histórias de Small-town

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION When a summer of fun turns upside down, Olivia must figure out whether her paranoid imagination is playing tricks on her or if she's being followed - and by who. ***** It's been years since Olivia nearly drowned in Caldwell Beach, and after moving away, she's back for the summer to reconnect with old friends. However, not everything-or everyone-is the same. Her childhood best friend, Miles, is still sweet and carefree, but his older brother West is not. Disowned and working at the local garage, he's distanced himself from everyone, until Olivia accidentally uncovers the reason why. But as the two grow closer, strange things begin happening to Olivia. She can't stop seeing shadows and hearing voices, but as she slips into a downward spiral of obsessiveness and paranoia, she must fight to uncover the truth behind who is after her, and why. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. There are some friends you never forget. It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident oddball and free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't-open, kind, and accepting. Armed with two bikes and an unlimited supply of root beer floats, Ethan and Juniper set out to find their place in a town that's bent on rejecting them. As Ethan is confronted for the first time by what it means to be black in America, Juniper tries to help him see the beauty in even the ugliest reality, and that even the darkest days can give rise to an invincible summer . . .

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. The past always resurfaces . . . Five years after almost drowning, Olivia Cathart returns home to Caldwell Beach determined to face her fears and take some risks-not just by swimming but by opening her heart. Hoping to rekindle her friendships, she's excited about a carefree summer with her best friends Keely and Miles. But life in the sleepy town has changed, and no one and nothing is as it seems. When a series of startling crimes threaten Olivia's fragile state, she is plunged into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Her only solace from the chaos is West, Miles's disowned and ruggedly handsome brother, but even he can't answer the question on everyone's minds-is Olivia really in danger or is it simply all in her head?

Kelly just wants her business to succeed, and getting involved with a bodyguard is not part of her plan - but he is the only one who can keep her safe... ***** Kelly Harris is determined to make her antiques business a success. She won't let Tanner, a bodyguard who likes first edition poetry books, interfere with her life. But winning a mystery box at an auction changes everything. With Tanner working alongside her, they decipher the code in a forgotten journal, uncovering a young girl's journey to freedom and a powerful family's secret. Working for a high-profile security company, Tanner has seen the worst that humanity can do. He doesn't believe in love. But when disaster strikes, he finds himself doing everything he can to keep Kelly safe - even if that means letting her into the most vulnerable part of who he is. Leeanna Morgan is a USA Today Bestselling Author.

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. ***** After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-old Ethan Harper's parents send him to Ellison, Alabama, to live with his aunt and uncle for the summer. But the year is 1955, and Alabama is a far cry from his beloved home of Arcadia, Washington. As much as it's hotter in temperature, it's colder in every other way, and Ethan learns the hard way that people see his mere existence as a threat. Amidst all the mayhem, a fiery, free-spirited, oddball walks into Ethan's life. Her name is Juniper Jones. She is the first person in Ellison who seems unfazed by their racial differences, and she promises to give Ethan a summer he will always remember, filled with endless adventure and discovery. With Juniper, Ethan can breathe, he can be, despite the incessant attention and bullying their newly formed friendship attracts. Can the two survive the summer, run in the light and block out the noise of the outside world? [Published version comes out June 16, 2020 with Wattpad Books!] [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION Griffin Tomlin is dead. And Clara's sister killed him . . . Four months after the murder, the entire town of Shiloh is still in shock. For Clara Porterfield, the normal world has crumbled around her in a million chaotic pieces. Now Clara lives in a new reality, where her sister awaits trial for murder, her mother obsessively digs in a dead, frozen garden, and her father lives and breathes denial. At school, Clara is haunted by her classmates' morbid curiosity-and all of the unspoken questions they won't ask. But none of them knows what she knows . . . Now Clara's sister wants something from her-the one thing in all of this that Clara isn't ready to face: the truth about what really happened that night. Because this story didn't die with Griffin Tomlin. There's another story that needs to be told. And sometimes, the lies we're told are nowhere near as deadly as the lies we tell ourselves . . .

When Hayley falls for a bodyguard whose secret is more dangerous than her own, she must decide how much she is willing to risk for love. ***** Tank has spent his life protecting people. He works for one of the most successful security companies in the world, makes more money than most people see in a lifetime, and has a past that no one can ever know about. Hayley Elliott will do anything to keep her mom safe. Her sister has found a cure for Alzheimer's and their mom is living proof that the supplement works - but hiding from the people looking for the supplement's formula is impossible. When the threat to their lives becomes deadly, she has no option but to trust a man who's living with a secret more dangerous than her own. With more at stake than their own lives, Tank and Hayley have to decide what is more important: protecting the past or risking everything for love. Leeanna Morgan is a USA Today Bestselling Author.

A young woman tries to escape her past by moving to a new town and bets a renowned Christmas-hating local that she can get him to fall in love with Christmas. 85-90,000 words

When good girl highschooler Ellie falls in love with an ex-convict, old family secrets come back to haunt them and keep them apart. ***** Living up to her "good girl" reputation had never been an issue for Ellie Browning, a small town Australian highschooler. That is until she meets Haze. Handsome, tattooed, and with a criminal past, he is everything she was taught to avoid. Unable to control their feelings, the two form an unbreakable bond that unearths family secrets and emotional turmoil for Ellie and everyone she has ever loved. With all odds against them, Ellie and Haze must ultimately choose between their love and familial obligations. [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]]

"ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴡᴏ ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴇʀꜰᴇᴄᴛ ꜰᴏʀ ᴇᴀᴄʜ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ!" ━━ CJ lived in Middleton all her life. She has been best friends with Grace Russell for a long time that she considered the Russell family to be her second family. When the new boy arrives, she thinks that Grace and him are a perfect match. But what will happen in the future? Seasons 1-5 Nick Radford x OC

Iona White arrived in Ireland with nothing but a suitcase, a broken heart, and a silence she wore like armour. She didn't speak much - not about what happened in Glasgow, not about the scars that didn't show, and definitely not about the nightmares that still woke her up crying. To most people, she was the quiet cousin. The strange girl with too much grief in her eyes and a temper that cracked through when pushed. But to him - Cian Hughes's, number 5 on the school rugby team, childhood friend - she was the girl with the wild green eyes, the thick Scottish slang he couldn't always understand, and a sadness he couldn't seem to look away from. This isn't a love story born of soft beginnings. It's messy and bruised and healing. A story of found family, shattered pieces, and a boy who held her together without asking for her to be whole first. Sometimes, the strongest love stories are the ones you fight your way into.

Sorry for any mistakes, english is not my first language. A small town where nothing is as it seems. Alex hides a pain that time has not healed. Victor escapes from the big world before he kills him. Marcel tries to be strong for Arthur, although he can barely stand on his feet. Jason is silent about where he came from. Miriam is looking for a new home and a new life. Eliot is trying to forget the past. Their fates are intertwined. While some try to survive, others learn to love. And the most difficult fight is not the one with others - but the one with yourself.

In Alverne, the cicadas sing loud enough to drown out the truth. Twenty-five years after a girl vanished into the fields, Wren Winslow returns to the town that raised her on whispers and prayer. Her mother is gone. The past is restless. And the land remembers everything. As summer thickens and old names resurface, Wren begins to unravel what the town buried - not just beneath its soil, but inside its people. Some things are meant to stay hidden, others refuse to rest. Where the cicadas lie, silence is never truly empty.

Lily has a place she goes to when life feels too heavy. A riverside that feels more like home than the building she lives in. In another world, Freya is a broken warrior and a lonely soul, too tired to continue fighting. Two girls Two worlds What will happen when an accident binds their world together......

She used to be part of the crowd, Isolde Laureta, but is now an outsider in her own town after her father is accused of killing her cousin. While everyone else moves on, she stays, digging into secrets no one else dares to touch. Note: This is also a love story.

Blackwater is a town that survives by forgetting. The river takes bodies. The forest takes flesh. The mirrors take identity. And when the town can no longer pretend these things are separate, the stories it buried begin to answer back. As disappearances spread and memory itself starts to fracture, a handful of residents are forced to confront the truth beneath Blackwater-where belief becomes weight, fear takes form, and silence demands sacrifice. Some stories survive by being forgotten. This one doesn't. Content Note: This is a slow-burn horror novel. It contains psychological horror, disturbing imagery, and themes of memory loss, identity erosion, and grief.

In Hallowick, the light is never simple. Cisca's shop, the heart of the town and the family she's built around it, is threatened. Reopening it seems impossible, the fight exhausting, yet she refuses to let the shop, or herself, fade into memory. Lando thought he understood his gift. He thought he knew where it belonged. But when Cisca's beloved shop faces closure, the line between blessing and curse blurs. Lando grapples with the weight of his gift. Visions twist into warnings, emotions become overwhelming, and he is forced to confront the hardest question yet: who is he if the shop no longer exists, if his gift is more burden than blessing? Oscar is no longer just the calm, steady presence he's always been. Oscar must navigate the delicate responsibility of holding his family together. Their bond is tested in ways that reach beyond the ordinary, and the only certainty is that love will demand courage, patience, and trust. This year, Hallowick tests them all. Cisca fights to protect her legacy. Adam returns from war, his presence a storm. Oscar steps into the role of anchor. Lando must discover who he is outside the walls of the shop, and whether his gift can truly guide him without consuming him. Together, they face not a villain, but the harder battles: fear, change, and the fragility of trust. Against the backdrop of Hallowick's festivals, rival shops, and the quirks of a town that refuses to be ordinary, Hallowick's - Eternal Light is a story of resilience, identity, and the luminous, fragile magic of family. It asks whether the heart can hold light when shadows loom, and whether love, steadfast and unshakable, can truly guide us through.

Nineteen-year-old Lance Hawthorne grew up knowing exactly who he was meant to be-the next farrier in his family, working the forge beside his father and keeping the ranch running. But one rainy morning, a freak barn accident leaves him paralyzed from the waist down, shattering the future he spent years preparing for. Now the Hawthorne family is struggling to stay afloat, the business is slipping out of reach, and Lance is drowning in anger, guilt, and the fear that he's become a burden. Everyone walks on eggshells around him-except Blu Mercer, the new physical therapy assistant assigned to his rehab. Quiet, observant, and steady, Blu doesn't treat Lance like he's fragile. He doesn't push too hard or step away. He simply shows up-again and again-meeting Lance where he is, not where anyone thinks he should be. As Lance battles trauma, family expectations, and the loss of the only future he ever planned, he discovers that healing isn't about going back to who he was... it's about learning who he can become now. A story of identity, family, resilience, and the unexpected people who help us stand tall when we can't stand at all. A Ranch Life Novel

She never believed in rescue. But then came the hockey goalie who didn't just see her fire-he stepped into it, willing to burn with her. Book 2- Heroine (Book 1 is 'Figurine' go check it out!!) Tessa "Tess" Navarro learned early that heroes don't come for girls like her. In the city, saving yourself isn't selfish-it's survival. With a father who uses his fists to make a point and two younger siblings looking to her like she's the only shield they've got, Tess doesn't have the luxury of hope. Only grit. Only fire. Only the next fight. She doesn't trust. Doesn't flinch. Doesn't break. Not for anyone. Lucian "Luke" Dawson is Lakehurst's star goalie, the backbone of a team built on loyalty and brotherhood. Hockey is more than a sport-it's his escape, his control, his reason to stay grounded. But when Tess storms into his life-all sharp edges, heavy silences, and bruised knuckles-Luke sees the fracture lines she's desperate to hide. She's built for survival. He's built to protect. But she's not some damsel in distress. And he's not the hero she wants. Still, there's something between them. Something electric. Dangerous. Real. But the past doesn't let go easy. And when the line between protector and protected begins to blur, Tess is forced to decide: can you let someone in without letting everything else fall apart? Because in her world, love is a risk. And being someone's heroine... might cost her everything. "He wasn't scared of my darkness. And for the first time in my life, I wasn't scared of someone else seeing it."