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  • Belle Morte (Book 1, the Belle Morte Series) by Bella_Higgin
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    Belle Morte is now published as a Wattpad Book! As a Wattpad reader, you can access both the Wattpad Original Edition and the Wattpad Books Published Edition upon purchase. Thank you so much for your support! ***** Renie Mayfield volunteers as a blood donor for the Vampire House where her sister disappeared, when she's drawn to the smouldering vampire Edmond Dantès. ***** It's been ten years since vampires came out of the coffin, and now they are the world's biggest celebrities. Renie Mayfield is a new live-in blood donor assigned to the most famous vampire House - Belle Morte. Unlike the other donors though, Renie isn't here for fame and fortune. Her sister disappeared inside the Belle Morte House, and she wants to know why. But she isn't prepared for Edmond Dantès, a smouldering vampire who sets her blood racing. She can't deny their mutual attraction, and their dangerous dance begins. With each step into darkness Renie is drawn further into Edmond's influence, and closer to uncovering Belle Morte's secrets. If she has to choose, would she rather lose her heart or her humanity? (Book 1, the Belle Morte Series) [[word count: 150,000-200,000 words]] The sequel, Revelations, is now in Paid: https://www.wattpad.com/story/97728300
  • Heart of a Hyde (Wednesday x Tyler, Completed) by lisa_london_
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    What's in the heart of a Hyde? Is it purely dark and filled with hatred, or is it still possible to make it flicker? *** Tyler Galpin is done with mothers and masters. His heart can't take any more sorrows and rejections. He believes himself to be a lost cause. But yet, when Isadora Capri, the new principal at Nevermore Academy, offers him the opportunity to enroll in a special rehabilitation program for outcasts whose abilities have made them dangerous to others, he reluctantly agrees. The moment he steps into the school, the whispers and gasps start. They all fear him. Everyone but Wednesday Addams. She who saw him. She who freed him. She who he swore to kill. When another string of Hyde attacks occurs, Tyler becomes the prime suspect. With no one on his side, he is about to give up when an unlikely ally steps forward: Wednesday Addams. She believes he's innocent, asking him to aid her in the investigation. But they have to work fast, before Tyler is deemed too dangerous for the school and sent to another asylum. The hunt for the culprit leads right into Tyler's past and makes him question whether what he believes about himself is actually true. Perhaps it's not too late to make the heart of this Hyde flicker? *** This story is set in an imagined season 4 of the show. It's told entirely in Tyler's POV as he navigates Nevermore after having learned to control his Hyde (well, somewhat at least... you'll see!). It also features a slow burn (because I don't think there is any other way to do this, as there is a lot of healing and mending needed) romance between him and Wednesday.
  • ᴋɪɴɢᴅᴏᴍ ᴏꜰ ᴋᴛ : ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀᴡɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʀᴜᴇʟ  by RavenRevoir
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    𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 ! ᴀ ꜱᴜɴ-ᴅʀᴇɴᴄʜᴇᴅ ᴅᴀᴡɴ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴏꜰꜰᴇʀꜱ ɴᴏ ʀᴇʟɪᴇꜰ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ʜᴏʀɪᴢᴏɴ ᴄʟɪɴɢꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴇɴᴅʟᴇꜱꜱ ɢʀɪᴇꜰ. ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜ ꜱᴋɪᴇꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ᴄʟᴇᴀʀ, ᴀ ꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡ ʜᴏʟᴅꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴏᴜɴᴅ; ɴᴏ ᴊᴏʏ ᴇꜱᴄᴀᴘᴇꜱ, ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴅʟʏ ᴛᴡɪꜱᴛꜱ ᴀʙᴏᴜɴᴅ. ᴅᴀʏ ꜱᴡᴀʟʟᴏᴡꜱ ɴɪɢʜᴛ, ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏᴜʀꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴀᴍᴇ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏ ʟɪꜰᴇ ɪꜱ ꜰᴜᴇʟ ᴛᴏ ꜰᴇᴇᴅ ʜɪꜱ ꜰʟᴀᴍᴇ. ꜰʀᴏᴍ ʜᴜᴍʙʟᴇ ʜᴀɴᴅꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴡɪꜰᴛ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ʜᴜɴᴛᴇʀ'ꜱ ᴍɪɢʜᴛ, ᴀʟʟ ꜱᴏᴜʟꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ꜰᴏʀꜰᴇɪᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴋɪɴɢ ᴏꜰ ɴɪɢʜᴛ. ᴋɪɴɢ ᴛᴇʀʀᴏʀ ʀᴇɪɢɴꜱ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴠɪʟ'ꜱ ᴍᴀꜱᴛᴇʀ ᴅʀᴇᴀᴅ, ᴡʜᴏꜱᴇ ᴠᴇʀʏ ɴᴀᴍᴇ ꜱᴛʀɪᴋᴇꜱ ꜰᴇᴀʀ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ. ʜᴇ ꜰᴏʀɢᴇᴅ ʜɪꜱ ᴄᴏᴜʀᴛ, ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ᴅᴇᴠɪʟꜱ ʙᴏᴜɴᴅ ʙʏ ᴠᴏᴡ, ᴛᴏ ꜱᴇʀᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴇʀʀᴏʀ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ꜱᴜʀʀᴏᴜɴᴅꜱ ᴜꜱ ɴᴏᴡ: ʀᴀᴅᴇ, ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴇʀᴘᴇɴᴛ Qᴜᴇᴇɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍɪꜱᴛʏ ᴘᴏʀᴛ, ᴀ ᴄᴜɴɴɪɴɢ ᴠᴇɴᴏᴍ, ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ'ꜱ ꜱʜᴀʀᴘ, ᴡɪᴄᴋᴇᴅ ꜱᴏʀᴛ. ᴊᴜɴɢᴋᴏᴏᴋ, ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴛᴇᴇʟ-ᴄʟᴀᴅ ᴡᴀʀʀɪᴏʀ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰɪᴇʟᴅ, ᴡʜᴏꜱᴇ ᴄᴏɴQᴜᴇꜱᴛ ꜱᴛᴀɴᴅꜱ, ᴀ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ ʏɪᴇʟᴅ. ᴊɪᴍɪɴ, ᴛʜᴇ ꜱɪʟᴇɴᴛ ʙʟᴀᴅᴇ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴇʏᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ꜱᴇᴇꜱ ᴀʟʟ ꜱɪɴ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʜᴀɴᴛᴏᴍ ᴏꜰ ꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡꜱ, ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴋɪʟʟ ʙᴇɢɪɴꜱ. ᴀɴᴅ ʟᴏ
  • The sweetest pain 2 by WeyLer333
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    A sequel to my first book "The sweetest pain 1". I recommed to read it first, otherwise you won't understand fully. Wednesday Addams (20) had made the hardest decision in her life. With it came the consequences and she's learning how to survive in her new, cruel reality. Xavier Thorpe (20), who had long been a poison in her life, had achieved his goal. But it turns out that even a devilishly good plan fails when life decides to surprise. Meanwhile, Tyler (21) not only barely survived the tragic accident and has a father with progressing cancer but also the love of his life abandoned him at the most difficult moment - for his biggest enemy. He's mourning, completely unaware of the secret of his would-be fiancée, who suffers every day just to keep him alive. Wednesday and Tyler had been through a lot in their four-year relationship, but now they find themselves at a dead end. Their love has been so strong it was terrifying. Pain and suffering were an inseparable part of it, and now they're both paying a terrible price. Can this story ever have a happy ending?
  • A Bad Ending for the King of Curses  by SnowyMoonlight2
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    Kurosawa Ayame was just a scriptwriter. When the otome game 'Jujutsu x Romance' was released, controversy exploded, especially over the route of Ryomen Sukuna. Too eerie. Too cruel. Too many bad endings. Players raged. Ayame only laughed. After all, wasn't that exactly how he was supposed to be? Then she woke up - inside the very game she had written. A cold system prompt greeted her: [Route locked. Exit unavailable.] [Players will not die in the main storyline. As long as the body remains intact, revival is possible.] [Reminder: Maximize the target's favorability to return to reality.] There was only one problem. Her assigned target... was the King of Curses himself. Ayame had no intention of falling in love. To her, it was just a task, a dangerous game she had to clear to get home. So she played. She died. Again and again. Learned. Adapted. Survived. And still, she moved forward, raising his favorability step by step. Until- [Congratulations, player. You have obtained: Wishing Machine.] A shortcut. A perfect betrayal. Ignoring the system's warning, Ayame made her choice. And it worked. She escaped. Returned to reality. ...Or so she thought. Because the next moment- She opened her eyes in 2018. [Favorability requirement not met. Minor penalty applied.] Kurosawa Ayame had a very bad feeling about this.
  • Whispers of the Dark | TAEKOOK by Vkookiverse
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    "Run... Run as fast as you can because once I catch you, I won't just chain your body -I'll bind your soul. You won't even remember what freedom tasted like" ... He found the necklace. He awakened Jungkook's obsession. And now, not even death will be enough to set him free-because Jungkook will never let him go. Not in this life. Not in any. I thought the necklace was the only thing he wanted. Now, I wake up every night feeling him breathe beside me. • 𝐕𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝 • 𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐤𝐨𝐨𝐤 • 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐓𝐚𝐞𝐡𝐲𝐮𝐧𝐠
  • 𝑰𝒗𝒚 | r. de noir by 80slostgirl
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    In which Robin De Noir mistakes Olive Heliotrope for the Moon Princess, and the two star-crossed enemies must work together to break a curse. ❝ Oh, I can't Stop you putting roots in my dreamland My house of stone, your ivy grows And now I'm covered in you ❞ Started: April 2022 Status: Ongoing Highest Rankings #1 in THESECRETOFMOONACRE #1 in SECRETOFMOONACRE #1 in ROBINDENOIR #1 in DENOIR #1 in LOVEDAY #1 in MARIAMERRYWEATHER #1 in MOONPRINCESS #1 in MOONACRE #4 in GOTHIC #3 in VICTORIAN #11 in FAIRYTALE Inspired by The Secret of Moonacre Fem OC x Robin De Noir
  •      After Mercy by veloraix
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    She was not meant to be destroyed. Only emptied. Warmth. Mercy. Kindness. One by one, they were taken from her- until nothing soft remained. What was left did not break. It learned. And in learning, it changed. After Mercy is a story of loss, transformation, and the quiet rise of something that was never meant to survive.
  • Gentleman In the Mirror by SableAshford
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    Lady Evelyn Ashbourne was meant to become the perfect noble wife. Instead, she awakened in the body of a man. In the kingdom of Vaelmora, noble houses survive on reputation, arranged marriages, and whispered scandals. Now hidden behind a false identity, while society believes Lady Ashbourne has fallen mysteriously ill. Evelyn suddenly finds herself walking through freedoms she was never meant to possess. Moonlit streets. Noble courts. Dangerous secrets. And a life she was never supposed to live. But in Vaelmora, rumours spread faster than war. And someone is beginning to suspect that Lady Evelyn Ashbourne may not be as absent as the world believes. ✦ New Chapters Daily
  • The Body That Stayed (Book 1) by MoonyMew
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    Morgan Rivers works with the dead. She knows how bodies behave. She knows what silence looks like. Until one of them sits up. The Jane Doe on her table was supposed to be just another case unidentified, untouched, forgotten. But something ancient wakes inside the girl's body. Something that shouldn't exist. Something that watches Morgan like she's the only thing in the world that makes sense. It calls itself nothing. But Morgan names her Lyn. Lyn doesn't remember what she is only that she's powerful, hunted, and dangerously attached to the one person who didn't run. Morgan should be afraid. She is afraid. But when Lyn's past comes clawing into the present-monsters, hunters, and things that want her soul erased-Morgan realizes something worse than fear: She doesn't want Lyn to leave. Even if loving her means surviving her.
  • 𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 || 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐍𝐄  by poorvika_writes
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    𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 Season One. When Katherine Ashvale arrives at Ravenspire Fortress Academy, she expects strict rules, endless rain, and a forest filled with stories meant to frighten students into obedience. Instead, she finds whispers beneath the walls. Every monsoon season, strange sounds echo through the underground tunnels hidden beneath the fortress. Students are warned never to follow them. Never to answer them. But Katherine begins hearing the whispers long before anyone else. As the storms grow stronger, creatures emerge beyond the forest, ancient symbols appear where they shouldn't, and the academy's buried secrets begin clawing their way to the surface. Because Ravenspire Fortress was never built to protect its students. It was built to hide something beneath them.
  • Character Information & Disclaimer by D4ddyT1t4nTvM4n
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    The following characters are based on canon characters from Skibidi Toilet, but the personal names listed are my own fanon names used for my stories.
  • The Witch Thing by Iwriteaboutdragons
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    I accidentally almost killed someone with magic. My mother disappeared right after. And now I'm stuck in England with the grandmother she spent sixteen years warning me about. Tabetha Clarke is rich, terrifying, suspiciously wrinkle-free, and lives in a mansion full of silent servants who disappear when nobody's looking. Literally. Then there's the cat. The demon accusations. The midnight exorcisms. And the tiny little issue of my magic feeding off living things. Apparently, that's bad. Now everyone's acting like I'm either destined to become the most powerful witch in the family... or the reason it finally destroys itself. Personally, I'd just like one normal day and maybe a waffle that doesn't come with emotional trauma.
  • THE THIRD WAY: SCYTHES OF VESPERA by Nadi2012
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    THE THIRD WAY: SCYTHES OF VESPERA By N.S. Vespernith - Ranked#2 The Hook " A stranger will break your bones, but a brother will break your soul." Ten years ago, the sky over Vespera bled gold-not the gold of a sunrise, but the opulent, sickly gold of the Solar Hegemony's departing fleet. To buy themselves a safe retreat, the "Protectors" sold the city's children to the Abyssal Kingdom. They called it a Necessary Sacrifice. Now, Vespera is no longer a city. It is a throat, and the Abyssal Kingdom is the hand squeezing it. Under the Path of Logic, names have been replaced by data points. Color is a "structural error." And for the crime of Inefficient Mourning, the punishment is the Forge. But in the rusted bowels of the shipyards, a ghost of the old world is forging something the Abyssal Architect didn't calculate. *Mora*, a master shipwright with oil-stained hands and a heart of obsidian, has found two anomalies in the ash: SEVEN: A boy of five who watched his father die for a scrap of silk-and didn't shed a single tear. THREE: A toddler found standing in toxic floodwaters, clutching a toy ship with a terrifying, silent dignity. Mora isn't teaching them to pray for the Sun or to serve the Iron. She is teaching them the Third Way. She is forging them into Scythes-silent, jagged instruments of vengeance designed to settle the debt of the Great Sell. The Solar Hegemony abandoned them. The Abyssal Kingdom enslaved them. *The Scythes are coming to burn them both down.* Why you should read this: AESTHETIC: Industrial Grimdark / Brutalist Fantasy. TROPES: Found Family (but darker), Morally Grey Protagonists, Vengeance Arc, Training Sequence. FOR FANS OF: Red Rising, The Poppy War, and stories where the villains have a terrifyingly logical reason for their cruelty. Status: [Updates Weekly, every Thursday] [Mature Content: Graphic Violence, Psychological Trauma, Industrial Horror] Join Seven and Three on the Path of Obsidian. Add to your library now.
  • Captured by mystery by myself_mary
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    She's a young photographer who goes deep into a silent forest for a simple shoot... but discovers a hidden black mansion that feels alive, watching her from the shadows. One click of her camera pulls her into a mystery she was never meant to capture.
  • Battle of the Shadows by Stompteh
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    Grandmothers always offered the same warning when telling the sailors' tales: «If the sea whispers a tune at night, do not look. For the darkness seeks a face.» For years, no one believed such stories anymore. But that night, just beyond the shore, the sea truly began to hum. In the middle of a distant ocean lies a hidden island where various races have lived in peace and harmony for centuries, shielded from the outside world. But one night, the tranquil life of this secluded paradise is shattered when a mysterious ship docks at the island's fishing harbor, altering the fate of its inhabitants forever. The strangers who arrive bring not only fear and chaos but also unearth long-buried secrets hidden deep within the island. As the peaceful lives of the islanders are suddenly thrown into turmoil, they must confront the dark forces that accompany this enigmatic vessel. Suspended between the shadows of the past and the uncertainties of the future, the island's people fight to protect their home from the dangers lurking at every corner. In this suspenseful story, the secrets of both the island and its inhabitants will be revealed. As it becomes unclear who is friend and who is enemy, readers will be dragged into an unforgettable adventure. "Battle of the Shadows" will keep the tension and excitement at its peak on every page.
  • Sparkle Volume One by Pll017
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    Formerly known as Bulletproof Volume One In the world called the Lively, life is literally a fairy tale, where fairies live in huts and Cinderella gets abandoned by the Prince. A land of happily afters...or is it? In 2018, an adopted fairy princess Flume-Ophelia runs away from her fairy tale world, leaving her life behind. More than two years later, Flume lives a normal life in the Human World away from the consequences of evil and the tight controlling council who wishes to persecute her because of her unique ability to create fire. She spends her days as simply Ophelia, attempting to enjoy her twenties while navigating a pandemic with her roommates. After a planned visit to Neverland to visit her eternally teenaged adopted parents, the kind yet forceful tree nymph Maleficent and the grumpy Peter Pan, Flume-Ophelia discovers an evil villain stealing something valuable in the asylum prison of Wonderland, something that could potentially cause the end of the world. A nineteen-year-old Flume returns to the shattered world she once knew and is reluctantly forced to save the world. But how much will it cost her? #1 in Summertime Sadness Awards ( Fantasy Category) #2 in the Vintage Glamour Awards
  • Blackwood Manor: The Blood Covenant by Harshadawadekar07
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    Elias Thorn was once a star investigative journalist in Chicago. Now, he's a man on the edge, desperate for the one "big story" that will resurrect his dying career. His search for the ultimate scoop leads him to the rain-drenched forests of Oregon and the gates of a decaying, silent titan-Blackwood Manor. In 1974, a young boy named Samuel vanished within these walls. The locals whispered that the house itself "swallowed him whole." The truth, however, is far more sinister.
  • Velvet and Venom by Starlitlillth
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    Under summer skies and quiet duty, love lingers... and shifts into something she never expected
  • Broken Oath by lero-lero-lero
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    In a city built upon magic and inequality, a sixteen-year-old orphan named Neron survives by stealing from the wealthy alleys of Velmora. But after catching the attention of a mysterious guild master, he is dragged into a hidden side of the magical world-one filled with silence, forgotten truths, and people who no longer belong anywhere else. In a world where power defines human worth, Neron may be the only one capable of hearing what magic itself has long tried to erase.