Kya Edwards is a liar. She can't seem to help it. She opens her mouth and the lies just spill out without thought or reason. Typically, her lies are harmless until one lie spirals and lands her in a heap of trouble with the absolute wrong crowd. Who knew the Mafia wouldn't have a sense of humor? KISS ME WHEN I LIE i...
Caitlyn Evergrove is not a fairy tale princess. And she definitely doesn't want to be either. In fact, she actively avoids the cruel curse of the inevitable ever after threatening to determine her life, like it does her best friend's. But when Jared - the charming co-worker from hell - asks a favour, Caitlyn ends u...
Torn between following a family tradition of being a bounty hunter-one that he's not particularly fond of-and following his dreams of being a private detective, Niel has always struggled to land himself a job and put the food on his table. Few people were willing to hire an untraditional bounty hunter like him, so whe...
Observe history and never do anything to change it. It's the only rule Zorion lives by as a time traveler. But when he gets stuck in the 21st century, bored out of his mind, he starts a fling with a 21st century woman. It soon leaves him craving for something more. Love. Cinzia is going through the motions of life, t...
Enyo has always hated her life. Between fighting monsters, losing her loved ones and being harassed by other humans with powerful abilities, she is done with life. So, she tries to end it all and fails. But in that failure, Enyo meets a ragtag group who are trying to build a paradise for the survivors. The problem is...
🏆 LONGLISTER - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 🏆 A young journalist must navigate a war-torn country and the intricacy of first love in order to save herself and her family. ⋯⋯⋯ In 2042, invaders crossed Philippine waters and marked the start of th...
When death is everywhere, what will you do to survive? All Hadriana remembers is slavery. Her home burned to the ground, she now works the fields of the estate, keeping a low profile to survive. That is, until she attaches the attention of a famous gladiator. Kind, confident, and wanting her, he whispers promises of a...
"When just being alive makes you a target, you learn to keep your head low." Being a nurse in an ER clinic, Eileen never had much time for romance. Especially, when job and education often came before everything else she's ever known. That is until she met Ursus. Funny and compassionate, he always seems to understand...
* Returning June 2024 * An uptight witch and a grumpy ghost stumble into a brewery. And now they're both stuck together. What's the worst that could happen, huh? Selena Delacroix, a witch with magical abilities, struggles to cast illumination spells without causing chaos. She finds solace in Renaissance-era literature...
ONC 2024 Round 2 Ambassador Pick ONC 2024 Longlisted and Shortlisted New Orleans native Corinne Broussard still hasn't gotten over her ex-fiancé two years after he left her for another woman. She has tried hard in the past to get over him, but she's still hung up on him and frequently dreams of them getting back toget...
Haunted by an unseen presence, a woman living with colorblindness must confront her painful past to uncover family secrets and rediscover the hues of life. - - - When solitary and colorblind 20-year-old Eira moves to a new home to live on her own, seeking a...
What hurts more than getting betrayed in love? getting betrayed twice.... ... Heath was a tyrant. Not a born one but made one. The day he was forced by his father to kill his cheating and abusive mother as an 8-year-old child, his future was set on the stone. His father told him to not fall in love, but he did... not...
🏆 R1 AMBASSADOR PICK - OPEN NOVELLA CONTEST 2024 🏆 A witch has to pretend to be the wife of the Prince of the Dead in exchange for resurrecting her lover. ⋯⋯⋯ Mavyn of Krauss has everything under control until her rich and influential fian...
When a young vampire hunter turns into the very same monster she's been taught her whole life to despise, she is desperate to hold on to what little humanity remains within her. But when she finds herself in love with both a vampire and a mortal, she is forced to choose whose blood will stain her hands as the stakes r...
When Alycia tries to summon a demon to be her date for her sister's wedding, the last thing she expects is for Lucifer himself to show up instead. And what's more shocking: he's also looking for a date for a wedding. ******* Alycia is a socially anxious person. She spends most of her time avoiding human interaction. S...
Forgotten and alone on the worst night of her life, Jenna makes a desperate wish on a magic mirror, which opens to a wondrous mansion filled with masked strangers and promised wishes. The most alluring of them all is the mysterious, handsome Lord Masquerade. The mirror is his, as is the power to grant the wishes of th...
When sixteen-year-old Eli Webster finds a message tucked inside a glass bottle, he doesn't expect to find himself writing letters to the mysterious Samuel Owens. With no one named Samuel living nearby, Eli fears it all to be a practical joke at his expense. Yet he finds himself drawn to the words written by a strange...
Every rose has its thorns. Evangeline Rose owns her own florist shop that blooms with magic and mysteries of her own. Rumors of a wicked serial killer sweep across the seaside, but when another murder victim is uncovered right in the middle of her flower shop, it puts Evangeline in the detectives' sights. Unfortunate...
THIS BOOK IS ON HIATUS Amintyre week is approaching, a sacred festival to the Eldritchs. Mavishyanep, "Mavi," is a young Eldritch woman, part of the many young adults who will "rise" into the next generation, and have their achievements etched in the book of Recollection. She wants to squeeze in one last accomplishme...
* Returning after editing and rewriting * 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒖𝒏, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒅𝒆. Telepathic bounty hunter Jax Monroe has the dangerous task of apprehending the wanted criminal Carmen Dubois. However, when she crosses paths with several assailants and another pursuer, her life is in danger. Her ex-fian...
Cursed with the touch of death, Amera faces a lifelong battle for normalcy. Among her myriad of challenges, she oversees her family's bar, positioned at the cross roads of life and death. Her world rips at the seams, quite literally, when a witch walks in, ultimately needing her help. Her eyes are opened to the realit...
Fated for heartbreak or lucky in love? -- Juliana Guo's carefully planned life has gone off the rails. Her once promising legal career is dead, her chances for love lie in tatters around her, and her painstakingly penned magnum opus - an investigative nonfiction book about the Japanese mafia - has been stolen by a hom...
: ̗̀➛ Open Novella Contest (ONC) - Entry ༘♡ ⋆ *ೃ༄ Prompt 22 - You get ready for work one morning as usual. When you arrive at your car, which is parked in the street, the windshield is covered in blood.ೃ࿐ . . . . . ╰──╮...
🏆Round 2 Qualifier🏆 Princess Aurelia, better known to her friends as Aure, has led a comfortable life in the kingdom of Geldery for as long as she can remember. She has everything she could ever need or desire right at her fingertips. Well, that is until her father decides to make an alliance with the neighbouring k...
Nineteen-year-old Lily Rhodes thought she knew all there was to know about Jacob Turner. The son of a Lord, he's always been known for his rakish ways and outlandish behaviour that makes him the topic of gossip amongst the servants. When Jacob suddenly returns home from London, Lily quickly realises that the stories s...
Attend opera concerts. Run a few errands. Enjoy a luxury apartment, wardrobe, and car, all expenses paid. Sounds like a dream job, right? There's only one catch. After nights of haunting musical messages and retrieving strange, pulsing items for her eccentric employer, Cleo unravels a conspiracy she definitely isn't g...
Elyminai are rampant in Cyber City 354431. They hold no formal ties to any of the three gangs controlling the city, though they'll steal or kill for anyone for the right price. After her sister, Stellae, signed on to a CryoFuture project, testing the latest developments in prolonging human life, Sol assumed the alias...
After getting in a car accident a young reserved plant enthusiast must embrace reality in order to make amends with family and be there when his loved ones need him before it's too late. - - - When reserved and plant obsessed 14-year-old Oren Spalding flies do...
This is an entry for the Open Novella Contest (ONC) 2024! Dragons and magical beings. A bond like no other. In a town in the middle of the continent, Silver City is home to some of the most powerful magic wielders. Layla Arclight, an ambitious young magus, who possesses the unique trait of being able to wield two elem...
* Updates will return after editing and rewriting* Felicity Hart attends a wedding in Cozumel but ends up spending time with her ex-boyfriend, Sebastian Galleros. Despite Sebastian's attempts to apologize for the wrong doings of his past, Felicity remains angry and unforgiving. In addition, his family discovers his hi...