Part One Complete It was whispered throughout the Marvelous Kingdoms of Elidurre that no grave could hold the bones of Horeg. Always on the lips of talebearers, whether in story or song, Horeg's bones always defied their final resting place. Such as the awful reasons for this remained hidden, so also the exceptional...
ONC Shortlister(✓) Won The 2023 NanoWatt Awards in the category Novellas. August 1st, 23: Featured on @StoriesUndiscovered - Tales of Adventure. September 1st, 23: 1st place in the Vampire/werewolf category in the Lavender Awards hosted by @grandeur_cat with the highest score: 95.5% September 11, 23: - 3rd place winn...
Zoé is a young immortal. She is only 186 years old. Currently, she works in an incredible library of the occult, located in Budapest and curated by a very old immortal called Ikshan. Unfortunately, one day she stumbles upon a terrifying monster in a hallway of this very library. That was definitely not in the job desc...
Legend speaks of a man with crows in his hair and stitches in his lips who will teach you his greatest trades. Some call him a monster. Most call him the Needle-Mouthed Man. But only the shadows know his true name, and they call him Master. As one of the dead, Minseo Park is a creature of the night, doomed to eternal...
One good morning. A dead sorcerer's body on a bed and a missing precious necklace. All those in just one day and everything changes for Elida Casteves in a blink of an eye. -- Elida , an ex-queen fey living in the mortal world , is pulled into a murder case where all evidences seems to point to her. No matter how...
(ONC 2023) In the land of Tanidor, ruled by two kings, Princess Paulina has two paths in front of her. One path is already signed into law--to marry the Prince of Klemir. The other is to continue the whirlwind romance she found in the arms of Prince Jaxon--the son of the rival king of Tanidor. She knows her affair won...
Round One Ambassador Pick. Emily Hollyford fell in love with Oscar Trentham, Earl of Riverstoke, when she was just thirteen years old. All she wanted in life was to marry her prince charming in front of the most important people in her life-her parents. Oscar, on the other hand, only saw an annoying child who pester...
Stolen from her homeland by the ruthless alpha who killed her family, Princess Angharad will do anything to escape her mate bond and wreak vengeance on her captors. When a charming newcomer with a dangerous secret agrees to help her, Angarahad vows to destroy her mate bond by any means necessary -- even if it means ma...
| 𝟳𝘅 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 ·|| HUNGER GAMES x CINDER || ONC 2023 Honorable Mention Amidst the escalating unrest between the windborne utopian city of Lighthaven and its seedy, oppressed underbelly Fumedge, the Grand Duke of Lighthaven, Lucius Sextus, comes up with an ingenious solution. To provide much-wanted respite fro...
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...
**In Necropolis, every afterlife citizen is dead, including Tyryn. While each soul is seeking to carve a path towards redemption at second chances, the girl who still bleeds crimson in the city of the dead is searching for answers to her very existence. ** When Tyryn and her rival are tasked with working together in s...
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...
Reviewing restaurants is normally a safe pursuit, but Kate and Lorne face torture and death when they try to unravel organised crime's infiltration of the fine dining scene. Kate is a novelist and a dining columnist. Lorne is a lawyer, a prominent wine writer and an incognito restaurant reviewer who, since his teens...
Desdemona ''Des'' Winchester wants nothing to do with Melliford Academy. In fact, she's pretty sure her parents shipped her off to boarding school just to get her out of their hair. It's a move they'll come to regret if she has any say in the matter. Nothing humiliates posh folk like having a daughter sent home from t...
Elaire has spent her life seeking an approval she'll never earn. When one of the Moontouched elves must be sent as tithe to their fiercest enemies, Elaire is chosen as sacrificial bride... and as shadowed assassin. But where the stories of paint her husband as a scaled monster, Elaire struggles to justify the murder o...
A paranoid gardener matches wits with a handsome new neighbor when strange things begin happening on their street.
When his vampire blood begins to poison him, dhampir Elio Starling falls into hallucinations. As the delusions get darker, and the line between reality and dreams blurs, he believes he is losing his mind. There is only one soul he can confide in, a mermaid and part-time lover named Lux who suffers from an intolerance...
ONC 2023 Shortlister His features had haunted her for years; a boy with silver eyes peering out from beneath a mask of bone. His body cloaked in darkness, a wicked grin upon his lips that spoke of treachery-- a smile that had broken countless hearts. And in that instant, in the midst of this game of life and death, Lu...
When thirty-year-old Zara stumbled upon a mysterious mirror hidden among her family's heirlooms, she never imagined that diving into it would transport her to the mystical realm of the Zodiacs. Plunged into a world of magic and power as the new attendant to Aquarius, one of the ruling members of the Zodiac Council, he...
Florence Eisley is dead, according to her death certificate and her loved ones. Gone. Buried. Already rotting away into nothingness in her little grave. Ethan hasn't seen her in over a year, after a falling out that left both of them too awkward to reach out and mend things. Not only that but for some strange reason...
What was supposed to be a simple business trip out of the country turned into a whirlwind of a romantic getaway Lexi had only dreamed about. And now that she and her online best friend Kylian had not only met but unexpectedly spent the night together, what would it do to their once internet-only friendship? Not to men...
When a lonely vet tech unknowingly befriends a gorilla shifter over a mutual love of music, their lives will change forever. Claire Beck is at a crossroads in her life when her ringtone song attracts the attention of the newest gorilla at the local zoo, a male who refuses to interact with either guests or the female g...
When a boy comes to Nolan's dead town claiming to be the Pastor's grandson, the townspeople are eager and curious, hoping the boy will stay. Everybody are infatuated, following the boy like watching over a young puppy. Nolan, on the other hand, doesn't fall for the Pastor's grandson's charm. Even after the boy express...
❝𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆, 𝑶𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒚𝒔. 𝒀𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝑩𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒇. 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒐𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕...
The Obsidian Coven of formidable vampires, one of the oldest, most powerful tribes of creatures in the magical realm, had become an enigma. It slithered away into the darkness but now its future hangs in the balance as a new threat arises. Jeff was punished by the coven after breaking its most sacred rule, sinking hi...
An ONC shortlister! The long-forgotten god of chaos awakes when a small child drops a piece of candy onto his altar, unwittingly becoming the high priest of chaos. The god is beholden to his priest and his priest's people--AKA: his kindergarten classmates. The children are all-too-delighted to serve the whims of mayhe...
University professor Cora Glass may be an expert on the topic of red/green colorblindness, but when her walking red flag of an ex shows up on campus, is she smart enough to say no to a second chance? *** Three years ago, scientist Cora Glass met a stranger over cocktails in an airport hotel lobby. His name was Jamie B...
One woman's deep dive into a cold case will reveal shocking answers to a mystery that has captivated an entire town for decades, answers someone will do anything - even kill - to keep from coming to light. * * * One year after the incident that completely disgraced her, private investigator Mysti Coleman...
Harley never expected her new boss to be the same man who saved her from a terrible blind date - nor that he would be a sexy Italian billionaire hell-bent on making her his. -- Harley Goode is no stranger to tough times. But when she lands the job of her dreams - being an official translator for a large company - thin...
Entered in the Open Novella Contest 2023 @OpenNovellaContest - Rules and Guidelines: https://www.wattpad.com/story/331351500-open-novella-contest-2023 ©2023 E. S. Elias All Rights Reserved. Created & Published to Wattpad 02.01.2023 Completed: 00.__.202- Cover: Me (Artist profile @DesignsbyEH )- (Face-claims: Dominic...