When Kaya Perry graduates college, the last place she wants to go back is Layton, the town that she left behind. She left that place with bad memories and no friends, so there is no way she's looking to go back. So it's really a bummer when the job that she wants is right there in that little town. It's also a bummer when her high school crush is still there as well. Maybe it's possible to find happiness in a place where she never found any. Now completed on Radish Fiction!

"Imani what's going on with you?" Frustration and hurt coursing through me. She turns and smiles at me tears in her eyes. "That's the golden question isn't it Park." Imani Walker was known as the girl with the contagious smile and boisterous laugh admired and loved by her friends. She was always seen glowing with positivity but when pushed can quickly switch from sweet and positive to fierce and temperamental. No one could ever picture anything wrong with her life. Until she met Parker Wilson, the boy hellbent on getting her to open up. The secrets she spent years keeping were slowly trickling out due to the grey eyed boy, and she couldn't be more terrified on what was to come.

Licking his lips at me, he stared intensively at me with his 6'3 figure standing over me, realizing i had no more room to back up i stood frozen in my spot as my breath hitched in my throat. He brought his hands to my neck gentle squeezing it "Why you playing games with me Katrina" he asked me with a smirk plastered on his face No words came out, his stares were making me nervous and he was turning me on by the minute, i stared at him for what seemed like another minute before i began to speak "Um I- I" as my word started to get tangled up.

Two girls brought together by the thing that changed them the most. Abuse. Years, after the horrors that changed both Ziya and Denim's life they are closer than ever but have two completely different outlooks on love. For Ziya, using a man for his money is something she would never do. You could barely get her to talk to a man better yet use one. Soon, she meets Mecca a man in a league all of his own. Despite, her fears Ziya gives him a chance and she enters a world she never expected. Denim on the other hand, would love for a rich man to fall into her lap and sweep her completely off her feet. Denim wished for the life where she didn't work behind a desk at a call center. But instead she wanted the life of the chicks on Instagram, where every other picture was a new pair of shoes or bags. Although she has the looks Denim can't seem to find the one. Cue the hot headed, possibly insane Blaze. A man looking for everything but love. After a one nightstand between the two, Denim gets more than she ever bargained for.

|| Featured FREE story with exclusive paid chapters - previously a paid story || When Haley discovers the truth behind Xavier, whose silence holds a deeper meaning, she sets her mind on making his life better one small step at a time. ***** Haley Rosamond is happy with her simple life, content under the wing of her father. Well-protected, she has no idea of the darkness surrounding Xavier Hunt, with his all-black attire and infrequent presence in school-accompanied by his bruises and scars. That is, until Haley catches a glimpse of Xavier's reality and is made to question everything she knows about family and life in general. The truth, she realizes, couldn't be more different from everything she has heard. Supported by her father, Haley sets her mind on helping Xavier any way she can, and what begins with tutoring sessions, free food, and random acts of kindness blooms into friendship and something a little more. But when Haley's admission into her dream college and another tragedy in Xavier's life threaten to undo everything she has worked for, Haley needs to decide if she'll stick by Xavier or simply be another person in his life that disappears. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]] Cover designed by Holly Thurston