"My blood runs cold as I come face to face, with this.. Man. His eyes so cold, his pose radiating dominance, his snide menacing smirk on display. He looks me over, studying me carefully, him the predator , I the prey. I was frozen, every bone decided to shut down, and I know nothing can help me. The man strides towards me, while I start to tremble violently . I start to back away but end up tripping backwards over nothing. He looks down at me, his eyes glowing with excitement, as he effortlessly picks me up and presses a cloth to my face. I slowly start to drift unconscious , and I swear I hear him chuckle. I struggle, and scream, but my screams are unfortunately muffled by the cloth. Then everything goes...black. " Roxanne , a simple ordinary girl, is suddenly ripped away from her simple life as she is kidnapped and forced into a world of gangs, fighting, arenas and a hate relationship with her heartless kidnapper. All the while trying to escape she notices things about him that others would not, although she is slightly scared of him, she's also intrigued. Will she be killed in the mix of all this, will she befriend her kidnapper? Will she even escape? Will there even be a mix of romance? Read to find out more about Roxanne's journey in " Beauty within the beast".

THIS IS A SAMPLE OF THE PUBLISHED BOOK. *Unedited Version* *Sequel to Amber Alert and a watty awards finalist*  Audrey Thomas had been raised by overprotective parents and is sick of it. After the kidnapping and recovery of her mother, Anna Cowles, eighteen years ago, parents had a harsh awakening as they realized any child could be taken for any reason. New laws were made to protect children, but those same children ignored the rules and went out of their way to get into trouble. Audrey has always done what she wanted, no matter what the consequences were. But what happens when her choices lead her to being taken by the one man people feared everyday for the last eighteen years, right up to his execution. Will she make it out like her mother did or will she suffer the fate of the previous twelve girls?

For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Blatty, Ted Dekker, and Frank Peretti When forensic psychiatrist Abigail Lee meets a baby-killing mother who has been declared criminally insane and acquitted, she discovers something lurking beneath the surface. Something far deeper and more insidious than mere psychopathy. But can she come to terms with her own struggle with science and faith in time to confront it?

It was just a fantasy; an idea; to die on the day of your birthday, but the circumstances forced her to try and live, or rather, die that fantasy. Twenty year old Andrew Stowers feels his life is incomplete. There's something missing, but he can't pinpoint what. When he finds a letter in a second hand book he had purchased from a garage sale though, he finds himself strangely intrigued in the life of the writer. The letter, more like a diary entry, written two years ago, is from the girl who wants to end her life on her eighteenth birthday just because of a promise she had made to herself years ago. Andrew can't let it go. He wants to reach the bottom of that letter; to find what happened to the girl. As Andrew sets to find the girl, he finds his life changed in the way he didn't think was possible.