill you just by its blood-curdling cries, forevermore plaguing an abandoned mansion. Now, as business bubbles throughout their company, one case out of them all has caught the attention of our profound ghost hunters, Anthony Lockwood, Lucy Carlyle, and George Cubbins; An abandoned Sanatorium, recently under construction, is now proven to be manifested with a variety of ghosts. The team must test their strengths in order to figure out the mystery behind the Age-old Sanatorium, along with the help of someone Lockwood, Lucy nor George thought possible; Lockwood's late sister, whom Lucy must persuade into figuring out the truth behind the sanatorium, which could possibly be a plague on her, and all of London. It's not a simple wraith problem anymore, this is a level five ghost manifestation, in which something Lockwood & Co has never faced before. ⊗ ⊗ The characters in this book are not created by me, all rights go to the fabulous Author, Jonathan Stroud. This would also happen to be a sequel to The Whispering Skull. **Gruesome Description** Enjoy! ⊗

In a OUAT AU, Belle is a woman living in New York, doing undercover work with a secret agency. With her stress overpowering her, she is soon chosen to help track down Gold, an infamous criminal lurking in the shadows.

(A fan-fiction) Mi Li is a young girl faced with the hardships of war and social acceptance. But when the war abruptly and mercifully ends, she faces the next great challenge of her life; unveiling her perilous past and discovering her present and future responsibilities. The turn of events brings great change in herself and those around her. This is Mi Li’s story...