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As the second daughter of the king, Elara has always had one future in sight: marrying for political ties. When her father suddenly dies under mysterious circumstances, her estranged uncle is selected to take the throne until her sister turns eighteen. As her uncle threatens to plunge her country into war with the Zestross, Elara must prove who killed her father before it's too late. With the help of a strange suitor, she just might be able to save her nation.#ONC2024 #opennovellacontest2024Prompt 38: "I hate you so much, I can't even bring myself to kill you."…

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After Protestants invade the castle, Mary Stuart struggles to deal with the emotions surrounding her rape. Can she return to her old life despite her trauma? Or will her emotions rip her apart from the inside out?Disclaimer!!! No vulgar language is used. This story is rated mature because it takes place after Mary was raped (trigger warning!!!) in S2 E9 of Reign.This story was created to elaborate and show Mary working through and dealing with her emotional trauma, after the attack, rather than what . . . took place at the end of S2 of Reign.RANKINGS:#1 maryqueenofscots#1 maryandfrancis#1 frary…

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Two months before her fiancé's graduation from Harvard Law School, Kamryn Blaine is forced to sacrifice her happiness, in order to avoid her greatest fear, when she becomes the target of a multibillion-dollar biotechnology company. Willing to do whatever it takes to protect her father, Kamryn leaves her life behind to hide with him across the country in a remote location between California and Nevada. When her father unveils hidden truths from his past, Kamryn realizes that not only is her coveted ability not innate, it is her father's creation. Will Kamryn learn from her father's mistake and protect the world from a genetic weapon? Or, is she willing to watch the world burn to save what's left of her previous life?Prompt 49: "Master the rules of the game until you can play it better than they can." Michael Scott, "The Sorceress."#ONC2023 #onc2023 #opennovellacontest…

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At ten, I felt soft pressure against my nose."What are you doing?" I said in protest, ready to open my eyes. "You're supposed to be walking away."His hands covered my eyes"No, I'm supposed to be saying goodbye. I can walk away after.""Can you?" My voice was unsure. "Won't that only make things harder?""Yes, it will make things harder. But I don't care. We remember the good things, remember? I want to remember this-my last memory of you."Sometimes, relationships can't work. The things that distance us from the people we care about can't be changed, and we have to deal with the devastating consequence of losing them. This is Avery and Liam's story.…

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Over a decade after her father's past ruined Mason Thomas' life, Albany Walters runs into his son, Kit Thomas, when she decides to take a job at a local bookstore. Kit knows her family's secrets, but will she need to discover his to finally understand the boy behind the mask?***To the outside world, the Walters' lives were perfect. The perfect family of seven.They didn't see the flaws. They didn't see the pain.Seventeen year-old Albany, the fourth child of five, strives to attend UC Berkeley and open her own fashion business. But first, she must struggle to achieve one fundamental step of adolescence: independence.When her best friend suggests for her to secretly take a job at a local book store, she doesn't hesitate. Little does she know that more problems that solutions will arise when Kit Thomas, the cold and quiet boy, reveals that her family is more flawed than she thinks. And that those flaws have a price: her family.#enemiestolovers…

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-3rd in Science Fiction: Moonstone Awards 2020-ONE CHOICE..."I know, and I'm sorry. My parents can be very...""Psychotic? Murderous?""Insistent."CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING."Elena, your species is very different from ours. Please try to understand that.""See, there you go again, James. How am I supposed to know what that means? Where I come from you don't kill people. Where I come from people marry for love, not superior genetics."..."And you think I can't love you?""No, I think I can't love you," I whisper.When the King and Queen of Geneia, offer Elena hospitality after her parents deaths, she is too desperate to refuse. When Elena meets James "accidentally" among an archived group of humans, known to people on Earth as "Aliens", little does she know that their meeting bears secrets that threaten to rip them apart.Can Elena love James beyond his family's secrets and lies or will they rip her apart?…

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Entry for #EyesLipsFierce contest:The story of how my sister's struggle with an incurable auto-immune illness encouraged me to be an empowered woman.*My sister's illness is not deadly, but the effects it had on my family are very real. Today, she is in a public college and doing much better! Now she laughs daily and smiles often :)*…