[SAMPLE. Paperback and Kindle e-book OUT NOW] A woman who's been through too much and a man that seems too good to be true. Raelynn and Milo. ***** 21-year-old Raelynn Garcia just moved into her new apartment when she gets stuck in an elevator with her downstairs neighbor, Milo Evans. He's built well, perfect even, with a smile that could blind, and she finds herself spewing all her problems out to this stranger she's forced to be accompanied by. After Milo pitches to her a deal to fake-date in order to convince her family that's she's not the unhinged girl she once was, things take a turn in directions she never could've seen coming. [[Content warning: mention of SA; insomnia, and claustrophobia]] Started: February 17th, 2022 End date: September 15, 2022

MATURE CONTENT 18+ #1 in Journalism 1/7/23 #8 in Lollipop 12/5/21 #20 in Silly 12/7/21 #83 in Deaf 1/19/22 Nari Baek - Journalism major with impaired hearing can never seem to stay off the ice, but when she isn't on the ice, she either has her nose buried in a book or she's working at the local book store. Whisper's around campus of an underground club becomes a potential story for Nari, a story that will land her an internship at Chicago Post. She intends to pursue this story, but every lead sends Nari to one man, the campus hockey star. Achilles Iraklidis - Centermen of the Chicago Hart University hockey team. Achilles - or Ira when he's on the ice and Ace when he's in the ring - is a silly, protective brother who absolutely cannot stay out of a fight. Achilles lives a double life, one as the campus hockey legend and the other as an illegal underground fighter. He's found a balance between both of these lives, and has been living it for years. Things take a turn when some random deaf girl on campus discovers his secret...

Life was tough for Eve Aster, but that's okay. When things would get hard, she always had the option to end her life. She wanted to see how far she could push it until it got bad enough where she actually did. Landon Forest would've never thought of anything like that. He would run through the terrifying moments because that's what made Landon himself. When rain pours and the sun washes it away, what does that make? A rainbow. And a whole lotta chaos.