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 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 . . .

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.

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]]

Heritage: The Unravelling Book 2 In a world that eats people, you either become teeth... or you find someone who refuses to let you be on the menu. Lena isn't broken. She's messy, dyslexic, ADHD, and tired of being edited out. School wants her proper. Home wants her small. The world wants her gone. Then the darkness offers her a deal. She falls into the cartel. Not because she's naive. Because she's desperate. And the only person who sees her clearly is the son of the man who built it. Rowan was made to be a king. He's spent his life performing for his father. Until Lena. Now he has a choice: burn the world down, or learn to guard it. This is a story about a voice. About who gets to have it. About two people learning that strength isn't berserk. Sometimes it's quiet. Sometimes it's tea. Sometimes it's checking every 3 days. Reader discretion: abuse, mental health crises, addiction, cartel violence.

Basma Alami just wants to survive senior year, get through her chem test, and maybe get a decent night's sleep, none of which is possible when Julian Vance's bedroom window faces hers. He's the middle Vance brother: soccer star, effortlessly charming with everyone except her, and apparently allergic to turning his music down before midnight. She's sworn she's over him, not obsessed, completely fine, she just can't stop noticing him. Or being noticed back. Between chaotic best friends, a beach town full of gossip, and two sets of curtains that keep getting pulled back at exactly the wrong moment, Basma is about to learn that some things are a lot harder to ignore once you've seen them up close.

In limbo where gods and angels reign, an old evil emerges. Something echos in the depths of the verse and an angel prays her training is enough to save her sanity and family as war finds their little piece of the heavens. Alexia was raised by a single mother, sheltered, the only thing she knows is she doesn't want to be married off to some arrogant, demanding, man. As she is raised to peerage as one of the realms last demon slayers she wonders if she will own her power or will it enslave her? Read along as Alexia and her classmates travel the realm battling demons, fighting ninjas, and finding true love.

Soleil is twenty-five, and holding her little world together with both hands. After losing her father and then her sister to the same ruthless disease within a year of each other, she's the sole guardian of her seven-year-old nephew Nico - living in the family home that still smells like the people she's lost, running a bakery on inheritance money and sheer stubbornness, and reminding herself every single morning that they're going to be okay. She doesn't have room for anything else. She especially doesn't have room for the quiet, frustrating, entirely too observant man who walks into her bakery five minutes before closing and orders the wrong thing without a trace of apology. She doesn't know yet that he's Nico's teacher. He doesn't know yet that he's already in trouble. Love, Served Warm; a slow burn about grief, found family, and falling for someone when you were absolutely sure you didn't have the space for it. Features one seven-year-old who has entirely too much to say and no intention of saying less.

Imani is turning eighteen with no path in mind. Born into the poverty of Substris, she expects to fail the upcoming Inspection as all those from Substis do. But the life has other plans. Soon Imani is faced with her new daunting reality. In a place of violence, where everyone is shaped into the weapons the Empire needs them to be, Imani feels lost. Now the question is, can she survive and if she does, will she still be Imani or something completely different?

An exhilarating comedic drama following a group of high school friends who encounter all sorts of problems that life throws at them.

In a home where love was a currency, she was always bankrupt. Her parents' affection was reserved for the twin who reflected their every hope, leaving her to inherit the hushed comparisons and soft dismissals. She was constantly reminded of her lesser worth, but she never imagined her marriage would be a cast-off from the twin who was truly desired. Offered as a consolation prize, she expects only disappointment in a loveless union. Yet, the journey of marriage becomes an unexpected path to self-discovery. The Color Of My Own Sky is a story of the invisible bruises that shape a soul, and the battle to finally find the courage to paint your own brilliant horizon. Nov. 3 ©deey_jah

Dax is a young boy who struggles from night terrors and insomnia. He's already in a rough living situation as it is. And things only grow worse as his night terrors become his reality. The monsters that haunt his nights, turn out to be real, and one in particular spirits him away from his reality and into a bizarre world of nightmares and creatures. In this world he is forced into stopping the villain. He hopes it's all a dream. He hopes this place isn't real, but it feels to be. Dax so badly wants to go home, but will that ever be possible?

A DIVORCE. A REPLACEMENT. A SCHEME. Ananya had the life every Indian daughter is supposed to want: a high-powered career in New York and a "perfect" marriage to Kenji. Then, she walked away. Now, at twenty-nine, the silence of her apartment is filled only with the disappointed echoes of her mother's voice and the crushing weight of regret. When she sees the first photo of Kenji's new girlfriend, Mei-young, beautiful, and "perfectly" submissive-Ananya's grief turns into a cold, sharp blade of jealousy. Forgotten is the exhaustion of the marriage. Forgotten is the reason she left. All Ananya knows is that Mei has her life-and Ananya wants it back. But as Ananya begins a dangerous game of sabotage to reclaim her husband, she finds herself drawn deeper into Mei's world. Between the whispered traditions of their cultures and the high-stakes drama of Manhattan, Ananya begins to realize that her "enemy" might be the only person who truly understands her. In this game of love and betrayal, the most shocking twist isn't who wins the man... it's who walks away

After years of putting it off for the sake of her overprotective parents, Jayden Wright finally moves to Los Angeles where she meets her new, enthusiastic neighbor, Jordan Harris. After a few chance encounters the two become friends, and it doesn't take long for Jayden to peel back the layers of Jordan's cheery façade, discovering that immense suffering resides within her. As she learns that Jayden also carries heavy baggage, Jordan begins to wonder if their two broken halves can somehow form a whole. Jayden and Jordan find out first-hand that love can be bitter, suffocating, and messy. However, more often than not, love can be sweeter than sugar.

Born into slavery, Lena Wells escapes in search of freedom-but instead finds a Union camp overflowing with runaways, soldiers, and the man whose gaze she can't seem to forget. What begins as stolen glances soon becomes forbidden touches and passionate, secret kisses. But war has a way of claiming everything, and when Julian is called back to his regiment, Lena is forced to let him go. Four years later, Lena has built a fragile new life in Philadelphia-a seamstress by day and a devoted mother by night, determined to protect the child who carries the face of the man she lost. Julian Dennis, wounded and discharged, is living in the same city rebuilding a life that no longer feels like his own. When a chance assignment brings Lena into his home that he shares with his mother-who has hired her to sew a few dresses-the past collides violently with the present. One look at Lena's little girl sends Julian spiraling. She looks like him. She acts like him. And the timing is undeniable. Yet Lena insists the child isn't his. Now Julian is torn between hope and heartache, while Lena clings to the truth she's carried alone for years. As long-buried emotions resurface and new wounds open, both must confront not only the ghosts of the war, but the powerful forces of society, race, loyalty, and love that threaten to keep them apart. Because sometimes the war doesn't end on the battlefield- Sometimes it finds you again, exactly where you're trying to start over.

A collection of stories from Wattpad users regarding how diversity has affected their lives to promote and spread awareness of diversity.

In this book of interviews, our team sits down with diverse authors on this platform who make the themes and characters of diversity a focal point of their stories. We talk to them about their experiences as diverse writers, as well as writers who discuss these topics in their work, in order to better understand and communicate our different experiences as minority artists. Our main goal with this series is of course to introduce more people to these amazing and talented writers, however we do wish to open up deeper and more meaningful conversations about the type of representation we see and the things that we think ought to be changed, not just on this platform, but for the industry as a whole.

In this comedic, full of heart standalone novel, college just got spicy. Raj, Shruti, Asifa, and Nisha are starting freshman year-and chaos follows. At UT Dallas, Raj's boyfriend Max flies in from Yakutsk amid Russo-American tensions and bonds with his roommate Sully, a Kazakh-American dudebro with a heart of gold. Raj and Shruti launch Kumar Fancy x Shroom Chai-a nail salon/chai bar-through a student startup program. It becomes the next big thing... until a shady rival shop pops up, clearly stealing their idea. Suddenly it's a Real Housewives-coded turf war, complete with glitter, gossip, and sabotage. Meanwhile in the Bronx, Asifa and Nisha start at SUNY Maritime and are nearly robbed on day one-until two mysterious Y2K baddies save them. They stumble into Sylheti Spice, a cozy Bangladeshi chai spot with magical tea and a slow-burn spark between Asifa and Zain, the owner's feminist son with a blue-eyed cat named Dairy Milk on his shoulder. But Sylheti Spice is in danger. A Bronx gang, Cosa Norte, is extorting them-and the cops are no help. To protect the shop, Zain secretly cuts a deal with Los 174, a rival gang that once saved them, offering free food in exchange for protection. One member, Dino, becomes Zain's friend-and maybe more to Nisha. Now Zain holds enough intel to take everyone down... but doing the right thing might cost him everything. You better buckle up readers, because freshman year just got spicy. Welcome to college.

"We can have our differences. We can argue, debate, scream, yell, or cry. However, at least we are talking. If we are talking, we will figure it out. Because I like you, Wicked. I like you so much that I can overcome anything with you. I want to become yours. I want to call you my soul."