LightenTheShadows

"Great power comes with great..." I raised my eyebrows at Guardian, looking his skin-tight suit up and down. "Urges to wear spandex, apparently." "Are you using altered famous superhero comic book references to insult me?" he asked incredulously. I snorted. "You bet your fucking ass, I am." ***Crown City has all the typical big-city flare. There's a McDonald's on every corner, enough carbon emissions to end life as we know it, and a new supervillain trying to take over right before finals week. For Tessa Kingston, Supers are nothing out of the ordinary. In fact, Tessa likes to pretend that Supers don't even exist at all.Though Tessa isn't exactly shy with her not-so-popular thoughts on Crown City's resident vigilante, Guardian, he seems to have taken a liking to the annoyed teenager. Well, he and his buddies have, that is - buddies meaning two supervillains dressed in Walmart Star Wars masks. Crown City has always been a center for mayhem and superpowers, but when strange things start happening too often to be coincidences, Tessa finds herself in the middle of a fight she didn't start but she sure as hell was going to end.Villains torment her. Heroes try to save her. Tessa just wants to pass Supers 101. In a world full of Supers, it's up to normal-teenager Tessa Kingston to save her city. A typical tagline she's well-aware of, of course. As Tessa prepares to show these Super-fools they messed with the wrong girl, she just has one condition:There's no way she's wearing spandex.***BOOK #1 OF THE "SUPERHEROES SUCK" DUOLOGYFeatured on the Wattpad Adventure, Action, Superhero, and Humour profiles! WARNING: Contains mild swearing, cliffhangers, plot twists, and enough sarcasm to last a lifetime.…

LightenTheShadows

*Editor's Picks January 2021 and Watty's Shortlist 2021*"And one more thing," I added. "We have a safeword." His eyebrows raised and I hit his shoulder gently. "Not that kind of safeword, you pervert!" I let out a deep breath. "Like, a word we can say when we're done," I explained. "We say it and there's no questions asked. We pretend to break up and walk away. Pretend this all never happened."***Rory Kane had perfectly planned out her senior year. Great grades? Check. First high school party attended? Check. Getting asking out by her best friend's crush? Not exactly on her list. When Rory runs away from the high school quarterback, Will Porter's, attempts to ask her out, her idea of a quiet and tame year before going to university topples to the ground. Rory is known as the always-bubbly girl with a well of secrets behind her pretty face, but no one could ever imagine the lengths she would go to keep those secrets - AKA make a deal with the school's notorious man-whore and Will's best friend, Carter Grey, to fake date in order to get Will off of her back.As a romantic who's sworn off love, the idea seems simple enough to Rory. Hold hands, maybe a few public dates, and then a dramatic, messy breakup that gets her as far away from Carter Grey as possible and back into her comfort zone.Rory's used to telling what she calls "innocent little lies". So, really, what could possibly go wrong?STARTED APRIL 28TH, 2020 - FINISHED SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2020Cover by @diwatera…

LightenTheShadows

MAGIC BRINGS POWER AND POWER BREEDS WAR. There hasn't been magic in the Five Nations since The Last War, but something dangerous is brewing and the Grand Duchess can't seem to run away from the destiny that calls to her.After the Yeladelian royal family is slaughtered in their sleep, the surviving Grand Duchess Manya Kovnokozi makes a harrowing escape into a neighbouring kingdom. She knows there's a traitor among her that desperately wants to end the great Kovnokozi line, so Manya knows her only chance of finding said traitor is to not be a Kovnokozi at all. Under an assumed identity, Manya's plans to reclaim the Frostborn Throne go awry when she's whisked away to a foreign court as the Lady Lilianna Griffith for the Season. Her disguise at foreign court falters when an ancient power within Manya begins to bubble to the surface, painting a new and more perilous target on her back. Manya is stuck in a dizzying game of power, revenge, treachery, and a blossoming attraction to a crown prince that puts them both in more danger than they know. High Court has always been said to be a deadly affair, but this Season will prove just how deadly it can get. After all, revenge is a dish best served cold. BOOK ONE IN "THE NETHERWORLD TRILOGY"Word count: 100,000 - 120, 000Cover by @-decepted…

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FEATURED ON WATTPAD'S OFFICIAL HORROR PROFILE!Delilah is a prisoner. She wakes up to cigarettes burning her hands when she reaches out for her food and calming voices that tell her to just cooperate, but that's the last thing she'll force herself to do. The girl wants to be like the paper planes she sees floating beyond her disgrace for a window - free to do as she pleases.Delilah wants out; and what Delilah wants, Delilah always seems to get.WARNING: Not overly gory, but does contain a few scenes with blood, death, and injury. I think there's one bad word used. Very descriptive, so if that's not your thing, you probably won't be into this. So, yeah, you've been warned!COMPLETED/EDITINGHighest Ranking: #168 in Horror!Cover by @ZealousZoey…

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BOOK #2 IN THE "SUPERHEROES SUCK" DUOLOGYTessa Kingston has had one hell of a year.Plunged head-first into the world of Supers she'd spent avoiding, Tessa discovered a shocking truth - or a bit of it, at least. Some of her closest friends donned the very masks and capes that got her into this whole mess but only she could get herself out of it. With a million questions in her mind and just as many tricks on her sleeve, Tessa knows that learning how to control her newfound powers is just the beginning. If she can't trust her friends, then who can she trust? If Quantum is real, then who's behind it? When the fuck did she even sign up for this crap in the first place? It must have been in those damned Terms and Conditions - fine print is where they get you.Tessa Kingston once thought that she had only a handful of secrets to hide, but she'll soon find out that some of her biggest secrets are the ones that even she didn't know about.COMPLETED/EDITING HIGHEST RANKING: #22 in Adventure!Member of the #ProjectSuper and #ProjectHero campaigns!Cover by @Prego01…

LightenTheShadows

*Editor's Picks January 2021 and Watty's Shortlist 2021*"And one more thing," I added. "We have a safeword." His eyebrows raised and I hit his shoulder gently. "Not that kind of safeword, you pervert!" I let out a deep breath. "Like, a word we can say when we're done," I explained. "We say it and there's no questions asked. We pretend to break up and walk away. Pretend this all never happened."***Rory Kane had perfectly planned out her senior year. Great grades? Check. First high school party attended? Check. Getting asking out by her best friend's crush? Not exactly on her list. When Rory runs away from the high school quarterback, Will Porter's, attempts to ask her out, her idea of a quiet and tame year before going to university topples to the ground. Rory is known as the always-bubbly girl with a well of secrets behind her pretty face, but no one could ever imagine the lengths she would go to keep those secrets - AKA make a deal with the school's notorious man-whore and Will's best friend, Carter Grey, to fake date in order to get Will off of her back.As a romantic who's sworn off love, the idea seems simple enough to Rory. Hold hands, maybe a few public dates, and then a dramatic, messy breakup that gets her as far away from Carter Grey as possible and back into her comfort zone.Rory's used to telling what she calls "innocent little lies". So, really, what could possibly go wrong?STARTED APRIL 28TH, 2020 - FINISHED SEPTEMBER 29TH, 2020Cover by @diwatera…