Have you ever felt like you would drown in all of the responsibilities life throws at you? If you know how to swim it isn‘t a problem, but unfortunately for Dakota Gray, she never learned to swim and is sinking fast. Her mother is an alcoholic and her father is gone, leaving Dakota with the responsibility of taking care of her four year old sister. Dakota works two jobs and still has to struggle by in school. Mix that with raising a kid and she will surely drown. There are always life preservers, though, and Liam Chase might just be hers. Hopefully, she can learn to stay afloat before it is too late.

*This story is under construction. You are not advised to read it yet. I'll tell you when it's ready, though. Read at your own risk.* Dreams, when tried to be remembered, are supposedly dark - the kind of darkness wherein you could see nothing. But in lucid dreams, one sees vivid things, one could remember it, and one could be seeing colors. In fact, in lucid dreams, you can do anything you want. You can fly a Pegasus, attend Sky High, or even go face to face with Voldemort or Smaug and get through them without a single scar on your face. The best part is that you wake up remembering all of them - like they happened in your real life. Petula Carter knows how it feels: she can control her dreams. And in her dreams, she wishes to reunite with her faded loved one. But never in her mind she would find something else. Something deeper. Something colorful. And something that could be real.

Stella’s not like most girls. She doesn’t spend her nights talking about cute boys or who she’s going out with next week. Cause really, what’s the point in that? When a new kid, Jace Matthews transfers to her school, she’s probably the only girl not under his charm, making her Jace’s number one target. It seems like he just won’t leave Stella alone, and she’s left with her last resort: fighting fire with fire. Someone needs to teach pretty boy a lesson, and Stella’s the perfect girl to do it.

High school is hard for most people and for Chloe Miller, this is no exception. She is forced to learn the perils of her choices the hard way and the result leads her to building a steel wall around herself that is impossible to crack. Eventually, her mother loses her job and Chloe is then forced to move in with her cousin and their family. This means a new school and on the first day she arrives with a dynamite mission in mind. A mission to reclaim everything that she had once lost at the hands of others. She quickly finds herself fighting a past that she struggles to forget and creating a future that she can live with. It becomes a constant battle for her, centered around peer pressure, character stereo types, cliques and consequences. Couple that with the plight of falling in love and she finds herself playing a starring role in the game of life where everyone is playing for keeps. Will she win... or will she lose? Excerpt: Sauntering forwards, she slid onto his lap with all the grace of a prima ballerina and wrapped her long arms around his neck. Leaning in to his ear, she blew out a little puff of hot air so that it fanned lightly over all the right places. She felt a sense of utter satisfaction when he shuddered. Now that Chloe was certain that she had his attention, she whispered in his ear. “You may have been the best bucko, but guess what…..I’m going to be better.” She lifted up so that she could look him in the face and smiled confidently back at him. His previous cocky demeanor had seemed to have lost some of its earlier steam, “Who are you?” he asked so low that only Chloe could hear him. His forehead was creased as he searched her face, watching her as if she was some type of strange puzzle that needed to be solved. Chloe lifted her hand patted his cheek. The boy didn’t have a clue. “I, my friend, am your biggest adversary. So what do you say Mr. Player, won’t you play with me?”