College Stories

After the accident, Noah Archer built a wall around himself. But Riley Dawson is curious about him, and she's determined to meet the man behind his defenses. ***** Riley Dawson has always noticed Noah. He was the most popular guy on campus, until he lost his parents in a car accident. Now he's withdrawn and silent. Mustering up the courage to give her condolences, the two end up talking, and Riley grows determined to help Noah find himself again. Every time she coaxes a smile from him, she can feel the ice around his heart melting. But Riley knows that Noah's loss is still close to him. She's opening up her heart, but can Noah do the same? He's got so much to lose, but now, so does she. [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

What happens when your first heartbreak becomes your biggest distraction? --- Everyone at Henley University knows Logan Adams, the charming 6'3 star forward with an easy smile and eyes you could drown in. But I remember the boy before all of that. The one who watched Marvel movies with me, who fell on the ice more times than he'd ever admit, and who promised we'd always be friends. That was years ago. I haven't seen him since our high school graduation, long after we stopped being friends. Now I'm transferring to Henley, and working as a student medical assistant for the hockey team. For the first time in years, I'll be around Logan... The boy who broke my heart without ever realizing it was in his hands. ****The Henley Boys is a series of standalones. Before the Buzzer is the first book in the series, but you can choose to read in any order!***** ***100K reads on February 6, 2026 ***150K reads on February 24, 2026

#1 in elements | #1 in fantasyfiction | #1 in magicalcreatures | #1 in fantasyadventure | #1 in hiddensecrets 💨 "Not all magic is born-some must be awakened, trained and wielded like a sword." 💨 Mira Chen never believed in magic-coming from a family full of scientific geniuses, everything had an explanation - until the day a mysterious invitation to Eldryn Academy snatched her from her ordinary life and tilted the axis of the very reality she knew. Eldryn Academy of Elementals, a hidden school where the most powerful wielders of fire, water, earth, and air are trained. But Mira isn't like the others. While her classmates summon storms and shape mountains with ease, her powers remain locked, Labeled an outsider, Mira must prove herself before core forces of the universe and earn her own place. Mira discovers she possesses dormant elemental powers unlike anything the academy has seen before. Under the watchful eyes of enigmatic professors and surrounded by gifted classmates who've trained their whole lives for this, Mira struggles to unlock abilities that refuse to listen to her. But, Elemental world harbors ancient secrets. As Mira forms unexpected friendships and navigates complex rivalries, she uncovers disturbing truths about the connection between the human and elemental worlds-and her unique role in the middle of all the chaos. If you dare, now it's your chance to follow along with Mira into the world of Elementals.

Some games are meant to be won. Some are meant to break you. Elara James wasn't looking for love when she started college. She was looking for a fresh start, good grades, and maybe a few friends along the way. She wasn't looking for Cole Ashford. Cole Ashford was impossible to ignore. The star quarterback with a reputation that preceded him. The playboy who never stayed the same girl twice. The guy who thought the world revolved around him-and honestly, it usually did. Their first meeting was a disaster. He gave her a stupid nickname. She gave him a piece of her mind. It should have ended there. It didn't. What follows is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance that will take you through every high and every low. The stolen glances. The arguments that aren't really arguments. The kisses that mean nothing to him and everything to her. The heartbreak. The betrayal. The long, painful road to forgiveness. This isn't a story about love at first sight. It's about love that's fought for, bled for, and earned over time. It's about two people who have to break before they can finally come together. How long can you play the game before someone gets hurt?

She's on the naughty list this year. Sleeping with her professor was the last thing Karen Merringer expected. At an Ivy League University, Karen becomes entangled with Professor Clause Frost. And the one rule she should never break? He might be the only one worth breaking it for A Christmas towner Chic Flic for a year-round read Smut starts near end of Chapter 5: Jack Frost

Viraj Singhania is a cricketer. Aslesha Mathur is a kathak dancer. He doesn't care about anything and anybody. She is really kind and helpful towards everybody. Parties, girls and scoring double centuries is his life. Papa, novels and ghungroos are her life. But even though they are so different, they have one thing in common- THEY WANT TO KILL EACH OTHER! But maybe after a little change they can be all that the other one needs. Or not. ____________________

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION When her initiation into her college's History Club goes awry, Sol has to come face to face with Ethan-the cute guy whose house she just broke into. ***** Soledad Gutierrez, or Sol to her friends, decides to join the History Club at her Community college. However, this club is not like other clubs: they have an initiation process and a slew of other 'extracurricular activities.' In order to join the club, Sol must break into the oldest house in her small Californian town and steal one of their forks. The club members provide all the materials to break in; she just needs to take the utensil, take a selfie in the kitchen, and get out undetected-with the fork, of course. The problem is: Ethan Winston spots Sol in his grandparent's house, and he's determined to uncover the reason behind the break-in. However, both he and Sol are thrown for a loop when feelings begin to develop between them. And as Ethan becomes suspicious of the History Club, he and Sol get tangled in an adventure none of them were expecting. [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] [[Wattys 2019 Winner for Young Adult + Being Published by Wattpad Books in Fall 2020]]

After a car accident leaves Kaden Bretton temporarily blind, Isla Moore struggles to break up with him while disguised as his girlfriend, who died in the crash. ***** Isla Moore has been in love with Kaden Bretton since he taught her how to slow dance on her sixteenth birthday. Now, four years later, she jumps at the chance to help him after a terrible car accident leaves him temporarily blind -- by agreeing to break up with him while disguised as his girlfriend, Evangeline, so he never has to find out she died in the crash. But will she be able to stick to the plan even after he starts falling for her? Or will the truth about her identity and the reason she lied to him destroy their chance at forever? ***** Cover by @lydiahephzibah.

Ezra Lewis hated exactly four things in the world. Bananas. Cheap toilet paper. Riverdale. And Kody Vincent. But after a one night stand, she ends up pregnant and Kody happens to be the father. Now she has to navigate Teen pregnancy, College, full time employment, and having Kody Vincent- Winterbrook's most eligible bachelor- as her baby's father. Book two in the Vincent Series

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. Sometimes home isn't a place, it's a person. From the moment their eyes met, Ellie knew Leroy Lahey would be her destiny. Handsome and ripped, there's just something about Baylor University's soon-to-be star quarterback that makes him impossible to resist. Consumed by a passion neither can understand, Leroy and Ellie spend the summer together. Left senseless and overwhelmed by his touch, Ellie experiences a world of desire she never imagined possible. Safe in Leroy's arms, Ellie begins to see a life beyond high school: going to college, starting her own business, having a family. But when life-altering news shakes them to their cores, Leroy and Ellie must discover if their passion is enough to help them get through what might possibly be the greatest challenge of their lives. Tay Marley returns to tell a heartwarming and heartbreaking story of Drayton's parents and the summer that changed everything in the prequel to The QB Bad Boy and Me.

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. It only takes one moment to change your life forever . . . After her mother's deportation last year, all Soledad "Sol" Gutierrez wants is for her life to go back to normal. Everything's changed-new apartment, new school, new family dynamic-and Sol desperately wants to fit in. When she joins her community college's history club, it comes with an odd initiation process: break into Westray's oldest house and steal . . . a fork? There's just one problem: while the owners of the house aren't home, their grandson Ethan is, and when he catches Sol with her hand in the kitchen drawer, she barely escapes with the fork intact. This one chance encounter irrevocably alters her life, and Sol soon learns that sometimes fitting in isn't as important as being yourself-even if that's the hardest thing she's ever had to do.

Mira finds herself stuck in the city of love with Jake, the playboy athlete she can't stand. What she doesn't expect is for major sparks to fly on their 24-hour adventure. But can this newly-found love last beyond the magic of Paris? ***** 24 Hours in Paris is now published as a Paperback & E-book by W by Wattpad Books As a Wattpad reader, you can now access both the Original Edition and the W by Wattpad Books Published Edition here upon purchase (PS: a review on Amazon (and also Goodreads) would be very much appreciated, to help get this POC rom com in front of more readers! All the review page links are on my Wattpad profile page :-) ) In the new Published Edition of the book, the characters of Mira and Jake will be older and wiser co-workers in the corporate world, who miss their flight and get stuck spending an extra 24 hours in Paris. They'll start off annoyed with each other, but you know how the story goes... "Adorably sweet and a brilliant read! It made me feel like I was roaming the streets of Paris without having to leave my couch." - Grace @HQ ***** On the last day of their class's college trip to Paris, Mira and Jake get tangled up in a debacle that causes them to miss their flight home to New York. Which means they're stuck in Paris until the next available flight that's 24 hours away! Mira is witty and a lover of art history and good cheese. Jake, on the other hand, is your All-American frat boy with a killer smile. Translation: they can't stand each other. As they visit places they could never have imagined, Mira and Jake go from mortal enemies to star-crossed lovers with sizzling chemistry. But can their spark last without Paris' cheese and charm to keep it going? [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]] Cover designed by Ray Gardener

Sugar's addicting. So is she. Graham Davis has two addictions: Hockey-and Gracie Daniels. (Not that he knows it yet.) At St. Brown University, Gracie Daniels is the golden girl. Blonde ponytail, perfect smile, always saying yes. So when she's asked to manage PR for the hockey team, she agrees-hoping to help thaw their notoriously icy captain. But Graham Davis doesn't melt. He's distant, guarded, and doesn't need help from a pink-sweater-wearing perfectionist... until he starts noticing things he shouldn't. Skipped meals. Covered bruises. Flinches too small to be accidental. Gracie is sweet, bright, and hiding more than anyone knows. And Graham can't stop looking.

Rain cannot exist without a gray sky, and the gray sky lives only for the rain. Asher Greyson and Ameia Marlowe are bound by an arranged marriage, a fate sealed in their childhood by their influential families. Asher, a brilliant medical student, rejects this imposed destiny. To him, Ameia is nothing more than a "perfect" girl-a polished product of the golden world he despises. In reality, Ameia's docility is a mask. Adopted at the age of seven, she carries the scars of a violent and cold past. While she accepted this union out of loyalty to those who "saved" her, she secretly longs for one thing: to be seen and loved for who she truly is. Caught between rejection, silent wounds, and family duty, their relationship is a storm of unspoken truths and rising emotional tension. But if love were to bloom between them, it wouldn't be a matter of fate or debt-it would be a choice.

Talented swimmer Amelia Del Fava and ruthless hockey player Ronan Harding mix like water and oil when they first meet. But when they're pushed together and forced to navigate their way through life, sparks fly and they can't help but notice that they're actually not as different as they thought. #1 in athletes 29/04/24 #1 in swimming 18/06/24 #1 in icehockey 11/12/24 #1 in enemies to lovers 08/06/25 #1 in sports romance 08/06/25 #3 in friendship 08/06/25 #7 in jokes 05/12/24

The world's top-ranked figure skater arrives in a quiet Minnesota town, seeking clarity after the whirlwind of the Olympics in Italy. But he doesn't expect to find answers in a junior figure skating coach, struggling to rediscover her love for the ice after losing her own passion. * * *I know nothing about figure skating so there will probably be inaccuracies.

Storie Sovany is used to being dismissed as the fat friend, until she moves from New York City to rural Ohio for college and the charming frat boy Liam Alexander approaches her. Torn between disbelief and flattery, Storie hopes her luck may have finally changed - but is it too good to be true? [author's note: this is not a romance!]

Missy Rivera came to Bellwick University for a fresh start not to catch the eye of the most feared men on campus. Sweet, naive, and way out of her depth, she stumbles into a world of secrets, power, and blood. And at the center of it all is him-Nico James, the nonchalant man who doesn't know his feelings for little missy." She fell first. But he fell harder.

He is a dream that never will happen, even though I want him to be mine. His eyes look so dangerous and deadly that it scares me. I never wanted to see that in his eyes, but fate played differently because that is what I see daily. * Ava Morris― Is in love with her brother's best friend. She had watched him from afar for years and didn't dare confess her feelings. Finally, she decides to let go of her feelings when she knows he is far from her reach. But what happens when she accidentally attends an illegal match with her college friends and catches his eye? What will happen when they keep crossing paths coincidentally? What happens when Ava pleads with him to take her help in decorating his apartment? What are the odds when they start spending time together? Has Ava ever stopped having feelings for him? Now that she has the chance― Will she try to win him over before it is too late?

--- Seventeen-year-old Dhrishya carries the weight of a secret no one can see. Born into shadows, raised in an orphanage, and scarred by a childhood she never chose, she learned to hide her fears behind kindness and brilliance. Now, she's on the verge of something bigger-a scholarship to one of Mumbai's top colleges. But the past never stays buried... the darkness, the loud voices, the memories of a family that never loved her, still follow her. And soon, she will face the ultimate challenge: meeting the family she lost-the brothers and parents who might finally become the home she's always longed for. Will Dhrishya find courage? Will she open her heart, or will the shadows of the past pull her back? Some secrets weigh too much to carry alone... Some bonds are worth the wait. #HiddenStrength #OrphanToFamily #Bhaiyu #SilentBattles #ScholarGirl #HealingHeart #NewBeginnings ---