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"What is love in this temporal life, if not just a distraction from the pain that doesn't seem to end."After losing his best friend to an unexplained suicide, Mateu finds himself left to pick up the pieces with his best friend's younger brother, Ferran. Demure, distant and with a seemingly undying love for the memory of his brother, Ferran fascinates the abrasive Mateu who is relentless in his own search for answers. But uncovering the truth requires the uncomfortable task of facing it for what it is. Only a thin line separates devotion from obsession, dedication from delusion, and passion from mania.Mateu has to choose between coming to terms with the past or be swallowed by it whole.***Editor's Choice August 2022 @wattpad…

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Alex Sawyer never thought much of it when he was approached to 'keep an eye out' for Isaac Anderson. Well, sure he had his reservations about that boy -the loud, obnoxious kid from the football team- but he never expected himself to be dragged onto a journey uncovering dark secrets and heinous crimes that were never meant to see the light of day. In picture perfect Bethlehem, image was all that mattered. And people were willing to do just about anything to keep their smiling facades spotless.…

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1892. CONSTANTINOPLE.Murad never knew what to expect at weddings, especially not his own. He'd never even met the bride, much less know her family. Brought up in a religious household, Murad had always tried to be good and obedient. Obedient to what was expected of him. Obedient to the tight, carefully-placed rules governed by the word of God. But when an unexpected guest comes to the wedding uninvited, the fragile facade Murad had painstakingly built collapses overnight.Iskender never liked the restrictive unspoken rules of the religious elite. So much so that he retreated to his estate in Nicomedia while his family all forgets about him for the most part. Far from his family's attention he hosts parties - complete with wine, women and other forms of western debauchery. Modern and outward-looking, Iskender thinks himself better than conservative society. But a kind, unsure smile was all it took for him to rethink his prejudice.Constantinople lay on a fault line - the crossroads of the world, where east meets west and old meets new. The house of cards in the very center of a dying empire, where the slightest of tremors would bring everything crumbling down.And nothing beautiful ever lasts.…

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The living are going to die, and the dead were to remain dead: that was the truth Jason Rosendale had always known. He never expected that one day the dead would rise up again -yet again, no one did. In the land between life and death, surviving -not living- became the top priority. With his father dead, and the unstable young man who killed him showing up again, Jason is constantly kept on his toes. He had to; he knows he has to stay strong for his little sister. Trying to stay sane, he slowly began to accept his reality. He began to understand the dull, moribund world around him: embracing death and all its wonders. Highest ranking #2 #zombieoutbreak 8th August 2018…

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When Persephone Chang realised her high school sweetheart wasn't really into her, or women in general, she never felt more humiliated and ashamed in her life. But supposedly time heals things, and people change. So when she runs into Craig Lieberman again in college -the very person she tries to avoid- she's forced to confront her own feelings just to help someone who admittedly still means a lot to her. After all, he asked her ever so nicely. And maybe -just maybe, this was life giving her a second chance?…