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**For the Open Novella Contest 2025!**"If he could learn to love another and earn their love in return, the spell would be broken...for who could ever learn to love a beast?"When she receives a cryptic but urgent text message from her father, Isla Lamborne returns to her childhood home in Long Island to find her family in crisis: the family business is failing, her mother is suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's, and her father's normally lighthearted approach to life is threatening to crack under the strain.Several years ago, Ned Dunfee was rendered paralyzed from the waist down in a motorcycle accident that he barely survived. Given up on the prospect of ever having a normal life again, all while hiding his past under a lie, the last thing he expects is the bookish, smart-mouthed girl that comes crashing into it, quite literally.After a literal run-in at the family bookstore, at first Isla and Ned can't stand the sight of each other. She thinks he's grumpy and rude; he thinks she's clumsy and irritating. But one rainy night, when she finds Ned stranded on the side of the road, the sparks undeniably start flying. And they both realize that a second chance at life-together-is within their grasps. Finally.(Using ONC prompts 120, 134, and 135, with 120 being the main plot arc.)…

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(💢)**Book III of the Elemental Chronicles**There is no escape this time. After years of uneasy peace, war has once again erupted across countries. For the Elementals, it is more dangerous than ever. Friedrich von Wittenberg's mission to continue Benedict Huntley's work intensifies in the heat of war-and this time he is determined to succeed. The Elemental families are scattered by the war, making them easy targets. History threatens to repeat itself. The only thing that seems to be holding the enemy at bay is their own courage and determination. But the ghost of Benedict Huntley and his endgame are once again revived, and are closing in. And this time around, he may just crush them.…

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(✔️)**Book II, read Book I (Bring Forth a Fire) to avoid spoilers**Benedict Huntley's reign has ended. The Essence Machine is no more. And the Elemental families have flourished. It appears all is well.But with a single telegram, lives are upended and the quiet of the years since Huntley's fall is once again disrupted. The Elementals are suddenly thrust into a world of danger once again. None too surprisingly, Peter and Charlotte Haywood, children of Emma Haywood and Christopher Wellington, find themselves caught up in the whirlwind. And so too, it seems, is the reclusive Duke of Tonbridge...who hides secrets of his own.And soon enough, the promise of a war is brewing on the horizon, one that will not only pull the Elementals into, but the rest of the world. The changes it brings are unfathomable.…

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(✔️)**Prequel to the Elemental Chronicles, can be read as standalone**"Driven from his ancestral streams,By the might of evil dreams..."Captain Thomas Haywood, heir apparent to the Earldom of Dorchester, has returned from the American War of Independence to find his parents dying, his estate in ruins, and the terrible news that his younger brother Francis has taken his own life. Things are bleak and lean in the years following Tom's return, and it seems they will only get worse.That is, until a stranger turns up on his doorstep one rainy, windswept evening. The girl, Emmeline, is injured and traumatised, covered with burns and lacerations, refusing to say more than a word about their cause. Tom gives her shelter without questioning, until events no longer permit them to live together without the civil union of marriage. And so begins their tale.Tom soon discovers Emmeline is the victim of a larger scheme: harvesting Essence, the mysterious and often misunderstood force that makes their kind, the Elementals, who they are. Facing opposition in tracking down the perpetrators and obstacles in creating what is later to become the Order of Advanced Elementals, Tom, Emmeline, and the Elementals of London will face a threat beyond their imagining, one only found in their nightmares.…

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**The two-part prequel to the "Super Jerk" Trilogy**Red Alert [✔️]: Geoff Cromwell and Raina Hardy are from two different worlds - he the heir to his father's company and fortune in upstate New York and hiding his super identity, she from a small midwestern town and hiding a troubled, dark past. And yet they are drawn together by an inexplicable attraction. Geoff knows it's dangerous, his being the Red Knight and all, but somehow he can't help himself. But he's not the only one with his eye on Raina. No one would suspect that Ridley Green, a skinny kid with glasses as big as Clark Kent's, has a scheme up his sleeve and nothing will stop him.***Red Notice [✔️]: Geoff and Raina have made it through the events that nearly tore them apart to form a much stronger union: they have been married for a handful of years, their daughter Ninette is thriving, and they welcome a newborn baby Cameron - "Cam". But things don't stay that way for long with the reappearance of Ridley Green, now more power-hungry than before. He plans to make a bid for the mayor's office of New York City, and once again Geoff and Raina are swept up in his crooked plans. And this time, no one can escape it untouched.**More detailed summaries inside...****Updates: Honestly, when I remember while the school year is on...**…

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(✔️) Langdon Wilkes is a reluctant - and somewhat bumbling - hunter. But because his father is the headmaster of the Institute of Paranormal Study and Prevention, just as every Wilkes before him, he hardly has a choice. That is, until he runs into, and keeps running into, Wells Hudson and his sister, Naomi. And following a near-death experience involving a vampire, Langdon can't help but be curious about Wells. Even if he clearly resents him.Wells Hudson is a hunter by circumstance. As the older sibling, and with their father driven raving mad by ghost possession, the responsibility has fallen to him to keep the Hudson family business running while protecting Naomi. And the encounter with Langdon Wilkes doesn't help matters. After all, the hunters like him are the ones that put hunters like Wells out of business. Which means he can't constantly be pulling him out of near-misses.But when Langdon's best friend is captured by vampires and Wells discovers a plot devised by the Institute headmaster himself to control creatures through a strange and obscure blood magic, things get complicated. Especially when both boys discover their feelings for each other growing. And they discover the thrill of the chase.Give this a try if you liked:The Infernal Devices trilogy - Cassandra ClareThe Montague Siblings trilogy - Mackenzi LeeThe Lockwood & Co. series - Jonathan StroudThe Heartstopper series - Alice OsemanSimon Snow series - Rainbow Rowell**Updates: Fridays and the occasional Tuesday**…

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(✔️)**Book 1 of the Elemental Chronicles**One secret can change a life.After the untimely death of her father in a mysterious fire, sixteen-year-old Emma Haywood finds herself sent off to the remote Allerton-which is, as far as her grandmother is concerned, the finest finishing school for young ladies and her alma mater. Still reeling from his loss and bewildered by the harsh unfriendliness of the other girls, Emma has no idea who she really is. She is a girl with a past shrouded in secrecy.Yet it does not stay that way for long. Emma is soon pulled into the world of the Elementals, a race of humans with the power to harness the four elements-and discovers she is one herself. However, she is a rare Fire-Elemental, and what makes her different puts her life in danger. And behind all of it is Benedict Huntley, a man who holds the key to her past and the greatest threat the Elementals have ever faced.…

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**Now 3 books in 1!***Super Jerk (✔️): Sarah Campbell moves from her hometown to St. Louis, where she meets Blue Bolt, the town's flagship super and stumbles on a whole world that's straight out of the comic books.*Un-Super (✔️): The saga continues. Our supers and non-supers alike are starting their freshman year of college, but find out a few nasty surprises along the way that will end with a battle for their very survival.*Double Super (✔️): In the final chapter, the villains are more villainous than ever and multiplying. The threat is worsening. And our supers must find a way to rid the world of the most evil of them all, or face the destruction of everything they hold dear.**More detailed summaries inside....**…