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Book Two of Lost in the Castle Trilogy (Book Three is on the WATTYS 2022 SHORTLIST)THE AMBY AWARDS 2022 WINNER (Best Series)Samara, separated from Vlad by an unfortunate turn of events, is sent back to her century for her own good and safety. Not being able to face the prospect of living the rest of her life without the only man she loves, she refuses to lose hope of going back to him.But is going back even possible? Looking for answers to her endless questions, she discovers that not even in present-day London all the people are what they seem to be at first sight...Venturing deeper in secrets and mysteries, which suddenly seem to spring at her from London's every shadowy corner, she meets a man who she thought was long dead and the secret society surrounding him. Will Samara find her way back to Vlad with the stranger's help? Does he know things that might help her?Will she find a way to stay with Vlad this time, forever?The journey to her happiness won't be short, easy, or simple. Samara will have to make a difficult choice. If she wants to try to gain back the man she loves, she will have to risk all that she has. Will she be able to leave one of her most precious beings behind to recover the other? Cover: @WakeWriteWrath…

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Stories written for Wattpad profiles' flash fiction contests (which I don't want to publish as standalones).The latest chapters are for The Shortys 2024.…

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A 5k words long short story for the Shortys.Trigger warning: an old case (centuries old and entirely fictional) of rape, murder and suicide is mentioned in chapter four. It isn't described in detail, only mentioned as a part of the ghost mystery.…

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THE AMBY AWARDS 2022 WINNER (Best Series)Book One (Book Three of the trilogy is on the WATTYS 2022 SHORTLIST)Wattpad featured story.The Adept Pen 21 finalist.Samara, a young woman from London, visits Bran Castle in Romania during a Halloween night. Somehow, she's always felt drawn to the story of Vlad the Impaler, the historical character who allegedly inspired the writer, Bram Stoker, to write his Count Dracula.Annoyed by her noisy friends, she strolls behind her group when they enter the castle and thus gets approached by their tall dark and handsome guide. Samara can't fight the attraction she feels for him, even after he claims to be Vlad Dracul himself, obviously making fun of her...or?At the end of the tour, unable to resist her curiosity, she follows the guide through a dark corridor and time travels to another time,a late medieval world populated by very unusual vampires, where she had once belonged. The mysterious guide turns out to be her husband, none less than Vlad III, the Prince of Wallachia, the Impaler... Dracula.Samara's memories start to trickle back slowly, both good and bad. The man she loves so much that she feels overcome by her feelings for him is not exactly as he was when she left him before, when she... died. A lot of things have changed in her absence, in six hundred years.But she is changed too, having grown up in the 21st century this time around, she is not quite the same girl as when she lived in Vlad's castle, in the late medievals.Will the great love they feel for each other despite their long separation be strong enough to overcome all their differences? Will Samara and Vlad accept each other as they are now and fight for their love? Will they defend it in the dangerous world they live in, full of people, or better vampires, who would rather see them apart? In this place where nothing and no one is what they really seem to be at first sight?Cover: @WakeWriteWrath…

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@YARomance Undiscovered Book of the Month, December 2022Multiple times featured.The magic of first love, set against the backdrop of a small island hidden beneath a mysterious fog.At first sight, the tiny Foggy Island promises Liam an uneventful summer, with the haunting prospect of starting a new school at the end of it. But does this magical, sleepy place hide something else? Is there something, someone lurking beneath the fog, expecting him? Maybe an old mystery waiting to be solved?Trigger warning: An old case of suicide is mentioned in the story. It is a part of the unsolved mystery from the Victorian Era and doesn't directly affect any of the main characters. This story was crafted around three short words : a broken key, an old book, a smell of rain.…

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~ONC 2024 Honourable Mention~ ~~~Alaric, the King of Silmarea, recently married to his beloved husband, needs an heir of his own blood to secure the throne.With the help of Emrys, his court magician and best friend, he recalls his youthful escapades and discovers a daughter he once had with a woman he had loved in The World Beyond The Stones (our world).He sends an unlikely but trusted trio on a quest to find her and bring her home-- a brooding dragon shifter and Highlander who owes him a favor, a dashing elf whom he loves like the son he never had, and a loyal, kindhearted dwarf, the elf's best friend.Alaric, the last scion of the old gods, weary of ruling the country and ready to retire and enjoy his love life, doesn't know that this quest will bring much more than he ever bargained for, setting in motion events plotted by the destiny that will challenge his kingdom and legacy. ~~~My ONC 2024 entry inspired by prompt 21: A dragon, an elf, and a dwarf embark on a quest to find the lost heir to the kingdom.…

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❀✿𝕳𝖔𝖓𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕸𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓✿❀❀✿𝕺𝕹𝕮 2022 𝕾𝖍𝖔𝖗𝖙𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙✿❀❀✿𝕱𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖊𝖉 𝖔𝖓✿❀@HistoricalFiction, @mythandlegend, @WattpadLitFic, @WattpadESL, @TeenFiction, @Romance, @AmbassadorsUK, @YA, @lowfantasy, @WattpadHistoricalRomance, @Fantasy, @Magic, @WattpadFairytales❀✿𝕺𝖓𝖑𝖞 𝕬𝖛𝖆𝖎𝖑𝖆𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕺𝖓 𝖂𝖆𝖙𝖙𝖕𝖆𝖉✿❀Prince Arthur, The Once and Future King. Sir Lancelot, his faithful First Knight. Guinevere, Arthur's promised bride. Garreth, her best friend and cousin, the son of Merlin (Myrddin), the great wizard. It sounds just like the Arthurian Legend, doesn't it?But... What if everything happened differently?What if the young Princess Guinevere was not so keen on marrying Prince Arthur, whom she met... when he came for a week-long sightseeing tour to her father's kingdom accompanied by dashing Sir Lancelot? What if she was... dressed as a knight, pretending to be a bodyguard hired for the visitors? And... What if it was 'a she', who was destined to pull the sword from the stone and thus unite the kingdoms? This is my version, a humorous retelling of the famous legend, a medieval fantasy- coming of age- romantic comedy.*This story is purposely historically innacurate, set in some parallel, fantastical Britain that is different from what it had really been in the past, even though I'm using real locations, historically confirmed battles, and the Saxons as enemies of my legendary King Arthur. The beautiful cover: @WakeWriteWrath…

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☆ONC 2021 Honourable Mention and Shortlister☆☆One of Round Two Top Five Winners☆☆Multiple times featured☆☆Only available on Wattpad☆ ☆☆☆☆This is a story about H. Ch. Andersen, about how he became a writer and why most of his stories are so sad and melancholic. Also, about why he never found real love... Yes, that's what I read about him (among other things)-- he kept falling in love with unatteinable women. My story portrays Hans Christian Andersen as a young, fourteen-years-old boy. It's set in Odense, Denmark, in the late summer of 1818-- soon after Hans' mother, a poor washerwoman, remarried (two years after his father's death) and shortly before he was sent to a school for poor children where he had to support himself. Where he became, to be able to afford his schooling, first a weaver's, then a tailor's apprentice, a singer, an actor and finally, once his excellent soprano voice changed, a writer.Hans and Louise, his (fictional) step-sister, seek refuge from a summer storm in an old shed. There, they meet Rosalind, a lost Flower Fairy. When they decide to help her find the Butterfly Fairy boy she loves and intends to marry, she takes them into a fantastical world of Terra Sonalis, her home. A land of dreams populated by fairies, goblins, elves, mermaids, talking animals... All those mysterious creatures that fuelled Andersen's imagination for the rest of his life. ☆☆☆☆The beautiful cover: made by @Kaiddance…

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'Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get,' Forrest Gump once wisely said.This compilation of flash fiction 'shorts' (mostly between 500-3000 words) is like that, too. These stories are all utterly unlike each other, full of different flavours and surprises. You never know what you're gonna get... but if you don't like the one you are reading, just leaf through it and skip to the next one.Enjoy!…

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A well known fairy tale meets a famous classic novel in this retelling.…

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A Christmas short story (3k words) inspired by the famous song by Wham! - Last Christmas.…

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Featured on @WattpadShortStory Boxed sets reading list.A collection of short stories written for flash fiction contests.…

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Award Book●●●Now open for entries Judging (not accepting more entries) ✅️Completed…

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ONC 2023 Shortlist Astrid, the Princess of Eurovea, a country existing several centuries in the future, had led a happy and sheltered life in the castle ruled by Regent Arcturus, her uncle.Only on reaching the age of ascension when, according to an ancient tradition, all future queens must face a trial, she realised that there were great gaps in her knowledge of the world around her, her uncle, and even the people she thought she knew well.In a world where love doesn't exist, a young girl who understands old novels better than her reality is sent on a dangerous quest to save her country from creatures who, just like love, were not supposed to be true...Mystery, romance, adventure, and magic combine in this tale, in which a young princess who had grown up surrounded by an impenetrable web of lies, has to find her true identity, and free her kingdom from suffering. A young-adult, dystopian, paranormal fantasy-romance.The wonderful cover created by @WakeWriteWrath…

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❄️Featured on @Romance, @adultfiction @StoriesUndiscovered (September 2023), @Newlywrittenbooks, and @WattpadESL❄️❄️Nora, a young woman not quite content with the direction her life had taken, decides to take a step back and restart from the beginning. ❄️Leaving her city life behind, and turning a deaf ear to the advice of her very unsupportive and never-happy-with-her family (a stepmother, and two older stepsisters), she comes to live into a small, medieval spa town, where she inherited a tiny cottage set on a castle grounds. ❄️She only hopes to find a job, possibly as a guide in the wonderful castle she loves, to be able to make ends meet... However, she finds much more than that, waiting for her here-- a new life, entirely different from her previous one, happy memories of her childhood and teenage years, friendship, and maybe love.❄️But, nothing is as easy as it may sound, especially not figuring out Martin, the charming veterinarian, Nora's new friend, who acts as if they knew each other from the beginning of times, a man shrouded in mysteries of everyday life. ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️A chistmassy winter romance,❄including themes of several of my favourite classics--❄Cinderella, Jane Eyre, The Little Prince❄-- set around a castle❄️❄A story about a new beginning❄and finding love in the process❄…

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Book Three of Lost in the Castle Trilogy.THE WATTY AWARDS 2022 SHORTLISTER (Sequels)THE AMBY AWARDS 2022 WINNER (Best Series)Nearly one full year since Samara and Vlad's separation elapsed, and their child was born.Now, as Halloween approaches again, Samara is prepared to return into Vlad's world to find out if there is any way for them to stay together. She is resolved to go back even though it means leaving her daughter behind in the care of her friends in the safer, modern world. She goes through with her plan even when she finds Bran Castle closed this time and knows that returning to Vlad means using the only other existing time passage situated in a much more dangerous place.Samara risks everything for love... Will she be rewarded with the only thing she has ever wanted-- a lifetime with a man she loves? Will she be finally able to put a happy ending to her and Vlad's love story?Cover: @WakeWriteWrath…

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A collection of free verse poems.…

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A sci-fi fantasy retelling of H. Ch. Andersen's The Little Mermaid, my entry for Rewind the Classics 2022.…

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A short story, my entry for @crime's Blast from the past contest.…

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Featured on @Fantasy.A classic fairy tale and a medieval German legend become one in this short story.…