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WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. There are some friends you never forget. It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident oddball and free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't-open, kind, and accepting. Armed with two bikes and an unlimited supply of root beer floats, Ethan and Juniper set out to find their place in a town that's bent on rejecting them. As Ethan is confronted for the first time by what it means to be black in America, Juniper tries to help him see the beauty in even the ugliest reality, and that even the darkest days can give rise to an invincible summer . . .

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. ***** After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-old Ethan Harper's parents send him to Ellison, Alabama, to live with his aunt and uncle for the summer. But the year is 1955, and Alabama is a far cry from his beloved home of Arcadia, Washington. As much as it's hotter in temperature, it's colder in every other way, and Ethan learns the hard way that people see his mere existence as a threat. Amidst all the mayhem, a fiery, free-spirited, oddball walks into Ethan's life. Her name is Juniper Jones. She is the first person in Ellison who seems unfazed by their racial differences, and she promises to give Ethan a summer he will always remember, filled with endless adventure and discovery. With Juniper, Ethan can breathe, he can be, despite the incessant attention and bullying their newly formed friendship attracts. Can the two survive the summer, run in the light and block out the noise of the outside world? [Published version comes out June 16, 2020 with Wattpad Books!] [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

Running away from their jobs as camp counselors, Ellie and Seb embark on a road trip with unexpected turns en route to their destination - New York. ***** Camp Raukawee was meant to be where Ellie Morrison and Sebastian Lee spent their summer working as camp counselors, but they've had enough. Escaping in the middle of the night, the friends hatch a crazy plan to make their way to New York to visit Ellie's dad, who she hasn't seen since he moved five years ago. Along the way, however, a series of cities and events have the pair not only questioning their individual futures, but wondering what will happen to the growing spark between them as the countdown to adulthood begins. [[word count: 90,000-100,000 words]] Cover designed by Gillian Goulet

He just wants her booty, but she'll end up stealing his heart. ***** After pirates kidnap seventeen-year-old Ana in a case of mistaken identity, the orphaned housemaid prepares for the worst. Instead, between a shipwreck, mutiny, and her growing feelings for her captor -- the dashing Pirate King of the Caribbean, Alestair Kincade -- Ana soon realizes the secret she keeps is far from the most dangerous part of her new life. But playing the wholesome daughter of a Spanish admiral among rag-tag buccaneers isn't easy either, and to avoid both discovery and the gallows she'll have to learn to rely on more than just her wits and her charm. But is Alestair Kincade really on her side? Or will his protection and his love both disappear the moment he learns the truth? Book Two of The Pirate King Series is called SCUTTLE (formerly The Reluctant Pirate Queen) [Now an audiobook from Hachette, Powered by Wattpad] [word count: 90,000-100,000 words] PLUNDER (Book One in The Pirate King Series) © 2014 by R.S. Kovach. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced without the author's written permission. Cover designed by Ren T

'éphémère' meaning 'short-lived' in French. A set of Short Stories, each spanning across multiple genres, introducing different characters, in contrasting time frames. It's a mess but it's going somewhere.

"I want you to belong to someone Ruth." Adira said, her voice softer. "I want you to be able to breathe in a world where everything is placed on a woman's chest, on her back and tied to her legs and then she's told to be beautiful, to be good enough. I want you to be...loved." ~🍁~ Ruth, a Moabite women, rejected by her own, after a certain incident, quietly searches for the comfort of true love but in every man's eyes and arms, there is no ease or truth or love until she meets Boaz... But before that, it's downhill through the terrains and pain of life. Losing her loved ones, marrying a man, and entering into a unfruitful marriage that lasts a decade and so much more. Through it all Ruth finds that the love she desires has always been pouring out of her heart, given to those around her. It's always been waiting in the country Israel for her to know and learn of the name Yahweh.✨ The desire of love is engraved in every heart, but for others it burns and longs, alot more deeper, bleeding open and leaving scars.

(A dark horror-romance retelling of the Hades and Persephone myth) Jade Salvador isn't your typical dissatisfied, burnt-out twenty-something-year-old. Crushed by the weight of her family's name and high expectations, she finds herself working a dead-end job, hoping for something more out of life. One day, she makes the drastic decision to start catfishing would-be predators online, posing as a teenager and exposing their crimes. But when Jade meets Percy Belrose, a man who's also searching for the same purpose in his life, things get messy fast. As sparks begin to fly and bodies begin to pile up, Jade soon finds out that killing is the easy part. It's falling in love that might be the death of her.

ADAGE x Slowly, at ease "I could never get you out of my mind since the first time that I saw you, Ashanti." His deep voice confess. His blue eyes hold me captive no matter how hard I try I can't break our contact. "I can not let the honey coming out of your mouth poison me again." My hand grazes him softly before I detach myself and leave.

"she slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them." - r.m drake A story about a disfigured girl who found sanctuary in the woods where her sister was murdered. cover by @witchoria

⭐A Wattpad-Featured Novel ⭐'18 Magic Awards - Favorite Character - Marlo Twenty-five-year-old Calvin Leblanc traded his playwright dreams for a "big boy job" at Julian High School. All he wants now is to stay under the radar, find a nice girl to marry, and impress Marlo, his estranged half-brother and school principal. But Genevieve Millen, an alluring English teacher thirteen years his senior, wants to rock his bed-by-nine, self-loathing world, and she won't take no for an answer. Even if they are "just friends", Calvin can't get enough of her seductive presence and flirtatious wit, but is she everything she claims to be? 500 DAYS OF SUMMER meets THE GRADUATE in this angsty, sensual, and moving tale about the disillusions of the Quarter-Life Crisis, the healing properties of brotherhood, and the power of introverts. Copyright © 2015 Lola Dom. All Right Reserved.

- Be who you are - "Hogwarts is real". Those simple words changed Megan's life forever. Living with her awful aunt and uncle, she thought magic was only in story books. Until a strange giant of a man comes to find her. And if that wasn't strange enough, she learns she's not as ordinary as she thought. She is a witch. But not the evil, ugly witches you keep away from on Halloween. The kind who can do magic that is good. And Megan would be one of them? Hard to believe. But she seizes the chance to take control of her life and follows the giant to a place she'd only ever dreamed of as real: Hogwarts. There, she makes new friends, new ennemies, fights for her life, forms unbreakable bonds, unlocks secrets no one would ever have done, and... finds herself. I am open to constructive critism, critique, suggestions and advice, so don't be shy, if you want to point something out! DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything of the Harry Potter franchise. All rights go to JK Rowling and Warner Bros. Fun and practice purposes only. I own none of the pictures and videos in this story. All credits go to their owners. If you are one of them and wish for me to remove the picture of video I am borrowing, please let me know and I'll do it at once. Thank you. Entertainment purposes only. No copyright infringement intended.

Daniel Husseini writes to Victoria Edgecombe. And then Sarah D'Souza replies.

[ ON-GOING ] सोबती (sobati) /sobatee/ noun. companion, partner. [ Extended Description inside ]

From @_Once_Upon's 30 Tales of Spring Anthology: {inspired by Arthurian Legend} In a life Stella doesn't remember, she and Morgan Fayne made history as a sorceress and a once and future queen. In this life, they're strangers--until now. On a road trip to a gathering of witches to celebrate the Spring Equinox, Stella and Morgan will remember everything they've had, everything they've lost, and all that's yet to come. {#true-love: #1 | 07.21.18} © 2017-present Idris Grey

𝐫𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟎 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐣𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟑 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗

Your favourite genre- Romance with a tinge of the subject that appears dreadful in textbooks but interesting in YouTube shorts- Physics..... blended together in this cute little short story.

A tragic incident in Naelund caused an angry and distraught nineteen year old Odessa Penteau to be driven to train and earn enough skills to get her revenge on Silas Casteron, King of the Udriles Kingdom, for what he took from her. After years of training in different places with different people, she finds friends, falls in love and makes a few enemies. In the end, the resentment towards Silas still brews and she will stop at nothing until a score is settled. Silas Casteron is looking for Obitus, the Reaper. Little does he know that they are closer than he thinks. And they are not coming to be friends. ❝Give me a name. I need the name of the bastard who caused you tears, Pulchra.❞ His fists tight in a ball at his sides. ❝Silas Casteron.❞

Nora Blake repels ordinary. Adam Clarke is constructed entirely of ordinary. ● ● ● "I don't want to share you with the galaxy, Nora Blake," he says quietly, and all at once, all the stars inside my chest are being flung across the universe at full speed and for that particular moment, I am untethered. Unrooted. Flowing. Floating. Something. He doesn't have to, I think, instantly. I am vaguely aware of the fact that I am a kind of traitor: but there is no heavy stone of betrayal in my chest. The galaxy will wait. It will wait until this beautiful boy flings my fragile heart across the universe at full-speed, but right now, I'm so full of it that I don't even care. Look at that. Nora Blake gives up the galaxy. I look at him, then, and there's so much color oozing out of his perfect, jagged cracks that I feel like I'm in one of Nadia's Leonid Afremov paintings and there's a supernova in my chest. "You don't have to," I tell him, so quietly that I don't think he hears. His delicate rose-pink mouth is curved into a kind of frown and his baby-blue gray-flecked gaze is lost somewhere far, far away from the devoid town of Enfield. I recognize that much, and I wonder momentarily if he has his own galaxy somewhere. I don't want to share him either, I think.

Alexandria Benson received ten invitations to the Valentine's Day dance, but only one of them is The One. _________________________ #7 in We Need Diverse Books [8/12/2019] #89 in Teenagers [1/12/2019] #1 in School Dance [1/17/2019] #2 in Diversity in Lit [8/12/2019] #106 in Diversity [2/27/2019] #1 in Diverse Reads [11/10/2019]

He's handsome. He's charming. He's rich. Did I mention tall, with a dashing smile, that makes the ladies' hearts melt? But even after everything Levi Tau still finds himself playing this losing game of love, which leaves him heartbroken and unsatisfied. You've heard of, always the bridesmaid never the bride- but have you heard of always the Best Man never the groom?