All Layla Foster wants is to launch her own branch off of her parent's fitness company. But how is she supposed to focus on making her one shot a success when her client's brother makes her feel things she swore off a long time ago? * * * * * Layla Foster has learned that people like her for one thing: her career. Being the heiress to Foster Fitness, her parent's multi-million, celebrity-filled gym chain, has led to nothing but fake friends, gold-digging boyfriends, and a lifetime of doing exactly what her parents want. She's ready to start something of her own: a new branch of the company that focuses on whipping Brides and Grooms into shape before their big day. But being on-site at McAden Orchard, the beautiful sprawling home of her first clients, is going to be hard thanks to the bride's brother Dawson. He's outspoken, nosy, opinionated... and more handsome than any movie star Layla's ever trained. Dawson McAden doesn't do love. He was scorned once, and once was enough to have him trade in commitment for one-night stands. So why does it bother him so much that his sister's new trainer has given up on love, too? He's not looking for just one passionate night with the feisty, redheaded beauty, but is he ready to risk his heart again to go after the relationship he can't stop himself from wanting? completed (first draft) - 8/21/22

BOOK ONE IN THE WICCAN SERIES Cyrus Laveau's life had never been perfect, but he always worked with what he was dealt. That included witches, pyromaniacs and human sacrifices. ... Returning to high school after being suspended for a week, Cyrus's goal was to stay under the radar. The opposite happens when on his first day back, his friend goes missing and the only one who saw the culprit was him. But how do you tell your friend's brother and the sheriff that the kidnapper was a two faced shadow creature with glowing purple eyes? As expected he immediately tells his best friend, Christian, who is expectantly skeptical until he sees first hand Cyrus's car come to life. Together the two decide to investigate not only what took their friend but a way to get them back. The situation only grows more dire when more bodies begin to pop up around town with the same symbol carved into their foreheads and the creature's attacks becoming more frequent. Admit the hallucinations, midnight skinny- dipping and breaking and entering, Cyrus discovers parts of himself he wished would have stayed buried. That he is connected to the witches that once helped to create their town over a hundred years ago and has magical powers he never knew about. It was hard enough when everyone looked at him expecting a break down or another car accident, now he had to worry about not hexing someone. The last time he checked, being a witch was not on his schedule.

Eris Foxglove is een heks. Ze groeit als een wees op in het Schotland van de late 19e eeuw. Volgens de nonnen in het weeshuis, heeft ze heidense gewoontes waar ze maar niet van af lijkt te kunnen komen, hoe hard ze zelf ook probeert of gestraft wordt. Als ze dan op een dag een vreemde ontmoeting heeft met een mysterieuze vrouw die haar zonder duidelijke reden op haar school uitnodigt en haar een kaartje geeft om mee naar Canada te reizen, besluit ze de kans te wagen. Eris komt na een lange reis aan bij de vreemde, magische Occulta Academie. Er blijkt een wereld te zijn vol heksen en er wordt aan haar geopenbaard dat ze er zelf ook één is. De heksen houden zich allemaal aan hun eigen element: vuur, water, lucht of aarde, maar Eris is totaal niet blij als ze bij het element aarde blijkt te horen en doet er alles aan om tegen de status quo in te gaan. Dit komt echter met onvoorziene gevaren, want niet iedereen is bereid de oude tradities te verbreken en als Eris achter geheimgehouden informatie komt die slechts een paar zielen op aarde weten, blijkt het dat ze niet alleen hoeft te vechten voor haar gelijk, maar misschien zelfs voor haar leven.

Disgraced honor student, Nico Gray-Gomez, falls from top of the class to bottom of the food chain. He has a disastrous plan to reclaim his academic status, but just how low is he willing to go to claw his way back up? • • ● • • Nico has been demoted to the lowest class in school. In an attempt to put himself back on top, he forms a ragtag group of brilliant idiots to go against the academic elites. Soon enough, it becomes a cutthroat competition between honor students and motley misfits -- book smarts versus street smarts, brains versus bravado. It's already gearing up to be a disastrous senior year. And on top of that, Nico also begins to question his sexuality, his relationship with his best friend Mack Porter, and his feelings for the new kid Chipp Rivera. Grab a seat and mind the chaos. Disaster Class is in session. • • ● • • 𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 【↺】