you are born and then you die. but it's the things in between that they don't tell you about. it's the monsters and the demons they don't arm you against. the people with their smiles and careful words who turn out to be the ones with the sharpest knives. the shadows in your mind that manifest into your deepest, darkest fears. the in between is where you want to flatline, but you are given a reason not to.

(COMPLETE) After dropping out of college to join the military, Mike wasn't heard from again. Now, six years later, he's sauntering back into town with new hair, a new physique, and... a new personality? He's definitely not the man Lindsey remembers him to be. He's suffering from extensive post-traumatic stress disorder, which only triggers her need to protect him from the demons terrorizing his own mind. But as Mike's depression flares, Lindsey is forced to find comfort in an old friend as her own dirty secrets start slipping into the open. When anonymous love-letters start popping up just after Mike's arrival, a sliver of hope blooms to life. But as much as she'd like to believe that Mike's behind them, she can't bring herself to believe that the broken, hostile man she's come to know again could be capable of such fragile words. And as time passes and she grows closer to a certain 'best friend', Lindsey starts to doubt if Mike is really what's best for her. Is this wounded soldier softer than he appears or is there another man in town who's ready to cherish Lindsey's heart the way she deserves?

Eloise suffers from Haphephobia, the fear of being touched. Her mother, Katherine suffers from OCD, obsessive-compulsive disorder. Eloise's condition, it was a genetic trait that she got from her father. All throughout her life she disliked the sense of touch. It wasn't until her father died did her fear of it arise. Her mother decided that a move was needed. So after much dismay from Eloise, they moved across the state. Right next to Zeke, his twin sisters Alira and Alaina and their mother Beth. Zeke didn't care about much, just his few friends and annoying family, that was until he accidentally touched the girl next door. In that moment, Alira, his sister started praying, the other, Alaina, making ambulance sounds, his mother rushing the girl to the bathroom and her mother trying to comfort, he decided he wanted to care about more. | Slow updates |

Hunter, a street kid turned FBI agent, is ordered to befriend Calvin Black. But as they grow closer, she realizes Calvin cares more about her than the FBI. Hunter Ashley was taken off the streets as a teen and brought into a highly secret FBI program that's turned her into a full-fledged agent. She is assigned, alongside the brooding agent Micah, to befriend Calvin Black, the son of the notorious Christopher Black. Hunter does her best to hide her survival training inside a typical high school, only she's developing feelings for Calvin, and it looks like Micah is starting to crush on her. In a world where a single mistake can prove fatal, Hunter has to figure out who she can trust, or she'll end up back on the streets. [[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]

19 year old Valentina fell in love with the little boy that was in her arms, when he called her Mommy, she had to adopt him. She doesn't care what you have to say to her, what you think about it, it's her decision, her life. She adopts Thomas James, and Tyler Joseph who is 6 years old, and Thomas's older brother, a year after she applied to adopt them. Now 20 yrs. old. She discovers what it's like to be a mother, and all the problems begin after that. Can she handle it? Or will she simply give in?

|Highly Ranked #11| 'We put on a fake smile to hide the pain, yet we wish someone would look closely enough and see how broken we really are inside' he said, his words hit me with like a ton of bricks with surprise. Briana's life has been going hard finding out about her mothers' death. Her boyfriend wasn't making it easier for her, knowing that he's been cheating on her after her mom's death. Everything has changed, especially her relationship with her father wanting to move out. Now that she can't trust anyone but her family, all she wants is to take care of her two siblings and them to be happy. Will she find the way to trust again? Will she find the way to end happily? Will she find the way to the right things? Read my first story and find out. *** Don't copy my story or anyone's' story and write your own story. Copyright © ItsJawBreaker Previously known as 'The_only_one01'

"You think it's okay?" He shouts, "to act like this!" My jaw clenches at his words. He takes a couple of steps towards me, I can hear his heart racing from our close proximity. "Like you're any different." I sneer. "You're right," he breathes deeply, "but at least I'm trying-I'm trying to be different," "Why? So you can be an honorable man, so you can have a clean conscience?-" "So that I can be good for you!" He shouts, "don't you understand?.." "No," I whisper, "I don't." --- A/n I curse frequently and the main character is a bitch. Yeee :)

Ivy Lynch has been babysitting practically her whole life. She is known around town, getting job offer after job offer. It pays. This summer, she receives an offer to be a full-time nanny for the Kennedy family while the mom goes on a mission trip to Haiti. Unable to turn down the job due to the promised payment, Ivy agrees to spend her summer living with the Kennedy family. That includes oldest son, Elliott, the rebellious boy from Ivy's high school whose mom doesn't trust him enough to take care of his siblings for three months. A lot can change in three months.

*BEING EDITED VERY SLOWLY AND HEAVILY* I gasped, glancing at the boy next to me. "She cursed... is that a bad sign?" He makes a funny face and looks at me. "You should run." "Great." Rich and privileged, Jordan Rossi had it all. Maybe too much of it to the point where she didn't realize how spoiled she was. Until she got expelled and practically got kicked out of her nice and comfy home to get shipped to a whole new state to live with her cousin. Her parents sure hoped that would be enough to get her to be a bit more responsible without anyone to fall back on. It's never that easy when there are bad habits to break. Especially if she's lived with those habits for seventeen years. New rules, new people, and a whole lotta of homework, Jordan sure hopes she gets through it without murder on her mind. [][][] Highest Rank: #13 in Humor on the What's Hot List Cover by @the_sinking_swimmer

When Haven was little, She believed that no bad could come to the world or hurt her. But as you know believing is only a wish and not all wishes come true, instead Haven's wish backfired and all that at her front door was hate, cruelty, bitter words, sadness, loneliness, and all things no one should feel. Soon Haven has a back round that not many people know of, but her fate is always their and her fate is always bad. Soon someone finds out about Haven's wrong doings and she is sent to Juvie by the young age of 13. But little does she know what to expect when she get's out early and is sent to live with Monroe Family. ●●●●●●●● (This book contains lots of foul language, and fights and other jazz) This beautiful cover is made by: CeeTheSpinster