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Stepsisters Yue Shield and Soleil Goldfield have spent their whole lives together.Season 1 - Fatal Tea and Fractured HeartsWhen her stepsister Soleil is poisoned by a toxic herbal tea, it leads CSI Yue Shield and her new associate, Detective Jon Stonecastle, to a mysterious group calling themselves Sons for Heirs whose rhetoric encourages gender bias and has caused the deaths of hundreds of pregnant women and their unborn daughters.Season 1.5- Fallen Icons - Yue watched a teen idol fall during a stunt, which leads her and Jon to a gambling den and trafficking ring, where Yue meets a surprising ally. Soleil begins rebuilding her life after the loss of her daughter and Todd's betrayal and murder. Season 2- Sanctimony and a Stepsister's Secrets Polyglot Naya-Mei Xuilan looked forward to being adopted by her aunt and cousin in South City after her mother's death, but more than that, she dreamed of leaving her nightmares behind. But when she and Biru are attacked during the Spring Festival, she makes the shocking discovery. Biru's bully was using her connections at the elite White Academy for Academic Excellence to continue harassing the gentlest person Naya ever knew. While Biru lay in the hospital dying, Naya-Mei devises a terrifying plan to humiliate the sanctimonious heirs of the wealthy families of South City. Money, privilege, and righteousness spawned from a lie can't resist the fire of a girl who has nothing left to lose. Can CSI Yue Shield and Detective Stonecastle find the proof of the criminal activity before a girl who believes that to beat the monsters, one must become a monster acts? Will Yue be able to stop Naya before she kills them all?…

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NYC A.D.A. Joan Hannah meets the charming Thane at an Influencer Conference that her boyfriend Paul dragged her to. Thane saved her life by giving her a bottle of water and protein bar so she wouldn't try to eat from the poisoned lunch buffet. After losing Paul, Joan finds her world turned upside down. She just starts to get back on her feet when she runs into Thane while jogging and they begin dating. Thane Hades, DirectorReaper Division, Grimm Acquisitions Afterlife Unlimited, Death Inc.After she finds his misplaced business card she wonders about his sanity. She doesn't believe in spiritual or metaphysical beings. After he is linked to several deaths she assumes he might be a serial killer obsessed with Death Lore or possibly Greek mafia hitman, because she can't accept that he is current Death Incarnate despite her tarot-reading bestie's insistence that he is who he says. As her loved ones continue to die around her, she has to make a choice, love him or leave him after he bent the rules for her.Trigger warning: this book has several deaths and deals with the difficult topic of grief.Cover image- The Lovers from Marigold Tarot by 13th Press in Canada. These lovely Punjabi-Sikh inspired tarot cards are absolutely gorgeous and completely worth the cost. Highly recommend. https://13thpress.com/collections/decks-books/products/copy-of-the-marigold-tarot-gold-gilded-edition…

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Secrets are kept, good people are ruined while evil people are free, and nothing is what it seems in the beautiful mountains and valleys around the private resort town tucked away in the Rocky Mountains. After a traumatic childhood event, sisters Charlene and Meredith DuBois and their cousin Katrina can't wait to get out of Veil Falls, Colorado, and leave the elitist mentality of their wealthy community behind, especially after Meri is almost killed by the mayor's daughter's reckless driving, and a murder destroys Katrina's relationship and home life. The not-so-accidental accident and the murder both covered up by Char and Meri's father, Sheriff Louis DuBois to protect the town's reputation. Char joins the Navy, Meri goes to the culinary institute in Vegas, and Trina starts nursing school in Pueblo. Their lives are smooth sailing by a longshot but anywhere is better than home. However, when the sisters and cousin are forced to return to Veil Falls after another questionable accident and multiple deaths, they begin to discover a deeper truth about the town's elite in the delusional rantings left by Char and Meri's alcoholic mother. Pages written in blood-red ink and tears, pages talking about the monster Miranda and another killed. What really happened to Winston Winslow? Who can they trust to figure it all out?…

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Burdened with the past and their pain, Anjael Anutari Wasi and her uncle Lord Ouroboros, begin another chapter with the wolves of Lost Mine pack. Their facade of being Demons keeps those around them in fear for their souls and the debt they owe Anjael for saving them. War is coming to the wolves and the Cruor are too few to stop the return of the mad Deva of the Sun, War, and Burning Blood. They can only help those who ask for "Sanctuary" while they fend of attacks by the Romani Clan who wants Anjael, not as a queen, but as a breeder. She isn't the innocent maiden the Eastern Queen Echidna once chained in a cave to egg for her brother and his Romani lover, Anjael has declared herself The Western Queen.…

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Hatched over 800 years ago, Anjael Anutari Wasi is now old enough to be a queen and declare her territory, but the journey has left scars on her soul that her impervious skin will never bear, and made her into a vigilante centuries ago. Untrusting of the other queens of her kind, and as one of the Last Hatched, Anjael still has hope their species can be saved while pretending to be one of the species she helped make extinct. She isn't a demon, she's a gargoyle, one of the ancient protectors of Humans and Nonhumans alike.…

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Sisters Kitty, Lily, and Jessica Johansen return to their Great-Aunt's B&B, The Tiger Lily Inn, for Christmas after the nearly disastrous birth of Lily's daughter. Broken hearted because of her ex-husband Ian's callous misunderstanding, Lily starts to fall back into old addictions and post-partum depression. Can her sisters help her overcome her struggles for her daughter, or will she succumb to her despair? Will Ian be able to earn her forgiveness for the mistake that cost him everything he ever wanted in life before Christmas?Betrayal always offers the choice: Bitter or Better?This story is all about choices. It is about overcoming versus succumbing. There are triggers: Abuse Recovery, Depression, Grief, Attempted Suicide, and Suggested Child Abuse.…

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"How I Became a Crazy Cat Lady to Survive the Zombpocalypse"Elevator Pitch: The tragic and cautionary tale of a PhD Librarian with allergies, a Clowder of Cats, Ancient Egypt tombs, and how the food industry turned everyone into zombies with an 'organic' food preservative made from an ancient fungus. Baltimore Librarian 'Babs' Babette Bland and 100-year-old Egyptologist Lady Theodora Carnarvon-Thorpe with her dozens of cats are traveling across the country in the winter to meet her great-grandsons at a Washington Naval base because the elderly Lady is the only survivor of the first modern Zombie outbreak. Welcome to NaNoWriMo 2022 - I rolled the dice and they picked this project. Enjoy.…

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Bernadette and Beatrix Austen have only each other, broken as children, they try move forward together after their grandmum's death... But when a sister repeats her mother's mistakes, can she be forgiven? Wild-child Trixie grew up all about the party until she landed in jail. Sensible Bernadette went to college, found a nice medical student, and was ready to settle down until the night of her grandmother's death. The next morning found herself waking up next to her boyfriend, only to find out it was his twin brother instead. Mortified to learn she had fallen victim to the twin's girlfriend switching game, a broken-hearted Bernie goes home to bury her Grandmum and moves in with her younger sister. Together, they re-open the family café as a Steampunk Themed Tea and Coffeehouse. Then Trixie makes another foolish choice that tears the sisters apart. Years later, while Bernie and Trixie are struggling to reconcile with each other, Bernie's ex-fiance Alex finds them, and discovers they are raising his son. He sues Bernie for visitation. Can they make amends over the misunderstanding that lead to their separation or are they both too hurt to be more than hostile co-parents? Will Trixie be able to overcome the mistakes she's made and her addictions, or will the consequences of her actions bring a new threat into their lives?A/N Due to plagiarism this book was moved off site pending publishing, but the whole published draft is still on my other site. I work very hard creating content and while i Know that with my brain damage I am not the best writer, I still try. For those who don't want to put in the work, who think it is okay to borrow... You are not entitled to my scribbles, to take them and molest them feels like a violation. You should be ashamed. I don't mind sharing ideas or concepts, but if you can't write you own THEN DON'T COPY AND PASTE someone else's hard work and imagination and then defend it as a fanfiction. You are a thief. Period.…

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The Darkwood Alpha siblings struggle to survive and coexist after the eldest Coen is mated to a day-walker, a wolf-vampire hybrid. His siblings, Callen and Camillia, accept Trinity is their brother's mate, but many in Darkwood Pack and beyond to the vampire royal court do not. To survive, all must change, but some refuse to accept the truth of Evolution. During, and in the decades after the Fifth Great War, there were massive population declines, leaving large areas unpopulated, and a society feigning a return to normalcy. Children are now the most valuable commodity in a world where the Infant Plague ends half of all pregnancies before birth and kills two-thirds of the infants born in their first year, sometimes taking the mother with them. Hybrid children of mixed human, wolfen, vampire, or fae lineages fare better than pure-blood, single species children, but prejudice and hate would rather see extinction than evolution.Shifter Tropes in this story - Fated Mates - Telepathic Pack and Mate Link - Hybrids…

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Scribbles humbly offered by Mama Magie @PenumbraMINE Impressions from Across the Sea : BESSA and BorsonBESSA will always be capitalized as She, Her, Hers.Borson will always be capitalized as He, Him, His.together -They, Their.other will be presented as lower case pronouns.A collections of comments inspired by BESSA, written by Rachelle Mills @WhiskeyQueenn https://www.wattpad.com/553975895-bessaImpressions from Scent of Sand : ELSKA - Elska and Shamus https://www.wattpad.com/story/176015068-elskaAll these are reproduced with the permission of Rachelle for the International Wildflower Pack @Inter_Wildflowers #iwp #WildflowersUnited…

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A Book of Ideas, Encouragement, Tips, and Support for the #NaNoWriMo , for the #85K90 AND for both #CampNaNoWriMo .Our NaNo goal: 50K words in 30 days... We can do it.Our secondary goal 85K in 90 days... Jan 1 - to March 31Camp NaNo begins on April 1 and again on July 1- don't be fooled, prep today. Set your own goals.Are you writing in the #NaNoWriMo this year? Did you fail last year, like me?Have you struggled and felt alone and overwhelmed? Do you feel more comfortable with the pace of the 85K90 starting in Jan?Are you a #TurtleWriter or #LightningWriter or #DropOfWaterWriter or #JackrabbitWriter or #HummingbirdWriter ? This is the group for you. I am trying to build a community support system where we build each other up. A group where one person's success is celebrated and another's struggle is shared.#WritingCommunity #amwritingThis book was started during NaNoWriMo2017 and is still going strong. TROLLS ARE NOT WELCOME! We know you Trollies are already reaching out through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, offering to be NaNoWriMo partners then insulting and belittling other writers... Go away and get some therapy for your need to cause harm to people you have never met.…

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There are spiders among us. Spinning webs of pain and angst while sucking the life-blood out of those they call enemies and friends. Listening to the vibration of despair and fear along invisible silken threads, they feed on our souls and steal our hopes and dreams. We don't always know who they are or what they call themselves, but the cautious know they are there, lurking, waiting, observing. Their moment comes in provoking the wasp and the moth to battle so they can feed on both when their strength fails. Are you a moth, a wasp, or a spider?…

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Basically, Sidelines is just a book of writing for writing's sake. Just enjoy. Do you ever wonder what happens to the side characters in your favorite Wattpad stories? Or the crazy comments that go totally off story? Or join a writing contest to scribble for fun? Well, So Do I... Join me and we'll wander the Sidelines of our imaginations together. Warning - fan fictions contains SPOILERS!!! Read Original stories first. You have been warned.One Shots & Short Shots in the Sidelines series is a collection of short stories based on some of my favorite side and main characters, made with the permission of the original authors. Some of the ideas come from the comment and discussion threads, here I just elaborate. I do not own the characters, I simply expand their stories for my own pleasure. Some are the short stories I scribble for contest or just scribbles for future story ideas. I hope you enjoy. Please thank the original authors by reading and voting on their works or follow the Contest books and contributing authors. Support Wattpad authors through your votes and comments.…

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They say, "Every little bit helps." Or is that the lie we tell ourselves until we are forced to admit, "I should have done more." Ninety percent of all sea birds have plastic in their belly, it makes them feel full while they starve to death. Someday, they all may die and leave the Silent Skies behind.For the #planetorplastic Writing Contest by National Geographic…