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Genre: YA Romance
High School senior Marnie Bennett has it all, popularity, money, and a handsome jock at her side. To everyone on the outside she’s the “it” girl, but deep down she’s screaming for help.
Her world shifts when she’s paired with punk-rocker Flint Rogers on a writing assignment. To walk in Flint’s shoes means that Marnie has to open her heart to someone who isn’t in her circle, but the more time they spend together the harder it is for both to admit they were wrong about each other. With a common love for the same music, Marnie and Flint began to create a bond stronger than either of them are ready for.
Marnie’s life begins to fall apart when a family scandal comes to light and her friends harbor a massive secret. Flint is the only one there to help pick up the broken pieces. She knows he would make her happy, but she struggles with the idea of being with someone who isn’t popular. After a tragic accident leaves Flint fighting for his life, Marnie knows if she wants to keep him in her life she has to grow up and learn that life isn’t a popularity contest and that we can’t help who we love. Can Marnie fix what she broke or will her stubborn ways keep her from the boy she fell in love with?
https://www.wattpad.com/story/213827268-a-walk-in-your-shoes
Genre: YA Romance
Starlien actress Lennox Taylor has it all; fame, fortune, and the most amazing fans in the world. Without warning her dream comes crashing down. Unsure of what to do with her life, Lennox heads across the country to live with her dads.
Seventeen year old Max Weston has had his share of hardships, and now with his father leaving the list of things just keeps piling up. When Max heads to New York for his annual summer trip, he wasn’t expecting to bump into the famous Lennox Taylor.
When their paths cross again neither expect to find comfort in each other, but when things begin to unravel will Max be able to handle Lennox’s past or will it be the one thing that destroys them?
https://www.wattpad.com/story/214113991-the-summer-i-met-you
Short Stories
Short Story Winners
Genre: Romance
Dakota Ford’s trip to New York was supposed to be special, she had fallen in love, and now they’d finally meet in person. Only – things don’t quite go the way she planned. Being stood up felt awful, like she’d been punched in the gut. She had nowhere to go, she was supposed to stay with him, but now all she could think to do was go home, even though she only arrived a few hours prior. Everything was falling apart until her Uber driver, Shane Irving arrives. On a whim they end up exploring the city together. It’s fun, and he makes it easy to forget what happened, but will it be enough to mend Dakota’s broken heart?
https://www.wattpad.com/story/280275457-give-me-just-one-night
Genre: Romance
Anne Dickinson left her home town of Argyle Creek to live life outside a small town. She loved it, and enjoyed her success. Coming home was hard, but her grandmother left her her house in the will, and now she had to fix it up. She wasn’t expecting to keep it, her goal was to come home, sell it, then head back to Seattle where she managed a book store. Life however, had other plans and threw her old boyfriend Trevor Watson back into her life again. Will two weeks of renovations to her grandmothers home, lots of laughs, and lemonade bring her back? Or will her new life out West bring her further from home?
https://www.wattpad.com/story/305700296-no-place-like-home
Genre: Romance
Rachel never imagined her son’s father wouldn’t show up at Christmas after she told him to go live his dream in L.A. But there they were days after Christmas waiting for a miracle and for his return.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/298143680-a-miracle-after-christmas
Novellas
Genre: Contemporary Romance
2021 ONC Long List
For twenty years her head turned at every guy with hazel eyes. At just twelve old Callie Peters was convinced she met the love of her life at a music festival one summer. With her father as head of security Callie spent one weekend every summer at the festival, and each year she hoped Landry Ryan would return, but he never did. It was as if he never existed.
At nineteen Callie followed in her fathers footsteps and became a security guard working the festival alongside him. She worked with him for a few years until tragedy struck. Her father suffered a heart attack while rescuing a concert goer from the pit. After spending a few years away, Callie finally had the courage to return for the twentieth year of the festival.
She managed to stare down every man with hazel eyes, but she never imagined running into the boy who made her heart race at twelve. Only, he’s different this time around. He got everything he ever wanted and more, but is he worth all the years of longing? Or is it time for Callie to put her childhood crush behind her and move on?
https://www.wattpad.com/story/259969068-secret-rendezvous
Genre: Paranormal Romance
2022 ONC Short List
On the outside Nore Mcguire was your average twenty-six year old High School Writing teacher. She had a lot of friends and didn’t mind sharing a home with her eighty-year old Grandmother and her nine cats. But there was still something off. She sort of blames it on the stories her grandmother told her growing up about the night-walkers. Sometimes she thought she saw them, hoovering over people just before their death. She figured it was just her imagination and moved on, but that was until the new English teacher came to town.
Jaime Donovan rode into town like a wild storm on a summer night. The ladies loved him. Nore found him attractive, sure, but he always found a way to get under her skin, and there was just something off about him.
On the night of the Founders Day masquerade ball, Nore finds herself semi-plastered and dancing with one masked man the entire night. They danced and kissed the night away. She waited for her Cinderella moment to take place, but it never did, and that’s because half the town was left for dead. And the next morning when the sun rose, things looked a little different. And now not only does she want to figure out who the masked man was, but she has to figure out why she was the only one to see creatures killing people in the daylight, when no one else could, and how to get rid of them for good.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/300312502-break-me-onc-2022
Genre: Contemporary Romance
2022 ONC Long List
This is the story about a girl who fell in love. Not with one, not with two, but three boys. They were her everything, and no matter what, no matter the distance between them, they still never failed to be there for each other. Until the summer following college graduation, when everything changed.
Twenty-Three year old Fallon Wynters scored big when she landed the three most lovable and goofy boys as her best friends. There was Danny Cooper; the ladies man, Everett Brooks; the shy guy, and then there was Bennett Dixon, the friend – who was more than a friend, but never acted on it. They met on the playground after Fallon stuck up for Everett. After suffering a week long detention, the boys took her in and treated her like one of the guys, but she didn’t mind, because she loved all of them equally, but there was one who always had her heart.
They made promises, kept in touch, celebrated accomplishments even from miles away, but Fallon never prepared her heart for the day when Bennett Dixon would let her go or for the moment when she realized her heart belonged to someone else.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/300636879-i%27ll-wait-for-you-onc-2022
Contemporary Romance
1st place in the Unchained Imagination Awards
The drop off line at school was filled with many interesting people, and Nadine Clarke was definitely not one of them. Even if the rumor mill was buzzing about her husband ditching her and her two children, she was far from the talk of the town. There were others more interesting than herself like the leather jacket guy. She had her eye on him for a while, along with every other mom during drop off. He somehow always ended up in front of her every morning, until one afternoon when he ended up on the pick up line not looking so hot. His son had puked all over himself in the car, and leather jacket guy was beside himself. Nadine had seen that look from her ex before in the face of vomit, so she did what any mom would do and helped him clean up. Amidst the chaos of angry parents, Nadine introduced herself to find out his name was Lawson Bailey and he was a recently single father of one trying to figure out how to navigate divorce. Later that night at the bar Nadine waitresses at, she comes to find that Lawson was in the new band performing there. Upon realization she tripped over a chair leg and tumbled to the floor. Lawson jumped from the stage, stopping the show before it began, only to have Nadine’s nervous stomach become upset all over him. Somehow their not so meet cute didn’t deter the two from getting to know each other better, but when her son Jackson and his son Henry get into a fight at school, can both parents deal with the consequences of their children’s actions while also falling madly in love with each other?
https://www.wattpad.com/story/310786207-hearts-on-the-line
Regina Brownell - Author 