the road trip of a lifetime. [ cover by blissom / trailer by blissom ] [ started march 30th, 2013 - ended february 18, 2015 © paulina r. all rights reserved ]

It started with a prank and a kiss. Alazne 'Alana' Martina is a self-proclaimed wallflower. So it surprises her when she got caught in a prank by the handsome prankster, Joshua Grey, which ends in a kiss and a punch in the nose. Now it seems Joshua is everywhere, and wherever Joshua is, his childhood friend, Sara Humfrey is sure to follow. Can Alana handle Joshua's world, or will she be a wallflower forever? Joshua 'Josh' Grey, a prankster, a heart-throb and a daredevil. He'll do anything just for attention. When the school's wallflower catches his interest, he realizes there is more than the present; there is a future. With two successful siblings, everyone expects him to have a great future. Can he pull himself together, before he loses his only chance to have a future? What did it take them to realize it? It took a gun, time, heartbreak, loss, redemption, and betrayal. As told by the wallflower and the prankster, themselves. ___________________________________________________ "The Wallflower and the Prankster by MakeMeSwoon is a unique, fast-paced novel with fully-fleshed out characters, and cute character dynamic." - HEXBOUND highlights Review (SEPT 2013) _____________________________________________________ Copyright © 2012 Reza -------------Thank you, PinoyBlocks for this beautiful cover! I owe you! ((Check out the book trailer))

Madison Baker is used to getting left behind. It's in her genetic pool or something. Which is why when her mother leaves her behind to go on a year-long trip to France with her new boyfriend, Madison isn't surprised. Although, she isn't happy about it either. She's especially not happy about the fact that not only is she being left behind yet again, she's being dropped at a stranger's doorstep. An old friend of her mother's that she's never met before. Without knowing anything about who she's living with, Madison quickly realizes that this isn't going to be any ordinary year. She's been stuck with the Fishers, a group of rowdy brothers that are ready to make this the most dramatic, exciting, difficult year of Madison's life.

Seventeen year old McKenna Bryant isn't happy about being shipped to the small town of Vernon in California for the summer while her mother and step-father vacation in Brazil. Seven long years have passed since McKenna saw any of the six O'Connor children. What she fails to realize is that love isn't always so obvious and that seven years can really change a person. Can McKenna survive the summer in Vernon or will she be pushed to the breaking point? © Copyright 2012 Millie Morgan. All Rights Reserved.

Caroline Allen and Aaron Jacobs had been best friends since the first day of kindergarten. Inseparable from each other up until middle school, when Aaron got into football and started to climb the social ladder. Caroline was sad that she was losing her best friend, but she couldn't stop him from being happy, so she accepted that her friend was moving on and she needed to as well, until something changed. Not only did Aaron stop being Caroline’s friend, but in order to keep his place in the popular crowd, began bullying her, along with the rest of the jocks. They would make fun of her weight, which was above average until she made herself sick. Now, in their junior year at high school, nothing has changed. Aaron is with the popular crowd and still bullies Caroline and because of it, she became anorexic and changed everything about herself. When will the bullying stop? Will it ever? And will Aaron ever see how much damage his words actually cause?

Emma Jacobs is like any other Californian girl who is only trying to survive high school. She’s happy with her group of friends, her brother and his wife, Caroline, and her secret talent. Emma can sing, and every Friday, she does just that. However, Emma is too shy to sing in front of anybody that may recognize her from school, so she drives to the next town over and performs every Friday at The Seaside Café. Emma is happy with her double life until there’s a bump in the road and her two lives begin to overlap just because of one boy who just so happens to work at the café. How will Emma keep her secret when the whole thing depends on Jace Parker, the school loner. And how can she keep the secrets of her demented past in the past if he is determined to pry into her history? Surely, all of her problems come back to The Seaside Café.

"It had to be Dyson who was working the late shift at the Subway in the mall's food court with me during the storm. It had to be Dyson that was locked in the closet with me when everybody evacuated the mall. So now it's Dyson who is trapped inside of the North Winchester Mall with me." Tyler is a simple girl with a simple job. But her and Dyson, her co- worker do not get along. He is arrogant, immature, and a pervert. So what happens when they are both trapped in the mall during a snow storm with only each other for help and they need to rely on each other to remain sane and alive? Along with all of the stress, Tyler and Dyson start uncovering dark secrets about each other's lives that they never would have suspected.

Codi James is a chronic underachiever. A straight C student, her life is going nowhere. Causing havoc at yet another school it looks like she's heading for another expulsion, until one teacher decides to call in a favour from an old friend. Codi is sent to the one place where her aggression might do her some good. Joining the underdeveloped Brax-Delta training academy, Codi is set on the long, bruising path to compete as a champion in the Gauntlet Tournament. Thrown together with a team of other misfits and under the tutorage of a frustrated veteran, she has one chance left to prove that she's more than just a struggling orphan. Never underestimate a desperate person. WINNER OF 2014 WATTPAD PRIZE FOR BEST EPIC

Brooklyn Banks is a nerd. Ever since she was in middle school and junior high, she's been mocked and teased about how she dresses and how she's so smart. It wasn't too bad until Remy Fox showed up. Since then, Remy has been playing pranks on her and embarrassing her to the extreme. One day, Remy does something so bad, that Brooklyn is forced to drop out from school. It's a new year. Brooklyn has a chance to begin a new life. It's going great until a familiar face shows up. Remy. Thinking that his pranks have gone on long enough, Brooklyn decides to change; for the better. Remy is in for a, "nerdy" surprise. Brooklyn is a nerd gone bad...

When Franny learns why former popular boy Tyler fell from grace, she gets thrown head-first into his dangerous world but also closer to his timid heart. ***** Eighteen-year-old Tyler Madden used to have everything. He was captain of the football team, popular, high achiever, and was set to have a successful career. But when a secret too hard to handle comes to light, he turns to underground fighting to deal with the pain. Now, he's in too deep. And when Francesca Howard befriends him at school in the hopes of figuring out what went wrong, she unknowingly gets pulled into the criminal world he's now stuck in. As the two find comfort in each other, they find themselves faced with their impending future and trying to get Tyler out alive. Content/Trigger Warning: this story contains scenes pertaining to drug use, substance abuse, and violence. [#1 in teen fiction, romance and action]