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Mari thought that coming home to a ghost town after her mom's death was bad. It turns out it's worse having to attend her estranged father's wedding and letting her childhood best friend break down the walls she carefully built. ***** Mari Chasey's life is suspended. She returns to her hometown in a cold November day following her mother's death, after years of studying abroad in Europe. Pinewood is sleepy in the bitter cold, the deserted shoreline stretching further than she can reach, but that's okay. Mari is good with temporary things and at not lingering. She's not planning to stay for long, just enough to sort out her mother's affairs without poking at open wounds. Then her father returns. Jack Chasey, former renowned superstar, absent for most of her childhood, is getting married to a woman Mari hardly knows. He gets to begin again, build something new, while Mari grapples with a fractured life and all the scattered pieces of herself. Her mother was supposed to live forever; Jack was mercurial and always at arm's length. But now he's here to stay. Enter Kinney St. James. Once Mari's closest friend, then another person that passed by like a comet, she still knows Mari and all the shards of her. Even the sharper ones. In the stillness of winter, Mari reconnects with the quiet life Jack always wanted for her, the softer parts of her that only Kinney can tap into, and what it truly means to be her mother's daughter. ***** Open Novella Contest -- prompts 24, 29, 46, & 77 [[OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2026 ROUND 1 WINNER, SHORTLISTER]] © 2026 caterina george // all rights reserved

Simply Waiting #NARomance On her way to her new job as an assistant teacher, Sahara's old pickup finally breaks down. With no way to get home, stranded on the side of Ericsdale Main Street, she has no choice but to wait for a mechanic. But when a black sedan pulls up beside her, she never expected to see Ryan Blue, a former classmate and former crush. -- #1 in #onceuponadecember23 (January 10th, 2024 & November 1st, 2024)

Memories are the splashes of colors to a canvas, but after an accident, Raelyn's was blank. There was no reminder of her pain, because there was nothing to remind her of why it hurt in the first place. With so much weighing her down - siblings to raise, bills to pay, college grades to maintain and a past to run from but with no shred of memory to rely on, she had barely enough time to even worry about that. You would think life would get the memo and leave her alone, but no, she had to be stuck with a stalker she didn't remember, an ex-boyfriend who left her, a hostile new roommate and a famous actor who, for a reason she's still trying to decipher, was into her. Would remembering even help or was it better she forgot? Maybe, fate knew what it was doing after all. ---------------------------------------------------------- Book Description by @drwhogivesadamn. Book Cover by @AyeshaShariq. Book Trailer by @MarbelisLugo (https://youtu.be/0h4V95e4AKg) Text copyright © ShagunSinghal ™ 2014-16

Never been kissed before, Xue struggles in a city that never sleeps. A barista by day, a Chinese herbal tea brewer by night, she works her ass off every day to support her borrowed family. All she has ever wanted was to stay beside her best friend since childhood, but now he's gone. If only the tea she brews can make her forgetful for once and for all. Letting go of someone ain't easy. No one told her that hiding her true feelings could be just as hard. Drowning in ambivalence, Xue needs to make a choice that will change the rest of her life. ** 2nd cover made by myself ** ** 1st cover by @_toochocolately_ **

Andrea was happy in high school, she had best friends, the best grades, courses she actually liked. But it's all changed now. Now at university she's struggling to make friends, and is constantly bombarded with feeling alone. Her best friends have effortlessly settled in, made friends they hangout with, living their best lives. So one day she decides to change - herself.

Joyce is a business woman with big dreams, Josh is going on a vacation, what could happen?

Amelia Chevarez is your average ambitious college student. At 20, she has everything going her way. She is attending her dream school Princeton on a scholarship, interning at a top hospital in New Jersey and best of all she has the perfect boyfriend who understands her desire to stay a virgin till marriage. So you can imagine Amelia's shock, when an overwhelmed substitute doctor, accidentally inseminates her with a sperm sample. Not just any sperm sample but that of MoVaria republic's heir apparent; Prince Alexander Salazar II. What will happen when two people from completely different worlds are bounded by a bond stronger than anything else?

Paige Hamilton ran from her unbearable life a year ago, leaving behind everything that crushed her very soul, to a place no one knew her and her brutal past. Her life went from popular and wild to lonely and isolated, all because of people who turned their backs on her, betrayed her, and failed to acknowledge the real Paige. Staying in Tennessee with Elaine Donatelli was the perfect setting; she would spend her time drawing or painting or at her small-time job without ever talking to anyone or even letting anyone touch her. Up until Noah Kingsley crashes into her life with his belligerent driving and sinful mouth. Noah Kingsley was just looking for a getaway place for a while until matters at home calmed down. He came to the countryside for a breather but what he did not expect was a weird woman who never talked to anyone, always had a smidge of paint on her body or clothes, and hated someone's touch. Oh, he thought she was one uptight bitch who he could never fathom even becoming acquainted with. But one pain heals another pain, right? Paige never realized she was letting Noah break her concrete walls and Noah never knew how real, inner beauty ever felt so...ethereal until now.

'She was like a puzzle. He wanted to solve every bit of her. He never knew in efforts to solve her, he was going to fall for her" The present goal for Riley Summers is simple- survive everyday in the busiest city in the world and pretend that you don't exist. She is a girl you'll find walking past you everyday, smiling with her retainers and showing off her new pikachu pyjamas to the neighbour. But behind every single smile of hers is a dark past which haunts her everyday. A past which is far more sinister than the world can imagine. Little did anyone know, she was way more than just a common girl. So when Zohac Hamilton, a multimillionaire's son and the only heir of the Hamilton International Company who has a pesty attitude of loathing everyone that comes into his way bumps into her life with his boyish grins and poky dimples, she finds herself trying to go as away from him as possible. Well atleast she 'tries'. Little does she know that with each step she takes backwards, his curiosity for knowing her increases. How long will she be able to resist his charms? Will he be able to know her little secret? As it is said, curiosity kills a man. This isn't a love story. Nor is it a miracle. This is a story of two people accidentally drowning into each other. Forever. ............................................. Cover by: @deliberates Highest rank: #7 in ChickLit #17 in Humor All rights reserved® Copyright 2015 Solving Riley

// Winner in the Starstruck Awards 2017 and the Wing Awards 2017// "Everyone's a little broken, that's how you let the light in." Faith Davis' freshman year in college was supposed to be a new start, a time to flourish. Instead, she came out of it barely holding it together. A year and a half later, she's still scarred by the events that occurred. But what happens when her best friend's marriage throws her into the path of Noah Johnson. His optimism and encouragement cuts through her own cloud of pain, but nobody's perfect, and Noah has his own demons to battle. Can they both help each other out of the past, or will they drown in the waves of their own troubles.

Flying spark. First times. Bad fights. Quiet moments. Warm days. Cold nights. Make ups. Break ups. Come backs. Patched cracks. Good friends. Old friends. Just friends. Lost friends. Stolen kisses. Near misses. Wedded blisses. Angry hisses. New beginnings. Sad ends. Kind-ofs. Ever afters. Fleeting touches. First loves. A collection of short stories- real and imagined- written about all kinds of relationship moments, good, bad and in between. Because love and relationships are beautiful and messy.

Johnny and Kimi are two young lovers who are the only witnesses to a gangland hit. One early summer afternoon, they ride their motorcycles to the lake to be alone together. Later that evening; before they know it, they are witnesses to a brutal double murder. They watch the killers weigh the bodies down and dump them in the lake. Two nights later, Johnny and Kimi are running from the burning wreckage of the Safe House the FBI had put them in. To stay alive, they will have to go Off the Grid and find a way to take down the killers. All they have are their wits and the clothes on their backs. They can't trust anyone! Kimi is 19 and taking computer science classes and is already an expert; more so than most of her instructors. Her best friend and lover; Johnny is 22 and a talented motorcycle mechanic. He is taking automotive engineering and business classes so he can eventually take over his father's motorcycle shop. They were High School sweethearts and have been inseparable for over five years. ...He immediately notices the smell of gas. He dashes to Kimi's room and shouts. "We gotta' get out of here!" He takes her hand and they dash out the back door and into the woods. They get about 100 yards and then stop; just then the house explodes a huge fireball and burns fiercely. They both look at each other in shock. "What do we do now?" asks a terrified Kimi. "I'm not sure, but I know that we can't trust anyone right now! He points deeper the woods and says. "We'll talk later and get a plan, but for now we put some distance between us and the killers..."

"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds." - Democritus © 2017 autumn meinhardt

Lauren and Josh are drawn to each other, unexplainably. All they want is to be together, however, they must keep their feelings for each other a secret. Will they be able to resist each other forever? "Lauren sometimes wonders, 'If I had known then what I know now, would I still have gone on that drive with him?' She hopes the answer is yes." PS. I am not a "real writer" but CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is appreciated!

Seat filler Lincoln Parker never expected to accidentally fall on one knee in front of world-famous superstar Emily Margot. Now, with his face on the cover of every tabloid, he has to pretend to be her lover-and keep hidden his real, growing feelings as their time together starts to run out. ***** When 23-year-old Lincoln Parker accidentally trips over famous actress Emily Margot, he never imagines that she would ask him to be her pretend fiancé until the scandal-of being caught supposedly proposing to her-blows over in the media. Because he's a relative nobody; just an army medic on leave, moonlighting at award shows as a seat filler. But with his name on the dotted line of their contract, he has to find a way to survive in her Hollywood bubble and also bury his growing anxiety, especially as his leave from the army runs out. Can their budding relationship withstand the distance? Is their love built to last? [ General fiction #2 chick lit #4 ] [Wattys 2015 Winner - HQ Love) [word count: 60,000-70,000 words] Cover designed by Lucas Fisher Sequel: The Game Changer

[FRIENDLY TEENS BOOK COMPETITION FIRST PLACE WINNER] [ON HOLD] "Who are you?" I asked again, digging my nails into my palms until I was certain I would puncture the skin. "You may call me Adam," the demon said, bowing in a mock gesture of formality. "And I will have Lucifer, whether you help me willingly or not, Jennifer Williams. I have waited nearly thirty years to have him back on this plane with me. But I have been waiting nearly four centuries for a witch as powerful as you." Jenny Williams and her brother came to the Shadow Stalkers' Mezdor family as children. Being human in a household of vampires hasn't been easy. And she's learned that vampires aren't the only things that go bump in the night. But now, she's a brilliant witch with talent and a crush on her mentor's adopted son, Luce. With her strong abilities and Luce's looming past, Jenny finds herself being hunted by demons to use her magic for their gain. Jenny must follow her heart -- and her brain -- to find her happy ending, with or without vampires. THIRD PLACE WINNER | UNDISCOVERED WRITERS AWARD Highest : #58 in New Adult Reads #414 IN VAMPIRE [Slow Updates] FOR READERS WHO LIKE: The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Witches of East , Salem, The Hollows / Rachel Morgan / Kim Harrison, The Secret Circle, Supernatural, True Blood / Charlaine Harris, Practical Magic, Vampire Academy, Reign, The Turning, Angels & Demons, Hex (UK), Beautiful Creatures Pinterest Board | https://www.pinterest.com/callmeblueeyes/hexgirl-inspirations/ (Part of the The Dark Child Prophecy Series. Original Characters created by M. T. Hart & Nina Rivera. Cover Art made with Canva.com. **All Rights Reserved. Copycats & thieves will be hunted down & punished.** WARNING: If you are reading this story on any other other than Wattpad, you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in its original, safe form, please go to wattpad.com/user/theMTHart. Thank you!)

Ethan James just turned twenty-two and he is a rich guy who loves to party. He as never had a real relationship because girls throw themselves at him all the time and he doesn't want to be tied down to just one. His dad has become tired of his crap and has decided to force him to marry the daughter of David Conners a long time business partner of his. If Ethan refuses to marry and join the business then his dad has threatened to cut him off financially. Rylee Conners is seventeen and her parents adopted her when she was six she has been through a lot in her life. Her life as a Conner has been amazing until the day she comes home from school to find out she has to marry Ethan James the son of Peter James her dads long time business partner. She has never meet Ethan but she has heard stuff and she thinks he is a spoiled jerk and a huge player, plus she would rather read then date. But when she gets married, starts in a new school, makes new friends her life gets turned upsides down. Will Ethan and Rylee learn to love each other or will the marriage just strictly be on paper.

Highest rank: #337 in Romance #404 in Romance #509 in Romance #735 in Romance #590 in Romance #740 in Romance #738 in Romance #589 in Romance #596 in Romance #800 in Romance #812 in Romance #847 in Romance #893 in Romance #910 in Romance #979 in Romance #929 in Romance "Please fight for us. Why do I feel like it's only me who's fighting for this?" I looked at him in the eyes, waiting for his answer. "Seriously? You think I'm not doing anything in this relationship? You think I like how things turn up side down? You Know that I will do everything in this relationship just to keep you by my side." He looked away from me. "But now I guess I have to let you go..." "What do you mean?" I asked him. Fear came over me, not wanting to hear what's on my mind. "I'm sorry, I've tried and am tired with all of these... I, I can't do this anymore...I'm sorry. " Then he turned around and walked away without looking back. Something was wrong with the way he said those words, I don't know why I felt like something was holding him back. But then I let those thoughts fade as I kept on asking 'why?'.. That's when I found myself crying alone facing the sunset.