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Book Two of the Moonspell Series THE WITCHING HOUR: With her magic now at her fingertips, Bella Swan's whole world has widened. She's still in hiding, but she's no longer defenceless. But with giant wolves terrorizing the town, a string of vampire attacks up and down the coast and Luna taken by Death Eaters, Bella needs Edward more then ever. So why is he pulling away? DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter or Twilight. I am only writing this for my amusement, and for others amusement. I am not writing this for a profit of any kind. DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the images used. Set during Twilight and the Deathly Hallows: Note: The time-lines have been fiddled with to make the story work

Thandie waits for a husband who vanishes on a business trip. As if an eggshell in her life's batter wasn't enough, she's served divorce papers, only to discover the trip masked a secret wedding in Lagos. With four children and a looming mortgage, Thandie reluctantly takes a second job. Life couldn't be sour until Thandie's sister enrolls her on Oppo, an app that only matches opposites without her consent. Of all possible matches, Oppo pairs Thandie with Callum, a local bakery owner. For Thandie, their connection feels like a glitch, but for Callum, secretly smitten with Thandie, it's a gift. Can the man who crafts sweet confections tempt the woman whose heart has forgotten desire? Let's see if they discover the perfect recipe. WARNING This story does not contain: - Mil/Billionaires - Fast cars - Hidden Prince - Sexy muscled whatever Characters are 30+ years old.

Zayden scoffed "pathetic." "Maybe I should take it from here detective." She stepped forward. "I don't need you doing my job." Zayden rolled his eyes. "I said I'll take it from here detective," Lorriate said once again, sitting down in front of the boy. The detective huffed but stepped back allowing the journalist to take over. ____________________ ..."Oh please, the only thing that boy loves more than his gigantic ego is his gun."... ____________________ A failing journalist is forced to join forces with a rude detective to find her missing boss. They both can't stand each other, but their Tom and Jerry foolery can wait! The mysteries and secrets they unveil make them want to dig deeper, there's more to this sudden kidnap than what meets the eye. So you see, they can't part ways and give up on the case over some unnecessary beef just yet, they still have a boss to find after all. ∆∆ Updates: Every Friday Started: 18 November 2020 Completed: ...

How exactly did I end up the best friend of the guy I hated my entire life? Listen, this is going to be a long story. Let me take you to the beginning. The year was 1992... ENEMIES-TO-FRIENDS-TO-LOVERS Victor Manning has been infuriating Becka since she sat behind him in 7th grade English. He's cocky, self-centered, and obnoxious. When High School ends, the college dynamic slowly turns Victor into the one person Becka cannot live without. "The best slow burn I've ever read." YA/NA, for cursing. Set in the 1990s.

One childhood wish. Two lives forever intertwined. ​Seven-year-old Park Jeong-min lives in the high-pressure shadow of Busan, while across the world, Kimya survives the rising violence of war in Congo DRC. Through a pen-pal exchange involving a pair of sneakers and a wax bracelet, the two form a unique bond and share a secret: they periodically swap bodies. As the years pass, they navigate each other's worldsㅡone a sanctuary of safety but suffocating expectations, the other breathtaking but scarred by relentless violence. At fifteen, a spiritual intervention severs their psychic link, trapping one in isolation, the other in constant peril. Years later, still haunted by Kimya's fate, Jeong-min becomes a doctor and volunteers in the DRC, risking his life to find her. Meanwhile, Kimya, now alone in a foreign country, battles unfamiliar customs as she searches for him in Korea. ​No longer children dreaming of escape, they are survivors seeking the only person who truly knows their souls.

Rowan was just here to be a ghostwriter. Investigating a small town's folklore and its connection to a real life murder wasn't part of his contract. ***** Rowan Underwood promised himself he'd do one last gig as a ghostwriter, tired of hearing everyone say how good of an opportunity it is. Bags packed, he moves to a small town in Nova Scotia, hands full of mythology and folklore books to write the work of a lifetime, and even has the help of Isla Guerreiro, small and fierce. When the myths become reality, when he's not entirely sure reality is what it appears to be, Rowan must do everything in his power to find out the truth about a murder before his name cannot be cleared any longer. [[WATTPAD FEATURED STORY]] [[WATTYS 2019 WINNER]] Content warnings: This story contains some scenes of violent nature. © 2017 caterina george // all rights reserved

Wang Li Xun, the Crown Prince, goes out hunting for the Celestial Flower to save his mother from a terminal illness. When he nearly dies from the attack of a mythical beast, he is saved by a mysterious boy who lives in the mountains. To repay his kindness, Li Xun offers the boy a place to stay in his royal palace and employs him to be his personal bodyguard. But little does he know that he has brought home a girl instead. Completed: 4/2/2020 (Word count: 60,000 - 70,000) Highest rankings: #1 in Historical Fiction #1 in Romance #5 in Diverse Lit Featured on Wattpad || Community Curator: @KateLorraine - May 2022 Featured on Wattpad || Lunar New Year - February 2022 Featured on WattpadAsianFantasy || Asian Fantasy Recommendations - September 2021 Featured on Wattpad || Stories of Trailblazing Asian Characters - May 2021 ========================================== Copyright © 2019-2023 by Kim_Knights

[ WATTYS '18 LONG-LISTED ] ❝ I have slit throats far more beautiful than yours.❞ In which a thousand brides have fallen, and she is the last, so she spins a tale as old as time to live the dawn. | an arabian nights x beauty and the beast crossover | (cover by ES Johnson) trailer (video by @AKfiction): https://youtu.be/2OSjakJrUeo

[ a desi best friends to enemies to lovers story ] Miraya lands the envied opportunity to do a feature story for the popular magazine MIRROR. When she realises the celebrity she has to work with is the one who ruined what could've been the best years of her life, things don't seem very enviable. Shray Nivas is the hot, rising youth star of South India. His irresistable charm isn't exclusive for the cameras and Miraya knows that first-hand. Having more than ten years of history between them, it becomes hard to stick to the itinerary when they are forced to work together. Set in southern India, watch Miraya and Shray's lives take an unexpected turn, bringing them together in a troublesome fake-dating arrangement and making them the talk of the town with eye-opening truths and secrets from the past to keep them entertained. [80,000 - 90,000 words]

#1 in Wedding Planner (28th August 2020) #1 in We Need Diverse Books (24th August 2019) #1 in Indian Girl (23rd December 2018) Meghana Anand - popularly known as Meg, is a charming and pretty wedding planner. She's a perfectionist who always aims for the best and stubborn to not settle for less. Confident, bossy, extremely observant and short-tempered - Her traits make her the best in her business but they also make her awfully difficult to date. Leo Moretti is handsome in a brooding way. Commanding and quiet he runs his 'family business' with ease because he knows his gun is enough to take care of all his problems. He is ruthless and considers emotions as weaknesses. Secretive and paranoid the professional hazards of his family business are enough to scare any girl he brings home. When Leo approaches Meg to organize his sister's wedding, little did she know that she'd gotten herself entangled with a mafia family. Her instinct tells her that Leo is dangerous and she ought to stay away. But, something about Leo's arrogance annoys her and she can't help but clash with him. She hates his guts and he hates her bossy attitude. Their opposite personalities leads to constant bickering between the two and it is evident to everyone that they cannot stand each other. But, what happens when they discover that perhaps the tension between them isn't hatred at all? Could it be that she's fallen for the man she has sworn to hate? ⚠️ P.G 16 Regular updates

Book 1 of It's You Series. Hwang Eun-bi, a boyish noblewoman, stumbles upon the Crown Prince of Joseon and is forced to participate in the Selection of the Crown Princess. ***** Clumsy, cheeky and ungraceful-Eun-bi defies all the rules of how a noble lady should behave. When she chances upon a highly regarded nobleman, one whose demeanour is as cold as ice, she takes up the challenge to break his rules and his walls. Will she win in the end? Or will she lose to his stone-cold attitude? What happens when she crosses the line and discovers that he isn't just an ordinary nobleman? Completed: 31/3/2021 (Word count: 110,000 - 120,000) This story contains PG13 violence and is a work of fiction. Characters, organisations, name of places and incidents may not be historically accurate. Highest ranking: #1 in Historical Fiction #1 in Drama #3 in Humor #28 in Romance ========================================= Copyright © 2020-2023 by Kim_Knights

[a desi small town romance] In which Anjali moves to Misayur, a small town in Western Tamilnadu to live with her grandmother and ends up running into her childhood crush Karthik, who is not the unserious boy she knew him as anymore. [Paper Hearts #2]

Small town girl Song Hyejin grew up with a pair of scissors in her hand, spending her high school days in her father's barber shop cutting crew cuts for young men who were about to enlist in the army; this was how she was intending to spend the rest of her life. When top star Ares Hwang walks into the shop one rainy day demanding that she give him a haircut even though it's past opening hours, her life gets thrown straight into a raging hurricane known as the world of showbiz. ======== Enter Kang Hyunwon, hairstylist to the celebrities, touted by all the country's fashion magazines as the golden hands that could catapult anyone, literally anyone, from obscurity to stardom. When his limelight gets stolen unceremoniously by the head of hair atop one Ares Hwang (whom he had callously rejected to style just days before), his ego takes a beating that he will never forget. When he finds out who it is who was responsible for his humiliation, he vows to show this clueless suburban girl what it truly means to be hair-raisingly good with a pair of scissors... ======== Cover adapted from the artwork by @ClarissaNorth

Bibliophile - a person who collects or has a great love of books. * * * * Nicholas loves to read. It is his passion, his source of air, his world. He'd lose himself among the pages of an alternate reality. It is his daily routine, so getting a job at the library is the next best thing. The problem? Well, Nicholas doesn't know except for the fact that he's never happy. Without books, he'd never feel anything. That is until one fateful day he meets a girl who is willing to show him what it really feels like to be happy. Not just any girl, but a fandom obsessed Muslim girl. (Book One in the Bookworms Duology, but can be read as a stand alone) •Cover made by @soundthealarm• [Highest ranking: #2 in Spiritual]

Xenia N'Diaye is that girl, the one with the issues who majors in making the wrong decisions, especially those involving love. So she lives by a few rules: No man, No sex, No love and one goal of becoming a good mother but even at that she is failing miserably. The company she works for has a new team of expat managers, and with them arrives the smart, directive Gregory Carlton. Xenia is a quick-mouthed extrovert, and Gregory is your modern-day workaholic. From the first encounter, sparks fly in opposite directionss between the two. If things couldn't get worse, Gregory moves into the same residence as Xenia. Yes, everything you are thinking of will happen for better or for worse. It's just another rom-com, a snack of entertainment. Highest ranking: #1 diverselit Awards: 1st place Chicklit Runaway Awards 2018 2nd place winner W.O.W Awards 2018 People's Choice W.O.W Awards 2018 3rd place Chicklit winner, Blossom Awards 2018

[𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐝 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝] - 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐩𝐚𝐝 𝐇𝐐 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫'𝐬 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 ☆ 19-year old Akira Joshi has always lived in a shell. She has always viewed the world through a pair of metaphorical rose tinted glasses. Good grades, a people-pleaser and a dimpled smile, she's the daughter all parents pray for. When her parents move to another city, she is forced to be independent and her view of life slowly changes. 20-year old Vinay Karthik, he's supposed to have everything he can possibly want. He's got the girls and the popularity every college boy strives to get. But he's unhappy. He's struggling to understand the meaning of life. When Akira and Vinay are shoved head on into each other's lives, their differences clash and sparks ensue. Will these sparks emerge as something more or will their obverse natures tear them apart? • Warning: Mildly explicit language used by somje of the characters • Featured on Wattpad's official main account × 2, Romance, New Adult, Contemporary Lit, WattpadRomanceIN and Dangerous Love profiles. •

Sierra becomes the mom of six months old Leone, her deceased best friend's son. The baby's grandparents want his custody and conspire. Who else has more rights than Leone's father, but Mr. Potsmann has a plan of his own. Sierra finds herself whisked into the most unlikely situation, and perhaps a change for the better even though it seems the worst. प्रयोजनमनुद्दिश्य न मन्दोपि प्रवर्तते।

What's more thrilling than the eldest son of a notorious gang leader in the city, falling in love with the youngest daughter of an influential politician in the city? ~•~•~• "I have lived five painful years thinking you were dead,and now you stand before me after all these years alive threatening to shoot me? "Please shoot me," "Because if you don't,I will ask for a kiss,I will hug you so tight you won't breathe,I will tell you how much I've missed you,how much I love you,and I definitely won't be able stay away from you" "So do it,My love" ~•~•~• Blessing Lancaster, the youngest and favourite child of a very famous politician in Dallas.She always has an image to maintain,grades to keep,rules to obey, and a schedule to follow. That's until her brother goes missing, and she has one person to blame for it,her brother's ex-bestfriend. Rexley Cancio, the eldest son of a notorious gang boss in Dallas.He's smart,cocky, and a whole pocket full of sunshine with the perfect recipe of reckless Now, all she wants is to find her missing brother by any means necessary.I bet she didn't expect herself in a tight spot of wanting help from the same man she blames and resents. Everything is black and white at the start, and in between lines begin to blur,her guard loosens, and emotions get in the way, and they find themselves tangled in something worse than they anticipated.

After Evie Harper spends the day pining after her unrequited childhood crush, Harley, she drowns her sorrows in a bottle of stolen wine. But the next day, and one glorious hangover later, Harley is found with a very naked-very strangled stripper in his bed. Naturally the police assume that it's some kind of erotic play gone terribly wrong, but Harley swears that he left her alive and "orgasmically" happy when he went on the ill fated booze and condom run. And Evie knows Harley isn't a violent man. When the Chos ask her to investigate the murder, and possibly clear their son's name, she reluctantly agrees. But as Evie digs deeper into the dead woman's life she discovers that the exotic dancer had quite the past; one that involved drugs, prostitution, and gangs. Who knew the life of a stripper could get so dirty? Evie Harper Mysteries: Book 2

Sin and symphony. That's all a necromancer needs. Octavia is a woman of many hats -- a maestro, an educator, a wanderer and an accomplished liar, and she wears all of them at once if need be. Masquerading as a music teacher, she travels the world on a mission to rid it of the netherborne -- a scourge from beyond the grave. When her travels take her to the tiny island of Hedalda, she finds a town on its knees, under the heel of the netherborne, and a people who believe necromancers are the worst thing to happen to humanity. Wit and a song, necromancy through music, was all she ever needed. But this time it isn't enough. The scourge looms larger with each song Octavia plays, and to save Hedalda she must navigate a web of deceit, look beyond sin and symphony, all while keeping her true identity a secret. Awesome cover was made by @scmimi