Diverse Stories

Mira finds herself stuck in the city of love with Jake, the playboy athlete she can't stand. What she doesn't expect is for major sparks to fly on their 24-hour adventure. But can this newly-found love last beyond the magic of Paris? ***** 24 Hours in Paris is now published as a Paperback & E-book by W by Wattpad Books As a Wattpad reader, you can now access both the Original Edition and the W by Wattpad Books Published Edition here upon purchase (PS: a review on Amazon (and also Goodreads) would be very much appreciated, to help get this POC rom com in front of more readers! All the review page links are on my Wattpad profile page :-) ) In the new Published Edition of the book, the characters of Mira and Jake will be older and wiser co-workers in the corporate world, who miss their flight and get stuck spending an extra 24 hours in Paris. They'll start off annoyed with each other, but you know how the story goes... "Adorably sweet and a brilliant read! It made me feel like I was roaming the streets of Paris without having to leave my couch." - Grace @HQ ***** On the last day of their class's college trip to Paris, Mira and Jake get tangled up in a debacle that causes them to miss their flight home to New York. Which means they're stuck in Paris until the next available flight that's 24 hours away! Mira is witty and a lover of art history and good cheese. Jake, on the other hand, is your All-American frat boy with a killer smile. Translation: they can't stand each other. As they visit places they could never have imagined, Mira and Jake go from mortal enemies to star-crossed lovers with sizzling chemistry. But can their spark last without Paris' cheese and charm to keep it going? [[word count: 50,000-60,000 words]] Cover designed by Ray Gardener

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. It only takes one moment to change your life forever . . . After her mother's deportation last year, all Soledad "Sol" Gutierrez wants is for her life to go back to normal. Everything's changed-new apartment, new school, new family dynamic-and Sol desperately wants to fit in. When she joins her community college's history club, it comes with an odd initiation process: break into Westray's oldest house and steal . . . a fork? There's just one problem: while the owners of the house aren't home, their grandson Ethan is, and when he catches Sol with her hand in the kitchen drawer, she barely escapes with the fork intact. This one chance encounter irrevocably alters her life, and Sol soon learns that sometimes fitting in isn't as important as being yourself-even if that's the hardest thing she's ever had to do.

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]]

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 . . .

A heartbroken fashion designer escapes to Tokyo to be an assistant on a movie set, only to get caught up in an illicit, whirlwind romance with the lead actor. ***** After discovering her fiance is cheating on her, heiress and fashion designer Lily Porter is whisked away to Tokyo to help a production company adapt one of her great-aunt's novels. She isn't thrilled about lying about being her aunt's assistant until it throws her into the path of the movie's lead actor, who is enough of a distraction to keep her mind off her ex for good. But can there really be a future for them when their relationship is built on lies, false identities, and a secret engagement? [[Wattys' Longlisted]] [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Lady Eleanor Cantwell, daughter of the Marquess of Salford, is a proper young lady. With her golden complexion, raven-black hair, and manners befitting a princess, Lady Eleanor has always been deemed a belle. There is just one problem. Lady Eleanor Cantwell is Indian. Having been adopted from India when Lady Salford found herself unable to bear a child, Lady Eleanor is shunned by society, including her mother, on account of her true heritage. The ladies turn their noses at her and the gentlemen only wish for her virtue which she clings to dearly. They certainly have no wish to wed an Indian girl, no matter how pretty she is! Which is why the entire ton is incredulous when a young man - a duke, no less! - offers his hand in marriage to the young daughter of the Marquess of Salford. Lady Eleanor finds it quite hard to believe that any gentleman would wish to marry her and instead of feeling grateful, all she feels is remorse and anger. A husband would only bring with him a mountain of restrictions that were detrimental to her plans of travelling the world - the land of her ancestors, in particular. So, when her parents sell her off to the duke, she realises that she no longer cares for society, her beloved father, or her reputation. And when the duke makes her an enticing offer, she realises she would have to abandon all sense of propriety, manners, and rules to do what he asks of her. She would have to defy. . * Favourite in the Amby Awards 2025 hosted by @TheAmbys @Ambassadors * 1st Place Winner in HISTORICAL FICTION of the HIDDEN GEMS AWARDS * Featured in the "Diverse Fiction" reading list by @Ambassadors * Featured in the "Historical Fiction" reading list by @AmbassadorsIN * Featured in the "Ambassador's Monthly Picks (Oct 2025)", "War & Military" and "Historical DiverseLit" reading lists by @HistoricalFiction * Featured in the "Historical Adventures" and "DiverseLit Adventures" reading lists by @adventure

As the cruel, uncompromising, and terrifyingly brilliant CEO of Bloom Press, Roman Alvarez terrifies everyone-including her new assistant editor, Kaalia Amoretta. But on a work trip to the tropical coast of South Asia, under Kerala's storm-soaked skies, professional distance dissolves into something more dangerous. What should have stayed strictly business becomes intimate, charged, and impossible to forget. *** [LONGER VERSION] Roman Alvarez is infamous in the publishing world: cruel, uncompromising, and brilliant enough to get away with it. As the first Black and female CEO of Bloom Press, she has built her career on steel walls and impossible standards. Kaalia Amoretta, the new assistant editor hired to support her, expects a tyrant. What she doesn't expect is the quiet softness beneath Roman's sharp edges ... or the spark that flares every time their eyes meet. When Bloom's newest release hinges on securing a reclusive poet's anthology, Roman and Kaalia go on a "working vacation" to India. But what should have been a straightforward business trip unravels into something far more dangerous: monsoon-soaked nights, shared secrets, and a slow-burning tension neither woman can ignore. Under tropical skies and an old woman's poetry on love and colonialism, their professional boundaries blur, their walls crack, and a tender, terrifying love begins to take shape. But as they return to New York-with media storms rising, a billion-dollar lawsuit looming, and family expectations closing in-the real question emerges: Can a love born far from reality survive the world waiting for them? *** A sweeping, sapphic, slow-burn romance and the kind of love worth risking everything.

Radha didn't believe it could get worse on her island homeland of Rudira; An encroaching empire, a legion of colonizers exploiting her people to fight their rebellion, a permanent snowy winter cursing her tropical home. But then her mother was taken, and she was pulled in as well. Made into a weapon by the legion, and having her hands replaced with metal gauntlets, read as Radha unleashes her newfound Flamecraft against the forces of an empire hellbent on taking from her all she loves. How much will Radha have to sacrifice to prevail in the face of her lover turned enemy and the tyrant that made them into weapons? A tale of Love and Betrayal, Rebellion and Opression, FIRE AND STEEL

In the aftermath of the Salem witch trials, a group of accused witches, fearing for their lives, managed to escape the clutches of the witch hunters. These individuals, driven by desperation and a desire for survival, scattered across the American colonies, determined to lay low and avoid detection. Over time, they formed a secret network of covens, each comprising a small group of survivors who shared their experiences and knowledge. As the years passed, the descendants of these Salem witches continued to live in fear, each year as a witch or wizard came of age, they were sent away with a mentor and hidden from the hunters as they honed their abilities. That was, until fate created the Divasio children, each born with the unique ability to connect, soon created uproar and panic as their abilities came to be in unison, causing each child to be placed with a mentor and sent to different parts of the world, hoping to keep them hidden from prying eyes. However, fate has a way of disrupting even the best-laid plans. When three of the Divasio children's mentors are brutally murdered, they are forced to flee and hide once again. The trio, comprising Catelaya, Treble and Alessia, find themselves in a small town in Tennessee, far removed from their original homes. As they try to blend in and avoid detection, they meet two peculiar individuals - Adrienne and Arnold - who are equally out of place in this small town and despite their initial skepticism, the three become fast friends with the duo, who help them navigate the intricacies of small-town life. As they settle into their new surroundings, the Divasio children must learn to control their powers and keep their true identities hidden. But with the witch hunters closing in, they know that they can't stay in one place for too long. Will they be able to find a way to master their magic and evade their pursuers, or will their presence in this small town be discovered and bring about a devastating reckoning?

Aurora Windsor has always trusted rules. They make sense. They keep things fair. And they're easy to follow when your brain was built to solve puzzles. Elijah Navarro doesn't trust systems. He believes rules are flexible, codes are breakable, and a little hacking is fine, if it serves the greater good. When a high-stakes codeathon becomes their final exam, the two are forced into an uneasy partnership. But what starts as a fight for grades turns into something far more dangerous-uncovering a system designed to steal from those who need it most. One wants to win the right way. One wants to burn the lie down. As firewalls fall and lines blur, Aurora begins to realize that not all systems deserve saving. And Elijah learns that some rules are worth breaking only if someone's brave enough to expose the truth. Chaos follows. So do sparks. And once a system starts crashing-there's no undo button.

This novel is a mashup of Snow White and The Little Mermaid, with a dash of Beauty and the Beast. Adriana is a lovely mermaid princess in an undersea kingdom that values physical beauty above all else. Jacob is a reluctant apprentice to a human apothecary on the island of Avalonia.

By day, Kallen Onyx is just another invisible nineteen-year-old trying to survive the Second Shift District. By night, he is the city's unacknowledged safety net. When the bridges shake and the buses stall, Kallen steps in. He doesn't fly, and he doesn't wear a cape. He turns his skin into unyielding mineral stone to hold up the infrastructure the city refuses to fix. He saves lives. The system logs it as "Operational Variance." He breaks his back. The system calls it "Maintenance." But after years of being a human column for a crumbling city, Kallen feels something new. A delay. A stutter. A lag between his will and his power. The weight is getting heavier. The "Lag" is getting longer. And the city just updated its benchmarks to demand even more. Kallen has to decide: Does he keep holding up a world that treats him like a spare part? Or does he let it fall?

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Will their pasts allow them to have a future together? Elizabeth "Esi" Solomon is an Afro-Caribbean British girl studying at an Ivy League University in Connecticut with big dreams to make the world a better place. Porte Danvers could not be any more different- there was his perfectly tamed blonde hair, grey eyes, and the way that he approaches life and her-intentionally. He is a wealthy Architecture alum at the same university, but hard losses have made him adopt a distant attitude to others. When the two surprisingly hit it off at the campus bookstore, Esi and Porte bond over a shared love of classical literature. As their friendship deepens to something more, both of their pasts threaten to pull them apart. When push comes to shove will their pasts hamper a shared future or will their friendship be lost forever? Imaging Us is a modern story of love, knowledge and learning self-acceptance despite life's obstacles.

When her mistress, Isabella, is tragically lost at sea in a shipwreck, Chasity Hemings is left with no choice but to seek out the man Isabella was meant to marry for help. Eric Donahue, is ready to settle down, hoping to raise his young daughter with the bride he has come to love through their letters. But when Chasity arrives on his doorstep with the devastating news of Isabella's death, his plans are shattered. As Chasity stays at the Donahue residence, sparks fly between her and Eric, but both are held back by a shared loyalty to the memory of Isabella as well as societal standards. Can they overcome the shadow of the past and embrace the future together?

Running away from all her problems on Earth (leaving behind broken promises and a shattered social and love life), the cold empty pitch-black water-covered surface of one of Saturn's moons was THE LAST place she'd ever thought to find solace on her aimless space adventure. The near mundane routine of trying to survive daily from the hazardous onslaught of the planet was practically a game to her at this point. Until one day, while drowning because she forgot to refill her oxygen tank while trying to escape a tsunami, as one usually does, a rustle in the water brought about a startling realization. "Have I truly been alone this whole time while Exploring Titan....."

Bribed by her Principal to look after seven transfer students who live up to the reputation of being bad. Derry had no choice but to babysit them if she wanted the bittersweet offer on the table. But what happens when these seven students happen to entangle her in her own mystery and well, tremendously big web of lies? What happens when Derry's whole world is flipped upside down and the only way she can get out of it, is by discovering the secrets and lies that were hidden from her from the very beginning. And one of the mysteries she is yet to discover begins with Elias Gray, the master of slipping away from her radar completely undetected. " How, Derry. " -D.W. ***** Book 1 of the "ADD SERIES"

He saw her as an innocent, incompetent, child She saw him as her big, bad, sexy boss

"You taste so good, little girl," he whispered against my lips Gripping my thighs tight & pulling them up to meet his manhood. Then he slid inside me-slow, deep, claiming. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders, our bodies close, moving together like it was the only thing that mattered in the world. And maybe, in that moment, it was."

Because even demigods have to be marked present. * * * Need an OC for your fic? Want some inspiration? I've made so many original characters over the years that I figure I might as well put them up for others to use! Inside will be two lists: OCs you don't need permission from me to use, and those I'd like you to ask first for. The majority are the former so have fun! * * * Drop a comment if you stop by! If you do use an OC, I'd love a tag or link to your story so I can hype you up!