[8X FEATURED] Merlin is the greatest-eleven-year-old nerd the world doesn't know because his name has cursed him--he's all parts nerd and zero parts magic and all he wants is to be cool. When Merlin hacks a new encryption code designed to protect online banks, he receives a full scholarship to Code-X Academy and wins...
Book 1 of the Twin Souls Series Vagrant former spy JD had always felt a part of his soul was missing or that there was a vacant seat beside his core. After wandering in search of an answer, he found solace amidst the aching feeling in a small town. Until he got kicked out of the town because he accused the growing eli...
| 𝟳𝘅 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 ·|| HUNGER GAMES x CINDER || ONC 2023 Honorable Mention Amidst the escalating unrest between the windborne utopian city of Lighthaven and its seedy, oppressed underbelly Fumedge, the Grand Duke of Lighthaven, Lucius Sextus, comes up with an ingenious solution. To provide much-wanted respite fro...
After another mission gone wrong, young superhero Phia wakes up with a problem that seems strange, even for people in her line of work. Her burnt fingers are telling her that she's the only person who can rescue her teams leader, the long lost Penelope. While trying not to fall any harder for her roommate, keep up in...
Las Vegas. Now I know why it is named the city of sins. While on a business trip, I drunk-married my boss. Drowning in tequila and the lust for the hots for my boss seemed like the best idea on my week off. There was no undoing except that my boss didn't do soulmates, fate, and marriage. Especially an impromptu one...
When the tragic death of Inanna's parents leaves her utterly alone, meeting a handsome stranger in a bar awakens her darkest fantasies and changes her life forever. *** No one could have predicted the car accident that took the lives of Inanna's parents. Torn between wallowing in despair and seeking the comfort of oth...
A paranoid gardener matches wits with a handsome new neighbor when strange things begin happening on their street.
Boston, Massachussetts, 2030 Seit dem Sonnensturm, der die Welt ins Chaos stürzte, kämpft Ophelia auf den Strassen ihrer Heimatstadt um ihr Überleben. Die Gnadenlosigkeit der ersten Stunden und der Verlust ihrer Familie sitzen tief in ihren Knochen. Sie hat rasch gelernt, niemandem ausser sich selbst zu vertrauen. Eig...
🏳️🌈ONC2023 Shortlister [A queer retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in modern day California.] Tate Parker and Alex Benitez are sworn enemies, but it's not a battle line they've drawn. As the sons of warring co-workers, the pair are destined to be at odds by association. With this comes inherited rumors and social s...
When thirty-year-old Zara stumbled upon a mysterious mirror hidden among her family's heirlooms, she never imagined that diving into it would transport her to the mystical realm of the Zodiacs. Plunged into a world of magic and power as the new attendant to Aquarius, one of the ruling members of the Zodiac Council, he...
Florence Eisley is dead, according to her death certificate and her loved ones. Gone. Buried. Already rotting away into nothingness in her little grave. Ethan hasn't seen her in over a year, after a falling out that left both of them too awkward to reach out and mend things. Not only that but for some strange reason...
What was supposed to be a simple business trip out of the country turned into a whirlwind of a romantic getaway Lexi had only dreamed about. And now that she and her online best friend Kylian had not only met but unexpectedly spent the night together, what would it do to their once internet-only friendship? Not to men...
❝𝐒𝐢𝐞 𝐭𝐫ä𝐮𝐦𝐭 𝐣𝐞𝐝𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐭 𝐯𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐧, 𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐞𝐬 ü𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐩𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐭 𝐠𝐢𝐛𝐭. 𝐎𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐡?❞ **** Die 21-jährige Allie führt ein unauffälliges Leben - zumindest für die Außenwelt. Frisch getrennt möchte sie sich vollends auf ihr Psychologie-Studium fok...
'Death is coming in the Autumn.' That's what Tira tells Verity. But Verity is stuck in her life, and doesn't understand just what's at stake, until it's much too late... A novella written for ONC23. Guidance: mild horror, sex references.
ONC 2023 Shortlist @YARomance Undiscovered Book of the Month (January 2024) Featured on Wattpad's HighFantasy, StoriesUndiscovered (May 2023), Dangerouslove, Romance, and YAFantasy profiles. Astrid, the Princess of Eurovea, a country existing several centuries in the future, had led a happy and sheltered life in the...
The Sentinels are finished. Everyone knows that. Once crucial to the defence of the galaxy, now neglected and labelled as irrelevant, the legendary warriors are a shadow of their former selves. No longer a bastion of the best and brightest, in this time of drones and AIs, when contracts have taken the place of conflic...
University professor Cora Glass may be an expert on the topic of red/green colorblindness, but when her walking red flag of an ex shows up on campus, is she smart enough to say no to a second chance? *** Three years ago, scientist Cora Glass met a stranger over cocktails in an airport hotel lobby. His name was Jamie B...
Always willing to put herself last, Catalina Juárez has never rocked the boat. But that all changes when her father insists she marry a man she cannot stand to be near. Hopping into a carriage for hire, she spends the last of her money on a ride to nowhere. Because this mysterious carriage has one rule: you go where...
Free-spirited homebody Erica doesn't want to be queen. Which is fine, because her single, independent older sister Gemma is more than ready for the job. But their father doesn't care about any of that. He thinks a queen ought to be married and producing heirs (Yes, he really says producing heirs) if she is to take th...
| 𝟏𝟐𝐱 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 | An ex-gamer enters a virtual reality ruled by a rebel AI in order to rescue her younger sister and shut down the death game. * * * Eight years ago, Mori Fukutomi held the rank of number two player in the tactical hero sho...
Engagierte Lehrerin trifft auf Kein-Bock-Lehrer. 𑁍 𑁍 𑁍 Yuna liegt das Wohl ihrer Schüler sehr am Herzen. Insbesondere gegen Mobbing plant sie vorzugehen. Von ihrer eigenen Schulzeit geprägt, schwört sie sich: Dieses Mal nicht. Anfangs stören Yuna nur die Kaffeetassen, die Julian konsequent auf dem Pult stehenläss...
[ONC 2023 SHORTLISTER] Prompt 63: A rivalry between two coworkers has unforeseen consequences. *** Down on her luck with a string of 12 unfateful heartbreaks following her, twenty-six-year-old Cate Miller, having accepted herself as a 21st Century spinster is satisfied being one of the best editors in a successful pub...
SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE / ROMANTIC SUSPENSE ⋆ They say you meet the same people on the way up and on the way down. In her wildest dreams and story plots, novelist Delaney Sharpe never fathomed this could apply to her, or that it would involve Phoenix Alden, the ex-boyfriend who ghosted her while his acting career was on...
William Poulet lost a bet and has to accept the very first teaching job he's offered. Now he's teaching at a Military Academy he'd never applied to, in a State where gay porn is a popular download yet it's still anti-LGBT+. One night a friend of a friend sets him up on a disastrous blind date, until a cadet's hunky fa...
Three women. Three tangled lives orbiting Mars aboard the Phobos Transit Space Station. Val loses her station operation engineer job under false pretenses, Exo-biologist Cassy is blackballed for doing the right thing, and ex-marine Kate suffers a broken heart. Fortunately, Mavis, the owner of the Starlight Tavern and...
He's an introverted romance-loving writer. She's a heartbroken girl who no longer believes in love. What if you were caught up with your polar opposite in the most tragic love story of all time? What if you had to help Romeo and Juliet fall in love again? What if Cupid and Aphrodite entrusted you with the mission of g...
An ONC shortlister! The long-forgotten god of chaos awakes when a small child drops a piece of candy onto his altar, unwittingly becoming the high priest of chaos. The god is beholden to his priest and his priest's people--AKA: his kindergarten classmates. The children are all-too-delighted to serve the whims of mayhe...
A deadly fae assassin needs to uncover the truth about her existence while also carrying out the task she's hired for. Only, she never planned to fall in love with the biggest adversary in her mission-or rather fall in love at all. 💜💜💜 Larkspur is one of the deadliest assassins the fairy world has ever seen. Consum...
SHORTLISTED. Paul Finn wakes to discover that not only is he feeling horribly sick but, more worryingly, the naked stranger in his bed isn't moving. If only he could remember what happened... My story for the ONC 2023, a thriller scifi adventure, with a touch of romance. (SciFi /Adventure / LGBT)
