After having her heart broken by the boy she'd been in love with her whole life, Brimmy Somell decides to take a little...vacation. Little does she know, it turns out to be much more permanent than she had originally thought. After meeting tall, sexy, and mysterious Marcello Pietro, Brimmy finds herself having to make a life-changing decision and putting herself in a dangerous position she'd never imagined to be in. °•°●°•°●°•°●°•° "I love you." He says with no hesitation. It takes a moment for my hazy mind to catch up. I'm still in a daze, mesmerized by his perfections, and the deep dimple set in his cheek. I blink, "What?" "Don't make me say it again." He says, sounding frustrated, but I catch the hint of embarassment in his voice as he runs his hand through his hair and takes a step back. I grab a hold of the neckline to his shirt and yank him back within close proximity of me. "What if I want you to say it again?" I ask, studying his eyes. "Isn't it enough that I said it once?" He scowls, trying to pull back, but I restrain him from doing so. "Nope. Just say it one more time and I'll be satisfied." I state bravely, feeling a boost of confidence I didn't have earlier. He glances down, then looks back up into my eyes, allowing me to spot the vulnerability and uncertainty he feels. "I love you." He says, putting more strength in his voice than he looks to have. I grin, pulling him in for a kiss, but right before I do, I say the one phrase that will seal my fate, "I love you too, big, bad mafia boss." ••••• The story may be rough but the comment section makes up for it. ••••• Word count: 51,173 ••••• Written and published 2018-2019

Book Three of the award-winning Undone Realms Series! Clara and Nolan have been living happily together in their hotel-sized pocket realm for almost a year. But is everything truly all right now? Clara has her doubts. Something seems...off to her. This feeling only intensifies when a stranger shows up at the hotel. He can't see them, but he seems to know they're there. The day Nolan split himself in two, he leaves the hotel with a goal in mind and an empty place in his heart. It doesn't take long for all of his plans to be tossed to the wind. Rather than the Canadian border, he finds himself crossing into an entirely new universe where he unwittingly becomes part of a multiverse rescue mission. Avie is in exile. From her daughter. From Marcella. With Oliver and her family gone, Avie is forced to live out years in a world that has grown increasingly hostile to everything she holds dear. Her only desire is to survive long enough to be able to return to her daughter. But when a dangerous man shows interest in her, she fears all of her efforts will end with a noose around her neck. Interconnected stories in multiple realities; escapes, rescues, murder-all converging in a climax that may save one world while destroying another. Welcome to the conclusion of the Fold Series!

A Wattpad Featured story! (Note: UNHEEDED is the second story in the Undone Realms Series. However, this story can be read first as it has a stand-alone storyline.) Meet new characters...explore the Dual Realms...discover how Clara became unseen. When the impossible is made possible, Avie, the stepdaughter of a realm worker, finds herself transported to an apple orchard on a world that is not her own. There she stumbles upon Oliver, a migrant laborer who assumes Avie is from the city. Only years later when Avie is able to return to Oliver's realm does he realize she's learned to stepped through the Fold separating their dual realities. Oliver can't stop thinking about Avie or the world she comes from. Together they carry out a plan to bring him through the Fold so that they can be together. But this plan is not without serious risks. In Avie's world, people from other realities are not welcome. While the threat of persecution threatens them from the outside, an internal struggle grows within Oliver as well. When this struggle intensifies, the two must decide whether sanity and freedom are too high a price to pay in order to be together.

2014 WATTY WINNER!! (Collector's Dream Award for being one of the most want-to-read stories of 2014!). A Wattpad Featured story, and a Summer 2015 #WattpadBlockParty featured book! Undone Realms series: bk. 1 Out of countless realms in the multiverse, Clara is trapped in one that won't let her breathe. Her life consists of a hotel in a tiny pocket universe overlapping our own. Population: one. She doesn't know how she came to be there, how she can exist without breathing, or why she can see into the breathing world, but no one can see into hers. Nolan doesn't know any more about parallel worlds or pocket universes than Clara does. Running away from his abusive father, he finds work at the hotel. Depressed, Nolan wants to disappear as much as Clara wishes to be seen. There is little hope that they'll share anything beyond a palpable loneliness until the morning the barrier separating their planes of existence is breached and for the first time, Clara's unseen world is made visible. As Nolan is slowly drawn into Clara's breathless reality, he must decide whether the love of one person is worth crossing into a world that may never let him back into his own.

A collection of spin-offs from Expiration Date by Mikaela Bender. Includes: Our Love Has No Expiration Date (Valentine's Day) Sweet, Darling, Love (Mother's Day) The Phantom Ball (Halloween) Christmas Story Before Colton Met Iris

One of the winners of the OnceUponNow contest! Of Sirens and Beasts will be published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster on October 11th in the Once Upon Now Anthology! Football uniforms and tutus do not make a pretty picture. That is what Cal's football team, the Beasts, strongly believe. So when their coach randomly decides twelve of them will be taught ballet by a group of twelve sisters, they aren't planning to take any of it seriously. But after waking up in the mornings and not remembering anything of the ballet classes the night before and with the number of football players seeming to shrink, will Cal catch on to the twelve deadly dancing beauties' game before he himself falls into their captivating song of death? Cover by @emi-leexoxo Highest ranking: 314 in Fantasy

We all know the stories of the girl who was kidnapped by her Mate. She tried to escape. She failed. They fell in love. But what about her best friend? Well, that's me. I'm the girl who got left behind. And I'm going to find my best friend, and no mythical creature is going to stop me. Not exactly your average werewolf story. Highest Ranking: #413 in Werewolf

(Free to read + a paid bonus chapter) In a time when kidnapping is a common occurrence, Nora is about to become her father's science experiment. Nora believes she's starting a new job, working alongside her father, but instead, she's trapped inside of a dream with other humans. Besides for a small group of dreamers called Lucid, no one realizes anything is wrong with their new world. But dreams reveal who someone really is, even the secrets they didn't know, and Nora is not an exception. Charlie's father, Richard Pace, is the lead scientist. As a Lucid, Charlie is ordered by his father time and again to betray his own kind. And Nora is his next missions. But when Charlie discovers just how far his father's plans for Nora go, he'll have to choose between his freedom or his morals. Is it possible to escape when you don't even know you're trapped? Winner of the Candice Coghill award and the Royal Palm Literary award.

Book Four in the Expiring Series

Is it an invasion if they're already here? Six months have passed and Iris and Jonas have reached a conclusion about their future, one that will leave many unhappy. Left alone in the Society by Jonas, Iris finds herself "blackmailed" by Colton when she stumbles in on him. Dying inside, Colton is fed up with being melodramatic. His cousins have had enough. He's the Beta, and it's kind of difficult to intimidate peasants when he's bemoaning his fate in life. When an accidental photo of Vienna with the Prince and Princess of France appears in a newspaper, Colton is determined to have Vienna back, traitor or not. His family's not in charge of him. The Society isn't either. And if they are, he really doesn't care anymore. When Iris (and Bently) discover Colton's plan, Colton forces them to come with him to France so they don't divulge his future whereabouts before he can depart. Once there, Iris finds Erik in a worse state than when she last saw him, while Colton and Vienna. . . well who knows if they'll ever actually get back together. They've got about as many problems as Iris and Erik. Every moment Iris is in France she grows more anxious that Jonas will find out where she is, but when dead bodies start showing up with Expiration Dates tattooed on them, the monarchy forces the Beta to take action, sweeping Iris into a dangerous invasion for Earth amidst the glittering, bewitching lifestyle of the French court. Highest ranking: #6 in Scifi