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Some bonds are chosen. Others are carved into your soul. Vivienne didn't believe in vampires until she started to suspect her prince might be one. Which will she sacrifice - humanity or love? ***** Vivienne lives in a world where girls are chosen to become consorts of royalty, aristocrats and the filthy rich. When she catches the eye of a mysterious prince, she begins to suspect that the elite members of society aren't quite human. Her childhood friend, Blake, warned her about vampires before he died under suspicious circumstances - but now she might be bonded to one of the most powerful undead. Who can she trust? And more importantly - can she stop herself from falling in love? [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] Cover designed by Anastasia Wright

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How would you feel if your crush turned out to be the new boy? Exciting... until excitement starts asking for more than it should. Against all odds, you become close. Too close. Best friends. Confidants. A comfort that feels harmless-until it isn't. Because there are things about him you don't know. Lines he's already crossed. Choices that will cost you pieces of yourself you didn't plan to give away. Temptations follows Ameerah and Adam through teenage closeness that feels beautiful at first-then heavy, then painful. Because falling isn't always love. Sometimes, it's the test you fail before you understand why the rules existed.

[Mirror Me Series Book 1] Hope Martinez was taught to fear her reflection, but the magical world on the other side is too tempting. Descended from those who can use mirrors as weapons, Hope has many dangers to face if she wants to get home before an ancestral curse destroys everything she loves. _________________________________________________ After a frightening incident leaves her family shaken, Hope Martinez promises her mother to never look at a mirror again. Three years later, Hope stands between two worlds - the world of her mother, a contrived and constricted set of rules ignoring their family's Hispanic heritage and abolishing all things reflective from the home, and the world of her abuelita, which is said to contain a mysterious power that members of the family are fated to discover. When high school bullying and peer pressure start pushing Hope's limits, she finds no other choice but to gain normalcy and break her mother's promise. She soon discovers a hidden magical world beyond her reflection, one filled with strange beasts, enchanted cities, and flying walnuts. Why would such a wonderful place be kept from her? The reason - Hope's family has a terrible destiny waiting to be unleashed. Young Adult ■ Fantasy ■ Sci-Fi [COMPLETED] AWARDS: -First Place in Teen Fiction category for Chaos Awards 6 -First Place in Fantasy category for Ohana Awards 4 Copyright © by Jules Haigler No parts of this manuscript including black and white illustrations or content may be distributed, copied, or sold on any media without permission of the author. All names, places, and themes are a work of fiction.

Some people run toward new beginnings. Livie Dune is just running away. After a public breakdown and the kind of mistake small towns never let you forget, she transfers schools halfway through junior year. No friends, no attention, no second chances. Just get through the semester, disappear quietly, and maybe, finally, stop hurting. Milo Westbrooke was once untouchable--until an injury ended his future and an addiction nearly ended everything else. Now he's back from rehab, clean but not exactly clear, dragging a reputation he can't seem to shake. Everyone's just waiting for the relapse. Neither Livie nor Milo signed up for the school's peer wellness group, but skipping it isn't an option. So they make a pact: no deep talks and no saving each other. Just late-night drives, too-honest dares, and moments that almost feel like being okay. But the more they let their guards down, the more their pasts start to bleed through--and the harder it becomes to pretend they're not falling. Because broken people aren't always better apart. Sometimes, they're the only ones who get each other.

Ever try dismantling a country-wide mob? Kolli Matthews was born into the mob life. Then sold to a different mob at 15. Now, she is the girlfriend of the mob boss. After participating in a bank robbery that resulted in the death of a young woman, Kolli realizes she needs to get away. With the help of the only survivor of the bank, Jason Reed, Kolli sets out to dismantle her boyfriend's country-wide mob. Or does she? Cover by @EverWho

For more than half their lives, five boys and one girl have been excluded from the rest of society, only known as the members Project Overtime. In a desire to experiment, The Professor took in orphan children and equipped them with technological replacements for various limbs and organs, hoping to perfect what could be the peak of the human species for fighting crime. Having been perfected for thirteen years, the final stage of their experiment has arrived: their implementation. If the six are able to merge with normal human life, all while demonstrating how successful and operational their abilities are, their experiment will be deemed a success and thus will make The Professor millions. What better way to test the exposure to normal life than by being throw into the most criminally charged high school in the district: the ultimate test of their loyalty and capability. Merging with the outside world has proven to be difficult after years of captivity, but The Overtimers refuse to let the mission of their lives be deemed a failure. After all, they're always working overtime if they've never been off the clock. ✦ rankings ✦ #32 in youngadultreads #171 in science #928 in action - competed ✧ july 23, 2018

~Highest Ranking - #3 in Humour~ Angela, just a 17 year old with some quite quirky ways. She rocks the geek gang but is just as much awkward with guys. Besides that Angela is just an average and normal girl. So when the teenage dramas come at her like a storm, you'd think she'd handle them in a normal way, right? Let's not forget though that even though she's normal, she's quite unique in her own way. So she handles them Angelic style. She faces everything from falling in love to immense betrayals. Warning: You may find yourself relating to Angela. Or maybe not.

Taylor's father disappears one day and she takes it upon herself to find him and in the process, she loses almost everything that she had. *** When Taylor's life turns topsy-turvy, upside-down, and backwards, she's in desperate need of getting everything back in order. Taylor Blakely lost everything including her precious spot on the cheer team and her 'loving' boyfriend. She was harshly thrust into the inconvenience of her father's sudden disappearance with nothing but a stupid note on the fridge and no money to survive with her mother. Taylor makes it her goal to find out why her father had disappeared into oblivion. And in doing so, she learns that things- and people, are never as they seem. Now a woman that has never worked a day in her life must learn to be a mother. And a girl that has been thriving in privilege must learn what it's like to live with the bare minimum. Updates every other Friday.

A girl on the hunt to feel again, no matter how much blood she has to shed. But can she do so without falling for the beautiful, dark angel, Ruben, that fate has ultimately tied her to? It all comes down to a choice: happiness or love? Bethany can't have both. The Watcher made sure of that.

❝Hello, I'm calling on behalf of the Anonymous Therapist Program at Moreland Preparatory Academy.❞ ❝You just don't get a hint, do you? I really don't want to talk to you.❞ ❝Gosh, lady, what crawled up your ass? Do you honestly think that I want to spend my Friday night talking to you?❞ ❝Well, you're the one that called me.❞ ❝This is true.❞ ❝So goodbye, for the last time.❞ ••• A short story that alternates between conversations and narrative writing. Extended summary inside.

Phoebe Pierce is a tantalizing, yet stuck up high school mean girl who always gets what she wants...including Jamie White, the infamous bad boy of H.L. Arnold High School. She gets more than she bargains for when her seemingly perfect relationship with Jamie is rocked by his scandalous affair with Elf, who knows nothing about Phoebe. Devastated and vengeful because of Jamie's toxic behavior, Phoebe forms an unlikely alliance with Elf to avenge themselves and destroy the persona that Jamie has so strategically constructed. With her reputation and thirst for revenge on the line, will Phoebe Pierce continue to get what she wants or will her plan backfire tainting her own image as the untouchable Queen Bee? ~~~ If you need a cover for your story I recommend going to either @harrystylesmanip - who made the front cover - or to @goingtocamphalfblood who made the cover that's on the Prologue ;D

Hazel Claire is a cute girl with dreams and passions. She's got a creative mind and artistic fingers. She keeps on dreaming and is not much into reality. Until her reality mixes with her fantasies and forces her to think that maybe she's living her dream for real. Roxen Dale is a high school badboy who's enrolled late in the semester. His mysteriously enchanting grey eyes hold back a cruel secret. People say he has a heart of stone. Until he meets an angel who melts his heart. A journey of a boy from rough life to true love. A tale of a girl longing to turn her dreams into realities. Fate's got them together. Will he ever be able to reveal his identity to her? Will she ever know that he loves her beyond life? This tale is all about love, passion, belonging, dreams, imaginations, fantasies, emotions, mystery, depth, heartaches, tears and laughter. So if you are the emotional type and are too much into dreams and imaginations, you're in! :) For the love of my life. ♥

One-Way Mirror is a story about a teenager struggling with depression and is trying to cope with life. Every morning he has to wake up and put on a mask to present himself to the world as being "normal", even though, despite everything he does, he does not feel that way. He has never felt that way. He has always felt alone. He has always felt invisible. He has always felt like he does not fit in anywhere, he feels like an outsider.. Just looking through the window, watching everyone else be happy. He is able to see them, but, they cannot see him...

Also known as 'Teen Wags' Wags stands for Wives and Girlfriends of Sport Stars. Of course there are no wives in high in school but then that's just the term. These Wags are group of high school teenage girls dating hot popular sports star players in their school otherwise jocks. They are rich kids attending expensive elite prep schools, wearing designer shoes, and driving Porsche cars. There are the cute girlfriends, the manipulative fiancee (family engagement), the supposed baby mama and of course the side hoes. There are fights, lots of drama, boyfriends for boyfriends, Gucci handbags for Chanel shoes......but first let me tell you what it is to be a WAG in Lancastine prep school. 'Your selfie game must be lit, Being a Wag is grace and grit, From head to toe, you are fleek and fit, You must be mean and be a queen. Sexy shoes, designer trends, In a room you have to turn those heads...... And well of course, there's always the hot bad boy.... The star player with no girlfriend...... It's all about making the readers fall in love with the mean girls.. Cover credit: @happilylonely-

"I can never love and I won't even try to love. Cause once you have experienced the pain of it, you automatically shut it down, despise it" Fire has different colors and emotions have different sides. Felicia Francis. A 23 year old Beautiful, smart and woman every man wants for a wife, lives a simple life with her parents, in their simple home. When her father's debts begin coming in, the only way for her family to pay, without losing much of what they have left, is to marry their daughter to the CEO's son. Alexander stills. Cold, ruthless, cunning and uncaring and despises the word "love." that's Alexander Stills. The man of every girls dream. After getting into an arranged marriage with the billionaire bachelor, she learns things about him aren't as they seem, and there always seems to be a climax in his personality. But what more is, the man she is going to spend the rest of her life with, has got major anger issues, and a past that turns him away from romance and love. What makes Alexander so angry? And what's more us, will she be able to change the twisted man's fate? And make him love once again? ©RamataMaguiraga 2016. Copyright All Rights Reserved. (Warning⚠: there will be violence, traumatic reminders, and a few grammatical errors. This book under no circumstances can be copied, both the title and content in the book belong to me, the writer, alone. Plagiarism will be reported.) #projectcharacter #youngadultreads #projectwomanup

After a disaster strikes the earth, teenagers are all that survive. But they develop strange and dangerous abilities that brand them as monsters. They're nicknamed the Freaks. Luca's a Freak like no other. When he turns eighteen, he's sentenced to death by a government sent from space, known as the Soldiers, to wipe the earth of the teens and start new, but the Freaks don't allow that. Luca is saved from execution by Freaks who bring him to safety, and there he finds not only food and shelter, but more like him surviving, when he thought they had all died. He's immediately given a task by the mysterious leader of the Freaks, and he's faced with two options: should he sit back and watch as his own are captured and killed by the enemy he's dealt with before, or should he risk everything - even his own life - to save them all?

Seventeen-year-old Lila Torres can feel it the moment she steps onto the dock of Hollow Lake again. The water glimmers unnaturally, shadows twist where they shouldn't, and whispers drift through the trees, calling names she thought she'd left behind. A year has passed since the Hollow first claimed Lucas, and the group thought they had escaped its grasp. But the Hollow is patient, feeding on memory and secrets, stretching its reach into the world they know. Reuniting with childhood friends Eli and Lucas, and alongside her twin sister Aria, Lila discovers that the Hollow is no longer confined beneath the lake. Dreams bleed into reality, symbols carved into trees pulse with hidden meaning, and Rowan appears-fading, warning them of dangers they cannot yet understand. As the group unravels clues about their missing uncle and a secret society that has long guarded the Hollow, Lila realizes the lake is more than a parallel world-it is a living entity, hungry for the town's past. When Aria is pulled into the Hollow during a confrontation with the entity, Lila must confront fears, memories, and the limits of her courage to save her sister before the Hollow consumes them all. The Hollow Above is a heart-pounding coming-of-age thriller blending supernatural terror, small-town secrets, and the bittersweet ache of first love. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things, Gravity Falls, and The Summer Below, it is a story about courage, sisterhood, and the shadows that linger in even the brightest memories.

All her life Amara Evans had been pushed out of the family frame by her dad, step mother and step sister until they finally gave her away in a contracted marriage to the dreamily handsome but deathly cold heir of one of the most successful businessmen in the world. What does the future hold for her? Will she find the comfort and warmth she's wanted for so long or will her life take a turn for the worst...................

An anxious girl and a charming boy, Noah and Chloe, meet when Noah moves next door and into her life. At first Chloe thinks Noah is just trouble and bad news. But after a while, when she gets to know him properly, is she going to change her mind or is she going to have the same opinion? A girl, the boy next door, an unpredicted love.