Optimism Campus Web Novels & Stories

Her parents chose their debt over their daughter. Marcel Richardson would make her pay. Lily Hopkin never imagined her family would sell her to Le Richardson Bonaparte, France's most ruthless royal billionaire dynasty. Now she belongs to Marcel Richardson, the merciless campus king who thrives on her humiliation. Then, at a grand ball, a mysterious old woman tears her clothing and whispers: "You're not Hopkin. You're an Emerald. You were stolen." The Emeralds of Ireland are a dynasty feared even by the powerful. And Lily's whole life was a lie. She was sold as a nobody. What happens when the world learns who she really is?

This story follows Clara Carroll, a hardworking woman raised in poverty by her single mother in Maryland, and Shomer, the guardian angel quietly assigned to watch over her. From her last days at the University of Maryland to her first steps into the corporate world, Clara’s life is shaped by help she never sees. Shomer protects her from failure, illness, and emotional breakdown, drawing strength from her happiness. But when jealousy and betrayal cost Clara her job, the pain hits her hard and leaves Shomer too weak to keep going. With his powers fading and Clara’s life at risk, Shomer breaks the rules. He comes down to Earth as a man named Alex Thompson so he can stay close to her. As Alex helps Clara rebuild her life, they grow closer, and what starts as care turns into love. But their relationship is forbidden by the angelic council known as the Pathwardens. When heaven finds out what Alex has done, he is called back to face judgment. What follows is a conflict that could affect both heaven and Earth. Alex must choose between his duty and the woman he loves, while Clara is forced to face the truth about him and find strength she didn’t know she had.

A friend group of college students is close, obviously. They thought they knew everything about each other… until Spencer drunkenly admits to the group that she’s never had sex. And she’s eagerly waiting for that to change. Everyone is happy to step up to the plate, regardless of Theo’s feelings for her. Can he confess before it’s too late?

She's driven to find the truth when she makes a shocking discovery, on a secret about her parents that as well links with herself. Things doesn't turn out to be how they were, Vanessa Holland mind crave for answers. Answers she can get only from her parents, which leads her into finding the real truth about her past self and her parents as well. Things go a bit south after the revelation, but would she recover from the shocking news, which her parents held in for 18 years from her life?

Nora Jensen has a plan for everything. Senior year? Mapped out. College applications? Done. Feelings for Cole Whitaker, Millbrook High's infuriatingly charming hockey star? Absolutely, categorically, not part of the plan. But when Cole shows up at her locker with that look — the desperate one he'd never admit to — and says you owe me one, Nora finds herself agreeing to the most ridiculous favor of her life. One family dinner. One fake girlfriend. Simple, clean, transactional. Except nothing about Cole Whitaker turns out to be simple. Not the way he remembers her coffee order without being asked. Not the way he describes his favorite color as pre-game ice, before they turn the main lights on. Not the way he looks at her on the porch after dinner like she's something worth keeping — and she's supposed to be pretending he isn't looking at all. Nora made a deal. She just didn't read the fine print. The part where fake dinners turn into real conversations. Where negotiated terms start feeling a lot like feelings. Where the boy you agreed to pretend to love somehow becomes the one person you can't imagine pretending about. The rules were simple. Don't hold his hand. Don't look at him like you like him. Don't fall. Two out of three isn't bad.

She declared war on the king. She never expected to win his heart. When Ashley Monroe moves to Ridgeview, she has one rule: keep her head down and survive her junior year. That plan dies the moment she witnesses Marcel Vance—the school's untouchable quarterback and reigning bad boy—humiliating a freshman in the hallway. Everyone else looks away. Ashley steps forward. It's the worst decision she's ever made. And the best. Marcel is furious. Intrigued. Undone. No one has ever challenged him, and certainly not a fiesty, curvy new girl with fire in her eyes and a mouth that won't quit. He tries to destroy her socially. She fights back harder. He tries to ignore her. He can't. Every glance becomes a battle. Every argument becomes foreplay. And the more Marcel tries to push Ashley away, the more he realizes she's the only person who's ever truly seen him—the broken boy beneath the crown. But Marcel has secrets. His father controls his future. His best friend, Liam, is falling for Ashley too. And a beautiful, vicious cheerleader named Tiffany has already staked her claim on him. As the war between Ashley and Marcel transforms into an undeniable, electric attraction, the stakes rise higher than either of them imagined. When Marcel is forced to choose between the life he was born into and the girl who makes him feel alive, he will have to destroy everything he's ever known. But will Ashley's love be enough to save him? Or will the king of Ridgeview High crush the only person who ever dared to love him? Some enemies are destined to become lovers. Some wars are worth losing everything for.