Florida Forest Service duty officer Ray Lumley is in love with a white fringetree. Not an I-read-Walden-in-high-school love; a sweaty, sappy, I-want-to-rub-against-you-'til-I-get-splinters love. It's awkward. So, he's relieved to learn that he's really hot for Trivia, the dreadlocked, radical environmentalist nymph wh...
Watty's 2018 short list, #2 highest rank for Historical, 1st Place in the Profound Awards. Lord Grey has sailed the seas, fought pirates, and built a shipping fleet before turning thirty. Now he must marry and produce an heir. He believes his days of adventure are limited until he meets Gabriella Barrington. Her cou...
"I sogni hanno fermato la terra, i sogni sono fatti di colore e di calore. Il sole ci ha distrutto. Il buio ci ha salvato." Ray Owlers vive a Blackbay Side, dove frequenta l'ottavo livello a Blackmoon, la scuola più prestigiosa del paese. Il mondo in cui vive è immerso nel buio totale, eppure lui sogna guardando le st...
In the first volume of "Patriots": Liza Byers is the eldest daughter of a Catholic, Boston storekeeper in 1775. Her upbringing has been unique in comparison to that of most girls. She has been educated by a French Jesuit in her home and has served as a courier to her father's friends in the Sons of Liberty. While her...
alexander hamilton and eliza schuyler are pen pals. they begin to fall in love over their correspondence, but they're 1,600 miles apart.
All are born with the ability for good or evil. The child itself is innocent. It is the person it grows to be that determines whether it is good or evil. Fëanáro's first thought was not of chaos or crafting. Just as with any innocent child, it was his mother that first graced his mind. This is just my take on the birt...
Part One of a series of stories from the earliest years of the Revolutionary War. The streets of Boston can be overwhelming; busy shops in the streets, ships piling into the port, and people rushing everyone with burgeoning ideas of revolution. As a young woman living and working in the Boston Home for Orphans, Mallo...
A Post- Revolutionary War Romance "I pray to God everyday that you do not hold bitterness in your sweet heart against my decision to fight, for it was as much for my own peace of mind as it is for the welfare and expansion of our modest, yet budding family. They and you deserve the world, my darling and I strive to ma...
Born in a strange new world and raised as a Viking Warrior in another, Kata Haldorssdottir didn't fit in. Raiders change her life in a moment, though, when her father is struck down in front of her. Knowing his life is nearly at an end, Haldor Hakonsson remembers his long ago promise to Kata's mother, Summer Rain. He...
4EVER-IN-MY HEART is a paranormal romance set in Montana and South Dakota in 2006. Above all, Lorena loves horses. She has committed her days to breeding and raising them, but her life is about to become very complicated when she inherits her grandpa’s horse ranch in Montana. While exploring an old trunk in the attic...
WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. ***** After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-ol...
She was sold to a richer family, and then substituted their daughter to be a palace servant candidate at 15. As news spread fast like the wind, she knows that a palace servant's life is not easy. She wishes for release as soon as she enters the palace. A chameleon she wants to be, to blend in with the surroundings, at...
Follow Esri, a Toronto teenager, who starts having vivid dreams about cave people. With the help of Clea, a mysterious old woman, Esri discovers that she's a Mender with the power to move through time, mending the past to create a better future. Under Clea's guidance, Esri is living a parallel life 75,000 years ago wh...
In the kingdom of Highfire, you can pack an entire house into one suitcase, grow a vegetable in a second, and have an intriguing conversation with a tree that is four times your size. If you are Aurelie Dranoir, the chosen heir to the Highfire throne, you might not find all these things as appealing as they sound.
** Winner of the 2014 Wattys Instant Addiction Award ** Book 1 of the SEIZE THE DAY series In a world of magic and chaos, seventeen-year-old Lannie Brackenbury has only ever wanted to be alone in Aria. Two years after her mother's death, Lannie has finally found a place in the world where she can live peacefully. Bu...
Book II of SEIZE THE DAY, Winner of the 2014 Wattys Instant Addiction Award. If you haven't read Book I, SEIZE THE DAY, please do! There are spoilers ahead! **** Lannie Brackenbury never thought she would be sent on a dangerous quest to save the world. But after she discovered her destiny as a Harbinger, that idea to...
It all began with a promise While his good friend lay in his arms dying, the last words that came from his lips were "Please find Brienna and take care of her." He was entrusted with his friends' young daughter. With that promise, Gavin has come to realize that he agreed to more than he bargained for. He never imagi...
They walk among us. All three, living normal mortal lives. Cloe is graduating college; Lacey is getting married; Atria is bar-hopping and breaking hearts. Today, they are human. But they are also the three Fates—the all-powerful directors of human destiny. And they don't even know it. Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos did...
Music can take you to places where no man can walk, nor bird can fly. For Arnold however, that place is Venice in the year 1698. Arnold has never had a family. Still, he's always had music to guide him through life. Whilst hiding from his pushy foster parents and his many problems, he finds a shoddy old piano and som...
The Napoleonic Wars have kept Captain Luke Cassidy away from home, and away from his wife and son, for three years. There was nothing more in his life that Luke wanted than to see his son for the first time. There was nothing more in his life that Luke wanted than to reunite with his family after three long years apa...
A Princess of Mars (1917) is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction. It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a sub-genre of science fantasy that became h...
Lyra knew that one day she would be set into an arranged marriage like a chess piece. She had been preparing for it her whole life, and she was almost alright with her fate. But she never thought that her father would choose the man that he did. That decision changed everything. The King of Whales is ruthless, more th...
When Christmas comes to the sleepy town of Hillbury, so does a love letter for Holly Ambrose - a love letter from a secret admirer. Amidst the yuletide balls and Christmas cheer of Victorian England, Holly vows to uncover the source of the letter, but will the self-avowed intellectual fall in love in the process? This...
The peculiar behavior of Airship Captain Melville inspires many rumors, but one curious midshipman finds himself drawn to her. Determined to find out why she prowls the decks at night like a phantom, Officer Byron Coyle risks his position to uncover the truth.
Entering the ripe age of seventeen, Rebekah Wills is expected to be married. Until she does so, she remains under her father's watchful and cruel eye. Angering her father is all that she wishes to avoid, but that is inevitable when she purchases a spirited mare that refuses to complete farm work. When the rumors are...
A multi-storyline/interactive work in progress. || One royal couple. One Prince. One ruffian. One revolution. But what does this have to do with you? You will decide fates, determine destinies, and hopefully prevent a revolution. *** "Why are you staring at me?" Caught in the red, the prince blinked confused...
All Rights Reserved Mature Content Michael Von Cleve. Typical teenage boy? Yes. Average teenage boy? Not entirely. Every 18 year old has their good days and bad days. Mostly bad, but that doesn't always matter. At least not for Michael. He lost his father when he was barely the age of 2. He grew up with a distraught m...
When the Quinceys settle in Rushmore Park, near the village of Redding, much commotion emerges from many families neighbouring them. Each has a daughter to marry, and despite a want of great fortune, they all are exceedingly accomplished, and speculation begins as to whom might be the lucky one to win Edward Quincey's...
Corinne McAllister didn't realize how unhappy she was in her courtship until Ryne Wilkinson showed up at her home one morning. In an unforeseeable twist of events, they begin a journey into the Heart of Colorado, and one another. But, with Matthew Richards hot on their tail, danger pursues and threatens to divide the...
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