Smalltown Stories

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 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. 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?

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 . . .

In a small town where everyone knows your history and nobody forgets your mistakes, Jane Walker has mastered the art of handling everything alone. Single mom. Problem-solver. Professional fixer of everyone else's chaos. Then a quiet stranger moves into the old Miller house down the road. Caleb doesn't talk much. He doesn't have to. Deaf and observant, he sees more than most people ever notice - including Jane. What begins as borrowed tools and accidental porch repairs slowly becomes something neither of them expected: friendship, trust, and the frightening possibility of love. But learning to let someone in might be the bravest thing Jane has ever tried. Where the Quiet Lives is a tender, slow-burn story about second chances, small-town life, and the kind of love that grows softly - like sunrise instead of lightning.

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 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 lifetime of love, loss, and coming home. Home follows the unforgettable journey of Jim Harlow - a Georgia-born Marine - and Allie Kennedy, the girl he loved since childhood, the girl who called him her cowboy. Through first loves, heartbreak, memory loss, and the long road back to each other, their story unfolds across decades of devotion, sacrifice, and second chances. Told through recovered memories, small-town heart, and raw emotion, Home is a Southern romance about two people who were never meant to be apart... and the hope that endures even when everything else falls away.

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When newlywed couple Liam and Wren, expecting their first child, lose their home to a devastating fire, they're forced to seek refuge with Wren's best friend Ruby. As they settle into Ruby's home, the facade of their friendship begins to crack, revealing a complex web of secrets, lies, and unresolved trauma. Ruby's fixation on Liam grows stronger, and she starts to blur the lines between reality and fantasy, convincing herself that their friendship is something more. Meanwhile, Liam remains clueless, grateful for Ruby's hospitality and genuinely believing she's a true friend. Wren, however, is increasingly uneasy, sensing that something is off about Ruby's behavior. As the days turn into weeks, the tension escalates. Ruby's baby's father, a man with a dark past, reappears, stirring up old wounds. A mysterious figure from Wren's past lurks in the shadows, waiting to strike. Ruby's actions become more erratic, fueled by a toxic mix of jealousy, resentment, and a desperate need for control. Wren, meanwhile, is teetering on the edge. The stress of her pregnancy, the pressure of her failing marriage, and the suffocating dynamics of her friendship with Ruby are pushing her to a breaking point. Her anger and frustration simmer just below the surface, waiting to boil over into something violent. The question is no longer if she'll snap, but who will bear the brunt of her rage when she does.

Regrets take over Cooper's life. Literally. As a radio host, she spends her days reading anonymous letters about heartbreak and regret on her segment Regret Radio, immersing herself in other people's stories to avoid facing her own. But no matter how far she runs, her past is always there, reminding her of the mistakes she's made. One of those regrets? Losing her childhood best friend. And it doesn't help that he's no longer just a memory, he's global superstar Harry Styles. He's everywhere. And just when she thinks she can escape through Regret Radio, a letter arrives that drags her straight back into the past.

Positive emotions--happiness, love, what have you--are practically unattainable for ghouls except through siphoning, or sucking the happiness out of a human. Finn Bay, a ghoul working as a florist's apprentice, finds his next target in Oscar, a teenage bike mechanic with a crush on his new friend, Evelin. Finn crashes his bike for an excuse to see Oscar and in the process gives himself a nasty head injury that needs a huge dose of happiness to heal. Now that his fate depends on it, Finn agrees to help Oscar and Evelin fall in love and ends up developing a friendship with Oscar that evolves beyond necessity. The two of them hatch a plan to use Finn's job delivering flowers to bring people happiness and then siphon it out. Soon, people begin knowing him as the "flower boy." There are many things going against him--the wisdom of ghouls from past generations, the risk of everyone finding out what their precious flower boy really is, and a demon hunter bent on "defeating" every ghoul in town--but Finn might just discover that he's deserving of, and capable of, happiness and love after all.

Adrian Ramirez visits a small town in Massachusetts for his old friend's wedding only to find that some strange and dangerous things have been happening in Stoneridge. Follow Adrian as he solves mysteries, deals with loss, finds love, and saves his best friend.

Running from her father's wealth and lies, Emma finds refuge in Blue Cast. A town small and easy to hide in. Until the new Sheriff arrived. Marcus Kane is everything she should avoid. Persistent, observant and far too interested in the mysterious woman. But as danger closes in and Blue Cast secrets surfaces, He might be the only person she can trust.

အကျင့်ကောင်းတဲ့ ကျောင်းသူလေး Ellie တစ်ယောက် ထောင်ထွက်လူငယ်တစ်ဦးနဲ့ အချစ်မှာ ကျရှုံးသွားတဲ့အခါ... သူတို့နှစ်ဦးကြားကို အတိတ်က မိသားစုလျှို့ဝှက်ချက်တွေက ခြောက်လှန့်လာပြီး ခွဲခွာဖို့ ဖိအားပေးလာပါတော့တယ်။ ​ဩစတေးလျမြို့လေးတစ်မြို့က အထက်တန်းကျောင်းသူ Ellie Browning အတွက်တော့ "လိမ္မာရည်မွန်တဲ့ မိန်းကလေး" ဆိုတဲ့ ဂုဏ်ပုဒ်ကို ထိန်းသိမ်းရတာ ဘာမှမခက်ခဲခဲ့ပါဘူး။ ဒါပေမဲ့ Haze နဲ့ တွေ့လိုက်တဲ့အချိန်မှာတော့ အရာအားလုံး ပြောင်းလဲသွားခဲ့တယ်။ ​ခန့်ညားတယ်၊ တက်တူးတွေနဲ့၊ ပြီးတော့ ရာဇဝင်ရှိတဲ့ ထောင်ထွက်တစ်ယောက်... သူဟာ သူမရဲ့ လူ့ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်က ရှောင်ကြဉ်ဖို့ သွန်သင်ထားသမျှ အချက်အလက်တွေနဲ့ ပြည့်စုံနေသူပေါ့။ ဒါပေမဲ့လည်း သူတို့နှစ်ယောက်ဟာ တားဆီးမရတဲ့ စိတ်ခံစားချက်တွေနောက်ကို လိုက်ပါရင်း ခိုင်မြဲတဲ့ သံယောဇဉ်တစ်ခုကို တည်ဆောက်မိသွားကြပါတယ်။ ​

Staying on the safe path feels secure, but that doesn't mean it's the path you were meant to take. ​Sloane and Brady were the "it" couple of high school, but graduation is a hard stop. To satisfy her parents' rigid expectations and step into a prestigious future in Law, Sloane chooses the script over her heart. She breaks the only boy she's ever loved because he doesn't fit the "perfect" image her new life demands. ​But as the bridge to her past crumbles, Sloane realizes that walking away is the easy part. Choosing between the life she was born for and the boy she can't forget is where the real danger begins. ​One choice. Two worlds. A line that was never meant to be crossed. 《#ONC>Prompt24》

After losing her parents in a tragic accident, Sabrina thought her life had ended. The carefully planned future she'd been working toward crumbled overnight, leaving her adrift and broken. Dropping out of college and escaping to Hawaii wasn't about adventure, it was about survival. She needed distance, a fresh start, and maybe a place where no one would ask her to pretend she was okay. Paradise should have been peaceful, a safe place to catch her breath. But Sabrina quickly learns that paradise has its own chaos: sun-soaked streets, chaotic coworkers, and a beachside shop that's more like a circus than a business. Nothing is going to let her hide forever. ---------------------------- 1 love interest, 3 boys if u fw the story i might do different pathways no real affiliation to sabrina carpenter, was listening to her music when i thought of writing the story all photos belong to their rightful owners

Six years after her best friend Alley Colton vanished without a trace, Alana has finally learned to live with the unanswered questions. But when she returns to her aunt's secluded California hometown, the past refuses to stay buried. What begins as a simple visit quickly turns unsettling. Her aunt's new boyfriend and his sons seem charming almost too charming and the dense woods surrounding the house feel heavier than she remembers. Strange incidents escalate, new evidence about Alley's disappearance surfaces, and people close to Alana begin to go missing. As fear tightens around the quiet town, suspicion spreads through every relationship. Alana finds herself drawn to someone new, but with danger closing in, trust becomes a luxury she can't afford.

Alex didn't know he was a lion until he shifted. Stuck in a small Pacific Northwest town full of hunters, his only ally is his brother Jayce. When a friend vanishes, suspicion falls on the town's employer - the lumber mill where his guardian has worked for fifteen years. The brothers plunge into a desperate search, but the deeper they dig, the more dangerous the truth becomes. And as Alex and Jayce hunt for their friend, the town hunts for The Beast. COMPLETE - 28 chapters, ~89.5k words. Updates multiple times per week. Following full release, the book will be stubbed and moved to Amazon. Join the journey at https://dauntlessbooks.com.