Hope Stories

Kelly just wants her business to succeed, and getting involved with a bodyguard is not part of her plan - but he is the only one who can keep her safe... ***** Kelly Harris is determined to make her antiques business a success. She won't let Tanner, a bodyguard who likes first edition poetry books, interfere with her life. But winning a mystery box at an auction changes everything. With Tanner working alongside her, they decipher the code in a forgotten journal, uncovering a young girl's journey to freedom and a powerful family's secret. Working for a high-profile security company, Tanner has seen the worst that humanity can do. He doesn't believe in love. But when disaster strikes, he finds himself doing everything he can to keep Kelly safe - even if that means letting her into the most vulnerable part of who he is. Leeanna Morgan is a USA Today Bestselling Author.

After escaping a stalled elevator into a zombie apocalypse, Emily must learn how to trust people again or risk losing everything in this terrifying world. ***** For Emily, every day of the last two years have been a blur. She keeps her head down, takes her college courses online, and only goes out to work at her mandatory internship. But all that changes on the day the office elevator breaks down, leaving her trapped when the screams begin. And when the doors finally open, revealing a dystopian world ruined by bloody teeth and disease, Emily is launched into a terrifying run for her life, caught between the strangers she's not sure she can trust and the man-eating monsters that hunger for her flesh. Now she must learn not only how to survive in this new and dangerous world, but also how to overcome her own inner demons before they cost her something more precious than her life. [[Wattys' Shortlist]] [[Promoted by AMC]] Content and/or Trigger Warning: The story contains some gore, violence, strong language, and dark themes. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

He didn't break her all at once. He taught her how to shatter herself. To everyone watching, she has the life girls dream of : money, beauty, a powerful husband, and a marriage wrapped in perfection. But behind their locked doors, perfection is the punishment she can never escape. He tells her who to be. He tells her how to walk, how to breathe, how to think. Every mistake is a lesson. Every bruise is a reminder. Every betrayal is somehow her fault. And she believes him. Because after years of being molded, corrected, and rewritten, she no longer remembers who she was before he decided to "fix" her. She only knows the rules he carved into her bones. Don't speak too loudly. Don't ask questions. Don't look at him when he's angry. Don't look away when he wants your attention. And above all Don't ever forget that love is earned, not given. Her sister whispers that she's losing herself. Her friends say they're worried. Her subconscious screams that something is wrong. But she silences all of them. Because she is so close so close to becoming the perfect wife, he swears she could be if she tries a little harder. And if she can be perfect... Maybe he'll finally love her. Or maybe perfection is the very thing that will destroy her. *This story depicts domestic and emotional abuse. These scenes are fictional and not meant to glorify or romanticize abuse. If you are in a harmful or unsafe situation, please reach out for help: 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE) thehotline.org You deserve safety.

Forced into an arranged marriage with the cold and distant Humaid, Yasmeenah's life takes a dark turn. She is a fiery, rebellious teenager trapped in a loveless union with a man thirteen years her senior, who treats her with chilling indifference. Struggling to assert her identity, Yasmeenah faces Humaid's cruelty and mysterious detachment, pushing her to her limits. As tensions rise, secrets unravel, and their battle of wills escalates into a dangerous game of survival. In a world where love is nonexistent, respect is a rare commodity, and trust is shattered, Yasmeenah fights for freedom, dignity, and her own sanity. How far will she go before she breaks-or breaks him? copyright@ fadeelarh fadim

Y/N L/N is a middle school student who love playing video game, especially Genshin Impact and various mod of Minecraft, in Hardcore mode, as well as earth science enthusiasts. You living a normal middle schools student life. But now, your life is overturned as Kirigaya Kazuto, your neighbor and close friends since childhood give you a NerveGear and a copy of Sword Art Online as a birthday gift. A gift that turn into disaster as Y/N now become one of 10000 players who trapped in Aincrad and required to beat the game in order to return to real world. Note: Italic (tilted) font means thought, not spoken. Disclaimer: This story contains reference from other game, especially Genshin Impact and NATLAN, as well as some real world event. This story is a fan fiction. Some parts may different or shifts from original SAO. Author isn't an English speaker. Author is Indonesian who try to learn writing story in English, so expect some mistake. Original SAO by Reki Kawahara. This is English version of the story. The update may slower than the original written in Indonesian.

The girls of 1A are doing shopping when they spotted Izuku. Curious they follow him as they follow him to the hospital as they see him going to the pedriact ward there they see him do magic tricks for the kids. As they the kids being all depressed and sad to smiling and laughing. They leave as they told their male classmates as Katsuki told them that he does this for his sister Izumi who die from cancer. He explain that the cancer made her depressed and sad. He learn magic to make her happy. Before she died Izumi ask Izuku if he still could come and make the kids smile. Which he did, the girls even more impressed went to help, and the boys as well.

This book is based off the game character wise. this book will have very little smut in it because im bad at writing gay stories for some reason probably because im not part of the LGBT community but that doesn't mean I don't support them! I will do my best. spelling will be off because im horrible at it but I will do my best! warnings will be at the top of the first chapter of every story, smut chapters will be labled Smut. please enjoy!

Cassie and Leah are no longer reaching for a future that feels just out of grasp. They are living inside it now: in a body changed by everything it has carried, in days shaped by recovery and adjustment, in nights that ask for patience rather than hope. This is a book about the unglamorous middle: about love that persists when adrenaline fades, when exhaustion settles in, when intimacy has to be relearned. About discovering who you are when the light doesn't blaze or grow, it simply remains, steady and demanding to be tended. Nothing is resolved neatly. Nothing is easy in the way it once was imagined. But this time, the light does not flicker or disappear. It stays.

[Featured by wattpad romance, teen fiction, young adult and psychologicalnovel] Joy Jones was a seventeen-year-old kind and optimistic girl working in her grandpa's flower shop, but she had a secret. She was suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and wanted nothing, but to die peacefully. That was until Logan Kellerman, a young man with suicidal tendencies came storming into her life and stole roses from her grandpa's flower shop. Instead of running away with what he came for, he found himself falling deeper and deeper into her as she made his heart skip in delight, for she was, in her own words, a little bit of Joy. * * * from some of my readers of this book, thanks❤- ❝I LOVE YOUR STORY OKAY. THIS STORY AND YOUR WRITING- IT GIVES ME HOPE YOU KNOW.❞ - aimawrites ❝This is so different than so many stereotypical stories on here and i'm so glad i read it.❞ -lepus_leporis ❝They're both so poetic and beautiful and perfect for each other. GAHHhh I love them.❞ - alycecaswell ❝The way she vividly describes the world makes me so happy. Heat keeps rushing to my cheeks in pure euphoric joy. This book is making me so grateful for everything around me and I never want it to end.❞ - nylammeeyn [highest rank: 7 in sad] [cover by soulanatomy]

„We need to bring her back to the Red Room..." „...or we are as good as dead" What if two 13- year old girls from the Red Room were caught by the Avengers? Emily and Julia are twins and their parents are dead. Or at least that's what they thought... ✨english is not my first language ✨

𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐩𝐚 : 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐜 𝐁𝐲𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐲𝐚 𝐓𝐨𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐢 𝐱 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 . . . "𝗬𝗼𝘂'𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗼 𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘆𝘀 𝗺𝗲." 𝗔 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗨𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗨𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘆 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱. 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘁𝗲?

｡☆✼★━━━━━━━━━━━━★✼☆｡ .. For those , Who fell harder but, he never existed.. ｡☆✼★━━━━━━━━━━━━★✼☆° .·:*¨༺ NAYANTARA ༻¨*:·. ✎ There is Nayantara,like a proclaim doll with a shattered heart, her innocence a fragile mask concealing the pain she carried .. •,¸,.·' '·.,¸,•Eyes full of stories •,¸,.·' '·.,¸,• ══════════════ ⋆★⋆ ═══════════ .·:*¨༺EKANSH ༻¨*:·. Meet Ekansh , a shadow cloaked in power, his gaze a chilling reminder of the danger he held... •,¸,.·' '·.,¸,• Heart full of memories •,¸,.·' '·.,¸,• ══════════════ ⋆★⋆ ═══════════ •,¸,.·' '·.,¸,••,¸,.·' '·.,¸,••,¸,.·' '·.,¸,••,¸,.·' '·.,¸,• •,¸,.·' '·.,¸,• ........Now playing the devil's obsession ....... 0:00 ───|────── 0:00 ↻ ◁ II ▷ ↺ 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔢𝔶𝔢𝔰 𝔪𝔢𝔱 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔰 𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔲𝔭𝔰𝔢𝔱 ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔞𝔪𝔢 𝔡𝔢𝔰𝔦𝔯𝔢 𝔐𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔰 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔥𝔞𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢 𝔗𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔰 𝔯𝔲𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔒𝔯 𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔰 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞 𝔰𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔖𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 ℑ 𝔯𝔲𝔫𝔞𝔴𝔞𝔶..? ℭ𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 ℑ 𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔶 𝔞𝔴𝔞𝔶..? •°•..°°

හදත් පරාදයි බන් උබේ ඔය දිලිසෙන කුණාටු ඇස් දෙකට...🩶

" I'm sor-" "DON'T, JUST DON'T SAY IT. YOU DO NOT EVEN DESERVE TO SAY IT AFTER WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ME! I BEGGED YOU, SCREAMED AND PLEAD, BUT YOU DIDN'T HEED MY WORDS. THEN WHY SHOULD I!" I yelled with tears streaming down my face when witnessing my tormentor infront of me. I know I should have sent him to jail when I had the chance but I didn't want to do anything with him. And that is why I escaped. ---‐-------‐------------------------------------------------------------- I hated her, despised her and wanted her to suffer, but she wasn't the one I was looking for. Now I can't let her go. She's captured my heart and soul, and my demon is at peace when I'm with her. But will she want to stay with me after all I've done? She must. I always get what I want, and this time I want my toy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amaira Pulkit is a 24 year-old woman who is a data analyst in one of the top tech firms in Singapore. She was living with her aunt and uncle who treated her like hell, so she escaped from there to live in Singapore in a small 2BHK flat. Suhail Mehra, 27 , is one of the notorious underworld don who shows no mercy to anyone. And by anyone means anyone, either be it old, weak, or girls he doesn't spare anyone. He is a real definition of psycho, sadist or mad. But now he is hell-bent on wanting to hurt the one who hurt him and his sister 10 years ago. And he won't stop till he gets satisfied. But what if for the first time he feels guilt, sad, and angry at himself for hurting an innocent one? And what if he does not want to ever let her go There will be miscommunications, mishandling, abuses and hatred. But will there be romance? Will there be care? Will there be trust? Content Warning: This content contains cursing, violence, and abuse. It is not suitable for young audiences. If you ever feel uncomfortable at any point, please leave.

Where Love Begins #1 Seungcheol and Jihye's world was small, simple, and full of quiet happiness... until their daughter Jiwoo was diagnosed with leukemia. As hospital walls become their second home and tough decisions mount, the couple must navigate what it means to hold on, to let go, and to love through every uncertain turn. A tender, deeply human story about family, hope, and the quiet courage found in the hardest moments.

(Currently being rewritten!) Y/n, the "Ultimate Gamer" of Hope's Peak. A life double lived, in attempt to divert suspicion off of him... How far will he go? Through hardship, betrayal, and growth.. who will will do the final blow? Will Y/n carry on or give up? Love will blossom and friendships will burn bridges.

She was said to be beautiful inside and out. She was said to be the best Luna this pack had ever had, had ever seen. She was kind, gracious, and full of life. She didn't have the problems that I faced growing up in a kingdom that didn't want me. She was everything that I was not. She got everybody to love her, to love everything about her, flaws and all. However, she died, killed by my own hands in a time where all I wanted was power and to be loved. In a time where all I wanted was to be wanted. And now, two years later, I am back at the pack where she had ruled with a mate that has his own demons. She was the Luna that I replaced. _______________________________________ NOTE: IF YOU READ THIS BOOK ON ANY OTHER APP BESIDES WATTPAD THEN IT IS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. I GAVE NO ONE PERMISSION TO USE MY BOOK AND HAVE NOT POSTED IT ANYWHERE ELSE, SO... YA. REPORT THAT BOOK. Thanks.

Think about your family,about your friend, about that one person who you loved with everything you had. Now I want you to imagine them leaving you behind with nothing but heart break. And now you're all alone in this world fighting to survive. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Skylar is a young orphan who always had people leaving her behind or sending her away. Her family ,her friend,her foster parents they all left. Sky was always moving from on family to another. Every time she leaves a family her heart breaks a little knowing that this family didn't want her anymore. She was left with only one hope which is finding her real family. **** slow update

Aria has spent most of her life hiding behind quiet words, half-formed thoughts, and invisible walls. At twenty-three, after the culmination of years of family pressure, inner doubts, and unspoken pain, she finds herself admitted to a mental health clinic. It is here, among sterile corridors and muted light, that she begins to confront what she has long avoided: herself. Dr. Anya Suriya is assigned to guide her through the difficult work of healing. Calm, intelligent, and empathetic, Anya represents both authority and refuge. Aria struggles at first to speak, to trust, to believe that anyone could hold her fragility without breaking it. But slowly, carefully, a connection forms subtle, tender, charged with emotions Aria has never allowed herself to feel. As therapy sessions unravel years of trauma and silence, Aria begins to discover something deeper: that healing is not just surviving pain, but learning to live in it; that love is not just an external comfort, but a reflection of how she can embrace herself. Where Love Meets Silence is a poignant and intimate journey of trauma, self-discovery, and forbidden romance a story about how the heart learns to heal while daring to trust again.

he had option to be her owner, but he chose to be her admirer, guardian and favourite person to cuddle. she was naïve, stayed away from the real world until she met him and he showed her how the world looks like. to her, the world is like a level-up game. you just have to fight.... no life to enjoy. but her world turned upside down when he, pointed his gun at her. Highest ranking 🥇 #1 in jeons 15 jan 2026