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Killing Me Softly (#Wattys2016)

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Reads 441,766
Votes 33,553
Parts 95
Time 5h 56m

Mature

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On a bitterly cold January evening, Tracy Ellis went for a jog along Chicago's snowy lakefront and disappeared. Her body is discovered days later, her beautiful face bashed in with a rock. Police determine her brutal death to be a mugging gone wrong and drop the matter into their cold case files. 

Over a year later, Tracy's sister, Sondra, still can't come to grips with what happened. She throws herself into her work as a documentary filmmaker to try and forget the cruelty of her sister's death. However, a chance encounter with a man from Tracy's past rips the wound open and sends Sondra on a desperate search for answers about the secrets from her sister's life that may have led to her death. 

As Sondra struggles to uncover what happened to Tracy, she's launched into a tangled web of deceit and danger that put her on a collision course with life and death...All Rights Reserved

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THEIR BLOOD BE LAID by theAimeeMeester

There are things that Áine Tracey knows about her family. She knows that the family legacy is a long, bloody one, and that her father holds New York City's drug trade in two tight hands. She knows that one day she'll be a part of it, but she never expected to find that out by waking up covered in blood that's not her own. Blood curses run deep, and Áine is unwilling to accept the inevibility that once the blood starts, it won't end until a family member dies. The interruptions and snooping of mediocre reporter Laslo Hugh is just one more annoyance she's determined to solve. Laslo, however, has other plans -- the Tracey family is a black hole of secrets just waiting to be uncovered, and he intends to be the one reporter they can't buy off, blood curses and bleeding girls be damned. Their investigation leads them into the events surrounding the curse as the death toll spikes, and in the end, Áine may be forced to take family matters into her own hands.

The Wanderers by JessicaLMillerauthor

What do you do when you learn your family is the one who's holding all the secrets. Secrets that could get you killed... Ella is looking forward to starting college in the fall with her best friend Josie. She's looking for a place where she can get away from her overbearing parents and two older annoying brothers. Unfortunately, Ella realizes that sometimes the past comes back to haunt you. Ella soon learns that the man who terrorizes her dreams is, in fact, real and coming after her. When one of her classmates is murdered, Ella slowly recognizes this is not some strange coincidence. Ella fears that the boy she's falling in love with is the one who stalks her dreams and no longer knows who she can trust. When she finally learns the truth of her families deepest secret, Ella has to face her demons by taking out one of the people she thought she could trust...before they kill her.

Grace by UnforgettableMovie

Over the past two years, twenty-one-year-old Tessa has been struggling to shove the pieces of her life back together. It's not an easy task, given that her mother is an alcoholic mess, her father is dead, the rest of her family is determined to pretend she, her mother, and her younger sister, Grace, don't exist, and feels like she's drowning in the responsibilities that come with adulthood without having her parents there to help her. But Tessa can deal. She has Grace, and that's all she needs to survive. When Grace starts dating Julia, a charming and pretty girl from her physics class, Tessa is overjoyed for her. She loves that Grace is happy, despite the pain life has inflicted. But then Julia breaks Grace's heart, and everything falls apart. Now, Grace is gone. She's locked away in St. Montgomery's, a mental hospital, and the doctors keep saying she's delusional; that her entire relationship with Julia was a lie. But Tessa knows better. And with each day that she sees Julia around campus, a boy on her arm as she laughs with her friends, she feels a surge of rage. This girl destroyed the last good thing she had in her life. She can't just sit back and watch her get away with it. Julia needs to pay. And she will. Those friends she loves? Gone. That boyfriend? Gone. That reputation? Gone. Tessa will take everything. And there will be nothing Julia can do to stop her.

Deadly Hallows [Complete] by StolenGlances

Casey Hale lives in the small town of Shady Hallows, where everyone knows everybody's business. So when word of a murder sweeps through the small town, fear quickly takes over. A young girl, Sophie Peters, has been found murdered in the woods. To the police it looks like an accidental overdose, but something doesn't sit right with Casey. Sophie's death wasn't an accident. Besides the fact that they look like they could be long lost twins, Sophie saved Casey's life and now Casey is determined to repay her by giving her death justice. Though trying to find out who murdered Sophie will lead Casey down a road of lies, deception, and murder. Especially as she learns that the people who she thought she knew aren't who they seem. As she digs through the case Sophie's brother, Mason Peters, is offering his help to bring the person who murdered his sister to justice, and won't rest until they find out who did it. But can they work together to find the killer or will the lies tear them apart?

Suicide Tree || ✓ by SagaBP

❝They say it was suicide❞ When Scarlett and her friend discovered three bodies hanging from the age old willow tree, the town deemed it as suicides. A family tragedy. Nothing more. But then she discovers a note written by the killer. And then she receives more notes. Each detailing an event in her past which only she could have any knowledge of. Someone has been stalking her from the moment she stepped foot in this town. Someone close to her. Someone she trusts. She doesn't know what they want. She doesn't know who they are. For Scarlett, things only get stranger. Her boyfriend begins acting up, the murders are messier and more obvious and she has a complicated relationship with her best friend's brother who, as it turns out, is the only person she can truly trust anymore. As the dead bodies pile up, Scarlett is thrust deeper and deeper into the complicated past, and her chances of making it out alive are slowly diminishing. [Rated Mature for strong language, somewhat graphic depictions of violence and: TW for suicide, depression, self-harm and mental illness. The TW are due to a side character and not the main character.]

Lost and Found ~Completed~ by shailynwalker

Gwen Christine Nichols is a weak girl left alone with her abusive father. Her brother and boyfriend disappeared and her mother died in the hands of her father. But, one day, when the abuse got too far, Gwen snapped. She went insane and brutally murdered her father. When Gwen ran away from her accomplishment, she accidentally ran into the forest that everyone forbidden to go in. There, she earned an injury that can be treated. But in the forest, where was help? Luckily, three boys took her to their mansion and treated her with basic anatomy. As always, though, there was a major twist. Gwen was forcefully living with the group of brutal murderers, the CreepyPastas. There, she is 'adopted' into the family, training to gain her strength and skills. But, Gwen slowly realizes everything she lost, besides her father, were in this mansion the whole time. And there, she finds her secret imperfection, her boyfriend, her brother... Herself.

Vanishing Point by MichelleSharpe33

Step into the enigmatic world of "Vanishing Point," a spellbinding murder mystery that unfolds in the quaint town of Serenity Grove, where secrets are as abundant as the morning fog. Meet Lily Turner, a small-town girl with big dreams, whose life takes an unexpected turn when a chilling crime rocks the tight-knit community. Lily, known for her quiet demeanor and keen observant eyes, stumbles upon the lifeless body of the town's beloved librarian, casting a dark shadow over Serenity Grove. As the town grapples with shock and fear, Lily is thrust into the center of the investigation. Haunted by her own past and the town's closely guarded secrets, she becomes an unlikely detective determined to unearth the truth. With each twist in the winding path of the investigation, Lily discovers that the seemingly idyllic façade of Serenity Grove hides a labyrinth of lies and deceit. As she peels back the layers, she unravels long-buried family histories, uncovering scandals that threaten to tear the town apart. The tight-knit community becomes a breeding ground for suspicion, and Lily finds herself questioning the motives of friends and neighbors she once trusted. The mist that blankets the town becomes a metaphor for the obscured truth, and Lily must navigate through the fog of deception to expose the real culprit.

A Darker Shade of Grey (Short Story, Complete) by seholmesauthor

After three trying months, Jace must get through one last week of work with elder twin brothers, both on parole for burglary, both total jerks. And then he's free of the family who've held him down for seventeen years. On arrival at the eerie locale of their final contract, a young girl with a crippled body warns him off Grey Manor, insisting no-one enter the abandoned mansion. But a lost cameo worth two million dollars is hidden inside and Jace faces the impossible task of keeping his greedy brothers out. When he witnesses a grisly death at the hands of the supposedly missing Lady Grey, Jace learns the girl's words are not easily dismissed, forced to unravel the mystery before it unravels him. Leaving has never been harder and the only one with answers is a comatose girl trapped by an entity whose vengeance knows no bounds. (Horror, Supernatural Thriller)

Homewrecker by LyssFrom1996

Bronwyn Larson has spent her whole life not depending on her mother, a constantly recovering addict, until the moment her life was literally torn apart when an EF4 tornado ripped through their trailer park and her mom is found dead, miles away after the storm. Suddenly, her estranged father is a part of her life, a prominent state senator who's been absent since Bronwyn was born, a product of her parents' secretive affair. After living alone with her mother in a trailer for seventeen years, Bronwyn now has a stepmother and four new siblings, including an older brother and sister who seem skeptical, if not actually disproving, of Bronwyn living with them. While staying with them in their vacation lake house an hour away from what she called home, Bronwyn is hit with the bombshell that her mother's death is being treated as suspicious, with injuries inconsistent of being killed during the tornado. Estranged from everyone she knows, except her estranged new family, Bronwyn doesn't know who trust or who to believe about her mother's death. Torn between her life as the daughter of a single drug addict and the middle child of a well-respected senator, all while learning more about the mother she thought she knew, Bronwyn is forced to navigate through this new unfamiliar life alone, with this gut feeling she has. That her mother's killer isn't unfamiliar. 𝐓𝐎 𝐁𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐃 𝐌𝐀𝐘 18th 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐏𝐀𝐃 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒 Cover designed by Ashley Bandy

Sentry of the Arcane: Befall by FitzroyVacker

-Sentry of the Arcane: Befall- It's been a year since the Percipients, Altruistics, and Sovereigns were introduced to each other and to a world that they shouldn't have known at that young age- death by brutal murder. They know who the murderer is, and Sophie and Laurel had to suffer in the hands of him. The only problem is- Jacob's gone. He ran away. Another murder comes up. Not as bloody, but just as mysterious. How is it a murder? Maybe it's a suicide. Maybe it's a suicide that changed into homicide. Who knows? More and more secrets are being unearthed as more deaths of people befall onto the shoulders of six teenagers. But as one secret's being found out, another one's being hidden. All in all, no one secret isn't replaced with another.

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THEIR BLOOD BE LAID cover

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Deadly Hallows [Complete] cover

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THEIR BLOOD BE LAID

There are things that Áine Tracey knows about her family. She knows that the family legacy is a long, bloody one, and that her father holds New York City's drug trade in two tight hands. She knows that one day she'll be a part of it, but she never expected to find that out by waking up covered in blood that's not her own. Blood curses run deep, and Áine is unwilling to accept the inevibility that once the blood starts, it won't end until a family member dies. The interruptions and snooping of mediocre reporter Laslo Hugh is just one more annoyance she's determined to solve. Laslo, however, has other plans -- the Tracey family is a black hole of secrets just waiting to be uncovered, and he intends to be the one reporter they can't buy off, blood curses and bleeding girls be damned. Their investigation leads them into the events surrounding the curse as the death toll spikes, and in the end, Áine may be forced to take family matters into her own hands.