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The Famoux
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  • Reads 5,389,357
  • Votes 227,228
  • Parts 109
  • Time 23h 33m
  • Wattys winner
  • Print adaptation
Complete, First published Jul 15, 2014
Leaving behind everything she's ever known, Emilee enters a world of high glamour and even higher stakes. The new freedom that comes with being a part of the Famoux is intoxicating, but behind the perfect image lies an ugly truth - being popular is a matter of life or death.

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Out of the wreckage of environmental collapse, the country of Delicatum emerged. Its most popular celebrities are the Famoux, uniquely beautiful stars of a reality TV show called the Fishbowl. In a world still recovering from catastrophe, they provide a 24/7 distraction. Sixteen-year-old Emilee Laurence is obsessed with the Famoux - they provide a refuge from her troubled home life and the bullies at school. When she receives an unimaginable offer to become a member herself, she takes it. But soon she realizes that fame can be deadly...

Content and trigger warning: This story depicts mental health issues and contains scenes of violence.

[[word count: 350,000-400,000 words]]
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-sneak peak- A silent moment falls between us and he stares at me intensely like a freakin weirdo. I trace his jawline with my eyes, I look to his pretty pink plumped lips, and then make eye contact with his pretty blue eyes. He utters something. It was so low that it was almost incoherent. I thought I heard the wrong thing, but nope. I wasn't wrong in the slightest. "Sophie?" He whispers as if the utter mention of that name burns his pretty mouth. My heart stops at hearing that name. That name. That fucking name. My name. Only one person in this whole entire miserable world has ever called me that name. Someone who made this miserable world much less miserable. Suddenly all the unforbidden memories come crashing back. Memories I once tried so hard to forget. I feel as if a tsunami of memories came rushing towards me, suffocating and drowning me in all the blissful painful memories. I start to remember everything. I start to remember Lee. - Sophia Arlene Blackwell, a 5'2 1/2 curly headed girl with an emotional wreckage that haunts her. She is twisted and dark, but she is still an angel in a world of darkness. She's a light in everyone's lives, despite the dark illusions in her head. Everyone adores her, except Lee, an irritating jock who hates her guts. What will happen when these to meet once again? what will happen when their worlds finally collide, yet again? Leonardo Ares Maxwell, tall, strong, slick and handsome. He's the popular Qb captain of storybrook highs football team, notorious for winning championships. He poses as an egotistical player with a black hole in his heart and walls built to block the roughest battles. He is charming and charismatic and well known in a small of Storybook Main, but is he really? Could one person be enough to break down his walls of steel? Can the 5'2 1/2 curly headed girl, who he hates, and who hates him, bring these walls to the floor and make them turn to dust in her hands?