Samantha Winston. The hottest girl in Blue Valley High. The popular girl. The girl who every other girl wanted to be, who everyone loved. The girl who people dreamed of being friends with, who every guy wanted to date. With her charm, beautifully disarming smile and deep, blue-green eyes that screamed innocence, nobody failed to fall for her. The one person in Blue Valley High who dared to point out her flaws was Harley Gardner. The one girl who stood up to her. The one girl who judged her and treated her like a person. The one girl who Samantha had tired of trying to impress. The one girl who was going to fall for her the hardest.

Eden's mother considers her the ruin of a perfect family. When the only father she's ever known leaves Eden and her family behind at the age of three, Eden becomes the brunt of abuse and neglect. On her first day of school, Eden meets Noah, a little boy in her class that greets her and fast becomes her best friend. Abuse and neglect have led Eden to become mute and terrified of the world around her. It seems Noah is the only one that understands her without saying a word. After many years of friendship, Eden shows up at Noah's house: broken, bruised, and afraid. •Best Ranking: #4 in Chicklit Start Date: December 2015 Completed: January 2017 Last Edited: June 14, 2018 Stealing my story will not be tolerated!

A history student is tasked with sorting through an abandoned asylum's archives. The asylum is rumored to be haunted, but Lena dismisses this as merely town folklore. When her research brings her to venture inside the asylum's walls, however, the fragments of stories she has been learning about now come to life. Surrounded by the ghosts of the asylum's 200-year history, she comes to learn of its cruel hidden truths - and it now falls on her to give voice to the abuse, maltreatment, and indignities suffered by those whose voices would have otherwise been lost to time. This story will span the history of America's mental health system, as shown through the different eras of the asylum. Against the backdrop of this dark and isolated prison, Lena forges new friendships across time, and sets the souls of these ghosts free by bringing their stories to light. *Dedicated to the many lives that were lived out in mistreatment behind the silence of asylum walls.*