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The Claimed: A Clash of Copper and Gold by spelunkadunk
The Claimed: A Clash of Copper and Gold
spelunkadunk
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A stubborn prince joins forces with the beautiful son of his enemy to save his kingdom and his life. --- Prince Toom has never questioned the safety and power of his family - until he meets Niako, the cunning, arrogant, and unnervingly beautiful son of the enemy Rakim chief. In Rakim, Toom discovers heinous traditions beyond his imagination, such as Claiming enemies as personal slaves. When Toom returns to Rakim ten years later, Niako proves more enigmatic than ever, and Toom grapples with conflicting feelings and an unsettling attraction. With the throne and his own family's lives at stake, Toom attempts to seduce Niako to unveil Rakim's plots. Niako reveals little but offers foreboding advice: flee Rakim and never return. As political machinations and cruel appetites overtake the land, Toom must work together with Niako to save the nation. To protect those he loves. And to survive. Set forty-four years after "The Claimed: Rashika's Resistance" (also works as a stand-alone novel) |2022 Wattys Shortlist| Trigger warning: This story contains descriptions of abuse and references to sexual assault
As We Burn by wellswrites
As We Burn
wellswrites
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  • Parts 35
It only takes one spark. Nineteen-year-old photographer Parker Ambrose wants university to be a fresh start from his traumatic life back home. The last thing he needs is to get wrapped up with Crispen St. Clair, his rude and enigmatic roommate - even if they do share an unspoken, uncontrollable attraction. As dark secrets come to light, Parker must decide what he's willing to risk for the only man that's ever made him feel alive, even if it means letting everything he knows crash and burn around him. #1 IN ROOMMATE (30/09/22) #5 IN GAY (05/03/22) #150 IN ROMANCE (07/03/22)
The Art of Breathing Underwater by DavidEAnderson100
The Art of Breathing Underwater
DavidEAnderson100
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𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐘 𝐖𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑 𝐘𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 For bipolar fifteen-year-old Aaron, growing up in '90s Dublin, being gay is a choice. It is a choice between risking alienation from his conservative Catholic family and close-minded friends or drowning under the weight of his secrets. So discovering he is falling in love with his witty, bi-racial best friend, Robbie, an aspiring actor, plunges Aaron into a sea of confusion. Swimming against the tide of expectations, the young men set a course through sex, drugs and Bowie concerts, an outlet from a world that doesn't understand them. But weighted under the pressure of maintaining a double life, Aaron sinks into a deep depression. When a shocking incident puts his life in perspective, Aaron must decide whether staying silent and invisible is worth losing the only love he has ever known for. 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗽𝗮𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀: @nonfiction (Memoirs/Sex, love and relationships/ Mental Health and Awareness/ Self-discovery) @DangerousLove (Hot Nerds, Rockstars & Musicians) @AmbassadorsUK (Very British Teens) @Romance (Young Love) @YA (Love, Actually) @beauty (Feel Good Stories) @GeneralFiction (Freestyle Fiction-Miscellaneous/ Finding Love-Romance) @PsychologicalNovel (Triggering Romance) @ProfileMentalHealth (Self Love) @NA (Let Me Share The Truth) @YARomance (A Diary of Everything) @TeenFiction (Teen Featured) @HistoricalFiction (Decade Fiction) @BullyingPrevention (LGBTQIAP+ Pride) @ComeSitWithUs (LGBTQIAP+ I Am Who I Am) @wattpadfriendsandfamily (Always with you) @FreeTheLGBT (Coming of Age)
THE HAUNTING OF AMELIA ANG by LittleCinnamon
THE HAUNTING OF AMELIA ANG
LittleCinnamon
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NOW ADAPTED & DEVELOPED INTO AN 8 PART AFTER DARK HALLOWEEN SPECIAL PODCAST BY MEDIACORP IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WATTPAD WEBTOON STUDIOS // THE HAUNTING OF AMELIA ANG **2ND RUNNER UP FINALIST IN THE MEDIACORP X WATTPAD PODCAST WRITERS CONTEST** **Story previously called - "The Haunting of Amelia Austen"** The disappearance of high-school student and amateur photographer, Amelia Austen didn't even make the national news. She was just another missing girl. With no evidence of foul-play, no suspects and no indication that she was a victim of crime, she became a number in the system. A statistic. Until now. A year on from Amelia's disappearance and local social media star, influencer and podcaster Saskia Jones has a story to tell. And it all stems from a photograph she receives via email. A disturbing photograph that Amelia took before her disappearance that might just tell the world what really happened to her. But who sent it? And what did happen to Amelia Austen? Saskia Jones is determined to find out. Even if it means putting her own life in danger. **** This story is told in a series of interviews, podcast episodes, and the personal audio files of Saskia Jones.
Unchained by Dark_Spaces
Unchained
Dark_Spaces
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  • Parts 40
Book 1 in the Deviant Creatures Series In the slums of New York City an underground prison sat. The City that Never Sleeps wasn't all it seemed, ruled by the society of the supernatural, the gang wars were pack wars, the drug dealers were carriers for money hungry beasts. But in the midst of all the chaos sat the prison. Everest Peak Penitentiary was renowned for being the most dangerous werewolf prison in the States, all of the traitors, tyrants, and hellions went there. The worst of the worst. Only the strongest survived. You had to fight your way to the top, past the plotting twats and bloodthirsty savages. Right up to the top, to the throne. It was known for that she-wolves never go to Everest. Save for the exception of Olympe Tryker. For years she had been the talk of the supernatural, her crimes horrid, her temper even worse. At the young age of fifteen she had been incarcerated into Everest. And she, like everyone else there, learned the hard way. It was kill or be killed. •Warning - Mature Themes• •cover by Deviation-•
Snow by eastcoastgirrrl
Snow
eastcoastgirrrl
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  • Parts 62
When Neva Álvarez moves to Queens, she's merely biding her time between bartending and dodging her brother's phone calls before her final year at NYU, and with the summer dwindling to an end, it's difficult not to find herself drawn to her new next-door neighbors and their wild lifestyle. Before she can stop it, Neva is plunging headfirst into a tumultuous affair with drugs, left desperately trying to navigate too many bad decisions that threaten to bring an intimate cocaine kingdom down into ice-cold chaos. || CW: Honestly, I wrote this story to process a lot of feelings and experiences. It explores addiction, immigration, and recovery through a very gritty lens. It explores distance, deportation, and family separation. It explores the concept of home. It explores a woman's right to her own bodily autonomy in a society that shames us for owning or loving our bodies. It may contain triggering elements (slut-shaming, abuse, drug use, violence, and rape). [July 2019 CampNaNo Winner]
Serpent Heart [PUBLISHED] by rentachi
Serpent Heart [PUBLISHED]
rentachi
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  • Parts 6
[ORIGINAL DRAFT SAMPLE] She is twenty-nine when the FBI comes for her, but Catherine Themis was only seventeen, grieving and naive and angry, the first time she wiped someone else's blood from her fingers and felt the snake rise in her chest. She was seventeen when she stepped into the dark and never looked back. ***** By day, Catherine Themis is an unassuming civilian administrator for the Dedwich Police Department, but by night, she is a notorious vigilante known as The Hangman. Struggling with her violent urges and the psychological cost of her actions, Catherine becomes the target of an obsessive serial killer and a relentless FBI agent, and as the hunt for the Hangman intensifies, Catherine must decide which life she wishes to live and what she values more: vengeance or her fading humanity? A psychological thriller in the vein of MINDHUNTER and HANNIBAL, SERPENT HEART is a deep-dive into the life and history of a conflicted vigilante forced to confront her inner demons and evade a national manhunt. Catherine questions the efficacy of her own convictions as the FBI closes in and a vindictive murderer puts her family, love, and identity in jeopardy. With everything on the line and time running out, who will Catherine Themis become? --- [[AVAILABLE ON AMAZON]] [[REMOVED 24 DEC 2021]] [[2019 Watty Winner - Mystery & Thriller]]
Joan the Made (Throwbacks Series, Book 1) by KristenPham
Joan the Made (Throwbacks Series, Book 1)
KristenPham
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  • Parts 50
Season 1 of The Throwbacks On her eighteenth birthday, Joan discovers that she is cloned from the famous Joan of Arc. But being cloned in America comes at a steep price. Segregated and oppressed, clones are forced to act as docile servants to the rest of the Evolved population. Follow Joan as she decides whether to run from her Cloned fate and spend the rest of her life in hiding, or to join a Throwback rebellion populated by clones of the greatest leaders in history. Her decision will lead her down a path of intense danger, new friendships, and epic love.
Coincidentally by authorMayLynn
Coincidentally
authorMayLynn
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  • Parts 63
A honeymoon should be one of the most romantic experiences of your life. For Emilee Sanders, it was - it just wasn't with her husband. ***** An anxious paralegal finds herself where no bride should be on the week of her wedding. Single. Stuck taking a honeymoon alone, Emilee Sanders finds herself trapped at a Bali beach resort that's spilling with couples and romance. However, she's not the only single person on this beach. Mysterious and gorgeous Logan Hodge, a newly graduated physician, is on his own solo vacation to escape realities from back home. Shielding their true identities from each other, the two create new ones as Emmy and Hodge - a couple celebrating their honeymoon. The two weeks of steamy, romantic bliss should end with no more than fake names and lone trips home to their real lives, but life may have more in store for them. Content/Trigger Warning: the story contains scenes of mature sexual content and possibly triggering content around rape. [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] Cover designed by April Alforque