[Wattys 2022 Winner!] Vanessa Brooks, an anxious and cynical seventeen year-old, discovers she can travel to the summer of 1953 through the run-down community pool in her rural Michigan town and risks her future as she falls for a boy who lives in the past. ****** On the last day of junior year, Vanessa Brooks joins her friends for a traditional jump into the city pool to celebrate the beginning of summer and the last year they plan to spend in Palmer, Michigan; a dead-end riverside town with an eerily abandoned historic main street and decaying Victorian mansions. But when she resurfaces her classmates have been replaced by girls in retro swimsuits and bathing caps and guys in thigh-baring briefs with cigarettes tucked behind their ears. When Pete Harrison, an unfamiliar face who seems somewhat familiar with hers, offers a dizzy and confused Vanessa a towel and a ride home, she discovers her house and family missing. She has somehow slipped into 1953, the year her grandparents graduated high school. Using the pool and vivid imaginings of her grandfather's memories, Vanessa continues to escape to 1953- and to Pete, who, despite his unaffected kindness and optimism, has a mysterious bad reputation around town. But as she dives deeper into the summer her grandparents fell in love, she finds herself unable to return to the present without venturing even further into the past to correct a mistake that threatens her family and future. *Content Warning: this story contains scenes of near drowning and other perils on the sea, swearing, smoking and alcohol use* This story is complete at ~90,000 words. Wattys Winner 2022- Catchiest Hook and Wild Card Shortlisted Wattys 2021 Featured on @WattpadTimeTravel Featured on @WattpadHistoricalRomance Featured on @TeenFiction Editor's choice list, December 2022, May 2023 Cover by @eva3382

*Disclaimer* This is my first story ever. I'm not sure how it will turn out but I'll do my best! "Why me?" she asked. I looked again into her mesmerizing eyes and understood why my brother was so intent on having her. I hardly knew her and I didn't want to let her go either. It wasn't just that she was beautiful. There was something about her that drew me to her. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Danielle Thompson had just begun to work at Williams Enterprises filling the role of secretary for her boss, Brett Williams. Shy and timid Danielle simply came to work each day just to do her job but her boss had other intentions, intentions he wished to force upon Danielle if she refused his advances. Enter Bryan Williams, Brett's older, levelheaded brother who is Brett's opposite in every way. Knowing his brother's history with his female employees Bryan decides to step in and help Danielle but will she accept his help? Or will she eventually give in to Brett's relentless pursuit?

Mia Taylor is a 21 year old. Fresh out of college and just started her first business: Running a daycare. She has to endure screaming children and poopie diapers, but when a brother of one of the kids she watches shows up at her door, will she see him as only the guy to pick up his sister or will she learn the values of love and acceptance.

"Last time I saw you we were 12." He says. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ⚠️‼️TW : mental health situations/talk (self-harm, eating disorder, trauma, etc.) Katniss gets kicked out of the house and she goes to stay with her cousin. She gets reunited with some old friends of hers that she has not seen in forever. They all take on high school together and there may be some new feelings in the group but will something get in the way? *SUZANNE COLLINS OWNS ALL CHARACTERS*

[COMPLETED] At the age of 4, Amanda and Tyler instantly become friends, however it came to an end before grade 5 began. After a tragic car accident that involved Tyler, Amanda is forced to leave her beloved town, Creaks Hill, and her best friend who she doesn't know is still alive after the accident. Now, she's back for her senior year of high school. Answers will be revealed, especially to the one question Amanda has held in her mind for 7 years. Is he really dead, or alive? warning: i wrote this many, MANY years ago and is in desperate need of editing -- enter at your own risk. [Highest Rank: #63 in Short Story and #43 in Teen Fiction]