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His Afrodite ✔ | #Diverselit

Jasmine Walker goes to Auburndale High alongside her two ethnic best friends. She thinks she might get through her junior year unscathed; when she meets the inevitable Dallas Anderson who ends up actually changing her life. The two learn to share everything together: their ups and downs, their dysfunctional families, their firsts, and maybe just a little bit of heartbreak. [His Afrodite is a teenage romantic-comedy full of just about the wonkiest of events surrounding a dark brown skinned girl and your typical playboy~]

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A Room for My Pretend Love

Thrown out of an abusive home, Suki pretends to be Devin's girlfriend while she stays with his family. But what happens when pretend feelings become real? ***** With nowhere to go after being thrown out of an abusive home, Suki asks Devin, a complete stranger, if she can stay the night with him. But what was supposed to be a short-term solution quickly turns into an open-ended promise: if Suki pretends to be Devin's girlfriend to ward off his pushy (if loving) mother, then she can live in his spare bedroom until she sorts out her life. But what happens when pretend feelings become real? Will Suki be able to overcome the fear and pain in her past in order to heal and fall in love?[[1st Place, The Rarity Awards, Romance Category]][[1st Place, Skull Awards, Romance Category]][[1st Place, The Royalty Awards 2017, Romance Category]][[1st Place, The Gold Awards 2017, Romance Category]][[1st Place, The Holo Awards, Romance Category]][[1st Place, The Z Awards, Romance Category]][[1st Place, The Purple Awards, Romance Category]][[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

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//In My Feelings// Poetry

Elixir darker than blood penned on porcelain coloured parchment, the reflections of my reckonings, caged transgressions and feelings. -Z. Greatest Achievements- #1 in poetry.#1 in poet. #1 in poetrycollection. #1 in poesia. #2 in nonfiction. #4 in undiscovered. #14 in diverselit. #2 in literature. #2 in poem. #4 in poems. #1 in freeverse. All media are from Google and Pinterest.

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Honour Among Spies #VisualRetelling #Homeland #DiverseLit

FREE STORY***WINNER of the #BigChange #FanficFriday Contest*** American spies in Islamabad are systematically being delivered into the hands of the Taliban. Carrie Mathison, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Counter Terrorism Chief has a theory, the ISI are complicit in the retaliatory street violence and abductions...Enigmatic Aasar Khan, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Counter Terrorism Chief, knows Carrie's history of operating as a loose cannon in the Middle East. If she does not operate within the letter of the law, he has made it his mission to have her expelled from Pakistan. Aasar Khan and Carrie Mathison operate in a powder keg of distrust when their personal lives unexpectedly collide...Other contest winners of the #FanficFriday #BigChange competition https://www.wattpad.com/list/314661022-big-change-contest-winners

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Z's Choice... Of Words(Closed)

Welcome to my review shop and recommendations corner! I'm gladly giving my honest feedback on writers' works and promoting them in the process!But feel free to look through if you want great, undiscovered books to read!Check it out!!Amazing new cover by @WriterBellsZ's Choice...of Words is officially closed!

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Olivia and Ricky's Odyssey to Rock Bottom

Accused of an assault he doesn't remember, Ricky's senior year is made doubly complicated when he falls for the victim's best friend, Olivia - his only alibi. ***Growing up among New York's high society seems glamorous from the outside, but looks can be deceiving. 17-year-old Ricky, who's cultivated a long list of rumors because of his bad boy behavior, knows this first-hand.But when he's wrongly accused of sexually assaulting a classmate, things take a turn. Especially when discovering the victim's best friend, Olivia, is his only alibi.With feelings quickly growing stronger between them, Ricky can't help falling for Olivia's kind nature, yet complications lurk around every corner, made worse still by the dark secret Ricky's been hiding for years, and his biggest fear is someone uncovering the truth behind the bad rumors.What will happen to Olivia and Ricky when the secret finally comes out? It's a long way down from high society to rock bottom.Content Warning: This story is a depiction of real life. It, therefore, contains mature content in the form of sexual assault, explicit language, violence (involving minors), sex, drinking, and drug use. Just like real life does. By continuing, you understand you'll be reading themes of a more mature nature, and that some might be triggering. (16+)Readers say:"I love this book with all my heart! - Absolutely worth its price.""I haven't been able to put it down!""Olivia and Ricky are really melting my heart.""I'm loving how the story is progressing. Perfectly paced.""I think it's one of the most realistic stories I have read on here!""Great details and descriptions throughout the story.""I love the unexpected twists, turns, and non-cliché characters.""I hope a lot of people will take that chance to read your story, it is really worth it."⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ All 5-STAR ratings on GoodReads.[[word count: 300,000-350,000 words]]

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Dead Girls Tell No Tales

[ WATTYS '18 LONG-LISTED ] ❝ I have slit throats far more beautiful than yours.❞In which a thousand brides have fallen, and she is the last, so she spins a tale as old as time to live the dawn.| an arabian nights x beauty and the beast crossover |(cover by ES Johnson)trailer (video by @AKfiction): https://youtu.be/2OSjakJrUeo

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Wife Swap ✔️

This is inspired by true event that happen in 2O16 when a couple decided to swap their cheating spouses.Athena has been a good girl, some can describe her as a doormat.Rome has always found Athena, the wife to his best friend, boring, plain, a push over and certainly not his type. He loves a woman with a spine and life flowing through her. When his wife cheats he finds himself forced to live with Athena in a wife swap pact. And together they explore everything they ever held back for the sake of their spouses.

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The Kindly One

(Posting to RoyalRoad)Iona of Tamaris is a half-elf caught between worlds. Born a bastard child with the curse of an ancient magic, she has always lived a life with secrets weighing her heart down like a stone. The price of discovery? Death. When two unwelcome visitors arrive in Yssa's royal court, however, her life is changed forever. The answer to all of her problems, it seems, lie in Zaeylael, the City of Splinters. But danger lurks around every corner even in a place where mages can walk freely under the sun and too many smiles are only masks hiding wicked plots.**Contains spoilers for The Lady Penitent and The Desolate Throne**

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Saving Everest (Wattpad Books Edition)

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITIONEverest is the most popular boy in school. He's handsome, wealthy, and captain of the football team-he has the world at his fingertips, but he's desperately unhappy. And when those feelings become too much to bear, he tries to take his own life.On the surface, Beverly's different from Everest in every possible way. She's quiet, shy, hard working, and keeps to herself on campus, focusing on her schoolwork and her part-time job, distracting herself from her less-than-perfect upbringing.When Everest returns to school after his attempt, he's in more pain than ever. Discarded by his friends, he draws little empathy and too much attention from those who surround him. But when Beverly and Everest meet unexpectedly in a dusty corner of the old library, they discover together just how rich life can be when given the freedom to just be yourself.

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1.1 | Milkshakes For Sale

In which Sitara orders a milkshake in the middle of the night and Shaurya delivers it to her. ~ a novella [25,000 - 30,000 words]

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Wheelchair Accessible

A story about a tough jock who's only friend was a girl in a wheelchair.

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VIOLENT TIDES (gxg - editing)

Ainsley is a dragonblood princess, powerful but constantly restrained by her duties and her oppressive father, the king of Ellay. When a pirate crew makes a shaky truce with the king and asks for a guarantee of their safe travels around his country, he offers up Ainsley as an unwilling hostage and a show of good faith on his part. Ainsley suddenly finds herself powerless and trapped on a pirate ship, but the crew is nothing like what she expects, and neither is the lady captain, Gael, who defies every expectation and leaves Ainsley curious and unsure of where her loyalties lie. She tries her best to hate Gael and the pirates, but slowly, they're winning her over, and she must face the awful truth: to follow her heart will bring about catastrophic consequences, and she will need to be prepared to fight fire with fire.

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And Then There Was Victor

How exactly did I end up the best friend of the guy I hated my entire life? Listen, this is going to be a long story. Let me take you to the beginning. The year was 1992...ENEMIES-TO-FRIENDS-TO-LOVERSVictor Manning has been infuriating Becka since she sat behind him in 7th grade English. He's cocky, self-centered, and obnoxious. When High School ends, the college dynamic slowly turns Victor into the one person Becka cannot live without. "The best slow burn I've ever read."YA/NA, for cursing. Set in the 1990s.

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The Opposite of Falling Apart

WATTPAD BOOKS EDITIONThere are imperfect moments in every life-but sometimes, there are perfect accidents . . . What's the point of pretending nothing has changed when everything has? It's the last summer before college, and Jonas Avery knows he should be excited. Instead, he hides out at home, avoiding his friends, his family, and everything that resembles his old life. Because nothing will be normal again-because of The Accident, when everything started falling apart.Brennan Davis knows she needs to stand up and face her anxiety-the deep, dark, debilitating dread that rules her everyday life. Because what stops her from going out into the world and just living is going to get a whole lot worse. She's leaving for college in the fall, where she'll be confronted with even more to worry about.To get back up sometimes you have to fall down, hard . . . When Jonas crashes into Brennan-in a harmless, albeit embarrassing fender bender-the two teens connect in ways they never expected. As friends, they help each other overcome their biggest falls and faults, and soon discover that while love can't fix everything, it's sometimes a place to start. Sensitive, wry, and unabashedly authentic, The Opposite of Falling Apart isn't about finding perfection in another person or fixing the things we think are broken. Instead, Micah Good has penned an enchantingly honest novel about accepting the very pieces of ourselves that make us unique, whole, and undeniably human.

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Karma

Warning!!! Contains mature content18+Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.Karma is a bitch and Katerina was a bitch, she never forgot the address to deliver her fury.At eighteen she was married, at twenty one she was divorced. She loved and she was rejected. She swore to do just, she would punish those that took love for granted, she would make those men pay. She would be the executioner of justice to women. She hated men. She developed an secret identity on the dark web known as Karma, where women with vendetta with men could use her services for payback, until one day a woman approached her, aware of her secret dark web identity, and asked her to punish her husband. She had no idea what she had gotten herself into until she was left wondering was this her Karma?

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The Mafia Bride

#1 in Wedding Planner (28th August 2020)#1 in We Need Diverse Books (24th August 2019)#1 in Indian Girl (23rd December 2018)Meghana Anand - popularly known as Meg, is a charming and pretty wedding planner. She's a perfectionist who always aims for the best and stubborn to not settle for less. Confident, bossy, extremely observant and short-tempered - Her traits make her the best in her business but they also make her awfully difficult to date. Leo Moretti is handsome in a brooding way. Commanding and quiet he runs his 'family business' with ease because he knows his gun is enough to take care of all his problems. He is ruthless and considers emotions as weaknesses. Secretive and paranoid the professional hazards of his family business are enough to scare any girl he brings home. When Leo approaches Meg to organize his sister's wedding, little did she know that she'd gotten herself entangled with a mafia family. Her instinct tells her that Leo is dangerous and she ought to stay away. But, something about Leo's arrogance annoys her and she can't help but clash with him. She hates his guts and he hates her bossy attitude. Their opposite personalities leads to constant bickering between the two and it is evident to everyone that they cannot stand each other. But, what happens when they discover that perhaps the tension between them isn't hatred at all? Could it be that she's fallen for the man she has sworn to hate?⚠️ P.G 16 Regular updates

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Lipstick Stains

Lipstick stains, but so does blood.something seems a little wrong with the new bodyguard.

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Axel's Flower (Discontinued)

He was her scarred Alpha. She was his everything.Maebry never wanted her life to change in the blink of an eye but when she mistakenly wanders onto Alpha Axel's territory nothing will ever be the same.Scarred and dangerous, Axel is one of the most feared Alphas in the world. After years of being mateless, he is determined to make his perfect little mate his, once and for all.

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Sincerely, Nova ✓

[completed] Nova Carter knows exactly what the next few years of her life will look like: she will work harder than anyone else (as she didn't get into New York University to slack off); she'll be keeping her head down and prioritizing getting her affairs in order; and she'll ultimately make her parents proud by being the living proof of anyone with a disability being able to make their dreams come true.Little does she know that her carefully crafted path is about to take a detour into the extraordinary.After all, she hadn't quite anticipated befriending the son of famous billionaire Sergei Macarevich on the first day of her orientation week, nor meeting the son of equally famous billionaire Hudson Wilder that same night. And she definitely hadn't anticipated tumbling right into the inner circle of New York's elite (disability, clumsiness, inexperience and all).As Nova navigates this thrilling new landscape, she forms an unconventional family. With her childhood best friend by her side, Nova immerses herself in the lives of her newfound wealthy companions, an exuberant roommate, and a spirited group of NYU's disabled rebels led by their eccentric counselor - finding love in forms she'd never dreamed of on her way.A romantic, heart-warming and diverse coming-of-age with a Spotify playlist and characters' social media posts.Achievements :)#1 in diversityinlit#1 in disability #2 in campus#2 in cerebralpalsy#7 in richkids

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class of 2013 ✓

Remiya Siu is just trying to get through her senior year in one piece. Between writing articles for the school's newspaper, her part-time job at a local diner, and the piles of assignments she has to plow through for her AP classes, she barely has time to breathe. The pressure will be worth it, though. Because ultimately, it's going to help her get into Harvard--the college of her dreams.Except it doesn't. She's deferred, and she's crushed.By a stroke of pure luck, an opportunity arises when the annual Grand Achievement award is up for grabs for the first time ever, and she's one of two eligible students. This is what she needs to win so she can (finally) get off Harvard's waitlist once and for all.There's only one problem: competition comes in the form of Blaise Yang, her childhood nemesis, and he refuses to back down.cover by @qixing

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𝐒𝐇𝐄 (BWWM)

bwwm short love story ۵

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It's Just Us [🗸]

James Jones has always played life by the rules.His best friend, Will McClain does not.Enter a senior year tsunami filled with hidden emotions, wide grins and way too much chaos to make it through the next ten months alive.

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The Art of Defiance | ✔

❝Sometimes, even the most proper of ladies wish to defy.❞...Lady Eleanor Mary Cantwell, daughter of the Marquess of Salford, is a proper young lady. With her golden complexion, raven-black hair, and manners befitting a princess, Lady Eleanor has always been deemed a belle. There is just one problem.Lady Eleanor Cantwell is Indian.Having been adopted from India when Lady Salford found herself unable to bear a child, Lady Eleanor is shunned by society, including her mother, on account of her true heritage. The ladies turn their noses up at her and the gentlemen only wish for her virtue which she clings to dearly. They certainly have no wish to wed an Indian girl, no matter how pretty she is!Which is why the entire ton is incredulous when a young man - a duke, no less! - offers his hand in marriage to the young daughter of the Marquess of Salford. Lady Eleanor finds it quite hard to believe that any gentleman would wish to marry her and instead of feeling grateful, all she feels is remorse and anger. A husband would only bring with him a mountain of restrictions that were detrimental to her plans of travelling the world - the land of her ancestors, in particular. So, when her parents sell her off to the duke, she realises that she no longer cares for society, her beloved father, or her reputation. And when the duke makes her an enticing offer, she realises she would have to abandon all sense of propriety, manners, and rules to do what he asks of her.She would have to defy.©Richa Rachael Kurian, 2021**********1st Place Winner in GENERAL FICTION/HISTORICAL FICTION of the HIDDEN GEMS AWARDS* Featured in the MULTICULTURAL AROUND THE WORLD reading list by @Multicultural-Community* Featured in the DIVERSE CHICKLIT reading list by @WattpadChickLitIN

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pizzaface | ✓

❝Pizzaface ❞That's what they called him.

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Flat Tire

Every night, Jamie gets a lift home from his co-worker, Will. (Not so) coincidentally, Jamie has been hopelessly, desperately in love with Will for the last eighteen months.Will, on the other hand, has a girlfriend.And so it goes, Will drives Jamie home and talks about his girlfriend. Jamie sits in the passenger seat and bites his tongue. Every night.Until, one night, Will gets a flat tire and suddenly they're teetering on the edge of everything changing.[Wattpad Featured / #1 Diverse Lit / #1 Short Story / #3 Young Adult / #5 New Adult / #7 LGBT]

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The Cutting Edge

Small town girl Song Hyejin grew up with a pair of scissors in her hand, spending her high school days in her father's barber shop cutting crew cuts for young men who were about to enlist in the army; this was how she was intending to spend the rest of her life. When top star Ares Hwang walks into the shop one rainy day demanding that she give him a haircut even though it's past opening hours, her life gets thrown straight into a raging hurricane known as the world of showbiz.========Enter Kang Hyunwon, hairstylist to the celebrities, touted by all the country's fashion magazines as the golden hands that could catapult anyone, literally anyone, from obscurity to stardom. When his limelight gets stolen unceremoniously by the head of hair atop one Ares Hwang (whom he had callously rejected to style just days before), his ego takes a beating that he will never forget.When he finds out who it is who was responsible for his humiliation, he vows to show this clueless suburban girl what it truly means to be hair-raisingly good with a pair of scissors...========Cover adapted from the artwork by @ClarissaNorth

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Not That Bad

When Kaya Perry graduates college, the last place she wants to go back is Layton, the town that she left behind. She left that place with bad memories and no friends, so there is no way she's looking to go back. So it's really a bummer when the job that she wants is right there in that little town. It's also a bummer when her high school crush is still there as well.Maybe it's possible to find happiness in a place where she never found any.Now completed on Radish Fiction!

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