Layla was six when she awakened untold evil into the world. She's lucky it's got a soft spot for her. 🍬🍦🍬 It's easy to leave a lollipop on a rock. Layla did when she saw her best friend, Neveah, at the beach the week before school started. Had she known it would awaken a long-forgotten god of destruction onto the w...
Free-spirited homebody Erica doesn't want to be queen. Which is fine, because her single, independent older sister Gemma is more than ready for the job. But their father doesn't care about any of that. He thinks a queen ought to be married and producing heirs (Yes, he really says producing heirs) if she is to take th...
When the tragic death of Inanna's parents leaves her utterly alone, meeting a handsome stranger in a bar awakens her darkest fantasies and changes her life forever. *** No one could have predicted the car accident that took the lives of Inanna's parents. Torn between wallowing in despair and seeking the comfort of oth...
Vivienne's parents found the perfect house. A stunning Nineteenth Century Victorian at Rue Renaud, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. One of those houses with personality and vibe; good enough to charm even a reluctant teen into moving to what she dubbed the least interesting capital city in the world. The place was meant to...
Nani James was born in Hawaii. No matter how hard she tries she will never look like an island girl. Compared to her Polynesian best friend, Jessica McHale, Nani will always look like a tourist in the islands she loves. Determined to keep men away, Nani will do anything she can to not let her heart get broken again. ...
After years of following tradition and creating the perfect ecosystem for survival in the ranks of Nigeria's political elite, Lucifer's perfect world is thrown into chaos when the righteous Adam Ekikere is invited into it. Unlike anyone that Lucifer usually interacts with, Adam is straightforward, honest, and stoic in...
⊹ Book 2 of the Aldergrove Duology ⊹ {ONC 2023 Shortlister} Desperate to see his dead mate again, Sebastien makes a deal with the Devil. But the price he has to pay is much more complicated than simply handing over his soul. ⤠...
This is an original book is written for WATTPAD Open Novella Contest 2023. --- "The world goes on even when I am gone. Don't shed a tear because my memory lives on. Even when I'm not here, my music will be. When you hear my melodies, remember our symphony." Those were the last few words written by Arslan when he knew...
London, 1857. Seventeen-year-old Leah Manston has always been the apple of her father's eye. A factory owner, he worked hard to ensure Leah had the best clothing, maids, and jewellery that money could be. But, when factory owners across the city keep winding up dead, Leah fears for her father's safety. With the polic...
When stupid little Lottie threw a stick to throw off a monster (spoiler: it didn't work), she did not expect that it would lead her down the path of an unordinary life with a very unordinary husband. ✽ ✽ ✽ All Lottie had ever wanted was to live an ordinary life out of the shadows of the mistakes she had made as a seve...
Valeria is an orphan, a High Mage and a descendant of a long line of powerful mages. She is also a child of the Void, one born with a very unique magic ability. Like many of the starving, helpless mages of the Void, Valeria is condemned by the mages of the Light, ever at war with them. She cares little about the war t...
🏆ONC 2023 || Ambassador's Pick 🏆ONC 2023 || Round Two Qualifier One night is all it takes to change a life. There's something wrong with Felicity Farr. It's how she can't seem to do her job right no matter how hard she tries, and how she's still under her parents' thumb years after moving out, and how she looks at...
Blamed for a lethal disease she did not cause, a reclusive necromancer sets out to cure the sickness and save a town before any more victims perish. *** Draped in a cloak of blood and deemed a wicked monster, Evylyn is an im...
Within the opulent and bewitching city palace of Udaipur, an aura of mystery and suspicion pervades the air. The demise of Mewar's reigning monarch has left a dubious legacy in its wake. Amidst the ensuing chaos, Ashish Singh, a young man thrust into the spotlight, inherits his ancestral scimitar-a weapon steeped in a...
ONC Shortlist Before her twelfth birthday, Davinia never thought she could kill, but for the past eight years, taking their lives is all she could think about. ☽ ⛤ ☾ The banished Atropa coven witches came back in an all-destroying reaping of revenge. They killed Davinia's mother and destroyed most of her town, coven...
Four strangers are trapped in an elevator and forced to reveal details about their most malicious deeds within the hour to prevent a fall to their death. But as secrets are exposed, tension escalates, leading to a reality no one is prepared for. ***** Tasha Pierce receives an anonymous invitation she believes is from...
[ONC 2023 Shortlister] Everyone in the Calistian kingdom fears the cruelty of the winter spirit, Sefah. They whisper to each other that his heart is as cold as the ice he wields, and he is forever a step away from unleashing his wrath upon the world. So when the people of Calistie fall prey to a strange, icy disease...
When a gruesome murder turns the prosperous celestial kingdom of Galakios upside down, Ascella has no choice but to go on the run. As the attendant to the dead zodio, Toksotis, she is the prime suspect in the case. When the surprise discovery of a clue points her in the direction of the true murderer, she accepts the...
Nikki Valentine is a smart, successful boudoir photographer with a curvy body and passion for empowerment. Despite this, she has spent years in a relationship so full of red flags she should have run a mile. Whilst on their eighth relationship break, she agrees to go on a date to a football match as a last-ditch attem...
**OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST SHORTLIST** Even if she is killed, she is never dead. ***** She'd spent many, many years in the same body, getting used to her quirks, her mannerisms, learning how to survive through the ages. Yet Josephine wakes up one night and realizes she's been asleep for a century: it's now 2023, and her l...
A new neighbor moves in. He is reclusive. He seems to never leave the house. He causes trouble in the neighborhood He turns your life upside down. Then he is gone, replaced by a handsome relative. A well known doctor who promises to fix all your problems. It seems like Fate has stepped in. You have a feeling of Déjà...
Ava Kingsley is basking in her post-senior year summer- until she gets a phone call that sends her universe spinning in a completely new direction. - The disappearance of 22 year old diner waitress Jamie Clark and her son Tyler is a cold case closed 10 years ago, until a phone call dialed to the wrong number causes Av...
A contemporary Scandinavian adaption of the legend of Jack Frost/Jokul Frosti. *** A first kiss changes everything. When Joakim kisses his childhood friend Anton it puts their relationship and also the weather in turmoil. Snow starts to whirl over Stockholm, turning the capital into a chaotic state. Is Joakim's emotio...
**Alice in Wonderland meets Aladdin with a twist in this coming of age story** Alaia has been listening to the voices around her family's castle all her life. Even though she hears everything, one peculiar word always slips her mind... A word her mom whispers every time she is alone in her bedroom. On her eighteenth b...
Crystal's one escape from the pretentious life her parents want for her is the dreams that fill her mind as she sleeps. In those dreams awaits the same boy who comes to her night after night, filling her heart with hope that can only be a fantasy. That is...until she gets in trouble and is sent to her father's boardin...
Everyone knows Zenith, but nobody knows how the band managed to rock Zerkovkia's youth into starting a revolution... until now. Tolya Viktov is coming of age in the 1980s to the tune of spinning records, cheap liquor, and Zerkovkia's nine year war with neighboring Blivdova. The perms and denim jackets are hip, but it'...
|𝟏𝐱 𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐃/𝐎𝐍𝐂 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐑 𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐒| When the apocalypse arrives 𝐊𝐀𝐍𝐄 is ready to accept death after living a cursed life. But fate has other plans for him. Whisked away by a mysterious taxi driver with a silver tongue, Kane finds himself caught up in the world of faes, vampires...
** A thief with very exceptional skills is trying to steal the most precious thing from the ruler of snow, ice, and frost: the winter itself! ** "When she embraces you, your heart turns to ice. She comes in the night when you are all alone And when she whispers, your blood turns cold You better hide before she finds y...
A happy family and a dirty secret, one bloody night the family suddenly disappears leaving their luxury and no clue of their whereabouts. An ambitious police officer with a black spot on his name of not being able to solve a case which made him not just rude and arrogant but a guy he never was. A heart broken girl, w...
Myths, legends, history all play a part in the origins of the planet. With every different background, different religion there is a God of some sort. And all of this information means absolutely nothing to a five year old. However Teri is a firm believer of sharing is caring as she accidentally awakens a banished Gr...