ONC 2023 Shortlist
Astrid, the Princess of Eurovea, a country existing several centuries in the future, had led a happy and sheltered life in the castle ruled by Regent Arcturus, her uncle.
Only on reaching the age of ascension when, according to an ancient tradition, all future queens must face a trial, she realised that there were great gaps in her knowledge of the world around her, her uncle, and even the people she thought she knew well.
In a world where love doesn't exist, a young girl who understands old novels better than her reality is sent on a dangerous quest to save her country from creatures who, just like love, were not supposed to be true...
Mystery, romance, adventure, and magic combine in this tale, in which a young princess who had grown up surrounded by an impenetrable web of lies, has to find her true identity, and free her kingdom from suffering.
A young-adult, dystopian, paranormal fantasy-romance.
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His Wicked Games (Demon Romance) (FINISHED) (2024)
38 parts Complete Mature
38 parts
Complete
Mature
SHE IS MY OBSESSION.
This isn't a normal love story, Sweetheart. The girl's no spitfire, the man's no saint.
We are both villains.
She is my obsession; I am hers.
I know my princess hates that prince, I know she will flee that castle.
I know she will follow me, and once she enters these woods...
She's mine.
*****
This isn't a normal fantasy romance. This is a story of a princess who happens to be a murderer, but all her murders are blamed on one man.
THE MAN IN THE MASK.
Any normal person would fear him, but not Alice. Alice happens to be intrigued by him... and she knows he's not so innocent either.
For he is also a murderer.
An obsession is what she has, but she knows her obsession isn't one-sided. For he had been watching her for some time now.
And little did she know, that he had claimed her as his own.
(originally Fated to Elias, Now Fated to Elias and Mine Combined)
***** this is part of The Crush Saga but is a side novel, this can be read whenever with or without reading The Crush Saga, although Elias and Alice's story is continued in The Crush Saga****
(completed on November 26 2024)