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My Beautiful Mistake

Not many people are blessed with a loving family who cares about them, Jamie being one of them. All she has is a brother that will care and be there for her until she meets Ben. Ben seems to be the most incredible guy in the world until the truth is revealed about all that is between Ben and Jamie. The two grow insepa...

Falling for the Seat Filler

Seat filler Lincoln Parker never expected to accidentally fall on one knee in front of world-famous superstar Emily Margot. Now, with his face on the cover of every tabloid, he has to pretend to be her lover-and keep hidden his real, growing feelings as their time together starts to run out. ...

Casual Fridays Book Club {Club Book}

Casual Fridays is a book club meant to help authors find Reading Partners and receive Helpful feedback. All genres are welcome. Read the first chapter for details; we'd love to have you join.

The Timekeeper

As soon as you turn sixteen, the Timekeeper is inserted on the inside of your wrist. It's a countdown, showing days, hours, minutes, seconds. Until what, you might ask? Until you meet your soul mate. Candice Smith has only just turned sixteen, and is looking forward to finding her soul mate. But things don't t...

Eleanor & Brooke

Dear Future Me;

Dear Future Me features stories written by random people out there in the world to their future selves. This book aims to let everyone know that there might just be someone out there sharing the same story with you and that you are not alone. I hope you'll be shocked, amused, inspired and touched while reading this se...

Love is Meaningless?

Socially awkward, introverted and an extreme science geek Vanessa Bennett swears never to fall in love in her entire life, believing it was meaningless and scary. Vanessa was quick to choose studies over her feelings. But when she enrolled in university, she finds herself doubting her choices. When she meets Ashton D...

Burning Salvation

A lot has changed in the six months since Chase disappeared and left Dora behind. Dora is killing it at her internship, having the summer of her life with her best friend, and just so happens to be on the verge of dating the most respectable man she's ever met. Dora can picture her perfect future...until Chase comes b...

The Good in Me

Eighteen year old Caleb Fitzpatrick is Lynwood Heights Star Athlete. With a 4.0 scholarship bound to lead him to State and his father’s money giving him the highest title around town. He’s decided to live his last year of High School young, reckless, and free…that is until one night everything changes. Caleb ends up...

1-800-Cinderella

Cindy works part time at a hotline. Her front name being Cinderella. When Cindy gets involved with a guy through a hotline, he starts to call her all the time. When she finds out she used to know this guy in High school.... Who used to make out with her sister... This unique re-telling of Cinderella suddenly just gets...

The VIP (18+ Only) [COMPLETED] [Winner of a Wattys 2014 Instant Addiction Award]

[This is a spin-off of The DILF but can be read as a stand-alone] [The story you are about to read is intended for readers age 18+ due to its sexual content and language. It may not be appropriate for all audiences. Please read at your own discretion.] There was nothing Ophelia wanted better than to gouge Nikolai's l...

Making the Grade (The Model Spy #2)

Laura Porter has it all: a house in Malibu, a totally hot boyfriend, and a stable job. But not everything is as perfect as it seems. Her boyfriend is cheating on her, her best friend won't talk to her, and her "stable" job consists of working for the CIA. As much as Laura likes to pretend she is normal, she knows she...

Burning Moon (Wattpad Version)

(#1 ChickLit) WARNING: Being left at the altar in front of 500 wedding guests may lead to irrational behavior, causing you to go on your honeymoon alone. Other side- effects may include very bad hair, getting arrested, setting yourself on fire, landing up on a "Missing Poster" with the same bad hair and unexpectedly f...

Beloved of a King

Kingdom of Gaerdin, 16th century. When Mistress Hélène Feuillets won the intimacy of the king, Henry III, she thought she could finally be happy. It was common knowledge the king must have a son, an heir to the throne, and he needed to have him soon. Hélène went to break conventions and looked out for the most sought...

The DreamWalker Series

Ellette's dreams are unnaturally real. For years she has found them to be the perfect escape, the solution to a life that has been, at times, a nightmare. When she comes across a man from a dream in her waking life, he turns out to be just that; a dream come true. With finding him, she is forced to realize that her d...

Small Town Gossip

Addy Harper-Dewitt is stuck. She has no job, no prospects, and is perpetually in trouble. Everyone in town likes to gossip about Addy because no matter what she does, she's always smack-dab in the middle of some local controversy. She's long given up on improving her reputation and wants to focus on moving out of her...

The Bride Wore Size 12

With her upcoming nuptials to hunky PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather’s already stressed. But when a pretty junior turns up dead, Heather’s sure things can’t get worse — until every student in the dorm where she works is a possible suspect in the killing … and then Heather’s long-lost mother shows up. With...

Stealing his brother's girl

Apologies to Emerson

(Short story). Lucy Stein is trying to make sense of her life when her estranged father leaves her with a large inheritance and an old house. As she tries to understand why her father left and find who he was by exploring his estate, she is distracted and charmed by a peculiar young man living on her property. It's a...

Kill

Catherine decides to take the short way home from school one day out of sheer laziness. Pretty soon though, she is wishing that she had walked back to her safe, welcoming home the long way with her two best friends: Cara and Courtney. On her way back, she stumbles across a run down, mysterious looking house and she se...

Adamalda's Glen

Fifteen year old Alissa Mochrie lives in the utopian society of Briar with her parents. When a simple report including her thoughts on individuality stirs up the community and her life, she must try to shroud her other secrets and ideas that go against her community and it's laws; or suffer the consequences.

Obsessed {Book #1 of The Obsessed Series}

{Book #1 of The Obsessed Series} When Adam Levine named his debut album Songs About Jane, he never anticipated the questions that would haunt him for years to come. Who is Jane? Where is Jane? Are you still in love with Jane? Now more than a decade after she left, Adam is still writing songs about the girl that g...

Academy of Secrets (original version)

ORIGINAL DRAFT OF STORY some sections may be off due to erratic editing. Sorry if there's any confusion. *PG-13 for language and violence!* Six. Six aspects of energy. Six humans to host them. Fourteen-year-old Allison Trenbalm is one of these six special humans. In the year 2295, a world of alien immigration, advance...

Room Service (On Hold)

Ianna Campbell surely had a great future planned out for her. She would become a professional photographer, and spend her days traveling to take more pictures. But, in one of her trips to Paris, France, she meets in her luxury hotel a room service worker, that is handsome, charming, and a great guy that caught Ianna's...

Silver Lining (Completed)

Love your curves and all your edges All your imperfect perfections Give your all to me I give my all to you You're my end and my beginning Even when I lose I'm winning -John Legend Natasha is in search of stability. With everything falling apart around her and friends stabbing her in the back one after the other. Just...

SLEAZE: A Hollywood Comeback Story (Book #1)

** A 2015 Wattpad-Featured Novel ** Parker Jennings moved to Los Angeles with only one goal: fulfilling his dream of becoming a director. When he finds his junior year of college unexpectedly derailed, Parker takes an internship at a talent agency, hoping to get his foot in the door with the industry's elite. It isn'...

The Legacy {Unedited}

Sophie Burns, a body power, and Christian Silber, a mind power, are the heirs of two very powerful families. They have money, influence, connections, but most importantly, they have unique abilities. When they reach the age of eighteen and acquire full control of their abilities they must follow the family tradition...