Smalltowns Stories

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 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]]

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. 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?

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.

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 . . .

*COMPLETE* Her blood makes her what they hunt. Her scent makes her what they fear. And falling for the one boy she was warned to avoid might be the spark that sets the whole town on fire. Some secrets don't make you powerful. Some love stories don't save you from monsters. They help you survive them. ________________________________ Six months before everything went wrong, seventeen-year-old Kelsey Blackwell moves to her father's isolated forest town after losing her mother. She expects awkward family dinners, old grief, and the kind of small-town boredom that makes every day feel the same. She is very, very wrong. Cold Creek is nothing like she expected. It is a quiet forest town where people stare too long, whisper bloodkin like a curse, and act as if Kelsey has broken rules no one ever bothered to explain. Her father will not tell her the truth. Her grandparents pretend everything is normal. And the woods around town feel alive in a way no forest should. Then Kelsey crosses paths with Ethan Greystone, the one boy she was warned to avoid. Ethan belongs to everything Cold Creek understands: bloodline, instinct, power, control. Kelsey is someone everyone would rather keep hidden. She is human in a place built for predators, and the more Ethan notices her, the more the town begins to turn against them both. Because the danger in Cold Creek does not only wait in the forest. It watches her. It reacts to her. And the deeper Kelsey is pulled into the town's secrets, the harder it becomes to tell whether she is the target, or someone everyone should have feared from the beginning. Because what they don't know is this: sometimes the most dangerous girl in town is the one who never becomes one of them.

Set in the summer of 1980. Angel Victoria "Ava" Lennox is a brilliant but cynical sound engineering major, interning at the top studio company in a little town in California. She had one plan: to graduate with flying colors and dominate the music industry as a female sound engineer. At the back alley of a hotel suite, she collides with 21-year old rising star Michael Jackson, who was in town for an exclusive three-week all expense paid project with his brothers. She didn't recognize him at all, and he is completely (and dangerously) intrigued. Both are fighting for their future: Ava's dreams, internal rigidity, familial rules, and industry struggles; and Michael's untold journey to being eventually: the biggest star in the world. In the fleeting, stolen hours between dusk and dawn, Ava and Michael discover a connection that the world isn't meant to see. What secrets could possibly unfold in one fateful, and starry night?

In which, Dominic turns his forced "hiatus" into a mission to get under Jade Callahan's skin, realizing too late that the only thing more dangerous than a Hollywood fallout is a girl who sees exactly who he is when the cameras stop flashing. (dominic fike x femoc) DISCLAIMER: This story has not been proofread yet.

"Seven years of grey suits, corporate meetings, and a husband who didn't look at me anymore. I thought I knew what my life was. I was wrong." Samantha thought she had a stable life-until she walked through her front door and found her husband, Mark, in bed with her own sister. Broken and numb, Samantha doesn't scream. She doesn't cry. She simply packs her bags, throws her corporate jacket in the back seat, and drives. With nothing but a road atlas and a finger pointed at a map, she ends up in Penmarris Cove-a tiny, salt-swept village on the edge of the world. But running away is only the beginning. As the "Grey" begins to fade and Samantha picks up her paintbrushes for the first time in years, she realises that the secrets of the Cove run as deep as the sea itself. One woman. One betrayal. And a second chance at a life full of colour.

When Maggie Driver purchases an old home tucked away on the edge of Hawthorn Mountain, she knows she isn't buying just four walls and a piece of land. The realtor gives her the history every buyer should know-the house's final occupant was Evelyn Haywood, a woman whose name became whispered throughout the mountain after the brutal murder of her husband in August of 1964. The story was written off as a tragedy. A closed case. A piece of Hawthorn Mountain's darker history. But Maggie has always been drawn to the stories people leave behind. As she restores the forgotten rooms of the house, she begins uncovering pieces of Evelyn's life that never made it into the records-old photographs, hidden letters, and secrets carefully buried beneath decades of silence. Because houses remember the people who lived inside them. ______________________ A book from the collection of the Hawthorn Mountain Novels "Every Hawthorn Mountain novel stands on its own. Different characters. Different genres. One mountain where every story begins with something the mountain never forgot."

A teen girl named Anna is finally coming to terms with her self and who she is and what that means for her small town and the people she cares about mostly her old best friend Julia who no longer talks to her. And she has started noticing the way it feels as if the town can breathe.

Wer fällt, fällt tief, und wer Fragen stellt, fällt schneller. Zwei Ufer. Eine Klippe. Sechs Jugendliche, die sich lieber hassen würden, als zusammenzuarbeiten. Und eine Wahrheit, die tief genug ist, um sie alle zu verschlingen. Nova war Autorin. Sie schrieb Geschichten, doch vielleicht war ihre letzte zu nah an der Wahrheit, und vielleicht hätte sie nie geschrieben werden sollen. Je tiefer sie graben, desto gefährlicher wird es. Wer sich der Wahrheit nähert, spielt nicht nur mit dem Feuer, sondern auch mit seinem eigenen Leben. Denn was an den Klippen begann, endet nicht mit Novas Tod, und der Abgrund, in den sie gefallen ist, hat schon längst begonnen andere zu verschlingen.

After five years of being apart, Violet Benson, now, 24-year old young adult, and her best friends, The Benson Gang, return back to their eerie small town of Arrindale. But the small town itself has changed and the eerie dark forces that lurked around in the shadows have resurfaced.

Moving to a new town wasn't exactly on Lee Minho's to-do list, especially when the town is small and stagnant. With the entire country's financial situation hanging in the balance and young people with their whole lives ahead of them, the last thing anyone needs is more major life changes. However, Minho soon realizes that the town conceals far more than meets the eye. Minho quickly gets to know a constantly joking rocker who is obsessed with starting his own band, a dark-haired distant twin of Snow White, and other music-loving souls. Before long, Minho finds himself pulled back into a long-forgotten music hobby and songwriting. The new acquaintances are one of a kind, but one stands out above all the rest without even meaning to. That quiet, cigarette-scented boy in the back row wearing a hood over his face. He is sharp-tongued, slightly cynical, unpredictable, and somehow dangerous. Rumors swirl around him, and the more Minho is told to stay away, the more he finds himself drawn to the boy.

Since Sofia Gallagher lost her sister, she's found it hard to feel loved the way she once was. Then she meets Rowan Kumar, a seemingly reckless chess mastermind, and finds herself infatuated with the way spending time with him feels. But can someone new really heal an old wound? Or does Sofia need to learn how to heal on her own before she can let herself be loved again?

EIGHTEEN BEFORE EIGHTEEN Marigold "Goldie" Sullivan has been flawless her entire life. Perfect grades. Perfect reputation. Perfect, polished twin sister to Leo-the golden boy who gets to do whatever, and whoever, he wants while Goldie is kept carefully in a glass box. But with her 18th birthday looming, Goldie writes a secret list. Eighteen things she needs to do before she officially becomes an adult who has never actually lived. Sneak out. Throw a punch. Go to a party on her own terms. And sitting right at the very top, written in terrified, shaky ink: 1. Seduce Wes Chen. He's her brother's untouchable best friend. Her lifelong, suffocating crush. The guy who plays guitar in his bedroom window and makes everything look utterly effortless. The problem? Wes has never-not once in eighteen years-seen her as anything other than Leo's off-limits baby sister. Every flirty comment she throws is deflected with a joke. Every heated glance is diffused with infuriating big-brother energy. But Goldie is a competitive cheerleader, and she refuses to lose. The challenge seems impossible when he insists on treating her like a kid. But the harder Goldie pushes, the more his carefully constructed walls begin to crack. And as late-night study sessions turn into tangled secrets, Goldie has to ask herself: Is Wes really protecting her from himself? Or is he just trying to protect himself from her?

Stella Kidd didn't plan to stay. A temporary escape from Chicago leads her to a quiet lakeside village, where she inherits her aunt's old house-half-broken, full of memories, and more complicated than she expected. Everyone points her to one person for help: Kelly Severide. He keeps to himself. Fixes things without talking much. Carries a past the village hasn't forgotten. What starts as repairs turns into something slower, quieter-built between shared silences, unfinished truths, and a fire that never really left him. As Stella begins to uncover the story behind that night, she realizes some things don't need to be fixed alone. But when reality pulls them apart, they'll have to decide: Is this just a place they passed through... or something worth choosing? Fanfiction. I do not own Chicago Fire or its characters.

" 𝕋𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕓𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕗𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕕'𝕤 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖, 𝕀 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕕 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕀 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕟𝕠𝕨 "🌞 2 years in a cold, grey Midwestern town was long enough. Turning 18 meant finally packing up a beat-up Jetta and heading back to the only place that ever felt like home: the Cut. Rejoining the Pogue circle is seamless, but keeping it cool around JJ is proving impossible. The reckless, protective boy who always had your back grew up...and the unsaid tension that hovered between you for years is suddenly a fire neither of you can put out. So much for "no Pogue-on-Pogue macking". 🤙 JJ x reader / First Love / Slowburn / Mature 🌶️