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When her office burns down an editor must work together with the most infuriating man alive or risk the promotion she's been working her entire career for. **** Chielozonam 'Elo' Williams is doing great. All things considered. It doesn't matter that the job she loves as editor at PerfectRomance, the publishing imprint she's been working at for the past five years has started to feel more like a chore these days. It doesn't matter that her judgemental father might be right about her wasting her life away by not using her full potential. What really matters is getting her dream promotion and enjoying the prime years of her youth. That is until the unthinkable happens. After Elo's office building burns down overnight she's forced to share an office with the one person that makes her blood boil: Connor Price. Archenemies since their days at college Connor makes getting under her skin an art form. He's brash and rude and irritates her like nobody else can with his scathing looks and contemptible behavior. It's not long before they're locked in a battle of wits, neither willing to back down or give up. When they have to work together to acquire a potentially lucrative manuscript, they are forced to put aside their long-standing animosity for an adventure that will blur the line between hate and desire until neither of them can tell where the fighting ends and the falling begins. PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION meets ANYONE BUT YOU meets THE HATING GAME in this contemporary rom-com about resilience, self-discovery and two sworn enemies who can't tell the difference between wanting to kiss or kill each other. Beautiful cover made by @ToWolfKin THIS NOVEL IS ONLY AVAILABLE ON WATTPAD AND INKITT. IF YOU ARE READING THIS ANYWHERE ELSE, PLEASE INFORM THE AUTHOR VIA WATTPAD, AS YOU MAY BE READING FROM A MIRROR SITE WHERE IT HAS BEEN PLAGIARIZED AND YOUR DEVICE MAY BE SUBJECTED TO A MALWARE ATTACK.

SPOILERS FOR SUNRISE --------------------------- An Eternal Sunrise one-shot! Main prompt: Fall #63 Sub-prompts: Spring #16, Fall #78, Fall #80, Winter #93, Winter #104 -------------------------------------- The Wolves of Glindale are a species of wolves as old as time. Blessed with powers beyond human imagination. Also known as 'The Mother Wolves', they were the ones who created the first werewolf. Ever since their creation, early werewolves have dedicated The Temple of Lycaon to them and made pilgrimages to gain their blessings. Every 100 years, when the first blood moon of the year appears, the temple's gates emerge, signalling the beginning of another pilgrimage season. Thousands look for its whereabouts, but without success, save for a chosen few who had their spirit as their guide. Yet, finding the temple is only the first step in a series of daunting challenges, and only those worthy can see the end of the finish line. Dr Melissa Ortega and her associate, Dr Christopher Bentley, are tasked by the Director of the Ministry of Lycan Affairs (MLA) to look for the elusive temple and study the legendary wolves. But of course, he won't let them venture into the unknown alone without a powerful guide. Who is this mystery guide? And, will they find the Mother Wolves? Keep reading to find out! ----------------------------------------- This tale can be considered as an alternate timeline to the main series, and is a standalone! Also, this book is rated Mature for violence, gore, and mentions of SA, trauma, and body horror common in the genre. -------------------------- 2026 (c) All Rights Reserved. All writing done is mine, and so is the cover design using Canva. NO AI USED! No stealing, or I will send AJ and the McIntyre family after you. 😤

ONC 2026 Long Lister and Round Three Ambassador's Pick Why so Icy, Campus Darling || ปิ๊งน้ำแข็ง Pg-13 ❤️ "Everyone loves Lingling, especially Orm. Why? Cause Lingling hates her." ------- The campus heartthrob of the college, Lingling had always been polite and charming to everyone. Her smile and gaze always had everyone around sway, even though she didn't really care much about it. Even while she was popular, she was a lovely person. Or at least that's what Orm had always known before. Until she met her herself. Their encounter left a bitter aftertaste in her heart, because why did the campus darling turn icy at her presence? And now, she's determined to find out the reason. Come on in the journey with Orm to sneak a peak at the Icy Campus Darling Tropes: Strangers to lovers, Romcom, Grumpy x sunshine Golden retriever x black cat Second couple trope: Best friends to lovers ONC 2026 entry with the tropes 49, 57 and 24 Temporary ending for the ONC (P.s. this has nothing to do with LingOrm's series. This is an RPF.) (The picture used to make the cover does not belong to me. The credits go to the respective owner.)

She was once a character in a deleted story, now lost and memoryless in the Library Limbo. If she wants to get her memories back, she's going to have to work on her backstory - by helping to fix some stories that have gone wrong. Now, she's forced to team up with an overly-peppy cheerleader and a guy who insists he used to be a detective. As they delve into romance, mystery, and fairy tale stories, she realizes that things might not be as simple as they seemed. All she can do is hope the next plot twist isn't her own. Shortlisted for the Wattys 2026!!

Your blood intoxicates me more than wine. Your scent lingers like fate. In the dead of winter... let me warm you with my bite. In the coldest winter, a werewolf crashes from the sky like a meteor-mysterious, powerful, and cursed. His name is Aldric, a lone wolf of unknown origin, discovered by the werewolf Evander but enslaved by the ruthless vampire Darren, whose experiments blend ancient magic with twisted science. When Darren uses Aldric's blood to create a monstrous hybrid and plans to awaken an ancient force using the blood of a girl named Rose, the fate of the world begins to unravel. But Rose is no ordinary girl. She is the reincarnation of Princess Clara, a warrior of the Middle Ages and the long-lost love of Rigel, a vampire prince who once adored her... and accidentally took her life. Grief-stricken, Rigel sealed himself in a deep sleep- and awaken in modern times, drawn once again to the woman his soul never forgot. Now, Rose lives again-but with new memories, new choices, and a new protector. When a feral Aldric injures her by accident, guilt drives him to protect her. What begins as care blossoms into something deeper-a love that may rewrite fate. Torn between two supernatural souls-one who loved her in a past life, and one who guards her in this one-Rose must unravel her destiny. Will she choose Rigel and rekindle a love centuries old? Or will she stand beside Aldric and help him break his curse and defy Darren's dark grip? As monstrous forces rise and the underworld threatens to awaken, only love can tip the balance between salvation and destruction. Vampire or werewolf. Past or present. Love... or destruction. "Is it a curse or a blessing... to be loved by those who are not human?"

ALIEN AMONG US is a small-town sci-fi novella filled with humor, heart, friendship, and enough secrets to make you wonder what-or who-might be hiding in plain sight. ************************************************************************ Entered into the Open Novella Contest 2026 | @OpenNovellaContest - Rules & Guidelines: here: https://www.wattpad.com/story/406004197-open-novella-contest-2026 **Main Prompt** 25. You live with four other housemates, but one of them is secretly an alien trying to learn how to act human. ©2026 E. S. Elias, All Rights Reserved. Book Created & Published to Wattpad: 02.01.2026 Book Marked as Completed: 00.00.2026 Book Cover: Me @DesignsbyEH Word Count: 2,222 / 20,000 Goals: ✔ Round 1 ✔ | 2,000 words ✔ | Round 2 ✔ | 8,000 words ✔ Round 3 _ | 20,000 words LONGLIST _ | SHORTLIST _ Round Winner? _ | Honorable Mention? _ | Ambassadors' Pick? _ Mentioned in Ambassador Newsletter _ Top-5 Winner? _ Rankings: #ONC2026: #ONC #2 02.03.2026

Elethea must protect something with her life-her identity. Being part human and part faery is something forbidden. Elethea is one and she must keep her identity concealed to avoid being punished. The king of Aethoria arranges a ball for his son, Darrian, birthday. Darrian is forced to wed one of the many invited women to continue the royal bloodline and to takeover ruling responsibilities. Elethea is amongst those women. She quickly falls for the prince, however, she discovers an evil plot. She is put in a predicament, both decisions will have horrible consequences. Expose the evil plot which will reveal her identity which will cause her and the faeries to be punished, or keep quiet which will lead to others deaths. **this book is a ONC2025 entry - prompt 130: protect this with your life - a retelling of the Biblical book of Esther

Aunt Mabel is dead, found lying amongst her daisies in her garden. Two eyes anxiously watch over her. The police arrive, but questions soon crop up. Is it actually Aunt Mabel? And who or what did it? A wild animal? A person? A baby dragon? Something strange is afoot in the Auntie's garden and it's up to Officer Holt Martinez, Estelle, and her cousin Julia, to figure it all out before it's too late. Little does she know that an unplanned trip to the Dragon's Lair Bookshop will upend everything she thought she knew about life, this world, and those beyond. *The Novella Version was a Open Novella Contest ONC 2026 Long List Winner!

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

When a cautious Formula One engineer crosses paths with a damaged comeback driver, she discovers that the most dangerous variable she should assess in the sport isn't speed-but attachment. ✦✦✦ Adriana Santos has always known her place on a championship-winning Formula One team is contingent. Excellence, she learned early, is not the same as security. She works in a role the paddock barely understands-simulating failures before they happen, answering 'what ifs' before they become 'what went wrong', and treating the car like a living thing whose future rests in her hands. Her work is quiet, precise, and easily erased the moment she becomes inconvenient. She is careful because she has to be. She knows Joshua Thomas long before she meets him: the driver who changed his name to fit in, the anomaly on a rival team forever tipped for titles. To Adriana, he's a reaction curve that never quite returned to baseline after last season's crash. His comeback is framed as resilience. Many are simply waiting to see him fail. They meet by accident, in a moment stripped of his usual extravagance and pretence. Adriana notices what she always notices-the face behind the mask, the way he laughs through failure like it doesn't frighten him. Adriana doesn't forget him, though. She keeps her distance but Joshua doesn't, and their reluctant friendship begins to bend into something riskier. And they both know exactly what it could cost them. ✦✦✦ ✦ Open Novella Contest 2026 | Prompts 24, 29, 30, 44 ᴄᴏᴘʏʀɪɢʜᴛ © 2026 ʙʏ ᴀᴜᴅʀᴇʏ ᴀʟʟ ʀɪɢʜᴛꜱ ʀᴇꜱᴇʀᴠᴇᴅ.

Using the prompts from ONC2023 A young girl experiences a certain dream since childhood. She watches a certain someone whom she doesn't know. She hasn't met the person ever in her life. But she feels an attachment to the person in her dreams. Adding to it, she also gets some visuals which she is unable to decipher. Slowly, she realises that she gets the visuals at certain intervals and there's a reason for the same. When things happen, she feels that the same things have happened to her somewhere but she doesn't know about them. Once she goes deep into it, she realises that it's a past-life connection. She also realises that she's still connected with those people from her past life. How will she solve the mystery of both lives? Get with us on this mysterious ride.

After reading a letter from someone she has never met, Gemma Moreno is offered a once in a lifetime opportunity that could change her life forever. Torn between accepting an offer she knows she will never be able to repay, Gemma needs to decide if it is worth the risk and finally leave her troubled past behind.

In the crowded, jazz filled streets of 1925 Chicago, Margaret Malone is a flapper with dreams of becoming a journalist. One day, when a tea shop seems to appear out of thin air, Margaret cannot help but investigate and is pulled further into the mysterious magic of Madame Lila's special brews- and the secrets lurking within the floral patterned teapots.

The black cat with only one ear twitched the mechanical prosthetic that made up his missing ear. "There isn't much time left, Azureflame." he said seriously. "You must follow the trail before... before it's too late..." Then he collapsed into her hands, limp and half-dead. Azureflame knew what she had to do next. *** In the world of Quantum 64, there is one sport the world is now catching onto. Chess. And now seven are rising in this unusual realm. Shadedpeak is just a young boy, 19 years. He didn't ask to become world champion. He didn't want his life to come crashing down. But the expectations are growing; and he finds himself questioning why he lost so many matches. Then he discovered the leagues. Stormleague, to be exact. His one chance to get out of this - but there'll have to be sacrifices. Jaysight has just had a large victory. But there are voices in his head that tell him to try harder. That the losses are greater than the title of world cup winner. In search of a way to silence them, he joins Gustleague. Ivorynight finds himself rising up in the ranks of chess. But he lives in hopes that when his few losses go away, so will the mysterious dream that has been plaguing him. That's when he joins Hourglassleague. Azureflame has had her fair share of victories. But her detective side has detected the odd occurrences in Chess. Specifically the death of Dawnnose. Twilightwhisper has been in Hourglassleague since she can remember. And now, with a new recruit within their ranks, she hopes to be able to find some answers to this faction's mystique. Riverheart has been in Oceanleague for quite a while. Enough to know that things are changing. And her destiny is calling. The black cat came to all of them. And it came... with a message. Together, these recruits will uncover dark secrets... some of which may have best been left hidden.

A ONC contest entry. Prompt You go to sort out Grandma's house after she passed away. While cleaning out the attic, you discoverer that she may not have been the person she always let you believe and she played an important role in a historical event. Discover her story. --- Nana had been gone for a month now. Sage missed her dearly. After ignoring it for a long time, she's going to go clean Nana's house. Trudging through the memories with her little brother, they reach the attic. In the attic, they find a box with "Anita's stories of history" written on the side. A journal along with a couple of letters are all that are in the box. Who was their nana, and why does she have this box?

For Centuries Grim has been collecting souls. It's what he does, it's his purpose. One day, while collecting a soul in the park, he comes across a lost puppy. For reasons he can't explain, the urge to return the small dog to his owner is overwhelming. He soon finds the animal's owner, a woman in her mid-twenties named Maria. He is struck down by her beauty and realizes that he had once claimed the soul of someone she loved. He becomes even more conflicted when he realizes he has just one year to claim her soul.

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Magicless witch Vesper's life is completely turned on its side when she asks out the hottie who's been frequenting her work for two weeks. He's a bodyguard, she's in danger, and her newly incarcerated father is not the simple man Vesper thought him to be, but the Grand High Water Sorcerer. What? Not to mention every water sorcerer around is hunting her and her estranged siblings for the artifact that she's sure her father didn't take. It's fine. It's totally fine. Except her father's magic, and his entire bloodline's, will be stripped in punishment. Supernatural bodyguard, Fox has two goals; keep the little witch alive at all costs and don't get involved in the client's life. Only she's so much like his lost younger brother that he can't resist wanting to help her. She might be desperate to prove her father's innocence, but all Fox wants to do is protect hers, and maybe his own heart. Together they discover Vesper might not be as magicless as she thought. With her newfound magic on the line, will they be able to find the stone and clear her father's name in time? --------- ONC Prompt #20: You finally build enough courage to talk to the cute someone you see everyday on the bus. Their face turns dark as they respond, "you shouldn't be able to see me." and Prompt #64: You came from the first bloodline that has produced powerful magicians for centuries to keep the world safe. So what does it mean when you, the xxth descendant, are born with the power to nullify the magic?

ONC 2023 1. Turn your partner into your ex. 2. Get into a taxi. Preferably one with a deranged driver, this part might prove tricky. 3. Fall asleep in it. 4. When you wake up, scream like hell till he releases you (make sure this happens in the desert). 5. Then enter a random house and transport yourself to some magical world, using a dumb mirror. Oh and good luck with the extra voices in your head. They tend to drive people crazy. Prompts: 9, 29 and 30

Alaina Clade was the daughter of the man who dissapeard in space. The world is fucked up now ever since some mad scientist created a mirror organism and let hell loose on humanity causing a rise in depopulation. Her fathers mission was to explore TOI-715b to see if it was habitable for the rest of humanity....... yet he never made it back. That was eleven years ago. Now that Alaina grew up, immense pressure started to build on her shoulder, which led her to continue her fathers exhibition to explore the possibilities of living on another planet and find an escape from the fatal organism. But thats not why alaina took on this mission. she already lost her mother and she will not let go of the thought that her father might be still alive.