Runner Girl
Jen_McConnel
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  • Reads 4,585
  • Votes 313
  • Parts 23
  • Time 4h 36m
Jen_McConnel
Complete, First published Aug 09, 2018
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Lana loves to run; it's like the moment her feet leave hit the track, she can fly. But her world gets turned upside-down when the father who abandoned her as a child shows up to claim her. 

Runner Girl is a re-imagining of the myth of Atalanta, and it was my MA thesis at Hollins University. I'm really excited to share it here for the first time!

This story takes place in the same world as my book Beautiful Curse, which is also available here on Wattpad.  https://www.wattpad.com/story/173022073-beautiful-curse
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For the Love of God

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[ time travel x greek mythology retelling with a twist ] Celena has always been a lover of books. As any sane bibliophile does, she wishes to escape into fictional worlds and forget about her monotonous life that's become slightly painful as of recent events. But what Celena doesn't wish for is to get sucked into the realm of Greek Gods in just a turn of a page - literally. She is trapped in an unbelonging world, becomes witness to an illicit affair of Gods and discovers a piece of the future that shatters her. Celena must do everything she can to alter the future and if forging a deal with a God is what it takes, she will take up the challenge. But will she really keep up her end of the deal?

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