Smalltown Stories

In a small town where everyone knows your history and nobody forgets your mistakes, Jane Walker has mastered the art of handling everything alone. Single mom. Problem-solver. Professional fixer of everyone else's chaos. Then a quiet stranger moves into the old Miller house down the road. Caleb doesn't talk much. He doesn't have to. Deaf and observant, he sees more than most people ever notice - including Jane. What begins as borrowed tools and accidental porch repairs slowly becomes something neither of them expected: friendship, trust, and the frightening possibility of love. But learning to let someone in might be the bravest thing Jane has ever tried. Where the Quiet Lives is a tender, slow-burn story about second chances, small-town life, and the kind of love that grows softly - like sunrise instead of lightning.

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION When a summer of fun turns upside down, Olivia must figure out whether her paranoid imagination is playing tricks on her or if she's being followed - and by who. ***** It's been years since Olivia nearly drowned in Caldwell Beach, and after moving away, she's back for the summer to reconnect with old friends. However, not everything-or everyone-is the same. Her childhood best friend, Miles, is still sweet and carefree, but his older brother West is not. Disowned and working at the local garage, he's distanced himself from everyone, until Olivia accidentally uncovers the reason why. But as the two grow closer, strange things begin happening to Olivia. She can't stop seeing shadows and hearing voices, but as she slips into a downward spiral of obsessiveness and paranoia, she must fight to uncover the truth behind who is after her, and why. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION. The past always resurfaces . . . Five years after almost drowning, Olivia Cathart returns home to Caldwell Beach determined to face her fears and take some risks-not just by swimming but by opening her heart. Hoping to rekindle her friendships, she's excited about a carefree summer with her best friends Keely and Miles. But life in the sleepy town has changed, and no one and nothing is as it seems. When a series of startling crimes threaten Olivia's fragile state, she is plunged into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Her only solace from the chaos is West, Miles's disowned and ruggedly handsome brother, but even he can't answer the question on everyone's minds-is Olivia really in danger or is it simply all in her head?

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]]

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.

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 BOOKS EDITION Griffin Tomlin is dead. And Clara's sister killed him . . . Four months after the murder, the entire town of Shiloh is still in shock. For Clara Porterfield, the normal world has crumbled around her in a million chaotic pieces. Now Clara lives in a new reality, where her sister awaits trial for murder, her mother obsessively digs in a dead, frozen garden, and her father lives and breathes denial. At school, Clara is haunted by her classmates' morbid curiosity-and all of the unspoken questions they won't ask. But none of them knows what she knows . . . Now Clara's sister wants something from her-the one thing in all of this that Clara isn't ready to face: the truth about what really happened that night. Because this story didn't die with Griffin Tomlin. There's another story that needs to be told. And sometimes, the lies we're told are nowhere near as deadly as the lies we tell ourselves . . .

When Hayley falls for a bodyguard whose secret is more dangerous than her own, she must decide how much she is willing to risk for love. ***** Tank has spent his life protecting people. He works for one of the most successful security companies in the world, makes more money than most people see in a lifetime, and has a past that no one can ever know about. Hayley Elliott will do anything to keep her mom safe. Her sister has found a cure for Alzheimer's and their mom is living proof that the supplement works - but hiding from the people looking for the supplement's formula is impossible. When the threat to their lives becomes deadly, she has no option but to trust a man who's living with a secret more dangerous than her own. With more at stake than their own lives, Tank and Hayley have to decide what is more important: protecting the past or risking everything for love. Leeanna Morgan is a USA Today Bestselling Author.

Six years ago, Caleb tore out Kat's heart and stomped on it, leaving behind a shell of the girl she once was. Now, six years later, Kat owns a bookshop and has found a new life in a small town with her two young children. But when Caleb comes into her cafe one day, how will Kat manage to keep her twins a secret from the man who broke her heart and left her with nothing but two little bundles of joy. Bundles of joy she never wants him to know about. Caleb left Kat for a reason, not the one she thinks and when he walks into the new bookshop in a small town and finds her sitting behind the counter, reading a book and sipping a frappaccino, he's determined to get her back. But Kat isn't so willing to take him back and she's hiding something. And when he finds out, could everything fall even farther apart, or will it help them piece back together their broken hearts? Sorry about any errors. I'll edit as I go but I'll probably miss a lot. It might be slow updating this because I'm super busy. Message me or comment with any questions! :D

Falling into another dimension's ocean was not on Callum's bingo card this year. Neither was discovering that in this world, he's five inches tall. How's he supposed to get home now?

( . 📽.ᐟ ) 𝙄𝙏'𝙎 𝙉𝙄𝘾𝙀 𝙏𝙊 𝙃𝘼𝙑𝙀 𝘼 𝙁𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙉𝘿 ⸻ 𝑗𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑝ℎ 𝑧𝑎𝑑𝑎 Dylan should never have accepted the role of Ruby Sharks in "We Were Liers." Not so much because she didn't like the role, but because, after the sudden breakup with her ex, she knew she would find solace either in acting or in her old childhood friend: Joseph Zada. She doesn't yet know that the summer of 2025 will be the one in which she will rediscover love. And not just for her but for both of them 𝐽𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑝ℎ 𝑍𝑎𝑑𝑎 𝑥 𝑓𝑒𝑚 𝑜𝑐 ©-priscillasdream // 2025

​"I told you once that you were background noise, Elias. I was wrong. You're the only thing I hear anymore." ​Five years ago, Elias Thorne was the boy who didn't exist. He wasn't the jock, he wasn't the nerd-he was the silence between the notes. He spent his high school years staring at the back of Chloe Vance's head, writing songs she'd never hear and nursing a hope that would eventually destroy him. ​Then came the bonfire. One question. One brutal rejection that went viral before "viral" was even a word. Chloe didn't just break his heart; she erased his dignity in front of the only world he knew. ​Now, the world has a different name for him. ​Elias is no longer the boy in the back of the class. He's the voice on every radio station, the face on every billboard, and the artist selling out stadiums from London to LA. He's spent five years building a fortress of fame to drown out the memory of a girl who told him he was nothing. ​But when a tour stop lands him in a rain-slicked dive bar in the middle of nowhere, he finds a ghost serving drinks behind the counter. ​Chloe Vance isn't the Queen Bee anymore. She's tired, she's breaking, and she doesn't recognize the man under the designer jacket and the cold, distant eyes. ​He wants revenge. She needs a miracle. And the music is just beginning. New chapter every Tuesday

Two cheerleaders Rebecca Thompson and Allie Collins discover the fire and the burn of an undercover romance.

Turned at twenty-one, Eleanor Fitzwilliam lost more than her pulse-she lost her future. After escaping the cruel vampire who made her, Eleanor spends centuries drifting through North America's underground, numbing her emotions and surviving one night at a time. Then a flat tire strands her in Moose Falls, Maine. Steven Hansen is human, kind, and impossible to ignore. The pull she feels toward him is instant and overwhelming-everything Eleanor has ever been taught says it means one thing: he's her mate. For the first time in two hundred years, she dares to hope she might have a future instead of just a past. But instincts can lie. As Moose Falls' supernatural secrets unravel, Eleanor discovers that her growing humanity is her greatest weakness. The bond she believes she shares with Steven may not be fate at all, and trusting it could destroy the control she's fought centuries to maintain. Because sometimes the greatest mistake is believing fate has chosen for you.

Storms bring more than rain on the island. They bring secrets to the surface. Amara Josephs has endured pain throughout her life, with her body feeling like a battlefield of stiff joints and aching bones. But nothing prepares her for the night a body washes up in the mangroves with her name carved into its skin. The island whispers of duppies, curses, and restless spirits. Amara doesn't believe in folklore, but she knows monsters exist. She's lived with one inside her for years. With the tide washing in more bodies and hidden secrets, she has to figure out what's real and what's superstition before the island takes her for one of the dead.

SHE HAD THE WORLD AT HER FEET. NOW, SHE'S CRAWLING BACK TO THE ONE BOY SHE DESTROYED. One month ago, Zuza was the queen of Warsaw-expensive silk, penthouse views, and a life everyone envied. Now? She's broke, betrayed by the man she trusted, and forced to return to Birch Hill with nothing but two suitcases and a shattered reputation. But the small town hasn't forgotten the girl who spat on its dust. Especially not Alex. Seven years ago, she called him a nobody. She told him he'd rot in the grease of his garage while she conquered the world. She broke his heart and laughed while doing it. Now, he's the only one who can fix her car- and the only one who knows how much she's truly hiding. With 200,000 PLN on the line in a desperate reality show gamble, Zuza is ready to do anything to get her life back. But in the suffocating heat of the garage, the line between hate and obsession starts to blur. She came back to save herself. She didn't expect him to be the one holding the keys to her cage.

Liam and Lexi fall in love before they ever meet. When they see each other, the bond between them doesn't hesitate. It snaps into place-unmistakable, permanent, and consuming. A mating bond neither of them can deny. Their connection solidifies in pieces-voices in the dark, shared confessions, laughter that feels intimate. Liam chooses Lexi openly. He builds a life beside her, shares a bed, a home, a future that feels real in his hands. He loves her with devotion, with tenderness, with the certainty of someone who knows she is his. And still-Knox is always there. Knox is Liam's best friend, his brother in everything but blood, the one he has protected since childhood. For a long time, Knox's pain is loud and needy, and even as he begins to heal, Liam doesn't know how to stop making room for him. So he keeps inviting him in. Into their home. Into their routines. Into the quiet spaces where Lexi thought it would finally be just the two of them. Liam never sees it as choosing Knox over Lexi. To him, it's loyalty. Habit. Love that existed first. To Lexi, it feels like being mated-yet never fully alone with her mate. This is a story about a bond that is unbreakable-and a boundary that keeps being crossed. About loving someone who means well, but doesn't realize that presence can be a kind of betrayal. About learning that choosing your mate isn't a single decision-it's something you have to do every day, especially when the past keeps knocking at the door.

Life can sometimes give you lemons, often you can feel like a menace to society, more importantly to you own self. Life was black and white, There is always a hope that blooms in my heart, wanting to capture the true colors. But time to time that feels impossible. Until I saw you. You were my color in a field full of sunflowers. All those colors where only black and white but you.. I saw you in all colors. That day felt like a new start, the start of the innocence of 29 days.

Just your genetic high school love story.

"Does anyone else have a love story?" Mr. Mathers asked them. "Yes, I do. And just like your love stories, it's tragic, filled with hurt feelings and scars that will never fully heal." Ophelia said softly as she stood up and walked to the window, looking out at the small garden in the front yard.