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Tattered Gray

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***UPDATE: I am super excited to announce that Tattered Gray is available on Amazon in paperback and Ebook! It's free with Kindle Unlimited. Reviews would be much appreciated. https://t.co/hi0M0qHCmE

 I will leave the first six chapters of the book here on Wattpad for users to enjoy, errors and all (I'm trying not to cringe), as I'm doing final edits. Once available, I will post the link for purchase here. Thank you all so, SO much for reading this story and providing me with invaluable feedback.

It is 1864, and the War Between the States has brought combat to Desoto Parish, Louisiana. Seventeen-year-old farmer's daughter Luciana Lanton must try to find her father-or what is left of him-after the Battle of Mansfield. Instead of her father, she discovers a young Confederate soldier, Henry Asher, lost and forgotten after having been severely wounded in battle. Determined to not see another man die, she does her best to nurse the soldier back to health. It isn't long before she finds herself enamored by his winsome heart and controversial thinking, spiting society's definition of an ideal match. To complicate matters further, her mother insists that she instead be receptive to the attention of Beauregard Dozier, an unexpected but wealthy suitor with a questionable past, so as to ensure there is food on the family table. With her family's wellbeing at stake, will Lucy abide by sensibility or recklessly succumb to her heart's wishes, and will Beau's history intertwine with her future?
Inspired by civilian accounts of the Red River Campaign, Tattered Gray is a story of the devastating ramifications of war, life in a society both prejudiced and volatile, and the chance at an extraordinary love in spite of it all.All Rights Reserved

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Free your dreams by CathyJensen

Thank you E L James for your wonderful characters. I love using them for my creations. Anastasia Rose Steele has dreams and they have been very wonderful. I was adopted by an Amish family and really don't feel like this is where I belong. I have decided to leave at 18. My parents know this and have tried to talk me out of it and tried to marry me off to many suitors, but I just don't want them. When I leave for Rumspringa I will get my high school diploma and take everything with me. Mom and dad already know I am leaving for good. Charles and Olivia Steele found me on their front porch and adopted me. I am finally 18 and I am leaving early they gave me all my documents so I can survive in the world out there. They give me a thousand dollars and tell me to keep it hidden, but not in my bible. The book they think is my bible isn't. My dad takes me to the bus station in our horse drawn carriage. I hug him for the last time. I touch my cross an he drives off and I buy my ticket. Christian Trevelyan Grey I am in a battle of wits with a man who has none. I am watching as he marks up the contract with changes he wants and he is not getting them. I am in the catbird seat at any meeting I have scheduled. Mom and dad finally gave in and loaned me the money to start of my business as long as I could prove myself in a years time. If not Harvard here I come and a college degree. Carrick Grey is an attorney and Grace Grey is a doctor. Mom stays apprised of the latest gossip, charities and fashions. Elliott my adopted brother is an architect. Mia is studying to be a master chef. All of us are adopted.

Unplanned - A RDR2 Fanfic (OCxArthur) by ponyboygrimes

[[A slow burn OCxArthur story with both new and original characters]] They say the best things in life are unplanned. But sometimes... they're the worst. After the Blackwater catastrophe, Arthur feels the heavy weight of responsibility; being one of the gang members looked up to and relied upon to get them out of this mess, he's strained by the notion that they may not be getting out this time. With the West slowly transformed into a civilized hellhole, they are forced to move in all directions despite the place they wanted to return to most. Grimly aware that the age of outlaws may be up, Arthur does what he can under Dutch to get money for their escape, all according to plan... Until a detour. Stuck in a rut of her own, the independent, God-fearing, and wistful Summer Grace Monroe has been searching for her own place in life. After being scorned by lovers and in and out of jobs, she feels amiss her late twenties without a true home. She finds the most peace in her church and helping those in need, especially the local Native population. Her father, Captain Monroe, works within the Army as a voice for those being silenced. She helps others find their story, but what would be her own? Things all seem to take a turn when fate brings a chance encounter, permanently altering whatever path her life was going to take and intertwining her destiny with that of a notorious group of outlaws - yet she would not be the only one whose path would be changed. **This story will contain mature content such as violence/gore, sexual themes, and language. Do not read if you are under 18** [These characters all belong within the Red Dead Redemption universe/Rockstar, but I have made a few original characters and altered storylines.]

"Almost Green" by NUmaker

Strands of your mind cling together like web to a slippery leaf bathed in the morning dew. You have seen both heaven and hell, witnessed the atrocities of war firsthand, and imagined a better life in the deepest, most intimate corners of your dreaming spirit. The wishes for peace and certainty you have once so desperately longed for, now lay trampled underneath the might of your mind's vivid horrors. What was once so bright and lively, now cowers in fear, clinging to gone memories like a shipwreck survivor to some lowly piece of driftwood. From the depths of hell, you arrived victorious, grasping the laurel wreath high above your head. Unrecognizable, with your empty eyes telling a story of innocence brutally taken away from the child curling in shame in the depths of your empty soul. Almost green you are, curly head, having grown up with a rifle by your bedside table, never knowing peace and quiet. Out of the pan that was the Kazdel Civil War and into the scorching flames of Lungmen, where life flows by on its own accord, here, you must learn to live once more. So put on your best facade, Let the reuniting trumpets ring a wild, And allow the city to swallow you whole. Here we are, a continuation of my previous work "Goodbye Curly Head", which sprawled into quite the epistle (but it wasn't really a letter, it's just long :P). Summarized in the most basic way possible, it's a story about a twenty-year-old Kazdel Civil War veteran who goes to Lungmen and has some troubles acclimating to the steady life presented before him. Sprinkle in a too-good-to-be-true offer and a freshly established logistics company, and you get Andy trying to make it big for as long as his deteriorating mental state lets him. I'd say it works as a standalone story for anyone who doesn't want to bother reading the first part. For now, at least. As always, please, pwwease leave a comment, positive, negative, I LOOOVE reading and replying to comments!!

Clay's Cottage (Book 1) by tricia-joy

[COMPLETE] Seeking inspiration for her next historical romance novel, Tilly Fletcher visits a mysterious 19th century Tasmanian cottage, abandoned suddenly over a century ago by a sad and lonely recluse. As Tilly steps through the still and silent house, untouched and fully furnished after all these years, the impossible happens to her. Dazed and confused, she struggles to comprehend that she is no longer in 2019, but suddenly standing inside the cottage in 1869 - and is caught by the aforementioned recluse, Nicholas Clay. While Tilly faces the obstacles preventing her from going back home, she also has to adjust to the sudden change of living in the 19th century. But it's not long before Tilly starts to enjoy the new life she's started for herself, and has doubts about returning to the life she's known for twenty-eight years - especially if it means leaving behind the man she is unexpectedly falling for. [Word Count: ~70,000+ words] The @HistoricalFiction Award 2022 "Top 25" The @HistoricalFiction Award 2022 "Stories Worth Mentioning" * This is the draft version of Clay's Cottage which you can read on Wattpad for free. * The final, edited and extended version of Clay's Cottage is available to purchase as an eBook or paperback on Amazon (https://amzn.to/3IUzsLR) or Kobo (https://www.kobo.com/ebook/clay-s-cottage).

•Ice Cold• Gray Fullbuster x Reader •Fanfiction• by Aqua_Sea_Chan

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of the characters in this story unless it is my original plot. This is just a fan fiction I've written for your pleasure. (Or cringe, however you feel about it). Also, vulgairty. (Swearing) Thank you and enjoy the book. ♡ ●○● A rumour has been going around the town of Magnolia. "Hey, did ya' hear? Apparently the legend, Y/N L/N, is coming to town next week! I heard she's coming from a dark guild to join the magical guild, Fairy Tail." "Really? Oh man, that guild is in trouble if she's not joining it! Did ya hear the rumour that Y/N almost defeated Titania Erza? They squared up in a fight and apparently Y/N knocked out Titania while Titana knocked out her!" The rumour has been thrown around pubs, occasionally there were overheard conversations in local magic shops or even just your average clothing store. They were all around the same, but they all based around one person. Y/N M/N L/N. Some say she can destroy a whole guild in just a glare. Some say she almost beat one of the strongest members of Fairy Tail, Erza Scarlet, also very commonly known as, The Titania. This rumour wasn't far from off. You, a total badass who goes by Y/N L/N, was coming to town in about a day. This rumour was heard by the Fairy Tail guild. Only a handful of people, excluding the guild itself, have seen you in person. When the Fairy Tail guild heard, everyone had become concerned. Gray Fullbuster, the most concerned, did not like you at all. The boy has fought you before, he lost. He always held that grudge and fought to become stronger. How will Gray react to him seeing you again? Will he be able to accept you are there? ○●○ Unfinished. ○●○ Highest rank(s): #1 in unmotivated #12 in unfinished #6 in grayxreader

Sun's Shadow (Dusk Series - Book 3.5 Standalone - MxM) by AmeliaCrossGE

Obsession is the height of passion, but what does one do when they find themselves enthralled with their enemy. Talamayas Sol loses his mother when he stumbles upon a mage in the deserts of his territory, and he is plunged into a despair he's never known. Stricken with grief, he imprisons the murderer and wipes out every last mage of the Song-a human supremacist mage family that had murdered his kind for nothing more than the joy of their extinction. Through his pain, Talamayas finds himself leaning on the man in his dungeons, be it only to torture him for the relief it grants. It was anger at first, but as he learns more about the circumstances of his mother's death and the terrors that fill Wren Song's nightmares, he is inescapably tethered to the man in his dungeons. Why can't he just kill Wren Song and move on with his life? What keeps him close to the mage and anxious when he leaves his side? Is there more to it than obsession and a need to crush the enemy of his past? If there is, what does that mean for him and his people? Take a step back to the start and follow Talamayas Sol and Wren song through their struggle in the deserts of the east. Learn just where their animosity began and how working together changes and shapes the hearts and minds of men grown in a time when violence was the only way forward. (This book is Standalone, but does reference events of the Dusk Trilogy) (Starts at the beginning of Dusk Trilogy, and Ends after it's completion)

His Warbride *COMPLETE ✅ by amateur_anonymous

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As Long As She Lives (full published version!) by DarcyConroy

NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A WOMAN WHO SURVIVED. Highest rank # 1 in Mystery/Thriller! Written on Wattpad and now published worldwide in print and eBook (in ePub and Kindle) at the usual retailers! Back Cover Blurb: After 4 years teaching in central Africa, Caitlyn Lancaster returns to her family in Australia, telling them she's been sent home because of looming political unrest. But Cait is more fragile than she and her Federal police handler anticipated. She's forced to accept that childhood family friend, now police detective, Riley Duncan must be told the brutal truth if she is to keep herself and her family safe. With Riley's support, Cait begins to recover her strength but civil war erupts around her friends in Umoja and her harrowing secret becomes the key to that nation's future. Putting her faith in her handler, Cait takes the ultimate risk only to discover that Agent Koffa has failed to take into account one vital detail...he's not as good at his job as he thinks he is. ** Please note, rather than the original, unedited draft, this book is now a sample of the first three chapters of the published version of As Long As She Lives. The draft version to which so many of you lovingly responded was available here for over two years and I cherish every reader and all your support but having the unedited draft available here was beginning to affect other opportunities as I attempt to establish a career in this fiction writing game. Also, I'd prefer that the version of the work that is publicly available is the best version! Again, thank you all so much for your support, I look forward to sharing my next novel in the draft stage soon! Darcy. ©Narrative Disorder 2014 - All rights reserved.

All Things Must End by ambercoleman48jj

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Free your dreams

Thank you E L James for your wonderful characters. I love using them for my creations. Anastasia Rose Steele has dreams and they have been very wonderful. I was adopted by an Amish family and really don't feel like this is where I belong. I have decided to leave at 18. My parents know this and have tried to talk me out of it and tried to marry me off to many suitors, but I just don't want them. When I leave for Rumspringa I will get my high school diploma and take everything with me. Mom and dad already know I am leaving for good. Charles and Olivia Steele found me on their front porch and adopted me. I am finally 18 and I am leaving early they gave me all my documents so I can survive in the world out there. They give me a thousand dollars and tell me to keep it hidden, but not in my bible. The book they think is my bible isn't. My dad takes me to the bus station in our horse drawn carriage. I hug him for the last time. I touch my cross an he drives off and I buy my ticket. Christian Trevelyan Grey I am in a battle of wits with a man who has none. I am watching as he marks up the contract with changes he wants and he is not getting them. I am in the catbird seat at any meeting I have scheduled. Mom and dad finally gave in and loaned me the money to start of my business as long as I could prove myself in a years time. If not Harvard here I come and a college degree. Carrick Grey is an attorney and Grace Grey is a doctor. Mom stays apprised of the latest gossip, charities and fashions. Elliott my adopted brother is an architect. Mia is studying to be a master chef. All of us are adopted.