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Sell-out stadium shows, private jets, adoring fans. Award-winning rappers enjoy life. Not newbie rapper Kit Marlowe. With a few minor awards under his belt, all Kit has ever wanted is to make music, but his synesthesia -- the ability to see sounds -- confines him to his grandmother's annex apartment and to his small circle of trusted musical friends. When the boss of Kit's record label dies in mysterious circumstances, Kit plunges deep into Maria City's sprawling gang underworld to uncover the truth behind his death, but both his sleuthing and his fledgling music career are threatened by Mack, cantankerous drummer for the world's biggest metal band, and Kit's bitterest musical rival. Inked, pierced and too uncouth for Kit's sensitivities, Mack clashes head-to-head with him for the title of Best Band at the world-famous ARIA Music Awards, until Kit realizes that Mack has a profound and beautiful effect on his synesthesia. As the killer takes another victim, Kit finds himself struggling to separate his music life from his personal life as he and Mack become entangled with the murder case, and with each other.12 June: Changed this to MATURE because this book now has a content warning: contains depictions of sexual intercourse. Chapters with this content are marked with 🌶️ .…

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**WATTYS 2025 HONOURABLE MENTION** Cas and Vish are best friends whose feelings run deep. Whilst Cas is clever, sporty, and on the brink of a bright future at university, Vish has no such prospects. A painfully shy artist, Vish's horizons end at his daily routine of pills, sensory issues and panicking parents. When they celebrate what could be their final summer together by painting wildlife and swimming at a secret wooded wetland hidden in the Fens, the lads awaken something ancient and sinister lurking in the water. A voice in Vish's head -- Charlie -- tempts him to spend longer and longer in the woods. When villagers begin to disappear and Vish becomes increasingly secretive and distant, Cas is convinced that Charlie intends to claim Vish, body and soul. Lies, heartbreak and obsession push their friendship to breaking point, but nothing will stop Cas from protecting Vish from Charlie's onslaught, not even a fight to the death.---This book started life as an ONC 2025 prompt:105. Your childhood imaginary friend who disappeared years ago returns - only this time they're real.…

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**AMBYS 2024 WINNER** The Alliance's top galactic terraformer, Pelin Demir, uses state-of-the-art biotech to transform barren rocky planets into lush habitable ecosystems. Seeking escape from a dying Earth and a tragic past, Pelin has devoted a decade to serving the Alliance in the seemingly endless galactic turf war between post-Earth humans and powerful warrior lifeforms, the Karinja.Pelin's life of quiet order is thrown into chaos when her Alliance leaders inexplicably force her to train Midori, a surly rookie navigator. When a terraforming mission spirals into a catastrophic Karinja ambush, Pelin discovers the dazzling secret that Midori, and the generals of the Alliance, are desperate to keep hidden. Forced to navigate deep space, draconian Alliance protocols, and her own turbulent past, Pelin charts a galactic course to protect Midori at all costs from the Karinja assassins hunting her, and from the sinister Alliance generals aiming to use her as a weapon of war. Yet Pelin can't seem to protect herself from her growing feelings towards her abrasive protégé. As the conflict for galactic control reaches a climax, Pelin struggles to keep Midori, and her own heart, safe.🥇AMBYS 2024 WINNER - SCIENCE FICTION🥇First Place, Katana Awards 2023, Science Fiction🥇First Place, Lovely Valentine Awards 2023, Science Fiction🥇First Place, Gloria Regali Awards 2023, Science Fiction🥇First Place, Jamboard Awards 2022, Science Fiction🥇First Place, Hearts Awards 2022, Science Fiction🥈 Second Place, Aster Awards 2022, Science Fiction🥇First Place, Star Awards 2022, Science Fiction🥇First Place, Misfit Awards 2022, Science FictionCover designed using original artwork by the amazingly talented @kgraves - check out their profile for incredible fantasy books and gorgeous art!…

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**AMBYS 2024 WINNER** Get out of jail, get yet another crappy criminal henchman job, get his hotshot lawyer ex-girlfriend back. Oh yeah -- and get a murderous demon exorcised from his head. Jason Torres has his route back from rock-bottom perfectly planned out, right? That is, until he gets catapulted head-first into a police investigation into his ex-employers, the mysterious and deadly Saudi criminal organization, Alcor.The police think they've hit the jackpot by exploiting criminal trash like Jason to take down Alcor, except Jason has conveniently forgotten to mention a few details: his innate ability to attract chaos, his unfortunate possession by a bloodthirsty demon, and the fact that he's falling in love with his handsome new police partner, Dante Russo. And of course, there's Jason's biggest deadliest omission. His relationship with Alcor's sadistic boss is more than strictly professional, and she doesn't like sharing.🥇 AMBYS 2024 WINNER - ACTION🥇 First Place Winner, Katana Awards 2023, Action🥇First Place Winner, Valentine Awards 2023, Action🥇First Place Winner, Clouded Ink Awards 2022, Action🥈 Second Place Winner, Aster Awards 2022, Action🥇 First Place Winner, Hearts Awards 2022, Action…

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**ONC SHORTLIST 2024** Heems is an energy vampire draining victims' energy with a single touch. That is until xe meets handsome thief Shiro, the only person immune to Heems's parasitism. ----Heems is an energy vampire working as a doctor on Eris, an off-world mining colony. Guilt-ridden about draining the energy of Eris's sickly hospital patients and destitute workers to survive, Heems flees the city to search for a cure for xyr rare parasitic condition. Seeking shelter from a storm xe attempts to feed on a handsome vagrant, Shiro, and is shocked to find that Shiro is inexplicably immune to Heems's vampirism. Utterly smitten, and galvanised by the hope of finding a cure, Heems is lured by Shiro into a world of desire, obsession and criminality that reveals the darkest secrets of Eris's society and sets the pair on a collision course with the shadowy biotech company that dominates the mining colony. When Shiro is hunted by the colony's brutal law enforcement at the behest of corporate overlords, Heems realises that the only way to save Shiro is to become as parasitic as xe can be.☉ LGBT+ romance (non-binary main character in a non-cisheteronormative future)☉ Cyberpunk! ☉ Energy vampirismCONTENT WARNING: This book is rated mature. It contains potentially triggering topics such as extreme hunger, chronic debilitating illness, suicide ideation, drug misuse, sexual intercourse while under the influence of recreational and medicinal drugs.Cover designed by the amazing @mygoodbones - check out their profile for incredible queer books and gorgeous original artwork! ~~☉~~☆ No sci fi knowledge is needed to understand this story. Basically Eris is cold, has no atmosphere (literally and figuratively), and everyone's broke.…

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**AMBYS 2022 WINNER** He'll never play piano again. That's what virtuoso pianist Zephyr has vowed to himself after escaping Sigma, the sprawling criminal organization that once held him--and still holds his friends--captive in California's mega-city capital, María. After being forced to entertain Sigma's clients with more intimate services than just music, Zephyr is determined to use his knowledge of the labyrinthine plots and power struggles between Sigma's gang members to save his trapped friends and find his family, who are mysteriously untraceable by South Korean authorities. But Zephyr's vow to abandon piano is tested by his uneasy alliance with Will, the timid stranger who whisked Zephyr out of Sigma's clutches under cover of a mysterious fire. Will's secretive nature can't hide tantalizing hints of his deep connection to music, nor can Will hide the tangled web of his dark past. In a race against time to prevent his family and friends from becoming Sigma's latest targets, Zephyr must discover if Will's true goal is to help him, or to lure him deeper into peril, as they spiral inexorably together. 🥇Winner, Wattpad Amby Awards 2022, New Adult category🥇Grand Winner, Wattpad Pride 2022🥇Winner, Wattpad Pride 2022, New Adult category…