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Hogwarts meet Maxton Hall-but Hermione isn't the good girl... and Draco is the only one who notices. *a dark academia mystery with Dramoine vibes*Fifteen-year-old Mallory Foxglove was not always made of sharp edges and quiet hunger. Once, she was soft and kind. But the night her parents died tore something open inside her. Now, with her thirteen-year-old sister in tow and nowhere left to run, Mallory arrives at Trestlewood Academy, an elite boarding school set in the heart of an ancient forest.From the moment she steps onto its grounds, she knows something dark and haunted lives here. And that she needs to stay away from the cold, arrogant Cillian Dreadmoor. He plays the perfect student... that is until Melody finds him in the woods, soaked in blood, a body at his feet.Soon Melody and Cillian are swept into a mystery someone has spent centuries burying. A mystery that will force them to descend into the deepest shadows of the forest... and of each other.DRACON HALL is an ongoing serialized romantasy featuring a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance with Hermoine/Draco vibes, set in a Maxton Hall-like elite boarding school filled with secrets.New episodes every Wednesday.…

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Ara, the only woman left alive after a plague, is searching for a way to save humanity. She thinks there isn't a man she can trust, until she meets Kaden. ***** A plague has swept over the Earth, killing the majority of the population and every female. Except one. Ara witnessed the horror and destruction, but for the last three years she has survived. Now, desperation and hunger force her out of the mountains and onto a dangerous path; across the flooded downtown and through the gangs of survivors is hope. Ara's father spoke of a clue that could save not just her, but humanity. Then she is captured by a group of men. Despite the seeming kindness of Kaden, a young man her own age, Ara doesn't know if she can trust them. Then again, there's no way she can cross the plague-ridden city on her own. Men. Monsters. Is there a difference? This is the story of The Last She.(This book contains all of The Last She Series - Book 1: The Last She, Book 2: The Last City and Book 3: The Last Creation)[[word count: 250,000-300,000 words]]…

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WATTPAD BOOKS EDITION"Ara . . . I made a mistake, we all did . . . go back to the beginning . . . it's not too late."As the only female to survive the devastating virus, Ara hasn't seen another human in months-not since her father disappeared. The plague has swept away humanity, and Ara's world is desolate, haunted by the ghosts of her former life. Her mother. Her sister. Kaden and his crew live by a code: stay alert, stay alive. When they catch Ara stealing from them, they are furious-and confused. She is the first girl they have seen in three years. And while Kaden knows taking her captive is wrong, he tells himself he's doing it to protect her.But with Ara determined to follow through on her father's mission-Go back to the beginning. End the plague-Kaden becomes mesmerized by Ara's will and beauty. He knows he will do anything to help her, even if it tears their worlds apart.…

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Three swoony romances. One legendary missing skeleton.In the quirky town of Autumnvale, nothing kicks off fall quite like The Missing Skeleton Festival-a celebration of the mysterious disappearance (and reappearance) of the town founder's skeleton sixty years ago. This year, best friends Harper, Leah, and Camila are volunteering (mostly for the cute boys), when the impossible happens: the real skeleton disappears. Again.Each girl is determined to uncover a different piece of the mystery:❤️ Harper, daughter of the local graveyard caretakers, thinks the whole legend is just a hoax-until she sees the ghost of a boy who died the same year the skeleton first vanished. ❤️ Leah, the sheriff's daughter, is tired of being seen as just a sidekick. She wants answers-and she's convinced the new guy in town, Skylar (brooding, suspicious, annoyingly cute), knows more than he's letting on.❤️ Camila, the founder's great-granddaughter, needs to save the festival and her maybe-relationship with Atlas-Harper's older brother-who kissed her last week then ghosted her.Gilmore Girls meets Hocus Pocus in this cozy fall mystery with friendship, first love and one skeleton that just won't rest in peace.…

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A segregated spaceship is bound for a new world, but to uncover the dark secrets hiding aboard, 16-year-old Z must team up with a handsome stranger and compete in a series of deadly trials. *FREE**16-year-old Z isn't broken. Not really. When a machine tore her arm from her body, she rebuilt the missing flesh into something stronger: an arm of steel and circuits. When the Top reduced rations, Z combed through discarded trash and swollen bodies, making do with the scraps the Top didn't want. That's life in the Beast: a space ark carrying the remains of Old Earth survivors to New Earth. The Top live in extravagance, the Bottom barely survives, and the two never mix.Until the day Z finds a dying woman thrown in the trash, who begs Z to return her necklace, and the dark secret it holds, to the Top. Z has no intention of returning it, but when Z's past crimes earn her a place in The Letter Trials-a series of dangerous games where winning means moving up and losing means death before a cheering crowd-the necklace becomes her one hope to change things.But right from the start things go wrong. Z saves Dagger, a handsome stranger with a dark past. If she wants to unearth the secrets of the necklace and survive the trials, she'll have to work with Dagger--even if everything she knows has taught her to rely on no one. The further they rise, the darker the secrets of the necklace become, until Z realizes if she wants to change anything, she'll have to become as broken and ugly as the world she's trying to save.…

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The Last City is now published as a Hardcover, and E-book with W by Wattpad Books!As a Wattpad reader, you can access the Wattpad Books Published Edition here upon purchase. *****The highly anticipated sequel to The Last She, which Goodreads has included in its Most Anticipated Young Adult Novels of December 2021AraIs desperate to reunite with her father and put the events that happened in Boise behind her. Ara hopes to find sanctuary in The Last City, an almost-mythical place where the plague is non-existent and she can finally discover the truth about her family. Only once she arrives, the truth is stranger than fiction and Ara wonders if she's made a huge mistake . . . KadenWill go anywhere and will do anything for Ara.. But he's tested to his limits in The Last City, where he is forced to join a dangerous expedition. Kaden soon finds himself separated from Ara and once again on the run for his life. Barely escaping alive, he needs to risk it all again to find Ara in The Last City . . . SamIs left for dead but very much alive. In fact, he's rigged an electrical system and blasts some music, feeling almost normal for the first time since almost losing his life. He doesn't know where Kaden and Ara are, and when he meets a mysterious girl named E, they embark on an adventure that will bring all of their lives clashing together . . . All three must uncover the secrets of The Last City if they have any hope of getting out of this apocalypse alive. Set immediately after the events of The Last She, H.J. Nelson's The Last City is a gripping story of three people desperate to survive against all odds, and love is sometimes all that matters.Available in Hardcover and E-book.…

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The girl in the ratty dress was ruining his birthday party, and Evander had already decided that nothing⁠-not the dank smell of the underground, not the glass skylight that showed a tempting but unreachable summer day, not the jealous looks his so-called friends threw him⁠-was going to ruin this day....A short story about a boy, a girl, and a wooden bird, all set in a futuristic dystopian world.…

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Got fantastical, magical or apocalyptic love problems?Send em into LOVE IN THE TIME OF and we'll solve em!This week we'll be talking with George, a pacifist who thinks Zombies deserve kindness as much as any other, who's head over heels in love with Hadley, a gun-slinging, whiskey-drinking, tank-driving, Zombie killing machine. The problem is, Hadley blows up every attempt George makes to show his love, and has a tendency to kill George's zombie friends. Can peace-loving George win over straight-talking (and shooting) Hadley? Join us this week on Love in the Time Of, as we help solve the fantastical, magical or apocalyptic love scenarios and prove that anyone can find love, no matter the obstacle! Unlike other love shows, where couples face boring, everyday, talk-it-out-you'll-figure-it-out scenarios, Love In the Time of the Apocalypse, specializes in solving untraditional love scenarios. Whoever you are, wherever you are, and whatever you are, here on Love in the Time of the Apocalypse, YOU send us your most magical, most fantastical, most apocalyptic love problems, and we find a way to solve 'em. Remember, Love in the Time of the Apocalypse has got you, no problem.…

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A Beast stalks the night... but Beauty hunts him. A reimagining of the story you thought you knew.Rell grew up hearing stories of the Human Realm, a fantastic world with light at the flick of a finger, metal boxes that fly through the sky; a fantastic, faraway fairytale that she knows is too good to be true. Because Rell lives in the Dark Realm: a world full of magical creatures and a low-hanging sky, all protected by The Blood Rose. Until the day the Blood Rose is stolen away and taken to the Human Realm. Without it, the two realms will meet with disastrous consequences, the human sun bleaching all the magic from the Dark Realm. And so Rell leaves everything she knows to bring it back. There's only one problem: the Human Realm- especially high school- is nothing like the stories. There's some sort of code with words like "twerking" and "Instagram" she can't understand, and then there's Bastien, the boy who hates Rell for reasons she can't explain. But when Rell realizes Bastien is keeping just as many secrets as she is, the two become an unlikely team in the search for the Blood Rose. Time is ticking, and more than just The Dark Realm is at stake. Whoever stole the rose is now cursed to turn into a Beast every full moon, and is hidden among them. Students are going missing, and dark creatures are slipping into the Human Realm. Rell needs to find the Blood Rose, slay the Beast, survive high school, and sort out these new, confusing feelings for Bastien--all before the night of the full moon. To fail could mean the end of The Dark Realm and every magical creature within, but to succeed means she'll lose the boy she's falling for, and a Realm more beautiful than she ever imagined. A modern-day reimaging of Beauty and the Beast.…

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Looking for tips and tricks to become successful on Wattpad? Look no further! I've had so many people write to me and ask for tips that I decided to compile them here for you all. Hope this helps.Note: I had this published on Wattpad before, and I must have accidentally deleted it, so I decided to publish it again ;)…

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Man: "Humans would be nothing without the horse; majestic, inspiring, carrying us to new lands while capturing our hearts." RED: "Stupid two-leg need to learn to walk by itself."The name's Red. I've long since learned to roll my eyes, snort, and wonder if the Two-legs lost their brain along with their other two legs. But the day my two-leg saddled me up, and we left our home forever, I had no idea the adventures my two-leg and I would have together.... and if maybe they aren't quite as stupid as they look. The story of the 4-legged hero from The Last She.(By popular (and very silly) demand, here is the story told from the perspective of Red the horse, one of the most loved characters from THE LAST SHE. You don't have to have read The Last She to understand it, just need a love for humor or horses! Hope you guys enjoy! -Hannah)Highest Ranking- #1 in Foal -Photo by Natasha Bhogal on Unsplash -…

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Jack and Tommy wander through a dark Zoo, searching for a monster.Highest Ranking #269 in Horror…

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There was once four frogs who lived in a small pond, deep in the forest. The first three frogs were large and happy, but not the fourth frog. Todd was rather petite, usually squeaked when he croaked, and desired nothing more than to be a true hero. Which is why the day a golden ball bounced through the ferns and came crashing into their own murky pond, Todd thought he might finally have his chance. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Cover art by @StrangerSight…

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A short fairy-tale about a prince who discovers marriage to a princess isn't his happily ever after, and a frog who offers him a very different alternative. This story is also written with a very specific limitation to all the sentences- can you find it?-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Cover design by @randomthingsbyme…