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***NOW A WATTPAD FEATURED STORY*** [Book One of the Arabella Academy Series] Four teenagers, one dead girl and a whole lot of secrets surrounding a school. What happens when a murder that absolutely had nothing to do with you... simply had something to do with you? For Marcus, the news of Sheila's death was just another unfortunate circumstance in the daily life of Arabella Academy. However, the unquenchable desire of not minding their own business gets in the way of him and his best friend Jeff, causing them to plunge themselves into the world of detectives. Pretty soon the clues start coming up, and together with two other friends they embark on a journey that receives its fair share of good and bad. Will they be able to make it to the end and finally unmask the killer...together with finding that priceless necklace that everyone seems to be looking for? ************* Added to Wattpad's Official Mystery Account under Bright Young Minds Added to Wattpad's Official General Fiction Account under Clues & Secrets | Mystery/Thriller Added to Wattpad's Official Crime Account under Teen Crimes 1st Place in the Coronation Awards for Mystery/Thriller 1st Place in the WattOriginal Awards for Mystery/Thriller 1st Place in the Bookworm Monthly Awards for Mystery 1st Place in the Wildwood Awards for Mystery/Thriller/Paranormal 2nd Place in the Quarantine Awards for Mystery 2nd Place in the Creative Awards for Mystery/Thriller 2nd Place in the Butterfly Awards for Mystery/Thriller 3rd Place in the Discovering Elites Awards for Mystery/Thriller ************* ESTIMATED WORD COUNT: 71,150

What if you were told you were nothing, but then you became everything? After being abandoned by her parents and abused by the closest thing she ever had for family, Ariella Mathews has no hope for a better life and spends her days only hoping for as little pain as possible. This fifteen year old girl only knew a life of fear and hatred, she never believed that there would be a place for her and her Power of Healing since the Troupe, a group of nomads, told her that she, and it, were nothing. All of that changed when the Troupe turned to the City of Shona, the Capital of Powered People, for protection against people who want to kill them. With her head filled with lies, Ariella has to learn the truth about her family, love, and her Power, but only if she can let go of the fear inside of her. #Visible #Wattys2015

She hated them. They loved her with everything in them. The universe truly has a sick way of telling you it's there, doesn't it? From being kidnapped to being abused, that was all Arabella saw in life. It was all she ever knew. They tell you to keep fighting but sometimes you realize... you were just a child. Now she's built herself up using her pain as the next step to her strength. She's learnt how to strive forward even as her past haunts her mind crawling up her back every passing second. That is until the first 7 people who only ever brought her pain find their way back into her life. She has no way to let go of her past when they come right back to her. The world showed her no mercy in it's ways so why should she. ~~~ I let out a small sigh wanting more of this. I wanted to be held like this whenever I felt broken. Feel the way he puts me back together in his arms. It ate at my heart and I could have sworn I felt a feathery kiss on my head. It was as if he could hear my thoughts and was kissing them away for me. Slowly he lets one hand go, the other staying around me as he brings my chin up to him gently wiping my last tears as more fill my eyes. He sees this and his eyes look... crumbled. If you feel this way then why can't you choose me, Dominic. I shake my head from his hands wishing to step back but he pulls me back to him a pain filled groan leaving him. "Just one more minute. Please." His body shook and I brought him closer, feeling our pain become one. Our hurricanes of minds pull away even for the smallest time letting us stand together as one in each other's embrace. He was it for me. But I wasn't his.

Aaron Russo - Don of the Russo mafia. "To kill or be killed" He had many women in his life but the one thing he didn't do was love or relationships. He said it was a weakness, something people can exploit and hold against you, something he can't have being the head of the mafia. His main objectives are making money, killing traitors and over powering every other mob. That's until he laid eyes on her. Aaron Russo may not do love or relationships, but he knew she was going to be his. She was made for him. Florence Stan - First year uni student. Finally away from strict parents and boyfriend. Studying, making friends and partying is on her agenda for the next three years while she stays in accommodation. She wanted to see what she'd been missing over the years when her father wouldn't allow her to go out, that's untill she ends up at the wrong club at the wrong time. His club. Little did she know the "freedom" she thought she'd just gained would disappear once again. She would no longer be her father's property but his. •• "Well you didn't think I'd just sit here, accept your deal and fall at your knees begging for you to be with me forever, did you?" I smile at her causing her smile to drop. "Don't answer that, you proved you were a freak when you kidnapped me. Anyways, since I have lived with my father for 18 years, I know what men like you and him are like, there's no way for me to get out of this. So, for the next two years I will do everything to make you hate me, I will make you wish you never brought me into your life. By time It gets to the end you will be begging my father to take me back." I slowly get up and walk around the table till I'm right in front of her. Her breathing hitches as I sit on the desk with my hands on my knees, bent down inches away from her face "Princess, I don't beg, the only person who will be begging is you when you want me to fuck that sweet little pussy of yours. Don't make empty threats again

Arabella was labelled as a delinquent, kept in a boarding school "for her own good." Then, everything changed when she was kidnapped and brought to a brand new world. Secrets slowly unfold as she struggles to piece together a broken realm and her broken past, discovering things about herself that make her stronger. She is no delinquent, she is fey.

✧ 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐋𝐘𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐌𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐈 (𝐀𝐋𝐃𝐄𝐍) ✧ When I was six I was kidnapped and taken away from my family for seven months. Thirteen years later and I have little to no memory of who had taken me. Ever since then my father has been severely overprotective and never lets me out of his sight. Now that I'm somewhat on my own everything starts to change. When I finish high school and start attending New York University my life takes a turn, for better and for worse. They're back. ☆ 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 ☆ Years ago we found our little angel. She just so happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was the light in our lives, until one day we lost her again. Thirteen years later and we still mourn the loss of our sweetheart, but we found her once, we will do it again. I am the head of the Russian mafia, or a professor at NYU depending who you ask. One day I raise my head to look around at the sea of students and my eyes lock on a familiar pair of ocean blue irises. ★ 𝐇𝐀𝐘𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐋𝐋 ★ I'm a heartless killer and offer no apologies for it. As the head of the Russian mafia along with being the CEO to a multibillion dollar company, my life is nothing but darkness. During the day I'm an office man, at night my knife slashes through the necks of anyone I can get my hands on. Killing is my outlet, ever since I lost her. It helps me keep my anger in check. I've never stopped looking for her. We've come close multiple times, but each time came out unsuccessful. As I put a bullet in the head of my ex-guard, Alex comes rushing into the room, and the look on his face says it all. He found her. Start: July 4th End: ///

All that it took was one decision. One choice... To change your own life. Meet Skylar Amy Knowlton, your normal 16-year old with a keen interest in examining insects. Whilst wandering around the green fields of her run-down neighborhood, she comes across a particularly unusual, unique and beautiful butterfly. And without knowing it, she followed her own impulse to follow and study it... Only to run for a while into the cave that her sickly mother once warned her to stay away from on account of what happened to her father 9 years previously. This vast, dark and unexplored cave thus leads her on an Adventure she could've only imagined as it led her to a world of wonder. Welcome to Mendwall, a paradise world where we can live in unity and happiness.... Wait.... Did I say unity and happiness..... I did... The world is supposedly run by a corrupt king who is guarding a secret... And in this world... Humans are refered to as "God-like" beings with a vast set of skills and abilities. And out of all of their folk-tales and legends... One particular story is one that the king wants to keep under wraps... One story having to do with him... A story so descriptive that the king targets the unfortunate Renegus and will stop at nothing to kill Skylar... Skylar must continue to be vigilant in order to escape his grasp... So Skylar must join up with the Recktors... Or she will be a goner and will never be able to go back home...

Arabella believes that she is an ordinary girl. Still as ordinary as she may seem there are things about her past that remain hidden from her. The only clue as to who she was is the scar from the night that her village was attacked. She knew that she was supposed to die but she didn't know how or why she survived. Her village had been all but destroyed and her mother was dead. Her brother abandoned her to the care of the Grand Elder, never to be heard from again. For Arabella every day was a struggle. Shunned for having no powers and only one person to call friend. However, Arabella's normal life would soon change. What did the Grand Council want with her? She would find out and soon her entire life would turn upside down as she is caught in a battle between good and evil. Gods and Goddesses. Arabella must discover who she is and face her fears.

A 15 year-old girl named Alexandra Rosario Mendoza just moved into a neighborhood with her family that she found this place very strange, almost like she's been here before. Like any teenager she did not wanted to move away from her "hometown" when really she was actually going back where she was actually born. Later on she finds out a tremendous twist.Will she ever find out her true identity? Will this twist tragedy change her life? Read to find out. *sorry if the story doesn't make sense with the title*

What if your parents lied to you your whole life? What if your home was not yours? What if your dreams became reality? What would you do if a life you just made for your self was thretend by some one close to you? 16 year old Lila Jadwiga keeps to herself she is perfectly happy with having only one friend and only rely feeling at peace when dancing with her imaginary dance partner. As far as she knows her life is perfect but when tragedy strikes and Lila is pull in to a strange new world she might just find that what she thought was perfect is far from it and what she thought she imagined is very much alive. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Book one of the Shattered series