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Some bonds are chosen. Others are carved into your soul. Vivienne didn't believe in vampires until she started to suspect her prince might be one. Which will she sacrifice - humanity or love? ***** Vivienne lives in a world where girls are chosen to become consorts of royalty, aristocrats and the filthy rich. When she catches the eye of a mysterious prince, she begins to suspect that the elite members of society aren't quite human. Her childhood friend, Blake, warned her about vampires before he died under suspicious circumstances - but now she might be bonded to one of the most powerful undead. Who can she trust? And more importantly - can she stop herself from falling in love? [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] Cover designed by Anastasia Wright

[Mirror Me Series Book 1] Hope Martinez was taught to fear her reflection, but the magical world on the other side is too tempting. Descended from those who can use mirrors as weapons, Hope has many dangers to face if she wants to get home before an ancestral curse destroys everything she loves. _________________________________________________ After a frightening incident leaves her family shaken, Hope Martinez promises her mother to never look at a mirror again. Three years later, Hope stands between two worlds - the world of her mother, a contrived and constricted set of rules ignoring their family's Hispanic heritage and abolishing all things reflective from the home, and the world of her abuelita, which is said to contain a mysterious power that members of the family are fated to discover. When high school bullying and peer pressure start pushing Hope's limits, she finds no other choice but to gain normalcy and break her mother's promise. She soon discovers a hidden magical world beyond her reflection, one filled with strange beasts, enchanted cities, and flying walnuts. Why would such a wonderful place be kept from her? The reason - Hope's family has a terrible destiny waiting to be unleashed. Young Adult ■ Fantasy ■ Sci-Fi [COMPLETED] AWARDS: -First Place in Teen Fiction category for Chaos Awards 6 -First Place in Fantasy category for Ohana Awards 4 Copyright © by Jules Haigler No parts of this manuscript including black and white illustrations or content may be distributed, copied, or sold on any media without permission of the author. All names, places, and themes are a work of fiction.

After her best friend is found dead in a motel room with no clear answers, Sofia Wineheart is determined to uncover the truth--even if it shatters everything she thought she knew. ***** It's a quiet October morning in Palo Alto, California, when the news break out--June Beaumont was found dead in a motel room, and no one knows what happened, not even her family. Sofia Wineheart, confused and devastated, takes it upon herself to pick up everyone's pieces--her friends', June's brother Meridian, but not hers--and figure out exactly what happened that night for the sake of closure. The little leads she finds all connect to one place: San Francisco. There's no telling what it will bring, or if it will bring up any answers, let alone those she's hoping she'll get. [wattpad editor's choice] © 2019 caterina george // all rights reserved

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For more than half their lives, five boys and one girl have been excluded from the rest of society, only known as the members Project Overtime. In a desire to experiment, The Professor took in orphan children and equipped them with technological replacements for various limbs and organs, hoping to perfect what could be the peak of the human species for fighting crime. Having been perfected for thirteen years, the final stage of their experiment has arrived: their implementation. If the six are able to merge with normal human life, all while demonstrating how successful and operational their abilities are, their experiment will be deemed a success and thus will make The Professor millions. What better way to test the exposure to normal life than by being throw into the most criminally charged high school in the district: the ultimate test of their loyalty and capability. Merging with the outside world has proven to be difficult after years of captivity, but The Overtimers refuse to let the mission of their lives be deemed a failure. After all, they're always working overtime if they've never been off the clock. ✦ rankings ✦ #32 in youngadultreads #171 in science #928 in action - competed ✧ july 23, 2018

After a disaster strikes the earth, teenagers are all that survive. But they develop strange and dangerous abilities that brand them as monsters. They're nicknamed the Freaks. Luca's a Freak like no other. When he turns eighteen, he's sentenced to death by a government sent from space, known as the Soldiers, to wipe the earth of the teens and start new, but the Freaks don't allow that. Luca is saved from execution by Freaks who bring him to safety, and there he finds not only food and shelter, but more like him surviving, when he thought they had all died. He's immediately given a task by the mysterious leader of the Freaks, and he's faced with two options: should he sit back and watch as his own are captured and killed by the enemy he's dealt with before, or should he risk everything - even his own life - to save them all?

[Featured by PsychologicalNovel] A youthful couple struggle with the emotions of newfound love, try to push back their life changing diseases and rediscover the zeal to live positively amidst the fear of loss and death. ******* What would you do if you knew you were going to die? Some people say they'll fight, they'll live every moment of every day as if it's their last. But not everyone is a fighter. Suffering from Epidermolysis Bullosa, a life-threatening illness, eighteen-year-old Phoebe's life is everything you don't want yours to be... Daniel is twenty-one, cheerful and a happy go lucky guy. When their paths cross, he tries to bring optimism in their lives. But what will happen when one day they realise that their roles are reversed? Will the love survive with death hanging above their heads? Or will time snatch away what the two of them held dearest? This is a story of living with fear, finding love and courage in the darkest of places and a girl, whose skin is as fragile as butterfly wings! [50,000-60,000 words] #135 in Teen fiction. Edited by @lindajonesAuthor Cover by @sereneur ♥️ Chief advisor is @michh_44

Some people run toward new beginnings. Livie Dune is just running away. After a public breakdown and the kind of mistake small towns never let you forget, she transfers schools halfway through junior year. No friends, no attention, no second chances. Just get through the semester, disappear quietly, and maybe, finally, stop hurting. Milo Westbrooke was once untouchable--until an injury ended his future and an addiction nearly ended everything else. Now he's back from rehab, clean but not exactly clear, dragging a reputation he can't seem to shake. Everyone's just waiting for the relapse. Neither Livie nor Milo signed up for the school's peer wellness group, but skipping it isn't an option. So they make a pact: no deep talks and no saving each other. Just late-night drives, too-honest dares, and moments that almost feel like being okay. But the more they let their guards down, the more their pasts start to bleed through--and the harder it becomes to pretend they're not falling. Because broken people aren't always better apart. Sometimes, they're the only ones who get each other.

How would you feel if your crush turned out to be the new boy? Exciting... until excitement starts asking for more than it should. Against all odds, you become close. Too close. Best friends. Confidants. A comfort that feels harmless-until it isn't. Because there are things about him you don't know. Lines he's already crossed. Choices that will cost you pieces of yourself you didn't plan to give away. Temptations follows Ameerah and Adam through teenage closeness that feels beautiful at first-then heavy, then painful. Because falling isn't always love. Sometimes, it's the test you fail before you understand why the rules existed.

Haley Jameson used to believe that the world revolved around her and her relationship with her best friend Sam Steinfeld. That is, of course, until freshman year of high school when new, not so friendly feelings crop up and things don't go the way she expects. When she leaves to visit her sister in LA after a heartbreaking encounter, she's seen by a talent scout and hired on the spot for being a "Triple Threat" and she vows to never go back to San Diego and to the boy she used to love. But what happens when, three years later, her new movie is set in her old hometown? And what if the director decides Sam is the perfect guy to play the male lead? Will the old feelings come back in play and hatch a new relationship on set? One thing is for sure: this is going to be one wild ride! ***This is a spinoff to The Secret Singer, but it can be read as a standalone novel***

Phoebe Pierce is a tantalizing, yet stuck up high school mean girl who always gets what she wants...including Jamie White, the infamous bad boy of H.L. Arnold High School. She gets more than she bargains for when her seemingly perfect relationship with Jamie is rocked by his scandalous affair with Elf, who knows nothing about Phoebe. Devastated and vengeful because of Jamie's toxic behavior, Phoebe forms an unlikely alliance with Elf to avenge themselves and destroy the persona that Jamie has so strategically constructed. With her reputation and thirst for revenge on the line, will Phoebe Pierce continue to get what she wants or will her plan backfire tainting her own image as the untouchable Queen Bee? ~~~ If you need a cover for your story I recommend going to either @harrystylesmanip - who made the front cover - or to @goingtocamphalfblood who made the cover that's on the Prologue ;D

Hazel Claire is a cute girl with dreams and passions. She's got a creative mind and artistic fingers. She keeps on dreaming and is not much into reality. Until her reality mixes with her fantasies and forces her to think that maybe she's living her dream for real. Roxen Dale is a high school badboy who's enrolled late in the semester. His mysteriously enchanting grey eyes hold back a cruel secret. People say he has a heart of stone. Until he meets an angel who melts his heart. A journey of a boy from rough life to true love. A tale of a girl longing to turn her dreams into realities. Fate's got them together. Will he ever be able to reveal his identity to her? Will she ever know that he loves her beyond life? This tale is all about love, passion, belonging, dreams, imaginations, fantasies, emotions, mystery, depth, heartaches, tears and laughter. So if you are the emotional type and are too much into dreams and imaginations, you're in! :) For the love of my life. ♥

Alicia Harding has had a tough life. With a dark secret that could ruin her reputation for good, she tries to regain her strength and face the situation with a realistic positivity. Yet no matter how much she tries, her past keeps catching up with her. Her cynical attitude attracts Aiden Carter, the school heartthrob who has a reputation of sleeping around. Watch what happens when he tries to show Alicia that it's possible to not live in the past.

{Higest rank #276} Sometimes the brightest light comes from the darkest of places. At the age of eighteen, Emilia Walters experiences a heartbreak that changes her life forever. It's not that typical 'young love' heartbreak that most teenagers experience, instead, it's the heartbreak that comes from losing a loved one. A heartbreak that haunts your heart for the rest of your life. Her slightly older but not wiser, loveable but dorky, music fanatic, twin brother was killed in a freak accident. With losing her other half, Emilia used Nate's death as an excuse to escape. In wanting to put as much distance as she could from the heartbreak and memories of her past, she runs. She begins a new, in a city that has no idea who Emilia Walters is. And now, five years later and she's back in the little town she tried very hard to escape from surrounded by the constant reminders of the things and people she had left behind. 2017 © lillyqueeen

You know that one day? When you do one thing wrong and it starts a butterfly effect set to ruin your whole life? Like you accidentally hit a domino and it sends a chain reaction ending with your destruction? Yeah, I didn't think so. But Avery Calloway has a lot to say about that. © 2017 Harper Faris All rights reserved. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording and so on without prior permission of the author. Any unauthorized copying, broadcasting, manipulation, distribution or selling this novel constitutes an infringement of copyright, which is punishable by law.

Seventeen-year-old Lila Torres can feel it the moment she steps onto the dock of Hollow Lake again. The water glimmers unnaturally, shadows twist where they shouldn't, and whispers drift through the trees, calling names she thought she'd left behind. A year has passed since the Hollow first claimed Lucas, and the group thought they had escaped its grasp. But the Hollow is patient, feeding on memory and secrets, stretching its reach into the world they know. Reuniting with childhood friends Eli and Lucas, and alongside her twin sister Aria, Lila discovers that the Hollow is no longer confined beneath the lake. Dreams bleed into reality, symbols carved into trees pulse with hidden meaning, and Rowan appears-fading, warning them of dangers they cannot yet understand. As the group unravels clues about their missing uncle and a secret society that has long guarded the Hollow, Lila realizes the lake is more than a parallel world-it is a living entity, hungry for the town's past. When Aria is pulled into the Hollow during a confrontation with the entity, Lila must confront fears, memories, and the limits of her courage to save her sister before the Hollow consumes them all. The Hollow Above is a heart-pounding coming-of-age thriller blending supernatural terror, small-town secrets, and the bittersweet ache of first love. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things, Gravity Falls, and The Summer Below, it is a story about courage, sisterhood, and the shadows that linger in even the brightest memories.

❝Hello, I'm calling on behalf of the Anonymous Therapist Program at Moreland Preparatory Academy.❞ ❝You just don't get a hint, do you? I really don't want to talk to you.❞ ❝Gosh, lady, what crawled up your ass? Do you honestly think that I want to spend my Friday night talking to you?❞ ❝Well, you're the one that called me.❞ ❝This is true.❞ ❝So goodbye, for the last time.❞ ••• A short story that alternates between conversations and narrative writing. Extended summary inside.

It's the summer before senior year and Tara Patel meets Rohan Malhotra, the perfect Indian boy, on Tinder. But before long, Tara discovers that Rohan might not be who he says he is. When her best friend Khushi falls for him, Tara must decide whether to intervene and break her friend's heart or keep his dirty secrets.

Ezra Royal feels his life just isn't what it used to be. He just started his junior year in college, him and his brother Jason has recently just rented a house off campus, and his four year relationship doesn't seem to be going anywhere. When he finds a polaroid under a loose floorboard in his bedroom, he suddenly takes an interest in it. Pictured is a girl among wildflowers with only a date and the girl's age etched in what appeared to be ink. Ezra grows curious and feels as if he was meant to find it. He sets out to find the girl in the picture, but gets sidetracked when he meets a stranger: Tatum. Is it about the girl in the picture anymore? Or is Ezra just searching for something more? START & END: 10/28/2020

"Love is what started the curse and it's love that has continued feeding the curse. Your grandfather and I both believe that it'll be the same entity that ends it." Luck has never been on December's side. Turns out, her family's been cursed by a witch dating back to the Salem Witch Trials. Just her luck, right? December, however, isn't alone. Will she and Emmett break the curse? Or will they meet an untimely demise? You never know when luck is on standby. Disclaimer: This story and the curse's conception are completely made up using fictional characters, events, and some locations.